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Steve Sarkisian gives Bill Belichick coaching advice · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 2: from that. But anyway, that's on down the road.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hear some more from Longhorne hit Football Rich Steve
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  Speaker 3: Sarcasian Sark was on The Rich Eisen Show and we
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  Speaker 3: heard him last hour talking about his team, and let's
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  Speaker 3: let's hear some more from riche Eason and Sark.
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  Speaker 4: You just describe the crazy world in which you live in,
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  Speaker 4: but you and Texas are thriving in with nil and
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  Speaker 4: portal and signing Day and conference championship and getting ready
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  Speaker 4: for the college football playoffs, which is a reason why
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people think only a certain type of
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  Speaker 4: coach can be cut out for college football. What is
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  Speaker 4: your thoughts, your two cents on Bill Belichick joining the
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  Speaker 4: world of college football. He's now a college football coaching
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  Speaker 4: colleague of youers Steve Sarkisian and North Carolina You what
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  Speaker 4: are your thoughts on this?
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  Speaker 5: Fascinated. I'm fascinated by it. You know, obviously a ton
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  Speaker 5: of respect for coach Belichick and the job he's done
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  Speaker 5: his entire career. I think we've all we're all better
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  Speaker 5: coaches quite frankly because of what he's been able to
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  Speaker 5: do and studying him and whether it's offense, defense, you know,
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  Speaker 5: management of rosters, all all the stuff, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: obviously my time with coach Saban and the connection with
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  Speaker 5: those two. But fascinating that that he's back now and
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  Speaker 5: coming to college football and trying to implement some of
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  Speaker 5: those things.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 5: So a ton of respect for the job he's done.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure he'll do a great job there. But but
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  Speaker 5: I think from from most perspectives, and you know, I
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  Speaker 5: don't I don't know everybody but ours in our building
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  Speaker 5: for sure. It's fascinating to see and to watch and
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  Speaker 5: and you know, how how is this how's this project
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  Speaker 5: gonna go?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I know, right?
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  Speaker 4: Was he around when you were in Alabama? Did did
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  Speaker 4: he show up on campus practices?
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  Speaker 1: Zooms? Or whatever with coach Saban.
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  Speaker 5: You know Pro days for sure, you know, he in
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  Speaker 5: and out of the Pro Days. And and I actually had
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  Speaker 5: a couple of conversations with him this offseason about our
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  Speaker 5: schedule now, because I think our calendar and our schedule
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  Speaker 5: is more you know, from a from a team perspective,
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  Speaker 5: and a college football playoff perspective is a little more
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  Speaker 5: NFL driven. And so I was trying to pick his
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  Speaker 5: brain on that. I had no idea that he'd be
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  Speaker 5: coming our way and getting into the college game.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that nuts?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that is amazing how how life works sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Would you mind? What did he tell you? What insight
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  Speaker 4: did you gain from him?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was just more about here's a guy that's
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  Speaker 5: you know what, year after year after year and had
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  Speaker 5: these long stretches of a season right the preseason, the
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  Speaker 5: regular season and year in and year out there and they're
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  Speaker 5: in the super Bowl, the championship game, and how he
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  Speaker 5: managed his team. And I think, you know, you talked
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  Speaker 5: to a Bill Belichick and Andy Reid, you know, Sean McVay,
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  Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan, guys now that have you know, year in
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  Speaker 5: and year out, been in those positions of just how
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  Speaker 5: they manage the workloads of their roster and their team
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  Speaker 5: and how they practiced and.
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  Speaker 1: Got them ready to play.
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  Speaker 5: And so that was stuff I was trying to dig
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  Speaker 5: into to make sure that we were in a really
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  Speaker 5: good frame of mind and physically, mentally, emotionally come December,
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  Speaker 5: and I think it's paid off for us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And so do you listen.
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  Speaker 4: I know he's got a gajillion rings and things of
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  Speaker 4: that nature, and he's been at it since nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 4: five in the NFL. But this is you know, you're
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  Speaker 4: you're the you're the college coach here with with experience
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  Speaker 4: and success.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any advice for him? Now? If you
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  Speaker 1: picked your brain, what would that be, Steve Hire? Good recruiters.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not a laugh, that's for sure. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a draft. It's not a draft.
