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Mazda puts the same drive into every detail. Wins define the moment. Putting in the work, that defines you. Stay tuned for highlights in this week's Moving the Game Forward. There's more to a Mazda because there's more to you. So, had a chance to visit with LSU freshman offensive lineman Ryan Moret on my radio show in Baton Rouge after further review. If you want to catch the full interview, you can catch it on demand. YouTube podcast or search after further review, you'll see it there. But I wanted to play some excerpts that I thought were really interesting from this conversation with Ryan because he is one of the really rare pieces of this roster in that he was one of the guys who had been committed to Ole Miss and flipped to LSU sight unseen when Lane Kiffin took the LSU job. So if you're not familiar, I'll give you a little bit of the background on Ryan Moret. So he's an interior offensive lineman, 6'4", 300 pounds. He's a three-star. If you look at the composite, they rank him number 816 nationally, the 78th best interior offensive lineman. Now, I say it all the time, and you've heard me say it if you're an everydayer, that I am far less concerned with the ranking or the rating. I am more concerned in who offered you. Well, he was committed to Ole Miss. He's now signed with LSU. He also had offers from Miami, Nebraska, Georgia Tech, Florida, Syracuse, UCF, Penn State, and others. So the point being, dude had big-time offers, and we have focused so much. If you've been here throughout the whole portal evaluation period of the Kiffin era, the thing, the word we have focused on so much that you've heard me say, you're probably tired of hearing me say, is evaluation. Lane Kiffin, Billy Glasscock, they trust their evaluation. They know what skill set they're looking for in certain players and then how to make it work financially for those players to fit within the budget for the roster. Now, you're going to hear a lot from Ryan Moret, but again, this is a guy who is committed to Ole Miss. Remember, Lane Kiffin takes the job on a Sunday. Wednesday is signing day. so you're talking 72 hours after Lane Kiffin takes the LSU job as signing day and Ryan Moret sight unseen flips to LSU here's that story first it was they went to like the top two schools which was either Florida or LSU and I mean if if it really did come down to it I would have been okay with with going to Florida if he made that decision because I was just locked in with him and it was the entire staff it wasn't just him that left it was the entire offensive staff excluding the offensive line coach. So, I mean, it was like the whole deal. Like, just like staying at Ole Miss would have like had too many like question marks, you know, for me. And, you know, that was the biggest reason. Why were you so locked in with Lane and the staff? I mean, just like, just look at their output. Like, last season they recorded, I want to say 500 yards per game, which is, I mean, crazy. And like considering like my wrestling background, I really like enjoy the tempo offense like we're just going non-stop non-stop and I feel like I have the conditioning to you know kind of be ready for that and I mean like there's just so many guys coach Craig coach Wolford that have like crazy NFL experience like coach Wolford has put like 50 plus a whole lineman in the NFL and I mean he's coach at Alabama coach at Kentucky so he has that SEC you know experience and and Craig won the 2019 um Joe Moore award as well so that's another guy that's just there that has has done it before and like kind of like has seen like the vision of like what a championship team looks like so I think it was really interesting to hear Ryan say that so he was locked in with Lane Kiffin no matter what he said it wasn't just Kiffin it was the whole offensive staff and he's right except remember how that week played out okay now you have to go back with me a little bit, but Kiffin takes the job on Sunday. And remember, there were a handful of assistants that got on a plane with him Sunday and came to Baton Rouge. Well, there were a few that weren't. And among them were Kevin Smith and John Garrison, the offensive line coach. Well, as we know, Smith would end up taking the job as the running backs coach at LSU, but Garrison did not. So Kiffin takes the job on that Sunday. They have the introductory press conference on that Monday. And if you've been with us during all that time, I told you Garrison and Smith's wives visited Baton Rouge that Monday. The coaches, Garrison and Smith, were supposed to be on that plane. Now, they did not come, but their wives and some of their children did. As you recall, when there was the introductory press conference, in that front row, Knox Kippen was sitting next to Kevin Smith Jr. So Kevin Smith's son made the trip, as did his wife, and John Garrison's wife made the trip as well. Now, as we know, the Smiths ended up coming. the garrisons did not so i asked ryan moret if john garrison not taking the lsu job gave him pause it was a huge pause because i had i had a tremendous