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Wemby A First Time All Star, All Star Snubs, Arch Manning, Texas Women's Basketball · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: What is happening out in Texas. Andrew Zimmel filling in
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Speaker 1: for Craig Way the final day of a fun filled week.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for hanging out with us this afternoon. Got
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Speaker 1: a loaded show for you. Once again. I cannot believe
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Speaker 1: how much happens over twenty four hours. So that's what
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Speaker 1: we do over here, man, We keep it up to
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Speaker 1: date for you. We got all of the breaking news,
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Speaker 1: including a huge win for the Texas women's basketball team
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Speaker 1: yesterday against Missouri. We'll get back to that one in
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Speaker 1: a second. Victor wem Binyama, he makes his first All
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Speaker 1: Star appearance that was announced last night as well. We
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Speaker 1: talked to Vick Schaeffer earlier today with a little media availability,
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Speaker 1: and we go through the early, early early Heisman Trophy
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Speaker 1: favorites this hour and hour number one, and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: tell you why, even though Arch Banding is right now
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Speaker 1: the betting favorite to win the twenty twenty five Heisman Trophy,
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Speaker 1: why you shouldn't put too many eggs in that basket,
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Speaker 1: and why you should be scouring college football rosters after
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Speaker 1: spring practice because most of the time it's guys who
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Speaker 1: aren't even in the top twenty they're not even on
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Speaker 1: the board who end up getting invited to New York.
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Speaker 1: But let's start back with Texas women's basketball at number five.
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Speaker 1: Texas women's team held Missouri to thirty six percent shooting
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Speaker 1: in the second half to rally back to win seventy
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Speaker 1: sixty one over the Tigers at the Movie Center on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Rory Harmon recorded as season high ten assist to tie
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Speaker 1: her season high with six rebounds as well. Three Longhorns
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Speaker 1: scored in double figures, including Taylor Jones leading the way
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Speaker 1: with seventeen points and six rebounds, and Madison Booker, who
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Speaker 1: fall behind her with sixteen points and six rebounds. So
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Speaker 1: the game, the Texas started the game forcing two Missouri
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Speaker 1: turnovers in the opening two minutes. So Jones then connected
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Speaker 1: with a pair of free throws to finish the first quarter.
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Speaker 1: Longhorns trailed twenty to thirteen after scoring nine points in
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Speaker 1: the first Jones opened up the second quarter with the
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Speaker 1: layup assisted by Branda Pierce him with a three pointer
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Speaker 1: from Lee. Texas then went on a ten to oh
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Speaker 1: run just under three minutes to finish the half, trailing
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Speaker 1: thirty five to thirty three against Missouri. But this is
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Speaker 1: where things got interesting. Let's hear it. This is Craig
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Speaker 1: Way cut one. This is them taking the lead for
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Speaker 1: the first time in the game.
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Speaker 2: Hartman got a bat, drives had underneath it goes out,
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Speaker 2: the Booker fires up a three.
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Speaker 3: Go there you go.
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Speaker 2: Madison knocks it down. The long Horns up their first
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Speaker 2: leave of the night, thirty eight thirty five.
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Speaker 1: So Madison Booker, it took her a whole half to
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Speaker 1: secure a bucket last night, but when she did, she
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Speaker 1: came off again, had a very good night, ended up
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Speaker 1: being the second leading scorer for the Longhorns with sixteen
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Speaker 1: last night. Longhorns came back at half seven points for
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Speaker 1: Booker to take the lead Texas fourth three straight turnovers
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Speaker 1: to hel Missouri to over two minutes, scoring drought to
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Speaker 1: finish the third fifty two to forty five. Booker then
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Speaker 1: opened up the final quarter with a jumper above the Tigers,
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Speaker 1: leading sixty two to fifty seven, and then she holly
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Speaker 1: drained a three to put the Longhorns up by eight
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Speaker 1: with just over two minutes remaining. But I would see
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Speaker 1: the MVP from the game was Taylor Jones and she
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Speaker 1: had a big block.
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Speaker 2: This is joy to pass out front the Lunion randall,
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Speaker 2: here's ramdalled five and rounds Hi Dan rejected by Jones
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Speaker 2: just stood up and knocked it down and the loose
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Speaker 2: ball screwed up for Texas by Roy.
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Speaker 1: Harmenhal So Taylor Jones last night, twenty eight minutes of action,
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Speaker 1: six of twelve from the floor, five of six from
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Speaker 1: the free throw line, seventeen points to lead the Longhorns,
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Speaker 1: and that huge block as well well, and listening to
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Speaker 1: coach Vick Schaeffer earlier in the week talk about how
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Speaker 1: important this player was, how important Jones was to not
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Speaker 1: only their offensive game plan but the defensive game plan,
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Speaker 1: and how much she has grown as a player over
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Speaker 1: the season. It makes sense for her to be the
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Speaker 1: MVP of this game. Now the Longhorns, they have again
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Speaker 1: a tough stretch ahead of them, including a game on
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Speaker 1: Sunday coming up this week against Texas A and M.
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Speaker 1: And we'll hear from coach Schaeffer later in the program
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Speaker 1: talking about, you know, what does this rivalry really mean?
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Speaker 1: You know, Texas and Texas A and M have had
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Speaker 1: their battles, of course, and he went all the way
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Speaker 1: back to the Little Southwest Conference and said, hey, most
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Speaker 1: of these players aren't old enough to remember that they
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Speaker 1: don't remember this type of women's basketball rivalry. Then you
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Speaker 1: also have to look at the schedule for UT and
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Speaker 1: they have big games down the stretch, including a home
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Speaker 1: matchup on Super Bowl Sunday against South ca Carolina and
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Speaker 1: Don Staley's game Cocks have been unbelievable this season. I
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Speaker 1: was talking to Roger Wallace yesterday on the Craigway Show
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Speaker 1: Andrews I will filling in for Craig this week, and
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Speaker 1: we were saying that there feels like there's like six
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Speaker 1: teams and only four number one seeds when it comes
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Speaker 1: to bracket time, and I'm concerned how the SEC tournament
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Speaker 1: rolls out and what that might do to Texas's chance
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Speaker 1: to get a one seed when it comes to tournament time,
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Speaker 1: especially when you consider that the only two losses that
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Speaker 1: Texas has currently on their plate is a loss of
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame early in the season, then that lost to
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Speaker 1: South Carolina playing South Carolina Super Bowl Sunday one PM.
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Speaker 1: So honestly, you might be able to catch both. I
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Speaker 1: would be if I was in town. That is what
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Speaker 1: my game plan would be. Watch two of the best
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Speaker 1: women's basketball programs in the country and then jet over
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Speaker 1: into a Super Bowl party, and then that following Sunday
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Speaker 1: again in Austin back to back weekends. LSU comes to
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Speaker 1: town with Kim Mulkey in company, and that's another program
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Speaker 1: that looks like they're trying to secure a number one
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Speaker 1: seed come bracket time. February, of course, is the month
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Speaker 1: that everything ramps up. It gets more and more serious. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you want to be playing your best basketball in the
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Speaker 1: month of February so that you can take that momentum
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Speaker 1: into March and into the set tournament time as well
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Speaker 1: as March Madness. We'll hear more from a coach, Vick
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Speaker 1: Schaeffer coming up after the break. But I also want
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Speaker 1: to talk about Victor webbin Yama. He is the youngest
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Speaker 1: Spur to go to an All Star Game. This is
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Speaker 1: what sounded like last night on TNT TNT one.
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Speaker 4: This would be the last one, the last of sevens
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Speaker 4: picks by the coaches.
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Speaker 5: Come on, man, come on, All Star Oh this is.
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Speaker 6: Tough, This is tough, But I'm pulling for one guy
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Speaker 6: from the San Antonio Spurs, Victor Wembnyama.
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Speaker 4: That's another first time All Star in his second seven
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Speaker 4: twenty four a night is number sixteen. Eleven rebounds is
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Speaker 4: number eight. He leads the league in blocks with four
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Speaker 4: a game, ten games of thirty plus three games of
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Speaker 4: forty had fifty against Washington. He was fourth by the players,
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Speaker 4: fourth by the fans, second by the media, and the
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Speaker 4: coaches have selected Vic.
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Speaker 3: We'll deserved an NBA All Star.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Victor Wemenyama makes the All Star Game. A day ago,
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Speaker 1: he was talking about getting or not getting calls. He
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Speaker 1: was unhappy how he was being refereed across the NBA.
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Speaker 1: Felt like he should be getting some calls that he
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Speaker 1: wasn't getting. And I said then, and I'll say it again, now,
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Speaker 1: only all stars get those type of calls. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter that here's a generational talent, it doesn't matter that
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Speaker 1: he's going to be the next face of the NBA.
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Speaker 1: You have to make an All Star game before you
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Speaker 1: start getting some of those calls. And now he's an
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Speaker 1: All Star, so now he will start getting those calls.
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Speaker 1: You mark my word. He's not going to get pushed
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Speaker 1: around by Zubac or anybody else now that he is
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Speaker 1: an All Star. But what caught my attention to youngest
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Speaker 1: spur to make an All Star game. And the graphics
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Speaker 1: team almost caught me because I saw that graphic yesterday
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Speaker 1: and I didn't see Spur in front of it. I
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Speaker 1: was like, is Victor woman ya, I'm about twenty one
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Speaker 1: years old. That can't be true that he's a young
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Speaker 1: He's the youngest Spur to make an All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: Still though, considering that franchise and how many times that
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Speaker 1: they've sent him duncan Tony Parker manage nobly and then
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Speaker 1: even further back, David Robinson, how many times they sent
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Speaker 1: those guys to the Marquee mid season matchup. It is
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Speaker 1: saying something how well that this organization has been able
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Speaker 1: to continue to put players out. We are still on
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Speaker 1: Darren Fox watch in San Antonio, trying to see where
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Speaker 1: he goes. The Sacramento Kings, it's been reported, are taking
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Speaker 1: offers for their All Star point guard Daron Fox earlier
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Speaker 1: this week had his preferred destination leaked. Now Rich Paul
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Speaker 1: has not confirmed it to any sources yet, saying that yes,
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Speaker 1: San Antonio is the place that he wants his player
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Speaker 1: to go to. Rich Paul, being dearon Fox's agent, hasn't
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Speaker 1: said like this is exactly where I want to go.
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Speaker 1: He hasn't made a public spectacle a la Jammy Butler. However,
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Speaker 1: the tea leaves say that the Aaron Fox wants to
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Speaker 1: come to the Alamo City. So does the Alamo City
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Speaker 1: want the Aaron Fox? If the numbers are right, we
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Speaker 1: will see how that goes. Again, preferred destination to San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: But you gotta have the pieces that you want to
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Speaker 1: move off of. The money has to work, and then
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Speaker 1: you consider with the new CBA and the aprons and
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Speaker 1: all of the money and the taxes and luxury tax
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Speaker 1: the NBA has made it very difficult for NBA gms
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Speaker 1: understand their collective bargaining agreement, let alone the casual fans.
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Speaker 1: So if this happens, it's going to happen in probably
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Speaker 1: the next week as we get closer to the NBA
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Speaker 1: trade deadline on February sixth. If it doesn't happen, then
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Speaker 1: the Kings are going to be in a load of
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Speaker 1: trouble because they'll have an all star point guard who's
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Speaker 1: disgruntled throughout the rest of the season as the Kings
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Speaker 1: continue to try to fight their way into the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back, head coach of the
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Speaker 1: Texas women's basketball team. Vick Schaeffer spoke to the media
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Speaker 1: a little over an hour ago gave us some insight
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Speaker 1: on where this program is, coming off of a win
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Speaker 1: against Missouri last night and going in to a weekend
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Speaker 1: matchup against Texas A and m Arrival. All that coming
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Speaker 1: up with the Craigway Show. Andrew Zimmole filling it for
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Speaker 1: you are, because that's where the game was last night,
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Speaker 1: that UT women's basketball win against Missouri seventy to sixty one.
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Speaker 1: They were able to climb back, crawl back against the
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Speaker 1: Tigers to win that one and then move on now
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Speaker 1: to Texas A and M Speaking up, head coach Vick
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Speaker 1: Shafer spoke to the media today went over a bunch.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from him right now. Here's head coach
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Speaker 1: Vic Shafer's opening statement to the media.
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Speaker 7: My opening thoughts, I'm tired and I haven't played a minute.
