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Steve Sarkisian on Quinn's health, facing Cade Klubnik · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Craig Way Show and the Voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Longhorns Craig Way. Follow Craig on social media
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  Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us on the Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: So the tax line, somebody asked me, are all the
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  Speaker 2: state games on Bally Sports. No they're not. They're on
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  Speaker 2: FanDuel Sports Network Southwest. I'm being cheeky there. That's what
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  Speaker 2: Bally is called now. It's just a change in the
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  Speaker 2: sponsor name. Remember before it was Bally Sports Southwest, it
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  Speaker 2: was Fox Sports Southwest. Before it was Fox Sports Southwest,
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  Speaker 2: it was Prime Sports. Before it was Prime Sports, it
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  Speaker 2: was HSEE Home Sports Entertainment. And I'm just told enough
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  Speaker 2: to say I've called state championship games on all of
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  Speaker 2: those network incarnations, all those names, but it's the same one.
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  Speaker 2: It's the one where you you know, where you watch
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  Speaker 2: the Spurs, where you would have seen the Mavericks through
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  Speaker 2: last year, where you would have seen the Rangers through
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  Speaker 2: last season, and at Alas Stars. They've all gone different
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  Speaker 2: routes with their deal now. But yes, it's on the
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  Speaker 2: same place that over the past few years we knew
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  Speaker 2: is Ballet's Sports Southwest. It's called FanDuel Sports Network Southwest,
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  Speaker 2: and so the games will be on there and they'll
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  Speaker 2: start Wednesday morning at eleven a m. The first one
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  Speaker 2: will be the first six man game six man one
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  Speaker 2: A six man Division two. Between the one A six
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  Speaker 2: man Division two matchup is Jaydon against Oakwood by an
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  Speaker 2: interviewing company. Where either those are right now without looking
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  Speaker 2: them up, Oakwood and what's the other one, Jaydon? Nope, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: no chance, Okay. Jaydon is kind of out like going
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  Speaker 2: toward Lubbock towards South Plains. Oakwood is east of forty five.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you're headed over toward Crockett Palestine area in
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  Speaker 2: that area. So anyway, Jaydon Oakwa. That's the first game
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  Speaker 2: at eleven am. And then at two o'clock is the
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  Speaker 2: one A Division one state final Gordon and White Face.
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  Speaker 2: Any idea about where those communities? At what point? I
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  Speaker 2: did know? Gordon is in an area that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of folks would refer to as the microplex. It's out
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  Speaker 2: there west of Fort Worth, east of Abilene, where not
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  Speaker 2: far from Straw and little old mining communities of Mingus
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  Speaker 2: and Thurber and all that sort of stuff. It's all fout.
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  Speaker 2: I twenty out west of minneal Welles. That's Gordon. They're
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  Speaker 2: the defending state champions and one A Division one six
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  Speaker 2: man and they're playing white Face, which is up South
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  Speaker 2: Plains Panhandle area up that way. So that's that's that matchup.
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  Speaker 2: So Granger Interest the six man Guru, will join me
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  Speaker 2: for the call of those two games. I always enjoy
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  Speaker 2: what you Have you seen a six man game live
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  Speaker 2: in person? No, Nope, just just watching the state tout
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  Speaker 2: of games on my TV. They really are they're really
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  Speaker 2: It's funny. You know, some people refer to as basketball
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  Speaker 2: on grass or basketball on turf. In the case of Gordon,
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  Speaker 2: you can make a case that because they're also the
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  Speaker 2: defending state basketball champions in one head, so you could
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  Speaker 2: do that. Uh, they have track champions too, that are
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  Speaker 2: a big part of what they do. So anyway, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: those started off those two games and then two A
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  Speaker 2: Division two is the first eleven man games on Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: night Munster and Shiner. You know where Monster in Genera?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where Monster is. I know Shiners to
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  Speaker 2: the south east of US, right, yep, yep, yep, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: It's in like south central Texas there. Yeah, and that's
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  Speaker 2: where the Spetzel Brewery is where they may China beer
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  Speaker 2: shotterback and all that. Munster is just west of Gainesville,
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  Speaker 2: way up by the Red River. So at some of
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  Speaker 2: the people at the at FanDuel Sports now we're taken
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  Speaker 2: to calling this the beer Cheese Bowl. There's a Shiner
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  Speaker 2: brewer in Munster Cheese. But let me tell you something
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  Speaker 2: that they have germanfested Munster year and they have lots
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  Speaker 2: of beer there too. There won't be any beer sold
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  Speaker 2: at that anyway. So that's the game Wednesday night one
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  Speaker 2: A Division two one A Division one Stanford and Canado,
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  Speaker 2: which could be a really good one that starts off
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  Speaker 2: at eleven in the morning. The afternoon three A Division
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  Speaker 2: two gunter against Woodville which was a big surprise. And
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  Speaker 2: then the game I'm really really looking forward to calling
