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SEC Preseason Polls Spark Debate, LeBron Chooses Philly, Media Days Wrap Up · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: All right away, we go on a Friday afternoon. It
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  Speaker 1: is the day after the festivities of Tampa Bay SEC
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  Speaker 1: Media Days have come and gone. Craig is on his
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  Speaker 1: way back to Austin, and in the meantime, my name
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  Speaker 1: is Jay Krman. I'll be filling in today from two
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  Speaker 1: to five PM. We've got plenty more to bring you
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  Speaker 1: from the SEC Media Days in Tampa. Of course, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: you heard our AM thirteen hundred Zone crew including Cameron Parker,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Carge and Craig Way bring you a live show
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  Speaker 1: that ran from about four to six after the Round
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  Speaker 1: Rock Express game, including some exclusive one on one interviews
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  Speaker 1: with Steve Sarkisian, Trevor Goosebye, Colins Simmons, and Arch Manning.
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  Speaker 1: That was just the tip of the iceberg, though, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you plenty more of what the Longhorn
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  Speaker 1: players and coaches had to say in Tampa Bay and
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian with his thoughts on the roster overall, on
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning entering year two on the College Football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: Committee and its approach to non conference games. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get to all of that throughout the show today, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk plenty of SEC football with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of great guests, including Chris Hummer from CBS Sports, a
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  Speaker 1: national college football writer, who will join us during the
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  Speaker 1: three o'clock hour, and Evan Veeth from Inside Texas will
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  Speaker 1: join us during the four o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna run you through.
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  Speaker 1: The SEC Media Days preseason polls which have come out
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  Speaker 1: earlier this afternoon, actually late this morning, tell you who's
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  Speaker 1: on the All SEC first team, where the Longhorns stack up,
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  Speaker 1: and we will get to all of that throughout the
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  Speaker 1: show today, and in just a little bit, we'll let
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  Speaker 1: you hear the rest of Arch Manning's time in Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay through his electronic media room availability at the podium
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  Speaker 1: taking questions, and we'll see if you get a sense
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  Speaker 1: for what Arch and Craig talked about yesterday, and that
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  Speaker 1: was the fact that Arch Manning's a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: relaxed this year at Media Days, having a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more fun with it today that he told Craig on
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  Speaker 1: the show yesterday he was kind of dreading leading into
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  Speaker 1: it and got some good advice from his dad, Cooper
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  Speaker 1: in terms of letting things kind of roll off and
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  Speaker 1: if there's any quarterback in the country.
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  Speaker 2: He has had to do that more than others. It's
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  Speaker 2: arch Manning.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna get to arch Manning and some of
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  Speaker 1: his questions and answers in just a few minutes. But
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  Speaker 1: we got to start the show with Lebron James because
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  Speaker 1: every time it feels like Craig is on a flight,
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  Speaker 1: there's a big NBA story that breaks out. And today
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  Speaker 1: it was mid morning when Lebron James announced his decision.
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  Speaker 1: Not the decision that's the one where he took his
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  Speaker 1: talents to South Beach, or the subsequent decisions to return
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland and then go out to La No, this
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  Speaker 1: is what he's calling his last decision. Lebron James will
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  Speaker 1: play for the Philadelphia seventy six ers on a two year,
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars deal. He said, quote, this is my
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  Speaker 1: last decision. I'm not going for money, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: for family. I still want to compete, to win, to
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  Speaker 1: have a chance at the feeling of winning another championship.
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  Speaker 1: And he believed after holding out and waiting and maybe
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  Speaker 1: seeing where the cards would fall on a couple of
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  Speaker 1: his former teammates, the likes of Anthony Davis, who the
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  Speaker 1: Wizards decided not to trade for Jimmy Butler and Picks,
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  Speaker 1: which I argued on the show was the right move
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  Speaker 1: the likes of Kyrie Irving, who remains a Dallas Maverick
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  Speaker 1: coming in to the twenty twenty sixth season. So Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James thought that after all this dust settled the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: who added Jalen Brown earlier this season in a somewhat
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  Speaker 1: surprising trade at least from the Boston Celtics perspective the
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  Speaker 1: way we saw it.
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  Speaker 2: Now gets to join the Sixers.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be their power forward, joining a core of Jalen Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi, vj Edgecombe and of course Joe l Embiid.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things Lebron mentioned in this was
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  Speaker 1: his basketball happiness. He said that would unlock his best play,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we saw some of his best play
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  Speaker 1: at age forty one last year when he had the
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  Speaker 1: ability to be an off ball option before the Luka
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  Speaker 1: Doncic injury ultimately had a big head in derailing the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers season. He's certainly going to have that luxury in Philly.
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  Speaker 1: The Athletic was reporting on this. They noted the seventy
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  Speaker 1: six ers weren't viewed as a primary threat Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: by some of the other teams. In the process, there
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  Speaker 1: was all that talk about the Warriors. Could he return
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  Speaker 1: home and play with the Cabs, Could he join Jiannis
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  Speaker 1: and bam Adebayo and go back to his Miami heat
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  Speaker 1: former destination.
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  Speaker 2: There were lots of suitors.
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  Speaker 1: Not to sound like I'm watching the odyssey here, but
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  Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers, according to The Athletic, were not
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  Speaker 1: seen by some of the other teams as a main
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  Speaker 1: threat to land Lebron James.
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  Speaker 2: Oh but we saw it coming. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When we had Mark Henry on the show right before
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  Speaker 1: July fourth, our last show before America's two hunred and
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth birthday, Mark and I went down the list and
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  Speaker 1: tried to determine which teams Lebron James could join that
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  Speaker 1: would make them true finals contenders, and the Sixers were
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  Speaker 1: one of those. And Mark had some strong words about him,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to join the show close to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the hour coming up later on read about
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  Speaker 1: two thirty and we'll refresh you on what Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Had to say.
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  Speaker 1: We you know what, I got no problem pulling receipts.
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  Speaker 1: I pull them when I'm wrong all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: put out plenty of them, like that time I picked
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers to win the American League pennant. This
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  Speaker 1: season could still happen. I wouldn't say it's very likely.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as likely as the Wizards winning the Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Conference at this point. But when we get a receipt, right, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we get to pull that one too. So we'll refresh
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  Speaker 1: you on that conversation, some of the bold takes from
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  Speaker 1: the world's strongest man, and he'll have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: come on and we'll follow up on some of those
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  Speaker 1: things later on this hour of the program. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the big story of the afternoon. Anything but a Friday
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  Speaker 1: news dump. Lebron James joining the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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  Speaker 1: Think about all the turnover in that division right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the NBA, I know, divisions don't mean as much
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  Speaker 1: as the conferences and the schedules are all bounced out
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. But the Atlantic Division, you get
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  Speaker 1: the defending champion New York Knicks. You got the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: who are in a time of transition after moving on
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  Speaker 1: from Jalen Brown, bringing in Paul George, bringing in Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: Robinson and trying to reload after a disappointing postseason exit.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the Toronto Raptors who are stuck in Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Limbo at the moment after making what they thought
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  Speaker 1: was the big splash trade to build around Scottie Barnes
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  Speaker 1: and push some chips in on competing after they ultimately
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  Speaker 1: lost in seven games to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Round
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  Speaker 1: one last season. You've got the Sixers, who are now
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  Speaker 1: a team on the rise, adding Lebron James to an
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  Speaker 1: already stacked ross we mentioned in the last segment, and
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  Speaker 1: who I think got a steal in the NBA Draft
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  Speaker 1: in La Baron, Phylon and then the Brooklyn netso we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to talk about too much, but those four
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  Speaker 1: teams in the Atlantic Division, teams that have completely hit
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  Speaker 1: the factory reset button, who have retooled, who have taken
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  Speaker 1: big swings in the NBA's off season, And it feels
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  Speaker 1: very far away, but we're looking forward to seeing how
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  Speaker 1: it all shakes out. One thing that's starting to feel
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  Speaker 1: very very close by, not quite around the corner yet,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe up around the bend the college football season
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  Speaker 1: and coming up in the next segment, we'll let you
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  Speaker 1: hear from SEC Media Days. Will have lots of sound
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  Speaker 1: bites to bring you from SEC Media Days throughout the program.
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  Speaker 1: These will be fresh from what you heard yesterday. If
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  Speaker 1: your podcasts. Craig Way, Mike Harges, Cameron Parker. Like I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: exclusive one on one interviews with Trevor Gooseby which you
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  Speaker 1: hundred Zone, as well as arch Manning interviews posted on
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  Speaker 1: our Instagram at AM thirteen hundred the Zone. The coverage
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  Speaker 1: was fantastic from the guys down there. We can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to welcome them back to town on Monday afternoon. But
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  Speaker 1: for now, if you've got questions, whether that's about Lebron James,
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  Speaker 1: but you get thirty seconds to get your take fired off.
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  Speaker 1: You could send some hot takes our way on this
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  Speaker 1: hot Friday afternoon. We're gonna hear from March Manning coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. We'll have much more on Lebron James later
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  Speaker 1: this hour. Should be a fun afternoon coming up here
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  Speaker 1: on AM thirteen hundred Zone.
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  Speaker 2: We're so glad you're with us. US still said.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: On this Friday afternoon edition of the Craig Waves Show.
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  Speaker 1: We're playing catch up on SEC media Day's content. We
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  Speaker 1: know that everything this season for Texas offensively, if they
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  Speaker 1: want to improve turn things around from what was last
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  Speaker 1: season the worst offense in the last five years under
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian. If they want to turn that offense around,
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  Speaker 1: get it back to the levels of those college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff semi final teams of twenty twenty four and twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. It's going to starting in with Arch Manning
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  Speaker 1: in year number two and in this press conference, you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear arch Manning discuss his thoughts, expectations and russians of
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  Speaker 1: new teammates. You'll hear him get asked in specific about
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  Speaker 1: some of the opponents on the Longhorn schedule, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear him talk about where the offense is right now
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  Speaker 1: compared to me be where it was at the start
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  Speaker 1: of last season where the Longhorns were slow coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the gates. Here is arch Manning in the media
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  Speaker 1: room at SEC Media Days yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: Jeredforthirdeo dot com. Arch mean a third generation SEC quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: What does playing in this conference meeting you personally? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's very special to me.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up going to SEC games or it's lco
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  Speaker 5: miss and so now playing it as a dream come true.
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  Speaker 6: Passes to your left, turning in with Way thirty one,
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  Speaker 6: Just what stood out about throwing a cam Coleman so far?
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  Speaker 4: What makes him special?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously he's a really good athlete, a freak athlete,
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  Speaker 5: but he's also a really good person and a very
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  Speaker 5: hard worker.
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  Speaker 4: So we're excited to have him second. Rowing Passes to
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  Speaker 4: your right.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Arts, Rob Gregson eight Z Sports, What did you
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  Speaker 5: take from that Ohio State game the first go round
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  Speaker 5: that you can bring into your second matchup with them?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I learned a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, gaining those game experiences was really good for me.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously that was a rough game, So learning from it
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  Speaker 5: and moving on and motivating it for me for this
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  Speaker 5: year front.