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Speaker 7: I our kids are, you know, I think with everything
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Speaker 7: that's happening right now within our program, with the sickness
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Speaker 7: and you know, just the effects of of our season
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Speaker 7: February first, just tomorrow, and I'm just really proud of
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Speaker 7: their grit. You know, a lot of toughness. Last night
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Speaker 7: not our best night. Give Missouri a ton of credit.
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Speaker 7: I say, this seems like a lot. Robin Pinston's a
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Speaker 7: heck of a coach. I've had to deal with her
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Speaker 7: and her teams a lot over the years, and.
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Speaker 5: They're never an easy out. And uh it just you
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Speaker 5: know last night.
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Speaker 7: You can try to convey that to your kids all
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Speaker 7: you want, but they experienced it and for half, you know,
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Speaker 7: it was it wasn't much fun. But I thought our
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Speaker 7: kids showed tremendous grit and toughness. You know, we got
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Speaker 7: through it, and it's another win in the sec and
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Speaker 7: we're gonna take those every day and twice on Sunday,
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Speaker 7: and so you know, you move on, but really really
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Speaker 7: proud of them.
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Speaker 5: Last night. We came in this morning, had breakfast, watch film.
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Speaker 5: That was it. That's all we did.
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Speaker 7: I'll bring them back this afternoon and we'll get some
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Speaker 7: things done and then I'm gonna let them get off
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Speaker 7: their feet. We got to practice here tomorrow before we
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Speaker 7: head over to College Station, and so, you know, it's
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Speaker 7: that time of year, and it's like I told them,
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Speaker 7: this is the time of year when teams do one
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Speaker 7: of two things.
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Speaker 5: They either keep going they embraced the grind.
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Speaker 7: Their truugh toughness and grit pay off and they keep
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Speaker 7: climbing the.
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Speaker 5: Ladder, or some people just fall off.
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Speaker 7: And you know, I think over the years, our teams
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Speaker 7: have typically stayed in the grind and embraced it and
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Speaker 7: and kept climbing the ladder. And so I'm I'm I'm
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Speaker 7: excited to see them this afternoon. They were really good
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Speaker 7: this morning, which I was proud of them, and I
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Speaker 7: just really, more than anything, wanted to get some good
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Speaker 7: food in them before they tackled the day and uh so.
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Speaker 5: Got to get ready to go play.
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Speaker 7: Obviously a really good A and M team there they
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Speaker 7: you know, Sunday, they're in a dogfight at LSU.
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Speaker 5: Down to the bitter end.
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Speaker 7: Did a great job, got really good players, obviously, got
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Speaker 7: a great coach and Joni. Uh and so we're gonna
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Speaker 7: have to, you know, go over there.
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Speaker 5: And obviously it's a game that means a lot to
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Speaker 5: a lot.
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Speaker 7: Of people, and I'm sure they'll a great crowd, probably
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Speaker 7: be Core Day or something like that, and so they'll
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Speaker 7: have they'll have a really good crowd, and and so
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Speaker 7: we're gonna have to go over there and play well.
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Speaker 5: But I remember taking a team over there three years ago.
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Speaker 7: And we went in there and played really well, really focused.
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Speaker 7: It was Rory's freshman year, I believe, and we went
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Speaker 7: over there and executed and played very well. So we're
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Speaker 7: gonna have to do that again again because we've got
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Speaker 7: to go over there. Got a great size, good guard
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Speaker 7: play they're just really, really good. They've had some great
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Speaker 7: wins over some top twenty fives this year, So it's
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Speaker 7: gonna be it's gonna be one that's got our full attention.
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Speaker 5: I can promise you our kids are.
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Speaker 7: They were laser focused in on it last night in
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Speaker 7: the locker room after the game. So and you know,
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Speaker 7: I don't know that we'll be any better off with
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Speaker 7: kids available, you know, on Sunday, if I had to
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Speaker 7: guess right now, we probably aren't.
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Speaker 5: But hopefully that can change.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew zim Will
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Speaker 1: filling in for Craig Way on a free for all Friday,
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Speaker 1: and we're listening to head coach Vick Schaefer. Now, it's
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Speaker 1: been an open secret that the flu has absolutely torn
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Speaker 1: apart Central Texas. This is not something new. You know
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Speaker 1: about it as well as I do. How deadly, how
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Speaker 1: tough this flu virus can be. And it took out
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Speaker 1: five players from last night's roster for the University of Texas.
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Speaker 1: How do you juggle limiting practice but also knowing you
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Speaker 1: got players coming off sickness, coach.
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Speaker 7: Think you got to adjust, you know, And I think
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Speaker 7: that's what I'm doing. You know, last Friday, we basically
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Speaker 7: came in, watched film thirty minutes and went home. And
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Speaker 7: so that was after our Thursday night game with Tennessee,
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Speaker 7: and we had played on Monday Thursday and then had
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Speaker 7: to go to Ole, Miss on Sunday. So but again
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Speaker 7: I thought Sunday, our toughness really showed, you know, our perseverance,
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Speaker 7: our resilience was really on display and had a big
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Speaker 7: part in that win. But I do think it's a
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Speaker 7: it's a balancing act, you know, and I think you
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Speaker 7: have to take all that in consideration. And then I
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Speaker 7: listened to my kids, you know, I really do. I
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Speaker 7: listened to them. I talked to them, I ask them
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Speaker 7: how they're feeling, and so I try to be really,
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Speaker 7: really aware of everything. So it's a good point. It's
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Speaker 7: good question.
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Speaker 5: And you know, I don't. I think it's just a
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Speaker 5: time where you have to be really, really smart.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirty under the Zone. All right, So
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Speaker 1: Mason Booker has had some very fast starts over the
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Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. Last night, she was held in
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Speaker 1: the first half, but it was able to bounce back
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Speaker 1: and help rally in that second half. Are you emphasizing
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Speaker 1: a faster start for Booker on or our teams just
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Speaker 1: scouting her harder just from the jump coach.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's a little of both. And again
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Speaker 7: I think it's her. I think it's her being very
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Speaker 7: patient and kind of surveying the whole deal and trying
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Speaker 7: to get a feel for things. You know, I'm gonna
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Speaker 7: talk to her, you know, we're gonna we need her
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Speaker 7: to be a little more assertive.
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Speaker 5: But at the same time, I just think that's her really,
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Speaker 5: you know, really kind.
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Speaker 7: Of taking everything in and paying attention and and getting
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Speaker 7: a feel for what's available. And then you know, I
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Speaker 7: probably didn't need to be a little more uh demanding
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Speaker 7: and getting her to to try to maybe you know,
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Speaker 7: do a little more, and me getting her involved a
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Speaker 7: little more. You know, quite honestly, I can probably do
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Speaker 7: a little bit too. And so, you know, again I
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Speaker 7: think it's I think she's really been good about getting
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Speaker 7: a feel for what's out there, what's going on, how
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Speaker 7: people are trying to defend her. She's in the huddle
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Speaker 7: last night talking, you know, telling me what's going on,
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Speaker 7: telling me how they're doing things. And again, just having
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Speaker 7: that person in your huddle that can convey that to me,
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Speaker 7: whether it's her or Rory or anyone else.
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Speaker 5: But just having that she's just so smart.
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Speaker 7: The kid is just a you know, she's just really
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Speaker 7: really smart, and you know, to be able to tell
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Speaker 7: me that, tell our team that, really, you know, I
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Speaker 7: think that again, just says a lot about the kid.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. All right, So coach,
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Speaker 1: you're coming down the stretch. We're going in the month
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Speaker 1: of February. You're on a five game win streak. You're
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Speaker 1: taking on Rival Tech to C and M on Sunday
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Speaker 1: at five pm. This is cut number five. Do you
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Speaker 1: see your road to the SEC title? Are you even
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Speaker 1: thinking about that right now?
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Speaker 7: I don't see any map but the one that goes
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Speaker 7: to College Station.
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Speaker 5: That's that's the.
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Speaker 7: Only map, and I'm real familiar with that road. So
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Speaker 7: that's the only thing I'm focused on. You know, again,
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Speaker 7: when you start looking at you know, when you're climbing
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Speaker 7: that mountain and you're halfway up and you start looking
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Speaker 7: at the top, that's when you miss a step and
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Speaker 7: you fall down, and then you got to start back
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Speaker 7: all over again.
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Speaker 5: So I'm just focused on one day at a time.
20:40
Speaker 7: I'm trying to I'm agonizing this morning, sitting here trying
20:43
Speaker 7: to figure out how what to do and how to
20:45
Speaker 7: do it today with this team, knowing you know where
20:49
Speaker 7: we are right now in the in the process of
20:53
Speaker 7: having nine players, and hopefully I hadn't lost any more
20:56
Speaker 7: between now this morning at eight am, when I are
20:59
Speaker 7: eight forty, when I turn them loose to go to class,
21:02
Speaker 7: and when I get them back at one thirty. But
21:04
Speaker 7: I think it's it's kind of a fluid situation, and
21:08
Speaker 7: so yeah, I'm just I'm really really intentional about the
21:14
Speaker 7: next game.
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Speaker 5: And that's it.
21:16
Speaker 1: We'll hear more from coach Schaeffer as the program continues.
21:19
Speaker 1: Andrew Zimbil hanging out with you on a free for
21:22
Speaker 1: all Friday when we return. It is inconceivable, not that
21:27
Speaker 1: it's a Friday. No, it's an inconceivable Friday, that's right,
21:30
Speaker 1: which means it's a Florida Man Friday. Yes, and do
21:35
Speaker 1: we have some stories for you, including a fight in
21:39
Speaker 1: the buffet line. Yeah, we got it all for you
21:42
Speaker 1: over here. Craig Wait Show. Andrew zimble filling in for
21:44
Speaker 1: Craig Way on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
21:47
Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone Andrews, I will fill
21:50
Speaker 1: you in for the voice of Longhorns Craig Way on
21:53
Speaker 1: a free for all Friday edition of the show. I
21:57
Speaker 1: want to thank you guys for hanging out as we
21:59
Speaker 1: start our number two dose on the Craig Way Show.
22:04
Speaker 1: A lot to get into, including set your watches. About
22:08
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes from now, Craig will be joining the program
22:11
Speaker 1: talking about his travels after yesterday's debacle, having to go
22:16
Speaker 1: taking a hundred plus dollar Uber ride to Memphis, to
22:20
Speaker 1: fly to Dallas, to fly to Austin to call the
22:23
Speaker 1: game where Texas women won big. They were able to
22:27
Speaker 1: claw back and beat Missouri seventy to sixty one. In
22:32
Speaker 1: that game, Taylor Jones was your leader in the clubhouse.
22:36
Speaker 1: Really performed well seventeen points six rebounds of the win.
22:40
Speaker 1: The women's team travels to College Station to take on
22:45
Speaker 1: A and M on Sunday. Also keeping an eye out
22:50
Speaker 1: on news out of San Antonio, as according to Don Harris,
22:54
Speaker 1: it looks like a four team trade is in the works.
22:57
Speaker 1: He said, stay tuned, so we are keeping an eye
23:00
Speaker 1: on that one. As de Aaron Fox his preferred destination
23:04
Speaker 1: to San Antonio. You gotta remember too, Jimmy Butler not
23:07
Speaker 1: happy in Miami. I have to think that there has
23:11
Speaker 1: to be another player in that move, a big name
23:13
Speaker 1: guy to try to make all this money work and
23:16
Speaker 1: massage it out the Phoenix Suns with Bradley Beale even
23:19
Speaker 1: with the no trade clause, So a lot of moving parts.
23:22
Speaker 1: We will see if it ends with San Antonio adding
23:25
Speaker 1: an All Star to put next to their newest All Star,
23:28
Speaker 1: Victor Wimbinyama, who gets his first All Star appearance as
23:33
Speaker 1: a reserve. Voted on by the coaches last night on TNT.
23:37
Speaker 1: They made the announcement and he look I have been
23:41
Speaker 1: saying from day one, this is a generational talent point
23:45
Speaker 1: plank period. He is the next face of the NBA
23:49
Speaker 1: and Spurs fans. He is going to be an NBA
23:53
Speaker 1: champion in the Alamo City. Never forget, I'm not wrong,
23:57
Speaker 1: I'm just early. I'm calling it today. Let's hear from
24:00
Speaker 1: Vic Schaeffer though, because the UT women's basketball coach had
24:04
Speaker 1: media availability today and spoke at length about a number
24:09
Speaker 1: of things with the program, but two things really stood
24:11
Speaker 1: out to me. Talking about his time at Sam Houston
24:16
Speaker 1: State and what it took to kind of build that
24:19
Speaker 1: program up and the expectations right. So the question was
24:23
Speaker 1: do you ever stop and talk about what you need
24:26
Speaker 1: to do when it comes to the NCAA tournament and
24:29
Speaker 1: kind of those like next steps. And he spoke about
24:31
Speaker 1: sam Houston State, where he was an assistant coach at
24:35
Speaker 1: one time, and about how they were trying to build
24:39
Speaker 1: a program there. So let's hear this is his story
24:41
Speaker 1: talking about sam Houston State.
