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Zimmel Hour, Texas gears up for Missouri and Sweet 16 Preview · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: What is going on a Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you guys are doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Andrewszilli'll hanging out with you for the next three hours
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  Speaker 1: as Craig Way and company in Birmingham, Alabama, as the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorn women's basketball team gets ready to play the
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee Lady Bowls tomorrow. It is a jam pack day
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  Speaker 1: of college basketball. The Sweet sixteen up and running on
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  Speaker 1: the men's and women's side of things. Tomorrow, we have
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  Speaker 1: our trio of big games, of course, in the middle
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  Speaker 1: sandwich between the two number three Notre Dame and number
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  Speaker 1: two TCU and number three Oklahoma and number two Yukon
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  Speaker 1: is the number one ranked Texas Longhorns versus number five
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  Speaker 1: seeded Tennessee. A rematch of a game that you saw
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season, and this time the stakes could
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  Speaker 1: not be higher. Vick Schaeffer and his team spoke earlier
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  Speaker 1: today for media availability. We'll get some of that audio.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Baseball travels to Columbia, Missouri, as the Longhorn of
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  Speaker 1: baseball team gets ready to start their run tonight, and
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  Speaker 1: coach the Swatstone got asked an interesting question yesterday about
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  Speaker 1: how do you get a team excited when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: a team like Missouri because oh and six in the conference.
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  Speaker 1: You have so many great teams that are in the SEC,
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  Speaker 1: Missouri not being one of them. Early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get excited for those type of games?
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  Speaker 1: How do you get up and get moving? Well, part
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  Speaker 1: of the way that you can get up and get
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  Speaker 1: moving is by listening to it right here on the
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  Speaker 1: zone first pitches at six pm. Roger Wallace will be
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  Speaker 1: on the call. We'll talk to Roger in the four
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  Speaker 1: o'clock hour. But I was curious to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: in the head of a head coach when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to games like that, because baseball is the every single
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  Speaker 1: day grind, right for a college baseball team in the SEC,
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  Speaker 1: you got your midweek game and then you got to
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  Speaker 1: go play an SEC a pony. You got your midweek
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  Speaker 1: game and the SEC apon and it's very easy to
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  Speaker 1: lose some of the early season luster. The long warns
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  Speaker 1: haven't shown that yet. But this game against Missouri, this
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  Speaker 1: weekend series against Missouri, you know you can drop two
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  Speaker 1: of three if.
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  Speaker 2: You're not ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like Jim Showschnegl and his team is
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. We'll hear from him and his team later.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next in the next segment, at two seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way joins the program, talking all things Longhorns. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: gives a preview of other women's basketball baseball. We probably
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  Speaker 1: will talk a little softball with them. His Dodgers looked
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  Speaker 1: really good yesterday. So there's a lot going on on
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  Speaker 1: the forty acres. There's a ton going on on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday edition of The Craigway Show. And of course, because
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  Speaker 1: nothing could ever be normal, news has to break right
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  Speaker 1: before we come on air. That news being the Memphis
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  Speaker 1: Grizzlies firing Taylor Jenkins. They're head coach, they're winning as coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird. It's a strange firing. It doesn't make a
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  Speaker 1: ton of sense. The Grizzlies currently are the five seed
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  Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. Over their last ten games though
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  Speaker 1: five and five, so as they limped towards the postseason
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  Speaker 1: ownership front office, they decided to make a chain now.
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  Speaker 1: The team believe the Jenkins had lost to the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: According to ESPN's Sham Sharati, they lost the locker room
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the season, and the change happening
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  Speaker 1: now might mitigate how the Grizzlies finished the season. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: there's like ten games left. This is a big move.
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  Speaker 1: Right before the playoffs, the front office spoke longingly about him.
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  Speaker 1: They said they were happy with everything he's done over
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  Speaker 1: the past six seasons, that it's a very difficult decision,
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  Speaker 1: all of these things being you know, the things that
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  Speaker 1: you say when you fire your head coach the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins, he's forty.
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  Speaker 1: He served as the Grizzlies head coach since that twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty twenty season. He's been with jab Moran since
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  Speaker 1: he won the Rookie of the Year, three postseason appearances,
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  Speaker 1: but only one playoff series win. Now, Taylor Jenkins by
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  Speaker 1: being fired by the Grizzlies marks the third time in
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  Speaker 1: history of the league that a team is left that
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  Speaker 1: coach has left the team midseason after winning at least
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  Speaker 1: forty games during the campaign. Those other two coaches Larry
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  Speaker 1: Brown with the New Jersey Nets and Don Nelson in
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  Speaker 1: the four to five season with the Dallas Mavericks.
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  Speaker 2: Now again, this is.
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  Speaker 1: A really a big firing because you think about the
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  Speaker 1: coaches that are on or in the job market potentially,
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  Speaker 1: and Tayo Jenkins is a guy who has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of connections to San Antonio where Greg Popvich is trying
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  Speaker 1: to come back from his health scare earlier this season.
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  Speaker 1: So you think to yourself, like, could this be one
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  Speaker 1: of those connections. Could this be a guy that the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs now are looking at as they might be looking
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  Speaker 1: to replace their head coach or add somebody to the
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  Speaker 1: bench to be the air apparent. Again, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: moving parts, obviously, but the biggest news, of course Grizzlies,
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  Speaker 1: a playoff team firing their head coach right before for
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. This is not something that we see every
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  Speaker 1: single day. This is a strange firing obviously. Now there
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  Speaker 1: probably is some more to the story, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: as that story develops, we'll have it for you here
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  Speaker 1: on a thirteen hundred zone. But it is a big
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  Speaker 1: move by a team that is trying to make a
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  Speaker 1: push for the push in the playoffs and try to
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  Speaker 1: get an elusive title for the city of Memphis, Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: all right, NCAA Action Last Night Final or the Sweet
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  Speaker 1: six team And it was the game of the night,
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  Speaker 1: an overtime loss by Arkansas two three seeded Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: eighty five to eighty three was the final score. The
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  Speaker 1: way that the Razorbacks lost that game, the way that
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  Speaker 1: John Calipari lost that game, will go down in the
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  Speaker 1: record books the history books of college sports as one
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  Speaker 1: of the worst losses in the NCAA Tournament. Razorbacks led
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine to fifty six. With under five minutes to go,
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  Speaker 1: Red Raiders stormed back. Darian Williams had to go ahead
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  Speaker 1: layup with five seconds remaining. Arkansas's final shot was no good.
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  Speaker 1: There was enough time, though, for John caler Party to
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  Speaker 1: call a timeout and drop a play for his team
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  Speaker 1: with the season on the line. Instead, he took that
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  Speaker 1: time out with him into the locker room and let
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  Speaker 1: the final seconds play out. Now there's a course something
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  Speaker 1: to be said for letting your guys figure it out,
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  Speaker 1: letting you guys play. But this was the second time
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  Speaker 1: under a month that Cali Party has made that type
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  Speaker 1: of mistake.
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  Speaker 2: He raised eyebrows.
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  Speaker 1: In the SEC Tournament, Arkansas up by three over South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: he told Janelle Davis to miss a free throw in
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  Speaker 1: a very odd sequence. Now the season online, he refused
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  Speaker 1: to call a timeout. Razorback fans are not happy with
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  Speaker 1: their head coach, even if that head coach is a
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Now, KLi Parti spoke about his team
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  Speaker 1: going dry, not being able to hit any shots down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think you guys drive up a little
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  Speaker 2: bit scoring in the last few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we had we missed a shot and we kicked
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  Speaker 3: it out and there was a new shot clock and
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  Speaker 3: we shot.
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  Speaker 4: At three, which again.
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  Speaker 3: We had open shots, tried to drive and took tough shots.
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  Speaker 5: We had a couple of those.
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  Speaker 3: But to be honest with you, you know, I'll have
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  Speaker 3: to think back, but we were trying to run things
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  Speaker 3: to maybe drive the ball more.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we were doing.
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  Speaker 4: And when we did drive it, we looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough to lose a game like that.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, your season comes to an end if you're the Razorbacks.
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  Speaker 1: But you go through the stats and you think that
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  Speaker 1: was a game we should have won. You win the offensive,
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  Speaker 1: rebounding battle, You win the rebounding battle in totality, you
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  Speaker 1: shoot the lights out, you shoot well from the field,
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  Speaker 1: and you go home anyway, And there's nobody to blame
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  Speaker 1: in this spot except for the head coach. It's the
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  Speaker 1: head coach's job to be able to see the entire
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  Speaker 1: floor of the entire chess board and make moves. The
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  Speaker 1: Razorbacks had plenty of times yesterday that they could have
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  Speaker 1: called the time out, they could have slowed things down,
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  Speaker 1: and you would expect a national championship winning coach like
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  Speaker 1: John Calipari to make the right calls there. But again
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  Speaker 1: the Razorbacks go home empty handed in year number one
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  Speaker 1: with Arkansas. Is it a successful season to make it
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  Speaker 1: to the sweet sixteen? You know, some Razorback fans might
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  Speaker 1: say yes, I had expectations for this team before the season.
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  Speaker 1: They struggled in the SEC regular season, they struggled in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC tournament at times, and now out in the
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen. So Tennessee moves on to take on number
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  Speaker 1: one seeded Florida later and again this will be a
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  Speaker 1: big matchup. Obviously, Florida still picked as one of the
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  Speaker 1: teams to advance far in the NCAA Men's Tournament. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of good games this coming weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to know if the raid Or of the
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  Speaker 1: Red Raiders can take this win that they were able
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  Speaker 1: to grab from the jaws of defeat and move on
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  Speaker 1: to try and knock off another SEC powerhouse. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: when we come back, Craig Way names on the show,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to talk to us about all things Longhorns.
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  Speaker 1: Give us an update on the Texas women's basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: Is Aaron Birmingham for tomorrow's matchup against the Tennessee Lady Vols.
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  Speaker 2: All coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Craigway Show continues in a moment on sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred The Zone, Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The
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  Speaker 1: Zone and from an undisclosed location watching a huge North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina duke matchup, it is Craig Way. Craig How doing
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon?
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  Speaker 2: Man, Oh, I'll disclose it to you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm in Birmingham, Alabama, yet I was, but we're the
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  Speaker 6: first game. Remember a reminder for people that these regions
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  Speaker 6: for the women are different from the men in that
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  Speaker 6: instead of having four sights East, Southwest, and Midwest for
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  Speaker 6: the man, they two regionals at two sites. So there's
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  Speaker 6: two in Spokane, Washington, and there's two here in Birmingham,
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  Speaker 6: and one of the ones in Spokane starts tonight and
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  Speaker 6: the first of the two here in Birmingham is underway
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  Speaker 6: right now, and it's a rivalry, North Carolina and Duke,
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  Speaker 6: who are ours rivals, but they've never met in the
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  Speaker 6: NCAA Tournament in women's basketball before, and they split two
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  Speaker 6: regular season meetings and North Carolina jumped to an eleven
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  Speaker 6: nothing league in Duke has caught fire since and they're
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  Speaker 6: up twenty four eighteen. They're getting to the late stage
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  Speaker 6: of the first half. The winner of this game is
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  Speaker 6: going to get the winner of the matchup between the
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  Speaker 6: defending national champions South Carolina and Maryland. Now that's the
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  Speaker 6: first of the Birmingham regions. The winner of the region
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  Speaker 6: overall and the Elite eight game would be on Monday,
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  Speaker 6: or would be on Sunday, excuse me. The winner of
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  Speaker 6: that game will meet in the Final four the winner
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  Speaker 6: of the other Birmingham region that's the one the Longhorns
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  Speaker 6: are in where TCU, the two seed, will play Notre
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  Speaker 6: Dame the three seed, tomorrow at noon, and then the
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  Speaker 6: Longhorns the number one seed, will play the number five
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  Speaker 6: seed Tennessee in a rematch of the regular season game,
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  Speaker 6: and that will be tomorrow afternoon at two thirty on
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  Speaker 6: the Zone. So they've won two regionals at each site
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  Speaker 6: and they're well attended. As a result of that, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was going to ask all on the same gym. These
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  Speaker 1: two weefferent regionals.
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  Speaker 6: Craig Yeah, boats are at the Legacy Arena in downtown Birmingham.
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  Speaker 6: They started this concept last year. Then they did it
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  Speaker 6: in Portland and the long Orangs were up there in
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  Speaker 6: Portland and Texas was in the Friday Sunday Portland Regional,
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  Speaker 6: and then there was another one Saturday Monday. The Friday
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  Speaker 6: Sunday was on where Texas lost to NC State in
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  Speaker 6: the Elite eight, and the Friday the Saturday Monday was
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  Speaker 6: one where Yukon beat USC.
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  Speaker 7: Last year.
