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September 22, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Family owned and operated since 1972. Sevchuk Service Center, 2200 Longmire,
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  Speaker 1: just down from the post office in College Station.
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  Speaker 2: Got a sports injury in Friday night's game? Come each
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning to Central Texas Sports Medicine for a free evaluation.
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  Speaker 2: to Athletic Insurance. For more information, go to SyntexSportsMedicine.com. Again,
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  Speaker 2: that's SyntexSportsMedicine.com. Central Texas Sports Medicine, on University Drive, next
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  Speaker 2: to the Physician Center.
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  Speaker 1: My dearest son, it's almost June.
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  Speaker 3: I hope this letter catches up with you and finds.
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  Speaker 4: You well.
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  Speaker 5: It's been dry, but they're calling for rain.
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  Speaker 6: And everything's the same old same.
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  Speaker 1: Johnsonville.
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  Speaker 3: Your stubborn old daddy ain't said too much.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm sure you know he sends his love.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes on.
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  Speaker 7: In a letter from home.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome, Ed.
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  Speaker 1: It's John Michael Montgomery in a song written by David Lee,
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  Speaker 1: who was out at the Stella Sessions last night. And fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: Just outstanding. We're going to hear a few more of
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  Speaker 1: his songs here on the show today. This portion of
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  Speaker 1: the program brought to you by Central Texas Sports Medicine.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up. We're going to preview Texas and Tennessee with
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  Speaker 1: Hypel and Sark. We have got a high school report.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to hear from Mike Elko and... Mallory is
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  Speaker 1: here with the latest entertainment news. According to a police
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  Speaker 1: report in Oxford, Mississippi, two Ole Miss students were found
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  Speaker 1: dead of a possible overdose on campus yesterday afternoon. The
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  Speaker 1: university releasing a statement, we are heartbroken by the recent
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  Speaker 1: loss of two students and extend our condolences to their family, friends,
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  Speaker 1: and loved ones during this difficult time. We are aware
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  Speaker 1: that considerable unverified information is circulating on social media and
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  Speaker 1: in the community. The coroner's office has confirmed two student
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  Speaker 1: deaths and University Police are not aware of any additional deaths.
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  Speaker 1: University Police remain in contact with local and state law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement and the cause of those two deaths are still
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  Speaker 1: under investigation. This comes after a release of all of
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  Speaker 1: the activities surrounding police Over the weekend with the LSU
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss game, the Oxford Police Department and Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: Police Departments released weekend reports. You know, over 70,000 fans
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  Speaker 1: in the stands, which was a record. 39 incidents, quote,
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  Speaker 1: in its database. 13 of which happened at the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Six disorderly conducts. Five disturbances reported. one aggravated assault on
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  Speaker 1: a police officer, and one use of EMS due to
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  Speaker 1: an intoxicated person inside the stadium. The OPD report, Oxford,
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  Speaker 1: 42 tickets, 43 accidents, 81 reports total surrounding that game
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. You know, they may or may not be
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  Speaker 1: similar reports following LSU and Texas A & M in
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge on Saturday night. The Aggies go to Baton
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  Speaker 1: Rouge to take on the Tigers. That is an ABC
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday night. And I guess this is the
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  Speaker 1: official Texas A & M announcing team. Joe Tessitore, Jesse Palmer,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Budden. That is the third A & M game
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  Speaker 1: I believe they will have done. So we'll see. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that game will be a little bit after 6.30 on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma defensive tackle David Stone suffered a knee injury at
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  Speaker 1: practice yesterday. Brent Venable said that Stone's knee, quote, quote,
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  Speaker 1: kind of popped out when he collided with a scout
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  Speaker 1: team player during a jog through at practice yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if that scout team player is still on the
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  Speaker 1: team anymore. Test results on Stone's knee were positive, or
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  Speaker 1: I guess that means negative. He said Stone reported a
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  Speaker 1: pain level of 2 out of 10. Venables indicated he's
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  Speaker 1: not ruling out Stone for the SEC opener against Georgia
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Baseball tonight. Important baseball tonight. Rangers hosting the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told the Mets manager has a new contract. Mets
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  Speaker 1: at 71-85. The Rangers 78 up, 78 down. One game
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the Astros with six to play. Mackenzie Gore,
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  Speaker 1: who has been.
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  Speaker 1: Wildly inconsistent on the mound for the Rangers tonight. That
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  Speaker 1: game will start at 7.05. The Rangers. have won six
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  Speaker 1: of their last eight to take the lead in the
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  Speaker 1: AL West. The Astros are in Seattle to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners. The Astros are two and nine against Seattle
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  Speaker 1: so far this year. They have lost 10 of 14
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  Speaker 1: and slipped a game under 500, uh, Two games under.