24:44
Speaker 7: You know, after we bake Maryland, I told him, hey,
24:47
Speaker 7: that's a win that's going to really help you when
24:49
Speaker 7: it comes in, say a tournament time. It'll help you
24:51
Speaker 7: with with how they view us and seating and things
24:54
Speaker 7: like that. I mean, our non conference record.
24:57
Speaker 5: Not to mention our net all that is really good.
25:01
Speaker 7: Those kids, you know, embraced the grind and embrace being
25:05
Speaker 7: on the road.
25:06
Speaker 5: You know, I told them how proud I was of
25:07
Speaker 5: them and and and all that.
25:09
Speaker 7: But you know, when when I was building a program
25:13
Speaker 7: at State, you know, I remember that second year we
25:19
Speaker 7: only had fourteen teams in the league, and I put the.
25:21
Speaker 5: Top seven on one side and.
25:23
Speaker 7: The next seven on the other side, and I said, hey,
25:27
Speaker 7: I want to finish number one on this side, and
25:30
Speaker 7: let's see how many we can get on this side.
25:34
Speaker 7: And so when you're building a prey gives those kids
25:36
Speaker 7: something to shoot for, you know, because we were building
25:39
Speaker 7: a program, I mean, we were trying to build a
25:45
Speaker 7: way of life, a way of doing things, and so
25:48
Speaker 7: it gave them an idea. Okay, these seven over here,
25:51
Speaker 7: we want to go six and oh or seven and
25:53
Speaker 7: oh and these over here now we need to do
25:57
Speaker 7: the best we can over here. But this group right here,
26:00
Speaker 7: we got to catch discreup before we can catch discroup.
26:03
Speaker 5: That makes sense.
26:04
Speaker 7: That's not where we are now here at Texas. So
26:07
Speaker 7: I don't really get ahead of myself. I don't really
26:09
Speaker 7: talk about my kids are really smart.
26:13
Speaker 5: I think that was again.
26:15
Speaker 7: You can tell them how good you think somebody is,
26:17
Speaker 7: or how good some coach is, or all that.
26:21
Speaker 5: They're going to make up their own mind based off
26:23
Speaker 5: of what.
26:26
Speaker 7: They'll make up their own mind about how good they
26:28
Speaker 7: think somebody is based off of record or who they
26:32
Speaker 7: know on the team or all that. So I just
26:37
Speaker 7: try to put my head down, man, head down, rear
26:40
Speaker 7: end up, plow ahead. That's just the only way I
26:43
Speaker 7: know how to do it.
26:44
Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred. The zone that is head
26:48
Speaker 1: coach of the Texas Longhorns Vick Schaeffer after a win
26:52
Speaker 1: on a Thursday night against Missouri, a game where the
26:56
Speaker 1: Longhorns had to battle back trailed for most of the
26:59
Speaker 1: first time, actually all the first half. Took the third
27:03
Speaker 1: quarter for them to finally take the lead and then
27:05
Speaker 1: not look back. He also spoke about Sydney Carter, who
27:10
Speaker 1: is an assistant coach and is the director of player
27:14
Speaker 1: Personnel for the University of Texas. Now, if that name
27:18
Speaker 1: sounds familiar, well it should. Carter was a standout player
27:21
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M from twenty eight to twenty
27:23
Speaker 1: twelve under Schaeffer. During her time in Aggie Land, she
27:26
Speaker 1: helped her team win the twenty eleven national championship in
27:30
Speaker 1: the twenty ten Big Twelve Tournament. As a player, she's
27:34
Speaker 1: a three time captain defensive anchor of A and M,
27:37
Speaker 1: earned a spot on the Big twelve All Defensive Team
27:40
Speaker 1: in eleven and twelve, and additionally she took home missed
27:44
Speaker 1: defense three times. She selected twenty seventh overall in the WNBA,
27:49
Speaker 1: and Shaffer goes on and talks about her impact on
27:53
Speaker 1: this team and her availability around this program.
27:58
Speaker 7: It's the interestingt credibility, she's wanted at the highest level,
28:01
Speaker 7: She's played at the highest level. You know, I have
28:07
Speaker 7: to get on her sometimes because I want more, you know,
28:11
Speaker 7: I just think she has so much to offer, and
28:14
Speaker 7: you know when her when her voice is raised in practice.
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Speaker 1: They listen sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew
28:23
Speaker 1: Zimmle filling in for Craig Way on a Friday. Now,
28:26
Speaker 1: this Texas women's basketball team, they have their work cut
28:29
Speaker 1: out for them this weekend. Sunday they travel down to
28:33
Speaker 1: College Station to take on Texas A and M in
28:37
Speaker 1: the Lone Star Showdown. That dam tips off at five pm.
28:42
Speaker 1: And then a game on Super Bowl Sunday against South Carolina,
28:45
Speaker 1: then a game against Kentucky at a game against LSU,
28:48
Speaker 1: And it doesn't get easier for Schaeffer and company. So
28:53
Speaker 1: the question then becomes, when you look at Texas A
28:58
Speaker 1: and M, when you look look at this team, what
29:02
Speaker 1: challenges do they present? This is kind number seven.
29:07
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they got good players, you know, Lauren
29:10
Speaker 7: being one of them. You know, I really hate it,
29:14
Speaker 7: uh for Koolabali and so last year and and it's
29:18
Speaker 7: just a terrible, terrible thing for her and the team.
29:24
Speaker 5: But I still look at their roster. I watched their
29:26
Speaker 5: game last night.
29:27
Speaker 7: I've watched the L s U game and and some others,
29:31
Speaker 7: like they got really good personnel and and uh so
29:36
Speaker 7: their athleticism, you know, ah Malone's much improved to me.
29:43
Speaker 7: She is physical, you know, and and obviously we've we've
29:47
Speaker 7: got some good.
29:48
Speaker 5: Bigs down there to go with that.
29:50
Speaker 7: So you know, they've got size, They've got several big,
29:54
Speaker 7: big kids and in long.
29:56
Speaker 5: And length, and so you know that concerns me there, their.
30:00
Speaker 7: Ability to out on the perimeter with those guards.
30:04
Speaker 5: There's a lot about that team that concerns me.
30:07
Speaker 7: So you know we're gonna have to again well there,
30:09
Speaker 7: it's a home game for them. They've obviously played well
30:13
Speaker 7: and at home beating you know, I had a good
30:15
Speaker 7: run there with Georgia and Kentucky again, Kentucky being a
30:19
Speaker 7: top fifteen team when they beat them. So our kids
30:23
Speaker 7: are fully aware of how good A and M is
30:26
Speaker 7: and how good we're gonna have to play.
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Speaker 1: On Sunday Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone, Andrews
30:33
Speaker 1: Zimmel hanging out with you on a free for all Friday,
30:36
Speaker 1: we listened to head coach and Vick Schaeffer talk about
30:39
Speaker 1: his team as a gear up for a big game
30:42
Speaker 1: this Sunday against Texas A and M. Now, the relationship
30:47
Speaker 1: be between coaches in college basketball, especially women's hoops, is
30:51
Speaker 1: a very unique and interesting one because you have situations
30:55
Speaker 1: like the one we have this weekend with Johnny Taylor,
30:58
Speaker 1: who has had Longhorn players on her US national team.
31:02
Speaker 7: Uh.
31:03
Speaker 1: And you have a very respectful rivalry in the state,
31:07
Speaker 1: especially in the conference between Texas and M and Texas, Uh,
31:12
Speaker 1: what does the rival what is your rivalry? Which coach
31:15
Speaker 1: with coach Taylor looked like.
31:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Jony and I have a have a
31:22
Speaker 7: good relationship.
31:24
Speaker 5: You know, we had one when she was at Georgia.
31:28
Speaker 7: You know, I think there's a lot of mutual respect
31:30
Speaker 7: and admiration, and certainly is from my end. You know,
31:34
Speaker 7: we we uh, we we visited on the on the
31:38
Speaker 7: phone this year about certain things. We've we see each
31:41
Speaker 7: other on the road. So I have a lot of
31:44
Speaker 7: respect and admiration for her. And and again it's it's uh,
31:50
Speaker 7: you know, I think we both understand you know, where
31:54
Speaker 7: we are who were coaching and and in this particular game,
31:59
Speaker 7: you know the meaning.
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Speaker 5: So I certainly. Do you know.
32:03
Speaker 7: I've been on both sides of it, and there's no
32:06
Speaker 7: question I have a complete understanding of it.
32:09
Speaker 1: We'll hear more from Coach Schaeffer as the program continues
32:12
Speaker 1: on The Craigways Show. All start game happening in a
32:16
Speaker 1: few weeks for the NBA and the final announcement for
32:20
Speaker 1: the reserves. We're given last night on NBA on TNT
32:24
Speaker 1: Victor Woman Yama one of the first time All Stars,
32:26
Speaker 1: along with a couple of other first time All Stars.
32:29
Speaker 1: But there's only so many spots on the team, which
32:33
Speaker 1: means somebody gets left out. I'm looking at you, Trey Young.
32:38
Speaker 1: We'll hear more about that coming up later in the show,
32:40
Speaker 1: but first it's Craig Way joining us from an undisclosed location.
32:44
Speaker 1: We'll find out where Craig is. We will also find
32:47
Speaker 1: out what last night's game told him about this women's
32:51
Speaker 1: basketball team and what tomorrow's game against LSU could mean
32:55
Speaker 1: for the men's team. All that Coming off of The
32:57
Speaker 1: Craigway Show, andrews I will fill in for Craig on
33:00
Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred of The Zone. Andrew Zimbol
33:03
Speaker 1: filling in for Craig Way maybe a one day future
33:07
Speaker 1: Texas Radio Hall of Famer. His name's on the program.
33:10
Speaker 1: He is in an airport, I imagine, Craig, how is
33:14
Speaker 1: that travel today, my.
33:15
Speaker 8: Friend, Well, it's in process and in progress. I'm actually
33:22
Speaker 8: at THEFB airport in between the connecting flights from Austin
33:27
Speaker 8: on my way to Baton Rouge. So in order to
33:29
Speaker 8: go east, you gotta go north. So we start off
33:32
Speaker 8: buying going north and up to the FW and now
33:38
Speaker 8: preparing to go east. Well, once I get out on
33:42
Speaker 8: the plane at THEFWL southeast, that sort of thing all good.
33:46
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the game last night. You did
33:48
Speaker 1: an incredible job on the call, but you always do.
33:50
Speaker 1: Seventy sixty one win for the Texas women's basketball team,
33:54
Speaker 1: and my question to you is what does the major
33:57
Speaker 1: takeaway from that win?
34:00
Speaker 8: Believe that Dick Schaeffer's right when he says he's coaching
34:04
Speaker 8: against ghosts, and we talked about it in the pre
34:07
Speaker 8: game as well. In other words, a team that went
34:08
Speaker 8: in at twelve and ten only one went in conference
34:11
Speaker 8: play is still dangerous. And they've been dangerous. And some games,
34:14
Speaker 8: even though they only won one and they pushed Texas,
34:17
Speaker 8: they were as many as nine in the first half.
34:20
Speaker 8: They led by two and a half after long warts
34:23
Speaker 8: finished the first half of a twelve to three run,
34:25
Speaker 8: but then they fell behind again out of the gate,
34:27
Speaker 8: and the second half. They trailed by seven at one
34:30
Speaker 8: point in the second half, then finally bought their way
34:32
Speaker 8: back in finally got the lead on the Madison Booker three,
34:35
Speaker 8: and then after that then Texas started to kick it
34:38
Speaker 8: in the high gear, but Missouri wouldn't go away. They
34:42
Speaker 8: hung around and made it a contest all the way
34:45
Speaker 8: down to the last couple of minutes of the game,
34:47
Speaker 8: I say, their last two and a half minutes, and
34:48
Speaker 8: then Texas is able to push them away. But the
34:51
Speaker 8: final margin of nine points was their largest lead of
34:54
Speaker 8: the ball game, and they didn't have the leaders I
34:56
Speaker 8: mean until midway through the first So you know that
34:58
Speaker 8: old thing we've heard. I first started hearing it, I
35:01
Speaker 8: think from Mac Brown, and then we've heard it from
35:03
Speaker 8: coaches in every sport of Texas. That's they're going to
35:06
Speaker 8: get the opponent's best shot. And they certainly got a
35:09
Speaker 8: really good shot and a good test from Missouri last
35:11
Speaker 8: night before the women pulled away to win by nine.
