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How the Texas Offense helps the Longhorns prepare for Georgia · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We're back. It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of
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  Fame broadcaster a voice of the Texas Longhards Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: On Thursday here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
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  Zone and continue to draw closer to this matchup between
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  Texas and Georgia. Last hour, we heard some of the
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  comments from today's earlier zoom media availability with Longwarts head
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  coach Steve Sarkigan. Here's some more comments from sark one.
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  Sark was asked about this feeling of camaraderie that seems
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  to exist. You know, we hear the players talk about
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  this quite often, about how much fun they have together.
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  Last night on Long One Weekly when we did the recording,
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  and you can hear it tonight here on the Zone
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  at seven o'clock, sark talked about that fun thing and
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  wanting to have fun, and he said the coaches also
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  get a great deal of enjoyment out of as well.
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  They have a lot of fun. So sark was asked
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  about this feeling of camaraderie he has with the other
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  coaches at Texas.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love all of our head coaches.
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  I love all of our teams and sports that we have.
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  I think CDC has done an incredible job of assembling
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  the best coaching coaching staff in the country, and you know,
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  we go on a head coaches retreat once a year
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  into I'm just somewhat in awe of, you know, the
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  successes that they've had in their various sports, the way
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  they motivate their teams to perform and their athletes to perform.
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  We do have some great camaraderie amongst the head coaches.
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  Vic and I have grown pretty close, you know, We've
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  had to go on some different speaking tours together and
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  different things. I really appreciate the way his teams play
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  and I used to bring that up to our team
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  and I first got here about how hard our women's
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  basketball team played and the intensity in which they played
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  the game. And I think that's a byproduct of who
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  Vick Schaefer is. And so for him to come around
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  and be around us at the Michigan game, I thought
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  was awesome. I know our coaching staff and our players
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  loved having him so, but that's no different than a
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  lot of the other coaches that we have here. I mean,
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  Jared's done a fantastic job. Flow has done an amazing job.
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  Angie's kicking butt. So everybody, everybody's doing great, and I
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  think that that's inspiring to all of us to hold
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  up to the standard of excellence around here.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we're going to hear from Vic Shaffer
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  coming up next segment, coming off SEC Women's basketball media day.
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  Now back to the boxing analogies we talked about that
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  last hour because Sark is a fan of boxing, so
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  he's asked again about the boxing analogies and does he
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  use these analogies and examples of momentum swings in fights
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  to his team with a game against Georgia coming up.
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  Speaker 3: I would probably say what you're saying is correct a bowl.
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  You know, if a guy needs to hold onto the
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  ball better, then that's probably correct able. There's probably some fundamentals, yeah,
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  I think so. You know, we talk a lot about
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  you know, especially when two good teams play. You know,
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  we're going to make our plays, they're going to make
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  their plays. You know, playing the next snap is so critical,
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  critical fighting the next round, you know, finishing the round,
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  getting up off the mat when you do get knocked down,
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  and getting your getting regrouped. And so I think that's
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  why it's really important when adversity strikes that we stay
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  really tight together as a team, we stay really positive,
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  we fix the issues that we have collectively on the sidelines.
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  It's not about one person, it's about how can all
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  of us fix something that has occurred so that we
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  can go play better as we move forward, we can
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  fight better right in rounds three, four, and five, whatever
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  that looks like. So I do think it's there's a
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  lot of parallels to it. Everybody loves a great fight
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  and loves entertainment. Nobody likes the knockout right early on
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  the Mike Tyson thirty seconds and in type stuff. But
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  in reality, when when two good teams, when two good
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  fighters step into the ring or step on the field,
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  it's usually a twelve roundabout and and you know, whether
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  it's a decision, a split decision, you know, whatever that
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  looks like is generally because it was, there was a
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  lot of kind of you know, momentum swings throughout the fight,
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  and the scorecards were what they were.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he mentioned earlier because somebody asked him a little
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  bit about turnovers, So to come back to that, our
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  turnovers and start mentioned this again last night on the
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  show taping that I'm not pleased with the turnovers that
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  we have had. They've done a good job in getting
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  some turnovers as well in the in the turnover ratios
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  plus four to Texas. By the way, George is a
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  minus one right now, and that's because George and getting
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  many turnovers to offset the ones they have committed. But
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  even if Texas had gained one hundred turnovers, the ones
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  that have been committed by the offense are not to
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  the head coaches liking. So he was asked, are turnovers
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  in these specific instances, with this specific team, in this
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  specific season, are they correctable or is it just a
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  simple lack of execution.
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  Speaker 3: I would probably say what you're saying is correctable. You know,
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  if a guy needs to hold onto the ball better,
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  then that's probably correctable. There's probably some fundamentals and techniques
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  that we can improve upon, I think naturally. You know,
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  quarterback decision making is something that we can improve upon.
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  A runner in the open field, understanding that somebody might
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  be coming from behind to punch that rip that ball
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  out right before you score a touchdown is something that
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  we can improve upon. That's just being conscious of cognizant
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  of where you're at on the field. So opinion. All
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  turnovers are are to some degree, you know, we can
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  fix them. The goal is that we don't continue to
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  make some of those same mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Right that.