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  Speaker 4: Ty you don't just get to you know, just it's
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  Speaker 4: my pick and I got to get you. And now
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  Speaker 4: you're under contract for four years with one plus right.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't work like that for us, that's for sure, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, Yeah, great advice there. I thought sark at first
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  Speaker 3: was going to say something like, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: give advice to Bill Belichick gives it. But that makes
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  Speaker 3: sense though, hire good recruiters, which, by the way, brings
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  Speaker 3: to mind does he bring in his son Steven? That
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  Speaker 3: seems to be the popular speculation. Stephen Belichick the defensive
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  Speaker 3: coordinator at the University of Washington and obviously used to
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  Speaker 3: the recruiting game. I mean, I could see Belichick being
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  Speaker 3: a closer, so to speak. You know, Mack Brown was
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  Speaker 3: a really good closer after you had the other guys
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  Speaker 3: get it to it. I think Sark is a closer.
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  Speaker 3: But Sark is more active than that. He's out and
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  Speaker 3: about and he's at games. He likes going to games
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  Speaker 3: and watching games the ones that they're limited to to
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  Speaker 3: go to because there is a limit that the NCAA
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  Speaker 3: places on the total member of visits by a coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: So they have to and Sark has said this many times,
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  Speaker 3: they have to be judicious about what games they're going
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  Speaker 3: to see. They're in a non contact period right now
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  Speaker 3: anyway with regard to that.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: Getting beyond signing day, and he's trying to get a
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  Speaker 3: football team ready to play in the college football Playoff,
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  Speaker 3: which you know, this is that vicious cycle where you
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  Speaker 3: need players to have a chance to play in the playoff.
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  Speaker 3: But you've got to prepare a team to play in
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  Speaker 3: the playoff. But you got to keep but eye on
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  Speaker 3: the portal because that's going only are you going to
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  Speaker 3: be They're down the just six active defensive linemen for
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  Speaker 3: this game against Glenson with the portal opening up and
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  Speaker 3: losing some some pieces to the defensive line. And let
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  Speaker 3: me say this, they're also hosting.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they've had I think they have two recruits
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  Speaker 2: on campus right now, yep, right or I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: recruit what do you call it, uh transfer, portal recruit portal, yeah, portals, yeah, portalers, portals,
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  Speaker 2: portal recruits maybe, I don't know. Uh so those tragents, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those guys can come in. Obviously, that would be for
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  Speaker 2: the program going forward in the future, would not be
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  Speaker 2: for the remainder of this season. I think they'll be okay,
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, six active defensive linemen for this And
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  Speaker 2: let me say this, I understand why the guys have
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  Speaker 2: to make the call that they do right now.
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  Speaker 3: There may be some long horn fans, but why couldn't
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  Speaker 3: they wait till the end of the season, because cause
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  Speaker 3: the door may and window may be closed for them
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  Speaker 3: they might have a not have an opportunity to catch
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  Speaker 3: on with another program. And Sarka has been really upfront
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  Speaker 3: about this that if you are a player on his
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  Speaker 3: roster and you've got and you're having thoughts about leaving,
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  Speaker 3: you need to have that conversation with them. And they're
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  Speaker 3: going to have all those conversations with these guys you
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  Speaker 3: know who are thinking about leaving, and then once you
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  Speaker 3: enter the portal, start essentially is done with you. Because
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  Speaker 3: I know there are some things where some guys pull
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  Speaker 3: their name back out of the portal, but they have
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  Speaker 3: to kind of move on with that because once you
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  Speaker 3: establish that you are in the portal, they have to
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  Speaker 3: actively divert resources and energy to finding someone to take
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  Speaker 3: your place. So that's why I understand it from the
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  Speaker 3: player perspective on why if they're going to enter the
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  Speaker 3: portal they need to do it earlier rather than later
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  Speaker 3: so that they have a better chance of catching on
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  Speaker 3: in a situation that they like. But from sark side
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  Speaker 3: and the coaching and the programs side of it, if
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  Speaker 3: that's the case and you're really seriously considering, you probably
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  Speaker 3: ought to go ahead and go.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're out that kind of things.
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  Speaker 3: That's just kind of the way it works in college football,
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  Speaker 3: especially for these successful programs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure the coaches and the staff members met
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  Speaker 2: with some of these players after the end of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, some of it could be, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: want to go somewhere else, and some of its saying
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  Speaker 2: it could be, hey, you know it might be more
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  Speaker 2: beneficial to your career if you go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, it's a two way conversation. We'll be back
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  Speaker 3: to wrap up our number two on sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 3: thirteen under the Zone.