35:13
Speaker 1: Do you think that there's anything that other teams are
35:16
Speaker 1: going to take away. I know South Carolina knocked Texas
35:18
Speaker 1: off once already this season. LSU's coming up on the schedule.
35:21
Speaker 1: Do you think that there's something that Missouri did well
35:25
Speaker 1: that other teams are going to try to copy? Well?
35:30
Speaker 8: I think always any time a good team gets in
35:33
Speaker 8: a fight with another team and really get pushed, future
35:36
Speaker 8: opponents will always look to see if there's something, if
35:38
Speaker 8: there's some sort of a blueprint they can follow for that.
35:41
Speaker 8: And probably the one thing I think that opponents might
35:45
Speaker 8: take away, but this is nothing new, really, is that
35:48
Speaker 8: if you can get driple penetration into the paint and
35:52
Speaker 8: knock down some mid range jumpers, you're really going to
35:54
Speaker 8: put yourself in good position to win the basketball game.
35:57
Speaker 8: Missouri shot sixty four percent in the first quarter and
35:59
Speaker 8: I think over fifty percent after the half. They hit
36:04
Speaker 8: a lot of mid range jumpers and a few threes,
36:07
Speaker 8: and if you can do.
36:07
Speaker 5: That, you have a chance.
36:08
Speaker 8: The obstacle there is Texas does such a good job,
36:11
Speaker 8: you know, defending on the perimeter and forcing turnovers and
36:14
Speaker 8: backward and they did a much better job of that
36:16
Speaker 8: in the second half, and then the long words obviously
36:19
Speaker 8: use their length and their size inside to be able
36:23
Speaker 8: to have an opportunity to dominate the glass, and that
36:26
Speaker 8: those are the big challenges that upcoming opponents lab other
36:30
Speaker 8: than I would say South Carolina and LSU because they
36:33
Speaker 8: both have lank, they both have sized. South Carolina already
36:36
Speaker 8: proved that in the first game in Texas. I think
36:39
Speaker 8: also made some making characteristic mistakes in that first game
36:42
Speaker 8: that I don't think they'll repeat, you know, in front
36:45
Speaker 8: of the friendly home crowd instead of the hostel seventeen
36:47
Speaker 8: thousand they saw in Columbia three weeks ago.
36:50
Speaker 1: Well, the other thing too is that I guess we
36:52
Speaker 1: have to get the Germannacs in the wash your hands
36:54
Speaker 1: because the flu did more I think the hindered Texas
36:58
Speaker 1: than maybe that Missouri defense.
37:00
Speaker 8: Well, it was sweeping through the team, for sure. They
37:04
Speaker 8: had the flute bud going through them, and it mainly
37:09
Speaker 8: I think affected Justice Carlton and a couple of the
37:12
Speaker 8: players you know, and a little bit to Leah Moore.
37:15
Speaker 8: But her main issue has been the tendonitis and the knee.
37:18
Speaker 8: She was not going to be available regardless last night,
37:20
Speaker 8: so they were all fighting through that hopefully. Uh, they
37:24
Speaker 8: won't have that'll bit clear of it when they go
37:26
Speaker 8: to College Station on Sunday to take on Texas A
37:29
Speaker 8: and M.
37:29
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about your game you have tomorrow,
37:31
Speaker 1: Craig Lsu Texas. It's gonna be a big matchup, I
37:36
Speaker 1: think for the Longhorns. This men's team comes off a
37:39
Speaker 1: loss earlier this week. Trey Johnson's been great. What do
37:44
Speaker 1: we think about about this game coming into it?
37:47
Speaker 8: Well, Rodney Terry likes to say about he wants his
37:50
Speaker 8: team to be an everyday kind of basketball team, and
37:53
Speaker 8: I've tried to get him to define that in greater detail,
37:56
Speaker 8: and what it means is it really just means, you know,
37:59
Speaker 8: more consistent play, both in how they run their offense
38:04
Speaker 8: and also what they're doing and defending. And he really
38:06
Speaker 8: wants them, as he says, to sit down and defend.
38:08
Speaker 8: And in the games they won this year in conference play,
38:11
Speaker 8: that's exactly what they've done. And they did it in
38:13
Speaker 8: the second half of the game last Saturday against Texas
38:16
Speaker 8: A and M. Once they got down twenty two points,
38:18
Speaker 8: they rebounded the basketball much better. You know. It was
38:22
Speaker 8: it was encouraging that Arthur Klumba was able to play
38:26
Speaker 8: thirty two minutes in the game coming off the knee injury,
38:29
Speaker 8: and hopefully that knee responds well and he's able to
38:32
Speaker 8: go because they're going to need it to rebound against
38:34
Speaker 8: LSU for sure.
38:35
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say too, LSU is coming
38:36
Speaker 1: off three straight losses to top ranked teams Texas A
38:40
Speaker 1: and m Alabama.
38:41
Speaker 3: Auburn.
38:41
Speaker 1: You do not want to get the wrath of the
38:43
Speaker 1: Tiger on Saturday.
38:45
Speaker 8: Well, this is another one of those teams that is
38:48
Speaker 8: better than the record indicates. It's another one of those
38:51
Speaker 8: teams that could be dangerous. You know, they were way
38:53
Speaker 8: down Auburn and then they came back to be a
38:55
Speaker 8: game against the Tigers late before succumbing to obviously the
38:59
Speaker 8: number one team in the country. In all so, they
39:02
Speaker 8: are dangerous. They have some guys who can shoot the basketball,
39:06
Speaker 8: and I think Texas needs to have a good shooting game,
39:08
Speaker 8: but most important, keep the defensive clamps on LSU to
39:12
Speaker 8: have a good shot to win this game.
39:14
Speaker 1: Now, what do you think about when we talk about
39:16
Speaker 1: the march maddness aspect of this whole thing, Because I
39:19
Speaker 1: have stayed by my take that the regular season is important.
39:23
Speaker 1: You want to get those big wins, but when it
39:25
Speaker 1: comes to the SEC tournament play, that to me is
39:27
Speaker 1: the most important thing for this team.
39:29
Speaker 8: Well, they've got a stack wins I think in the
39:33
Speaker 8: regular season for sure, they have to do that. Andrew,
39:37
Speaker 8: and you know, there's a lot of debate as to
39:40
Speaker 8: how many wins in conference play can land you an
39:43
Speaker 8: at large bit in the NCAA tournament if you don't
39:46
Speaker 8: win the conference tournament, And a lot of the prevailing
39:49
Speaker 8: wisdom seems to be if you can win even a
39:52
Speaker 8: few of seven games in this league, the number one
39:54
Speaker 8: conference in the country, if you can do that, then
39:57
Speaker 8: you're probably going to get in eight wins for sure.
39:59
Speaker 8: An eight and t conference mark we do it at
40:01
Speaker 8: seven to eleven in the toughest conference in the country,
40:04
Speaker 8: gives you a good opportunity. If you do that, then
40:07
Speaker 8: maybe you don't have to win two or three games
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Speaker 8: in the conference turnat because remember, unless you finish in
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Speaker 8: the top eight, you're gonna be playing. You're gonna have
40:15
Speaker 8: to win at least four games to win the tournament,
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Speaker 8: and if you don't finish in the top twelve, then
40:20
Speaker 8: you're gonna have to wind up playing as many at
40:23
Speaker 8: winning as many as five games to win the tournament.
40:25
Speaker 8: That's a tough ask to do it. So you want
40:28
Speaker 8: to stack as many as wins as you can in
40:30
Speaker 8: conference play.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Cam Carter, the senior four LSU.
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Speaker 1: We joked earlier this week, I said every college basketball
40:37
Speaker 1: team has just a Smorgasborg. It's like, okay, well we
40:39
Speaker 1: have a young star and then we also have a
40:41
Speaker 1: couple of transfer portal guys. What can you tell me
40:43
Speaker 1: about Cam Carter Craig.
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, like a lot of the players in
40:48
Speaker 8: the SEC, a lot of these guys are really good
40:53
Speaker 8: if you give them too much space, give them an
40:55
Speaker 8: opportunity to create their shot, and then let them be
41:00
Speaker 8: muscular as well as a good way to put it
41:02
Speaker 8: around the rim as well. And Carter's one of those guys,
41:05
Speaker 8: just like other teams are finding out about Trey Johnson.
41:07
Speaker 8: Give him enough space and he can do damage to you.
41:10
Speaker 8: So the long wards will have to dilate on him
41:13
Speaker 8: for sure, and not let him get going. That's the
41:16
Speaker 8: thing about you know, a lot of these really good
41:18
Speaker 8: players is young players. They get going, then they're hard
41:21
Speaker 8: to stop.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like an avalanche man. The butt of the
41:24
Speaker 1: baskets keep coming and coming and coming. Is Craig Way
41:27
Speaker 1: his names on the program. He is traveling tomorrow he
41:31
Speaker 1: has the game of the weekend Texas and LSU. Creigor
41:35
Speaker 1: Am I missing anything for you?
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Speaker 8: I think that's got it now it's on the catch
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Speaker 8: a plane.
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Speaker 1: Catch that playing, Craig, catch that playing. Thanks so much, Ben,
41:45
Speaker 1: you bet Andrew, take care, thanks, take care all right.
41:47
Speaker 1: Craig Way Red coming up tomorrow, Big game Texas and LSU.
41:53
Speaker 1: You can hear that game of the Texas Radio Network
41:56
Speaker 1: as well as right here on the Zone Cavid FM
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Speaker 1: in one O three one as well. But when we
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Speaker 1: come back, all star snubs, somebody's got to be it.
42:06
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who they were. Next The Craig Way Show.
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Speaker 1: Andrew zim Will filling in for Craig on Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrews Zimbil filling in for
42:13
Speaker 1: Craig Way on a free for all Friday edition of
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Speaker 1: the program. Hope you guys are having a good one
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Speaker 1: as we continue to our work our way towards the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Big weekend too for UT basketball Texas takes on LSU tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: That game at five pm. You can hear it here
42:31
Speaker 1: on the radio the LongRun Radio Network. You also can
42:35
Speaker 1: hear ut women's basketball versus Texas A and M. That
42:39
Speaker 1: game will be on one O three one as well,
42:42
Speaker 1: I believe. So let's talk about the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: Do you care about it? There's a new format. Adam
42:51
Speaker 1: Silver is trying to do everything in his power to
42:54
Speaker 1: make you care about it, including splitting up the teams.
42:58
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do is, I think we're having a
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Speaker 1: four team, four separate teams, and then those two teams
43:05
Speaker 1: will play two teams and then we'll have a final game.
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Speaker 1: The point is, we had our final selection for All
43:12
Speaker 1: Stars yesterday on NBON TNT. Now there was a bunch
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Speaker 1: of guys, first time All Stars, other players. Let's go
43:22
Speaker 1: through the West. It's gonna be Curry, Shake Gilders, Alexander Lebron, James,
43:27
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Nikola Jokic and then Anthony Edwards got announced yesterday.
43:33
Speaker 1: James Harden got announced yesterday, Anthony Davis got announced yesterday.
43:36
Speaker 1: Jalen Jackson Junior got announced yesterday. Sagoon from the Rockets
43:41
Speaker 1: was announced, Geleen Williams from the Thunder Okay, and let's
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Speaker 1: hear the lone representative from the Alamo City.
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Speaker 4: This would be the last one, the last seven picks
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Speaker 4: by the coaches.
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Speaker 3: Come on, man, come on, all Star. Oh this is tough.
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Speaker 6: This is tough, but I'm pulling for one guy.
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Speaker 4: From the San Antonio Spurs, Victor Webben Yama, another first
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Speaker 4: time All Star in his second seven twenty four a
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Speaker 4: night is number sixteen, eleven rebounds is number eight. He
44:16
Speaker 4: leads the league and blocks with four a game, ten
44:19
Speaker 4: games of thirty plus three games of forty.