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday night might be the best matchup of the
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  Speaker 2: entire thing is Malakoff and Columbus, number one and number
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  Speaker 2: two teams in the state. And Columbus of course has
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  Speaker 2: the kid Grayson Rigden, who was the six man Player
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  Speaker 2: of the Year and three straight years from freshman up
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  Speaker 2: through his sophomore and junior years, and then of course
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  Speaker 2: moved to Columbus and he's done a tremendous job there
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  Speaker 2: at Columbus and in fact, Grayson Rigdan will we talk.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he'll be good. How good might he be
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  Speaker 2: playing for a three to a program. He's rushed for
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  Speaker 2: nineteen hundred and fifty two yards, scored thirty five touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: has caught twenty three passes for two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: one yards and scored three touchdowns. Adam Shovel a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: though son of the head coach Matt Shobel, yep, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Connected to the restaurant there down there at Showbles. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a big part of it as well. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's part of the state championship alignment. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 2: about that tomorrow. Let's go back to hearing more from
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  Speaker 2: Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkisian. And this one is a
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  Speaker 2: question about Kate Clubnick and does he view Kate Clubnick
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  Speaker 2: differently from other dual threat quarterbacks the way he runs
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  Speaker 2: and what makes him special. Start got a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: answer to this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, first of all, he's got weapons. He
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  Speaker 3: got real weapons around him. The know, the Antonio Williams kid,
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  Speaker 3: the the Westcoat kid, the tight end.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they spread the ball around.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a real running game with MafA, So it's
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  Speaker 3: not all on Cad, you know, I think that they've
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  Speaker 3: got weapons around him, they've got a really good running game.
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  Speaker 3: But yet they've got scheme that allows the quarterback run
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  Speaker 3: game to become a factor. You're starting to worry about
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  Speaker 3: this receiver over here, this tight end over here, the
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  Speaker 3: running back who's a thousand yard rusher here, and next thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a quarterback direct run that that can
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  Speaker 3: catch you off guard. And so you've got to really
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  Speaker 3: be disciplined in this game. And you know, he and
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  Speaker 3: his grit, you know, as we know, one of one
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  Speaker 3: of one of Caid's you know, best strengths is his grit,
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  Speaker 3: his toughness.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's a he's a tough kid. He's a
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  Speaker 4: tough minded kid.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's not it's one that's gonna be challenging schematically,
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  Speaker 3: but also we're gonna have to play well, We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to play physical. We're gonna have to get him
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  Speaker 3: on the ground because he's not just gonna run and slide.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to get him on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Question one back to that whole transfer portal thing, because
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  Speaker 2: Sark mentioned that a couple of the guys to you,
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  Speaker 2: so they I think it was one Justice Pinkly. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to stick around and be with the program, uh
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of this postseason, even though they had
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  Speaker 2: entered the portal, but they're going to continue to it.
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  Speaker 2: So the question for Sark was, how do you decide,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who do you keep engaged with the program
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  Speaker 2: once they entered the portal? In which ones do you
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  Speaker 2: shake their hand and say good luck and you're done
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  Speaker 2: with them? On that?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think you take each case on individually,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, I don't. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 3: one blanket answer to that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think every player is coming in that wants to
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  Speaker 3: have that discussion for varying reasons. You know, where they're
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  Speaker 3: at in their career, what you know, what year are
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  Speaker 3: they in their career? Do they want to play do
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  Speaker 3: they not? What does the depth look like at their position?
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  Speaker 3: You know, what is what has history been for them
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  Speaker 3: here today and yesterday, and what's it going to look
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  Speaker 3: like tomorrow and moving forward? So every guy I think
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  Speaker 3: is in a little bit different space. And again, it's
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  Speaker 3: not really our decision, you know, ultimately it's their decision
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  Speaker 3: if but what we have to do is be honest
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  Speaker 3: and be upfront and make sure that we paint a
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  Speaker 3: picture of here's what it would look like moving forward
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  Speaker 3: in an ideal world. If it's not ideal, here's what
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  Speaker 3: it could look like, you know, from a reality standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: And when we can do that, I think we always
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  Speaker 3: end on really good terms with the guys, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether they decide to move on or whether they decide
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  Speaker 3: to stay that. I think that we've been really transparent
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  Speaker 3: and honest with them and that allows them to make
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  Speaker 3: a rational decision and not an emotional one.
