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Vic Schaefer talks Texas Basketball (Part 1) · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Later on in the third hour of the program, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear from Rodney Terry Longwren men's basketball coach, But
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  Speaker 1: right now we want to hear from the head coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Texas women. We're gonna split it up from
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  Speaker 1: his media available because there's some really good stuff in there,
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  Speaker 1: and then in between that, we're also going to visit
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  Speaker 1: with Greg Temper, managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: But let's hear from head coach Vic schaeffer'st team is
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  Speaker 1: three and zero and they are also ranked fourth in
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  Speaker 1: the country and they have that forty acres field trip
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  Speaker 1: game tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock against Charleton State's here's
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  Speaker 1: the media conversation part of it with head coach Vic Schaffer.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, tomorrow is our elementary school game day, and I
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  Speaker 2: know everybody that'll be there, I'll have their earplugs in.
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  Speaker 2: But we're excited to host over five thousand young kids
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  Speaker 2: throughout our community and their teachers tomorrow and uh, great
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for our kids too, have a chance to be
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  Speaker 2: role models and be seen and uh and after the
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  Speaker 2: game to meet some of those folks as well. So
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  Speaker 2: gonna play a really good uh Charlton State team. Uh
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  Speaker 2: well coached, you know obviously the coach somebody I'm very
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  Speaker 2: familiar with and Bill Rock and uh, he's doing a
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  Speaker 2: great job with that group. They're two and two and
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  Speaker 2: they've they've played pretty well on the road at Arizona
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  Speaker 2: and at UTEP whereas there are two losses.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 2: Got a really good, really good team, a veteran team
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  Speaker 2: of eight seniors. You know, they're they're they're a very
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  Speaker 2: athletic and uh again he's he's doing, uh doing a
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  Speaker 2: great job with him, and so we'll have to we'll
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  Speaker 2: have to be ready, ready to play.
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  Speaker 3: It's an early game.
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  Speaker 2: My team will tell you, you know, my philosophy is sleepy
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  Speaker 2: team loses, and so we'll we'll have to be up
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  Speaker 2: and ready to go in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Five.
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  Speaker 2: Any time you go against five seniors at this level,
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  Speaker 2: you that's that to me is instant credibility. And then
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  Speaker 2: a veteran coach like coach Brock and and so excited
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  Speaker 2: for the opportunity for our kids. We played really hard
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  Speaker 2: the other night, y'all. I know you didn't read about
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  Speaker 2: it in the paper, but we did have a game
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  Speaker 2: against the Paul Sunday, and our kids played really hard,
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  Speaker 2: and UH really proud of them, and uh I thought
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  Speaker 2: they they they they just competed. And for our first
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  Speaker 2: road game against a quality opponent, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: it was good to see us come out and play
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  Speaker 2: as hard as we did. Offensively, we shot sixty percent
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. And I thought our kids made
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  Speaker 2: a little jump between their last game and in that
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  Speaker 2: game as far as just how hard they played. Now hard,
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  Speaker 2: they competed, and we dealt with some foul trouble, and
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  Speaker 2: and we're able to still handle it, and and and
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  Speaker 2: and really not miss beat. So you score ninety one points,
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  Speaker 2: don't make a single three pointer, and shoot fifty nine percent.
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  Speaker 3: Of the free throw line, you're doing a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things right.
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  Speaker 2: And so I miss seeing my friend Doug Bruno on
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  Speaker 2: the on the sideline, been very concerned about him.
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  Speaker 3: As he's had some health issues.
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  Speaker 2: But I did finally after reaching out to him for
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  Speaker 2: over a month, I was able to finally visit with
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  Speaker 2: him on game day Sunday via the phone, and he
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  Speaker 2: sounded great, and it really brought a little peace to
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  Speaker 2: me because he's not it's not that he's somebody I
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  Speaker 2: talked to every day or every week. But he's somebody
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  Speaker 2: I have a deep respect and high regard for. He's
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  Speaker 2: somebody that's impacted our great game for many, many many years,
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  Speaker 2: and he is De Paul women's basketball, and so I
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  Speaker 2: was glad to know that at least through the phone,
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  Speaker 2: he sounded well. And he told me he thought he'll
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  Speaker 2: be back on the bench maybe in a month, but
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  Speaker 2: right for right now, you had to stay away.
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  Speaker 3: And so Jill's doing a great job with that team.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I was very pleased coming out of there playing
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  Speaker 2: as hard as we played. Again, didn't play great all
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  Speaker 2: the time, but we played really hard.
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  Speaker 4: Beck, you got a bunch of people playing about the
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  Speaker 4: same twenty minutes so far, who's taken the opportunity maybe
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  Speaker 4: to press you and you know, let you know that
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  Speaker 4: they deserve some playing time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, certainly Shay has been someone
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  Speaker 2: than the other night. She was three for nine and
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  Speaker 2: zero for four from three before that, And again it
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  Speaker 2: happened in shoot around.
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  Speaker 3: She made everything she looked at.
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  Speaker 2: I think I looked at Brionna Preston and went, that's
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  Speaker 2: the kiss of death, because that's usually I work. You
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  Speaker 2: make everything and shoot around and five hours later you can't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's your backside with both hands. And so
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  Speaker 2: she's really been making a lot of shots for us
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  Speaker 2: from three.
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  Speaker 3: She's been very effective.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Lee is proven, you know, don't worry about her classification.
