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Steve Sarkisian on how Texas/Georgia will be a boxing match · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Craig Wave Show with the voice of the
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  Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon edition of the program.
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  Speaker 3: Glad to have you with us up until five o'clock
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  this afternoon, and of course we'll close out the week
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  tomorrow and get you ready for this huge weekend for.
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  Speaker 4: The Texas Georgia game. It's an F one race weekend.
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  High school football is turning toward the real crunch time
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  and district play with District Gift. You've got a pretty
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  big game tomorrow night that you're calling, don't you back.
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  I'll be at the field like you'll be tonight, So
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  maybe leave some leftovers for me. Trouble try to trash
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  out the too much. Since you have Liberty Flugerville tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: A pair of five and one teams Liberty Hill of course,
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  three straight appearances to at least the state semi finals
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  under coach Kent Walker in a Flugerville team five and
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  one under coach to Darles Taylor, who was building off
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  of last year's playoff birth and this year on an
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  upward trajectory.
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  Speaker 2: So should be a fun game. I know, Liberty Hill
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  is favor.
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  Speaker 1: Their offense has been fantastic this season, but they have
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  given up some points on defense as well. So should
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  be fun race tomorrow. Yeah, it should be, indeed.
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  Speaker 4: And it'll be a lot of fun on Saturday night,
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  Texas and Georgia. This was Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkisian's
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  final weekly media availability. Of course, last night we recorded
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  Long Worn Weekly with coach sark Ale at Pluckers the
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  West Campus location, and you'll hear that program tonight at
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  seven o'clock. We recorded on Wednesdays and it airs on
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  Thursdays at seven, so you will hear that program tonight
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  at seven o'clock. But in terms of the media availability today,
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  let's hear some of the thoughts from long Orn's head
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  coach Steve Sarkasian.
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  Speaker 2: Starting with sarks opening comments, And you know, exciting week
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  here on the forty Acres.
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  Speaker 5: You think about all that's happening in Austin this weekend
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  with the F one race, with college game Day coming
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  to down coming to town, with Sports Center coming to Austin.
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  You know, shooting from from the forty Acres is also
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  shooting from the races back and then and then ultimately
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  the ballgame Saturday night, which I know that all of
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  Longhorn Nation is excited about.
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  Speaker 2: I know our team is excited about.
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  Speaker 5: But the one thing I learned a lot about our
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  team again this week, has been.
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  Speaker 2: Their appreciation for preparation.
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  Speaker 5: And when I say that, it's it's their belief in
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  the blueprint and the formula for success and coming to
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  work every day with a workman like mentality to to
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  understand the plan to practice away. We expect them to
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  practice to that standard and put themselves in a position
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  to perform. And I feel like that's what we've done
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  this week, and now we got to go find out
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  here Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He didn't mention, by the way, that was another
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  thing I did not.
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  Speaker 4: Mention that ESPN is bringing Sports Center sports Center Enter,
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  not just college game Day. I think it's Kevin the
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  Gandhi and El Duncan who are anchoring from the UT
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  campus on Friday tomorrow on Sports Center, and then the
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  Cole Risco, you know, certainly one of their motorsports authorities,
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  and I forgot who's with her, but she's out at
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  CODA to do Sports Center as well. So yeah, it's
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  kind of the center of the universe a little bit.
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  Sark was also asked in getting ready for this matchup
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  about the season that Vernon Broughton is having. Remember when
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  we were going into the season and it was coming
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  off a year where To and Andre Sweat and Byron
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  Murphy had really big seasons, and they were talking about
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  continuing that defense, interior, defensive line, high quality play that
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  had been that had been like that, and you know,
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  would it continue like that?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, well, it was said.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't just me, it was several people had said, well,
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  the two guys would really kind of have to fill
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  in the gap would be Alfred Collins and Vernon Broughton.
