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Longhorn Weekly with Rodney Terry · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's hear from Long Worton's head coach, Rodney Terry.
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  Speaker 2: Last night we had a special basketball preview edition of
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  Speaker 2: Long Worn Weekly from Pluckers, and we got another one
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  Speaker 2: next Thursday night, Halloween Night. Come dressed in your favorite
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  Speaker 2: Halloween costume if you want, come on. It's a live
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  Speaker 2: show from six to seven next Thursday night. It was
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  Speaker 2: live last night, and early in the show we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about the pieces that Rodney Terry is putting together
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  Speaker 2: for this brand new group of Texas Longhorns.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of work went into the off.
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  Speaker 2: Season after walking off the floor in Charlotte last March,
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  Speaker 2: and I know you guys went right back to work
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  Speaker 2: to start getting ready with the influx the new guys
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  Speaker 2: coming in, the guys you had returning, all of that
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  Speaker 2: sort of stuff, And I wanted to give you a
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  Speaker 2: chance just to kind of take.
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  Speaker 1: Folks through it chronologically.
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  Speaker 2: Once we returned from Charlotte after the NCAA tournament, how
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  Speaker 2: you and the staff set about putting in the plan
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  Speaker 2: for the coming twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five season.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sure, Craig, I mean we've had our guys now
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  Speaker 3: for about three months now. Uh that We've got a
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  Speaker 3: chance to work with our guys. We have eight weeks
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  Speaker 3: in the summer. You know, we started a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of fall camp and now we're into in the season
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. You know, our staff did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, when we finished up, you know, our
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  Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen game against Tennessee, we got back and when
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  Speaker 3: you needed to try to you know, sit down with
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  Speaker 3: each player and individually kind of sye who wanted to
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  Speaker 3: still be here, who didn't want to be here, and
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  Speaker 3: and kind of assessed what we were going to have returning, uh,
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  Speaker 3: before we started embarking on putting the rash together. And
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  Speaker 3: uh we were able to do that. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have six returners from from last season, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our guys did a great job. My staff
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  Speaker 3: did a great job of going out and you know,
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  Speaker 3: attracting other guys that would compliment the guys that we
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  Speaker 3: had returning uh this season. And uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: have six guys from the portal. We have four four
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  Speaker 3: freshmen and uh, you know, I'm excited about this group.
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  Speaker 3: I think we got a chance to spend a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time, you know, this summer trying to build chemistry
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  Speaker 3: off the court. I think these guys have really good
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  Speaker 3: chemistry where they already like each other.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have a talented group, uh, and we
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  Speaker 3: have a group that has a lot of depth.
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  Speaker 2: How different is the world that you that you deal
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  Speaker 2: in now from say whatever, eight years ago, six years ago, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: before the portal became as such an omnipresent part of
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  Speaker 2: the college basketball season, when you walk off the floor
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  Speaker 2: when your season ends and you start to play for
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  Speaker 2: the future. And now in this day and age, with
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  Speaker 2: the interchangeability of collegiate rosters, how does that change what
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  Speaker 2: you and the staff do when you have to dive
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  Speaker 2: into that figure what you got left and who's coming
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  Speaker 2: back and going from there.
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  Speaker 4: It was very challenging.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we were able to sign you know,
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  Speaker 3: some guys early, a couple of freshmen early, uh.
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  Speaker 4: In the recruiting period.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, in the old ays, mid May, you'd
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  Speaker 3: have your roster complete and you know what you work
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  Speaker 3: with already going into the first of June and summer. Nowadays,
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  Speaker 3: with the change in landscape of college athletics, in college basketball,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times you're still all the way up
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  Speaker 3: until August sometimes working on completing your roster. In some programs,
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  Speaker 3: you know still have scholarships available, so that's definitely changed,
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  Speaker 3: and that's different. And you know, again when you're putting
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  Speaker 3: a roster together, one that you're gonna have to try.
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  Speaker 4: To manage and max out in one year. You know
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  Speaker 4: you're fighting time.