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  Speaker 3: If the ball is loose, how do we get it tighter?
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  The decision making is not great, how do we make
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  it better? If balls are getting tipped at the line
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  of scrimmage, how do we get their hands down? So
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  all those things we try to try to apply the
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  things that as coaches to try to improve upon that
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  to get that number down.
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  Speaker 2: Take it from me on something here, And that is
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  one thing that that Sark has a very low takes
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  a very dim view of. Are not fixing correctible things?
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  In other words, if his team or a portion of
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  his team continues to make the same mistakes over and over,
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  that's the thing I hear about, Like at the end
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  of the practice when he's got the team gathered around
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  on the practice field, when he talks talks about improve
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  let's not go back and do the same thing. We're
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  going to make mistakes. I saw mistakes on the practice
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  field today. I don't expect to see those mistakes tomorrow.
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  You improve from that so that you don't continue to
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  make those mistakes. That's a big thing with him is
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  correcting the mistakes with technique and repetition and the concentration
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  in all of those things. He was asked about the
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  injuries Trevor Goosby, backup offensive lineman, and Isaiah Bond, most
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  notably those two guys. We already know that Derek Williams
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  is out for the rest of the year after his injury,
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  and he was asked about those two guys, Trevor Gooseby
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  and Isaiah Bond.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Derek's obviously out. I thought we announced that Trevor
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  will be out this game Goozby, and I would imagine
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  tonight we'll upgrade Isaiah to probable for the game.
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  Speaker 2: He was listed as questionable. By the way, did you
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  notice you noticed that the Longers had a backup punter
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  out there last Saturday? And when when at first when
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  they trotted out to punt on that second possession, I
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  said Michael Kern, because Kern was no longer on the
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  injured list after he'd been the list as questionable, And
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  all I could see was the nine, but it was
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  forty nine, not thirty nine. It was Ian Ratliffe walk
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  On who punted, and he did pretty well. But the
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  reason why Kern was removed from the injured list was
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  he didn't get in the ball game. He still held
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  on field goals and extra points, he just didn't punt.
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  So his is an ankle and they're hoping that he'll
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  be okay to go. And if he can't go, then
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  Ratlift would would draw the duty again on that. Quinn
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  us has played in a lot of big games. We
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  know that, and Steve Sarkisian has coached in a lot
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  of big gus and they've and they've been together or
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  head coach and quarterback in some of these same games. This,
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  by the way, what I'm about to tell you is
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  the now new recurring question that's coming up for Sark.
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  It's about this big game thing for Quinn and big
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  game thing for Sark because we can think back to
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  the two Alabama games obviously, and the Big twelve championship
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  game and the playoff semifinal Sugar Bowl game, those kinds
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  of things. And with the amount this particular question was
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  about the relationship of quarterback and head coach, they're pretty tight,
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  I can tell you. So Sark was asked about with
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  this growing amount of big games that Quinn viewers has
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  played in with Sark as the head coach. How is
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  that affected the relationship and the growth in the relationship.
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  Speaker 3: Quinn and I, you know, three years together with the
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  same quarterback, it's just you get to know one another.
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  You get to know a feel. I have a much
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  better feel today of the stuff he likes in certain
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  situations than I did in year one. I think he
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  has a better feel for me of the things that
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  I like to call in certain situations better than he
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  did in year one. I think we can we can
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  fix issues quickly. And he is understanding what I'm meaning
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  when I'm saying things to him now more than ever
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  with the headset, when I can talk to him briefly
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  in between plays, and so I think all those things
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  are beneficial for us. You know, time on task together
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  has been has been something that that we've been. We've
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  been through some fires together, some good, some not so good.
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  I think there have been some great learning experiences. But again,
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  have the have the utmost confidence in him that, uh,
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  you know, he's gonna he's gonna show up when his
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  numbers called here Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so there's some comments from long worn
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  said coach Steve Sarkisian and and we'll hear some more
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  from sark coming up next hour as well. Coming up
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  next during this hour, we turn our attention to basketball.
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  Next hour, we'll hear from Rodney Terry Long, warn men's coach.
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  But up next we're gonna hear from Vic Shaeffer, the
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  coach of the Texas women's team. The Longhorns will open
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  the season rank fourth in the nation. They are picked
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  to finish second in the SEC, behind defending national champion
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  in South Carolina, so we'll hear from Vic Shaeffer talking
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  about that. Of course, he's got a largely healthy group.
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  There are some players who are still trying to get
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  healthy and regular for the start of the regular season,
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  but his main weapons, Madison Booker and Rory Harmon will
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  be ready to go. They were. They accompanied coach Schaeffer
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  to Birmingham for the SEC Basketball Media Days, So we'll
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  hear from Vic shaf for talking about his team and
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  about the upcoming inaugural SEC season for Texas women's basketball.
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  That's next when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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  under the Zone and the iHeart Radio app.