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  And Vernon Broughton's having a marvelous season. He's forced a
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  couple of fumbles, covered the funnel, and he's just really
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  plugged the gap. So Sark was asked about this season
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  that brought is having.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really proud of Vernon.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the guys come into our program and they develop,
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  you know, over time, and for him to put put
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  in the work, and you think about when care Coburn
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  was here in Moro Ojamo, To and Andre Sweat, Byron
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  Murphy and he continued to stay the course, and I'm
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  just very proud of him that that he's, you know,
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  continue to mature in his time here. He's developed into
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  a really good leader on our team. And then his play,
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  his play is showing and he's become every down player
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  for us. He's not just a specialty pass rusher. He's
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  playing well against the run. He's still very effective against
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  the against the pass, and his effort is at an
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  all time high where you know, you're just seeing the
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  thumble recoveries again and just the way he's playing the game.
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  Speaker 2: So I couldn't be more proud of him.
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  Speaker 4: I guess marriage must be agreeing with him as well,
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  since he's a newlywed that's worked out for Vernon broad
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  Sark has made no bones about the fact that he's
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  a fan of boxing, and as such, he was asked
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  about does he construct his game plan similar to a
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  boxing match up? For that matter, who has been his
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  all time favorite boxer?
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  Speaker 5: Sugar Ray Leonard has always been a favorite boxer of mine.
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  That was one of my first fights I can remember
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  was Sugar Ray versus Roberto Duran, So I remember that fight.
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  Speaker 2: I was a huge.
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  Speaker 5: Fan of that era of boxers with Marvin Hagler and
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  Tom Hearns, and those guys also became a fan of
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  the heavyweights when Mike Tyson was a heavyweight and Evander
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  Holyfield was a heavyweight. But I think I think just
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  like in boxing, in football, like you have to have
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  a game plan and then you try to guys try
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  to go out and execute that game plan, and then
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  you have to be willing to adjust, right. I mean,
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  it's like anything. You go into a boxing match and
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  coming out in the opening round and a guy starts
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  fighting a south paw, you better be ready to adjust.
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  And I think football is very similar to that. We
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  have to have a game plan and then we have
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  to have the willingness to adjust. But we got to
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  make sure that we throw our best punches too, that
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  we can't always just react to the opponent. That we've
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  got to throw our best punch punches as well.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever told this story on the
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  air before, and I'm going to tell it right now,
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  and then I'll go back to the cuts bit. My
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  own half crossing was Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard
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  was like in the case of Sark, he was one
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  of the boxers I really, really liked he won the
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  middle championship. I guess it was on my twenty first birthday.
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  It was the I think that was the It was
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  either the No Mos fight or was the one with Hagler.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Hagler. I think it was.
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  Speaker 4: With Marvelous Marven Hagler. It might have been, but anyway,
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  he wanted all my twenty first birthday. That very same night,
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  I was playing in the Lubbock City Championship for Putt
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  Putt on the Old Style, but of course, and I
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  finished in second that on that night, So that was
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  all really nice memorable memories and all that. Six years later,
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  I'm doing radio showdown at Reunion Arena in Dallas and
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  it's this big charity auction carnival thing and they had
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  a lot of a lot of celebrities. Mavericks the Stars
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  were not in Dallas at that time, but Mavericks Dallas Cowboys,
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  Texas Rangers had a lot of difference.
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  Speaker 2: And then they had some other big name stars.
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  Speaker 4: One of those with Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray
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  came over and and did an interview with me, and
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  he was really good. But he didn't stop there because
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  after I was done, he was really hitting.
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  Speaker 2: On my wife. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: It was amazing. So my wife at the time, uh,
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  you know, God rest her soul. Laurie was there with
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  me and we'd been married one year and she she
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  was invited to come down to so she was just
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  sitting there and Uh, we get done. I saw him
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  kind of say something to her and chatting with her
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  a little before we got started.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think anything of it. So we get done.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still on the air. He takes the headset off.
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  I'm looking over there and he's like really engaged at
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  all that that kind of thing. I was like hitting
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  on her. We got the break, commercial break, and then
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  he left and I said, was he hit one? She goes, oh, yeah,
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  like what do you what do you? What are you
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  doing after this event? And she's like, well, I'm going
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  to go home with my husband right there. The guy
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  just interviewed, Oh well, I mean you know, and he's
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  like trying to like yeah, yeah. So that was my
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  brush resher Caray Leonard back then, uh, back in in
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  the eighties, all right, more from Stark the uh and
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  she did not go back, and she didn't go with him,
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  She did not recupercate. She left with me afterwards, and
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  that was a good thing anyway. Sark was asked about
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  how the defense makes the offense better and vice versa,
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  his defense making his offense better, and how his offense
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  makes his defense better, and how does facing the Texas
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  defense going up against the offense in practice help prepare
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  them for Carson Beck and what Georgia is going to
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  do with its passing attack.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's helpful in that we we do
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  a lot of good on good, you know, and our
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  our practices in training camp are very competitive. We do
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  good on good every week to keep ourselves fresh in
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  the speed of the game to where it needs to be.