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  Speaker 2: How challenging is it because of the fighting time with
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  Speaker 2: your summer workouts, the individual workouts if you're still piecing
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  Speaker 2: together the roster and who can work with who and
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  Speaker 2: practice and do and then how that affects ultimately as
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  Speaker 2: you start to team build, well, it goes into the
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  Speaker 2: first for of your season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we started playing this past Saturday, and you
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  Speaker 3: know you can strim it, you can practice, but until
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  Speaker 3: you actually get in game situations, well, guys have to
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  Speaker 3: really try to build chemistry and build familiarity with one
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  Speaker 3: another on the court. That takes time and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times. And you'll see this day in time in
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  Speaker 3: college athletics, it may be mid season before your team
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  Speaker 3: kind of you know, really shaped in the kind of
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  Speaker 3: team that you think you're capable being for that season.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting some numbers here, just looking at some of
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  Speaker 2: the combined numbers from the twelve guys who have previously
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  Speaker 2: played in college eight hundred and thirty two career games
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  Speaker 2: with five hundred seventeen starts, six thousand and six six
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred and sixty nine points, three thy, twenty eight rebounds,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen one hundred and seventy six minutes played. Five players
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  Speaker 2: have already earned undergraduate degrees Julian Larry Kayden, Shederick Colbot,
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  Speaker 2: Trema Mark, and Jason Kent. So it's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing about I know, coaches like to have what's called
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  Speaker 2: an old roster, at least an advanced roster. It's just
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  Speaker 2: constructed differently nowadays, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It is, Craig and a lot of times you want
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  Speaker 3: to Berlin though. You know, for us, again, we've got
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  Speaker 3: six returners guys in the portal and four freshmen. So
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  Speaker 3: we have four freshmen, you know, probably a couple of
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  Speaker 3: those guys with an opportunity to play with the veteran players.
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  Speaker 4: But but you do like.
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  Speaker 3: Stand oh, you do like experience, and you love having continuity.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we have six returners.
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  Speaker 3: Four of those guys play play significant minutes for us,
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  Speaker 3: and you know they're familia with what we're doing and
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  Speaker 3: defending the culture of our program.
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  Speaker 2: Does it make the learning curve, or at least a
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  Speaker 2: familiarity curve a little shorter when you get these guys
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  Speaker 2: in the summer workouts and you start to get ready
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  Speaker 2: for your fall workouts, when you have experienced guys coming
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  Speaker 2: in to help, kind of lessen and shorten the curve
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  Speaker 2: a little bit for your freshmen the newbies.
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  Speaker 4: It does.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you'd love to have a team full of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys that were there previously with you the
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  Speaker 3: previous year. You know, where you have that continuity already.
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  Speaker 3: But the older guys. The one thing that the older
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  Speaker 3: guys do bring with them is to your point earlier,
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  Speaker 3: they have a lot of experience. They've played a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and they can adapt and pick up these pretty quick
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  Speaker 3: for the better part of you know what your to
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  Speaker 3: do office defensively, So just based on their experience. What
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  Speaker 3: do you like about this group? The best thing you
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  Speaker 3: like about this group? But I think they all like
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  Speaker 3: each other. You know, we played, uh, we played this
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  Speaker 3: past saturday, and we had tremendous bench energy where everybody
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  Speaker 3: was pulling for guys on the floor, was extremely connected
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  Speaker 3: on and off the court of this past saturday. You
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  Speaker 3: didn't have anybody you know, moping or pouting about now playing.
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  Speaker 3: They were just generally excited about about what the guys
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  Speaker 3: were doing on the floor. So, you know, again, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's been very positive because again we're we're you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're deep at each position.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard you say this, I've heard Sarks say with
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  Speaker 2: the football team, say that the players don't count your minutes,
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  Speaker 2: make your minutes count, that that sort of thing, and that.
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  Speaker 1: That helps build the chemistry.
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  Speaker 3: Well, again, I think we have you know, guys, you know,
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  Speaker 3: eight nine starters on this team. I mean, any of
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  Speaker 3: our guys can start for us. I don't really get
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  Speaker 3: caught up in the starting process and everything. I think
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  Speaker 3: you know, when it's your opportunity and it's your time
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  Speaker 3: to be on the floor, I think you you get
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  Speaker 3: out and you perform at a high level and you
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  Speaker 3: just pass up a ton and we don't have a
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  Speaker 3: drop off. But but we do have, you know, experiencing
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  Speaker 3: guys that again I think compliment one another very well.