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Speaker 3: Had fifty against Washington.
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Speaker 4: He was fourth by the players, fourth by the fans,
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Speaker 4: second by the media, and the coaches have selected Vic
44:31
Speaker 4: We'll deserved an NBA All Star.
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Speaker 1: And that is correct. Victyaw women Yama an All Star
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Speaker 1: for the first time. Congratulations to him. Now let's go
44:44
Speaker 1: down the Eastern Conference. Jalen Brunson, Donovan Mitchell, Jason Tatum,
44:49
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, Giannis was named and then the ones
44:53
Speaker 1: named yesterday was Darius Garland from the Cavs. Kate Cunningham
44:57
Speaker 1: his first time an All Star for the Pistons, Jalen
45:00
Speaker 1: Round the Finals, MVP, Pascal Siakam, Evan Mobley his first
45:05
Speaker 1: All Star appearance as well as Damian Lillard and Tyler Hero.
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Speaker 1: A player not announced, however, was Tray Young. Yes, Trey
45:15
Speaker 1: Young from the Atlanta Hawks not named an All Star.
45:20
Speaker 1: People were very upset. Let's hear from the TNT crew
45:25
Speaker 1: about Young getting snubbed.
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Speaker 6: I'm a little surprised on the Trey Young thing.
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Speaker 3: Uh so am I? Yeah, that's right, that's.
45:35
Speaker 6: I'm a little surprised on that, But I'm not trying
45:38
Speaker 6: to like, First of all, everybody deserves to make it.
45:41
Speaker 6: But I'm a little shocked Trey Young didn't make the dog
45:44
Speaker 6: because he's played. He's played probably in my opinion, his best.
45:48
Speaker 4: Year twenty three and eleven leaves the league and assists well,
45:52
Speaker 4: you should stop passing now.
45:53
Speaker 3: But he.
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Speaker 8: So.
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Speaker 1: It would be one thing if Trey Young was on
45:59
Speaker 1: a team was struggling like the Atlanta Hawks. They're trying
46:02
Speaker 1: to find their nine seed right now. They're trying to
46:04
Speaker 1: find their way back in the winning way or winning column.
46:07
Speaker 1: They lose a very important piece as well. We'll tell
46:11
Speaker 1: you that about that in a second. But Young, he
46:14
Speaker 1: currently leads the NBA and assists per game and eleven
46:17
Speaker 1: and a half. He's got great efficiency from the field,
46:22
Speaker 1: his team ninth in the East. He's once again left
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Speaker 1: off the All Star roster, and again people are not
46:28
Speaker 1: happy about that. Tray Young went online tweeted about it.
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Speaker 4: Can I throw another name out there that I'm surprised
46:36
Speaker 4: that we didn't hear Demona Sabonis.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, so you know, I think they started
46:42
Speaker 6: so slower.
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Speaker 3: I mean that might have hurt his chances, but.
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Speaker 4: He's been he's I mean, look twenty one and for
46:49
Speaker 4: he leads the league in rebounding, He's second in three
46:52
Speaker 4: point percentage. He leads the league in double doubles with
46:55
Speaker 4: forty two. He said, double doubles in forty two out
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Speaker 4: of the forty four games in a long star right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the bonus for you. He played forty four
47:03
Speaker 1: games this season, recorded a double double and forty two
47:05
Speaker 1: of them, so all but two games. His third straight
47:08
Speaker 1: year leading the NBA in rebounding. The Kings did take
47:12
Speaker 1: a step back, and you know, dearon Fox and exactly thrilled. Now,
47:16
Speaker 1: another name that got left off was LaMelo Ball, who
47:20
Speaker 1: led the way in fan voting. I'll never understand that
47:24
Speaker 1: that's one of those get off my lawn takes that
47:26
Speaker 1: I have. I guess I'm just aging out of the
47:28
Speaker 1: NBA All Star voting demographic. I've watched LaMelo ball play.
47:32
Speaker 1: He's an exciting player. He's not a winning player. He's
47:35
Speaker 1: averaging twenty eight to five and seven this season on
47:38
Speaker 1: a Hornets team that's going to be in the lottery again.
47:42
Speaker 1: But look, the kids love him because he was the
47:44
Speaker 1: number one fan voted player. Norman Powell in his first season,
47:49
Speaker 1: starting after the removal of After Paul George has left
47:53
Speaker 1: to go to the seventy six ers, Norman Powell takes
47:55
Speaker 1: a step up, averages twenty four, three and two, and
48:00
Speaker 1: this is again his first year as a regular starter.
48:03
Speaker 1: Clippers are pretty good, even without Paul George and Kawhi
48:05
Speaker 1: missing a bunch of time. Norman pals somebody. People have
48:08
Speaker 1: talked about it, and of course Devin Booker. The Suns
48:11
Speaker 1: are a complete mess, but Booker has played really well
48:14
Speaker 1: twenty five and a half points, four rebounds, seven assists.
48:18
Speaker 1: The deal, though, is this, and I've said this for
48:21
Speaker 1: a while, is it every year we do this? Every
48:25
Speaker 1: single season. We have the All Star Game announcement, we
48:28
Speaker 1: go through the parade, we go through the flowers and
48:34
Speaker 1: the confetti, and we say congratulations all these guys for
48:37
Speaker 1: making an exhibition game that, let's be honest, nobody really
48:40
Speaker 1: tries for. And I haven't seen an All Star game
48:43
Speaker 1: that was hyper competitive since Kobe Bryant retired. The last
48:47
Speaker 1: one was in Toronto when Kobe was pushing all those
48:51
Speaker 1: guys to really try to like win the game. I
48:54
Speaker 1: was in twenty sixteen. So we've almost had a decade
48:57
Speaker 1: of un character or now characteristically uneventful, unenthused games in
49:05
Speaker 1: the NBA. But it's an NBA All Star roster and
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Speaker 1: you can't have everybody on it, because at what point
49:14
Speaker 1: do we just keep letting guys on, letting guys on,
49:16
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden we're complaining about who
49:19
Speaker 1: getting left off. We're upset that Zach Levine for the
49:22
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls didn't have an All Star spot. We're upset
49:25
Speaker 1: that Jalen Johnson, that's the player who the Atlanta Hawks
49:28
Speaker 1: will be missing for the rest of the season after
49:30
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. Are we upset that he won't make
49:33
Speaker 1: an All Star Game roster? We start going to the
49:36
Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel, We start losing kind of the
49:39
Speaker 1: thread of this whole thing about caring about who makes
49:43
Speaker 1: the team and who does it these roster spots, Even
49:47
Speaker 1: for a game that is meaningless, even for a game
49:50
Speaker 1: that hasn't been very competitive, being an All Star still
49:55
Speaker 1: means something, if not to the check books of these owners.
49:59
Speaker 1: And here's what I mean by that. When you take
50:01
Speaker 1: into account the contracts that some of these players get,
50:04
Speaker 1: their incentive based a lot of time. To get the Supermax,
50:07
Speaker 1: you have to hit certain thresholds. You have to be
50:09
Speaker 1: all NBA, have to win an MVP, Defensive Player of
50:12
Speaker 1: the Year, go to a finals, win a finals. There's
50:15
Speaker 1: incentives in these contracts. All Star game incentives exist in
50:19
Speaker 1: most of the NBA's star contracts. If we're giving out
50:25
Speaker 1: the roster spots to everybody, if we're expanding the rosters
50:29
Speaker 1: to forty a piece for the East and the West,
50:33
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter anymore. And it starts turning into
50:35
Speaker 1: what the Pro Bowl has turned into. Did you know
50:37
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl had events last night? On Thursday night?
50:41
Speaker 1: ESPM was trying to get me excited for it. I
50:43
Speaker 1: don't watch a second. I saw the highlights this morning
50:47
Speaker 1: of Sam Darnold throwing dots all over the field in
50:50
Speaker 1: one of the little challenges wondering where was this in
50:53
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Sam, But the Pro Bowl turned into the
50:58
Speaker 1: most uncompetitive, unwatchable event in sports. But football is different
51:04
Speaker 1: because it's a sport that might kill you if you
51:07
Speaker 1: don't tackle somebody the right way. It's a violent sport.
51:10
Speaker 1: And for guys who are just playing an exhibition game,
51:13
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense to play a violent sport. Basketball
51:16
Speaker 1: is something that will you pick up and you play
51:18
Speaker 1: in the backyard, you play it against your five year old. Okay,
51:22
Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be what it has turned into,
51:25
Speaker 1: which is guys going up and down the court, lollygagging,
51:28
Speaker 1: throwing alle loops, half court shots. It's fun for a
51:32
Speaker 1: little bit, but can I get a little competitiveness. I
51:35
Speaker 1: really do want to care about the All Star Game,
51:38
Speaker 1: I really do. But when the number one storyline will
51:42
Speaker 1: be that Caitlin Clark turned down your invitation to shoot
51:46
Speaker 1: three pointers, and your second storyline will be that Trey
51:49
Speaker 1: Young got quote snubbed from the All Star Game, your
51:52
Speaker 1: All Star Game stinks. That's the problem at this point
51:55
Speaker 1: for the NBA. You got to find a way to
51:57
Speaker 1: make this more competitive, and it doesn't have to come.
52:00
Speaker 1: I'm paying the guys more money. It doesn't have to
52:02
Speaker 1: be that way. Adam Silver could tell these guys, you're
52:05
Speaker 1: making our product look bad here, guys, being as uncompetitive
52:09
Speaker 1: as this game is, why don't we just cancel it
52:12
Speaker 1: instead of having you guys go up and down the
52:14
Speaker 1: court doing whatever you want to do. All right, that's enough.
52:17
Speaker 1: When we come back, arch Manning opens up as the
52:19
Speaker 1: Heisman favorite this season to go into twenty twenty five.
52:24
Speaker 1: I'm going to explain why that should excite you as
52:27
Speaker 1: a Texas fan, and you shouldn't pay attention to it
52:30
Speaker 1: if you're a gambler. Next Under The Craig Way Show,
52:33
Speaker 1: Andrew Zimbol fillion for Craig on Sports Radio AM thirteen
52:35
Speaker 1: hundred The Zone. Andrew Zimbol filling in for Craig Way
52:38
Speaker 1: on a free for all Friday. That is right. Got
52:43
Speaker 1: a lot going on in hour number three of the program,
52:46
Speaker 1: including Lea Van from The Chronicle coming on to the
52:50
Speaker 1: Koran out of Houston to talk to us about baseball
52:55
Speaker 1: pictures and catchers getting close to report Alex Fregman could
52:58
Speaker 1: he be leaving each town? Also her thoughts on the
53:02
Speaker 1: Dodgers deferring more money than God. Yeah, if the Yankees
53:07
Speaker 1: can't keep up with you, I don't know what is
53:09
Speaker 1: going to happen to that sport. Also, Vic Shaeffer, the
53:13
Speaker 1: head coach of Texas women's basketball, speaks after a win yesterday,
53:17
Speaker 1: a seventy sixty one win over Missouri. Head coach Schaeffer
53:21
Speaker 1: gives us an idea of what's going around or going
53:23
Speaker 1: through his mind as we get into the final or
53:28
Speaker 1: I should say the final month of regular season in
53:29
Speaker 1: February and a game on Sunday against Texas A and
53:35
Speaker 1: M as well as let's start here, let's talk about
53:40
Speaker 1: the UT women's basketball team. A win yesterday against Missouri.
53:43
Speaker 1: Seventy sixty one was the final score, and it wasn't
53:47
Speaker 1: easy to get it done. It came down to a
53:52
Speaker 1: good stretch in the second half for the Texas women's team.
53:59
Speaker 1: This is a team that had a lot going on.
54:03
Speaker 1: It was a tough time. They've had a lot going
54:06
Speaker 1: on when it comes to the injury and sickness bug.
54:11
Speaker 1: So Texas started the game, forcing two Missouri turnovers in
54:14
Speaker 1: the opening two minutes. Then Taylor Jones connected with a
54:18
Speaker 1: pair of free throws to finish trailing by seven after
54:21
Speaker 1: one quarter, twenty to thirteen, and they scored nine points
54:25
Speaker 1: in the first Jones opened the second quarter of the
54:27
Speaker 1: layup with a three pointer from Lee. Texas went on
54:30
Speaker 1: a ten oh run to finish the half trailing by two,
54:34
Speaker 1: thirty five to thirty three. This is when things get exciting.