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  Speaker 6: So last year folks got a chance to see Paige
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  Speaker 6: Beckers against Juju Watkins and Yukon and USC are in
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  Speaker 6: Spokane this year, but of course ju Ju being out
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  Speaker 6: with the porn acl that ch used to stay the
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  Speaker 6: other night and their second round win up for Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 6: that won't happen, although I think both could wind up
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  Speaker 6: playing each other in the Elite eate. I do think
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  Speaker 6: that USC, even without Juju Watkins, will beat Kansas State,
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  Speaker 6: and I think Yukon will beat Oklahoma, and it'll probably
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  Speaker 6: be USC and Ukon meeting in the Elite Eight for
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  Speaker 6: the second straight year.
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  Speaker 1: So yukonn right now a fifteen and a half point favorite,
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  Speaker 1: USC only a one and a half point favorite against
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State. Craig vick Schaefer, This is interesting. So he's
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  Speaker 1: talked all season about how much he loves his team,
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  Speaker 1: how this is one of the best teams he's coached.
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  Speaker 1: Last year's team goes to an LEADI eight without Roy Harmon.
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  Speaker 1: This year's team, do you feel like you've watched him
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  Speaker 1: enough to say like this is a national championship team.
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  Speaker 6: It's national championship caliber, certainly, and they earned that through
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  Speaker 6: the year. The number one seed. That said, I think
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  Speaker 6: the road this year is more difficult from this point forward.
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  Speaker 6: Last year I thought the path had opened up pretty
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  Speaker 6: much for them when NC State won in the regional
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  Speaker 6: semifinal round and I thought, Okay, this looks a but
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  Speaker 6: I underestimated NC said, I don't think Texas did, but
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  Speaker 6: I think I certainly did. And they played great, and
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  Speaker 6: they've got most of that team back, and they're in
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  Speaker 6: the other spoketan region or NC State is there with
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  Speaker 6: u C l A where the LSU is in that retail.
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  Speaker 6: So that's that's going to be really interesting to see.
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  Speaker 6: UCLA is playing old Miss tonight, who was tough. You know,
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  Speaker 6: Texas had two hard fought wins of Role Miss this year,
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  Speaker 6: one in the regular season in Oxford and then one
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  Speaker 6: in the SEC tournament. Uh, they they're capable of giving
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  Speaker 6: U c. L A a tough time, and UCLA is the
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  Speaker 6: top seed there. But I do think the path is
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  Speaker 6: tougher this year for Texas. First of all, they're playing
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  Speaker 6: a team in Tennessee that they only beat by four
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  Speaker 6: points when they met two months ago, back in January.
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  Speaker 6: And that was the game. I don't if you remember this, Andrew,
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  Speaker 6: but that was the game where Tennessee was with Ale.
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  Speaker 6: Its head coach Kim Caldwell was giving birth to her son,
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  Speaker 6: and so she wasn't there for that, but she said,
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  Speaker 6: and Vic said, and I think the players have said
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  Speaker 6: they you know, they pretty much ran you know, her
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  Speaker 6: longtime assistant ran ran the practice. So it was pretty
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  Speaker 6: much like it looked if she.
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  Speaker 5: Had been there.
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  Speaker 6: But uh, they've been on a hot streak lately and
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be it's gonna be tough. They went into
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  Speaker 6: Ohio State and really decisively beat the number four seed
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  Speaker 6: Buckeyes on their own home four, so you've got that
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  Speaker 6: and then if they win that. Uh. They haven't played
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  Speaker 6: TTU this year, but TCU is really good. They've got
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  Speaker 6: Hayley band Lift, the guard who transferred from Louisville to
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  Speaker 6: LSU and then LSU to TCU, and she was the
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  Speaker 6: guard for Louisville two years ago who led them for
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  Speaker 6: that second round whenever Texas at Moody Center, the only
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  Speaker 6: time since Shaefer has been the head coach in five
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  Speaker 6: years that he didn't have a Texas team in the
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  Speaker 6: Sweet sixteen, and they've won that contest. Well, she's an
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  Speaker 6: outstanding guard, have a couple other really good guards, and
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  Speaker 6: they have Sadonah Prince, the six eight post player from
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  Speaker 6: Liberty Hill who was a Loghorn but never played for
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  Speaker 6: Texas due to leg injury, wound up transferring to Oregon
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  Speaker 6: and then ultimately to TCU. So having said all that,
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  Speaker 6: I think Notre Dame is one of the hottest teams
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  Speaker 6: in the country right now as well. And Notre Dame
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  Speaker 6: will play TCU in the first game at noon. Notre
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  Speaker 6: Dame beat Texas in overtime back in December acc SEC Challenge.
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  Speaker 6: But I think it's gonna be a terrific game. I
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  Speaker 6: think both games are going to be really, really good games.
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  Speaker 6: Duke has gone up eight on Carolina at the half
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  Speaker 6: after trailing eleven and up and early. I think Duke's
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  Speaker 6: probably gonna win that game. And I think South Carolina
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  Speaker 6: is going to handle Maryland. I think the two games
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  Speaker 6: here in Birmingham tomorrow could be that could be much better.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, well, I said this entire
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  Speaker 1: slate of game tomorrow, Craig. It's back to back to
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  Speaker 1: back with Texas, Yukon and everybody else playing. So you
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  Speaker 1: talk about Tennessee not having their head coach last time
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  Speaker 1: these two teams played, I think that that might play
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  Speaker 1: a part. Do you feel like that could be the
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  Speaker 1: decider and X factor coming into this matchup tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Well, both sides are down playing it. Both sides are
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  Speaker 6: saying it wouldn't that big a deal, you know, because
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  Speaker 6: she had her longtime assistant coach running and I pretty
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  Speaker 6: much ran. And remember it was a four point game.
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  Speaker 6: It was the heck of a ball game. The key
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  Speaker 6: to Tennessee is tempo and three point shooting. They love
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  Speaker 6: to get it up and down before Texas doesn't mind
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  Speaker 6: getting it up and down the floor, but they want
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  Speaker 6: to put pressure on it. And also I should point
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  Speaker 6: out that Tennessee will put pressure on you. Tennessee also
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  Speaker 6: loves to shoot the three. They shoot thirty three percent
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  Speaker 6: as a team beyond the arc. But they can get very,
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  Speaker 6: very streaky. So that's that's gonna be something to watch.
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  Speaker 6: I think Talaysia Cooper, the South Carolina transfer, their leading scorer,
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  Speaker 6: is somebody that she's in that kind of swing position,
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  Speaker 6: much like Madison Booker is. For Texas, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 6: a battle of tempo and for Texas they're trying to
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  Speaker 6: control the glass, rebounding. They're second in the nation in
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  Speaker 6: second chance points, so that those are things that they
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  Speaker 6: if Texas has the game going its way, rebounding, controlling
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  Speaker 6: the glass, and second chance points and I like the
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  Speaker 6: long orange chances.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you look at the last time these two teams played,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee had I think eight players in double figure minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Crag.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: They're a deep team too.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they are. I think both these teams are deep
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: and can run lots of lots of players in and out.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: You know, the last couple of ball games Vic Safer
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: has had Jordan Lee start, but Jacquelina went in. Tomda
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: has given him some great minutes and production off the bench.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: He had a career high nineteen points in the winn
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Ofver Illinois. Obviously, Kyla Oldacre is going to rotate in
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: at the post there with Taylor Jones. Brianna Preston is
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: able to spell Rory Harmon at the point, so they
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: go deep as well. And I think that, you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: the depth on both sides will keep these teams fresh.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: So Juju Watkins goes down with an ACL injury, Craig,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I counted six. You might have counted more questions to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Rory Harmon about her ACL injury this past week.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and today in the press or that they they
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: you know, they took a different routes they asked Rory about.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: I thought it was a really good question that a
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: reporter from USA Today asked her about how much of
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: it is mental and how much of his piscical, because
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Vick Shaffer just got through talking about it being mainly mental,
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: and she said it's way more mental than it is physical.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: She talked about this, she said, I'm still going through it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: When you she said, I'm still going through it, right
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: now you know you don't. It's always in the back
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: of your mind, even once the doctors clear you and
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: say you're good to go. Now, I having said all that,
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm I'm in on their close practices, And
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: so I got a chance to watch them this morning,
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: and Vick was very complimentary of how she still does
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: incredible things. He said, even earlier today, It's true just
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: watching her just zooming back and forth and the way
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: that she runs the offense, and then you know, she
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: sets it up for Madison Booker and Taylor Jones, you know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: and Shay Holly and everybody else to be in high
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: positions to score. So yeah, they asked her a lot
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: about it. She feels really bad about Juju Wacket's but
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: he said that she is determined that Juju wi a
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: to be able to do that. She is going to
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: come back better.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Tip off tomorrow between Texas and number five tennessee number
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: five see tennessee two thirty tip here on the zone.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So Craig to night, Texas goes to Missouri. I thought
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you was lost. Now got a really good question yesterday
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: during his media availability about how do you get excited
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: for a team like Missouri who's owing six and conference play.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I thought it was really insightful.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I didn't hear it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: What did he say.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, he was saying, it's a faceless opponent. You got
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to come in. Anybody in this league can beat anybody.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And I think that that's a really good way to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: look at it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's his philosophy about the SEC, because he
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: obviously has coached in the SEC when he was coaching
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: at Texas A and M, and he has preached that
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: mantra from the start, going to Starkville, playing LSU at home,
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: and now getting ready to go to Columbia. He's like,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: it doesn't batter, it's SEC the old it just means more.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: And uh, that's that's his look at it. It's just
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: it's going to be difficult no matter especially on the road.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: In the SEC.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: And I know they just swept Mississippi State on the
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: road and Missouri hasn't won a conference game yet. Uh,
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: but it's it's still it's gonna be it's gonna be
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: a challenge for them.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: This is this is kind of a hitter friendly ballpark.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: And I think you'll hear that when you visit with
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Roger Wallace. This afternoon, and I think Kate Keith Horland
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: maybe in the booth with him.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: At that time.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Of course, Roger and Keith web the call all three
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: games on one of three point one FM this weekend
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: and he they will talk about how this can be
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: very hitter friendly if that wind is going. Like Keith
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: and I have done games that in the past when
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Missouri was in the Big twelve, when the weather was
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: a gigantic crackt We've had tornado watches in there and
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: thunderstorms and high winds, and there's a there's a side,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: there's a you know how you see the distance signs
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: on the walls of ballparks at three hundred and eighty
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: five feet four hundred feet whatever, and it's kind of
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: a short porch down the line, down the right field line,
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: but beyond the right field fence, Andrew is Missouri's indoor
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: football practice facility. And it's beyond that fence and up
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: the wall of that practice facility. Big metal building is
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: a sign and it says four twenty. And I remember,
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: you know, when Texas had dust to Mayski when he
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: played Big Song power up the left handed hit her
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: in the early two thousands. He hit one onto the
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: roof of that thing, about a four hundred and forty
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: foot shot, and I'm telling you that's got Max Blue
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: written all over it. If the wind blowing out and
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: they get him a ball out over the plate that
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: he can pull, he might land it on the roof
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: out there because he can crush it. But it is
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: a hitter friendly ballpark, so you got to keep the
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: ball down there.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And I would be remiss not to mention that softball
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: plays at Starkville the Mississippi State matchup.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good one. This is the hottest
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: team in softball right now, Craig.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: Listen.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: I just took to get home safely, and all the
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: time from Starkville thinking about that men's basketball. Women's basketball
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: got stuck there overnight and had to come back the
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: next day.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: And then when.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: We were there with baseball, we almost didn't get out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: They were threatening to close the airport, saying we close
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: at nine o'clock. And remember Texas had to play double
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: heater on that Sunday. Well, they got over there and
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: got it done and got over there and got out
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: in time. So I'm just hoping Coach White's team can
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: get it done, wrap it up out of there and
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: get out of there with three wins and come home
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: all right on Sundays.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: He's on the call tomorrow, Craig Way, Texas and Tennessee
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: play in the Sweet sixteen in the Birmingham region. Craig,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: thanks so much, man.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Hey, Yeah, and just.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: We're reminding everybody obviously it's a switch this weeknd because
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: we have Round Rock Express Baseball on the zone starting
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: to night with their opener, so you know, Long Worn
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Baseball throughout the weekend on one oh three point one FM,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Austin's eight station. You can listen on the apps. You
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: can connect to it to the iHeartRadio app obviously and
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: then the Texas Longhorns app and online at Texas Longhorns
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: dot com. And then of course the women's games will
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: be on the Zone tomorrow afternoon two fifteen, airtime two
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: thirty with the tip off, and if they advanced to
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: the lead eight, that would big Monday evening at six
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: and that would also be able to zone. So just
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: want to remind everybody.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Of that and if they match you, if they make
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that matchup in the Elite eight, I will be talking
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to you again about what they needed you to beat
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: either Notre Dame or TCU.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I look forward to I hope that's the case.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: At Craig Wait, thanks so much.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Man, all right, have a good one, Jim.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: All right when we come back.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Inconceivable on a Florida Man Friday, all coming up next
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to the Craig Way Show, Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it inconceivable for the six man from San Antonio to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: fill in for Craig Way? Not entirely, Okay, seems pretty conceivable.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: What is conceivable inconceivable is the amount of home runs
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: hit yesterday in Major League Baseball. And it started in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Game number one. Yankees offense got off to a quick
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: start against the Milwaukee Brewers after a home run from
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: leadoff batter Austin Wells, a solo shot in the bottom
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: of the first. It was a three hundred and forty
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: eight yard home run to right center field that short
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: porch at Yankee Stadium.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Wells became the.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: First catcher ever they hit a leadoff home run on
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: opening day. That's an over one hundred and fifty years
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of professional baseball. He is the first leadoff home run
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: by a catcher, which is absolutely insane when you think
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: about it that way. He's the first player in Yankees
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: history with a leadoff home run an opening day. He
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine that, especially considering that they had
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: guys like Jeter and Ricky Henderson, and you know it
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: had to be had to be our guy, Austin Wells.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Florida man Friday, and it starts with a man that
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: looks like you would expect him to We'll put it
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: that way. A tatted of Florida man tried to assure
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: cops that there's quote nothing wrong with drugs after it
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was discovered bags of meta I mean in his underpants
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: during his strip search last week. Thomas Carpenter, forty one,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: was originally pulled over by deputies for suspected traffic violations
