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Vic Schaefer · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, a couple of golf notes I wanted to get to.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, it came down yesterday Scotti Scheffler winning
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  Speaker 1: the Jack Nicholas Award as the PGA Tour Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year. No grand surprise there. After all, he won
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  Speaker 1: a second green jacket at the Masters. He had seven
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  Speaker 1: victories on tour. He also won a gold medal at
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics. He won the fed x Cup title, won
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  Speaker 1: the Players Championship, first golfer since Tiger Woods from five
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  Speaker 1: to oh seven to win the honor in three straight seasons.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously there was no surprise there. I think everybody
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  Speaker 1: would have expected that. Him winning the Jack Nicholas Awards,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of other things that I wanted to get to.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you saw the Tiger Woods announcement about when
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  Speaker 1: he's planning to return. He's along with his fifteen year
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  Speaker 1: old son, Charlie. They can play in the PNC Championship,
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  Speaker 1: and he played. He's played the thirty six whole PNC
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  Speaker 1: Championship with Charlie every year since twenty twenty. And the
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  Speaker 1: tournament invites players who have won majors or the Players
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  Speaker 1: Championship with family members, typically their children, that is coming
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  Speaker 1: up next weekend in Orlando, so it's kind of local
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  Speaker 1: for him too. What do you think about that tournament? Formatt,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good tournament for December golf. Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's all it is. All right, It's all it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's golf in December. Nobody cares about it. Nobody really
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  Speaker 2: wants to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: So the only way to get people involved is if
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  Speaker 1: you get guys like Tiger Woods and his son out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so there you go in Orlando.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear some more from Long Worn's head coach Vick Shaffer,
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  Speaker 1: Texas women's basketball coach. We heard some last hour. Here
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  Speaker 1: is part two of his conversation with the media leading
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  Speaker 1: into the night's game against Southern.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned Jordan's academic goals about that toach a moment ago,
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned Jordan's academic goals, wants to be a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: When you're recruiting an athlete and she mentioned academic goals
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  Speaker 3: like that, what goes through your mind? Do you hear
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  Speaker 3: that as as a big advantage to having an athlete
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  Speaker 3: like that on your team?
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  Speaker 2: No question? You know? Uh? Heck?
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  Speaker 4: Coach Shaffer junior was in biological science, made a three
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  Speaker 4: six seven. I thought I had a doctor or a
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  Speaker 4: veterinarian on my hands, and she was going through that,
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  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden at the last she
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  Speaker 4: decided to change her mind or to communication and went
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  Speaker 4: into work for SEC Network and then ends up being
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  Speaker 4: a coach. But you know, I love the fact that
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  Speaker 4: Jordan wants to be a doctor. She's gonna be a doctor,
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  Speaker 4: She's going to be a great doctor. And obviously, our
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  Speaker 4: our UT Medical brand, you know, it's not only part
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  Speaker 4: of the Longhorn brand, but it has its brand of
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  Speaker 4: its own. And knowing what they're fixing to build right
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  Speaker 4: yar behind me where the drum used to be in
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  Speaker 4: in uh you know uh uh a cancer research hospital
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  Speaker 4: that's you know, part of the big system in Houston
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  Speaker 4: and now is going to be part of our our
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  Speaker 4: UT system here.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's that's really cool. You know that our students are
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  Speaker 4: going to benefit from M. D Anderson and and everything
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  Speaker 4: that that brand stands for.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that's something that's you know.
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  Speaker 4: Our administration, uh President Hartzell's to be commended for to
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  Speaker 4: get that here. And then our students, you know, our
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  Speaker 4: our our doctoral students are going to be the benefactor
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  Speaker 4: of that. And if I've got a player that's capable
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  Speaker 4: of that, heck yeah, man. Uh, I'll practice at midnight
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  Speaker 4: if I have to to work around her schedule.
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  Speaker 2: But I would do that for anyone because that's.
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  Speaker 4: Just really special. And she's a special kid. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: she's she's just really really special. She's unique, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're lucky to have her.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Jeff. Let's go to Zach.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, coach, would you consider West Virginia and Notre Dame
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  Speaker 4: crucial games for preparing for SEC play? Where you're playing
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  Speaker 4: competitive games two to three times a week, games like
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina LSU.
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  Speaker 1: How do these non con games get you ready for
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  Speaker 1: the SEC?
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  Speaker 4: Well, certainly some non conference teams are better than others.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, uh, I think the thing that bothered
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  Speaker 4: me last week was we played three in a row Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: We got in Sunday night at three am. Kids had
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  Speaker 4: to go to class Monday. You know, we took Monday off,
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  Speaker 4: but kids were it's not a day off when you've
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  Speaker 4: got to go to class, You've got tests. We practiced Tuesday, Wendy,
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  Speaker 4: We're back on the road. You played Thursday on the
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  Speaker 4: road once again. We got in at three, you know,
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  Speaker 4: two in the morning. Kids aren't going to bed till
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  Speaker 4: three in the morning. And and uh, you know that's
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  Speaker 4: travel issues, that's playing problems, it's playing company, it's whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is. But my kids are suffering. Like I've done
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  Speaker 4: this forty years. I've never had kids getting home from
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  Speaker 4: any road trip where they're going to bed at three
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  Speaker 4: in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I've had it back to back.