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  Speaker 3: Rowing pass it right behind you, Hey, Archie Xavier McKnight
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  Speaker 3: with WWSB out of Saracena. So last season you were
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  Speaker 3: coming in as a first year starter for the full
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  Speaker 3: time and there were expectations coming in, lofty expectations.
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  Speaker 4: There are big expectations on you this year as well.
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  Speaker 3: How are you handling that this season after the aftermath
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  Speaker 3: of last season? Are you letting the impact you or
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  Speaker 3: are you just hoping on going out and playing your
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  Speaker 3: game and running your race.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. My goal of this offseason was just a state present,
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  Speaker 5: take it one day at a time. I'm not really
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  Speaker 5: worried about the outside world, and that's what I continue
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  Speaker 5: to try to do.
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  Speaker 4: Peter rodichistramil dot com.
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  Speaker 7: I guess, adding to what you said about Cam, how
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  Speaker 7: have you kind of built for leadership with him this
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  Speaker 7: offensive and this offseason?
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  Speaker 4: How would you describe him as a teammate. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 4: a great teammate. He works really hard.
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  Speaker 5: The good thing about Cam and how we built our
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  Speaker 5: relationship is he he always wants to throw, he always
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  Speaker 5: wants to meet extra and I think anytime you got
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  Speaker 5: a guy like that, it's easier for me to become
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  Speaker 5: close with.
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  Speaker 4: And he's also a good guy. He can joke and
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  Speaker 4: we can go eat and I'm excited to have him
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  Speaker 4: on my team, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 8: So can roll in the oisle Hey Arch Cameron le
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  Speaker 8: June wak Montgomery, Alabama. This will be your second season
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  Speaker 8: as the starter at Texas. Can you just talk a
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  Speaker 8: little bit about your relationship with Steve Sarkisian.
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  Speaker 2: And kind of how that's grown in the last two years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a great relationship.
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  Speaker 5: I think he has a good relationship with our whole
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  Speaker 5: team and we all trust him and we're excited to
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  Speaker 5: play for him. He gets us to play hard for him,
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  Speaker 5: and uh, I'm excited for a year two with him through.
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  Speaker 4: Growing the right Hey Arch Jig Worthing carry I sports coach.
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  Speaker 4: Sark has talked about his quarterbacks playing on time. What
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  Speaker 4: exactly does that look like when you're under center?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think going through your reids and getting the
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  Speaker 5: ball to the right people. And I think I didn't
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  Speaker 5: do that sometimes last year, but trying to get better
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  Speaker 5: with that this year.
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  Speaker 7: Hey arch, soing on, well, well good see again apstead
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  Speaker 7: of a VP, as we see ours, Louisiana native can
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  Speaker 7: be playing.
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  Speaker 4: In Baton Rouge in November. Uh you must think about
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  Speaker 4: that once in a while. Yeah, yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 5: I definitely heard about that when I went back to
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  Speaker 5: Manny Past Academy in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 4: But we're excited.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up going to Baton Rouge for football games,
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  Speaker 5: and we're excited to go.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a good game.
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  Speaker 5: They're a great program with a bunch of good players,
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  Speaker 5: so we're excited. Tyler Shaw with Kimmy Ticks and Brian
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  Speaker 5: College Station, with your time at Texas so far, what
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  Speaker 5: have you learned about the rivalry and the lone Star showdown?
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  Speaker 5: And you know two years ago was your first taste
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  Speaker 5: in College Station. What do you remember about that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: A and M. They got a bunch of good players,
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  Speaker 5: a great coach. That atmosphere is the real deal. So
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  Speaker 5: we're excited, always excited for that rivalry game, and we're
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  Speaker 5: pumped up.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Archievans Ferrar nine nine point one of the Sports
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  Speaker 6: Ana one. Not so you guys played Tennessee and SEC
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  Speaker 6: play early on, Peyton said he was rooting for you
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  Speaker 6: and not his alam about it in Tennessee would have
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  Speaker 6: been your experiences in neland and maybe talking about his
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  Speaker 6: time at Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never been, so I'm excited to go for
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  Speaker 5: the first time. We're all pumped up first SEC game.
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  Speaker 5: That's a great program. I spent some time with George
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  Speaker 5: McIntyre this offseason. He's a really good dude. So we're
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  Speaker 5: all excited. On the Island of the Back CJ Vogel
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  Speaker 5: with on Texas Football, arch lot's been made about the
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  Speaker 5: additions at running back as well as your wide receivers.
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  Speaker 4: How's kind of that tight end group coming along, where's
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  Speaker 4: room for improvement and what are some of the strengths
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  Speaker 4: right there?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got a lot of depth in the tight
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  Speaker 5: end room, a whole bunch of good guys, and we're excited.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's.
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  Speaker 5: Gonna come down to camp to see who kind of
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  Speaker 5: takes that role. But it's been a good offseason for
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  Speaker 5: those guys.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Archivian Camenco, Oklahoma's own News nine. Parker Livingston transferring
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  Speaker 9: sides from Texas to OU. What's going to be like
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  Speaker 9: debasing this year? Yeah, it's gonna be different. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: here's my roommates now playing against him. It's definitely a
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  Speaker 9: little bit of a change. I think that's just kind
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  Speaker 9: of how college football is now. Thanks David Epstein. Sports
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  Speaker 9: started at WJATV in Jackson, Mississippi. Yesterday was covering Ole
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  Speaker 9: Miss and of course you got family connections there.
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  Speaker 4: They were talking a lot about legacy this year and
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  Speaker 4: what that means.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm just wondering, in your experience with your family
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  Speaker 5: and connections to Ole Miss and everything, what you've learned
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  Speaker 5: in your life, does legacy mean to you?
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  Speaker 4: And just from what you've witnessed.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I grew up going Ole Miss games, obviously, ELI
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  Speaker 5: and my grandfather built legacies at Old Miss, and we're
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  Speaker 5: just trying to take it day by day and win
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  Speaker 5: some games this year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really worried about my legacy role.
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  Speaker 6: Arch and Evan Beth inside Texas last year, the arch
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  Speaker 6: man that watched a new house State now the one
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  Speaker 6: that we're talking to here at SEC Media Days what's
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  Speaker 6: the biggest difference mentally and physically between those two people.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I've become more present about obviously matured.
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  Speaker 4: I think going through those rough times learn a lot.
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  Speaker 5: About myself and I've become a better man because of it,
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully a better player.
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  Speaker 10: I don't want to repeat that game. Hey, rich Court
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  Speaker 10: Samuels againside of Texas. I just talk to a little
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  Speaker 10: bit about freshman Jumaian Bishop. What have you seen from him?
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  Speaker 10: You know, start talked that he is going to play
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  Speaker 10: with Streeper this year, going to be on the offensive
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  Speaker 10: side of the ball, spend a little bit of time
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  Speaker 10: in d D meetings.
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  Speaker 11: Of course we all know this.
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  Speaker 10: What did you see for him that he can help,
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: you know, this football team in twenty twenty six, not
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: just down the line and he progresses.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Jermaine's a great athlete, great player. His high school
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: highlight tape is unreal. But he's also really smart and
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: very competitive. So we're glad to have him on our team, real.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Our chiem boyd inside Texas. How would you on a
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: scale of one to ten, how would you rate where
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: the offense was going into fall camp at twenty twenty five?
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: And where the offense is going into fall camp of
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty six.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's it's a totally different group.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: We're definitely all probably a year better.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: But I don't know.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: It's not really for me to rate. I think that's
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: the all his job. So I'll let y'all decide that
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: once we start playing. At what point in last season
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: did it become fun for you? I think when we
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: started winning.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Pretty candid but pretty fair our jazz. When did last
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: season become fun when we started winning? Yeah, I think
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of the Longhorn fan base would agree. They
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: could also see that sort of change happen in Arch
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: as the season went along.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, up next, Mark Henry.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He called this He called Lebron James moved to Philadelphia
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: three weeks ago and will follow up for some of
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: his thoughts next here on AM thirteen hundred Zone and
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Okay, welcome back on a Friday afternoon
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: edition of The Craigway Show.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: We're talking some NBA news.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Lebron James makes his so called last decision to join
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy six ers for this twenty twenty six season.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: We led the show by talking about the way the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Sixers were seen by many as a dark horse in
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the Lebron James sweepstakes. Of course, the Jalen Brown trade,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: which happened right before July fourth, shook things up. On
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the day of that trade, the World's Strongest Man WWE
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: famer Mark Henry joined the show and we broke down
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: which NBA teams would become Finals contenders if Lebron James
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: decided to sign there. Obviously, we were under the assumption
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that James would be taking a pretty big pay cut,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and in this case he sure did. Two years, eight
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: million dollars, a player option included in the deal as well,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and he joins a seventy six ers team that is
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: already stacked. And when Mark and I were discussing the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown trade, which sent Paul George back to the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Boston Celtics and Jalen Brown to the seventy six Ers,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the former Finals MVP, the reactions we had sort of
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: indicated a chance that Lebron James would sign eventually with Philadelphia.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And I want to let you rewind a little bit.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: We'll pull the receipt and let you hear that clip
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: from back on July second.
• 19:56
  Speaker 12: Take a listen, Well, guess who can take the NBA
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: minim of seven million dollars? Uh oh, Lebron James. If
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: they add Lebron, I would Ben. I'd be at his
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: house right now with some chocolates and some flowers and
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: a check for seven million dollars and change and escalators. Hey,
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: if you make the All Star Game, if you score
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: twenty points, if you have five assists the game, if
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: you have five rebounds a game, We're gonna pay you extra.
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: But you can do that incentives because they're based on performance.
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: It's not a guarantee that will go toward the contract.
• 20:40
  Speaker 12: So theoretically you can have Lebron signed for seven million,
• 20:44
  Speaker 12: but he can make twenty.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So do that and you you.
• 20:51
  Speaker 12: Basically have bought a championship. There is They will win
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: seventy five games with Lebron James that powerful with Joel
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: Einbid and those three are young assassins, Jolin b will
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: not have to play but twenty minutes a.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Game, seventy five wins. You said he was, You said
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: m B was sitting out of twenty games.
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: They will still win seventy five games with Joel and
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: B playing twenty minutes a game.
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: Wow, I'm not sure.
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: All you need is a guy that can block shots
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: and rebound and you put him out there with Lebronay,
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: how many balls do you have? Like, well, that's a
• 21:29
  Speaker 12: bad question asked thanks call. I know you have to
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: answer call. But how many shots Lebron's gonna take? How
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: many shots? Will Brown tape and B and B is
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: gonna take at least ten shots a game playing twenty
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: minutes conservatively, that's conservative. And then you have MAXI he's
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: gonna get downhill and get seventeen shots a game. And
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: then you have Edgecombe that's gonna get between ten and
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: fifteen shots a game. So that's a lot of ball
• 22:01
  Speaker 12: production and shot production. So I don't see a team
• 22:06
  Speaker 12: being able to combat that, because if you try to
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: load up and double team the ball, Lebron is gonna
• 22:14
  Speaker 12: score thirty points on you. And Lebron will also sometimes
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: take Hey, I handle the ball. This guy can't defend me.
