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Can Texas win a National Championship? Bobby Burton talks Texas Football at the SEC Media Days · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: If the Devil went down to Georgia. Our producer back
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  Speaker 1: in the studio who knows music only too well, Cole Dicks,
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  Speaker 1: and must have known that we're gonna have Bobby Burton.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby and I've been friends a long time, over thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: and did television recruiting shows together.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the nineties, and Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: Exploded and I might this is a personal editorial.
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  Speaker 2: This is not something Bobby's saying. It's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: He legitimized the coverage of recruiting in football that started
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties. Bobby was the one who brought it
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  Speaker 1: mainstream and made it legitimate and not looking snarky and
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  Speaker 1: sketchy and all of that other kind of stuff. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Bobby Burton did back in the day. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Burton did to make it global with rifles. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Bobby's doing right now with on Texas Football.
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  Speaker 2: Author of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I'm kind of a full circle for me,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I started broad and uh
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  Speaker 3: did recruiting nationally helps help launch rivals, and hired a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people with them. That's the hired a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to hire. Yes, I did that too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we were just talking about that at lunch.
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  Speaker 3: I mean one of the things about it is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you like, there's some people that you had to hire
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  Speaker 3: even though you didn't like the person, because they were
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  Speaker 3: good at their job, you know. But No, in all seriousness,
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  Speaker 3: really enjoyed my time and doing that. And then the
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  Speaker 3: last two years I've just been covering uh long the
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  Speaker 3: long ones on on Texas football and it feels good, man,
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  Speaker 3: it feels really really good. I'm at that age where
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  Speaker 3: my kids are out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: Now I can slow down.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to breathe out of a fire or
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  Speaker 3: drink out of a fire hose.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's just a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of fun and it helps when Steve Sarkisian wins just
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  Speaker 3: put it that way. I mean, that makes everybody's day
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  Speaker 3: day a little nicer, and they recruit well. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: Chrystal Conti's got it kind of going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin haltyves been very positive, the Chancellor of the Border Regions,
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  Speaker 3: Chairman of Word Regions. So I feel like, for me, Craig,
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate the comment first of all, but second of all,
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  Speaker 3: guys like you helped me along the way because you
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  Speaker 3: were you were that little little age gap ahead of me,
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  Speaker 3: not much you had gray hair before.
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  Speaker 2: I just let's hit on the word gap.
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  Speaker 3: But but my point is, a young person like myself
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  Speaker 3: needs some people a little bit older than them to
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  Speaker 3: trust them a little bit along the way, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And you were absolutely one of the people that did
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  Speaker 3: that for me.
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  Speaker 2: So I appreciate it very very much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all sending stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad y'all took me down memory lane for y'all
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  Speaker 5: y'all's relationship because I didn't know the exact history of it. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: you both are good at what you do when covering
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  Speaker 5: the University of Texas just happens to be a part.
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  Speaker 4: Of that coverage, so it makes it a little bit better.
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  Speaker 5: But there's also been some lean times too where you
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  Speaker 5: guys had to go through that and understand what it's
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  Speaker 5: all about.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to talk about the present.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, over the last couple of years, Texas
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  Speaker 5: has done an unbelievable job of getting the bbies back
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  Speaker 5: in the boxes, they like to say, and now they're
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  Speaker 5: ascending in the right direction. Obviously, start his crew and
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  Speaker 5: the one thing that I've always accredited it to was
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he didn't make a ton of changes. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: people were leaving, but they were advancing. People were getting
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  Speaker 5: jobs because of their talent, not because you got to
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  Speaker 5: go because you're not doing your job. How cool has
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  Speaker 5: that been to see the continuity of the coaching.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, I mean I go back, and.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, I saw a bunch of changes in over
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  Speaker 3: the years, whether when Matt Brown. Look my senior year
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  Speaker 3: of college, I was working for the Tech University of
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  Speaker 3: Texas football team and David McWilliams got let go, and
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  Speaker 3: I was there the day John macviick walked in the building,
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  Speaker 3: and I saw how that transpired where he only kept
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  Speaker 3: one assistant, and then everything else, the recruiting coordinated, everything
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  Speaker 3: else got blown up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, that happens.
