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Texas loses key player to season-ending injury · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Craig Web Show with the voice of the
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  Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster Craig Way. Continuing
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  here this afternoon, by the way, updating game, the Dodgers
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  still trail the Mets, Mets up six to nothing as
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  they bat in the top half of the fifth inning
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  with two outs in that game, again the big blow.
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  Francisco Lindor had a lead off home run as the
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  Dodgers go with a bullpen game today and then a
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  grand slam from Mark Vinto's with two outs in the third.
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  And that's the difference in the ballgame. That and the
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  fact that the Dodgers have not been able to touch
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  Sean and I. He has been every bit as impressive
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  today for the Mets as Jack Clarity was last night
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  for LA. So it looks like that series is going
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  to be headed to New York, even at a game
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  a piece. More from long wrn's head coach Steve Sarkasian.
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  He was asked about his relationship with Kirby Smart. I
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  think it was Kirk Bowles who asked him that said,
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  have you known how He said, I don't know how
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  well you know him? You both were assistants under Nick Saban?
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  Are your friends? What your relationship is like? That I've
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  noticed over the years, and I'm talking like a couple
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  of decades. That is a Kirk Bowles go to question.
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  He's asked it many times. I remember going back to
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  Mac Brown asked him how well he knew Bob Stoops
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  initially asked him how well he knew so and so,
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  you know, over the years, different coaches. So the question
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  was put to Sark does does he know Kirby Spark
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  very well? The fact that the two were former assistants
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  under Nick Saban.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have a ton of respect for Kirby first
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  of all, and yeah, I we do have a very
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  good relationship and we uh we we actually have a
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  lot of fun together and we share a lot of
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  a lot of funny stories about our mentor that that
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  only that only he and I can talk about. You
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  guys don't get to don't get to know those. But
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  but again, a ton of respect, and I think the
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  premise of our programs is probably very similar. Obviously, ours
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  has got a little bit of an offensive perspective because
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  of me and his a defensive perspective. But I think
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  the way we built our teams, the style in which
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  we try to play the game, and our belief in
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  physicality and running the ball. Those things matter, are our
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  belief in special teams. You know, a lot of the
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  things that we do and and how aggressive we are
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  and recruiting are very similar that way, And so I
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  respect that, you know, our respect of the way he's
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  built that program at Georgia. I respect the way that
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  those his teams play. I respect the aggressive nature in
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  the way his coordinators call the games. And so I
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  think that's why that the challenge is fun that way.
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  And I always love competing against kind of buddies, you know,
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  because it's like when you were growing up as a kid,
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  it was like competing with your brothers. Nobody you wanted
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  to beat more than your brother or your buddy. And so, hey,
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  I love the challenge I'm feeling. I'm sure Kirby feels
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  the same way. You know that, Hey, this is a
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  heck of a challenge for both of us, and it
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  should be. It should be a great night for college football.
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  Speaker 1: As we pointed out, Texas his ranked number one in
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  the country UH in both the AP and the Coaches poll,
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  and as we have pointed out Sark has pointed it
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  out more often than we have said it. But it
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  is true that those polls are nice and everything, and
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  it's good for fans, good for media, but it doesn't
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  ultimately determine whether your team's me in the college football playoff,
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  especially this year more than ever before with the expansion
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  to twelve and the cfp's committee that CFP committees rankings,
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  those are the ones that will matter, although Sark also
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  points that if you win your conference championship in a
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  Power four league like the SEC, you're going to get
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  a bye in the first round. You're in the playoff,
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  and you're going to get a buye. Nevertheless, Sark was
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  asked if he is able to take stock enough of
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  what has happened so far to enjoy this ride, to
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  enjoy what's been going on, to enjoy being number one.
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  Speaker 2: It was a long day, and so I when I
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  got home, I literally put my phone down and I
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  watched three games right in row that had fantastic finishes,
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  you know, and just to watch all those kids compete
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  in those three games, and to watch the energy in
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  the stadium, and to watch coaches make decisions, some of
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  which were great decisions, some of which I'm sure guys
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  may kick themselves a little bit over just just to
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  watch it all unfold. I've said this before, but I
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  feel like in my four years here, college football is
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  at an all time high. You know, the the style
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  of play, the excitement of the game, the exposure that
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  college football is getting right now, the the flair for
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  the dramatic. It just seems like it's it's heightened even more.
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  And so we're we're lucky, man, and you I think
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  you guys should feel lucky that you get to cover
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  what's going on in college football right now. And you know,
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  we've got it. We get we get that show here
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  Saturday night, and so I'm I'm happy for our fans
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  that that we kind of get to be part of
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  that prime time excitement and to show off what dk
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  R is all about. You know, the goal is that
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  you're on the winning end, because I know, you know
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  half of those teams in those games. You know, we're
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  on the losing end of some gut wrenching games. And
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  the beauty of it, though, too, is the way the
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  playoff is set up. You can you can overcome if
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  you lose one of those type games and still have
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  an opportunity to win a national championship when before maybe
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  you didn't. And so I don't know. It's just I
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  watched three unbelievable endings the other night. You know that
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  that Oregon ending, the LSU ending, and then that Kansas
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  State ending. Those were three fantastic football games that as
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  a fan of college football, I just thoroughly enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: What Sart probably didn't thoroughly enjoy was that first try
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  on that pass downfield for Matthew Golden on that on
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  the double pass. The second one, while being a little short,
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  nevertheless it worked because Gunner Hill made a spectacular grab
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  on that to set up a touchdown. So Sark was
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  asked about the Matthew Golden throwing sequence.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Matt, we had both those plays up obviously
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  in the game, and the first one we felt way
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  better about the play, and we knew that as a staff,
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  and clearly Ryan Wingo was opened by about fifteen yards
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  and it wasn't a And so the second one, I
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  wanted to give him a chance to redeem himself a
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  little bit and I had a feeling that might cover
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  it a little better, which they did and was a
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  heck of a catch by gunner Helm, you know, down
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  there to the one, but uh, you know again his
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  first both throws were in my good, bad and ugly
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  tape this morning, and if anybody wants to know, when
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  I saw the throw, it reminded me of something that
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  reminded me of fifty cents first, you know, the first pitch,
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  and so we kind of we kind of showed that
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  after that throw to get a chuckle out of the guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good way to describe it there. All right,
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  we'll be back to wrap up today's program. Bureau on
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