relationship with him and i mean it it sucks that that you know like situation happened the way it happened but at the end of the day i have to do what's what's best for me and my family you know because everyone at the end of the day that's what everyone's doing. So yeah here I am It was a really interesting conversation because Ryan had never been to LSU campus when he committed He did visit the following weekend right So he signs on that Wednesday, visits LSU that weekend. So he came before he showed up to early enroll for the semester. So he did come with his family in December, but he had already signed at that point. So you want to talk about a tremendous amount of faith in Lane Kiffin, the offense, the staff. And even at that time, remember, Eric, at the time he signed, Garrison had not taken the job and Wolford had not been hired yet. So he signed not knowing who his offensive line coach was going to be, which I think shows a tremendous amount of faith. Now, what I also think is very interesting is that Wolford has so much SEC experience, as does James Craig, who ultimately did come over there. But for Ryan Moret, the other interesting part of this is how they see him and sort of project him in 2026 and beyond. And that's one of the things that I want to dive into. We also talked about his relationship with Nick Savage, the strength and conditioning coordinator, and an interesting two-sport background that may serve Ryan Moret really well at LSU. We're going to dive into that as we continue. Stay with us here at LockedIn LSU, your team every day. Workplace chaos, deadlines, stacking up, inbox overflowing, and the one position you have to fill is still sitting open? 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So he's an interior offensive lineman, but very likely projects as a center. Now, Braylon Moore returns in 2026 for his senior season. That was one of the key returnees that LSU had. Remember, we told you there were six guys that LSU targeted when the new staff came in that they had to return. It was Harlan Berry, Trey Desgreen, Braylon Moore on the offensive side. Defensively, Whit Weeks was at the top of that list, along with DJ Pickett and it was Deshaun Spears, that they were really focusing on keeping those guys back for another season. And by and large, they were able to do that. So they kept the guys that they – P.J. Woodland, excuse me, was the other defensive back that they focused on having to get back. So being the fact that Braylon Moore is returning and Ryan Brett projects as a center. Remember, LSU also signed William Satterwhite from Tennessee. So Satterwhite spent the last two years as a backup interior offensive lineman. He's been a backup center at Tennessee. So when you look at that center spot now for LSU, Raylan Moore is your returning starter, but you've got Satterwhite, who's played in a backup role in the SEC for two years, and now you've got Moret after him as well. And again, Satterwhite, Moret, we'll see how that may go in the future. But the idea is for Ryan Marrett to redshirt in 2026 and be ready to compete for a job either at center or guard in 2027, maybe compete with Satterwhite for that starting center job in 2027 when Braylon Moore is off to the NFL. And one of the things I think that is really going to help Ryan Marrett is the fact that he has a wrestling background. Now, if you followed my content, you know, I'm a big MMA fan. As a matter of fact, I spent this last weekend. I drove to Houston and went to the UFC fights in Houston. And one thing that I know is fighters with a wrestling background give them such a base core that gives them an advantage in almost anything because they're never going to be uncomfortable if a fight goes to the mat. Now, this isn't an MMA podcast. We're talking about football here. But with wrestling, cardio is incredible. Hand placement is incredible. Center of gravity and body positioning, incredible. Incredibly important. What we say in football all the time, low man wins. So you're talking about a guy in Ryan Moret who wasn't just a wrestler. As you're going to hear him say, he was an elite level wrestler in high school using that to benefit him in football and college. I was an All-American at the U.S. Open in 2023 in Greco-Roman. And then my junior year, I went 29-0 and won states in the state of Florida. So it's pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. And so whoever the kids were in your, I guess, in the heavyweight division are really excited that you were early enrolled so that someone else had a chance to stay this year. Whoever that kid is, put an asterisk next to that one. Yeah the kid who was number two like he actually he a nice kid I beat him last year in the state semifinals but he actually messaged me and was like thank god thank god you not you not wrestling this year oh man yeah so how does I love that so much dude how does wrestling help in football um so like obviously it it helps with you know your core like your balance your your hand-eye coordination like just being able to like get your hands like on like the fit that you want to get