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  Speaker 9: 500.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with Astros-Mariners. And are we carrying
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  Speaker 1: that game tonight? I believe we're carrying that game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That's on the left coast. By the way, the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: play the Mets tomorrow night, and they will play on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon as well in Arlington. Yankees manager Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: says he does not expect to have Aaron Judge available
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  Speaker 1: for the Wild Card Series next week. Boone said today
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  Speaker 1: we're planning on him not being part of that. Judge
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  Speaker 1: was placed on the injured list with a right calf
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  Speaker 1: strain on Friday, two days after coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: game against the Twins. The team called it a moderate-grade strain.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Judge had just gotten back in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Says he will avoid physical activity the next couple of days. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you will pay me about $ 25 million, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is right where they're paying Aaron Judge, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little more, I will vow to you to avoid
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  Speaker 1: physical activity in the next couple of days. I would
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  Speaker 1: say that for half of what they're paying Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: I will avoid physical activity. How much is he getting paid?
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  Speaker 1: $ 40 million a year. Okay, I way underestimated that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so for a third of what they're paying Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: I will vow to avoid any physical activity in the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days. The Boston Red Sox, heading for
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, have removed the interim tag from Chad Tracy,
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  Speaker 1: citing him to a three-year contract through 2029 with a
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  Speaker 1: club option for 2030. And they've exercised their 29 and
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  Speaker 1: 30 options on Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow. The elevation
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  Speaker 1: of Tracy comes after the Red Sox secured a wildcard
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  Speaker 1: spot in the playoffs on Sunday. He took over in
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  Speaker 1: April after a 10-17 start and guided the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: to a 74-55 record, including a 15-game winning streak. Remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Remember that Boston won 27 of 30 games between July
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  Speaker 1: 3rd and August 7th? Well, that earned Chad Tracy some
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  Speaker 1: money and a three-year contract as manager. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees and Rays are playing a rare doubleheader today.
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  Speaker 1: What's the score of that first game?
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  Speaker 10: Stan?
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  Speaker 4: It was 2-0 Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: That's final? Already over? Okay. So I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: second game's probably started yet. All right. 2-0 Yankees won
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  Speaker 1: that one. All right. We're going to take a break. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're probably going to preview another SEC game. No,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what we have tomorrow. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: hear from Lane Kiffin tomorrow. Scott Clendenin will be with
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  Speaker 1: us tomorrow. Mallory will be with us tomorrow. Thursday, we'll
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  Speaker 1: have Damian Sanford, the linebacker that's slowly coming back for
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  Speaker 1: the Aggies. He's expected to play even more on Saturday evening.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have another high school report from Caleb. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: our Clark Eisenhower outdoor edition. And then Friday, our usual suspects.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Bowles will join me along with Tony Catalina. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have plenty to talk about on Friday. Ryan and Caleb
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  Speaker 1: will be in on Friday. All right. We'll take a break.
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  Speaker 12: up 30 minutes after the game with the call-in show.
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  Speaker 13: I've never been a cool hand loop quarterback of the
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  Speaker 13: winning team.
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  Speaker 4: Or the guy with the right.
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  Speaker 13: Kind of punch lines everybody wants to be I never
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  Speaker 13: was at a lucky old cuss with a straight flush
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  Speaker 13: in his hand but with you.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't no Patrick Swayze.
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  Speaker 13: My whole boots never danced on air. Never walked with
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  Speaker 13: a swag looking sharp as a tag. Lit up like
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  Speaker 13: Times Square.
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  Speaker 14: Who's that guy with a big old.
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  Speaker 13: Smile as wide as the Rio Grande?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, with you, I.
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  Speaker 4: Strong as an oak, soft like leather.
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  Speaker 13: High as a pine and light as a feather. The
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  Speaker 13: same old boy, but a whole lot better. Whenever you're
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  Speaker 13: holding my hand, I used to poke fun at them
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  Speaker 13: pawn-strunk lovers. I never thought I'd be that man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but with you. That's another David Lee song that
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  Speaker 1: Cody Johnson made a hit out of. Again, playing a
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  Speaker 1: couple of songs from David Lee after he was in
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  Speaker 1: town last night. With the Stella Sessions, very cool. And
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  Speaker 1: just a terrific evening out there. Thanks to Corliss. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Spencer, the folks at the Stella Hotel. Kyle Hutton
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  Speaker 1: for putting all this together. It is so cool. To
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  Speaker 1: have these terrific songwriters in every month. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: been fun. Okay. Coming up on Saturday morning in Knoxville,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee is hosting Texas. I think I read this is
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  Speaker 1: only the fourth time those teams have played. And the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns are a three-and-a-half point favorite in Did I see
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  Speaker 1: they went to five and a half? Would you look
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  Speaker 1: at that? Up at five and a half. It's gone
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  Speaker 1: up two points. Wow. That surprises me, honestly. Okay. Let's hear,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, from Josh Heupel.
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  Speaker 15: Excited to start conference play and know that we're getting
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  Speaker 15: ready to play a great opponent in texas um early
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  Speaker 15: kickoff checker kneeland to our fan base however you get
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  Speaker 15: ready for uh for game time wake up early and
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  Speaker 15: whatever you you need to be at your best at
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  Speaker 15: 12 make sure you're ready to to be at your
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  Speaker 15: best at 12 and be a part of the football
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  Speaker 15: game uh for 60 minutes um Texas, obviously, battle-tested, very
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  Speaker 15: veteran group, starts with their quarterback, but they have experience
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  Speaker 15: up front on the offensive line and a ton of
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  Speaker 15: experience on the defense side of the football, extremely athletic,
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  Speaker 15: be a great test. So open it up.