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: Get to the basket. I'm gonna put it to close
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: to the rim. He Lebron can average on a team
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: like that. Lebron can average tennis sis a game, and.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: That that was the vision for him. In la as
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: being the third option. But Luca came and it changed everything.
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: And if I was the Lakers and I got Luca
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: by hooker, by crook, which they got him by crook,
• 22:51
  Speaker 12: I would have I would have done the same thing.
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: I'd have told Lebron hey, man, we got a young
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: guy that we want to hit your wagon to.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: He called it over three weeks ago and now here
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to follow up on what turned out to be one
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of the world's strongest takes is the world's strongest man.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Co host of The Morning Kickoff, Mark Henry, who is celebrating.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: What's going on, Jake, Hey, I mean.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: You've got to be walking a little bit taller this
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: morning slash early afternoon, because this was something in terms
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of Lebron James going to Philadelphia, Mark, that you were
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: all over right from the jump when we were breaking
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: down that Jalen Brown trade. So I thought it'd be
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: fun to bring you back on see if you're still
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: feeling this way and this optimistic about the Sixers.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: So much for a slow Friday.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Though.
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: Slow Friday my rear end. Hey, I love being right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: I love me some me, Jake, but I'm gonna tell
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: you this is a scary thing for the NBA. It's
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: not over now. They have to make some more moves
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: because they have big lethargic centers behind Jake, behind Joel
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: and b They're gonna have to like move those guys
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: around and get guys that are more mobile, rim running guys,
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: kind of like what they had with Jackson Hayes at
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: Los Angeles. More to that style of center. They they
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: have the potential to win it. I don't see, and
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: I may have exaggerated a little bit saying that they
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: would win seventy five games.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: They win seventy three, they're going to tie the record.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: They're going to tie the record.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So you're talking about the depth chart at center. Right
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: behind Joel ANDMB. They've got Adam Bona, the young center
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: from Nigeria. They've also got Ariol Tookportige and I Broom
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: from Auburn. So you think that's maybe their next move
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: is beefing up behind Joel embiid. One thing that that
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: clip didn't mention was the kind of intentional load management
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: strategy that you and I talked about the Sixers employing.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: If they go this route, and I think for Philadelphia,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: right your number one priority is keeping Joel Embiid healthy
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: for the postseason because I feel like an injury to
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Mbid could have a similar impact on the Sixers next
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: year as the Doncic injury had on the Lakers this year.
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: Never will I have him play more than twenty five
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: minutes in a game. I mean ten minutes in the
• 25:37
  Speaker 12: second half, fifteen minutes in the first half, numbers like that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: That way, you don't get penalized. If you want to
• 25:47
  Speaker 12: just come to the league and say, hey, look we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: gonna load man as Joel Embiid. He's never going to
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: play it back to back. There's about you know, we
• 25:58
  Speaker 12: want to keep him capped at forty five games for
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: the season, then just pay the money. But you can
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: get by with Joe and b paying ten to fifteen
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: minutes a half mor Then just do it the whole
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: season and then you'll you'll I think you've fixed the
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: Eels when it comes to him getting injured.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Mark Henry's here, We're talking Lebron James and what he
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: called his last decision heading to Philadelphia on a two year,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: eight million dollar deal. You were close, I thought you
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: got you predicted what seven million dollars on that deal.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: For Lebron's that's pretty close in today's NBA. Do you
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: think this was ultimately Lebron's best chance of winning a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: title this decision? I mean, aside from maybe a team
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: like the Spurs. You and I went through a lot
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of possibilities a couple of weeks ago on the segment
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that we aired a clip from a second ago. Did
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Lebron ultimately go to his best shot of winning an
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: NBA title next season?
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: I think Lebron's best fit would have been Golden State, Miami,
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: San Antonio Spurs. Those were the only three teams that
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: I felt like he could have a chance at winning
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: other than Philadelphia, who was my first choice and who
• 27:21
  Speaker 12: I put the most stock into, just because Lebron doesn't
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: have to score on that team to win.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: He could score ten points a game and a lot
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: of that will be in.
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: Free throws because he's going to be the best post
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: up option and he's a distributor at a high level.
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: And if you have ty these young man, these guys
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: can score from every possible way. Tyree's MAXI running around screens,
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: hitting him, coming off screens, him being able to get
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: his own shot. Same thing with Edgecombe Lebron James in
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: the post uff game, Lebron James havn't played with a
• 28:10
  Speaker 12: guy uh that can get to the basket slashing.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Like Brown since he played with Dwayne Wade.
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: And you saw how Lebron used to draw the double team.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Wade would cut, Lebron would.
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: Bounce past Love pass behind the back pass. He would
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: always get Wade the ball. And Wade was the dominant
• 28:38
  Speaker 12: scorer in their in their unit. That's who Lebron is
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: gonna be.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: For this team. It's it's scary, man. They like everybody's
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: saying that the Knicks.
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: And Miami have a chance, and I don't think so,
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: not in the West, not in the East.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I'm gonna ask you to kind of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: play Devil's advocate on this mark because you're pretty bullish
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: on this Sixers team picking them to go with seventy
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: three and nine next season. I don't think you're going
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to find a lot of experts picking them to win
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that many games.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: What's the way this goes wrong?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: What's the way that it falls apart for the Sixers
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: next year?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: If it were to.
• 29:18
  Speaker 12: Maybe an injury to one of the big three Maxi
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: edge comb or Brown. I think that even with joelen
• 29:29
  Speaker 12: b playing limited minutes, they still would have success. They
• 29:36
  Speaker 12: with an injury, they will win fifty games.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Fifty five games, and that's about where the odds makers
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: see their season going. Because the East got a lot
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: better this offseason. I talked in the opening of the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: show about that entire division of you and I were
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: both scratching our heads a little bit about the Boston
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Celtics and and the Toronto Raptors are obviously in a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: little bit of limbo. But the Eastern Conference as a whole,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I think stacks up a lot more competitively than it
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: has maybe in the last three or four years it has.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I see the Raptors have gotten better.
• 30:06
  Speaker 12: Indiana Pacers are gonna be light years better because of
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: having Tyrese Maxie back and making the moves that they made.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Uh. Miami is definitely gonna be a force.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 30:19
  Speaker 12: The Cleveland Cavaliers will be the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Detroit will be Detroit.
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: I don't see them doing much more than they did
• 30:29
  Speaker 12: this season.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Detroit they did good. They made it to the.
• 30:33
  Speaker 12: Playoffs, and they had a run in the playoffs. But
• 30:36
  Speaker 12: that's where it ends. Because when the matchups happen. They're
• 30:41
  Speaker 12: gonna have trouble with New York and they're gonna have
• 30:44
  Speaker 12: trouble with Philadelphia.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Well, look, Mark, I got to give you your flowers
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: because you were all over this right when we talked
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: about the trade three weeks ago. Where does this kind
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of stack up for you in terms of world's strongest
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: takes or maybe not, you know, world's strongest takes in particular,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: but just take you've had that have ended up coming
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to fruition since you've been doing this.
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: You know, I'm not trying to be bragging docious like
• 31:10
  Speaker 12: like that. I've had a few takes that came to
• 31:15
  Speaker 12: fruition and people go, where'd you get that from?
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Like, how'd you come up with that?
• 31:21
  Speaker 12: It's just the brain, just a thought process of what
• 31:25
  Speaker 12: I see and what if I was a coach, what
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: would I be afraid of? And that is just how
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: I made my decision.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: No comparable, no comparable kind of takes that have come
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: to fruition because I'm not afraid to brag about it.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I'd said DeVante Smith was going to win the Heisman
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: before the twenty twenty season.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I'm never going to have it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Take that good again, and I'm fully aware of that
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: even at the age of twenty six.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Jake, I'm in my old age. I just can't remember it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: Like everything that you know really snappy, I would have
• 32:02
  Speaker 12: to sit here and think about it, and that makes
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: for very dull radio.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll come back to you on it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: We'll give you a chance to think about it, maybe
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: for another day. But before you go, Mark, I wanted
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to get your takeaways from SEC media days. I know
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you and Cameron Parker had a great show this morning
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: talking about it. What's sticking with you here as we
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: head into the weekend and turn the page from Tampa
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and move even closer to the college football season for Texas.
• 32:26
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm looking forward to this season because you know,
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: you may want to put one of these as my
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: as my take. I think this is a This is
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: a Texas team that I think is gonna do like Indiana.
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: I think through the season, they're going to have a
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: couple of really close games, but they're gonna come out
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: on top. And because of the diversity in what Texas
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: can do, I don't see Arch winning the Heisman because
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: they're going to run the ball a lot and that
• 33:15
  Speaker 12: he's gonna, I think, be a better percentage quarterback than
• 33:21
  Speaker 12: he has been and show people that he can throw
• 33:25
  Speaker 12: the ball from different angles. But yeahfinitely, and most definitely
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: I think that the Longhorns win national championship this year.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I love how you snuck that part in right on
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: the end.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: We're breaking down arch bandings, throws, and then there's the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: there's the real take Texas as national champions and hopefully
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: we're revisiting this in a few months, just like we
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: did your Lebron James the Philadelphia take.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Mark.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for stopping by, And yeah, you'll be
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: standing a little taller this weekend.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Know when you got that one right?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Well, Jake, I cannot.
• 34:06
  Speaker 12: I can't leave without giving you.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Let me let me let me see your your number
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: is three or one number.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: That's right where I can when I can read it
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: further than that on the air.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yet one I was not gonna give everybody out there.
• 34:21
  Speaker 12: I'm just saying I wanted to make sure because I
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: have four Jakes in my mind. I wanted to make
• 34:27
  Speaker 12: sure that what I sent to you got to your producer,
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: because uh, I sent you something that's going.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: To give light to your career, to your uh, to
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: your week, and.
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: I'm I'm willing, Jake, I'm willing to sit one out
• 34:45
  Speaker 12: for you and come back in the next segment after
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: your break.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's let's go ahead and take a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: break and we'll come back with more with the World's
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Strongest Man, Mark Henry on AM thirteen Zone, wrapping up
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the two of o'clock hour on today's show AM thirteen
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: hundred The Zone. You just heard the promo in the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: morning kickoff every day from seven to nine o'clock, My Carball,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Harje and the World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Who's with us now?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And Mark, why don't you why don't you set up
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the little item you sent me during the break that
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to share with everybody here.
• 35:18
  Speaker 12: So, Jake, the show that I did with you last
• 35:21
  Speaker 12: we have such a good time. And I asked you
• 35:24
  Speaker 12: had you ever heard of your fearless leader Craig Way.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Doing rap songs?
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: And you were like, what, I cannot even picture this.
• 35:36
  Speaker 12: Well, I reached into the crates and was able to
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: find find Craig Way giving his version of Texas hip hop.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Throw that throw that clip?