54:39
Speaker 1: The long Horns came back in the to start the
54:41
Speaker 1: half with seven points, and this big shot from Booker
54:45
Speaker 1: was a shot to take the lead. This is way one.
54:49
Speaker 2: Harman got a bath drives had underneath, it goes out.
54:52
Speaker 2: The Booker fires up a three. There you go, knocks
54:58
Speaker 2: it down. The lowboards out their first thirty eight thirty.
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Speaker 1: Five, and you can hear Craig wait to call on
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Speaker 1: one of three to one yesterday take the lead in
55:08
Speaker 1: the third quarter, forced three straight turnovers. Hell Missouri to
55:13
Speaker 1: over a two minute scoring drought into the third leading
55:16
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty five, but grew up in the
55:19
Speaker 1: final quarter with a jumper to lead sixty two to
55:22
Speaker 1: fifty seven. Shea Holly drained to three to go up eight,
55:25
Speaker 1: and then the rest is history. Texas moves on now
55:28
Speaker 1: to take on Texas A and M in College Station
55:32
Speaker 1: on Sunday five pm. Tip The long Horns approved to
55:36
Speaker 1: twenty one to two on the season, seven to one
55:38
Speaker 1: in SEC play. They've only lost to South Carolina and
55:41
Speaker 1: they have a rematch against the game Cocks later in February.
55:45
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday. Mark your calendars. Long Horns have won
55:48
Speaker 1: their fifth straight. They're eleven to zero in the Movie
55:50
Speaker 1: Center this season and fifty or forty three and five
55:54
Speaker 1: in their home arena. This is the fifth straight game
55:57
Speaker 1: for Taylor Jones to have a double figures in her
56:00
Speaker 1: fifteenth game of the season, and Madison Booker reached double
56:03
Speaker 1: digits for the seventeenth time this season, which is where
56:05
Speaker 1: we're going to pivot and talk about Madison Booker. So
56:09
Speaker 1: she was on a Good Game with Sarah Spain podcast
56:12
Speaker 1: with her head coach Vick Schaeffer earlier this week. Now
56:16
Speaker 1: you've probably heard the promos for Sarah Spain's podcast, the
56:20
Speaker 1: former ESPN R coming to iHeart to do a women's
56:24
Speaker 1: sports podcast, and if you haven't checked it out, it's
56:27
Speaker 1: on the free iHeartRadio app. Then you would improved. Make
56:29
Speaker 1: sure you use a preset set the zone as one
56:32
Speaker 1: of your presets so you can follow ut athletics throughout
56:36
Speaker 1: the season. But the podcast is over there. Check it out.
56:40
Speaker 1: This is the clip talking to Madison Booker and Vic
56:43
Speaker 1: Schaeffer about Booker deciding to join the Texas Longhorns.
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Speaker 9: What was it about coach that made you know you
56:50
Speaker 9: wanted to play for him wherever he was?
56:52
Speaker 10: He knows how to win, he knows how to win.
56:54
Speaker 10: He's passionate. I guess say it is a lie.
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Speaker 1: He's a great guy.
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Speaker 5: Man, He's a great guy.
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Speaker 10: But yeah, just watching him, just players he had in
57:02
Speaker 10: the past and how he developed them players, and I mean,
57:06
Speaker 10: I just love watching him win and be staying And
57:08
Speaker 10: I thought, you know, I could, you know, win a
57:10
Speaker 10: lot of games.
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Speaker 1: Under him too, So I mean, why not. So I'm
57:14
Speaker 1: gonna take loon Horn now.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Coach, that's gotta feel really good. Huh oh man,
57:20
Speaker 5: it's uh.
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Speaker 1: You're grinning over there.
57:22
Speaker 7: I am, you know, But again, it's it's, you know,
57:27
Speaker 7: the confidence that I have in her, Probably as confident
57:32
Speaker 7: as any kid I've ever had. But it's because I
57:37
Speaker 7: see the work that she puts in. And when nobody's around,
57:40
Speaker 7: you know, my office is here, I overlooked the practice gym.
57:44
Speaker 7: She's in the gym a lot with Shaeffer, Junior, our assistant.
57:51
Speaker 5: But I mean, I told her the other.
57:53
Speaker 7: Night, I don't care if she's made five in a
57:55
Speaker 7: row or missed five in a row. I'm coming to
57:58
Speaker 7: her one hundred out of a hundred times. And again
58:04
Speaker 7: just knowing, knowing that she's invested in the time that
58:08
Speaker 7: she spent, the confidence that I have in her, and
58:12
Speaker 7: then you see.
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Speaker 5: She's a great kid. Like she's she's such a great kid.
58:19
Speaker 7: Parents, wonderful parents have done a great job with her,
58:23
Speaker 7: great family. You know, when you go in there and
58:26
Speaker 7: recruit her, you're not only doing you know, having to
58:29
Speaker 7: talk to mom and dad. You got Auntie in there,
58:31
Speaker 7: you got Granny in there. I mean, and you know,
58:36
Speaker 7: for me, man, I don't want to let any of
58:38
Speaker 7: those people down. But just knowing and now that we've
58:43
Speaker 7: been together the time that we have, she's still got
58:48
Speaker 7: you know, knowing, she's going to be that much better
58:50
Speaker 7: and she's going to get there because of her work.
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Speaker 1: Ethic Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone that was
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Speaker 1: from the Good Game podcast with Sarah Spain, the Madison
59:00
Speaker 1: Booker and head coach Vick Schaefer. You can listen to
59:03
Speaker 1: that podcast on the Free iHeartRadio app. We'll hear more
59:06
Speaker 1: from head coach Vick Schaeffer later in the hour, But
59:10
Speaker 1: let's talk NBA All Stars because the San Antonio Spurs
59:14
Speaker 1: have one. This is what it sounded last night on
59:17
Speaker 1: the NBA on TNT.
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Speaker 4: This would be the last one, the last of seven
59:28
Speaker 4: picks by the coaches.
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Speaker 6: Come on, man, come on, all Star. Oh this is tough,
59:32
Speaker 6: This is tough, but I'm pulling.
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Speaker 4: For one guy from the San Antonio Spurs, Victor wembn Yama,
59:41
Speaker 4: another first time All Star in his second semasion. Twenty
59:45
Speaker 4: four a night is number sixteen, eleven rebounds is number eight.
59:49
Speaker 4: He leads the league in blocks with four a game,
59:52
Speaker 4: ten games of thirty plus three games of forty had
59:55
Speaker 4: fifty against Washington. He was fourth by the players, fourth
59:59
Speaker 4: by the fans, second by the media, and the coaches
1:00:02
Speaker 4: have selected Vic.
1:00:04
Speaker 3: We'll deserve an NBA All start.
1:00:08
Speaker 1: So of the NBA All Stars, the one that caught
1:00:12
Speaker 1: the most attention for not making the team was Trey Young.
1:00:16
Speaker 1: Trey Young averaging twenty two and a half three rebounds
1:00:19
Speaker 1: and a season high a player high eleven and a
1:00:24
Speaker 1: half assist. So he misses the All Star Game fourth
1:00:28
Speaker 1: time in his seventh year a seven year career. So far,
1:00:32
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks twenty two to twenty five, ninth in
1:00:34
Speaker 1: the East Side. Note huge for the Spurs have Wimby
1:00:39
Speaker 1: named as an NBA All Star. Also, Spurs fans have
1:00:43
Speaker 1: been keeping a very very close eye on the Atlanta
1:00:46
Speaker 1: Hawks as they hold their unprotected first round pick. So
1:00:52
Speaker 1: I imagine that Spurs fans were like, well, Trey Young did
1:00:55
Speaker 1: make the All Star Game, They're out an impactful player
1:00:59
Speaker 1: in Jalen Johnson. Hmm. This could be a very interesting
1:01:04
Speaker 1: last couple of months of the NBA regular season, and
1:01:06
Speaker 1: depending on where the Hawks end up, Spurs might end
1:01:08
Speaker 1: up with a pretty high lottery pick as well. But
1:01:11
Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neal had thoughts. He was asked the question, should
1:01:15
Speaker 1: Trey Young be disappointed in not making the NBA All
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Speaker 1: Star Game?
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Speaker 3: Should Trey be disappointed?
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Speaker 11: He should be mad, He should be upset because he
1:01:27
Speaker 11: said it like I was supposed to be said, twenty
1:01:29
Speaker 11: four best players in the league, and he is one
1:01:31
Speaker 11: of the twenty four best players in the league. I
1:01:34
Speaker 11: think the system is flawed, Like we need a letter
1:01:38
Speaker 11: of the law definition of what an All Star was
1:01:41
Speaker 11: supposed to be.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: What's how that you.
1:01:43
Speaker 11: Tell me a guy that can flat out play put
1:01:46
Speaker 11: up points, you know, winning or losing it. They're not
1:01:48
Speaker 11: winning there and nice and if you know, we don't
1:01:50
Speaker 11: playoffs starts today they would be in a play and
1:01:52
Speaker 11: so that's not really losing. So but yeah, when when
1:01:55
Speaker 11: you talk about the twenty four best players in league,
1:01:57
Speaker 11: it's a guy that you know can put up serious
1:01:59
Speaker 11: numbers and the guy I can play.
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Speaker 1: So first off, hilarious. There needs to be a letter
1:02:04
Speaker 1: of the law. There needs to be a line in
1:02:06
Speaker 1: the stand. There needs to be a standard for NBA
1:02:09
Speaker 1: All Star. Okay, well what is the line? What does
1:02:11
Speaker 1: it matter? Well, it's just somebody that can play. It's like, okay,
1:02:14
Speaker 1: cool co cool, so kind of up for interpretation like
1:02:18
Speaker 1: being an All Star. So the way I look at
1:02:20
Speaker 1: it as is this, the Atlanta Hawks aren't winning enough games,
1:02:25
Speaker 1: and Trey Young, while being a very impressive scorer and
1:02:27
Speaker 1: doing a very good job of turn or assisting the team,
1:02:32
Speaker 1: isn't winning. And when you think about all of the
1:02:36
Speaker 1: great players on bad teams who have for years, we're
1:02:39
Speaker 1: talking decades of NBA history, haven't made All Star Games
1:02:44
Speaker 1: because their team wasn't winning. Yeah, that's kind of an
1:02:46
Speaker 1: important part. Winning the game is the most important part.
1:02:51
Speaker 1: The other part I have said is that if everybody
1:02:54
Speaker 1: gets in, it's no longer an All Star game. It's
1:02:59
Speaker 1: just a it's an exhibition, so everybody can join up.
1:03:03
Speaker 1: And maybe that's what they do. Maybe that's what the
1:03:05
Speaker 1: NBA does. As the NBA All Star Game continues to
1:03:08
Speaker 1: get worse and worse ratings as fewer and fewer people
1:03:12
Speaker 1: want to sit and watch guys run up and down
1:03:14
Speaker 1: the court, throwing up half court shots and alley oops
1:03:18
Speaker 1: and playing a zero defense or less defense than they
1:03:20
Speaker 1: might on a normal Saturday night game. When we get
1:03:24
Speaker 1: to this point where they just want to invite everybody,
1:03:28
Speaker 1: just do that. Have a free for all at an
1:03:30
Speaker 1: open park, or have a free for all wherever they
1:03:34
Speaker 1: want to have the All Star Game, preferably in a
1:03:36
Speaker 1: warmer destination. I know they had it in Milwaukee a
1:03:38
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I had some friends who
1:03:40
Speaker 1: went there. They were not thrilled, how cold it was.
1:03:44
Speaker 1: Just have a free for all, let them all show up.
1:03:46
Speaker 1: Whoever wants to play play. We picked teams and we
1:03:48
Speaker 1: just run open court. I mean that, honestly, probably would
1:03:51
Speaker 1: be more competitive. I would argue that the open court
1:03:55
Speaker 1: runs between NBA players and college players and AAU players
1:03:59
Speaker 1: are more competitive during the summer months. Then the NBA
1:04:03
Speaker 1: All Star Game is in the middle of the middle
1:04:05
Speaker 1: of the season. Another player left off Sabonis forty four
1:04:09
Speaker 1: games this season, forty two of them with a double double.