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in March, but officers soon discovered evidence of drug use
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: inside his car with two children and an unidentified woman inside,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: as well a recipe for disaster. Authorities found a bag
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: full of paraphernalia marijuana possibly methamfetamine in the car. While
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: officers tried to talk to the Carpenter, he struggled to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: stay awake and apparently kept fading in and out of consciousness,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: not exactly what you want to see behind the wheel
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: or operating a vehicle. His female pastor told deputies that
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: they had both smoked in the car shortly before they
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: were pulled over. Neither of the adults had a medical
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: marijuana cart at the time. However, the woman was let go,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: but deputies arrested Carpenter and booked him at Punham County Jail,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: where he appeared. Solomon his mugshot, which showed heavy face tattoos.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I can confirm those face tattoos include not one, not two,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: but four separate writings over the left right eyebrow and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: then underneath the lip. And then of course you gotta
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: love the hairline on a man that has a forehead tattoo,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: because you would think forehead tattoo would scream, just shave
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the rest of the head. Nope, got to keep that
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: receding hairline. Make sure everybody knows that you had hair
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: at one point. Okay, now, I've said to everybody who
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: would listen that you cannot argue with people on the internet.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: It's very easy for talk show hosts, it's very easy
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: for podcast hosts, and even you you want to fight
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: with people on Facebook. I don't get it. I don't
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: understand what the point is. You're never gonna win. You're
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: not changing any hearts or minds on Facebook. Well, what's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: started as an online argument between two childhood best friends
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: well took a violent turn when one of them pulled
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: out a gun and opened fire through the front door.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: This happened in Florida. Charlotte County deputies arrested Kevin Johnson
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in Inglewood after he allegedly shot his longtime friend over
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a heated confrontation. According to the deputies, the altercation began
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: on Facebook when Johnson's childhood friend got an intense back
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and forth. The conversation escalated and they decided to sell
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the dispute in person. Both men agreed to me with weapons,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: but the victim didn't come alone. He brought another person
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: with him. What happened left the neighborhood in shock. As
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the two men knocked on Johnson's door, he opened fire
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: before taking off. A neighbors saw a loud bang, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: they were quoted saying, we live in a crazy world.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: This You never know how people will react.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: What's very disappointing in the story is they don't say
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: what the argument was over. It's very popular right now
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to be arguing Jordan and Lebron. You know, that's an
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: argument that never gets old. I say facetiously, I want
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to know what they were fighting about. Was it about
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: who rings the best LASAGNI? I need to know so.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And finally, the most Florida man story you can possibly
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: imagine has to take in the land where dreams are made.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Epcot at disney World. Families in Walt
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Disney World during last year's holiday season witness two twenty
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: five year olds getting arrested screaming at cast members. This
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: happened in Fort Lauderdale. They were arrested. Both pled not
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: guilty to criminal charges. Both men would potentially get their
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: cases dismissed. It took Orange County Sheriff's Office more than
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: three months to release the arrest. The reports say a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: young a group of young people were in argument at
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the France pavilion with a woman who was using a wheelchair,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: which was unprompted which unclear how prompted the argument. They
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: got in a physical fight with the woman in the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: wheelchair because he felt disrespected and wanted to confront her.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So this man is fighting a woman in a wheelchair
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: at Epcot. Not exactly what dreams are made of, all right,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Dad is going to do it for inconceivable on a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Florida Man Friday. What's most inconceivable that Austin Wells is
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the first Yankee to have a leadoff home run as
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a catcher, or that people are getting pulled over with
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: meth in their underwear. What's the most inconceivable thing in Florida?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Nothing will surprise me or when we.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Come back, we will wrap up our number one of
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: The Craigway Show. Andrew zim will sitting in for Craig
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: Welcome back to The Craigway Show and the Voice of
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: the Longhorns Craig Way. Follow Craig on social media at
• 30:44
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• 30:48
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• 30:52
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• 30:56
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• 31:00
  Speaker 8: to put more content up there as well. In hour
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: number two, we're gonna hear about Dion Sanders Prime time.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: He spoke with Skip Bayless about the likelihood of him
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: actually coaching the Dallas Cowboys at any point in the
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: future or now, and also about his son, Shadoor Sanders,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and how he's okay with wherever his kid decides to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: get or decides to get paid.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Speeding in paid.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Deon today sign a record extension with Colorado, And you
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: have to imagine this probably comes on the heels of
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that conversation with Skip Bailess, Colorado Deon Sanders. Colorado and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Deon Sanders have agreed to a five year, seventy or
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: fifty four million dollar contract extension going all the way
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty nine season. It'll make him one
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: of the highest paid coaches in college football. He'll learn
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: another ten million dollars in twenty twenty six, eleven, and
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, eleven, and twenty eight and twelve in twenty
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: twenty nine. If Sanders does agree to get another coaching
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: job before the end of his contract, the buyout would
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: start at twelve million dollars, which is a lot of money.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Is it worth twelve million dollars or more to try
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to buy him out?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: If you are Jerry Jones and company. Yeah, we'll see.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: News broke today that the Memphis Grizzlies decided to move
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: off of their head coach Taylor Jenkins, who's forty years old,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: one of the winning this coaches in Memphis Grizzly history.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Forty four and twenty nine on the season. They are
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: currently the fifth seed in a jam packed Western Conference.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: If you go through it, Lakers are forty four and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: twenty nine, Memphis forty four and twenty nine, the LA
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Clippers are forty one and thirty one. There is no
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: room separating the top two through eight seed in the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Western Conference. There's a seven game difference between the Houston Rockets,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the two seed, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, who are currently
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in the play in as an eight seed.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It is jam packed.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: It is a light very very tight, and you think
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to yourself, why move off of a coach like Taylor Jenkins?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Memphis reason, we're still trying to fight it out.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Excuse me.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Earlier this season, oh man, Earlier this season, Jenkins passed
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Lionel Hollins become the winning as coach in Grizzly's history.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He is a fifty four percent winning percentage As the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: head coach, he turned around a franchise that when he
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: was hired the season before, was struggling. Since getting John
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Moran and turning him into the rook of the year,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: he's only had one season where he missed the playoffs
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: twenty seven and fifty five last year, but that was
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: because John Moran suspension an injury. Morant lot missed seventy
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: three games that season. And I've been a big truth
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: when it comes to Ja Morant's availability that of all
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of the superstars in the league, the guys who get
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the most grief, the Joel Embiads of the world, the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Paul george' of the world, the Qui Leonards of the world,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: John Moran doesn't play a lot of games, if we're
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: being completely honest. He's a guy who plays the first
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: game of back to back, you know, miss a couple
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: of weeks, you always have to deal with the impending
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: suspensions that kind of are over your head. And when
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: you compare him to the other players at his position,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: he's not somebody that if you're trying to win basketball games,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: you want to have on your team. I've been a
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: guy who said before that if Jah Morant was available,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he becomes on the trade market.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Would I want my favorite team to trade for him
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: at this point?
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Probably not if I was a team that wanted a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: stability at that position, if I was a team that
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: wanted any sort of maturity at that position. Ja Morant'
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: just is not guy hasn't proved to be that guy.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And guards who are explosive tend to age very, very poorly.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: You think about the Derrick Roses, the Russell Westbrooks, the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Al Averson's of the world, all explosive players, all struggled
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to continue that athleticism later in their career. Guys like
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Westbrook were able to find other roles. But even then
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: he found a role in Denver where he's kind of
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to do everything Swiss army knife and in that role
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: only playing next to Nick like Jokic. Has it worked.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Other news coming out today, and I thought it was
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: interesting because everybody's going back and forth with the Stephen D.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Smith Lebron James thing that happened on ESPN. I don't
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: find it all that interesting. I don't find any new
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: ground to be broken there. It's two grown men arguing
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: with each other.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: On TV.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It's not something that we haven't seen before. We've all
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: seen this game before. It feels more like WWE, more
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: like Real Housewives than it does anything that is really
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: pertinent and pertinent and doesn't add anything to the true
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: understanding of the sport of basketball.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: It doesn't. It doesn't do anything for any of us.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: But Brian wind Horse could have took a ton of
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: a ton of strays in this back and forth, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: he was on TV today, didn't talk about any of that,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: kind of put it all to rest, didn't take any
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: shots back to Lebron. He came on TV to talk
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: about NBA and expansion and for people who are interested
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: in those games that the Spurs are playing in Austin,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: people who are interesting in what's happening in Dallas where
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: they're gutting the team, could they potentially move Wydworth puts
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of that to rest. This was Brian windhrrise
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: earlier today.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: For the as the.
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: Casual fan here is this is not putting NBA teams
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: in Europe. This would be creating a league that is
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: run by the NBA in Europe. For decades, the European
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: leagues have produced great players like Jokich and you know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: Don Chic. But it's a bit of underachieved economically and
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: underachieved with their fan bases. What the NBA sees is
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: they see an opportunity to potentially move into places like London,
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: to Paris, to Berlin and potentially create a league.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: But it's not a done deal. The owners have.
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: Not signed off on it yet. But I will say
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: that when the NBA commissioner wants something to happen, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: very clearly he wants it to happen, it probably will happen. Also,
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: Adam Silver said today NBA expansion meaning Las Vegas and Seattle,
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: is still not on the table. It's something that they're
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: still pushing off. They're more focused on creating a league
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: in Europe right now than they are expanding in the NBA.
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: I still think we're going to expansion, but I think
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: you're going to see European expansion again with a different
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: league happening.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: First, which is so crazy.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: You think about Wick Grossbeck, who just sold the Boston
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Celtics for six billion dollars. Everybody was under the impression
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that you make a move like that because you want
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to set the bar for how much NBA teams will
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: go for in the expansion era when you were trying
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to add two teams to the league. If the league
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: is more interested in going overseas and building a European
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: NBA league, well that's a whole different story. That entails
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: a whole different set of challenges. How much does that
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: go for? Is the NBA trying to reach across the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: pond corner winding horse? Yeah, all right, when we come back,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: we'll talk Deon Sanders. Will also gear you up for
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Texas and Tennessee tomorrow in the Sweet sixteen all coming
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: up next to the Craig Way Show Sports Radio AM
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred zone team you have Texas and Tennessee. The
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Lady Bols two thirty tip one oh three are correction.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: The zone is where you can hear that one two
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: fifteen airtime two thirty tip right here on the zone.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow noon tip three Notre Dame, number two seed TCU
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that it will be the winner of that game will
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: play the winner of Tennessee and Texas, and then later
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: in the day it is a four to thirty tip
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: between number three Sea of Oklahoma, number two seeded Yukon.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: If you're a women's basketball fan, Tomorrow is your nirvana.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is the best Sweet sixteen lineup maybe ever, because
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the other part is five seeded Kansas State taking on
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: one seeded usc USC without Juju Watkins is a very
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: different team. It's a very different team. The Trojans are
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: only a one and a half point favorite. They would
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: have been a double digit favorite with Juju. Now they're
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: a one and a half point favorite. There's a world
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: where USC the number one overall seed or the number
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: four overall one seed. Fry day this fry yay, we'll
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: call it as we are excited for the weekend jam
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: packed women's basketball. In the Sweet sixteen. You have Texas
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee. The Lady Bowls two thirty tip one O
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: three are crashing. The zone is where you can hear
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: that one two fifteen air time two thirty tip right
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: here on the zone. Tomorrow new tip three Notre Dame
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: number two seed TCU that it will be the winner
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: of that game will play the winner of Tennessee and Texas.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And then later in the day it is a four
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to thirty tip between number three seeded Oklahoma number two
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: seeded Yukon. If you're a women's basketball fan, tomorrow is
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: your nirvana. Tomorrow is the best Sweet sixteen lineup maybe ever,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: because the other part is five seeded Kansas State taking
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: on one seeded USC. USC without Juju Watkins is a
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: very different team. It's a very different team. The Trojans
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: are only a one and a half point favorite. They
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: would have been a double digit favorite with Juju. Now
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: they're a one and a half point favorite. There's a
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: world where USC, the number one overall seed or the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: number four overall one seed gets bounced in the Sweet sixteen. Now,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: obviously it's going to be because of Juju's injury. Tears
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: of ACL aful over the sport off of for the Trojans.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Interesting for how this tournament continues to go because USC
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: was one of the teams that a lot of people
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: picked to win the whole thing, or at least win
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that side of the bracket. Without Juju, things change. Tonight
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: one oh three to one will be your home for
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Texas Baseball as the Round Rock Express begin their season
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: tonight as well. First pitch nine pm right here on
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the Zone Texas Baseball six pm, one oh three one.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Roger Wallason, Keith Moreland on the call. We will visit
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: with them in our number two to talk Texas and Missouri.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: But let's talk a little college football because Deon Sanders
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Prime Time spoke with Skip Bayless. Now, this is coming
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: on the heels of conversations all off season, pretty much
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: since before the Alama Bowl was played, about what Dion
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: would do if he was going to be linked to
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy job, if he was going to take
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the job to be the head coach of America's team.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: The other side part of this, I'm gonna put a
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: quick side noil here. Skip Bayless is a history with
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. If you're not familiar with it, it's
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a fascinating one. Who's a b reporter covering the team
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: in the nineties. He's not exactly the biggest I don't
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: think Troy Aikman or Jerry Jones are the biggest fans
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: of Skip Bayless. But Dion decided to sit down and
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: talk to him, and Skip talked to Dion about the
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: likelihood and the possibility of potentially coaching the Dallas Cowboys.
