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Is Sark confident Texas will reach the College Football Playoff? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: The broadcast in voice of the Texas Long Bots, Craig Way,
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  Speaker 1: I hope your Monday's going all right.
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  Speaker 2: It is, after all, Monday, but it's a Monday of
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  Speaker 2: a holiday weeks. Maybe they're in as much of a
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  Speaker 2: grind on you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope not.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, school is out right now for a lot, including
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  Speaker 2: on campus at ut which is why some things were
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  Speaker 2: shifted with the football program. No practice in the morning
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  Speaker 2: because the guys didn't have afternoon classes. So practice this
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  Speaker 2: afternoon so those guys could sleep in a little more,
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  Speaker 2: the bodies rest up and restore a little bit, and
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  Speaker 2: they moved the press conference up with coach Sartin. Sark
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  Speaker 2: spoke to the media at eleven o'clock this morning, Steve
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  Speaker 2: eleven thirty, which you heard live here on the Zone,
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  Speaker 2: and among those comments was the fact of the noise level,
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  Speaker 2: and we know how noise he did. If you've ever
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  Speaker 2: been to a game at Kyle Field, you know how.
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  Speaker 1: Noisy he is.
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  Speaker 2: The over one hundred thousand people are. It's very steep,
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  Speaker 2: it's very loud, it's very noisy, and there's all us
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  Speaker 2: talk about Expert speakers have been brought in to increase
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  Speaker 2: the decibel. Level and the noise level and all that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff and sarcus as had he heard about
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  Speaker 2: that and how does he feel about all that?
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  Speaker 3: First is the speakers have to be turned off when
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  Speaker 3: we're getting ready for play, So make sure the officials
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  Speaker 3: know that. The second, the second key to that is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think it's a mentality that we work on.
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  Speaker 1: All of the time.
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  Speaker 3: We don't wait for games like this to say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we got to have great poison composure. We really try
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  Speaker 3: to work on that throughout the summer, throughout training camp,
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  Speaker 3: as the season goes on, so that when games like
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  Speaker 3: this come we can we can play a really poised
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  Speaker 3: and composed game. Or even last Saturday when when everybody
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  Speaker 3: you could almost feel a level of frustration with everybody
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  Speaker 3: in the stands and ourselves included on the sidelines of
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  Speaker 3: we had three out of four plays we put the
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  Speaker 3: ball on the ground that we were able to regroup, resettles,
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  Speaker 3: keep our composure, and stay together as a team to
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  Speaker 3: go do those things. And so again, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: this is like a one shot thing where we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about poison composure when it's a big game. I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a level of consistency and our approach to that
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  Speaker 3: that allows us to feel comfortable talking about poison composure
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  Speaker 3: when you're going into a game like this.
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  Speaker 2: Ex what's a question. I think it was a friend
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  Speaker 2: Terry Middleton Orange illustrated as Sark. He said, when I
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  Speaker 2: visited with Quinn, I asked him about things, and he
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  Speaker 2: said that his key is just to get the ball
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  Speaker 2: in the hands of the playmakers. And he asked about
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  Speaker 2: that being and that is something if you talk to Quinn,
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  Speaker 2: if you talk too if you talk to Trey Weisner,
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  Speaker 2: if you talk to just about any of the guys,
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  Speaker 2: they talk about the totality of the team concept. And
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  Speaker 2: Sark was asked about that player focused mentality.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it really is, you know, and that's on that's
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  Speaker 3: in all three phases, you know, Terry, like, we don't
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  Speaker 3: talk about individuals like that, you know, we don't. We
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  Speaker 3: don't go into games thinking, man, we got to get
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  Speaker 3: this guy three sacks, or we got to get this
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  Speaker 3: guy ten catches, or we got to get this guy
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  Speaker 3: to throw five touchdowns. It's about let's do what we
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  Speaker 3: need to do as a team to go win the game.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a team first mentality we use an adage.
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  Speaker 3: We not me around here. It's about us, and you
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  Speaker 3: guys hear me say it all the time, being enamored
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  Speaker 3: with us.
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  Speaker 1: And what comes out of that.
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  Speaker 3: The byproduct of team's success is individual accolades, awards, honors,
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  Speaker 3: and achievements. And there's probably not a national award right
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  Speaker 3: now that that's going out that we don't have somebody
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  Speaker 3: nominated for as a semi finalist or a finalist for.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure when the.