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  Speaker 2: You get the requisite questions about Quinn. You wers want
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  Speaker 2: to asking about Quinn's health and you know, given that
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  Speaker 2: he's had the swar ankle and and how would he
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  Speaker 2: overall characterize how Quinn's season has gone.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I was encouraged by last week
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  Speaker 3: was when went out to practice, he didn't have that
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  Speaker 3: brace on. So I think he's continually getting better. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he came out of that Georgia game, the SEC Championship game,
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  Speaker 3: feeling better than he did going.
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  Speaker 4: In and that that was a positive.
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  Speaker 3: That was a physical game, and so him without the
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  Speaker 3: brace on last week running around was really encouraging.
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  Speaker 4: I think Quinn.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of embodies a lot that this team has embodied,
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  Speaker 3: and that's resiliency.
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  Speaker 4: You know we have. I said this in Atlanta after
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  Speaker 4: the game, like.
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  Speaker 3: I have no pause that our guys are gonna not
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  Speaker 3: respond and be ready to go Saturday for the college
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  Speaker 3: football playoffs. And because they've always responded to the adversity
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  Speaker 3: that we've been faced with, whether it's been in game,
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  Speaker 3: out of game, facing injuries, whatever that looks like. And
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  Speaker 3: they've given me little things along the way to build
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  Speaker 3: confidence in me that that's what they're capable of.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what Quinn has done for me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, through all the stuff that he's been through
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  Speaker 3: from year one to year two to year three, I
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  Speaker 3: still never forget sitting with him after that after we
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  Speaker 3: were at Stillwater and what that was like for him
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  Speaker 3: on the road, and the way he's responded throughout his
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  Speaker 3: career to injuries, UH to playing great, to having to
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  Speaker 3: find his way and fight through a game, to making
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  Speaker 3: a critical throw at TCU on third down. Ad Mitchell,
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  Speaker 3: there's been a lot of things in there to know
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  Speaker 3: this guy is going to be ready to go and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to find a way to put us in
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  Speaker 3: position to be successful. And like I said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we all have to improve, we all have to be
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  Speaker 3: better if we want to go achieve what what what
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to achieve, which is go win a national championship.
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  Speaker 3: We've all got to take our game to another level.
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  Speaker 3: And he's no different, right, He's got to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Coaches have to do it. Everybody's got to go to
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  Speaker 3: a whole nother level. And we have to do it
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  Speaker 3: for four straight weeks, and we have to do it
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  Speaker 3: one game at a time. And the first first layer
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  Speaker 3: of that is is a really good Clemson team on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday who's extremely well coached. It's got a great defensive front.
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  Speaker 3: And knowing that that, you know his performance that creates
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  Speaker 3: a ton of turnover and so I think he feels that.
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  Speaker 3: But he's also been exposed to playing against really good
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  Speaker 3: teams too, and I think he's got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: confidence in himself and the guys around him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so with Clemson's defense being as good as it
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  Speaker 2: is as Sark has talked about, and if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the numbers, they kind of mirror Texas in the
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  Speaker 2: way that they can force turnovers create turnovers. So what
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  Speaker 2: makes this Clemson defense so good at that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think one is their ability to get
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  Speaker 3: to the quarterback. I think they average like three sacks
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  Speaker 3: a game on defense. You know, they can generate pass
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  Speaker 3: rush and they can create force fumbles in that.
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  Speaker 4: Aspect of it.
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  Speaker 3: I think two, like us, you could tell they practice
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  Speaker 3: attacking the ball. You know, it's one thing to like
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  Speaker 3: I think about last year where we were we wanted
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  Speaker 3: to create more turnovers. Well, you have to practice creating turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: You have to work at it. And you can tell
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  Speaker 3: they work at it. You can see the intent in
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  Speaker 3: which they go after the ball. And so our intent
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  Speaker 3: has to really be of protecting that ball, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: that's the play call, right to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 3: not exposing ourselves too much to a high pressure defense,
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  Speaker 3: to making sure that we're making good decisions at quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: to making sure that we're protecting the quarterback, to making
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  Speaker 3: sure that as a ball carrier I've got two hands
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  Speaker 3: in traffic, that the ball is going to be so
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  Speaker 3: paramount in this game that we're not giving up any
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  Speaker 3: of these short fields and that hopefully our defense can
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  Speaker 3: create a couple of these guys don't turn it over much,
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  Speaker 3: but we've got to try to go create some and
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  Speaker 3: then take advantage of those short fields and tournament to points.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we can ever drift too far away
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  Speaker 2: from trans Transfer portal comes up quite a bit during
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  Speaker 2: these news conferences. It's kind of sprinkled throughout, and a
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  Speaker 2: legitimate question here. Somebody asked Sark if there was anything
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  Speaker 2: he could do or would do to tweak the calendar
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  Speaker 2: or the transfer portal window. It is constantly evaluated. What
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  Speaker 2: might that be?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think what you know, again, I
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  Speaker 3: don't pretend to be the guy that solves all the
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  Speaker 3: answers here, Okay, but I'm going to give two cents.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the challenges is we have the
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  Speaker 3: NCAAA and we have the presidents of universities and they're
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  Speaker 3: operating on a school calendar and what that looks like, right,
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  Speaker 3: and we're trying to solve a settlement and one oh
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  Speaker 3: five number and revenue sharing and all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And over here we have this.