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  Speaker 4: Road trips and and so our kids didn't go to
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  Speaker 4: bed till late, had to go to class on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've got kids in eight o'clock classes. I've
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  Speaker 4: got kids with eight o'clock study hall. It's a challenge,
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  Speaker 4: but I knew that. James Madison warned our attention. So
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  Speaker 4: we had to try to practice Friday afternoon. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: telling you, they're they're They're not bad, they're pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to win their league, and they've got really
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  Speaker 4: good players. They've got preseason Player of the Year on
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  Speaker 4: their team. So it warranted our tension. And so to
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  Speaker 4: go in there and play that well in the first
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  Speaker 4: half was so encouraging for me. And again wasn't everybody.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I could say it was, but it wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: But those four kids in particular really stood out to me.
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  Speaker 4: And it's all in their approach, y'all. Those kids are
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  Speaker 4: pros and how they approach the game and how they
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  Speaker 4: approach life and how they approach their academics.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, again, games like that, playing those
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  Speaker 4: five games in what eight nine days, that's the toughest
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  Speaker 4: piece that gets you ready for a rugged SEC game
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  Speaker 4: SEC schedule. Certainly West Virginia being in the top ten,
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame being in the top ten, on's on our
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  Speaker 4: neutral floor, ones on the road, you know, weren't even
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  Speaker 4: getting to play those teams at home, and to do
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  Speaker 4: what we did. Now we've got another one coming up
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  Speaker 4: in Richmond, and we've got a top twenty five South
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  Speaker 4: Dakota State who's so well coached and always in the
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  Speaker 4: NCAA tournament right before Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Then we're going to.
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  Speaker 4: Play another one in Maryland in non conference, right in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of conference. So all these you know, all
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  Speaker 4: this scheduling obviously hopefully sets you up to be successful
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  Speaker 4: in the SEC, but.
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  Speaker 2: The SEC is a.
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  Speaker 4: Nightmare in and of itself and the Thursday Sunday part
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  Speaker 4: y'all is what's really I've been fighting it ever since
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  Speaker 4: I've been in the league.
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard on your kids.
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  Speaker 4: And when you don't have a true day off in
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  Speaker 4: January and February, if you don't know how to navigate that,
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  Speaker 4: it can really wear on your team because getting up
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  Speaker 4: and going to class on Monday and having an exam,
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  Speaker 4: a physics exam or a chemistry test, that is not
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  Speaker 4: a day off. You know, when we were in the
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  Speaker 4: Big Twelve, we had Sundays off, and that's a true
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  Speaker 4: day off, and it allows your kids to just kind
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  Speaker 4: of vedge out, relax, get their feet under them, get treatment.
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  Speaker 4: We won't have that, And it's been a concern of
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  Speaker 4: mine for a while now, and you know, I've sat
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  Speaker 4: in that room. I've seen it evolve from the old
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  Speaker 4: days with you know, the old coaches, the Andy Landers,
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  Speaker 4: the Coach Summit, you know, several others that had been
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  Speaker 4: in the legue a while advocating and it all stemmed
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  Speaker 4: from TV. That's how we ended up starting to play
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday back in the day. But now with our game,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just Sunday availability we're available all the time,
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  Speaker 4: and so I really, you know, I'm always going to
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  Speaker 4: advocate and push to try to get that changed a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. But I'm beating my head in the wall
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  Speaker 4: right now. I'm kind of the lone ranger. Although I
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  Speaker 4: will say the room has changed some and I do
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  Speaker 4: think there's there's more in the room that understand the
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  Speaker 4: importance not only of.
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  Speaker 2: Your players but your staff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's just it can really wear on you.
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  Speaker 4: So in any case, that's for another day. But the
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  Speaker 4: non conference schedule is certainly important in getting you ready.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, you got another one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, quick?
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  Speaker 5: The couple. Is there somebody in your athletic department who
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  Speaker 5: needs to be in touch with the SEC, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to make sure you get a fast shake on the
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  Speaker 5: return scheduling. And is there somebody on your team like Rory,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry that who needs to make sure that more
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  Speaker 5: than four players show up, you know, for unscheduled work.
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  Speaker 4: Well again, I'm not saying only four show up for
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  Speaker 4: unscheduled work, but consistently, you know, those kids are out
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  Speaker 4: here day in and day out, and there may you
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  Speaker 4: know here a lot, you know, she's.
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  Speaker 2: In here a lot.
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  Speaker 4: We we all I'm gonna say is those four are
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  Speaker 4: in the What I'm saying is on game day, two
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  Speaker 4: hours prior to tip, those are our first four that
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  Speaker 4: are activated to get on the floor. Not those aren't
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  Speaker 4: the only ones that come out early. We have other
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  Speaker 4: people that come out after them, but that's our first
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  Speaker 4: activation group because they want to be out there and
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  Speaker 4: have their own time where they can really get up
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of shots.
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  Speaker 2: I have a gym full of kids that come in early.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to be out here early today before practice
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  Speaker 4: and they'll get up shots.