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  Speaker 3: All American teams come out we'll have players that make those.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure when the NFL Draft rolls around here in
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  Speaker 3: a few months, we'll have a ton of players get
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  Speaker 3: drafted in that. But all that stuff is a byproduct
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  Speaker 3: of the team's success. And I think it was really
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  Speaker 3: well said by Quinn. You know, it was about how
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  Speaker 3: do I get the ball to those guys so that
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  Speaker 3: they can go do what they need to do, rather
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  Speaker 3: than how do I throw X number of touchdowns or
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  Speaker 3: whatever completion percentage? And I think if you really asked
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  Speaker 3: any of our guys that question, you'd probably get a
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  Speaker 3: similar response predicated on the position that they play.
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  Speaker 1: No question about that.
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  Speaker 2: And then he was asked about how much reinforcement goes
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  Speaker 2: into this being a different kind of week, and it's
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  Speaker 2: only ninety five miles wherever you are, depending in the
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  Speaker 2: Greater Austin area, it could be anywhere from ninety to
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  Speaker 2: about one hundred and ten to go over to the
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  Speaker 2: Brasses Valley. But we're talking an hour forty five minute
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  Speaker 2: drive something like that. And he was asked about how
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  Speaker 2: does he gear his guys into the difference mentally speaking
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  Speaker 2: of what they're encountering.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that the best thing that we get
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  Speaker 3: to do is sleep in a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 3: being a Division one football player, Power five, Power four
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  Speaker 3: football player is a grind, you know. You think about
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  Speaker 3: these guys do every single day. We look at them
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  Speaker 3: just on the field, right as like an NFL player.
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  Speaker 3: These guys go to class every day. These guys are
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  Speaker 3: going to study Hall, right, They're doing other things in
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  Speaker 3: their lives that consume time and energy as well. And
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  Speaker 3: so I'm really just trying to recharge their batteries a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, give them a little bit more time to sleep,
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  Speaker 3: understanding that the game this week is at six point
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  Speaker 3: thirty in the evening as well, and so a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of their biological clocket and that in the right frame,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're just trying to take advantage of the time.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think it is helpful.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting that you know, our guys are coming in
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  Speaker 3: now for treatment and different things before we get ready
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  Speaker 3: to go this afternoon, and they all look bright eyed,
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  Speaker 3: they all upbeat. Even our staff looks up beat because
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  Speaker 3: everybody's just getting a little bit more sleep, which I
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  Speaker 3: think is helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Now you want to stump Sark, ask him which player
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  Speaker 2: has made the most improvement this season.
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  Speaker 1: I'll start ground floor and work my way up.
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  Speaker 3: Like Kobe Black had his best game on Special Teams
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  Speaker 3: this past week.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that probably doesn't seem.
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  Speaker 3: Like much because you gouty to see him play corner
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  Speaker 3: and different things, but he was one of our Special
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  Speaker 3: Teams players of the week. And so when you can
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  Speaker 3: watch the development of a young player grow into that,
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  Speaker 3: I think has been tremendous. I think Jelanie McDonald has
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  Speaker 3: really grown into playing safety and where he's at now
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  Speaker 3: and it's easy to point to that interception, but he's
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  Speaker 3: he's a great tackler man. He's really good in the
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  Speaker 3: open field. That's been a great improve I think Jermaine Lola. Continue,
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  Speaker 3: here's an older player that came in a little nicked
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  Speaker 3: up with his knee but continues to play better and
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  Speaker 3: better and better. Had a great stop for us there
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  Speaker 3: on fourth down this past weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Jeez, that's a that's a that was a loaded question. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But those are some, you know, just throwing some guys
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  Speaker 3: out that I think have really shown the ones that
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  Speaker 3: are just popping into my head, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Off first thought, Yeah, there's a lot. There's also a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys who were on this roster. The fact
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  Speaker 2: that it's about a fourth of the roster and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the starting positions manned by guys from the
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. Sark was asked, what was that
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  Speaker 2: a specific effort when he first got in there to
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  Speaker 2: establish DFW as recruiting hotbed, because you look at it
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  Speaker 2: right now, like, for example, in the offense, Jake Majors
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  Speaker 2: the centers from Prosperous in Collin County north of Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: D J. Campbell, the starting right guard is from Arlington
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  Speaker 2: Bowie Cam Williams. The right tackle was from Duncanville. Jan Davis,
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  Speaker 2: one of the tight ends that rotates him Gunner Hilm
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  Speaker 2: is from Everman, Trey Wisner is from Desota, Quinn Ewers
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  Speaker 2: is from South Lake Carrol. So there's several guys from
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Fort Worth air alone. Bert Auburn is from
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  Speaker 2: flower Man. That's on the on the offensive side, and
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  Speaker 2: then on the defensive side. They got plenty of guys
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  Speaker 2: from the Metroplex as well. Malik Muhammad is from South O'cliff.