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  Speaker 3: And then I saw Mac Brown come in and do
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  Speaker 3: almost the same thing. And some of that needs to happen, absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: But what I thought some coaches did. Now Mac didn't
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  Speaker 3: do this, but some coaches overreacted and kicked the put
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  Speaker 3: too many people on the street, not necessarily the coaches,
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  Speaker 3: but the players, and to your point, Arts, I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like Sark was a took a more measured twenty
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  Speaker 3: first century approach. Does that make sense? It feels more.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you just don't kick everybody out the door.
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  Speaker 3: I mean football is a player driven sport, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Thought he did a really nice job of that.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't get rewarded for that in year one, not
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  Speaker 3: at all, but eventually I think he did. I mean
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  Speaker 3: keeping I mean Alfred Collins and I mean Tovandre Sweat.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Sweat was the one that was laughing on
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  Speaker 3: the bus and yep, I was in You know, ames and.
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  Speaker 2: Kids make mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: And things happen, but you when you're building the team,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just one and done with everybody. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you got to figure this thing out. And so to
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  Speaker 3: your point, I really liked. One of the first things
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  Speaker 3: I noticed about that was I didn't feel like the
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  Speaker 3: whole world was on It's you know what right out
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  Speaker 3: of the gate with Sark it was. It was decidedly
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  Speaker 3: different than Charlie Strong, decidedly different than Tom Hammond.
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  Speaker 1: Fused out about that, visiting with Bobby Burton on Texas
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  Speaker 1: Football is where you find his great work and Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Hamlin and the rest of the crew. I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about the change. One thing that you have
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  Speaker 1: done very well over the over the years is navigated
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  Speaker 1: the currents in an ever changing world of what the
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  Speaker 1: recruiting world is all about. Uh again my opinion. You
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  Speaker 1: you let me know how you feel about this. I
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  Speaker 1: would say never, never and never is a pretty powerful world.
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  Speaker 1: But never in the history of recruiting have the waters
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  Speaker 1: been more challenging to navigate for a coaching staff than
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  Speaker 1: they are right now because of n I l uh
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  Speaker 1: and and then of course the portal has its own place.
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  Speaker 1: But and I know there was there's been some confusions,
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  Speaker 1: some conjecture, uh, some uncertainty among long worn fans about
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  Speaker 1: you know, is is is Stark letting Rome burn? Is
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  Speaker 1: he just fiddling while all these idea of Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 1: of the five million dollars deal and all this other
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  Speaker 1: story sort of thing, Uh is, how is the money
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  Speaker 1: being managed for all of this? I mean, these are
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  Speaker 1: these are some really really tumultuous times in the in
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  Speaker 1: that particular phase of the football industry, in college football.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't in a very short period of time, so
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  Speaker 3: it I mean it changed on a dime, right from
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  Speaker 3: can't pay anybody in Money's all of a sudden in
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  Speaker 3: IL is legal to all of a sudden two or
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  Speaker 3: three years later, we have a salary capital.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is that a hard cap? Is that a soft cap?
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  Speaker 3: With what you can do with n IL additional out
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  Speaker 3: third party sark is not asleep at the wheel. That
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  Speaker 3: would be very clear to me someone that's involved, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that.
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  Speaker 3: I look at what they've done and how they've done it.
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  Speaker 2: I think in this this.
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  Speaker 3: Era of a salary cap, even if it's a soft
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  Speaker 3: salary cap, at this point, I think they're saving their
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  Speaker 3: their powder a little bit powder d yeah, for for
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  Speaker 3: big fish. And you know there's a couple of guys
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  Speaker 3: right right now now that are out there that they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to make sure that they become a part of
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  Speaker 3: this class. I mean, my take on this time in
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  Speaker 3: college football and recruiting is the problem you have is
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  Speaker 3: at least there was black and white understanding up until
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  Speaker 3: about four years ago. Okay, now it's all shades of gray.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's all there is. You don't it's not
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  Speaker 3: only do you not know if you're in an ocean
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  Speaker 3: on a boat, you don't know if you're actually in
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  Speaker 3: a river or or a Lake. I mean, you don't
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  Speaker 3: know what you're at, what the platform is you're actually
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  Speaker 3: dealing with, because from year to year it could be
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  Speaker 3: I mean it literally could be nil, Hardcap, soft Cap. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're all third party, do you. I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Harrison, general manager at Texas, Steve Sarkusian, Crys Delcante
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  Speaker 3: and all of Sark's assistance are dealing with right now.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing that's happened, he used to it used
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  Speaker 3: to be all about an assistance.