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  Speaker 3: But but we've got you know, ten eleven guys we
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  Speaker 3: can play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you said that the thing you like is
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  Speaker 2: that the guys like each other, and that might come
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  Speaker 2: as a surprise to some folks, but not all teams
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  Speaker 2: have that right and and sometimes it's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: a I don't know, if there's an undercurrent of of
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  Speaker 2: uneasiness sometimes with some teams about whether they get along
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  Speaker 2: and who wants to ball more, and this and that
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  Speaker 2: and and and that can.
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  Speaker 1: Make it real challenging for trying for team building.
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  Speaker 3: Cannon, Well, I think again, for us, we try to
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  Speaker 3: work really harder in the summer when guys get to campus.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we really stress how important this it is
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  Speaker 3: for those guys that spend time with each other away
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  Speaker 3: from the basketball court.
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  Speaker 4: You know, again, try to have build some.
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  Speaker 3: Organic chemistry without us having the force feed gas spend
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  Speaker 3: in time with each other. In this group from day one,
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  Speaker 3: those guys all really you know, bunning together.
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  Speaker 4: They like spending time with each other, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you have to have really good chemistry off the court.
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  Speaker 4: They have really good chemistry on the court.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think I heard you say, uh in
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  Speaker 2: a in a media session, how there'd be a couple
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  Speaker 2: of guys or three guys or whatever it said, They're
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  Speaker 2: all uh gonna go out to LA for a weekend
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  Speaker 2: or something during the summer and and and this was
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  Speaker 2: all organic stuff that they had decided, not things that
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  Speaker 2: you or any of the staff had suggested to them.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: We had a couple of guys I think had some
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  Speaker 3: birthdays I think throughout the summer, and you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be in different locations and you know, you look up,
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  Speaker 3: there's not one guy, there's you know, three or four guys.
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  Speaker 4: The five guys going.
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  Speaker 3: Out to try to celebrate his birthday for him in
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  Speaker 3: a different locations. So you know, those guys like being
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  Speaker 3: around each other. They spend time on the lake this
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  Speaker 3: summer a little bit and stuff as well. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: you again, you don't want to force feed that. You
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  Speaker 3: want guys that want to be around one another. We
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  Speaker 3: have a retreat.
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  Speaker 4: We did. We did our retreat a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Of weeks ago, and that was fantastic for us, another
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  Speaker 3: bunning opportunity for us to really try to connect as
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  Speaker 3: a team. And we also got a chance to also,
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  Speaker 3: do you know, one of our you know, core values
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  Speaker 3: of our program. We had some servant hoood. We had
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  Speaker 3: a chance to go to Children's Hospital in San Antonio
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  Speaker 3: and see some less fortunate youngsters and.
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  Speaker 4: Be a blessing for them.
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  Speaker 3: And get back to them and try to put a
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  Speaker 3: smile on their face, hopefully for not only that day,
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  Speaker 3: for a lasting effect.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is.
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  Speaker 2: Some conversation with Longhorns had basketball coach Roddy Terry with
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  Speaker 2: a little preview of the coming season. Again next Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: Halloween Night, We're gonna do another preview, will meet a
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  Speaker 2: couple more long worn players we had. Jordan Pope and
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  Speaker 2: Jason Kent joined us last night. Kent one of the
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  Speaker 2: two Indiana State transfers along with Julian Larry Jordan Pope
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  Speaker 2: transferring from Oregon State. I did ask Jordan Pope cam
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  Speaker 2: if he knew Silas Bolden when they were both at
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  Speaker 2: Oregon City. He said, across pass with him, but they
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  Speaker 2: didn't really know him really well. He says, I've gotten
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  Speaker 2: to know him better since I've been here, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I said, I'm gonna ask you the same question
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  Speaker 2: to ask Silas. How different is Austin, Texas from Corvallis, Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: He said he didn't. It's a lot different. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan's from northern California. He's from the Bay Area. And
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  Speaker 2: then he was chatting about high school athletics in the
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  Speaker 2: Bay Area with our own Cole Dixon, who of course
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  Speaker 2: hails from the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 1: Who was our engineer there last night.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, we've got some other NFL notes to get
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  Speaker 2: to coming up next when we continue from Nashville on
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.