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  Speaker 2: That's in that You're gonna hear Sark talk about this,
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  Speaker 2: this southwest Dallas County corridor that features Duncanville, De Soto,
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  Speaker 2: South Oakcliff. There's other good programs there too, Lancaster, Cedar Hill,
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  Speaker 2: There's other programs that are good there. Uh, then you
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  Speaker 2: got Anthony Hills from Denton. Ryan, you have Warren Roberson
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  Speaker 2: is from Red Oak. You have there's somebody else on
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  Speaker 2: the I was trying to think of a thought on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive front. Well though, Jordan Johnson Rebella is from
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  Speaker 2: Fort Worth, but he played it. I amg Academy, you
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  Speaker 2: know the which there's lots of guys. Alex January's from Duncanville.
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  Speaker 2: Colin Simmons is from Duncanville. So there's lots of guys
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  Speaker 2: from the Dallas forward area. Was there a concerted effort
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  Speaker 2: to make the FW recruiting hot bid for this university.
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  Speaker 3: When we came on board, we just kind of assessed
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  Speaker 3: the rosters of kind of our rivals, and we assessed
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  Speaker 3: the rosters of some of the better SEC teams and
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  Speaker 3: where were they getting their players from. And then we
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  Speaker 3: assessed the roster here and we really felt like we
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  Speaker 3: were we didn't have enough of the marquee players coming
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  Speaker 3: out of the Dallas region. And oddly enough, at that
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  Speaker 3: time when we came on board, we made a huge
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  Speaker 3: emphasis to go do that. But at that time too,
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  Speaker 3: the South Dallas area in particular really had this big
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  Speaker 3: uptick in play, and it just happened to coincide almost simultaneously,
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  Speaker 3: as those programs really star had to grow and go,
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  Speaker 3: we came in and that was like our focus. And
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  Speaker 3: we've been able to get some really good players out
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  Speaker 3: of that region, not just South Dallas but the Dallas
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  Speaker 3: region in general. And but all that being said, we
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  Speaker 3: can't just rely solely on that, right. We have to
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  Speaker 3: spread our wings and we have to do a great
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  Speaker 3: job in Houston, We have to do well in East Texas.
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  Speaker 3: We have to do well in Central Texas. We have
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  Speaker 3: to do well in our surrounding states where we can
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  Speaker 3: where we have a reach into Louisiana, where we can
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  Speaker 3: start to reach now into more of the southern states
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  Speaker 3: with being in the Southeastern Conference, we have to continue
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  Speaker 3: to reach some into California because that's kind of been
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  Speaker 3: my home and so I know a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of people there.
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  Speaker 3: And so as much as Dallas had been a focal
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  Speaker 3: point for us, I think it's important that, Yes, but
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  Speaker 3: we still have to spread our wings and get into
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  Speaker 3: the other areas.
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  Speaker 2: And one more comment from Stark this hour, and it's
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  Speaker 2: about again it goes back to that unselfish play. Roger
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  Speaker 2: Wallace had asked a question about the I'm for this
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  Speaker 2: guy and for that guy, and the DB's all saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Jade for Thorpe. They were even said it
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  Speaker 2: on the post game interview with Hey, Jade for Thorpe,
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  Speaker 2: Jade for Thorpe, for the Thorpe Award. And he was
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  Speaker 2: asking about that all for one and one for all things,
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  Speaker 2: but they're all really promoting that, and he was asked,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean where you've got several guys promoting
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  Speaker 2: one specific guy for the award.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think it's really neat. Man. I love
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  Speaker 1: that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I see Michael Taff wearing a Jade for
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  Speaker 3: Thorpe T shirt, Macouba talking about ja Day and then
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  Speaker 3: Jah Day's wearing a Quinn Yours T shirt, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that just speaks to the team we have,
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  Speaker 3: the culture, we have, the love these guys have for
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  Speaker 3: one another.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: You look at the six sacks, five different guys getting sacks,
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  Speaker 3: and I look at the celebrations with Colin and Baron
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  Speaker 3: Currell or Trey and Alfred Collins and all these different
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  Speaker 3: guys like they're just playing for one another, and then
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  Speaker 3: they love one another and then they want to promote
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  Speaker 3: one another, and like I said, in the end, the
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  Speaker 3: individual accolades come because these guys are playing really well
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  Speaker 3: as a team.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. Yeah, good stuff too.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll hear more from Start coming up next hour,
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