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: First, I didn't really think about it. After we conversated,
• 42:33
  Speaker 10: I said, Wow, like this.
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: This has a possibility.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Would I do it.
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: And the only way I would have done it, skip
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: to be honest with you, is I knew guaranteed I
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: had an opportunity to coach my sons.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: Because other than that, you know why, like why it
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: don't make sense to me. But if I have the
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: opportunity to continue coaching charlot ss your door, I would
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: have been astatic, you know, and Dallas is well, yeah,
• 43:01
  Speaker 10: that would have been awesome.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: All right, So let's read the tea leaves here. If
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: he had an opportunity to coach his sons, Shiloh probably
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: not an NFL player. Everybody's screaming nepotism out Lebron and Browny.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: If Shiloh Sanders is ever playing NFL snaps and Deon's
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the head coach, that is nepotism, That truly is depotism.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Shiloh Sanders does not need to be on an NFL field. Shador,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, is a top five pick. So
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: that tells me that those conversations with Jerry Jones, however
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: real they were, however close to the finish line they
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: were to getting a prime time head coach in Dallas,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: that tells me that the Cowboys were not willing to
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: move off of Dak Prescott and try to trade up
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: for Shador. Because if Jerry Jones came to Deon Sanders
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and said we needed to be the head coach of
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, and he said, all right, well, we
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: need to trade Dak Prescott bring in Shador. I want
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: him to be the starting quarterback. I have a sneaking
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: suspectdition that that would have happened, that we would be
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: talking today in late March about Primetime being the head coach,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and that the Cowboys have traded up, traded Dak Prescott
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: to the New York Giants or to the Cleveland Browns
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: to try to bring in Shador Sanders as their starting quarterback.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: But because that didn't happen, and because the Cowboys are
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: not linked to Shador, and because outside of the rumors
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: that we had earlier this week that Dak Prescott was
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: heading to Cleveland on again that's rumors, We're in a
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: spot now where we can confirm that dm was not
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: going to be the head coach of Dallas Cowboys. That's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: just how it goes. And is that for the best
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: for the organization. I would maybe argument, yeah, it's probably
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: a good idea that he's not coaching his kid at
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the NFL level. It's probably a good idea that the
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys try to run a professional organization instead of
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: continuing to be the side show for the NFL, A
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: proud organization that once had Tom Landry and you know
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Roger Staubach now has turned into a clown show led
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: by a Carnival Barker and having Dion be in that
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: ring leader probably wouldn't be a good idea. But Shador,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: let's talk about him, because we were at a point
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: earlier this week where there was rumors floating around after
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: interviewing with teams at the combine that he was very
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: dismissive that he thought that he was maybe bigger than
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: some of the organizations that were interviewing him, that it
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to work between Shador Sanders and some of
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: these teams. That because he comes from wealth, he does
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: not need that life changing money that some other quarterbacks
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: in this draft might be looking for, and he's carrying
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: himself in a way that some coaches and some organizations aren't.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: A fan of.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Dion spoke at length with Skip Bayless on his podcast
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: about Shador's interviewing and where he thinks he's going to go.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: First, I didn't really think about it after we.
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: And he did.
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: You know me, I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.
• 46:12
  Speaker 10: So I called it team because I tracked it down.
• 46:14
  Speaker 10: I knew it was and I called a head coach
• 46:16
  Speaker 10: and we had a candy conversation because it was good
• 46:18
  Speaker 10: for you, really cool, and he said, Prime, that never happened.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: He said, matter of fact, it.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: Was a great interview.
• 46:24
  Speaker 10: We all walked out of there saying, dang, this kid
• 46:27
  Speaker 10: got it. I said, yeah, but this guy on your
• 46:30
  Speaker 10: staff lied and saying.
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: It did so you need to check him.
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: And he did. Shador's told me he talked to me
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: intently about all the visits he's had with all the teams,
• 46:39
  Speaker 10: so I know where his heart is.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: I know where he wants to go. If it's New York,
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: it's New York.
• 46:43
  Speaker 10: If it's Tennessee, if it's Cleveland, if it's still the Raiders,
• 46:47
  Speaker 10: if it's New Orleans, if it's any of those teams
• 46:50
  Speaker 10: that are seeking a quarterback.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: I'm happy with it, man, because I know what he's
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: going to do to the organization. I know what he's
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: gonna do.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I like the Deanna saying, hey, look I talk to him.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I talked to the coaches because it was rumored. Taught
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: me Shay had it, and a couple other sources had
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: it as well, that Chador was maybe a little dismissive.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe he was coming and having a little bit of
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: ego to those conversations with the different teams. I'm glad
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: that Dion, who has a little bit of sway, a
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: little bit of power NFL Hall of Famer, can call
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: a coach and say.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on?
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: You tell me you were side of the story, because
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I imagine that if Shadar really was dismissive, that these
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: coaches would say, hey, had Dian he he was. He
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: was kind of a jerk, kind of a pretty boy. Here,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? What are we going to do
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: about it? The other part too, He mentions the Giants first, again,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: you're reading the Tea leaves, Okay, Abdull, Carter, him Woard.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Those two feel like their top two picks. Travis Hunter
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: is getting pushed further and further down. There's four players
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: in this draft who obviously are the four most talented,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: most talked about players Abdull Carter, even if he's dealing
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury, even if he's dealing with a
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: stress factor, even though he didn't want to work out
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: as his pro day, he is a generational talent. This
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: is a guy that size for size, cout and for pound,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: is going to get talked about like Miles Garrett, like
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: JJ Watt, like Nick Bosa, like some of the best
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: edge rushers over the last decade in the NFL.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: He's that type of talent. He's that good of a prospect.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter obviously two way player, generational talent on the
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: wide receiver side of things. Could be a all pro
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: secondary guy if you want to put him at corner
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: of safety. Could be the next coming of a Deone
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Sanders type player. And then, of course cam Ward and
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Chador two quarterbacks, the highly touted quarterbacks, guys who have
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: won awards, who have played very well. Those guys are
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: going to be talked about. All So there's these four,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: these four players, but the quarterback battle between Ward and
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Chador has obviously gone to cam Ward. He has talked
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: about now is the number one overall pick to the
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. So then you think Okay, do the Cleveland
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Browns draft a quarterback or do they go after a
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: edge rusher.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: And then is the New York.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Giants, who right now have a quarterback room of Russell Wilson,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, and possibly Shador Sanders. I like, of all
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the places for him to land, I don't mind Chador
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: in New York. It doesn't make the greatest sense to me,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: right but I'll take it. They got my lad neighbors,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: they got a good running back room. I will put
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Shador Sanders in New York before Cleveland. I would rather
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: have him in New York in the Big Apple. He's
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: dealt with the press, He's dealt with the paparazzi. He's
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: dealt with the spotlight. He was the man at Jackson State,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: he was the man in Colorado, he was the man
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: at the NFL Combine. He is going to be the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: man in New York. And he doesn't have to play
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: right away. He's got Jams and Russell Wilson to take
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: some snaps before him that he can learn behind the scenes.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that the pendulum is shifting the way from
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: starting ricky quarterbacks immediately. Let's go back to having it
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: where they sit for a year they learn the NFL.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: And also for shod Door Sanders, you probably love that
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: because after playing at Colorado with no offensive line and
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: running for your life all the time, you get a
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: year of just rehabilitation, recovery. I get to sit and
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: watch how the league works. Sign me up and finally
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: we'll pull out of justice. Shadar Sanders role model, his idol,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the guy he trains with and works out with, Tom Brady.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: How ironic is it? The Tom Brady the only team
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: he couldn't beat in the Super Bowl consistently, the New
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: York Giants. He's protege. Chiduar Sanders goes plays there, kind
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: of a full circle moment, all right. When we come back.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Texas Baseball tonight, six pm. First pitch on one O
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: three one. Jim Slashnagel talk to the media before his
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: team heads over to Missouri to take on the Tigers.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: We'll hear about it next right here on sports Radio
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: It's the craig Way Show with the voice of the
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcast there.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Craig Way Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the zone. Craig
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: will be on the call tomorrow two fifteen air time,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: two thirty tip right here on the zone. As the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns getting the Sweet sixteen against number five seeded
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Lady Bowls. That game again, two thirty tip right
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: here on the zone. Well tonight on one oh three one,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the Texas Longhorn baseball team takes on Missouri, a team
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: that's ozero to six in SEC Conference play. So it's
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: very difficult to get excited for games like that. It's
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: very difficult to travel out to Missouri and play a
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: team that is still looking for an SEC Conference win.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: But if you ask Roam Slashnagle, you gotta take every
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: single one of these games with a grant of salt.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: And it's important to win your Secret conference games in
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the regular season get better seating in the postseason.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: So let's hear it.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Jims last Age had media availability earlier this week. We'll
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: start with his opening statement.
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: First of all, you know, certainly just I've never been
• 52:13
  Speaker 11: to Columbia, Missouri, so I think it's been I don't
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: think anybody on our team has been up there that
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: I know of, so that experience is I'm looking forward
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: to it. Heard great things about it, heard great things
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: about the town, the college town. I think it presents
• 52:30
  Speaker 11: its own unique set of challenges in terms of the
• 52:34
  Speaker 11: atmosphere relative to what we've played in the last two weeks.
• 52:38
  Speaker 11: Kerrick Jackson is a really good friend of mine, the
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: head coach up there, and he's doing an unbelievable job
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: at a place that has challenges in our league, you know,
• 52:47
  Speaker 11: just being just from a climate standpoint, Missouri has been
• 52:50
  Speaker 11: great coach in years past. Coach Jamison Tony Botello was
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: an assistant coach there, played there, did a great job
• 52:58
  Speaker 11: signing a lot of great players. So I have had
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: a chance to watch them on video yet, but I
• 53:03
  Speaker 11: know that. You know, they scored a bunch of runs
• 53:05
  Speaker 11: last week against Ole miss and they have three left
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: handed starters, which is at the end of the day,
• 53:12
  Speaker 11: left handed pitching really, you know, in this especially in
• 53:14
  Speaker 11: this league, gives you a chance to win. So you know,
• 53:18
  Speaker 11: this is a big challenge for us coming off what
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: we've come off the past week.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: To fight off against left handed pitcher Ian Laois, who's
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: own three was six eighteen era long horns will pitch.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Jared Spencer tonight two and one with a three thirteen ERA.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: It's the first time these two teams have matt the
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Tigers and Longhorns since twenty twelve the long Time Big
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: twelve four. They've faced off before, but it's over. It's
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: been over a decade now. This is one of the
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: best teams in baseball. In college baseball sixteen second week
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: long Wards have climbed the rankings. They move into four
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: different poles, highest number three in Baseball America, which is
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: my favorite pole. The long runs also are number five
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and perfect Game and top twenty five in d win
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Baseball as well as in the NCBWA. The Baseball writers
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: are American pol has them at number seven. Okay, we're
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: talking about it all day. It's how do you get
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: excited for games like this? And Schloston got asked, how
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: do you make sure your team is so locked in
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: even facing a team that's in the bottom of the
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: SEC standings.