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: Now, what h town?
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Because we know that they feel it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: Free Wheeler four peeling back the bad for scrilling, swish
• 36:01
  Speaker 13: and Burnham, bouncing tuner, sitting glow on fours. I'm rolling
• 36:05
  Speaker 13: through the lock, slamming doze on buttons and I'm a
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: Clyde clide slippity slide, pop trunk, let it down, show
• 36:12
  Speaker 13: up at my ride, roll out.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: The red carpet, never buy it.
• 36:15
  Speaker 13: From punks, valet piece and chain starch to my chain.
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: Hit the club showing love. Tip the dancer, a gun
• 36:23
  Speaker 13: got killing the club, crapped the glove one more time
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: for they mine. I'm gonna put it down. It's that boy,
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: Pat Pat, Yeah, I got the clown.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I just want to drop it all night long.
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: Ee.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I just want to drop it all night long.
• 36:37
  Speaker 11: Yeah, drop it and drop it.
• 36:39
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I do a fabulous Oh my goodness, Mark, you
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  Speaker 11: You just made my year.
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  Speaker 2: I've been at the zone.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I'm almost a year and I could have never I
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: don't think I've lashed that hard in this studio, and
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Craig's not here to defend himself for give contact.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: But that was spectacular.
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: It was big tag and I'm telling you right now
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: that I would I would pay a lot of money
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: to be at the club and seeing, Uh, Craig Way tips.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: He's look Mark, He's he's.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Talked about before, wanting to be not just a a
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• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I don't he didn't use the word savant, but you know, wanting.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: To be an expert in every He calls him elocutionary styles.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: He said he wants to like run an auction in
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  Speaker 1: addition to colleague play by play things like that. This
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  Speaker 1: he thought he would be. I can't wait to ask
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  Speaker 1: you about this when he gets back.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 37:45
  Speaker 12: Uh, he's probably right now going damn it, Mark Henry,
• 37:50
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• 37:58
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  Speaker 4: Along with being the voice of the Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Launhawn, We've got so much to talk about when he
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• 38:12
  Speaker 1: What was it that you sent me on accident before
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that start? Was a rap battle clip of some kind?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 12: Man, Like there's a there, there's there was a rapper
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  Speaker 12: that he looks like me when I had the dreads right,
• 38:26
  Speaker 12: and you know, he has a hoodie on and he's
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: rapping and he you know, one of the lyrics in
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: his line was, I come off like Mark Henry and
• 38:35
  Speaker 12: he took off his hoodie and Chicken's brigeerads. But I
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: found a lot of I get a lot of the
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: feeling when people used me in hip hop songs. I've
• 38:48
  Speaker 12: been in about three of them, and it just it
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: just means that people in the culture of that industry
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: they respect you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is. It is the the ultimate sign
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: of respect. Hey, that you just you don't understand. There
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  Speaker 1: is a this has to be recreated, re recorded. We're
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: gonna lay down some tracks with Craig in the future. Mark,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending that and thanks for
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: joining us today.
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  Speaker 12: You're welcome, man. You're doing a great job. Man, anytime,
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  Speaker 2: You guys as well see it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks That is the world's strongest man. Mark Henry joining
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  Speaker 1: us to wrap up a two o'clock hour That.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna remember that one for a while.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Still the come, we've got much more from SEC media days.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: We will hear Steve Sarkeshan's thoughts on where his roster stands.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: We're also gonna give you a chance to see the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: SEC preseason polls. They've got it all first, second, and
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: third team. We'll tell you which longhorns are where, and
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: we'll also tell you the order of finish as predicted
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: by the media members in Tampa Bay. During our next
• 39:58
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• 40:00
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• 40:04
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• 40:07
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• 40:15
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• 41:11
  Speaker 1: moving over from the producer seat into the fill in
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• 41:22
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• 41:26
  Speaker 1: at the SEC Media Days in Tampa is the polls,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the preseason polls taken by all the media members there,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: and here was what they came up with in terms
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: of the predicted order of finish in the SEC this season.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: And there was a big gap in the first place
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: votes from the top two on down. You're thinking to yourself, Okay,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: there's probably a clear cut top two that you've heard
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: a consensus of this week that you've heard other coaches
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: tip the cap too with eighty eight first place votes
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: to be the SEC champion, and the Georgia Bulldogs came
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: in at number one in the poll. The Longhorns were second,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: barely behind them in terms of the total votes received
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: fifty seven first place votes. No other team got more
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: than six. Ole miss was third they got six first
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: place votes. Texas A and M fourth with five, and
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: then in the rest of the predicted order of finish,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: it goes to LSU five, Alabama six. That's, by the way,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the lowest Alabama has been in a predicted order of
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: SEC finish since the pre Nick Saban days. Yeah, anyone
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: remember Mike Shula. Yeah, my dad, my grandfather, and I
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: do growing up in an Alabama household. My dad grew
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: up in Birmingham. His dad from Jackson, Mississippi, went to Alabama.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: The seventh ranked team is Oklahoma in the preseason poll.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Eighth is Tennessee, Florida, ninth, Missouri tenth, South Carolina eleventh,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Auburn twelfth, Vanderbilt thirteenth. Diego Pavia by the way from
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. I think that was yesterday, maybe two
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: days ago, in the middle of SEC media days.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: We didn't have time to get to it.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Diego Pavia at the moment not looking at the option
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: of an NFL career. We'll see if another team picks
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: him up, if he plays football, perhaps in Canada, a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: different supplemental league besides the NFL, But at the moment,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: not looking like he is in a good place in
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: terms of making a fifty three man roster for the
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: start of this NFL season. We'll see if he gets
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: any other preseason looks. So Vanderbilt down at thirteen. Now,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: this is one that a lot of teams are split
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: on because they're gonna be relying on true freshman Jared Curtis.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: The skilled players around Curtis to me are among the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: middle of the pack in the SEC right, so counting
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: on a true freshman. Seeing the schedule Vanderbilt has, I
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: don't believe that the schedules shouldn't play too much in
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: your preseason predicted order of finish. Maybe other media members
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: don't see it that way, but Vanderbilt certainly has a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: tough schedule.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: They have to think a path to.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Beating this expectation of thirteenth much more than some of
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the other teams around them. And the other teams around
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: them include Kentucky at fourteenth. They got a first place
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: a vote, Kentucky did Mississippi State fifteenth, and Arkansas picked
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: to finish in sixteenth in the conference. There's some folks
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: putting out stories today about Cold Diego Pavia potentially returned
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: to Vanderbilt, and might the Cole Hudson five for five
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: lawsuit potentially open the door to that. So that's a
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: story to put a pin in over the weekend and
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: see what Pavia tries to do next as he looks
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: for his next steps. But those are the predicted orders
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: of finish in the SEC Media Days Poll, Texas at
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: number two, just behind Georgia, who is picked to win
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the conference this season. As far as the first team
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: All SEC Trinidad, Shambliss from Ole, miss is at quarterback.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: His teammate q and Lacy and Amon Hardy from Missouri
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: are the two running backs. At wide receiver, Cam Coleman
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of Texas and Ryan Coleman Williams of Alabama, who didn't
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: have the greatest year last season but certainly showed as
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: a freshman, is as talented as anybody in that outstanding
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven wide receiver class headed to the NFL
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: likely next year. Trade As Green of LSU is listed
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: as the top tight end. At offensive guard slash tackle,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Trevor Guseby of Texas is on the first team, joined
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: by Kateen Green of Missouri, Jordan Seaton from lshu Ernest
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Green the third from Georgia. Drew Bobo, son of their
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Mike Bobo, is the center and the all
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: purpose nod went to Mario Craver of Texas A and M,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: and then on first team defense, Colin Simmons on the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: defensive line gets a nod, joined by Will Echoles of
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: ole Miss, Dillon Stewart of South Carolina, and Prince will
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Uman Miellen, who transferred from ole Miss to follow Lane
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Kiffen to LSU at linebacker with weeks of LSU is
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: listed along with Xavier Atkins of Auburn and Longhorn Rashim
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Biles coming over from ACC player of the Year defensively
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: at pitt to be the linebacker patrolling the middle for
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the Longhorns, and Will must Champ this season at defensive back.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: No Longhorns made the first team. kJ Bolden of Georgia
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: joined Ellis Robinson, his Bulldog teammate, and then two guys
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: from Alabama's Abian Brown, who had the big pick six
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: of John Mattier in the College Football Playoff game, and
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: then Bray Hubbard, we'll be back for his senior season
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: playing safety. Other Longhorns listed on defense Rolani McDonald is
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: on the third team for defensive backs. On offense, Arch
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Manning is the second team quarterback. Ryan Niblett gets the
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: all purpose nod on the second team offensive page of
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: this poll. Ryan Wingo is a third team All SEC
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: wide receiver according to the preseason poll, and then at
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: running back, Hollywood Smothers gets a nod on the third team,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: as does Brandon Baker, who is listed as a third
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: team offensive guard. Ryan Niblett was also listed as the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: first team return specialist when it comes to the special
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: team side, and Longhorns long snapper Trade Debuke is on
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the second team in the preseason specialist category. So we'll
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: get some more thoughts on this coming up in the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: next segment when Chris Hummer from two four seven Sports,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: a national college football writer, joins us for a conversation
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: that's coming up as well as much more from SEC
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: media days right here on AM thirteen hundred Zone and
• 47:48
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• 47:52
  Speaker 1: media day glow here on AM thirteen hundred The Zone
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: here to talk about some of the things we just
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: revealed as far as the SEC preseason polls. Go is
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: someone who covers college football on the national level with
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: CBS Sports and two four seven Sports. Chris Hummer joins
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: the show Chris, thanks so much for the time on
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: what I'm sure has been a busy week.
• 48:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah. Absolutely and happy to be here.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Chris.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I know you put out a piece this morning on
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: some of your reactions to the teams we just talked
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: about the SEC preseason teams that we revealed earlier on
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the show. What kind of takeaways do you have this
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: morning after getting a chance to review all of those.
• 48:35
  Speaker 14: Yeah, well, I mean, I think you can only do
• 48:38
  Speaker 14: so many takeaways from a preseason All SEC team. But
• 48:43
  Speaker 14: I think my first thought at the top is Georgia
• 48:46
  Speaker 14: and Texas are quite clearly, at least per the media,
• 48:50
  Speaker 14: the two most talented teams in the league. They both
• 48:53
  Speaker 14: have eleven plus starters represented on the preseason All SEC team.
• 48:57
  Speaker 14: And I mean, if you do some quick knapkin, that's
• 49:00
  Speaker 14: fifty percent or better, which is a pretty good hit
• 49:02
  Speaker 14: rate for starting twenty two. So you can understand why
• 49:05
  Speaker 14: those two teams sit a top the standings. And there
• 49:09
  Speaker 14: are quite a few teams behind them like Oklahoma, Alabama,
• 49:12
  Speaker 14: Old Miss LSU that are really talented as well, and
• 49:16
  Speaker 14: you see that reflecting the standings. But at least to
• 49:18
  Speaker 14: me and I agree with the voters on this front
• 49:21
  Speaker 14: standpoint that at Georgia and Texas going into the season
• 49:27
  Speaker 14: should be the favorites in the SEC.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Chris, is there anything further down the ballot as far
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: as the preseason order of finish where you might differ
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: from the consensus of those who were in Tampa.