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  Speaker 1: Give us a.
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  Speaker 3: Breakdown of what specifically you see in Arch Manning.
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  Speaker 15: Smart. He's got really good command and control of what's
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  Speaker 15: going on. I think you can go back to the
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  Speaker 15: Ohio state game, uh, his, his ability and his team's ability, um,
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  Speaker 15: to be resilient, to keep playing the next play, um,
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  Speaker 15: to be in a situation like that and be able
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  Speaker 15: to fight back, uh, it tells you about their competitive makeup.
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  Speaker 15: You guys have tackled through the first three games. Um,
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  Speaker 15: you know, there's a couple of the other night that, uh,
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  Speaker 15: we gotta be better on fundamentally.
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  Speaker 3: Um, Solid.
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  Speaker 15: Here are the first three games. Obviously, heading into conference play,
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  Speaker 15: in space in particular, those things will be tested. You've
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  Speaker 15: got to do a great job of fundamentals, angles, and
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  Speaker 15: when it's time to pull your pin, finish it and
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  Speaker 15: wrap it up.
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  Speaker 16: How much did you all tackle in fall camp this
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  Speaker 16: year compared to past seasons?
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  Speaker 15: Similar amount. Probably a little bit more fundamental work on it.
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  Speaker 4: Up front here, where's Brent at?
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  Speaker 17: You guys have obviously rushed for a bunch of yards
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  Speaker 17: right at 900 yards.
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  Speaker 5: Stats are stats.
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  Speaker 9: When you grade it out and look at it on film,
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  Speaker 9: where is this line playing well?
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  Speaker 3: What concerns do you have.
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  Speaker 9: With this group at this point as you move into
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  Speaker 9: conference play?
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  Speaker 15: As you get into conference play, you're going to play
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  Speaker 15: extremely talented fronts in this league typically every week. Texas
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  Speaker 15: is certainly that great length. Inside, extremely wide-hipped, strong, physical.
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  Speaker 15: We'll knock you back if you're not playing with great
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  Speaker 15: pad level and playing with hands. At the end of
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  Speaker 15: the day, identification, combinations, playing with fundamentals. You know, you
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  Speaker 15: play whatever. 70 plays in a game, it's not going
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  Speaker 15: to be perfect up front. But all in all, it's
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  Speaker 15: been solid. But this will be our biggest test, you know,
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  Speaker 15: as far as the front seven that we're playing. They're
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  Speaker 15: playing physical. There's some things that haven't been perfect, but
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  Speaker 15: they're playing hard.
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  Speaker 18: Texas defense looks like they're pretty good at limiting explosives.
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  Speaker 18: What's the source of that that you see on film?
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  Speaker 15: Their front, the ability to apply pressure. There haven't been
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  Speaker 15: a lot of runs that have popped on them, you know,
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  Speaker 15: gap integrity, you physical at the point of attack, but
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  Speaker 15: all three levels of the defense fitting things together. And
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  Speaker 15: then pass defense-wise, they're going to play zone principles, match principles,
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  Speaker 15: a lot of different pressures. All of that combined with
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  Speaker 15: their talent and athleticism have limited their explosives.
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  Speaker 19: So you've played a lot of big games over your
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  Speaker 19: time here. Does your messaging change at all during the week?
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  Speaker 19: In the past, I feel like you've said to embrace
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  Speaker 19: big games like this but also lock in and focus
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  Speaker 19: during the week.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, there's more media attention or whatever on this football game.
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  Speaker 15: At the end of the day, it's the beginning of
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  Speaker 15: conference play. You've got to understand the quality of the
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  Speaker 15: opponent that you're getting ready to play. Saturday will be
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  Speaker 15: electric in the stadium, but it comes down to winning
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  Speaker 15: each day, your preparation and practicing the right way to
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  Speaker 15: give yourself a chance.
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  Speaker 19: After you've been able to go back and watch it,
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  Speaker 19: what do you think about what you got from your
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  Speaker 19: tight ends on Saturday?
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  Speaker 5: Solid.
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  Speaker 15: I thought they did a good job in the run game,
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  Speaker 15: made some plays in the pass game. Protections were solid
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  Speaker 15: for a majority of the night. There's a couple things
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  Speaker 15: fundamentally that we want to clean up, but all in all, solid.
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  Speaker 18: Through the first three games, what did you saw from
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  Speaker 18: Donovan Haslam? How would you kind of break down what
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  Speaker 18: he's been able to give you and what's he do
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  Speaker 18: well in the run game?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, physicality is one of his best traits. He's a
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  Speaker 15: guy that in the middle of training camp was nicked
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  Speaker 15: up for a while. I think he's starting to play
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  Speaker 15: himself into better shape and played well the other night.
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  Speaker 10: Page in the back.
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  Speaker 20: Talk that the DBs haven't been tested as much as
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  Speaker 20: they would like to at this point in the season.
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  Speaker 20: What gives you confidence that guys like Ty Redman, Kyan
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  Speaker 20: Lee can match well with Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo?