it on like and um just kind of like just the conditioning and honestly like another huge part from wrestling is just like your mindset like like to be a wrestler like like you get put through like all different types of you know intense workouts and you know you're on the mat like training for three hours straight and you know just to get ready to wrestle a six-minute match and you know just like that mentality that wrestlers have is just I feel like it's just like different compared to any other sport that fires me up listen I'm a big believer as I'm sure many of you are in in being a multi-sport athlete and not focusing just on one thing and learning multiple disciplines but hearing that there's a center on LSU's team who was in went to the U.S. Open was an all-American wrestler oh yeah like that's going to be a massive advantage it's something else to consider is when you have guys that are multi-sport athletes, sometimes that hurts them in the recruitment process as far as numbers because they're playing two sports instead of going to elite camps and things like that. LSU is going through this right now in baseball. If you've been following any of our baseball content, well, there's a player on the LSU baseball team, who's a Catholic High in Baton Rouge, who was a two-sport guy. He was an outfielder on the national championship Catholic High baseball team, but also was a wide receiver. And because he was playing two sports, his baseball recruitment was slow. And as a result, he ended up going JUCO and now he's at LSU and everyone sees that he affects the baseball. He is so powerful and sudden and athletic and is going to be an awesome player. Well, that was all there. It's just his recruitment was slow because he played two sports. Sometimes that happens with guys like this as well, where you're talking about wrestling instead of being football all the time, camps and everything. So maybe that's one of the reasons why you didn't see Ryan Rett's star rating numbers elevate more. But my goodness, that's going to make him a much better offensive lineman. Now, you heard Ryan also talk about the whole staff coming over, right, except for John Garrison. So he has a familiarity with a lot of the staff. That includes Nick Savage, who is the strength and conditioning coordinator who came over from Ole Miss. Now, this is relevant also because, remember, at this point in the calendar before spring, the football coaches can't work with the players. Now, and I have been told that they are doing player-led workouts, which is very common in this day and age. You get the veteran players that get the guys together and they'll, you know, receivers and quarterbacks will go run routes, linemen will do drills. Again, coaches can't be with them, but players can go organize. The one coach they are with is the strength and conditioning staff, both now and then through spring and then after spring throughout the summer when they go through summer conditioning before fall camp, the strength and conditioning staff are the ones that are actually with these players every single day so that's nick savage and his strength staff coming over from old miss and ryan marat talked about savage and that relationship there so so that's actually um another guy that was a part of the old miss staff um so like yeah that's just another like piece that also came along with with that whole transfer of coaches um but but yeah he's a great guy i've known him since since I've been committed to Ole Miss and was recruited there. And he actually has a relationship with one of my high school tight end coaches because my coach, he played at Florida back when Savage was the strength coach at Florida. And he also has a good relationship with him. So I kind of got to hear about Savage from another perspective of someone who played and was coached by him already. I know that there was a lot of conversation as LSU struggled at the end of the Kelly era about the strength and conditioning staff with Jake Flint. And a lot of that was bred by the fact that Tommy Moffitt has now had success at Texas A&M. The thing that I will remind you, and I'm not going to be hypocritical here. Listen, I love Tommy Moffitt. And you've heard so many former LSU players rave about him. They adore him. They'll talk about him being their favorite coach they ever had. And Moffitt was hired by Saban and was retained by Miles and Ogeron. So he made it through three different coaching staffs. And Nick Saban also tried to hire Tommy Moffitt multiple times at Alabama. When Tommy Moffitt was not retained by Brian Kelly, there were a lot of LSU fans who criticized Tommy Moffitt, who thought he was part of the reason maybe the game had passed him by, that you saw some injuries, and maybe LSU getting pushed around. You remember, in 2021, Ogeron's last season, LSU got dump trucked by Ole Miss and Kentucky. And Moffitt took a lot of criticism for that. Rightly or wrongly, that was a thing that happened. Now, I certainly wish Tommy Moffitt had been retained. He wasn't. And it's Brian Kelly's prerogative to bring in who he wants, just like it's Lane