• 54:23
  Speaker 11: I think it just goes back to you play to
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: a standard, not a scoreboard. And you hear our players
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: say that. I know it sounds coachy, but it really
• 54:28
  Speaker 11: is true. And I was really proud of the way
• 54:30
  Speaker 11: our guys came out Tuesday night. I thought we played
• 54:34
  Speaker 11: I mean, we didn't play well, but I thought we
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: played hard against Utsa.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, people think when if you lose,
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: if you lose the MIDWEK.
• 54:42
  Speaker 11: Game, or you lose to someone who somebody else tells
• 54:45
  Speaker 11: you that you're supposed to be better than they just
• 54:47
  Speaker 11: don't know baseball, you know. I mean, it's opening day
• 54:51
  Speaker 11: in the big leagues and the winning this team is
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: going to lose fifty games for sure. If they lose
• 54:57
  Speaker 11: just fifty, that's an unbelievable season. The the best teams
• 55:00
  Speaker 11: lose sixty seventy games. So it's never about the best
• 55:05
  Speaker 11: Team's about the team that plays the best. And you
• 55:07
  Speaker 11: have to go play well and if you don't play well,
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: you're going to lose. And so so yeah, I trust
• 55:13
  Speaker 11: our team, trust our leadership group, and we'll be ready
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: to go.
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  Speaker 4: Whether we win or not or play well, I don't know,
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: but we'll be ready.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: See that's big is it's the standard is the standard.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: It's great that the Longhorns across the board men's women's
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: baseball football does not matter, are finally getting back to
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: that level of consistency.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: The standard is a standard. I think that's huge.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I saw somebody the other day tweet that it's like
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Mac and Augie are back on campus with sark and
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: slash nangle, And I tend to agree that when you
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: have coaches who have played at the highest level, coach
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: at the highest level and saw championships won, whether it
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: be them winning it or them as the opponent losing it,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I do think that that brings an extra level of
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: emphasis on the details. Think that brings an extra level
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: of emphasis on the things that matter most, which tends
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: to be pitching. And thank thankfully, the Long Words have
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: one of the best pitching coaches in college baseball, and
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Max Wheer, what does he do to drive home to
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: this pitching staff to hit the zone?
• 56:19
  Speaker 11: Simplicity just makes it really simple for him. You're throwing
• 56:24
  Speaker 11: your best pitch to the best with its best shape,
• 56:27
  Speaker 11: to a location.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: Everything has account.
• 56:30
  Speaker 11: There isn't a time they throw a bullpen where you're
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: just not standing out there saying, oh, this is my
• 56:35
  Speaker 11: fastball or this is my slider. It's one, oh slider
• 56:39
  Speaker 11: middle right. And and it's no secret, I think, and
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: there's other people have caught on and are doing it
• 56:46
  Speaker 11: where we just throw pitches to the middle of the
• 56:47
  Speaker 11: play and to the point where you know you may
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: give up some two hits or some you know which
• 56:53
  Speaker 11: is supposed to be some cardinals in baseball. But you know,
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: if you listen to Greg Maddocks, pitch is when you
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: have the hitter in the best scenario. And the more
• 57:00
  Speaker 11: pitches you throw, the more information they get. And so
• 57:05
  Speaker 11: that's why on the offensive side we like to see
• 57:07
  Speaker 11: pitches because the more pitches you see, the more information
• 57:09
  Speaker 11: you get, the better chance you have.
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: But Max is really good.
• 57:13
  Speaker 11: You can have all the sayings and processes you want.
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: It's not about what you know, it's about what you
• 57:18
  Speaker 11: can get the players to do. And he did that
• 57:21
  Speaker 11: in professional baseball all the way to the big leagues
• 57:23
  Speaker 11: with Seattle, and he did that for us at A
• 57:26
  Speaker 11: and M, and he's obviously doing it right now.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: So and you got to give a players credit.
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: You know, they've not only bought in, but they're you know,
• 57:33
  Speaker 11: they've executed it to this point.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's big too, having the execution, having the guys
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: who can take that information, dissiminate that information right, to
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: understand it, to load it, to download it, and then
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to do it. It's not easy to do. If it was,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: everybody would be doing it. We'd have a bunch of
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: games that going to extra innings and the final scores
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: of these games are one nothing. That's not the case
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: in college baseball. To have a young pitching staff the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Longhorns have, and to have it coach like coach Wieners,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: who can get all those guys on the same page.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I know it's lame to talk about it, to give
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: a pitching coach this much credit, but I say every
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: single time I talk about this team, the vibe shift
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: has been.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: Enormous.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: If you weren't around this team last year, if you
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: didn't cover this team last year, if you didn't watch
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: this team last year, then you don't know what I'm
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: talking about. But I'm trying to convey to you that
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: this team last year, at this time, it was a
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: completely different story. It was a completely different story. It
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: was a completely different vibe with the pitching staff and
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: how guys felt about it. I go into every single
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: weekend now in the SEC feeling very confident in the
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Longhorn pitching staff, and I cannot tell you the last
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: time that that has happened. I cannot tell you the
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: last time that I felt this good about a Friday
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday starting group. But speaking of Sunday, still a TBD.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Who will be the starting pitcher? Shash got asked about
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Max Rubbs, who had a very good Sunday against LSU.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Do you have thoughts about potentially starting him?
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: A million percent? I have thought about it.
• 59:11
  Speaker 11: I mean, I would love to be able to write
• 59:14
  Speaker 11: it in pen and just leave it right there, and
• 59:16
  Speaker 11: maybe we get to a point in the season where
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: we can do that.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: I think a guy like Jason.
• 59:20
  Speaker 11: Flores is capable of maybe jumping in that role where
• 59:25
  Speaker 11: Rudert and Max as a as a reliever, But right
• 59:30
  Speaker 11: now I don't think we're there yet in my mind.
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: So when we have a chance to win the games
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: and we'll use Ruger if we need to otherwise, hear Max,
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: both of them could start on Sundays.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of good pictures and you got to
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: kind of think about the mindset too, when it comes
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: to who's going to be that Sunday pitcher.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: When you have two.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Guys who are locked in as your starters consistently and
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Jared Spencer and Luke Harrison, When you have those guys
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: locked in essentially at your Friday Saturday to have the
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: ability on a Sunday to you who's a bunch of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: different guys to piecemail it together?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: And it's an important thing.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: And also you have to think that this team in particular,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: like I said, this is a very different baseball team
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: than years prior. This is a team that's trying to
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: win the SEC. This is the team that's trying to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: win at Omaha. I want to know who can pitch
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: in what situations and if that means against Missouri, a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: team that's zero to six in conference play, that I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: get to figure out who that Sunday starter is, and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: do I figure out if I have a third starter
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: that I can throw come tournament time, come Omaha time.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with figuring it out
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: against a team like Missouri versus trying to figure it
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: out next weekend against a team like Georgia. Okay, longtime
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Longhorn fans know about Eathan Mendoza transferred to the forty
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Acres from Arizona State. Over his first twenty three games,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: he's posting a four hundred and five to ten six
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: forty two slash line. He's averaging his ties eighth among
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: SEC players. He's tied for fourth with home runs this season.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: He's on a fourteen game hitch streak. He's doing everything
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: that you could ask. He's also hitting near the top
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: of the lineup or at the top of the lineup.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: How good has he been in this order?
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: A million percent? I've thought about it.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: I mean, I would love Yeah, he's he's been awesome.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: He's butt into everything that we've asked him to do
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 11: since he came here. We had long, long conversations in
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 11: the fall about what his skill set was and how
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 11: I felt like in our offense, if he would trust it,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 11: how he could go to a completely different level and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 11: get stronger. The greatest skill he has on offense is
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 11: that when he swings, he hits the ball, which can
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 11: be a bad thing if you don't swing at the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: right pitches.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: And so he's taken to that.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 11: We made him take a strike off fall just to
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: learn how to see pitches and learn that he could
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 11: trust himself and with especially hitting with two strikes. And
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 11: so he's really he's taken that as a kind of
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 11: a badge of honor and really taking it.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Next level Longhorns play the Missouri Tigers tonight from Columbia, Missouri,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: six pm. First pitch on one O three one. Andrew
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Zim will sitting in for Craig Way when we come back.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Vick Schaeffer spoke to the media today gearing you up
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: for the Sweet sixteen matchup tomorrow. Here right here on
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the Zone, andrews Im will fill in for Craig on
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 8: We welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 8: voice of the Longhorns. Craig Way. Follow Craig on social
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: media at Horn Boys.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrews I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: will hanging out with you this Friday afternoon, getting you
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: excited for the weekend Sweet sixteen action happening this week
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: and on the Zone as the Texas Long Worn women's
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: basketball team takes on the Lady Bols that is tomorrow
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: at two thirty airtime two fifteen, Craigway will be on
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: the call. Game happening actually just wrapped up. Number two
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: seeded Duke beats number three seeded North Carolina on the
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: women's side of things, forty seven to thirty eight. That
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: is the Birmingham region as well. Reagion two to be
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: specific later today and about thirty minutes, one seed in
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: South Carolina will take on four seeded Maryland, also in
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: of course, the Birmingham region. So Vic Shaeffer spoke to
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: the media today, Actually, I want to one more thing
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: because Craig gives me grief because I'm doing a Rodney
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Dangerfield impression and maybe I'm putting bulletin war material on
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: for Vic Shaeffer and his team. But every day there's
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: another article written about the women's basketball tournament, and every
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: day I find myself pulling the few hairs I have
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: left out because it seems like the Texas Longhorns just
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: go under the radar, and I don't understand why. I
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Non Longhorn fans will look at me and say I'm crazy.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: They'll be like, you are the number one team in America.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: At one point, you are a one seed in the tournament.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: It does not matter that all of these different publications
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: are not writing about you.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: But think about this.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Roy Harmon got asked at least I'm going to ballpark
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: it ten times in the last two days after the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Juju Watkins injury, where she tears her ACL again, superstar
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: player for USC. It's a tragedy what happened to her.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: But Rory Harmon to here her ACL and was able
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: to come back from it. And there's a lot of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: people asking her about her ACL injury now nationally, But
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: there was no conversation about this at the beginning of
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: the season. It seems like like I went back and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: looked and nobody was writing articles about this recovery process
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: or how she came back or anything else like that.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: But because Juju, a player that everybody wants to talk about,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: national league gets hurt. Now a Longhorn player gets pulled
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: into the conversation. And then I see this story today
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: from ESPN about ranking the twenty five best players left
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: in the Sweet sixteen. Okay, and I think to myself
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: that the Longhorns are the one seed and they are
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: a I think fifth place right now when you look
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: at sports books to win the whole thing, which is fine.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: I'll take the fifth best odds going into the sweet sixteen.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not super worried about that. But Massive Booker was
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: number six, the SEC player of the Year, didn't make
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: the top ten. When it comes to players left in
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the tournament again, pulling my hair out a little confused
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: by that. I like Sarah Strang, who is number five
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: on this list. She's a freshman for Yukon. She is
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: a very good player, and she plays next two page backers,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: who announced today that she will be going into the
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: WNBA draft at the end of the season and she
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: will mostly be the number one overall pick.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: But how is it that.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: There are no other Longhorns on the list? How is
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: it that there are twenty five of the best players
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: left in the NCAA tournament and there's only one Longhorn.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: It doesn't It doesn't make a ton of sense to me.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: And I said, our Prince is very good for TCU,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: so very good post presence. She's played a bajillion years
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: of college basketball at this point, due to injuries and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: COVID red shirts and everything else like that. I just
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: think that Taylor Jones is pretty good too. And when
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: she played Tennessee the last time these two teams played,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: she was a double double machine. I just again, the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: disrespect is very, very loud when it comes to the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Texas long runs, and I don't understand why. Okay, we'll
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: hear from Vick Shaffer, let's hear from him. Shaeffer started
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: off his introductory press conference talking about Tennessee and getting
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: us ready for tomorrow matchup.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 12: So just going into this game again, really honored to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 12: be a part of the NCAA tournament. But even added
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 12: to that is the opportunity to be in a game
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 12: with another program like the University of Texas and Tennessee
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 12: that's so rich in tradition, the history of the game,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 12: happened so much in Knoxville and in Austin alike, and
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 12: I'm just honored to again have the opportunity to not
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 12: only be in the NCAA Tournament, but.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: To be involved in a game with them.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: Kim's done and coach Cabell's done an incredible job with
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 12: that team this year.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: They're really good.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 12: They could easily have won twelve or thirteen in our league.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 12: We're in just about every game all year long. They've
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 12: had too great you know, one of two of their
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 12: better wins obviously against Connecticut and Ohio State last week.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 12: You don't do that by accident, and uh she obviously
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 12: is has brought a lot of attention to the game,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 12: not only with their success but how they've done it,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 12: and they've done it really, really well. And Uh it's
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 12: a credit to her and her staff and her players
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 12: because they they play extremely hard. They're tough, and so
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 12: we're gonna have to play really well uh tomorrow.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: Proud of my team.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 12: It's not easy to be thirty three and three coming
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 12: out of the Southeastern Conference to have played I guess,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 12: the second best schedule behind South Carolina as far as
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 12: the net goes.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: So I'm awfully proud of my group.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 12: But we're gonna have to obviously be ready to go
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 12: tomorrow and and take care of the ball. It'll be
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 12: a it'll be a guard or any game on one end,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 12: and then when you get on the other, you've you've
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 12: got to have all five involved and play in really well.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: You got to take care of the ball.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 12: You got to realize they basically have five players at
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 12: average double figures, and so we'll have to be real
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 12: attentive to that and really focused. We obviously had a
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 12: knockdown drag out at our place earlier in the year.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 12: We were kind of running on fumes that week. We
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 12: had already played Maryland on that Monday on Martin Luther
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 12: King Day. We had to come home and play them
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 12: on Thursday. We were in the midst of a let's
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 12: see if I can remember Sunday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday Sunday
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 12: stretch and really had a tough game with them. Could
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 12: have gone either way. So I'm sure they're confident going
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 12: into the game rightfully. So I think our kids are
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 12: ready to go. And again, somebody that's been around and
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 12: seen a lot in the game, Coach Caldwell's done an
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 12: incredible job getting that thing turned around really quick, and
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 12: you have to give her and her kids a lot
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 12: of credit for that.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Andrews that will fill in for Craigway this Friday afternoon
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll hear more from Vic Schaeffer
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  Speaker 1: and his team about how playing Tennessee earlier this season
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  Speaker 1: will help them. On Saturday two Tip two fifteen airtime
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  Speaker 1: on the Zone, Craigway will be on the call Sweet
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  Speaker 1: sixteen basketball on kb or Kate on the Zone.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back.