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  Speaker 15: Those are two really talented players for Texas. Both of
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  Speaker 15: our guys have played in this league. They've played good
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  Speaker 15: amount of football. They've seen good players. They haven't been
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  Speaker 15: tested the way that will be tested on Saturday afternoon,
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  Speaker 15: but I expect those guys to go play in a
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  Speaker 15: great way.
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  Speaker 9: How is Deshaun Bishop feeling today?
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  Speaker 15: I have not talked to him, but I think he's
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  Speaker 15: feeling pretty good.
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  Speaker 9: With the offensive line, it seems like Jesse has really
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  Speaker 9: settled in at right tackle do you think that's a
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  Speaker 9: byproduct of really playing a lot of right tackle these
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  Speaker 9: last two games compared to that first game where he
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  Speaker 9: was playing multiple spots and how do you assess kind
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  Speaker 9: of where y'all are at with the rotations along the
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  Speaker 9: offensive line as you get into sec play.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah um rotations you know expect first of all you
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  Speaker 15: go through this this league you're gonna need them all
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  Speaker 15: you guys are probably tired of me saying that but
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  Speaker 15: uh that's the the truth um but i think jesse's
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  Speaker 15: done a really good job uh at right tackle and
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  Speaker 15: um you know has played both um in his career
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  Speaker 15: guard and tackle but uh has settled in playing playing
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  Speaker 15: really well here the last couple weeks at tackle.
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  Speaker 21: You mentioned some of texas's experience what do you see
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  Speaker 21: in their offensive.
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  Speaker 15: Line Yeah, a group that's playing with good physicality. They're
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  Speaker 15: doing a really good job in their protections. So it's
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  Speaker 15: an experienced, really good group. Their tackles are high-level players.
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  Speaker 19: You talked about Texas' defense, their personnel schematically with Muschamp
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  Speaker 19: coming in. Are they different from years past? Do you
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  Speaker 19: have to go back to old film from his defense
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  Speaker 19: to get ready for this game? And what do you
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  Speaker 19: think they'll throw at Faison?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, they're three games in at this point. You kind
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  Speaker 15: of have a general idea of their identity and how
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  Speaker 15: they want to play and their personnel. Their personnel gives
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  Speaker 15: them a lot of freedom to do a lot of
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  Speaker 15: different things from pressure to coverage and rotations. So you
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  Speaker 15: get into conference play, you know you're going to see
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  Speaker 15: something that's not on the film too, and you've got
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  Speaker 15: to be able to adjust.
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  Speaker 1: It's Josh Heupel talking about hosting the Longhorns on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that opened higher at 7.5 and it's down
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  Speaker 1: to 5.5. That makes more sense to me. That makes
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  Speaker 1: more sense to me. So we're going to hear from Sark.
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  Speaker 1: This is the fourth time these two teams will have played.
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  Speaker 1: The last time they played, 1969 Cotton Bowl. after the
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  Speaker 1: 68 season, January 1st, in Dallas, at the Cotton Bowl, 1969.
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  Speaker 1: I was at that Cotton Bowl. I went to lots
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  Speaker 1: of Cotton Bowls. I grew up in Dallas. So I
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  Speaker 1: saw the last time Texas and Tennessee played. I'm told
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: they played the year I was born, and that my
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: parents were at that game and my mom was pregnant
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: with me. So I've really seen two Tennessee and Texas
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: games out of the three that they've played. Here is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian.
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  Speaker 22: You know, I want to kick it off again just
• 23:39
  Speaker 22: by thanking our fans. What an awesome atmosphere. We had
• 23:43
  Speaker 22: a DKR again Saturday night. You know, you're not not
• 23:48
  Speaker 22: 23 and one in your last 24 games at home.
• 23:51
  Speaker 22: And you don't have a 12 straight home winning streak
• 23:54
  Speaker 22: without great support from our fans. So thank you Longhorn
• 23:57
  Speaker 22: nation for your support of this team and, and what
• 24:00
  Speaker 22: we've been doing over the past.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Few years at home.
• 24:03
  Speaker 22: As far as the ball game goes, you know, I thought,
• 24:05
  Speaker 22: you know, we started off the game really well. Obviously
• 24:08
  Speaker 22: anytime you get a turnover on the first play of
• 24:10
  Speaker 22: the game, but you know, you get 17 points off
• 24:13
  Speaker 22: of your first three drives and, I thought defensively they
• 24:17
  Speaker 22: had the one 13-play drive where the ball kind of
• 24:20
  Speaker 22: got to the edge on us. And then after that,
• 24:23
  Speaker 22: I think they went the rest of the first half,
• 24:25
  Speaker 22: I think they ran 12 plays for 11 yards. It
• 24:28
  Speaker 22: was 10 straight third-down stops, eight punts. So defensively it
• 24:33
  Speaker 22: was fantastic. I felt like offensively we just kind of
• 24:35
  Speaker 22: hit a little bit of a lull.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It was kind of like, okay, we got 17 points.
• 24:39
  Speaker 22: We didn't quite play the way we want to play
• 24:41
  Speaker 22: and capable of playing. I thought there were some positives
• 24:44
  Speaker 22: in special teams. I think Giovanni continues to be a
• 24:48
  Speaker 22: weapon for us, five for five on field goals. The
• 24:51
  Speaker 22: amount of touchbacks we're getting on kickoffs have been tremendous.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: We had some return opportunities.