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  Speaker 2: She's ready to play at this level. But again it's
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  Speaker 2: because she's so competitive. She plays so hard. Preston plays
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  Speaker 2: really hard, and so, you know, I think those young kids,
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  Speaker 2: even Justice I thought was different at DePaul Versus earlier.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 2: Layla's getting healthy and so she's she was five for
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  Speaker 2: nine the other night, but played really hard defensively, had
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  Speaker 2: four rebounds for us. So you know, I think all
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  Speaker 2: those kids are continuously getting better. Kyla came in and
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  Speaker 2: immediately impacted the game. Had four offensive, seven rebounds total,
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  Speaker 2: but block shots, altered shots, just had a physical presence.
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  Speaker 3: In the lane.
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  Speaker 2: Got tangled up, you know, a couple of times and
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  Speaker 2: fell to the ground with whoever got tangled up with.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm pretty sure they came out on the short
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  Speaker 2: end of that deal. So you know, just uh, I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of kids, That's why I'm playing them
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  Speaker 2: all right now. I'm trying to, you know, see who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna continue to rise to the top. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: uh still haven't played my four guard lineup, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do that, and uh, I think that'll be a
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  Speaker 2: lineup that can create a lot of problems for people.
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  Speaker 2: So I wish I had an answer for you. But
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  Speaker 2: there's a reason why there's so many people playing so
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  Speaker 2: many minutes because they've all warrant. They all warranted, and
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, Jack Linga, she came in the other
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  Speaker 2: night and immediately impacted the game for us at four
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  Speaker 2: and you know, so with her length and size, and
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  Speaker 2: so I mean, I can just I can talk about
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  Speaker 2: them all, but that's why they're all playing so many minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Vic, I mean winning by forty six points. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if you're the greatest women's team that ever
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  Speaker 5: took the court or in any way, do you worry
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  Speaker 5: that you know you won't be as tested once conference
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  Speaker 5: play starts. They're fine.
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  Speaker 2: We we have so many non conference games. I think
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  Speaker 2: first you have to give my kids credit. The paul
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  Speaker 2: Is is gonna be fine. They're gonna win a lot
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  Speaker 2: of games. Our kids played really good. Richmond was twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine and six last year and they got everybody back,
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  Speaker 2: and two Power five transfers that were difference players on
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  Speaker 2: their team. I got to go to Richmond, I got
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  Speaker 2: to go to James Madison, I got to go play
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  Speaker 2: Maryland on a neutral floor. If we take care of business,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to play a top twelve team in West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia a week from Sunday. So and then I've got
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  Speaker 2: a top twenty five team in South Dakota State. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this will be the toughest non conference schedule I've had,
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  Speaker 2: maybe ever. So I think there's plenty of test for
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  Speaker 2: us between now and our first conference game. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: none of those teams other than South Dakota State are
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  Speaker 2: at home, so you know, again, I feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be tested. I feel like we'll be ready,
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  Speaker 2: and again, I think we have plenty of schedule.
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 2: Think you have to give our kids a little credit.
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  Speaker 2: They played pretty good the other night, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Tarleton'll come in here and I know everybody's thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they used to be whatever, they used to be Division
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  Speaker 2: two or whatever, and now they're not. Well, no, they're
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  Speaker 2: not now. And he's got five seniors starting. They went
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  Speaker 2: out to Arizona and played them really tough and got
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  Speaker 2: beat twenty. They go to UTEP get beat three on
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  Speaker 2: the road, and they've won two games at home pretty handily.
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  Speaker 2: So you know we're gonna have to We'll have to
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  Speaker 2: be ready. And again it's a sleepy game in the
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  Speaker 2: morning eleven am with a bunch of screaming kids in
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  Speaker 2: the gym, so you never know how that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So you about where we are.
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  Speaker 5: You like the chemistry so far and how the kids
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  Speaker 5: are connecting.
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  Speaker 2: I do, man, I love this team, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: love being around them. You know they're they're you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got those five seniors and in I love o
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  Speaker 2: our approach, especially on game day. I mean, you've got
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  Speaker 2: Booker coming out at two hours prior to TIP, getting
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  Speaker 2: in her twenty five thirty minutes of shots up. You
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  Speaker 2: got Rory coming out with her. You got Shay and
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  Speaker 2: Layla coming out, you know, hour and a half, you
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  Speaker 2: got four or five others coming out hour. So we've
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  Speaker 2: had to stairstep our pregame shooting because you know what,
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  Speaker 2: in the past, everybody rolled out there at an iron
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes prior to tip, because that's when coach said
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  Speaker 2: you had to be out and so now you got
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  Speaker 2: thirteen people trying to shoot. We ain't getting very many
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  Speaker 2: shots up when you got thirteen of them out there.
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  Speaker 2: So Booker kind of started it last year in wanting
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  Speaker 2: to get her own time, and then now we got
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  Speaker 2: a whole group of kids wanting to do it. So
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  Speaker 2: I love our approach. And again it's great to have
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  Speaker 2: those seniors who can be a pro, can show them,
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  Speaker 2: show these young kids what it's like to be at
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  Speaker 2: Texas and to understand, man, we're fixing get this team's
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  Speaker 2: best shot. We better be ready to play. We're fixing
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  Speaker 2: go through this scouting report after pregame meal. You better
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on. And if I call your name,
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  Speaker 2: you better not know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first part of the media visit with Vick Schaeffer.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty compelling stuff and more to come from them a
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  Speaker 1: little later on. Up next, we visit with Greg Tepper,
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  Speaker 1: managing editor of Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine here on
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