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  Speaker 1: More of The Craigway Show as we continue to roll
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrews and We'll
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: hang out with you as we wrap up our number four,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Number four, our number two of the Craigway Show. You
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: can tell it's a Friday as we move along. So
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: we were hearing from a head coach Vick Schaeffer and
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: his team as a media availability earlier today as they
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: gear up for a game tomorrow in the Sweet sixteen. Now,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Vic Shaeffer got asked about does it help that you
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: played Tennessee before? You got to remember back that the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Longhorns faced off against Tennessee earlier this season in January.
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  Speaker 1: It was a four point game. It was a big
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: match against Tennessee at the Movie Center, and they played
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  Speaker 1: him on a Thursday, coming off of a Monday matchup
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: against at the time number eight ranked Maryland. Texas got
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: the job done against Maryland in New Jersey. It was
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: eighty nine to fifty one that game. But Shaeffer talks
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: about how that win on Monday might have affected how
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: his team played the following Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: For sure, it was, though it just seemed so long ago.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's.
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  Speaker 12: It's over, you know, a month and a half ago,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 12: I think, And so it's been a while. Looks like
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 12: it was like on January twenty third or something like
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 12: that twenty first. So it's a long time ago, two
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  Speaker 12: months ago. But I do think you know, when you
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 12: get in the NCAA tournament, you think, okay, man, thank goodness,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 12: you get out of the SEC and you don't have
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 12: to go against you know, those people, because you have
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 12: so much respect and admiration for everybody in our league.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 12: And then you know, these things happen. I mean, they
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 12: go into Ohio State and they thumped them. I mean
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 12: they played really good. These kids play so hard, so
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 12: it's this is what happens. And so you know, I'm
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 12: sure they'll have a great crowd. They're a little bit
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 12: closer to Knoxville here than we are at Austin.
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  Speaker 1: So had coach Vick Shaffer talking about the matchup between
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Tennessee and Texas this weekend two thirty tip right here
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: on the zone now, Taylor Jones got asked, what do
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: you remember about the last time you played this team.
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  Speaker 13: I remember it was a very fast paced game. They
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 13: subbed a lot, and I think we got a lot
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 13: of O boards, That's what I remember. And I think
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 13: just always mentally having to be engaged because how many
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 13: subs that they have and just how fast the game
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 13: is you can't have any mental laps or they'll take
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 13: advantage of it. I think crashing the boards, I think
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 13: that we did a good job at getting rebounds and
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 13: keeping them off the boards. They're very they have height,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 13: they're really athletic, and they get to the boards quite
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 13: a bit, and so making sure that we block them
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 13: out and doing our job getting to the rebounds is
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 13: for the posts especially, but for the guards and all
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 13: of us as a whole, breaking their press. They forty
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 13: minute in your face defense and defense and to the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 13: last two practices we've done a really good job. I
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 13: think playing against our guys and learning to play at
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 13: our pace and not let them speed us up.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: Also, transition to will be key. But I'm confident.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 13: In our team that I'm excited for them for the rematch.
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  Speaker 2: So those are two things.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: The long word is need to do cut down the
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: turnovers and crash the boards. Those are big, big deciding
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: factors on how Saturday's game is going to go. Now
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Shaffer got asked that coach Big Shaffer got asked about
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: having a team that is a little bit older and
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: that experience. What does that mean for your team and
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: how having an older team might be able to help
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: you in the tournament.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, those kids, You're right, they've they've got
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 12: a lot of mileage, a lot of.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: Wins, you know.
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  Speaker 12: And again it's it's one of the things that for me,
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  Speaker 12: I just you know, I want it so bad for
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 12: those kids.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: You want it so.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 12: Bad for for them, if you know this time of year,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 12: it could be and so it's it's nice to have
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 12: a veteran group like that, you know on the floor
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 12: or they've been there. I think they're unphased, they're unflappable,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 12: and so it's you know, again, tomorrow is going to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 12: be really important that we take care of the ball.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 12: At that twelve turn them, I think only two of
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 12: them were directly result of the press. So we're gonna
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 12: take care of take care of the ball. And two
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 12: of those names you just mentioned are veteran guards.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Now one of those veteran guards is Shaye Holly, who
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: got to asked a similar question about how being an
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: older team helps in this type of tournament.
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  Speaker 14: I think being older, you know, Taylor said this her
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 14: sixth year. This is my fifth year. You know, I
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 14: think it just gives you a certain level of confidence.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 14: My dad always told me growing up, Like you get
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 14: confidence from your preparation. You know, when you don't do
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 14: the preparation, and that's when you get nervous and a
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 14: little stressed out. So when you do the prep, you
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 14: feel good in those moments. And I think we've had
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 14: a lot of prep obviously being older, and I think
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 14: it's just being in those moments before and knowing how
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 14: you handle it and how you can learn from maybe
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 14: moments you didn't handle it the way you wanted to
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 14: and just learning from that. And yeah, it just gives
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 14: you a certain level of like comfort, I think, and
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 14: pressure moments.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of pressure, it's good to have a player
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: like Rory Harmon on your team. And Shaff spoke about
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: his relationship with his point guard.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, well I have to see my man
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 12: here is from I bet. I was on the school
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 12: playing a bunch, flying to Houston to see her play
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 12: when I was coaching there and recruiting her, and you
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 12: know she's somebody obviously that there were three really good
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 12: guards that came out that year, and you know, Raven
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 12: at South Carolina and Rory and I just you know,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 12: we were in dire need of a great We knew
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 12: who we were graduating and all that, and obviously when
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 12: I got to Austin, Rory, being two and a half
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 12: hours from campus, he was my, you know.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: Our top priority.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 12: We had to try to hold on to Eleiah Moore,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 12: who had already committed, and then we really had to
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 12: go get Rory.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: You know, when you're building a program, it starts with your.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 12: Point guard, and you know, that was the one I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 12: felt like. Being two and a half hours from home,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 12: you know, we had a great opportunity to get and
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 12: needed to get. And as you know, when you're at
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 12: the University of Texas, you try to close the borders
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 12: and close the walls and keep the good ones in
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 12: the state. And in my mind, she was one of
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 12: the best in the country, if not the best.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 5: And so.
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  Speaker 12: You know, I knew Raven was closer to South Carolina,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 12: and I knew they were recruiting her. I had been
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 12: to her games as well, but Rory was the one
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 12: in my mind.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 5: Once we got to Austin we had to really focus on.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 12: And boy, she's not disappointed a lick. I mean, you're
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 12: talking about a kid that scored almost thirteen hundred points
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 12: over seven hundred assists, the only player in the history
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 12: of our universe, in our storied history to do that,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 12: and could potentially have another year to really separate herself,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 12: to be at a point where no one will ever
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 12: catch her again.
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  Speaker 1: So Thiss Radio Am thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews Zim
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  Speaker 1: We'll hanging out with you on a feel good Friday
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: edition of The Craigway Show as we gear you up
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: for a weekend jam packed with Longhorn action. That is
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: right Sweet sixteen for the women's basketball team tomorrow to
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: fifteen airtime twoint thirty tip on one oh three or
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: a correction on the zone. Right here, you can hear
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: that game tonight, first pitch, six pm. Keith Moreland and
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Roger Wallace on the call as the UT baseball team
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: goes to Columbia, Missouri take on the Tigers. That game,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: first pitch, six pm. That game is on one oh
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  Speaker 1: three one Yesterday, Little Men's NCAA Sweet sixteen action. Number
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: one seed Florida beats number four seed Maryland eighty seven
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: to seventy one. Duke and Cooper Flagg. Boy did they perform?
