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Cowboys Head in Wrong Direction · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Vandermere, played by play voice of the Houston Texans
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  for joining us there, and he said he loved ambrosia,
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  so we throw back with a roll back here with
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  a little more ambrosia here with you're the only woman there.
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  So yeah, So going to that tomorrow night, so we'll
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  see that. Somebody mentioned on the text line he said
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  Journey nineteen eighty three. Brian Adams was the opening act.
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  I still left the T shirt. It's a little snug
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  these days. I sold those T shirts that went on
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  the on the road with Journey. We did City Park
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  Stadium in New Orleans because they couldn't come to an
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  agreement with the Superdome, so it was outdoor venue on
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  the fourth of July pouring rain. But we did that Albuquerque,
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  New Mexico, Dallas, Houston, Norman, Oklahoma, which a daw Kansas,
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  Vegas for three nights at the Aladdin Theater, Let's see,
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  and then up into the Pacific northwest to Poka Tella, Idaho,
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  and Boise, Idaho. When we were in Pocatello, Brian Adams
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  Uh was the lead act and he was a real
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  he was just getting started and he was a real
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  down to earth guy. This is how down to earth
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  Brian Adams was. When we flew from New Orleans to Dallas,
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  Me and the the other three guys that I worked
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  with on my particular crew with this with the T
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  shirt vending thing working for the band. Uh, Brian Adams
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  flew with us on Southwest Airlines. This is you know,
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  he became a mega rock star, but he was just
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  starting out then. That was when his first album and
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  cuts like an Ikea and all that. And he was
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  sitting on the sitting on the plane with us and
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  just regular guy chatting with us. By the time we
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  got to Pokatella, Idaho, Uh, he had seen a few
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  things and and uh was pretty pretty loose with his
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  conversation to the extent that he got up on stage
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  opening up for Journey and what was then called the
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  Mini Dome's It's one of those old fashioned older dome stadiums.
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  Speaker 2: It was concrete.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like an airplane hangar seats like fifteen thousand,
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  and they would hang the goal post for the football
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  team Idaho State plays at home football games there. They'd
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  hang up from cables from the season the ceiling. There
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  was no bottom bar that went up to the crossbar
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  and it would just hang from the ceiling like that.
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  We saw that at both ends. I always remember that.
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  And it was called the Mini Dome back then. It's
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  got a corporate name on it now. But he was
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  up there and he gets on stage. He goes, Poka,
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  tell Idah, how about you spud Butts? Hey, spud Butt
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  And people were kind of like, kind of like is
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  he kidding or what? But yeah, Brian Adams was the
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  opening act. So there you go. So anyway, that was
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  some memories there, and like I said, we're going to
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  see and let's hear some more from long words. Basketball
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  coach Rodney Terry, who's asked about a couple of guys,
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  including Jason Kent, is another guy that they're pretty excited
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  about in his development.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Ed, I'll tell you what you know. Jason Kent.
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  You know we've known his dad a long time. Dad
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  was a.
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  Speaker 3: Was was a coach here at Houston Jellison at one time.
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  Speaker 2: Mom worked on our campus at one.
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  Speaker 3: Time as well, so very familiar with with the forty acres.
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  He himself, going on, played a couple of years at Bradley,
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  played the last two years in Indiana State. But he's
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  one of those guys again that can make an open shot.
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  He's an elite cutter, you know, we pride ourselves to
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  being a really good cutting team. He's a space that
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  got floor guy, really good offensive rebounder, you know, has
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  a body to play physical and get up and down
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  the floor, you know, and stuff. So I think he
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  brings that along with obviously a lot of experience as well,
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  you know, and and hopefully the guy that wants to
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  continue to try to play with the chip on the shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one thing that coaches always stress and they talk
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  about quite a bit is rebounding. The the art, the science,
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  the effort, everything about rebounding. And Kirk bowls from the
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  Austin American instead way it used to be the Austin
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  American Station now the Houston Chronicle. Kirk asked Roddy about rebounding.
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  Does he want to see more out of his guys
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  in terms of, you know, crashing the boards and getting
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  to the glass and getting rebounds this season.
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  Speaker 3: I think every team in the country goes into the
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  year worrying about rebounding. Because what makes you a great team,
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  makes you a great team, you got to be a
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  team that takes care of the basketball. You don't beat yourselves, right,
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  So value and taking care of the basketball. Physical mindset
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  that allows you to play physical, all five guys blocking out,
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  rebounding down, you know. You know, we want to try
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  to play fast as well, where every time down we
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  want to want to get a shot. But and then
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  you know, obviously having a really good defense, you know,
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  and a big part of having a really good defense
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  and finishing possessions.
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  Speaker 2: Is being able to block out. So you know, we
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  work at it.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a great strength coach that's really done a
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  great job with our guys body over the course of
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  the summer to hope they give them a mindset to
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  come out and have application on the floor to play physical.
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  You know, when that shot goes up, you look to
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  hit somebody. If you don't get the rebound, your man
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  doesn't get.
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  Speaker 2: It, you know, and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of times it's not the biggest team
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  we could roll out. You know, three or four or
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  five seven footers does no good for us, right, It's
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  what's in your chest in terms of if you want
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  to do it. Can't you want to play physical? It
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  doesn't matter what size you are, you know what I mean?
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  We got good size, you know and stuff. But I
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  do think that, you know, on the perimeter, we've got
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  good size. I think our guards are rebound down really
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  well for us, and that'll be a plus for us
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  because we'll be able to get up and down the
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  floor and play fast the way we want to.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And then there were a couple of questions
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  about this new world that the log Worts are going into,
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  into the Southeastern Conference. One of the questions asked point
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  blank was did he feel that the Big twelve is
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  a better basketball league than the SEC? Because the Big
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  twelve is, you know, it's got some good basketball programs
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  in it, and it's made some runs. And so it
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  was asked thing that the SEC is behind the Big
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  twelve conference in terms of basketball and Rodney was saying,
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  absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: I think the SEC, you know, obviously has great leadership
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  with Greg thank He's done a great job came really
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  building up the profile of the SEC from top to bottom,
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  and no Knights. All great coaches, really good venues to
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  play in, and really good players in the SEC. So
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  they put eight teams in the tournament the last two
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  years in the Big Twelve, you know, we had eight
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  teams in the tournament this past year. We had seven
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  the year before, So you know, there's no drop off
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  in the SEC. Man, We're right at the top and
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  one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Best leagues in the country on basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Stam one okay, and then one other thing about the
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  SEC and just kind of diving into what the sky
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  els of play and Rodnie was asked, if do you
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  notice anything appreciably different about how the SEC goes about
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  its business and playing as opposed to the Big twelve?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they think again, if you if you really get
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  down to it now, you're talking about you know what.
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  Speaker 2: Translates in the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 3: You know, is the Big twelve more physical than the SEC?
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  You know who files the most right when you when
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  you get to the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think you start looking at those kind
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  of things.
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  Speaker 3: But I think there are teams in the SEC that
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  play extremely physical. I mean, we played Tennessee the last
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  three years and been easily probably the most physical team
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  we've played on our schedule, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, and everything.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I think there's you know, on any
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  given night, you're gonna have to deal with some physicality.
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  You have to deal with teams that could you know,
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  push the ball really fast in transition the teams that
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  can really score the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And as a result of that, they played Tennessee again.
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  Now in conference play, Tennessee will come to Austin for
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  one game after they have played them in some price
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