1:04:12
Speaker 1: The Kings cannot catch a break the Aaron Fox. The
1:04:16
Speaker 1: trade is still very much up in the air. We
1:04:19
Speaker 1: will see how that ends up. According to Spurs reporters,
1:04:23
Speaker 1: we are on the cusp of a fourteen deal between
1:04:27
Speaker 1: the Spurs, the Kings and two other unknown teams. Will
1:04:30
Speaker 1: see how that pans out. We hope that it gets
1:04:31
Speaker 1: done before our show ends because I would love to
1:04:35
Speaker 1: talk about it. But next up, it's Lea Van from
1:04:38
Speaker 1: the Kronon coming on to talk about baseball and never
1:04:42
Speaker 1: too early to talk baseball on the Zone next on
1:04:45
Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred, The Zone siding for the
1:04:48
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer andrews Zill on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred,
1:04:52
Speaker 1: The Zone got a lot to get into. We were
1:04:55
Speaker 1: eight days away from pitchers and catchers reporting and on
1:04:59
Speaker 1: the phone line with us right now is Leah Van
1:05:01
Speaker 1: from crime dot Com to talk to us about it.
1:05:04
Speaker 1: How excited are you for a baseball season.
1:05:09
Speaker 12: I'm very excited. I'm pretty much ready to go booked
1:05:13
Speaker 12: my spring training trip. And yeah, especially since football's kind
1:05:18
Speaker 12: of been I guess we've got the super Bowl, but
1:05:20
Speaker 12: it's been kind of over for like a Texans you.
1:05:22
Speaker 1: Know, for a while, exactly exactly, so I want to
1:05:26
Speaker 1: start here Alex Bragman clearly the biggest story coming out
1:05:29
Speaker 1: of Houston right now. Where are we right now with
1:05:33
Speaker 1: the Bragman and Astro talk?
1:05:36
Speaker 9: I mean, where aren't we?
1:05:37
Speaker 5: Like?
1:05:37
Speaker 12: I mean, it's just one of those things where it
1:05:41
Speaker 12: depends on what minute of the day that we're in.
1:05:45
Speaker 12: But basically the Astros you know, are going to stick
1:05:49
Speaker 12: to their offer of six years and one hundred and
1:05:51
Speaker 12: to million, and he wants two hundred million because you know,
1:05:56
Speaker 12: the offer on the table is kind of in a
1:06:00
Speaker 12: way of pay cuts by comparison. Previous contract was backwarded,
1:06:06
Speaker 12: so he was very twenty eight point five million per
1:06:09
Speaker 12: year at the end of that contract, even though it's
1:06:12
Speaker 12: the whole entire thing worked out to be about twenty
1:06:16
Speaker 12: million a year and this new contract would average you know,
1:06:20
Speaker 12: twenty six million a year, so it's not actually a
1:06:23
Speaker 12: pay cut. Obviously, that would make him the highest paint
1:06:27
Speaker 12: surfacement because Matt schampan find a sixty year, one hundred
1:06:31
Speaker 12: and fifty one million dollars deal you know, last season.
1:06:34
Speaker 12: But yeah, apparently the Red Sox and adj and uh,
1:06:40
Speaker 12: the Tigers have all kind of been making their pitches
1:06:45
Speaker 12: to him, and so far as the word is like,
1:06:50
Speaker 12: oh he hasn't, there isn't an organization that's really offered
1:06:54
Speaker 12: that he says high on his lips. So yeah, I
1:06:58
Speaker 12: don't know. It's it's one of those changer. It's just
1:07:01
Speaker 12: absolutely ever changing. And I don't know, I don't think
1:07:06
Speaker 12: he'll be a Houston Astro. But if that is the case,
1:07:10
Speaker 12: the Astros need to go to like sign an outfield
1:07:12
Speaker 12: or something, you know.
1:07:14
Speaker 1: So that's where I was going to go with this, because,
1:07:16
Speaker 1: like I said, we're eight days away from pictures and
1:07:18
Speaker 1: catchers coming and starting the twenty twenty five season. Do
1:07:22
Speaker 1: the Astros have a backup plan? There has to be
1:07:24
Speaker 1: something in the works if they can't get their all
1:07:27
Speaker 1: star third baseman to resign.
1:07:31
Speaker 9: Yeah, you would think and you know, I think I
1:07:35
Speaker 9: feel like the clock is ticking and all the other
1:07:38
Speaker 9: you know, all the other deals are kind of wrapping
1:07:42
Speaker 9: up at this point in time. So I feel like,
1:07:43
Speaker 9: you know, we're all just in a waiting pattern. And
1:07:48
Speaker 9: the assuals do have a couple of prospects that have
1:07:51
Speaker 9: some playing experience from last year just as a product
1:07:53
Speaker 9: of injuries and stuff like that. You still have guys
1:07:56
Speaker 9: in the outfield like Chads McCormick and Gosh and you know,
1:08:02
Speaker 9: Jake Myers, a returning Jordan, but like Chaz didn't have
1:08:06
Speaker 9: a good season last year. And then you've got some
1:08:09
Speaker 9: prospects like Jacob Melton, peder Leone. But it would be
1:08:15
Speaker 9: nice if they had somebody who was a little bit
1:08:17
Speaker 9: more of a veteran status and a little bit more
1:08:19
Speaker 9: of a big name to kind of replace a potential
1:08:22
Speaker 9: loss in Bregman.
1:08:24
Speaker 1: And it sounds like Bregman wants to stay in Houston
1:08:27
Speaker 1: or am I just reading every social media post now
1:08:29
Speaker 1: on x that it sounds like he wants to be
1:08:32
Speaker 1: in Houston and they just cannot find a way to
1:08:34
Speaker 1: get a deal.
1:08:37
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that would be his preference obviously. I mean,
1:08:39
Speaker 9: these are his guys, and this is where he's been
1:08:42
Speaker 9: for ever, for his entire career. But I think he
1:08:46
Speaker 9: also wants to get paid, and I you know, I
1:08:49
Speaker 9: think that he has the right to, you know, want that.
1:08:53
Speaker 9: It's just you know how the Astros are. And even
1:08:56
Speaker 9: Jim Crane I like tucked him say, and he's like,
1:08:58
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna hey a ton of I'm not gonna
1:09:02
Speaker 9: do something that's not good business, you know, And so
1:09:06
Speaker 9: we'll see what happens. I don't know. It kind of
1:09:08
Speaker 9: just just depends. I mean I could get off the
1:09:10
Speaker 9: phone call and he can sign.
1:09:12
Speaker 2: You know.
1:09:13
Speaker 1: That's and you know what a lot of that has
1:09:16
Speaker 1: happened to me recently, where guys just decide to sign
1:09:18
Speaker 1: contracts right when the show ends. I want to start.
1:09:21
Speaker 1: You talked about the money and the Astros are not
1:09:24
Speaker 1: one of the heavy spenders this offseason, but the La
1:09:28
Speaker 1: Dodgers are. They have deferred more money. They've outspent everybody.
1:09:32
Speaker 1: And hal Steinbrenner actually brought up that the Yankees cannot
1:09:37
Speaker 1: compete with how much they're spending. From your point of view,
1:09:40
Speaker 1: from somebody the covers of the game day to day,
1:09:44
Speaker 1: is this bad for the sport? With what the Dodgers
1:09:46
Speaker 1: have done.
1:09:48
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't think it's really that. I mean,
1:09:52
Speaker 9: I guess it's weird, but no, I don't think it is.
1:09:56
Speaker 9: I think it's what keeps baseball on people's mind, people talking.
1:10:01
Speaker 9: And you know, every league that has experienced like ups
1:10:05
Speaker 9: and downs like those up years is you have a villain, right,
1:10:08
Speaker 9: Like having a villain to chase is so good for branding.
1:10:12
Speaker 9: And yeah, the old hags are like, oh, well, if
1:10:15
Speaker 9: they're gonna pay this much money, I'm not gonna watch
1:10:18
Speaker 9: baseball anymore. And it's the same guys who don't want
1:10:20
Speaker 9: college players to be paid. And guess what, people are
1:10:24
Speaker 9: watching college football. It does not matter. The spending does
1:10:27
Speaker 9: not matter that much to fans. If people like think
1:10:30
Speaker 9: that it does, it just it's like it's ridiculous. Yes,
1:10:34
Speaker 9: But at the same time, they have all these big names,
1:10:38
Speaker 9: and you know, the moment they lose like a three
1:10:41
Speaker 9: game series, like everybody's gonna go bonker, you know, and
1:10:46
Speaker 9: the moment that one of them gets hurt or something
1:10:49
Speaker 9: like that, again, that's it's gonna break news. So as
1:10:53
Speaker 9: far as it being bad for the sport, I think
1:10:55
Speaker 9: it just adds more fire and spice amongst executives and
1:11:01
Speaker 9: amongst teams. I don't think fans really care about the spending,
1:11:06
Speaker 9: and I guess it's annoying to see that many stars
1:11:09
Speaker 9: on one team. And we thought the same thing about
1:11:11
Speaker 9: like the Golden State Warriors years back, and we thought
1:11:13
Speaker 9: the same thing about the Miami Heat. We thought the
1:11:15
Speaker 9: same thing about the Cavs. You know, like every majorly
1:11:19
Speaker 9: successful sports franchise who has spent an exorbitant amount of
1:11:23
Speaker 9: money has been annoying for everybody, right, but having that
1:11:27
Speaker 9: villain is so good because it gives everybody something to chase.
1:11:32
Speaker 9: Everybody loves to hate in sports. That is our favorite pathtime.
1:11:36
Speaker 9: Do you give us any reason to hate somebody, or
1:11:38
Speaker 9: hate a team, or hate an organization. We're all locked in.
1:11:43
Speaker 1: I love that, and I've said that for a long
1:11:44
Speaker 1: time that you know, you can love your team, but
1:11:47
Speaker 1: you'll hate watch We'll bring you to the couch. Lea
1:11:50
Speaker 1: vanfromcron dot com talking to us about baseball his pitchers
1:11:53
Speaker 1: and catchers report in about a week from today. What
1:11:58
Speaker 1: other stories have been working on and where can we
1:12:00
Speaker 1: find him?
1:12:00
Speaker 9: Leah, Yeah, I mean I've got a couple of things
1:12:04
Speaker 9: in the works. I know I'm talking on Austin radio station.
1:12:08
Speaker 9: You know, I'm at Texas alum. But I have two
1:12:10
Speaker 9: texting and in baseball stories right now. And then I'm
1:12:12
Speaker 9: working on doing a lot of interviews about head coach
1:12:15
Speaker 9: Michael Early and kind of his come up story. And
1:12:18
Speaker 9: then they're starting pitcher Ryan Prager why he turned down
1:12:22
Speaker 9: like nine thousand dollars third rounds or second round selection
1:12:25
Speaker 9: with the Angels to come back and play for A
1:12:27
Speaker 9: and M. And then I'm working on a story actually
1:12:29
Speaker 9: about Jim Crane and his background and playing college baseball
1:12:32
Speaker 9: at the D two level and how that has shaped
1:12:35
Speaker 9: his career as an executive. And Bash was also added
1:12:39
Speaker 9: a new strength coach, Stephanie Grubbs this offseason, and so
1:12:42
Speaker 9: I'm profiling her as well, and you can all, yeah,
1:12:45
Speaker 9: you can find it all on cron dot com in
1:12:47
Speaker 9: the coming.
1:12:47
Speaker 8: Weeks and months.
1:12:48
Speaker 1: It's my favorite. And I'll tell you what, Leah, reading
1:12:51
Speaker 1: your tweets and reading your stories about college baseball. College
1:12:54
Speaker 1: baseball is great. You take it to another level the
1:12:57
Speaker 1: excitement and the love for the sport. Appreciate that, well,
1:13:02
Speaker 1: thank you.
1:13:02
Speaker 9: I mean, I think it's fun, it's quirky, and it's
1:13:05
Speaker 9: something that is that I think more people should pay
1:13:08
Speaker 9: attention to.
1:13:10
Speaker 1: Lea Van from Cron dot com. Thank you so much
1:13:12
Speaker 1: for hanging out with us on The Craigway Show.
1:13:14
Speaker 9: Yeah you too, Thanks for having me.