Kiffin's prerogative to hire his own staff. Now, does Jake Flint and his strength staff shoulder some of the blame for LSU shortcomings? Probably. I mean, I think everyone shoulders blame. I think it's Kelly. It's the coordinators. It's strength staff. I think there's plenty of blame to go around. Ultimately, all the puke goes up the ladder to Brian Kelly, and he gets all the blame. But it will be interesting to see how strategically they might be different with this strength staff compared to what they were under Jake Flint. And one of the things that we heard and talked a lot about with Flint was they did a lot of band work, maybe not as much resistant training. And some of that is intended to reduce soft tissue injuries, but are you actually moving weight and maybe you're becoming athletic and finesse, not quite as powerful. And that could certainly be reflected on the offensive line, maybe a part of the reason why we saw LSU's offensive line struggle to run block here in recent years. Could be interesting to see if that changes, but Ryan Moret is going to be a part of that. Let me knock out our final break. I want to come back and sort of look at a projected offensive line. And by the way, Lane Kiffin has added another support staffer. We'll get to that as we continue here at Slotkin LSU, your team every day. This is Mazda's moving the game forward. 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Redshirted, didn't play, transferred to Maryland, ends up playing and starting two years at Maryland as their starting right guard. he is very likely LSU's plug-and-play starter at right guard, which leaves two spots up for grabs, left guard and right tackle. Now, Weston Davis, it would stand to reason, who was your lowest graded and weakest link on the offensive line a year ago. It's fair to say. But he was also your starter at right tackle. This staff wanted to retain him. They did, and now he's back. He probably gets that first look at right tackle, which leaves really left guard. And now you're talking about Sean Tompkins from Baylor, who has been a left tackle, but a left side of the offensive line guy. Devin Harper is going to be interesting as well. The one-time LSU commitment who flipped to Ole Miss and now is transferred to LSU. Harper, talking to Ole Miss folks, was projected to be Ole Miss' starting right tackle in 2026. So maybe Harper pushes Davis at right tackle, or maybe he's competing with Tompkins at left guard. And then you've also got guys like Jaquan Sprinkle, who are guys who are from smaller classification schools who might well get in there and compete for a starting opportunity, or at least to give LSU quality depth in this transfer portal class. So a couple of names worth keeping an eye on as they'll make it through. And of course, we'll certainly be watching Ryan Moret and William Satterwhite, who we talked about there as well, coming in via the transfer portal to see how they may build some depth on the offensive line. One other note here before we get out of here, I was able to confirm, we reported this over at LouisianaSports.net via sources, that LSU and Lane Kiffin was able to add another support staff member. So I tweeted this on Saturday, but DeAndre Williams is joining the LSU staff. he most recently so DeAndre Williams is from Baton Rouge he prepped at Scotlandville and then played collegiately at Tulane and most recently he's been the defensive coordinator at Bruley which if you're not familiar Bruley is on the west bank of the Mississippi River from from Baton Rouge small town and he's was at Bruley High as their defensive coordinator one of the things I really like about this and so you're talking about a defensive line analyst of course you know you've got your defensive line staff in place, but this is a really great opportunity to add another young assistant that you can grow and develop on that defensive line. And remember, we saw an LSU defensive line analyst leave the staff. Just former Tiger Jamare Rasco left LSU, where he was an analyst, to become the assistant defensive line coach at Mississippi State. So in hiring now DeAndre Williams, that in theory replaces Rasco in that spot as the defensive line analyst under new defensive line coach Sterling Lucas. So Sterling Lucas coaching the interior of the defensive line, losing Rasco as his analyst. Now you gain DeAndre Williams there. And another great way of connectivity with the state of Louisiana and high school coaches and the high school ranks in Louisiana, which Lane Kiffin continues to insist he will recruit. And a lot of that is sort of indicative. I'll remind you as well that they retained Eric Held on the staff. Held was a former head coach at St. Michael's in Baton Rouge, who was the head of the Louisiana High School Coaches Association. Brian Kelly hired him a year ago in that high school relation role, and Lane Kiffin has retained him. So it's really good synergies with the high school coaches in Louisiana under Lane Kiffin. And this is another great example of starting to build that staff around it. 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