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  And I do think it's helpful for our guys to
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  have to guard Isaiah Bond and Matt Golden and DeAndre
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  Moore and Jonte and Silas.
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  Speaker 2: And Ryan Wingo and all those guys can run.
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  Speaker 5: All those guys can can stretch the field, and I
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  think it's really good for our dbs to have to
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  go against quarterbacks like Quinn and Arch and guys who
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  can make all those throws.
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  Speaker 2: And because that's what Carson Beck is.
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  Speaker 5: He's got elite weapons on the outside that can run
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  and he can make all of the throws, and so
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  to have to defend all of the field for our
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  secondary and for our linebackers is going to be critical
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  here Saturday night.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, these media availabilities on Thursdays, these zoom media availabilities,
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  by and large, When you look at the grid, because
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  you're on it every weekend, you see, you see the grid,
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  and what would you say would be the ratio or
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  percentage of local and area media as opposed to outside
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  you know, regional and national media.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the only national guys I'll ever see on
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  those zooms will either be Sam Con from the Athletic
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  and then maybe in ESPN you.
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  Speaker 4: See Heather Dinnich sometimes and you'll see some other But
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  you're right, it's about ninety percent, maybe even more so.
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  The reason why I bring this up is because the
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  local media gets into more esoteric questions sometimes. Sure, they'll
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  ask the nuts and bolts and the injury stuff, and
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  we'll hear that's coming up, but they will also ask Sark, like,
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  for example, the boxing thing and some of the other stuff.
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  And they also asked him kind of a follow up
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  to what Sark was saying about quinn Ewers. A couple
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  of weeks back when he was still banged up, and said,
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  I fully expect Quinn to be fine, to come back
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  and to be in New York for the Heisman, which
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  should have served notice to anybody who was trying to
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  stir the pot in any way, shape or form that
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  there was a quarterback conundrum or question or dare we
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  say it controversy all that other kind of stuff, and
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  Sark was quickly quickly putting all that to bed, saying
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  I fully expect him to be in New York. So
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  the follow up about I guess three weeks later question
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  for Sark is was quhen you were making it to
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  New York for the Heisman ceremony that he referenced three
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  weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Is that still a tangible goal? I love it.
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  Speaker 5: I love all of our head coaches. I love all
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  of our teams and sports that we have. I think
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  CDC has done an incredible job of assembling the best
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  coaching coaching staff in the country. And you know, we
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  go on a head coach's retreat once a year into
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  I'm just somewhat in awe of you know this.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think this.
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  Speaker 5: I think individual accolades, awards, honors are a byproduct a
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  team's success, and so you know, if he's in New
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  York in December, it's probably because we won a lot
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  of games and maybe won every game, and so, you know,
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  I don't think it's on you know, we should feel
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  that it's about what quinda. I think, yes, we need
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  to win, and if we're gonna win, it probably means
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  that he played pretty well in some really big games.
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  And I think at the end that's that's a reality.
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  But there's a lot of work to be done between
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  now and then. But like I said, we have a
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  firm belief around here that you know, team's success is
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  what promotes individual accolades, awards and honors.
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  Speaker 4: And if you ask Quinn yours, you'll pretty much say
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  the same thing about my team winning and all that.
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  But Sartin does make a good point. A plus B
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  will see it would probably follow if they are still unbeaten,
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  if they are playing really, really well, and if Quinn
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  is doing his part, good chance he's going to be
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  mentioned in the conversation of possibly getting that invite to
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  New York.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up next and.
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  Speaker 4: We'll hear more from Sark next hour talking about this
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  matchup with Georgia. Get an injury update from him, and
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  some other things as well, so we'll do all that
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  next hour as well, but up next Inconceivable for a
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