• 49:39
  Speaker 14: Oh, it's tough for the SEC, right because like on paper,
• 49:45
  Speaker 14: I think Mississippi State is going to be.
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: Pretty good this year. I think they're going to be
• 49:48
  Speaker 11: much improved.
• 49:50
  Speaker 14: But being much improved in the SEC when you have
• 49:52
  Speaker 14: to play nine conference games doesn't necessarily translate to a
• 49:55
  Speaker 14: lot of wins. But if I want to take a flyer,
• 49:58
  Speaker 14: like from nine to sixteen as a team that I think,
• 50:02
  Speaker 14: if things go right, could really be competitive, it would
• 50:05
  Speaker 14: be Florida, and then it'd probably be Kentucky. Florida I
• 50:09
  Speaker 14: think is as talented as some of the teams closer
• 50:13
  Speaker 14: to the top of those rankings.
• 50:14
  Speaker 11: They're really, really, really good up front.
• 50:17
  Speaker 14: If they hit on that quarterback position, they have one
• 50:19
  Speaker 14: of the best running backs in the country, one of
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: the best receiver rooms in the country. If they can
• 50:24
  Speaker 14: hit on that quarterback position, they're gonna be pretty dangerous.
• 50:27
  Speaker 14: And I actually feel the same way about Kentucky. If
• 50:29
  Speaker 14: Kenny Minshew's good, they have a really good offensive line.
• 50:32
  Speaker 14: I think they have enough skill pieces. They still have
• 50:34
  Speaker 14: a lot of the defensive pieces that made them so
• 50:36
  Speaker 14: good consistently mark.
• 50:37
  Speaker 11: Stoops, So those would probably be the two teams.
• 50:40
  Speaker 14: Where like if I was going to take a flyer
• 50:42
  Speaker 14: on teams outside the top half that I would look up.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Hey, Kentucky got a first place vote, so you never know.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: That's something that I know will Stein brought in a
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: lot of confidence in bravado to his first SEC media days.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: We'll come back to what some of the coaches said,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: but I like what you pointed out in your piece
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: this morning over at CBS Sports, and that is just
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: how loaded the SEC is at running back. I know
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks get a ton of the headlines, and I
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: do want to get your thoughts on Arch Manning in
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: a minute, But why are you so excited about this
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: running back group in the SEC this year?
• 51:16
  Speaker 14: Well, I mean, I think in general, you could argue
• 51:18
  Speaker 14: the last decade the running back position hasn't had a
• 51:21
  Speaker 14: ton of star power in college football. I know Jeremiah
• 51:24
  Speaker 14: Love just went third overall in the draft, but I
• 51:26
  Speaker 14: don't think people are like lining up to watch Jeremiah
• 51:30
  Speaker 14: Love like they maybe were Leonard Fernatt or Christian McCaffrey
• 51:34
  Speaker 14: or even a Bryce Love like a decade ago. But
• 51:37
  Speaker 14: I think the SEC this year particularly has just a
• 51:41
  Speaker 14: ton of star power with that position. I think there
• 51:44
  Speaker 14: are three guys going into the year that have a
• 51:46
  Speaker 14: legitimate chance to be first on picks at running back
• 51:48
  Speaker 14: if you talked to scouts, and they all play in
• 51:49
  Speaker 14: the SEC. One, as Jayden Babber plays for Florida, it
• 51:53
  Speaker 14: was the second team pick for the SEC. And then
• 51:55
  Speaker 14: Keywan Lacy Old obviously a Mott Hardy status is still
• 52:00
  Speaker 14: a little up in the air as he returned from
• 52:02
  Speaker 14: the gunshot womb he suffered at a concert this offseason.
• 52:06
  Speaker 14: But like there's a strong group behind them too, Like
• 52:08
  Speaker 14: Nate Frasier at Georgia to Sean Bishop of Tennessee, we
• 52:11
  Speaker 14: were both excreasing all se picks because they came close
• 52:14
  Speaker 14: to a thousand yards last year.
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: They were both really good.
• 52:17
  Speaker 14: I believed Sean Bishop even led the country and rushing
• 52:19
  Speaker 14: touchdowns with sixteen. And then like we haven't even mentioned
• 52:23
  Speaker 14: Texas's two headed backfield of Hollywood Smothers and rlike Brown.
• 52:26
  Speaker 14: I mean really, Brown was a Big twelve first team
• 52:30
  Speaker 14: selection last year. Had a gone to the draft, he
• 52:33
  Speaker 14: would have been drafted. Hollywood Smothers is a guy that
• 52:36
  Speaker 14: like scouts loved too. Like you could legitimately argue like
• 52:40
  Speaker 14: if you take the top ten running backs that the
• 52:43
  Speaker 14: SEC would have, half.
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: Of them are better.
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Pretty remarkable to think about, and from a Longhorn perspective,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I think all three of those first round prospects you
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: mentioned bought Florida, Lacey at Ole, miss Hardy at Missouri.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: They're all have another thing in common, and that is
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: on the Longhorn skill schedule this year, which shaped up
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: to be pretty difficult. Along with it feels like two
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: thirds of this conferences every single year. You mentioned Hollywood
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Smothers coming in one of several transfers and new pieces
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: that Steve Sarkisian and company brought into surround Arch Manning
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: with some more talent they hope. In twenty twenty six,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: you mentioned Trinidad Chambliss was the correct pick by the
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: voters at the number one the first SEC All first
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: team spot in the poll in your piece over at
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: cbsports dot com, but you mentioned Arch Manning. You expect
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: him to have a better year in twenty twenty six.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Why is that?
• 53:38
  Speaker 11: For a number of reasons.
• 53:40
  Speaker 14: One, he's in his second year as a starter, and
• 53:42
  Speaker 14: every wrap matters this quarterback.
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: Really.
• 53:46
  Speaker 14: I know people were pointing out that he'd been at
• 53:48
  Speaker 14: Texas for two years, but starters reps are not the
• 53:50
  Speaker 14: same thing sitting on the bench and observing, so that
• 53:54
  Speaker 14: makes a huge difference. But mostly I just think the
• 53:57
  Speaker 14: roster's so much better around him. Texas is clearly quite
• 54:01
  Speaker 14: aware they have a championship window.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: This year.
• 54:03
  Speaker 11: They built around arch Manning with a purpose.
• 54:07
  Speaker 14: He saw Steve Starkesian talk essentially about cutting players to
• 54:11
  Speaker 14: free up cap space, and I mean he's right.
• 54:13
  Speaker 11: They did.
• 54:14
  Speaker 14: Like they chose to move on from some players that
• 54:16
  Speaker 14: were demanding a significant of money money to pursue other
• 54:20
  Speaker 14: players that could make a bigger impact. Cam Coleman's a
• 54:22
  Speaker 14: great example of that. Like cam Coleman is looked at
• 54:25
  Speaker 14: as one of the three best receivers in the country
• 54:28
  Speaker 14: entering the year, he's a huge upgrade for that receiver
• 54:30
  Speaker 14: room that suffered its fair share of drops last year.
• 54:33
  Speaker 14: The offensive line is going to be better on paper,
• 54:37
  Speaker 14: even if you've removed the Cole Hudson of it all,
• 54:39
  Speaker 14: which is a different conversation. But they went out and
• 54:42
  Speaker 14: got one of the top offensive tackles in the portal.
• 54:44
  Speaker 14: They went out and got one of the most experienced
• 54:46
  Speaker 14: offensive guards. Like the offensive line is going to have
• 54:49
  Speaker 14: five thousand plus STAPs going into next year. That's a
• 54:52
  Speaker 14: huge difference from last year when it was a pretty
• 54:55
  Speaker 14: unproven unit in some spots. And then obviously at running
• 54:57
  Speaker 14: back like Trey Weisner was really good for Texas when
• 54:59
  Speaker 14: he was health day. But Texas went out and got
• 55:02
  Speaker 14: draft picks in the portal. They have two of the
• 55:04
  Speaker 14: top ten to fifteen running backs in the country and
• 55:06
  Speaker 14: their roster now there are no holes and that makes
• 55:10
  Speaker 14: life a lot easier as a quarterback.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Certainly what Texas is hoping.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Chris Hummer joins US national college football writer over at
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: two four seven Sports and CBS Sports. Earlier in the week,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: you pointed out something that I maybe wasn't quite aware of,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: and that is the unique moment we're in right now.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: As far as the two teams in the lone Star
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Showdown rivalry Texas and Texas A and M being nationally relevant,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: being national contenders at the same time. I mean, I
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: thought your piece was really interesting and pointing out how
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: long these teams have waited to be competitive in a
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: moment like this and some of the things that led
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: to that that maybe weren't the case over the last decade.
• 55:52
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I, like many people listening this, I
• 55:55
  Speaker 14: assume grew up watching and following that rivalry.
• 55:59
  Speaker 11: It was a Thanksgiving tradition in my house.
• 56:01
  Speaker 14: And I think what people don't realize is these teams
• 56:04
  Speaker 14: haven't been good together at the same time very often.
• 56:07
  Speaker 14: Part of that, Texas A and M has had more
• 56:09
  Speaker 14: limited runs as a national contender. But even when Texas
• 56:12
  Speaker 14: A and M was a national contender you think about
• 56:14
  Speaker 14: in the kind of mid to late twenty tens, Texas
• 56:19
  Speaker 14: wasn't particularly relevant, and they've gone back and forth. Last
• 56:22
  Speaker 14: year was the first time in fifty years they both
• 56:24
  Speaker 14: won ten games together in the same season. They haven't
• 56:27
  Speaker 14: even even won a combined nineteen games together two straight
• 56:31
  Speaker 14: years since like the mid nineties, So it's just been
• 56:34
  Speaker 14: kind of a yo yo effect between the two programs.
• 56:37
  Speaker 14: And I think there are a lot of reasons why
• 56:39
  Speaker 14: the teams are good at the same time. Like you
• 56:41
  Speaker 14: can certainly credit the head coaches. I think you definitely
• 56:43
  Speaker 14: have to talk about the administrations being more stable. I
• 56:47
  Speaker 14: think a lot of tex fans remember the Steve Patterson
• 56:50
  Speaker 14: eira and shake their heads a little bit. And Texas
• 56:52
  Speaker 14: A and M's had plenty of those situations themselves. But
• 56:55
  Speaker 14: if we're being honest, like I think a lot of
• 56:57
  Speaker 14: this has to do with the ability to recruit nationally.
• 57:00
  Speaker 14: We're in a much different recruiting environment than we were
• 57:02
  Speaker 14: twenty years ago. And frankly, money like it's kind of
• 57:06
  Speaker 14: a dirty little secret in the room in college football.