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  Speaker 2: Relationship with a coach.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now that's become it hasn't become third wheel on
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  Speaker 3: this thing, you know what I mean. But now that
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  Speaker 3: relationship is not necessarily as big as nil in some
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  Speaker 3: respects it temporarily gets set aside. Yes, and so you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna go play for this guy. But you're really it
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  Speaker 3: is odd and it's different. At the same time. I
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  Speaker 3: will tell you all this, having witnessed other recruiting teams
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  Speaker 3: out there, I'm not so sure that Sark and his
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  Speaker 3: staff haven't navigated those waters to Linda Metaphor cleaner than anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they've done this recruited class. I just brought
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  Speaker 3: in its legit and I think they're gonna do. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that it will have a number one class
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  Speaker 3: this year, but I think they're going to have pretty close.
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  Speaker 3: So Dia Bell just got ranked the number one quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in the country, the young man out of South Florida,
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  Speaker 3: And so I just I feel really good about where
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  Speaker 3: things are at because Sark has proven himself very what's
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  Speaker 3: the word of malleable, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: He's been able to know the one who's who has
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  Speaker 1: said the reason the dinosaurs are extinct because they were
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  Speaker 1: not adaptable and they didn't adjust Sark has said that
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  Speaker 1: throughout his time here.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're saying is he's he said.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be adjustable and adaptable or you'll wind
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  Speaker 1: up extinct.
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  Speaker 2: This like you can't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you think that Davos Wueni didn't take a
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  Speaker 3: kid from the portal for three.
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  Speaker 4: Years, now, what is Dabbo doing?
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  Speaker 3: But but Sark did that right away because he realized
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  Speaker 3: where where it was all headed and nil, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and he got on it pretty quick. So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: while being the play caller and the CEO of I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's I think he's a very talented People do not
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  Speaker 3: give Stee Herkysan enough credit for being talented in that
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  Speaker 3: area as well as just a play not just a
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  Speaker 3: play caller.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, his people's skills are top notch, and that is
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  Speaker 5: why he's been able to build those relationships keep those
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  Speaker 5: relationships strong. But not only that, to your point, he's
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  Speaker 5: kind of managed it in a way that a lot
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  Speaker 5: of folks may have cracked under the pressure, but he's
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  Speaker 5: found a way to get that done. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 5: about what's coming up, and speaking of that, I'll be
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  Speaker 5: remiss if I didn't ask you about the arch Manning situation,
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  Speaker 5: because everybody wants to talk about that, and tomorrow, I
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  Speaker 5: guarantee it is gonna be a chaotic day. But it's
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  Speaker 5: not just Archs. The Texas Longhorns are coming to town.
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  Speaker 5: And we saw what happened last year when we were
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  Speaker 5: even in Dallas. Now this is really about to ramp up.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously bringing them here, there was no doubt it was
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  Speaker 5: his team. Now everybody's moving forward. But the expectations have
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  Speaker 5: always to me, I've always said they need to be
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  Speaker 5: tempered a little bit. If you play quarterback at the
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  Speaker 5: University of Texas, there's a lot of expectations that goes
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  Speaker 5: with that and the first mistake. Some people will jump
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  Speaker 5: out the ship, but the ones that are smart enough
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  Speaker 5: to understand he's navigated these waters. And I'm talking about
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  Speaker 5: coach Sark once again to the point that now here
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  Speaker 5: you go, kid, Now.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for you to roll first. David McWilliams. Back
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty nine, they were going Texas was going
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  Speaker 3: through this quarterback rotation. Forbes quote, Yes, Donovan Forbes and
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  Speaker 3: Shannon Kelly and Mark Murdoch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a crew coming through.
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, and I don't know about this your quote,
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  Speaker 3: but he to me is like, I mean, it's the
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  Speaker 3: first time I ever heard the most popular person on
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  Speaker 3: Texas football Texas campus is the backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: That's the quote I've heard, And it was attributed to
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Forbes, although it could have been uttered back in
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  Speaker 1: the forties.