1:13:16
Speaker 1: More coming up in a bit, including Vic Shafe for
1:13:19
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Texas women's basketball team. He
1:13:22
Speaker 1: had media availability earlier today, previewed the upcoming game against
1:13:28
Speaker 1: Texas A and M on Sunday, as well as spoke
1:13:32
Speaker 1: about his time building programs at Sam Houston State and
1:13:36
Speaker 1: what does it mean to have Sidney Carter on your
1:13:41
Speaker 1: coaching staff. He gets into all of that. We'll bring
1:13:44
Speaker 1: to you next on The Craigway Show. Andrew Zim will
1:13:46
Speaker 1: fill you in for Craig on a free for all
1:13:48
Speaker 1: Friday on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew
1:13:53
Speaker 1: Zimble as we continue to roll along an hour number
1:13:56
Speaker 1: three of The Craigway Show. If you missed any of
1:13:59
Speaker 1: the show, make sure you go back and listen to
1:14:01
Speaker 1: the podcast version of it. We do a pretty good
1:14:04
Speaker 1: job of cutting him up and posting them for you
1:14:07
Speaker 1: for your listening pleasure. Lea Van from the Kron dot
1:14:11
Speaker 1: Com giving us an idea of what is coming up
1:14:14
Speaker 1: for the Houston Astros this season. I talked about it
1:14:17
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier this week about Max Schurzer, forty
1:14:21
Speaker 1: one years old, gonna sign a one year deal with
1:14:23
Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays fifteen and a half million dollars,
1:14:27
Speaker 1: and then Justin Erlinder signed out west with the Giants
1:14:30
Speaker 1: as well, So a lot of those older pitchers trying
1:14:33
Speaker 1: to get that last contract. Alex Bregman still not signed yet,
1:14:38
Speaker 1: thirty years old, looking for a long term deal to
1:14:40
Speaker 1: get him into his late thirties imaginable, So we'll see
1:14:43
Speaker 1: if he resigns with the astroser ends up going somewhere else.
1:14:49
Speaker 1: Red Sox are a favorite as well. So ESPN's women's
1:14:54
Speaker 1: basketball bracketology currently has the three one seeds if the
1:15:00
Speaker 1: tournament started today, being UCLA, South Carolina, Notre Dame, and
1:15:06
Speaker 1: USC and UT would be a two seaton of course,
1:15:10
Speaker 1: the host of that Austin region. We will see how
1:15:14
Speaker 1: that turns out. They have a big schedule coming up
1:15:18
Speaker 1: down the stretch for UT, including a game this Sunday
1:15:22
Speaker 1: against Texas A and M and then games against South Carolina, LSU,
1:15:26
Speaker 1: Kentucky to going into the month of February. But let's
1:15:30
Speaker 1: talk about that road to an SEC title. In year
1:15:34
Speaker 1: one in the SEC, Vick Schaeffer spoke to the media
1:15:38
Speaker 1: day and was asked, do you see a road map
1:15:42
Speaker 1: for an SEC title?
1:15:45
Speaker 7: I don't see any map, but the one that goes
1:15:47
Speaker 7: to College Station's that's the only map, and I'm real
1:15:52
Speaker 7: familiar with that road.
1:15:54
Speaker 5: So that's the only thing I'm focused on.
1:15:58
Speaker 7: You know, again, when you start looking at you know,
1:16:02
Speaker 7: when you're climbing that mountain and you're halfway up and
1:16:05
Speaker 7: you start looking at the top, that's when you miss
1:16:07
Speaker 7: a step and you fall down and then you got
1:16:10
Speaker 7: to start back all over again.
1:16:12
Speaker 5: So I'm just focused on one day at a time.
1:16:14
Speaker 7: I'm trying to I'm agonizing this morning, sitting here, trying
1:16:17
Speaker 7: to figure out how what to do and how to
1:16:19
Speaker 7: do it today with this team, knowing you know, where
1:16:23
Speaker 7: we are right now in the in the process of
1:16:27
Speaker 7: having nine players, and hopefully I hadn't lost any more
1:16:30
Speaker 7: between now this morning at eight am, when I are
1:16:33
Speaker 7: eight forty five, when I turned them loose to go
1:16:35
Speaker 7: to class, and when I get them back at one thirty.
1:16:38
Speaker 7: But I think it's it's kind of a fluid situation,
1:16:41
Speaker 7: and so yeah, I'm just I'm really really intentional about
1:16:48
Speaker 7: the next game.
1:16:48
Speaker 5: And that's it.
1:16:51
Speaker 1: That's big Schaeffer talking about the roadmap to the SEC title,
1:16:55
Speaker 1: focusing on one game at a time, and Craig Way
1:16:59
Speaker 1: has brought it up a couple times this week that
1:17:02
Speaker 1: Schieffer and most of the coaches at the University of Texas,
1:17:06
Speaker 1: they're not so much coaching against the opponent in front
1:17:09
Speaker 1: of them, but the ghost of hey, making sure you
1:17:11
Speaker 1: don't let down this fan base. This is high expectations,
1:17:16
Speaker 1: a very high bar set. But Schaeffer was asked, do
1:17:20
Speaker 1: you ever stop and think about where this team is
1:17:23
Speaker 1: going or what to do when it comes to the
1:17:27
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament.
1:17:29
Speaker 7: You know, after we beat Maryland, I told them, hey,
1:17:31
Speaker 7: that's a that's a win that's going to really help
1:17:34
Speaker 7: you when it comes in SAA tournament time. It'll help
1:17:36
Speaker 7: you with with how they view us and seeding and
1:17:39
Speaker 7: things like that. I mean, our non conference record, not
1:17:42
Speaker 7: to mention our our net all that is really good.
1:17:46
Speaker 7: Those kids, you know, embraced the grind and embrace being
1:17:49
Speaker 7: on the road. You know, I told them how proud
1:17:51
Speaker 7: I was of them and and and all that. But
1:17:55
Speaker 7: you know, when when I was building a program at State,
1:18:00
Speaker 7: I remember that second year we only had fourteen teams
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Speaker 7: in the league, and I put the top seven on
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Speaker 7: one side and the next seven on the other side,
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Speaker 7: and I said, hey, I want to finish number one
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Speaker 7: on this side, and let's see how many we can
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Speaker 7: get on this side. And so when you're building a
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Speaker 7: prey gives those kids something to shoot for, you know,
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Speaker 7: because we were building a program, I mean, we were trying.
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Speaker 5: To build a.
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Speaker 7: Way of life, a way of doing things, and so
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Speaker 7: it gave them an idea, Okay, these seven over here,
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Speaker 7: we want to go six and oh or seven and
1:18:38
Speaker 7: oh and these over here. Now we need to do
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Speaker 7: the best we can over here. But this group right here,
1:18:44
Speaker 7: we got to catch disc.
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Speaker 5: Group before we can catch disc group. That makes sense.
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Speaker 7: That's not where we are now here at Texas. So
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Speaker 7: I don't really get ahead of myself.
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Speaker 5: I don't really.
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Speaker 7: Talk about my kids are really smart. I think that
1:18:58
Speaker 7: was again. You can tell them how good you think
1:19:01
Speaker 7: somebody is, or how good some coach is, or all that.
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Speaker 5: They're going to make up their own mind based off
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Speaker 5: of what.
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Speaker 7: They'll make up their own mind about how good they
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Speaker 7: think somebody is based off of record or who they
1:19:17
Speaker 7: know on the team or all that. So I just
1:19:21
Speaker 7: try to put my head down, man, head down, rear,
1:19:25
Speaker 7: end up, low ahead.
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Speaker 5: That's just the only way I know how to do it.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. I love that
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Speaker 1: story about the Sam Houston State putting the all the
1:19:38
Speaker 1: teams in the conference essentially listed and saying like, Okay, hey,
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Speaker 1: our goal is not to set the bar like all
1:19:45
Speaker 1: we're trying to win the conference in year one. Our
1:19:47
Speaker 1: goal is to beat that half the lower half of
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Speaker 1: the conference, make that the stepping stone, and then work
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Speaker 1: our way up. I love that story, and I think
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Speaker 1: a lot more coaches should do things like that instead
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Speaker 1: of trying to take a bite larger than you can chew. Uh.
1:20:02
Speaker 1: What challenge is now? Though? Does Texas A and M
1:20:06
Speaker 1: present as that's the game next up on that road
1:20:09
Speaker 1: map for an eventual SEC title for UT fans Texas
1:20:13
Speaker 1: A and M this Sunday, five pm. What are some
1:20:16
Speaker 1: of those challenges?
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Speaker 5: Coach?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they got good players, you know, Lauren
1:20:21
Speaker 7: being one of them.
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Speaker 5: You know, I really hate it.
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Speaker 7: Uh for Kulabali and so last year, and and it's
1:20:30
Speaker 7: just a terrible, terrible thing for her and the team.
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Speaker 5: But I still look at their roster. I watched their
1:20:37
Speaker 5: game last night.
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Speaker 7: I've watched the L s U game and and some others,
1:20:42
Speaker 7: like they got really good personnel and and uh so
1:20:47
Speaker 7: their athleticism, you know, uh, malone's much improved. To me,
1:20:54
Speaker 7: she is physical, you know, and and obviously we've we've
1:20:58
Speaker 7: got some good gigs down there to go with that.
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Speaker 7: So you know, they've got size, They've got several big,
1:21:05
Speaker 7: big kids in long.
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Speaker 5: And length, and so you know that concerns me.
1:21:10
Speaker 7: Their their ability to out on the perimeter with those guards.
1:21:15
Speaker 7: There's a lot about that team that concerns me. So
1:21:19
Speaker 7: you know we're gonna have to again, Well, it's a
1:21:21
Speaker 7: home game for them. They've obviously played well and at
1:21:25
Speaker 7: home beaten. You know, I had a good run there
1:21:27
Speaker 7: with Georgia and Kentucky again Kentucky being a top fifteen
1:21:31
Speaker 7: team when they beat them. So our kids are fully
1:21:35
Speaker 7: aware of how good A and M is and how
1:21:37
Speaker 7: good we're gonna.
1:21:38
Speaker 5: Have to play on Sunday.
1:21:40
Speaker 1: Now, let's jump ahead, Ronald, Let's go to cut number nine.
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Speaker 1: Cod number nine Now, this is a big game for
1:21:46
Speaker 1: the University of Texas, and clearly it's a big game
1:21:48
Speaker 1: for Texas A and M when you consider the rivalry
1:21:51
Speaker 1: at hand Texas Texas A and M a civil war
1:21:54
Speaker 1: in the state. When you pick a side, you die
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Speaker 1: by that side. How do you prepare the younger players
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Speaker 1: on this team, players who may not have ever played
1:22:03
Speaker 1: Texas A and M before. This is the first year
1:22:05
Speaker 1: the two teams share a conference since they were Big
1:22:08
Speaker 1: Twelve partners a while like ten years ago, twelve years ago. Now,
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Speaker 1: how do you prepare the younger players for this rivalry? Coach?
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Speaker 7: Let's be honest, the true rivalry was back in the
1:22:21
Speaker 7: Southwest Conference days and then.
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Speaker 5: A little bit bleeding into the Big Twelve.
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Speaker 7: Well, my kids weren't even born, so it's really hard.
1:22:34
Speaker 7: And we experienced that even at when I was at
1:22:38
Speaker 7: A and M playing Texas back in those times. Now,
1:22:41
Speaker 7: me and Shay Holly, we grew up in it. We
1:22:45
Speaker 7: understand it completely. But to try to convey that to nowadays,
1:22:51
Speaker 7: to today's kid, you know, it's probably a little more challenging.
1:22:59
Speaker 7: And you know that can be good and bad. You know,
1:23:03
Speaker 7: you certainly don't want to get two worked up about
1:23:04
Speaker 7: a game too emotional. You want to play with emotion,
1:23:08
Speaker 7: but you don't want to be emotional and so and
1:23:13
Speaker 7: at the same time keeping that level head about Hey,
1:23:16
Speaker 7: next one up, who is a coach? Who we playing?
1:23:19
Speaker 7: Where are we playing? What times the bus loading and
1:23:21
Speaker 7: where from? And that's not a bad approach. So I
1:23:26
Speaker 7: think that's you know, that's where we're at in today's
1:23:28
Speaker 7: world with today's kids.
1:23:30
Speaker 5: And but again, probably two people that.
1:23:34
Speaker 7: Do understand it is myself and and Shay Holly growing
1:23:39
Speaker 7: up in a house with her father Eric, who played
1:23:43
Speaker 7: obviously played football here and was.
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Speaker 1: Involved in it sports radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
1:23:49
Speaker 1: And another one would be Sidney Carter as well, who
1:23:51
Speaker 1: played at the Texas A and M before now becoming
1:23:55
Speaker 1: an assistant coach in director of player personnel for the Longhorns.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll take quick break, wrap up our three
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Speaker 1: of The Craigway Show and send you into the weekend.