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: Maybe not a secret anymore.
• 57:09
  Speaker 14: But Texas and Texas and AM ate two of the
• 57:11
  Speaker 14: most resourced program country, and you're seeing both programs flex
• 57:15
  Speaker 14: that muscle not only in high school recruiting, but in
• 57:18
  Speaker 14: roster attention and roster additions. And I think when you
• 57:22
  Speaker 14: have all those factors kind of flowing at the same time,
• 57:24
  Speaker 14: it allows both of them to have the space to
• 57:27
  Speaker 14: be good. I think they couldn't necessarily be good in
• 57:31
  Speaker 14: the same way twenty years at the same time being
• 57:33
  Speaker 14: the same conference, recruit in the same players. But now
• 57:36
  Speaker 14: that you have the appui or two players nationally, and
• 57:38
  Speaker 14: you also have the avenue to pay them. I think
• 57:40
  Speaker 14: it allows both programs to fly together in a way
• 57:43
  Speaker 14: they have them before.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes you wonder how differently those realignment conversations
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: would have been if the environment was that way, you know,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: ten fifteen years ago. It also is something you pointed
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: out where these two schools are no longer just going
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: head to head over every elite techis prospect because of
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: that national footprint that recruiting now has, and you pointed
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: out how far Mike Elko has come in that area
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: at Texas A and M recently.
• 58:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Texas A and M. I mean if you look
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: at their number one of our recruiting.
• 58:15
  Speaker 14: Class, like, they have players from across the country and
• 58:20
  Speaker 14: it's been I mean, it's act funny. Actually it's not
• 58:23
  Speaker 14: just a Texas A and M thaying like Texas fans.
• 58:25
  Speaker 14: I'm sure remember how much criticism Charlie Strong got initially
• 58:28
  Speaker 14: for recruiting players from Florida And that was what like
• 58:31
  Speaker 14: a decade ago, And now it's commonplace for Texas to
• 58:35
  Speaker 14: go out of state and recruit the best players possible,
• 58:38
  Speaker 14: and the same thing's true for Texas A and M.
• 58:39
  Speaker 14: So I think that flexibility allows both head coaches to
• 58:43
  Speaker 14: pursue the rosters that they see fit and also not
• 58:47
  Speaker 14: run into each other quite as often, even though that
• 58:49
  Speaker 14: does happen, as we saw this offseason somebody like John Meredith.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, we'll get to that a little later
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: on in the program. Chris Hummer from two four seven
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Sports and CBS Sports is with us here for just
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: a couple of more minutes. We heard plenty of SEC
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: talking points this week in Tampa about how the conference
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: still certainly views itself at the top of the sport.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: We've also heard talking points from the Big Ten and
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: several other conferences in the last couple of seasons pointing
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: to the lack of postseason success that the conference has had,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and I know we're going to maybe hear some of
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: that in Chicago in response to that next week at
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Big Ten Media Days. In your opinion, is the SEC, Chris,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: still the best conference in the sport heading into twenty
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: twenty six?
• 59:35
  Speaker 14: I hate the waffle, but I guess this is kind
• 59:37
  Speaker 14: of like in what way do you mean? Like, if
• 59:38
  Speaker 14: you're asking like, are they better in terms of the
• 59:41
  Speaker 14: scoreboard and winning a commision chamship? No, if you're talking
• 59:44
  Speaker 14: about depth, top to bottom. Yes, the SEC is still
• 59:47
  Speaker 14: a better league than the Big Ten, So like, I mean,
• 59:50
  Speaker 14: I get it, Like I think both conference can argue
• 59:52
  Speaker 14: that successfully. And I mean you saw what Indiana tot
• 59:56
  Speaker 14: to Alabama this past season for example. Like, I think
• 59:59
  Speaker 14: the Big ten best the last couple of years has
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 14: been better than the SEC's best.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 11: But like, are the Big ten's best?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 14: Is the Big Ten top to bottom better than the SEC?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 14: I don't think so. So I think it's it's an
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 14: interesting conversation. I understand why it happens, and I can
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 14: definitely understand why fan bases from both leagues would argue,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 14: especially when you consider the uneven circumstances of the SEC
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 14: a playing eight league games in past seasons, but the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 14: SEC also having a much more difficult path than those
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 14: those eight games compared to what the Big Ten had.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 14: I get it, but I think it just kind of
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 14: depends on what you're asking. SEC is the deeper league,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 14: but right now the Big Ten is the better league
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 14: at the top.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that the Fresh takes on it, just
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: because I know it becomes a bit of a of
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: a tire topic and I'm interested to see how the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: nine game SEC schedule will impact the way maybe strength
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: of schedule is discussed on the national level.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: And we heard.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Some some some fleeting talk about the SEC potential breaking
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: away from the NCAA. I don't know that it's anything
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: more than, you know, potentially a leverage play from Commissioner Sanky,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: But is this something you could see potentially having legs?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: How do you react when you sort of see and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: hear those types of quotes coming out of Tampa, at
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: least on day one.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 14: I mean, Greg thank He's never been shy about creating
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 14: leverage for himself and creating copy points for himself, and
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 14: I think in this environment it's not surprising to hear
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 14: something like that.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 11: Do I think it's going to happen. Absolutely not.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 14: I think the SEC de values itself considerably if it
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 14: takes it outside, if it takes itself outside of the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 14: mechanism and organism that is college football. I don't get
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 14: me wrong, I'm sure fans would watch, but the season's
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 14: never going to have the same sort of stakes if
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 14: you don't have taxes at the end of the year,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 14: with the potential to play organ or Ohio State, like,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 14: it's just not so yeah, I mean, like Greg. Thank
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 14: you can say about all he wants, But unless the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 14: Big ten and the SEC exit at the same time
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 14: together and form their own thing, like I really don't
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 14: consider that much of a much of a threat. Do
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 14: I think those leagues could come and handle more enforcement
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 14: on their own. Absolutely, I think it's actually needed in
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 14: a lot of ways.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 11: But do I expect the SEC to.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 14: Go out on its own and be its own entity
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 14: in the next couple of years now?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 11: Not at all.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know there's plenty more to discuss as far
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: as the enforcement the potential anti trust exemption, but really
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just excited to have some football to some actual
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: football to mix into those discussions as well. That we're
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: about a month away from that still in the meantime,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Chris, and appreciate
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: you joining us this afternoon.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 11: Absolutely, the actual football cannot come soon enough.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Excitly, I'm with you there one hundred percent. Thanks so much,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All Right, that's Chris Huber from two four
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: seven Sports and CBS Sports talking some SEC media Day takeaways.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll hear from coach Steve Sarkisian
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: some of his comments to the media in Tampa here
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: on AM thirteen hundred Zone. We continue on this Friday
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: afternoon edition of The Craig Ways Show.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you Chris Summer from joining us.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: In the last segment you can read more from him
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: covering all things college football, but particularly here in the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: state of Texas on x at Chris Underscore Homer. We're
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: gonna hear from sark in this segment his local media scrum,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: independent of what went down in the media room and
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: on the various shows, what went down on this show,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: in his one on one exclusive conversation with Craig yesterday,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: and what he said in the main press conference on
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: SEC Network. So this is things we've not yet played
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: for you here on the show. Plenty of thoughts from
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian in the car wash of media day obligations
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: he had in tamp He gave an update on Cole Hudson.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: What's the latest?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Where might he fit on the roster after a judge
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: potentially cleared the way for him here in Travis County
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: is he tries to get a sixth year of eligibility.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: A judge granted Hudson a TROW, a temporary restraining order
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: which allows him to work out with the team, although
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: the Longhorns certainly having some downtime at the moment. His
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: next step is actually a hearing for a temporary injunction,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: which is set for August third, and that, if granted,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: could allow Cole Hudson to continue playing while his case
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: actually goes through court. It's sort of similar to the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Brendan Sorosby situation, where it might not actually get resolved
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: in time to come to a resolution before the end
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: of the season. So here was Sark's latest on Cole Hudson,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: former Longhorn offensive lineman who is seeking that fifth year
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: of eligibility.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 15: Well, you know, I think obviously we saw the five
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 15: for five get passed.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Cole is any unique.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 15: Situation because you know, he didn't get drafted, he didn't
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 15: get signed by an NFL team, and so you know,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 15: I think between he, his family, his attorneys, uh, they
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 15: wanted to go for this and and you know it
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 15: was up to them, you know, and they did that.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 15: You know, I think for us, you know, if if
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 15: it ultimately all goes through, we're getting a veteran player, right,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 15: We're getting a guy who I think has twenty three
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 15: career starts and has appeared in forty eight games. You
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 15: know where that lands as far as you know, what
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 15: does it look like? And with with Laura Seymour or
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 15: j Kojo all the bunch of different guys. At the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 15: end of the day, there's nothing like having an experienced player,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 15: you know, on your team in your locker room, in
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 15: the offensive line room that.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: You know, what does the future hold.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 15: I don't know, I haven't I haven't seen Cole and
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 15: what it's been seven months, you know, since since the
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 15: you know, our last time we played. So there's a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 15: lot that we have to kind of sort through and unpack.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 15: But if we're fortunate to have him back, it'd be great.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, key to remember that tro that Cole Hudson got
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: in his favor. The temporary restraining order doesn't mean that
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: he's going to get the injunction, but oftentimes it is
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: the sign that that's coming. So we'll see within the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: next couple of weeks what happens on that.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 11: Again.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: After the NCAA changed its rules in that five for
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: five model back in June, there have been few athletes
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: in different sports who are trying to essentially sue for
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: eligibility because this change doesn't impact them. It doesn't grant
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: them that fifth year. If their eligibility ran out at
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: the end of last season, the new implementation does not
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: grant them an extra year. I mean, this happened and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: instantaneously several athletes from that high school class of twenty
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: twenty two are saying they were unfairly denied a fifth year. Now,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: at some point there has to be a cutoff. But
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: at the same time, you understand that these athletes operated
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: under an old rules system and now there's a new
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: one that would have treated their eligibility differently. Steve Sarkejian,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: though asked a big picture question. Here are a couple
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: of bigger picture quotes from sark in this segment, And
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: this first one is about his concern level for college
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: football in general with courts deciding eligibility. And this is
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: obviously a hat tip to some of what's going on
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: around the other programs in the SEC and in Lubbock.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I've been saying this, you know, I've been I've
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 15: been saying this.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 15: I feel like it's it's we're in an uneasy situation
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 15: where we can't govern our own rules, and that's not healthy.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 15: It's not healthy that we have at minimum thirty nine
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 15: different state laws that players in different states can go
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 15: get injunctions or temporary restraining orders and put in place
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 15: to get around a rule. But now, those are the rules,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 15: those are those are the rules of engagement, right and
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 15: so I don't blame Cole for doing what he did.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 15: I don't blame Trendy, dan Chandlin for doing what he did.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 15: I think that's the that's those are the rules of
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 15: engagement right now.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: I think ultimately that's why we.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 15: All want some sort of sense of like governance and
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 15: ability to apply rules. And you know, and I think
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 15: we're all searching for answers, and we've got really smart
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 15: people trying to figure this out. And and I have
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 15: good faith in knowing the leadership that we have at
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 15: the University of Texas will do that, the leadership that
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 15: we have in the SEC with Commissioner Sankie will do that,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 15: that will ultimately find what's in the best interest for
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 15: all of us.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: Uh and not just football. It's it's every sport.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 15: It's it's women's sports, it's Olympic sports, it's everything involved.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 15: And so you know, I think we need to you know,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 15: slow down a little bit and just trying to find