• 24:57
  Speaker 22: There was a couple tough calls we got in the
• 25:00
  Speaker 22: return game that we need to clean up, but it
• 25:02
  Speaker 22: was good to get Ryan with the ball in his
• 25:03
  Speaker 22: hands in the return game. We need to shore up
• 25:06
  Speaker 22: some things in the kickoff return game to be even
• 25:09
  Speaker 22: better there.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: But here's the deal.
• 25:11
  Speaker 22: We're starting SEC play, and we've all We all sat
• 25:15
  Speaker 22: around when you had some time Saturday and watched some
• 25:18
  Speaker 22: of the games. And this conference, I've said it time
• 25:20
  Speaker 22: and time again, from top to bottom, anybody can beat anybody.
• 25:25
  Speaker 22: And I think that's the challenge of our conference is
• 25:28
  Speaker 22: being mentally and physically prepared to play week in and
• 25:31
  Speaker 22: week out.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And for us this week, it's no different.
• 25:34
  Speaker 22: We're going into what I would probably consider is the
• 25:36
  Speaker 22: loudest stadium in the country, Neyland Stadium. I think Coach
• 25:39
  Speaker 22: Heupel's done a tremendous job there with what he's done
• 25:44
  Speaker 22: offensively and the amount of explosive plays. But they've evolved
• 25:48
  Speaker 22: some offensively. This is a team that believes in running
• 25:51
  Speaker 22: the football. They got two great runners in Bishop and Morris,
• 25:54
  Speaker 22: guys who can run the football. Got a true freshman
• 25:57
  Speaker 22: quarterback in Faison Brandon who's got elite arm talent. And
• 26:01
  Speaker 22: the challenge they pose is their ability to run the
• 26:03
  Speaker 22: ball and And then their ability to take their shots
• 26:06
  Speaker 22: down the field, which is what they've been notorious for
• 26:08
  Speaker 22: over the years, is the big home run plays down
• 26:11
  Speaker 22: the field. So you've got to be able to play
• 26:12
  Speaker 22: both and then play it against the tempo and how
• 26:16
  Speaker 22: fast they go. Obviously, defensively, bringing in Jim Knowles, who's
• 26:21
  Speaker 22: as respected of defensive coordinators there is in the country.
• 26:23
  Speaker 22: He's done it at multiple stops. So you've got a
• 26:27
  Speaker 22: very good group. They're aggressive at the line of scrimmage.
• 26:30
  Speaker 22: They mix their coverages in the back end. So we've
• 26:33
  Speaker 22: got a heck of a challenge going into a hostile environment. Obviously,
• 26:36
  Speaker 22: with game day coming, they'll be all charged up, ready
• 26:39
  Speaker 22: to go. I think naturally for us when we go
• 26:41
  Speaker 22: on the road, we've got to focus on what we
• 26:43
  Speaker 22: need to do. We need to stay really connected, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 22: we need to have the ability to execute in all
• 26:48
  Speaker 22: three phases to be successful.
• 26:50
  Speaker 17: Steve, what have you seen from this team over the
• 26:51
  Speaker 17: first three weeks that leads you to believe they're better
• 26:54
  Speaker 17: equipped to handle SEC play starting on the road compared
• 26:57
  Speaker 17: to last year's team?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a tough, you know, I get it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 22: We didn't play well at Florida last year, but we
• 27:04
  Speaker 22: are 13-3 in SEC play, which is the best record
• 27:07
  Speaker 22: in the conference in our two years in the conference.
• 27:09
  Speaker 22: So I'm very confident in our ability to go on
• 27:11
  Speaker 22: the road and play well.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Stay on the right, Danny.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm Steve.
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: What makes Neyland Stadium so loud or a tough place
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: to play?
• 27:18
  Speaker 22: You've got to ask the engineers that put it together.
• 27:21
  Speaker 22: It's 100-something thousand. I don't know the exact number of
• 27:24
  Speaker 22: what it holds, 102, 103, similar.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: To our place.
• 27:28
  Speaker 22: But the structure of it is what it is. Their
• 27:30
  Speaker 22: fans are engaged. They understand football. They've got a lot
• 27:33
  Speaker 22: of pride in their program. But I don't know the
• 27:38
  Speaker 22: structure of it, why. If it's more vertical, I'm not
• 27:40
  Speaker 22: sure how it is. It's enclosed, but it's definitely a
• 27:43
  Speaker 22: loud place.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Over here on.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: The left, Hank.
• 27:45
  Speaker 21: Hey, Coach.
• 27:46
  Speaker 17: It was a small sample size on Saturday night with
• 27:48
  Speaker 17: Michael Masunis.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: He had 10 snaps, but played pretty well.
• 27:51
  Speaker 17: Is his usage more a credit to Winston and Shannon
• 27:55
  Speaker 17: kind of raising their level of play, or is he
• 27:57
  Speaker 17: someone you want to get going more as you get
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: into SEC play?