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Flag thirty points, six rebounds, seven assists. Caleb Love did
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: everything he could to keep his Wildcats in it. They
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: fall to the one seed Duke Blue Devils one hundred
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: and ninety three. It was a good one between Alabama
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: and BYU one thirteen to eighty eight. In fact, if
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: the Crimson Tide did not score a single bucket inside
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: the three point arc, they still would have won. That
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: is your stat of the day. And then Texas Tech
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: upsets Arkansas. Arkansas is a huge lead in the first half,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: can't hold onto it, beats the Razorbacks eighty five, two
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: eighty three, and it was one of the worst losses
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: that I can remember from a kla Pari run team
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: since the last bad loss a Calipari run team has had.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: He seems like the type of coach now that at
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: Kentucky he had all of the talent in the world.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: He had continued to put NBA players into the league
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: but never could cut down the nets. He won the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: championship in twenty twelve with that Anthony Davis led team,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: but it has been a while since they have been back.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Now he moves over to Arkansas and in year number one,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: very turbulent, very up and down. They had a lead
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: that couldn't hold onto the lead. Coli Party got asked
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: after the game during the press conference why his team
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: dried up.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: Why do you think you guys drive up a little
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: bit scoring in the last few minutes.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: Well, we had we missed a shot and we kicked
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: it out and there was a new shot clock and
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: we shot.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: At three, which again.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: We had open shots, tried to drive and took tough shots.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 5: We had a couple of those.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: But to be honest with you, you know, I'll have
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: to think back, but we were trying to run things
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: to maybe drive the ball more.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: That's what we were doing.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: And when we did drive it, we looked pretty good.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked really good. Could not finish.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: They led in almost every single statistical statistical category except
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: for the one that matters most, that final result, that
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: final box score. So now Florida and Texas Tech get
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: ready to face off in the Elite Eight. Other Elite
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: eight games happening as well tomorrow and today your slate
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: of games Old Miss and Michigan States. We heard tom
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Izzo yesterday talking about that transfer portal. This is a
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: matchup between two of the best coaches in college basketball,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: between Chris Beard and Tom Izzou. Kentucky and Tennessee a
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: matchup between two SEC schools, The number one seeded Auburn
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Tigers take on five seeded Michigan, and then tonight the
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: nightcap nine pm tip off on TBS and True TV Houston,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: the one seed versus the Produce boiler Makers, and we
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: get We're gearing closer and closer. I don't know how
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: many brackets are still left. I don't know if you
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: guys have completely shredded yours yet or not, but it
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: is it's getting pretty close to being complete mess. I
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: was making the point earlier today that if you picked
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Chalk at this point, there's a lot of one seeds left.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of two seeds left in this Elite
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: eight coming up, and if you pick Chalk, your bracket
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: is probably safer than some of us who were picking
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: some upsets earlier in the tournament. Well, today was a
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: media availability for the Texas Longhorned Women as they gear
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: up for their Sweet sixteen matchup against the Lady Bowls.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: Craig Way was there. He asked this question to Shay
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Holly and Taylor Jones.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 15: Craig Way, Longward Radio Network. This is mainly for Shay
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 15: and Taylor. I wanted to get your thoughts. So do
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 15: you get to this point where you know you have
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 15: a finite number of practices and games and stuff, like,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 15: what does it roll through your mind? Like when you
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 15: go out on the practice I have, you know, just
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 15: spending more practices this, many more games as long worn.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it definitely does. I almost like I'll like go
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 14: into a practice not necessarily thinking about it, but at
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 14: some point I'll just be like, whoa, this is probably
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 14: like maybe one of my last times doing this or that.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 14: And me and Taylor were talking about it last night
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 14: at dinner and she like counted in. I think we're
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 14: at like nine or ten days of like that's our max,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 14: you know, if we go all the way, which is
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 14: just like crazy to think about. You spend so much
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 14: time doing one thing and you love it, and so
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 14: you definitely think about it. And then you know, I've
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 14: said this before, like maybe it makes a drill you
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 14: don't like that much, not so bad anymore, you know,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 14: like you just want to soak it all in and
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 14: enjoy every moment.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 13: Really, I didn't really think about it much until our
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 13: last game in Moody and then we had our potentially
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 13: last practice in Moody and I just think that that's
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 13: when it started to set in. And yesterday at dinner,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 13: like Chase said, we just started talking about how close
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 13: the end is, and it's it's crazy to think. I mean,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 13: I've been going at it for my six year now,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 13: so been in the game a while, in the college
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 13: basketball game, and so it's it's a new a new feeling.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: Andrews Zim will in studio with you this afternoon as
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: we gear up for a matchup between two of the
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: best teams in the SEC, the Texas Longhorns and the
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Lady Bowls. That game tomorrow two fifteen. Pre game
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: two thirty tip on the zone. Bruce Pearl, the number
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: one seed Alburn Tigers. He spoke a little earlier. He
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: spoke earlier today as as well.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 16: Because I was also on the nabcit committee for trying
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 16: to figure out when the best time to open the portal.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 16: I'm glad that the portal has gone from forty five
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 16: days to the forty five thirty days because I think
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 16: thirty days is enough time for those guys to decide
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 16: where they want to stay, they like where they want
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 16: to go, and I think the reason for the timing
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 16: of doing it prior just after the Sweet sixteen is
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 16: almost all the all the teams in the country except
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 16: sexIf sixteen teams, this season's over. And so if you're
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 16: a student, if you're a student athlete and you're at
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 16: another deviate and you're at another Visual one institution and
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 16: your season was over at the beginning of March, you're
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 16: supposed to have to wait three or four weeks until
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 16: the Final Four is over before you can move on
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 16: with the rest of your life. So I think the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 16: national Associated Basketball coaches kind of looked at it and said, Hey,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 16: what what might be best for all the student athletes,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 16: all the students. We decided to kind of do it
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 16: at this window. Yeah, it's a little inconvenient for sixteen teams,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 16: but these other student athletes need to be able to
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 16: figure out what's going on for the rest of them.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: It's a little inconvenient. That's Bruce Pearl, the head coach
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: of the number one seed Auburn Tiger's talking about that
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: transfer portal, and it feels like a zag, an intentional
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: zag against Tom Izzo, who went on a eight minute
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: rant about the transfer portal and how it was ruining
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: College Athletics and ruining his team. I feel like there
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: is a little bit of malice in Bruce Pearls words
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: of wisdom. However, he does make a good case for
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: the opposition to it. I spoke at length yesterday about
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: how the transfer portal opening during the NCUBA tournament during
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: the postseason is just dumb.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Why would you allow players to move around while the
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: championship is still hanging in the balance. Just relax, There
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: will be time. There's a lot of time to move
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: after the tournament is done. But Bruce Pearl says, you
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: know what, there's thousands of athletes, there's hundreds of teams
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: who didn't make a postseason tournament, who aren't playing in
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: the NCUBA tournament. So allow those players to move freely.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: I will say this, though we talk about how there
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: aren't any upsets, people are blaming the transfer portal and nil.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what's going to cause a real upset
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: is some of these blue bloods who consistently make it
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: to the NCAA tournament who start losing players during the tournament.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: That will be the end of this open window for
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal. I can promise you promise you that
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: that will be the end of a free movement of
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: players and everything else. Now, finally I said, we're gonna
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: talk a little baseball. Yesterday was Opening Day and there
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: was a lot of great calls. We talked earlier today
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: about Austin Wells, who let off the Yankees game with
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: a home run. Is the first Yankee to have a
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: leadoff home run in Opening Day. Right got him on
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: the board early. The Yankees ended up winning four to
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: two against the Brewers. We could listen to a little
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: bit of the Red Sox, who beat the Texas Rangers
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: five to yesterday and Opening Day. But I want to
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: play this San Francisco Giants at the Cincinnati Reds. This
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: was the final out in a Red's loss.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: H Do I feel indeed to ball this game is over?
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  Speaker 11: Well, you might as well start out to season with
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 11: just a little bit of torture.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, just a little bit of torture as the
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds come maybe about ten feet short of walking
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: off the San Francisco Giants. Instead, what would have been
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: a home run ends up being a long fly ball.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: We hope we don't see a lot of those tonight
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: in Columbia, Missouri, as the Texas Longhorns and Missouri Tigers
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: do battle on the Diamond first pitch six pm at
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: one o three one. Roger Wallace will be on the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: call as well as Keith Morland. We will check in
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  Speaker 1: with them next coming up on the Craigway Show on
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zim will in studio hanging
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: out with you this Friday. And in Columbia, Missouri, it
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: is Roger Wallace who gears us up or the big
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: matchup tonight is the number one on one of the
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: best teams, I should say in college baseball. The Texas
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: long Horns get ready to take on Missouri and Roger.
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  Speaker 2: What's the weather like down there?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Andrew?
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  Speaker 17: Alongside Keith Morland. Well, it's you know, I talked to
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 17: Jim Slasnagel. I said, you look at this schedule and
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 17: you see a trip to Columbia, Missouri in March, and
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 17: you could have a myriad of conditions, all in all
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 17: pretty good, except Keith.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 7: Seems like the wind.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 17: Just follows this club because it is howling and it
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 17: seems like it's going in several different directions.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you watched the Missoo take their pre game.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 18: They spend a lot of time on a machine hitting
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 18: fly balls and guys trying to figure out how to
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 18: catch them. It's swirling, it's going from a couple of
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 18: different directions, but it's in the excess of twenty five
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 18: miles an hour.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 17: Yeah, and Andrew, the fly ball things a real thing.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 17: We've seen over and over this year where routine fly
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 17: balls just turn into adventures and nothing more than when
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 17: we were in Las Vegas together. But again, that's gonna
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 17: certainly be a factor here in in Columbia.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, you know, you schedule those
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: preseason games or those games that are non conference games
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: and you hope to learn something, Well, maybe you learn
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: how to play the wind.
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  Speaker 17: Right, Well, they they work on it, but it's it's
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 17: a real thing. And Uh, In fact, when we were
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 17: in in Vegas, Jim Schwassneingal spent more time with the
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 17: with the machine using pop ups and he did with uh,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 17: you know, with hitting ground balls and.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 7: Stuff because it was it was such an issue.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 17: And you you you played your share of outfield. What's
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 17: it what's it like when you're dealing with conditions.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 18: Well, it changes moment moment to moments, so you've got
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 18: to make sure that you understand you're always looking to
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 18: see where the flags are doing, and it's going to
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 18: be a major factor. And the other part of that,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 18: the last thing is sometimes it's it blows so hard
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 18: that it makes it very difficult for pitchers to get
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 18: their balance and and throw enough strikes and then all
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 18: of a sudden you throw in fly balls at fall in.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 18: I expect runs to be scored tonight. I guess that's
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 18: the best way to put it.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, Andrew that that this is gonna be a night
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 17: where a pitcher can't hang their head if if ball
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 17: goes out of the ballpark. And uh, you know, we
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 17: saw it in that LSU game last Friday night. The
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 17: first batter of the game just hits a pop fly
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 17: home run. Uh and from there it seemed to is
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 17: that LC or was that UTSA, But it was just
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 17: the first batter of the game hits a pop fly.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 17: It was UTSA because it was a Tuesday, and it
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 17: seemed to really get Drew Rehrick's head and you just
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 17: got to be careful as a pitcher.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 18: Uh that you don't let that bother you. You know, one's
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 18: not gonna beat you tonight. That's what you're looking at.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, and this is a good night
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: for the power hitters for Texas mac Falu. I mean
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: we might see like a team measure shot tonight. Well,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: these guys are capable of it. Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 17: I would venture to say the better chance for tape
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 17: measure would be a Galvaan or a gas Perino, because
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 17: if you get one up in the jet stream going
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 17: to left field, it may just go and go.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 18: Yeah, there's a workout surface, a grass surface for the
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 18: uh Missoo Missoo football team right outside the left field
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 18: area where the bullpen is for Missouri. But I can
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 18: tell you that we could see one go through that
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 18: goalpost tonight and that that that's about four hundred and
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 18: fifty feet.
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  Speaker 7: Away, Andrew.
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  Speaker 17: The other thing is this is the one park in
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 17: the SEC Jim Slowsni was not coached in. And there's
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 17: another factor here that's a little bit different. It's a
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 17: it's a bouncy turf infield, but it's a grass outfield.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 17: So that's that's a little different than a lot of ballparks.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 17: Obviously you see that in the Midwest in this part
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 17: of the country. I remember when I was in Wichita
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 17: that was the case, not only Wichita State, but also
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 17: at the minor league park there in Wichita.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: Which is a good segue into the conversations we had
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: this week in Austin guys with like, Hey, what is
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: the plan for the warning track? What is the plan
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: for the turf in Texas? What'd you guys think about that?
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 18: Well, I the one thing that's very difficult to to
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 18: everybody to needs to understand is the fact is that
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 18: it's it's very expensive, not necessarily to change over that
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 18: it's it's actually cheaper than putting new turf in to change.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 7: Over to grass.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 18: But the problem with it is, all of a sudden
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 18: you've got to have a full time staff year round
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 18: to maintain the surface and the playing surface and that
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 18: kind of thing.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 7: So it's quite an expensive long term.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 18: So you know, there's gonna be a lot of discussion,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 18: I would think to figure out what they went want
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 18: to do. I always believe in playing baseball on grass,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 18: but that's just my personal opinion.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 7: I have no I have no dog in the fight.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 17: Yeah, aesthetics aside Andrew, there's a practical part. And you're
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 17: playing baseball in February and in early March there, so
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 17: you want to you want the field that can get
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 17: you in position to play games as quick as possible,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 17: certainly to be a big factor.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: And now Schlatsie can talk to yesterday during his media
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: availability about the arms that Missouri has. He's got some
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: pretty good arms in the stable tonight too well.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 17: Jared Spencer obviously is a guy tonight and that's why
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 17: we we said he can't hang his head if he
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 17: if he gives one up that that goes out of
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 17: the ballpark. Their guy is interesting Ian Losi because he's winless.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 7: In fact, he hasn't won in three years.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 17: But in my pregame interview I just recorded with wish Loss,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 17: he said that, you know, this guy's a unique pitcher
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 17: and he talks a lot about that with pitchers and
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 17: how he wants pitchers that are unique, and he said
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 17: he's a guy that they've the style he pitches, they've
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 17: they've not seen they don't have on their team. And
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 17: he's put up some good numbers. But he does have
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 17: a high era. But you know, he's going to be
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 17: juiced up obviously to face this Texas team tonight.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 18: Well, I think there's two things in this guys that
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 18: you got to look at. Friday night guys in the
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 18: SEC have got to give you some link. It just
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 18: sets you up for the rest of the weekend. If
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 18: you can get your starter into the seventh on Friday Night,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 18: then all of a sudden, you look at your book
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 18: pen pretty well set up for the rest of the
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 18: weekend regardless. So it falls on that Friday night guy
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 18: to give you some link and keep you in the
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 18: ball game, give you an opportunity to win. And Spencer's
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 18: been good at that last week. I think that was
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 18: ultra important in the game against LSU. They did ended
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 18: up dropping the game, but he his link allowed Texas
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 18: to say their bullpen to use a Riojas and and
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 18: uh Balantis the way they did and come away with
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 18: the series win.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 7: So got to get some depth out of your starter.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: See that's why I like listening to Keith Morling because
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: I learned something new and I'm gonna steal that for
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: the next time I talk about the Texas pitching staff.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 17: Yeah, no doubt, And obviously you know you don't know
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 17: what's gonna happen with the weather this weekend, so you
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 17: could be condensed so all of a sudden that that
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 17: puts a little bit more stress on the on the
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 17: staff if in fact they have to play too tomorrow
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 17: because of pending weather on on Sunday, So you just
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 17: never know what you're up against in a three game series.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 7: That means so much.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: So I was saying earlier that I think it's cool
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: that they can piece me all together a Sunday start
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: against a team in Missouri who's still looking for their
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: first conference win, but they kind of need to start
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: thinking about who will be that everyday Sunday starter.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong about that?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 18: I think the first thing is that you're right. But
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 18: if it were me, I would say we already have
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 18: that guy. Riojas was outstanding on Sunday against LSU, if
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 18: you know. But the thing about it is you go
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 18: into a weekend and everybody's got to understand that your
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 18: first job is to win each game that you're playing.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 18: So when you go in, you know you got Jared Spencer,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 18: the only guy that I think that you would not
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 18: see tonight in case trying to win the game would
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 18: be Luke Harrison. And if you don't see either of
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 18: the guys, if Valentis Grubs are rojast tonight, then one
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 18: of those three would probably be the starter on Sunday.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 7: So that's the way you go about it. I think
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 7: you go.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 18: Into that first game, you got to win the first one,
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 18: and then go into the second game and play it
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 18: that way, and if you can win the series in
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 18: the second game, you use those guys as well, and
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 18: then when you get to Sunday you find out the
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 18: one guy of those three that you haven't used, and
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 18: in my opinion, that's the guy gets the ball on
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 18: Sunday trying to sweep the series.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 7: But you want to win the first one first and
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 7: go from there.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 17: Yeah, Andrew, I think we're so programmed to think, Okay,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 17: here's the ROTA for the weekend and that's that. And
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 17: then you know, Schlass comes in and from the first
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 17: day we talked to him, whenever we asked about pitching plan,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 17: his first response was want to win the game tonight.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 17: Now he's not going to empty everybody, as Keith said,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 17: He's not gonna throw Luke Harrison out there tonight, but
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 17: he'll throw Riojas if they have a chance to win it,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 17: and he thinks that him coming in is their best option,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 17: and then you figure out game three when you get
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 17: to game three. So that's just kind of the attitude,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 17: and you see it a lot in college baseball.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 7: That's why you.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 17: See a lot of TBAs on a Sunday starter when
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 17: you look ahead to a weekend rotation.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's more and more common now too,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: that we're moving away from the idea, Okay, we'll have
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: every of these guys locked in place.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: I've been saying though, that this feels.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: Like a completely different vibe around the pitching staff compared
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: to last year. Do you guys agree?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 7: I think I think last year.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 18: You really were searching all the way through the season
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 18: for even that number one guy, and it ended up
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 18: being Max Scrubbs. That ended up as you got into
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 18: conference play. That sort of gives you set the tone.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 18: And then the other part of that, they were searching
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 18: most of the year last year to find that guy
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 18: on the back end here, and I think that we've
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 18: seen that we've got a guy for the back end.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 18: If the last five ball games that were really really
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 18: close and needed somebody to close the door. It's it's
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 18: been Dylan to come into the game to do that.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 18: So I think you found that one guy that fits
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 18: in that role. And uh, you know, I hate to
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 18: work backwards, but I think you work with a Friday
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 18: night starter and work from the back end of the
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 18: bullpen back because that wins each game.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 7: And then tomorrow you do the same thing.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 18: Well, we're going to start this guy, and we're gonna
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 18: work who's available from the back end back to you,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 18: and you hope your starter gives you some length.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 17: Yeah, and Grubs is so valuable because he could come
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 17: in and the third and get you to the seventh
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 17: or eighth inn And you know he's that You hear
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 17: it all the time and you go, well, you know, duh,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 17: you got to be a strike door. But we watched
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 17: enough baseball to know not all these guys are strike
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 17: throwers on a on a consistent basis. And for the
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 17: most part, Max Rubs has done that. Ruber Riojas, that
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 17: was his reputation as a strike thrower. We've seen him
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 17: kind of wear down a little bit after about three
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 17: or four innings at times, and then all of a sudden,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 17: the strike thrower might lose a little something and get hit.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 17: But again he's just trying to figure it out, Andrew,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 17: and so far he's done a pretty nice job. When
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 17: you look at twenty and three through twenty three ball
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 17: games and with their schedule, we're we're not far from
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 17: the midway point because they don't have a full fifty
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 17: six game schedule.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: I'm feeling good about this team.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: Roger Wallace and Keep Moreland on the call tonight on
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: one O three one, First pitches at six pm.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: Guys, thanks so much, Thanks Andrew, see Andrew, there you go.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we will hear more from Vic
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: Shaeffer and company as they year out for the Sweet sixteen,
• 1:39:44
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• 1:39:46
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• 1:39:51
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• 1:39:58
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• 1:40:01
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• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: doubleheader two nine in in games starting at two pm.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: Wallace and Moreland will be on the call for that
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: one as well because of inclement weather happening Sunday in Columbia, Missouri.