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 15: a quick fix and really look at what's gonna be
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 15: the best long term and look at the unintended consequences
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 15: of the next thing we try to do.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 15: We we try to act so fast sometimes that we
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 15: that we missed the unintended consequence.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: What comes from at sarks thoughts on college football courts
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: deciding eligibility and kind of the lack of enforcement around that.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: The other big change in the SEC this year, or
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: the move to a nine game schedule, you've heard coaches
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: around the conference sort of weighing in on how it
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: might impact their team. Obviously making schedules more difficult, perhaps
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: helping the SEC get teams into the College Football Playoff
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: by improving strength of schedule, but perhaps making it more
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: difficult based on the way the committee operated in previous
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: years and not necessarily considering strength of schedule the same way.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Here was Sark's quick response to being asked about the
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: difficulty of the nine game schedule.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is what it is.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 15: I could sit here and complain about it, or we
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 15: can get ready to go do it, and that's kind.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Of been our mindset.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: So it is what it is let's go play And
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: of course there's been lots of talk of expanding the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: college football Playoff, with Greg sank not on board with
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: the Big Tens twenty fourteen proposal that governered some support
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: at Big twelve media days from brent yor Mark and
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: here were Sarks thoughts on that.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 15: I think it was a lot of credit to Commissioner
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 15: Sanki he pumped the brakes on that, you know, because
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 15: I think a lot of there was a lot of
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 15: momentum for that thing to go in that direction, and
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 15: I think he had the foresight to pump the brakes
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 15: and to say, let's take a deeper look at this.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 15: So let's look at the impact that this may have
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 15: on a lot of levels.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: And I don't need to get into all of them.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: You guys have been hearing them all week.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 15: But but I credit him for that, and he's you
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 15: know again, Commissioner Sinki has done a tremendous job. He
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 15: takes a lot of heat for some of the choices
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 15: and decisions he's made, and but at the end of
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 15: the day, I think he has the idea that what's
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 15: in the best interest of college football, not only what's
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 15: in the best interest of the Southeastern Conference. That being said,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 15: you know, we committed to playing nine conference games with
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 15: this idea that we were going to expand to sixteen teams.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 15: That didn't happen, And instead of just appeasing us and saying, hey,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 15: well we can go to sixteen, we're going to go
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 15: to twenty four. So the coaches feel good about it,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 15: he actually is looking at this from a ten thousand
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 15: foot view to say what's best for the game moving forward.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 15: And if we're going to play a nine conference game
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 15: schedule this year and still only be at a twelve
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 15: team playoff, then it is what it is, and so well,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 15: we better play really good if we want if we want.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: To get in.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a challenge, no doubt about it. Those
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: the thoughts of coach Sark on that. Later in the show,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: we'll get a few more of Sark's comments to that
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: local media scrum as well as if you in the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: electronic media room, it's hard to keep track of all
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: the different media availabilities at SEC media.
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  Speaker 9: It is.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: We're doing our best to bring you some of the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: most important things that Sark and his players said in
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Tampa yesterday that we didn't have time to play during
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: that live show that Craig and company had in the afternoon.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: You know what else we didn't have time for yesterday, Inconceivable, Well,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: on a Florida Man Friday, we'll bring you an edition
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: of Inconceivable today, even if it's a little that's coming
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: up after the break. Our third and final hour of
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: today's show, Our third and final hour of this week
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: on the program. Jay Kerbman here building in for Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us on AM thirteen hundred
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: zone and on the iHeartRadio app. We're continuing to discuss
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: sec media days. If you're just joining us. We did
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: already break down Lebron James' new destination. He'll be a
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six er next season, and we broke that
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: down with Mark Henry who called it on the show
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: three weeks ago, and that is available wherever you get
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: your podcasts as soon as this show is over. And
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: we continue to hear from a head coach Deeve Sarkisian
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: this segment, we'll focus on his comments on the offensive
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: side of the football, starting here with arch Manning's accuracy
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: and one thing that the athletics article pointed out, which
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: I hope some holes in on the show Wednesday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: ranking arch Manning the seventh best quarterback in the country.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: And it's you know, it's a preseason ranking, right you
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: don't want to be up at arms and overreacting to it.
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  Speaker 1: But they pointed out the accuracy on the short throws
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  Speaker 1: that folks around the sport think arch Manning could improve.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: Sark was asked about this, not specific to that article,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: but on the issue of arch Manning's accuracy, talking about
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: the reporter made a basketball metaphor. Arch has hit him
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  Speaker 1: three pointer type throws, but can he improve in the
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: mid range?
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  Speaker 15: I think he needed to finish a little better around
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  Speaker 15: the rim, you know, I like anything, you know, there
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  Speaker 15: was an evolution for him, I think. I think at
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 15: the end of the day, you know, if you think
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 15: about passing the football, that's really an assist, it's not
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  Speaker 15: really shooting. And I think we needed to finish better
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  Speaker 15: for him too.
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  Speaker 2: With the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You know we did.
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  Speaker 15: We had you know, way too many drops, which what
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  Speaker 15: we're accustomed to. All that all that pours into a
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  Speaker 15: completion percentage, you know, the quarterbacks accuracy, see the types
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 15: of play calls, the ability to catch the ball. So
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  Speaker 15: I think all those things, you know, I think naturally
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 15: we saw an uptick as the year went on. We
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  Speaker 15: got better at all three of those things, and I
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  Speaker 15: think we've improved that throughout spring and throughout this summer.
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  Speaker 15: I think Arch is throwing really accurately, accurately right now.
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  Speaker 15: He's worked on some things mechanically. I think we've surrounded
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 15: him with some really good pass catchers that are doing
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  Speaker 15: a nice job. And I think that we're evolving offensively
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  Speaker 15: to where, Okay, we know what some of his strengths
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 15: were last year, but also Samarius where we felt like, man,
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  Speaker 15: we need to improve upon this to become even better.
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  Speaker 15: And I give him a lot of credit for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And amidst some of those growing pains. Early last year,
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning was the subject of a lot of criticism
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  Speaker 1: and Sark was asked, what does it show about Arch
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  Speaker 1: and his character to be able to block that out
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  Speaker 1: and improve and not complain about it.
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  Speaker 15: Well, I think that's what a real guy does, and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 15: Arch Manning is a real guy. You know, before the season,
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  Speaker 15: Arch Manning wasn't going around posting on so social media.
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  Speaker 15: I'm going to be the first pick of the draft.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 15: He wasn't posting on social media, I'm going to be
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 15: the Heisman Trophy winner. He quite frankly went under the
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 15: raidar and just worked really hard and tried to be
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  Speaker 15: the best player and the best teammate he could be.
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  Speaker 15: Then he doesn't play great, and we don't play great,
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  Speaker 15: and he takes, in my opinion, some real tough criticism
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 15: and some would say disrespectful criticism. But he didn't go
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 15: complain about it. He didn't go on some rant on
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  Speaker 15: social media.
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  Speaker 2: What did he do? He kept working really hard. What
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: did his teammates do?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 15: They supported him, And the byproduct of hard work and
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 15: being on a team that supports you and loves you,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 15: you get on the.
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  Speaker 2: Other side of that adversity.
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  Speaker 15: And now he can do the same for the next guys.
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  Speaker 15: And so I just think that that's what a real
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  Speaker 15: guy does and who that's what arch Manning is.
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  Speaker 1: And some strong praise there from Steve Sarkisian. We're listening
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: to some of his sound bites from a media scrum,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: so to speak, with the local media who assembled before
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: he even ends the media room in tam But plenty
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: of chances for sark to field all kinds of questions
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: over this past week, and one of those that he
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: got was about the backfield split, how he sees that
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  Speaker 1: potentially developing, and not just Hollywood's mothers and Ralli Brown,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: but could freshman Derek Cooper even factor in.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, we didn't bring Raleik in Hollywood here
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  Speaker 15: to one of them to be a backup. You know,
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  Speaker 15: they're both gonna play. They're both gonna play a lot
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  Speaker 15: of football for us. We love their skill sets. We
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 15: think they fit exactly what we're trying to accomplish in
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 15: the run game and where we're trying to go with
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  Speaker 15: ourselves as an offensive football team, being more explosive, you know,
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  Speaker 15: being more productive on a consistent basis in the run
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 15: game of utilizing them out of the backfield. Derek's had
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 15: at a great start to his career winter conditioning, spring ball, summer.
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  Speaker 15: You know, we got a long way to go. He's
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  Speaker 15: a true freshman. He's never you know, jogged out of
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 15: the tunnel the front one hundred and five thousand people either.
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  Speaker 15: So we got a ways to go. But we're fortunate.
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  Speaker 15: You know, Ryan Niblet's there. You know, Michael Terry, I
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 15: thought made a lot of progress last year and through
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 15: the Bowl prep and through spring practice, and James Simon,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 15: as we know, showed some natural running ability as a
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 15: true freshman.
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  Speaker 2: So we think it's a strong room.
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  Speaker 15: That that, you know, with that room and some of
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  Speaker 15: the other moves we made that that run game can
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 15: be as productive as we wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of the moves in that backfield involved
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: losing a couple of guys via the transfer portal. One
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: of those was Parker Livingston in the wide receiver room.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: But of course the departures as well of guys like
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: Christian Clark who left obviously in the middle. I'm sorry,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: guys like Christian Clark, Trey Weisner, and C. J. Baxter
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  Speaker 1: who were in last year's backfield who are the longer
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: a part of the team. And one of those former guys,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: Parker Livingston, will face Texas this season in the Red
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: River Game. This clip has been blowing up on social
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: media since Sark said it about this time yesterday. His
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on facing Livingston when Texas plays Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 9: Park Livingston going from Texas to Oklahoma, what's it going
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  Speaker 9: to be like to see him on the sidelines on
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: the opposite side of the red River game.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I hope we kick his ass. It's the
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: red River rivalry, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 11: He chose to go there.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the other side.
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  Speaker 4: It's the way the game goes.
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  Speaker 2: If you've ever been, it's a hell of a game.
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  Speaker 15: It's an epic, you know, pulling into the Cotton Bowl,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 15: the State Fair, the corn Dogs, the Turkey Legs, you know,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 15: split down the middle of the fifty yard line, both
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 15: teams of the same tunnel. Like at the end of
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 15: the day, like it's competition, you know, after the game,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 15: I'm sure I'll get him a big hug. Before that,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 15: we're trying to beat his ass. That's the way it goes.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: It's pretty blunt from coach Sark when it comes to
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: Parker Livingston. And look, I think he says that out
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  Speaker 1: of respect for the type of rivalry game that this is.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Parker Livingston posted this afternoon on x just the quote.