• 27:59
  Speaker 22: Well, to us, like at that position, you know, especially
• 28:02
  Speaker 22: when we had Nick, we had four guys, and it
• 28:04
  Speaker 22: was real competition, you know, and it's how you practice.
• 28:06
  Speaker 22: It's the level of consistency. It's the physicality in which
• 28:10
  Speaker 22: we play. It's the knowing what to do. And so
• 28:13
  Speaker 22: it's not necessarily a takeaway from Mike Masunis. I think
• 28:16
  Speaker 22: it's credit to Spencer Shannon, Amari Winston, and Nick Townsend. So, hey,
• 28:21
  Speaker 22: the more consistency we can get out of Mike, the better.
• 28:23
  Speaker 22: We're going to need all those bodies. I said that
• 28:25
  Speaker 22: before the year. We've got four guys in that room.
• 28:28
  Speaker 22: We're going to need all those bodies to contribute, some
• 28:31
  Speaker 22: at varying times more than others. So hopefully he can
• 28:34
  Speaker 22: continue to come on and that we can use him more.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Stay on the left, Thomas.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Sark, how's Colin Simmons doing? Did he practice today?
• 28:41
  Speaker 22: There's called an injury report in the SEC, so that's
• 28:44
  Speaker 22: enough of the injury questions.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: That's it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 17: Senator?
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Saturday night you said you were learning your team
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: and trying to, you know, you know the identity, but.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You're still learning. Who are the Longhorns right now, three
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: games in?
• 29:01
  Speaker 22: Well, I think we're a team that is very well connected.
• 29:04
  Speaker 22: I think that plays well with one another. I think
• 29:06
  Speaker 22: we take pride in our conditioning. You look at the
• 29:08
  Speaker 22: scores in the second half of our three games. You
• 29:11
  Speaker 22: look at the scores in the fourth quarter of our
• 29:12
  Speaker 22: three games. These guys believe in their conditioning. They believe
• 29:16
  Speaker 22: in the adjustments that the coaches are making, and they
• 29:18
  Speaker 22: go execute and they continue to play together.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: That's very encouraging.
• 29:22
  Speaker 22: We're going to continue to find out more as the
• 29:25
  Speaker 22: season unveils itself to us. And we've got more challenges
• 29:28
  Speaker 22: ahead of us. Obviously, this weekend it starts with Tennessee.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Sark didn't like the Collins injury question, apparently. Apparently, he
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: didn't like that. We have a significant anniversary in college
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: football history today. Coming up in about 15 minutes, I'm
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: going to talk about it. We're going to hear some audio.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: You will be familiar with it. It was a classic,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: one of the all-time classics, I would say. And we're
• 30:07
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  Speaker 16: Welcome into the High School Report. I'm Caleb Rapley, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: today we are jumping out to the Polaris Fun Center
• 33:16
  Speaker 16: phone line to visit with the head coach of the
• 33:18
  Speaker 16: Elgin Wildcats football team, Mr.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Rich Lucero.
• 33:21
  Speaker 16: Coach, thanks for joining me today.
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: Absolutely. It's our pleasure to join you.
• 33:26
  Speaker 16: Well, we are in the full swing of the Texas
• 33:28
  Speaker 16: high school football season. You know, all of our Texas
• 33:32
  Speaker 16: residents' favorite time of year. Your Wildcats with a solid
• 33:35
  Speaker 16: start to 2026, a 2-2 record so far in non-district play.
• 33:42
  Speaker 16: So what have been your takeaways from these first four
• 33:44
  Speaker 16: games of the season?
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, we knew going into this season, you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: we're really young and inexperienced. I mean, we've got, we're
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: carrying 12 sophomores. We've got a sophomore starting quarterback. We
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: don't have a senior on the offensive line and at
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: running back, we got a freshman and a sophomore. So
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: really young. And so we knew it was going to
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: be a challenge and it's, it's really been tough, but
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: you add to that, you know, this will be our
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: fifth road game and, To be 2-2 and to have
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: equaled last year's win totals right now, you know, just
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: couldn't wear plays with the guys. And so got a
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: lot of football to go, but, you know, we're pleased
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: with our start.
• 34:22
  Speaker 16: So, yeah, very young team. Only two starters back on offense,
• 34:27
  Speaker 16: four on defense. And you are in your second year
• 34:30
  Speaker 16: as head coach with the Wildcats. So with all those
• 34:34
  Speaker 16: factors combined, you know, have there been any– older players
• 34:38
  Speaker 16: that you've been able to rely on to lead this
• 34:40
  Speaker 16: young team?
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, there's really three that I can really
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: talk to right now, and that's Mike Linebacker, Trey Flores,
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: who played quarterback for us last year kind of out
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: of necessity. Safety Wyatt Cooper has been a guy that
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: has been a good guy for us. And then Jordan Petty,
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: a defensive end. Those three guys have really– stepped up and,
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: you know, last week, for example, we threw a pick
• 35:07
  Speaker 10: six and the score was 15 to seven and went
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: against Del Valle. Otherwise, you know, our defense shut them out.