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  Speaker 3: We know.
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  Speaker 2: David McQueen is the first person I ever heard that from.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was saying it to a group of
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  Speaker 3: like ten people, yeah, fifteen, But I just remember that,
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  Speaker 3: And so when I'm thinking of arch Manning and Quincy,
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  Speaker 3: arch Manning gets the bigger cheer when it comes out.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like man the thirty five years later,
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  Speaker 3: it's the same now. I don't know if it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be true this year, but I and also I
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  Speaker 3: was talking to the guys earlier, I just envision this
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  Speaker 3: media scrum tomorrow where if you it's like if you
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  Speaker 3: had the selfie sticks, there's gonna be like seventy five
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  Speaker 3: selfie sticks reaching up into the air trying to get
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  Speaker 3: a glimpse of arch Manning.
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  Speaker 2: If you had a.
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  Speaker 3: Aerial shot of that, it's gonna look like they're all
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  Speaker 3: there for like Kim Kardashian, right, or a super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: A super Bowl everybody wants a little sound bite.
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  Speaker 1: But my prediction, by the way tomorrow is that and
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  Speaker 1: from folctional, No, we're in what we call the digital drive,
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  Speaker 1: which is the upstairs which I don't know if cam
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  Speaker 1: can pan it around to show you, but uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: wall to wall live radio and audio shows like for example,
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  Speaker 1: our friends at Textags or to our left, they do
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  Speaker 1: digital video and audio, same thing going on, same thing
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  Speaker 1: with yours, ye your program boyby and and and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of live radio as well. But it's digital
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  Speaker 1: drive because it's not all radio. There's it's evolved just
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  Speaker 1: like everything else, has to wherever folks are getting their
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  Speaker 1: information anyway. So this wraps all the way around. The
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  Speaker 1: second level. On the bottom floor is the main press
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  Speaker 1: conference level where Sark will be and we'll bring that
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  Speaker 1: to you that that news conference tomorrow and uh, the
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  Speaker 1: players will be in breakouts down there. My prediction is
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  Speaker 1: that the players never make it upstairs.
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  Speaker 3: I would not well at least, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Bet, I bet they.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Taff, I know everybody loves him, has a long run,
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  Speaker 3: but I bet he makes it up.
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  Speaker 1: I started to say, I started to say to sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: but I better define right, number six eight exactly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, no, so yeah, yeah, Taff may be up here,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Hill might be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I don't know the number sixteen. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But to Harge's point, that's what the media that surrounds Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And you asked me when I was on your program
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  Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty four season, and I said, if
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  Speaker 1: nothing else, it was the proving ground. It was the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for Sark and his staff to show not only
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  Speaker 1: was the program here's the air quotes sec ready that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks raised that question that, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that that quote came up more often than Texas's back
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  Speaker 1: is yeah, back all that stuff. But anyway, not only
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  Speaker 1: was it the proving ground to show that Texas wasn't
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  Speaker 1: deep quote unquote sec ready, but also the proof of
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  Speaker 1: the work that Sart, that the staff and that the
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  Speaker 1: program has put in over these past three years, and
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  Speaker 1: then going from five and eight then uh to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to eight and five, five and seven to eight and
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  Speaker 1: five and then and then the back to back double
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  Speaker 1: digit wins. I mean, I remember a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: talking about how Sark was thirteen and twelve after his
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  Speaker 1: first two seasons, yep, and since then he's twenty five
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  Speaker 1: and five.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, totally different conversation now.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I think that what I talked about when
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  Speaker 3: I think about last year to your point and go
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  Speaker 3: and I take myself back to a year ago this
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  Speaker 3: week when we were in Dallas at the SEC Media Days,
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  Speaker 3: and it was is Texas sec ready?
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  Speaker 2: Is Texas a one hit wonder?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Because if you remember they were what that year, twelve
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  Speaker 2: and two semi final loss to Washington. That's correct.
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  Speaker 4: The question wasn't the greatest game Michael Pennick's played he.
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  Speaker 2: Was a freak. I mean, he was great. He deserved
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  Speaker 2: that because he played that well.