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  Speaker 2: But I would say.
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  Speaker 4: Those other four because of you know, getting out early
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  Speaker 4: on game day, that separates them a lot. And then
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  Speaker 4: Rory Rory's in here, Jordan Lee's in here every day
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  Speaker 4: getting shots up. Shay's in here pretty consistently getting shots up.
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  Speaker 2: And so do we need more that'll that will take
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  Speaker 2: that time.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, But it's I don't want to say it's just
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  Speaker 4: those four, but it is what it is, and we've
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  Speaker 4: got to try to get more, to do more and
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  Speaker 4: spend more time in here. To answer the other part
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  Speaker 4: of your question, I mean, I've talked to the league
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  Speaker 4: office and certainly know those people and voiced my you
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  Speaker 4: know what I believe would be right and fair, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we'll see how it all shakes out. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's something that's obviously a collaboration between two leagues, So
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  Speaker 4: two people, two conference not commissioners, but the women's basketball administrator,
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  Speaker 4: Tiffany Daniels for us, and then that person in the
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  Speaker 4: a CEC office. They have to sit down and hammer
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  Speaker 4: out who exactly is going to play who in that deal.
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  Speaker 4: I've expressed my my interest in Notre Dame returning us
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  Speaker 4: through Tiffany, and she'll do what she can. I'm known
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  Speaker 4: her a long time, like her a lot, and she
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  Speaker 4: does a great job for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, yep, Thanks Mark Deaf Do you have one one?
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  Speaker 3: I do?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Shay is going to be recognized as the program's career
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  Speaker 3: games played leader. What does that record say about her?
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  Speaker 4: Kid's a winner, Kid's tough, She's a competitor. She does
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  Speaker 4: what I you know, I tell kids all the time.
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  Speaker 4: She just stays in a picture, you know, but you
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  Speaker 4: know she's the the ultimate competitor and the ultimate teammate.
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  Speaker 4: She cares nothing about the glory. She cares all about team.
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  Speaker 4: She cares about the program. Who she is and what
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  Speaker 4: she represents as a young lady and a student athlete.
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  Speaker 4: So much of that credit goes to her mother and father.
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  Speaker 4: And she's just a classy kid, but tough, competitive. I'm
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  Speaker 4: telling y'all, if she hadn't been a basketball player, she'd
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  Speaker 4: be a world class decathlete.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the kid is just.
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  Speaker 4: Really really a special, special athlete.
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  Speaker 2: In so many ways.
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  Speaker 4: But I just think the you know, nobody deserves it
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  Speaker 4: more than her.
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  Speaker 2: She's earned it.
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  Speaker 4: And again, she's the classic example much like Blair was
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  Speaker 4: during her career, just staying in the picture, just staying
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  Speaker 4: in the gym, working at it wasn't easy early, but
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  Speaker 4: just didn't give in in an excuse maker. She's not
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  Speaker 4: a butt but but but persons. She's all about accountability
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  Speaker 4: and what it takes to be great. And again, she
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  Speaker 4: is who she is as a basketball player because she's
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  Speaker 4: invested in her craft, and she is who she is
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  Speaker 4: as a young lady because I believe her parents there
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  Speaker 4: just they have done such an incredible job with her.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, again we've just been really really lucky
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  Speaker 4: here at Texas to have had had her for five years.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm a much better coach. I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 4: a better person having Shay Holly on my team over
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  Speaker 4: the last you know, four plus years, and I just
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  Speaker 4: have a real appreciation for her.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, coach, I appreciate your time. Well.
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  Speaker 4: Just to close it out, so we're also going to
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  Speaker 4: honor Taylor Jones for her not only her fifteen hundredth point,
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  Speaker 4: but obviously we screwed up here and didn't even acknowledge
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  Speaker 4: her for her thousand career points and so, and that
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  Speaker 4: happened over a year ago in the NCAA Tournament against
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  Speaker 4: East Carolina. So we're gonna honor her as well in
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  Speaker 4: the future with her thousandth and fifteen hundredth basketball and again,
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  Speaker 4: she's she's had a great career. I'm just excited to
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  Speaker 4: see her continue to get better. We I've always said,
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  Speaker 4: if I can keep her healthy, she's got a chance
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  Speaker 4: to really help us and and and even play after this.
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  Speaker 4: So showed a lot of toughness over the weekend, y'all,
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  Speaker 4: after that pretty tough fall against Notre Dame, pretty much
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  Speaker 4: flat on her back, to come back and play on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday and play as well as she did really said
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  Speaker 4: a lot about her to me. And I'm glad to
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  Speaker 4: see that part of her growth happen, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're never one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody is.
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  Speaker 4: But that was a pretty tough fall and I'm really
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  Speaker 4: proud of her coming back.
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  Speaker 2: She had an impact on the game.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is, Texas against Southern University. I hope
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  Speaker 1: to see out at Moody Center time. It's a seven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock tip. We'll obviously have the broadcast for you. Aaron McMahon,
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  Speaker 1: the former long Holm, will join me for the call
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  Speaker 1: of that with a six forty five airtime seven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: tip off for Moody Center on one oh three point
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