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: And so I can't say enough about those three, you know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: they've really stepped up their leadership and really much needed,
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: you know, and so they've, they've had our backs and
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: they've been playing well. In fact, you know, they played
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: a lot of snaps. A lot of times, you know,
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: we struggled offensively because, you know, just the life experience,
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: but those guys have held it down. And so really
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: pleased with those three, you know, that I could highlight
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: for sure.
• 35:39
  Speaker 16: And this year, um, renovating your stadium right now. So
• 35:43
  Speaker 16: playing your first seven games of the season on the road.
• 35:47
  Speaker 16: So how does that change your mindset when getting ready
• 35:49
  Speaker 16: for games every week, knowing it's going to be a
• 35:52
  Speaker 16: road game and you're not going to have that friendly
• 35:53
  Speaker 16: home atmosphere?
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's been a challenge, you know, and that's another thing,
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: you know, it's a credit to our kids and to
• 36:01
  Speaker 10: our coaches, you know, um, you don't think about it
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: while you're in the middle of it because it is
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: what it is. The schedule is what it is. And
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: we knew going into it was, you know, we're going
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: to have to do this, but man, our kids haven't blinked.
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: Our coaches haven't blinked. And obviously it helps that we
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: played a lot of close games, but still, I mean,
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: not having that home field advantage and just having the
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: energy that you would have at a home game has
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: been a real big challenge for us. But I can't
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: say enough about the way that our kids and our
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: coaches have handled it. And so, um, Again, this will
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: be the feathers we'll venture out when we go to
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: Bryan this week. It's a good two hours on a bus,
• 36:38
  Speaker 10: and so that'll be different. But then it's a Thursday game,
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: so it's a short week after an emotional win. And then, fortunately,
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: we get bye week. And so we're looking forward to
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: playing our best against a very good Bryan team this week,
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: and then obviously looking forward to the bye week.
• 36:57
  Speaker 16: So while we're talking about the Rudder Rangers, They have
• 37:01
  Speaker 16: had a pretty solid start to their season at 3-1.
• 37:04
  Speaker 16: So what do you expect to see from them as
• 37:06
  Speaker 16: you all come here to the Brazos Valley to take
• 37:08
  Speaker 16: on the Rangers?
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we've been impressed. And talking to Coach Cesar a lot,
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: he feels really good about his junior class. And you
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: can see it on tape. I mean, they look the part.
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: They look very athletic, very big. I know they had
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: a big come-from-behind win last week and got a lot
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: of respect for them. And we're a year away. Next
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: year that will be us, fortunately, or hopefully I should say,
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: because we're sophomore-laden and underclass, so we're a year away
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: from them. I told our guys this is probably going
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: to be absolutely the best team we've played all year,
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: and it's going to prepare us certainly for that next
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: week when we play Pflugerville, and that will be on
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: a Thursday night. So we're kind of hoping the whole
• 37:55
  Speaker 10: schedule that we're on will kind of help us out
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: in the end, but nothing but respect for it. um,
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: Brian Rudder and what they've done and the season they're having. And, uh, they, they,
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: they look really, really good on tape. They've got a
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: lot of size, a lot of speed and, um, you know,
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: shoot to come back from, I guess it was 24
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: to six down and come back and win a rival game.
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: That says a lot about the job they're doing over there.
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: So a lot of respect for them.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 38:20
  Speaker 16: Uh, and looking ahead to district play in a couple
• 38:23
  Speaker 16: of weeks, realignment, happened back in February, so we're in
• 38:27
  Speaker 16: the first year of this new district. But for your Wildcats,
• 38:31
  Speaker 16: it's a lot of familiar teams. The only real difference,
• 38:35
  Speaker 16: or two real differences, are going from an eight-team district
• 38:38
  Speaker 16: last year to a six-team district this year. And the
• 38:42
  Speaker 16: only new team that I believe wasn't in your district
• 38:45
  Speaker 16: is the Liberal Arts and Science Academy of Austin. So
• 38:48
  Speaker 16: how big of an advantage is it for you in
• 38:50
  Speaker 16: your second year as a head coach to having almost
• 38:53
  Speaker 16: the exact same district opponents despite realignment.
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we're really fortunate. I mean, we really are in that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: We played Pflugerville before. Obviously, it's a different team. Every
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: team is different. I think they've had the same coaching
• 39:09
  Speaker 10: staff there for a while, so you're kind of familiar
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: with what they want to do offensively and defensively and
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: in the kicking game. Same for Bastrop. I mean, obviously
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: they won the district last year and did a really
• 39:20
  Speaker 10: good job over there, but there's some familiarity there. And
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: so that part is good. And then, again, not having
• 39:26
  Speaker 10: to travel very far. And then, you know, just 16
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: district versus 18. district, it makes it, you know, a
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: little bit easier as far as making the playoffs. Because it's,
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: you know, I feel like Pflugerville and Bastrop will be
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: the top two teams to beat. And then after that,
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: you know, everybody's fighting for number three and number four.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: And so, you know, we plan on being in the playoffs.
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: We plan on... Growing this program, when I took it,
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: pretty much said it's a total rebuild, and it has been.
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: We're still in the infant stages of it, but we've
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: got a new 70-yard climate-controlled indoor facility with a 5,000-square-foot
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  Speaker 10: weight room, renovating our press box, and it's going to
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  Speaker 10: be immaculate. It really is. It's pretty much the whole thing.
