Florida vs LSU football 2016
LSU linebacker Duke Riley"s name seemingly comes up every week on Tigers coach Ed Orgeron"s radio show every Wednesday night.
A caller always asks about the John Curtis product and Orgeron is always willing to give a glowing review of the senior.
"What more can you say about Duke?" Orgeron said. "He"s one of our heartbeats of our football team. He"s always around the ball. He"s always enthusiastic."
Riley came up during a question from a caller about some of the more underappreciated players on the team including Riley, nose tackle Greg Gilmore and safety John Battle.
"You have to be strong in the middle and we are," Orgeron said. "You mentioned Greg Gilmore, he paid the price. He got better. He lost some weight. He spends all the time in the world with Coach Jenkins. He"s playing good nose tackle for us.
"John Battle has come in and done a tremendous job. We"re proud of those three guys as we are about everybody. (LSU defensive coordinator) Dave Aranda preaches team defense. All 11 doing their job. Not just those 3. When all 11 do their job, we have success."
Here are some other highlights from Orgeron"s show
On the health of St. Paul"s defensive back Michael Doherty, who suffered a broken vertebrae...
"No. 1, the young man that got hurt from St. Paul"s, we wish him the best. In fact I tried to call him but he was sleeping. We send out prayers for him. We know he"s going to get better and get strong and he"s going to fight."
On the comparison between on former USC RB Reggie Bush and LSU RB Derrius Guice...
"You bring up a good comparison. Reggie had a tremendous cut. He rushed to the left and cut to the right as good as anybody I seen until I seen Derrius. Derruis" cuts are just as sharp and just as quick as Reggie. Reggie may be a little bit faster than Derrius and Derrius is probably a little bit stronger than him. But they are both similar runners and that"s a great comparison."
On the players wanting to bring "The Golden Boot" back home...
"They were on a mission. They wanted that Boot. They wanted to bring that Boot back. It"s back at the office. It looks good. We shined it up. Especially the Louisiana part. We left the Arkansas part unshined. There was a lot of pride. They wanted to get that thing. Arkansas had beaten us for two years. They went up there on a mission and came back successful."
On the lack of holding calls the Tigers are getting this season...
"First of all, when an offensive lineman holds one of our defensive lineman, we get their hands off. We work on hand blocks with Pete Jenkins. We do it all the time. Holding nowadays seems legal in some situations so you got to fight it. You can question it but if they don"t call it there"s nothing you can do about it."
On a caller asking about top recruit Marvin Wilson...
"Well I can"t comment on any recruits right now. I just can tell you that we always going to go after the best players in the country and LSU usually gets them."
On how LSU will change its schedule for Saturday"s noon kickoff...
"Our guys are going to go to bed a 9:00 on Friday night. We"re going to go to bed a little earlier. We have 18, 19 seniors that"ll be saying goodbye to the LSU fans. It"s going to be an emotional day. We"re going to get up about 8:00 and do the things we do to get ready for the football game. We"ll leave Lod Cook (Hotel) with a clap session that gets everybody fired up and we"ll get on the bus and have a tremendous tiger walk and lets go. I mean, its 12:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00 let"s play ball. It don"t matter."
Source: http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2016/11/ed_orgeron_duke_riley_one_of_o.html
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