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  Speaker 3: College football Playoff committee, right that it went from four
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  Speaker 3: teams to twelve teams, and there's talk of it.
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  Speaker 4: Going even even more.
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  Speaker 3: The issue comes into that college football playoff is overlapping
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  Speaker 3: a fall semester into a spring semester, and so you
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  Speaker 3: have this group of young men that we've allowed to
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  Speaker 3: transfer that all want to be at their new school
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  Speaker 3: for the start of the spring school year or spring semester.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is we've got teams that are still playing
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  Speaker 3: meaningful games, and not that bowl games aren't meaningful. They are,
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  Speaker 3: and they're a reward for a successful season. But we're
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  Speaker 3: still competing for a national championship. All the while, we've
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  Speaker 3: got kids thinking about their future understandable there too.
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  Speaker 4: And so whether whether we can.
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  Speaker 3: Reset the calendar to some degree to fit what the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs would look like, or we take a hard and
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  Speaker 3: a real serious look at more of an NFL model
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  Speaker 3: to where free agency doesn't begin until maybe the spring,
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  Speaker 3: where players transfer to the spring. Maybe we don't have
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  Speaker 3: spring ball anymore, maybe we have ota s and uh
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  Speaker 3: in mini camps and and we adjust it completely. I
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  Speaker 3: know that that's you know, we're at the beginning stages
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  Speaker 3: of something that is brand new to us right now.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think we're gonna have to take a
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  Speaker 3: real look at you know, just just trying to put,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a band aid over something. And that's the fix,
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  Speaker 3: I think something We're gonna have to make a real
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  Speaker 3: dive and a real look at college football in general
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  Speaker 3: and what's in the best interests of the game in season,
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  Speaker 3: for the players and at a season so that we
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  Speaker 3: have a product that we're not dealing with all of
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  Speaker 3: this all the time. You know, what is a salary
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  Speaker 3: cap gonna look like? And how does that go about?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, so much of like what we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 3: Players are getting offered some crazy numbers and things going on,
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  Speaker 3: but yet there's no there's no players union that then
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  Speaker 3: monitors that, and what's the value at those positions. There's
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  Speaker 3: so many things that we're operating kind of just however
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  Speaker 3: we want right now. And I think the NFL, I
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  Speaker 3: always say this, they've figured it out because they've they've
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  Speaker 3: they've devoted so much time and energy to it that
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  Speaker 3: I think at some point we're going to have to
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  Speaker 3: look at that model of why do why is their
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  Speaker 3: free agency when it is, and then how does that
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  Speaker 3: coincide them with the draft?
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  Speaker 4: Refer to it as signing date?
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  Speaker 3: And then what they've done with their off season to
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  Speaker 3: build their teams to get them ready for training camp
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  Speaker 3: and then the season. And I do think springball at
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  Speaker 3: some point is going to become a casualty of this.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that's a bad thing, because I
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  Speaker 3: do think there's something to be said for Phase one,
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  Speaker 3: Phase two, phase three that the NFL utilizes in its
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  Speaker 3: off season as coming out of free agency and the
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  Speaker 3: draft as they build for the team. So I just
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  Speaker 3: think this is gonna have to be a real overhaul
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  Speaker 3: that's ultimately gonna have to take place. When and how
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  Speaker 3: that comes about, I don't exactly know, But right now
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  Speaker 3: we're just operating with too many things happening all at once,
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  Speaker 3: and then we're gonna have all this dead time come
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  Speaker 3: to the spring, and then we're gonna open free agency
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  Speaker 3: up again after spring ball, and we're gonna do it
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  Speaker 3: all over again. And so it just seems like it's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a broken model, but it's the
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  Speaker 3: model that we have right now, and so our job
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  Speaker 3: is to try to navigate this model to the best
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  Speaker 3: of our ability, and that's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: All right. There's some more from Long Orange head coach
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  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkis, and we'll hear more from start coming up
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  Speaker 2: next hour. Up next we changed into Long Horn Basketball.
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  Speaker 2: We hear from Rodney Terry to Texas Men's head coach
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  Speaker 2: following the Longhorns one twenty one to fifty seven win
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: yesterday over Arkansas Pine Bluff. This is Sports Radio AM
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: thirteen hundred the Zone.