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  Speaker 10: We doubled, if not tripled, the size of our old
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  Speaker 10: of really good things going on with Bonds here in Elgin.
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  Speaker 10: The community's invested in the program, not only invested in athletics,
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  Speaker 10: 5A Division I, so we've got a couple– we've got
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  Speaker 10: a two-year window here to get this program right. And
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  Speaker 10: so that's our focus really is long-term, having a vision,
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  Speaker 10: building something that's sustainable. and something that's competitive and excited
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  Speaker 16: All right, Coach, well, I appreciate your time today, and
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  Speaker 10: All right, appreciate it, and go Wildcats.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, that's my old girlfriend.
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  Speaker 13: Saw her when she walked in. Her hair's a little longer.
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  Speaker 14: But she's still looking stronger than sin.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here on a Tuesday edition of
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: the show. On this date, 19 years ago, this happened.
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  Speaker 5: This article, I don't read it. This was brought to
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  Speaker 5: me by a mother of children. I think this is
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: worth reading.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you what I want to talk about
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: this article.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: Three-fourths of this is inaccurate.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: It's fiction.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: And this article embarrasses me to be involved with athletics tremendously.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: And that article.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Had to have been written by a person that doesn't
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: have a child and has never had a child that's
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: had their heart broken and come home upset. and had
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: to deal with the child when he is upset and
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: kick a person when he's down. Here's all that kid did.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: He goes to class. He's respectful to the media. He's
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: respectful to the public. And he's a good kid. And
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: he's not a professional athlete. And he doesn't deserve to
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: be kicked.
• 49:08
  Speaker 20: When he's down.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: If you have a child someday... You'll understand how it feels.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: But you obviously don't have a child.
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 4: If your child goes down the street and somebody makes
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: fun of him.
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: Because he dropped a pass in a pickup.
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  Speaker 4: Game or says he's fat and he comes home crying
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  Speaker 4: to his mom, you'd understand. But you haven't had that.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: But someday you will.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: And when your child comes home, you'll understand.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: If you want to go after an athlete, one of
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: my athletes, you go after one that.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't do the right things.
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  Speaker 5: You don't downgrade him because he does everything right and
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: may not play as well on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: And you let us make that decision.
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  Speaker 10: That's why I.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: Don't read the newspaper. Because it's garbage. And the editor
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: that let it come out is garbage.
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: Attacking an amateur athlete for doing everything right. And then
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: you want to write articles about guys that don't do
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: things right and downgrade them, the ones that do make plays.
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? Where are we at in society today?
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Come after me. I'm a man. I'm 40. I'm not
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: a kid. Write something about me or our coaches.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Go write about a kid that does everything right, that's
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: hearts broken, and then say that the coaches said he
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: was scared.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: That ain't true. And then to.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: Say that we made that decision because Donovan Woods, because
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: he threatened to transfer, that's not true.
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: So get your facts straight. And I hope.
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: Someday you have a child and somebody downgrades him and
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: belittles him and you have to look him in the
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: eye and say, you know what, it's okay.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here?
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? That's all I got to say.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: Makes me want to puke.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Man, that just gets better with time, doesn't it? The
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: player was Bobby Reed who said and Gundy was supposed
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: to be defending him. Reed later said it basically ended
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: my life. He transferred out of the program. But At
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: the time of the rant, Gundy's record was 13-15. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to me. He was 13-15 at Oklahoma State. Post-rant, 94-35. So,
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  Speaker 1: was it the rant? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know. But I'm telling you, it was one of
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  Speaker 1: the best. I mean, when you start thinking about it,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: you get the Allen Iverson practice. Practice? You know, I
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: kind of throw in Mike Leach's Fat Little Girlfriends. After
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: A & M went to Lubbock and whomped on Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't happen very often, by the way. A &
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: M whomping on Texas Tech when Mike Leach was the coach.
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  Speaker 10: And I.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Had this conversation with a friend of mine not too
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: long ago. And I said, that fat little girlfriend's rant
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  Speaker 1: was an answer... To my question. So I'm very proud
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: of that. And he goes, no way. I said, yeah, way.
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  Speaker 1: That fat little girlfriend rant came as part of an
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: answer to my question post-game in Lubbock after the Aggies
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  Speaker 1: had just destroyed Texas Tech. And I'm very proud of that.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I still have that somewhere. I should have put all
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: the great sports rants together. But those are the three
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: that come to mind personally. That and.
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  Speaker 10: Playoffs?
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Playoffs? That's got to be up there too, right? Who
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: was that? What coach was that? Jim Mora. Yeah. I
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: literally just had it pulled up.
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  Speaker 5: Jim.
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  Speaker 9: Mora.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Jim Mora.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Mora.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So that one has to be right there. Playoffs? That
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  Speaker 1: was awesome. Was that when he was with the Saints?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 22: That was whenever he was with the Colts after they
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  Speaker 22: lost 40-21 against San Francisco and dropped.
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  Speaker 1: A 4-6 record. Okay. That's awesome. You know, all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff didn't spread before the social media and the ESPN.
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