• 1:40:19
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• 1:40:36
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• 1:40:39
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• 1:40:55
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  Speaker 1: take on the five seeded Tennessee Lady Vaults. Now, Madison
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: Booker was the SEC Player of the Year. And even
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  Speaker 1: if the ESPN pronosticators and the CBS beloiviators and the
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports gas bags do not respect the Texas Longhorn
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  Speaker 1: women's basketball team. You know you're gonna get it for me. So,
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  Speaker 1: Madison Booker was asked by the media today availability Roy
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  Speaker 1: Harmon has spoken at length about everything she's learned from Booker.
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  Speaker 2: What is Madison Booker learned from Roy Harmon? I would
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  Speaker 2: say I learned to be a leader for this team.
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  Speaker 19: Just think just watching her at the first twelve games
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  Speaker 19: of my freshman year before she went down, just you know,
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  Speaker 19: watching how she led this team, watching how you know
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  Speaker 19: she she she was like a I can't explain it,
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  Speaker 19: but like she was like the head of this team,
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  Speaker 19: and like whatever she did, like we were right behind her,
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  Speaker 19: and like just like the energey she like put on defense,
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  Speaker 19: like just like the little things like details. She's always
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  Speaker 19: first line in practice everything, She's like the first one up.
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  Speaker 2: Just like that kind of leadership.
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  Speaker 19: And I think that this year I've kind of taken
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  Speaker 19: more of that role too, just you know, being man
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  Speaker 19: like going to I guess experience, just you know, starting
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  Speaker 19: point guard, being like an elite eight, And I kind
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  Speaker 19: of just took that with me this year, kind of
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  Speaker 19: more of a leader, still kind of not the leader
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  Speaker 19: I guess they want me to be. But but you know,
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  Speaker 19: I'm still learning here and there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still you know, learning here and there.
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  Speaker 19: But I think just that that one piece that people
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  Speaker 19: don't see a lot, it's really what I learned, and
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  Speaker 19: it's I'm actually I'm happy to learn from her.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot to learn from Rory Harmon obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: matter Booker has learned a ton going from the freshman
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  Speaker 1: Big Twelve Player of the Year to now year number
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  Speaker 1: two of Texas being the SEC player of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: She got to ask the question, how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you've grown over these past two seasons.
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  Speaker 19: I remember, I think last year we played West Virginia. Oh,
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  Speaker 19: I think last year we played West Virginia, and I
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  Speaker 19: remember we didn't have Rory. We didn't have Rory there
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  Speaker 19: to break the press. You know, she's probably like the
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  Speaker 19: one man press break whatever you want to call her,
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  Speaker 19: but we didn't have her. I was the point guard.
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  Speaker 19: And I remember I had non turnovers that game in
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  Speaker 19: the press. Yeah, that was a great stat line, non turnovers,
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  Speaker 19: not assists, and I think some more points, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 19: have a triple double. But just learning from that moment,
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  Speaker 19: just looking at my turnovers, I think I've kind of
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  Speaker 19: learned patients. You know, you know, I don't go their speed,
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  Speaker 19: go my speed. And for you know, tomorrow Tennessee, I
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  Speaker 19: think it's gonna be the same thing. Patients like they're
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  Speaker 19: gonna try to, you know, speak like speed you up,
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  Speaker 19: but I'm gonna just go at my own pace. And
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  Speaker 19: you know, I was just coming to them like a
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  Speaker 19: new conference when Player of the Year is a blessing
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  Speaker 19: for real, But I just think this year is more
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  Speaker 19: of a retarding my back, more of a mental thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 19: Also, I like that leaning my teammates a lot for that.
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  Speaker 19: I think for that a lot because when my shooting,
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  Speaker 19: like when I shot bad, they picked me up. You
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  Speaker 19: got Kyla down there, Taylor Shay Hidden plus Streets Rory
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  Speaker 19: like leaning our team, the freshmen, they're doing their thing.
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  Speaker 19: I do find like other ways to kind of provide
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  Speaker 19: to this team. But I really thank them for everything,
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  Speaker 19: like all my my.
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  Speaker 2: Awards and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 19: It's really just come from them.
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  Speaker 1: Very grateful, very heartfelt, very Texas Madison Booker talking during
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  Speaker 1: media availability. Andrewsim will fill in for Craig this afternoons.
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  Speaker 1: We geary up for tomorrow Sweet sixteen matchup. Now because
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  Speaker 1: of the injury that happened at Giugi Watkins, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the national media has now directed their attention towards
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  Speaker 1: Roy Harmon. Now you heard it yesterday people asking her
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  Speaker 1: questions about the ACL injury and has she talked to
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  Speaker 1: Juji Watkins, what's the relationship? Like everything else today, she's
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  Speaker 1: got similar questions about her ACL injury from last season.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought this was a very interesting one. It
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  Speaker 1: was the ACL recovery mentally versus physically, because we also
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  Speaker 1: don't know how long it takes to get back on
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  Speaker 1: the court after an ACL injury physically, but mentally, what
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  Speaker 1: is that?
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  Speaker 17: Like?
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  Speaker 20: The physical is Honestly, when I look back, it's so easy.
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  Speaker 20: I wouldn't say so easy, but like looking back like
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  Speaker 20: it was, like, you know, it was a lot easier
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  Speaker 20: because the mental comes after, like when you're clear, Like
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  Speaker 20: you're clear and you're like, okay, I'm physically good, Like
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  Speaker 20: they wouldn't release me if I wasn't physically good. But
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  Speaker 20: it's not like you They help you with your mental
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  Speaker 20: as much. It's as much as your physical. And so
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  Speaker 20: when you get to playing and it's like the mental
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  Speaker 20: now looking back, I'm still going through it it's not
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  Speaker 20: something that kind of just like goes away like just
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  Speaker 20: because you start playing again. Uh, it's definitely a lot harder,
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  Speaker 20: And obviously I hate that for her, Like absolutely don't
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  Speaker 20: like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very We're not even like that close.
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  Speaker 20: But like I've said before, like this is a basketball player,
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  Speaker 20: the woman's basketball player, and we all stick together, and
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  Speaker 20: I just wish she has the best recovery and just
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  Speaker 20: so she knows that she's gonna come back better, faster, stronger.
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  Speaker 20: Obviously it's gonna take a lot longer than any you know,
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  Speaker 20: regular ankle injury, but she's gonna be a better player
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  Speaker 20: than she was before.
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  Speaker 1: So now when you're on the sideline, obviously you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a different view of the game. But when you're
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline with an injury, that changes them things.
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  Speaker 1: She was asked how your view of basketball as a
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  Speaker 1: sport and then you know, as a life changed, Uh
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  Speaker 1: after and working through your acial injury.
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  Speaker 20: If I'm being honest, I absolutely hated it right after
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  Speaker 20: I got injured. Like I didn't want to see anything.
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  Speaker 20: I didn't want to go to practice. You that was
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  Speaker 20: just like a day after I you know, turn my aco.
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  Speaker 20: But eventually you get out of your own funk and
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  Speaker 20: you start being you stop being so selfish and into yourself,
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  Speaker 20: And think about I was it was twelve games in,
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  Speaker 20: Like I'm still on the team.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still a player on the team. I may not
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  Speaker 2: just be playing, and.
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  Speaker 20: So they still had a whole season, like I still
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  Speaker 20: have to be there. And then obviously I spend a
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  Speaker 20: lot of time like just seeing a different perspective of
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  Speaker 20: the game, like you said, and understand. I think those
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  Speaker 20: moments like you got to look on the bright side
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  Speaker 20: of some things, and I just thought like being able
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  Speaker 20: to focus and learn the game of basketball from another
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  Speaker 20: point of view because I'm so used to looking at
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  Speaker 20: it from being on the court.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes like.
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  Speaker 20: Coach might be right about what he says, you know
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  Speaker 20: when he's busting you don't necessarily understand it, like if
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  Speaker 20: you're in the game, but like when you're on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 20: like you actually like okay okay. And I think it
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  Speaker 20: helped a lot with just slowing the game down for
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  Speaker 20: me coming into this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think I like learned a lot from.
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  Speaker 20: Madison from that point guard position. And obviously she could
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  Speaker 20: say she learned a lot from me, but I learned
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  Speaker 20: a lot from her because at that moment I was
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  Speaker 20: what I was.
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  Speaker 2: We're just twelve game in. I'm not perfect.
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  Speaker 20: I still learned something from someone, and it doesn't have
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  Speaker 20: to always be like someone older or more experienced, like
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  Speaker 20: so I learned from Madison still.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, super good for this University of Texas team
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  Speaker 1: to grow together, and you can clearly see that is
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  Speaker 1: in the works with a team that is now just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games away from cutting down the nets
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  Speaker 1: for a national championship. That's a goal at least for
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  Speaker 1: this team. All right, when we come back, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: you ready for the weekend. Gear you up for a
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  Speaker 1: big Sweet sixteen matchup baseball this weekend and everything else
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  Speaker 1: Back on Wednesday of next week. I'll be filling in Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday and then that as well. So you
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  Speaker 1: got me three days next week where we will be
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  Speaker 1: reacting to and preparing you for an elite matchup, potentially
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  Speaker 1: with either Notre Dame or TCU