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  Speaker 3: But my point, my point is the question last year,
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  Speaker 3: is SEC ready and was Texas a one hit wonder? No,
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  Speaker 3: they weren't a one hit wonder, and yes Texas is one.
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  Speaker 3: Uh As, is you ready? And I will say from
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  Speaker 3: talking to other people like I just like you do
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  Speaker 3: you visit with other colleagues that are at other universities
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  Speaker 3: following their teams. That was the number one surprise for
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  Speaker 3: them as it related to Texas. They did not think
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  Speaker 3: Texas or Oklahoma was ready for the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: And other than Georgia, Texas didn't play a better team
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  Speaker 3: on line of scrimmage than what they saw in practice
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  Speaker 3: every day. Correct now, now Georgia, I get it. I
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  Speaker 3: mean they looked, they looked terrific. But Texas was ready
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  Speaker 3: on the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 5: And they started that four years ago when he said
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  Speaker 5: that we need to get bigger, we need to get better.
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  Speaker 4: And we got to start up front. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 4: what they did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, big humans.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Uh final thing here, Bobby, what this was something I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: was asked on another radio show today. Somebody asked me
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Texas will be in that national title conversation, YadA yadas
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: once and for if and they asked me to fill
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: in the blank, and I said, if the key performers
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: stay healthy and effective throughout that because I still I
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: salute when yours for having a fight through everything he
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: went through last year to put the team in position,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but we all know he wasn't one hundred percent physically
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the entirety of the season. If
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Arch is able to stay that healthy, stay healthy all
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the way through, and other key guys, including in that
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: offensive line, where yes, it's only one returning starter, but.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys who played a lot of
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: snaps who will be there.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And then I thought, yeah, they can be in that
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: conversation because these guys are talented enough and they're well
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: coached enough of that. That was my take on it,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: but I'm interested in your take on it that they
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: can be in that conversation to play for these kinds
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: of things.
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  Speaker 3: If offensive line, yeah, because I do think the defensive
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: line is going to be there. I think they brought
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: in enough help that had experience, whether it's a Marod Watson,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: there's you know, freshman all American. You've got Alex January
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: kind of growing up. Travis Shaw's played a lot of
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: snaps for UNC. And they've got the edge guys with
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Colin and Ethan Burke and Colton Vosx healthier. I think
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: they got the defensive front. I'm the number one concern
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: for me is the offensive line being ready relatively early.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: In the season.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got two games in the first five where
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: talent level is gonna be somewhat similar. Ohio State's gonna
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: have the talent Texas does, right, We saw that. I
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: mean even though they graduated, Texas graduated heavy two. Both
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: teams put a lot of guy but they both got dudes. Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: they both had and they both a lot of them
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: are gone. Yep, from this year to last, from that year,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: this year. But then Florida, I'm telling you they they
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: came on late last year. DJ Lagway did not play
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: against the Longhorns. He has got a he's got a
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: as good an arm as you're going to see in
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: college football. Now he's a great quarterback yet let's find out.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: But they've got a run game. They may have the
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: best offensive line in the SEC. You know, they got
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: dudes on defense, just whether they can get them in
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the right position.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I think you could.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I mean the first those two first big games are big,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: and so you've got to have your offensive line ready early.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: And you're coming back with really four out of five
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: new starters. That's not necessarily like I love the fact
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: that Tech's had four starters returning and went to Michigan. Yep,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean on the offensive line. Now
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you're you got one of five and you're going to Columbus. Yeah,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: that's so my points he is, I'm concerned about that early.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I think they'll be fine. They're really good, really talented.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: That's not the question. The question is where they gel.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you doing this. It's awful lot of fun.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: We'll see each other on down the road.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: For sure. You're going to Columbus, aren't you.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a tailgate going on up there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, beautiful bride, she's along for the ride, and more
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: than right. She's been very, very helpful.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: She actually stole a chair from the dining room and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: we'd have enough sat She did Bobby burn on Texas Football.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: That's where you catch his outstanding work and Jerry Hammla
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the staff as well. We've got
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: some more topics we're gonna get to when we come
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: back here from Atlanta, the College Football Hall of Fame
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: here on day number one of SEC Football Media Day.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm thirteen underd the zone