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  Speaker 2: Don't doubt me.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Now, wide receivers have a unique way with words on
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: social media. But there's lots of extra fuel going into
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: the fire on this, and we've seen lots of programs
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: media members from Longhorn Rivals kind of taking Sarks comments
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: as bulletin board material when he talks about some of
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: the ways that Texas had to make some moves to
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: quote create cap space and bring in some of the
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: guys that are going to be on this twenty twenty
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: six roster and let talented guys like DeAndre Moore and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Parker livingsit in the wide receiver room, just to name
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of examples.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 16: Go.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about that and more reactions
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: from SEC Media Days with Evan Veeth from Inside Texas.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: He's a busy man today.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: He'll join us now and he'll join Bucky in BK
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: during their show following the conclusion of the program tonight.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 11: They're with you from five to seven.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: We're with you up until five o'clock here on AM
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred Zone and the Free iHeartRadio App. Quarter past
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: four o'clock on this Friday afternoon. I'm glad you're joining
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: us on AM thirteen hundred, the Zone and the Free
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio App. We continue to break down all things SEC
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Media Days and all things Longhorns as they pertain to it.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: I want to let you hear a couple more soundbites
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: from Steve Sarkejian first one on the overall health of
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: his roster at the moment, a big topic given some
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: of the guys who had to miss time in the
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: spring with various injuries. He was asked specifically about just
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: As Terry in this question, but his thoughts on the
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: roster help as a whole.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 15: Again, I don't know of anybody that won't be cleared
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 15: and ready to go come training camp in a week
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 15: and a half or two weeks, I guess from today.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: So that's encouraging.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 15: Now we're going to monitor guys. Bobby is like anything
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 15: when we get to training camp. I mean, you know
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 15: of you know how much pounding or how much running
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 15: certain guys are doing. And again it's it's we have
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 15: to kind of build towards the season. But I I
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 15: don't see anybody that's gonna say he's necessarily out. We
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 15: know Cadence Shear is going to be obviously with the
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 15: ACL but outside of that, I think we're gonna have
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 15: a full roster ready to go. Knock on wood, we
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 15: get through the next week and a half to get
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 15: ready for camp.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: Big talking point of Steve Sarkisian and some of the
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: other long worn players who were present at media days.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Is that of this roster as a whole being the
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: most talented that Sark has had at Texas. You can
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: hear him talk about it with some confidence. Here's his
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: answer on that question in the local media meetup.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I think we have a talented roster.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 15: I think time will tell as the season comes and
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 15: as we play. And you know, as I said, knock
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 15: on wood, you know we don't have, you know, injuries
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 15: at certain spots. You know, you're always deeper at some
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 15: spots than others. But I like our team, you know,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 15: I like the depth.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 15: I think we're a very versatile team. I don't think
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 15: we're imbalanced on offense or defense or in one area.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 15: I think I think we're really good. We're gonna have
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 15: a good offensive football team. You're a good defensive football team.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 15: I think we're going to be well equipped to play
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 15: well on special teams. But those things have to come
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 15: to life, you know, you know, talent gets you so far.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: It's me you have to play the game.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: Still trying to get connected here with our guest, Evan VV,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: who's coming up later on in this segment.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: But while we sort that through.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: We continue to hear from Steve Sarkisian his comments with
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: the local media in Tampa. And this is a question
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: actually from Evan, our friend from inside Texas on a
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: follow up something Sarks said at the Texas High School
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: Coaches Convention and Coaching School and that is the comparison
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: he made. Now you'll hear sark kind of set the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: record straight on this, but the comparison he made of
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: what Jermaine Bishop is doing to the potential ceiling of
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: a Devonte Smith.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: Here was that answer.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 15: Well, twenty twenty, DeVante Smith was a fourth year senior
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 15: when the Heisman Trophy had over two thousand yards receiving.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 15: Jermaine Bishop hasn't put on our uniform yet, so we
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 15: got a long way to go. The comparison was about
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 15: both guys cross training that Davante at his time at
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 15: Alabama cross train while he was a receiver, he would
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 15: also work on dB and corner play in case we
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 15: had an emergency at corner and so that's that's where
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 15: the comparison came. He's got a long way to go
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 15: to where I referenced Davante Smith and Jermaine Bishop is
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 15: you know, comparable. We'll find out, hopefully. Hopefully, let's play.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: On perfect segue to the reporter who asked that question,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: our good friend Evan Veith, who was busy all week
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: at SEC media Days in Tampa.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: Are you are you back here in the lone Star State?
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: I am, you know, Jake, Yes, I'm back in Austin.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 16: It's unfortunate that's the one that came up before, because
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 16: I was trying to get him to talk about you know,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 16: is this is this Texas roster or the offense getting
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 16: closer to that Alabama look? And then you know, I was,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 16: I was at that press commersary, brought up Bishop. I
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 16: knew he wasn't saying he was going to be Von
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 16: Smith your one, but yeah, he thought I was trying
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 16: to insinuate that kind of level of play. But no, yeah,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 16: I mean I'm back home and yeah, no, not quite
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 16: a highsman season for Bishop.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be pretty good.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: Well, look, there's people, there's aggregators all over the media
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: that takes Sark out of context almost weekly. So we'll
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: give him one free pass, even if it came at
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: your expense. They're taking you out of context a little bit.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: During that question, Evan V from Inside Texas joins us,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: what was your favorite part of the Media Days experience
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: this time around?
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 16: So I only got to go to that final day.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 16: We just were mainly there for the Texas guys. But
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 16: you know, the first thing I ended up doing was
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 16: was that early morning lsu press. I think it started
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 16: at nine, and my first experience in media is my
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 16: first time ever going was Lanekiffin talking for eighteen minutes
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 16: of his thirty allotted in a filibuster of his obany
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 16: statement because he did not want to talk to the media,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 16: and the only ended up answering four questions. And you know,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 16: in that filibuster included a ton of random statements, and
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 16: then one of his answers was about how Hulk Hogan
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 16: showed him the importance of like mortality.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: Another one was just from an Auburn report.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 16: You know, this is exactly what Lanekiffin is and it
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 16: was pretty funny just to see.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: It in person like that.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: A couple of DC guys like us know a thing
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: or two about the filibuster, and that's certainly exactly what
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: Lane did. I saw someone comparing that word count to
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: Mike Leech's five word opening statement from four years ago
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: rested peace to coach Leech. That is somebody that was
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: certainly missed this weekend in Tampa. We also got some
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  Speaker 1: breaking news during Stars press conference. Five star cornerback John
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  Speaker 1: Meredith third is reclassifying is joining the long Goorns roster
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  Speaker 1: this season.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think this news might mean, Evan for
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  Speaker 2: the Texas defense.
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  Speaker 16: I think it means a little bit more for twenty
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  Speaker 16: twenty seven than it might for twenty twenty six, just
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  Speaker 16: because you know, I think part of what Meredith is
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  Speaker 16: going to be busy doing and to end.
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  Speaker 2: The summer is finishing his classes.
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  Speaker 16: Because what he's doing is making sure that he's able
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  Speaker 16: to finish with his district to get his degree in
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 16: high school, to that enroll a year early. And it
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 16: wasn't like this was you know, some of these players,
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  Speaker 16: it's a big time, long term plan to do this.
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  Speaker 16: But Meredith, because of his eligibility problems it is at
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 16: North Crowley like, he kind of pivoted that way and
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  Speaker 16: it worked out well. The Texas staff, his district staff
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  Speaker 16: have done a great job of making sure that's able
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  Speaker 16: to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it more means that it's going to
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: be a slow fall.
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  Speaker 16: For him, because you know, how can you expect him
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  Speaker 16: to play in those first two to three games as
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  Speaker 16: he's really just learning the playbook of this roster and
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 16: they've got a lot of good cornerbacks on the team.
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  Speaker 16: Even had the luxurer to kind of moving Kobe Black
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  Speaker 16: to more of a safety role because of the talent there.
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  Speaker 16: So I don't think it means much this year. He
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  Speaker 16: might get a few snaps here there, but I think
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  Speaker 16: it does mean that this was already a guy we
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  Speaker 16: were discussing of in twenty twenty seven. Could he just
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  Speaker 16: pull grace in Littleton and be starting right away as
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  Speaker 16: a true freshman? Now, I mean that has catalyzed way
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  Speaker 16: more now that he's gonna be on campus for a
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 16: full year, actually getting to know Mark orfe At the
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 16: cornerback coach, getting.
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  Speaker 2: To know the Will mus Champs scheme.
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  Speaker 16: I mean, this might be a guy who is starting
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  Speaker 16: week one next year just because well he's got a
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  Speaker 16: little bit of a leg up on some of the
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  Speaker 16: competition that we didn't expect him to have. He's a
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  Speaker 16: really talented pressman cornerback. You know, Will must Champ loves
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 16: those kind of players, so I keep more of an
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  Speaker 16: eye out for how that looks next.
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  Speaker 2: Offseason and what he can do in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was telling some friends who were asking, is
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  Speaker 1: he going to step in right away? Is he going
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  Speaker 1: to get some snaps? And my answer was I almost
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: hope not. But is is that a silly way to think?
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  Speaker 1: Knowing just how talented this kid is and what the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling is that comes with it.
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  Speaker 16: It would probably mean that injuries have happened, and that
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  Speaker 16: doesn't mean that he couldn't go do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he is eighteen.
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  Speaker 16: It's not like they're bringing in a player who is
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  Speaker 16: a true you know, about to be senior in high
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  Speaker 16: school and not really ready for that kind of level
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  Speaker 16: of physicality. And he was the number two cornerback, number
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  Speaker 16: five player I believe in the twenty twenty six class
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  Speaker 16: or twenty twenty seven class now reclassified for a reason.
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  Speaker 2: But it probably means that you've gotten pretty deep in
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  Speaker 2: your well.
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  Speaker 16: If you've got your three starting cornerbacks, there's a multitude
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 16: of guys who can play at the nickel.
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  Speaker 2: There's Warren Roberson, Smarty Matthews in this class, so.
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  Speaker 16: It probably means you've got about three injuries in the
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  Speaker 16: cornerback room if he's got to be playing, so I'd
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  Speaker 16: be wary of him really needing actual snaps this year.
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  Speaker 1: Evan V from Inside Texas is with us about this
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: time yesterday, Arch Manning was speaking with the media and
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: we aired a one on one conversation he had with
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: Craig way here during the time slot yesterday, and he
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  Speaker 1: told Craig that he had a lot more fun this
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: year at media Days. He maybe came in dreading it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and left with a better mindset. Some
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: of that came from, you know, coach's parents, teammates, things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Did you pick up on that version of
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  Speaker 1: Arch being a little different this time around?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did feel.
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  Speaker 16: You know, there are two different levels of confidence that
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  Speaker 16: have shown from Arch Manning in these two offseasons. I
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  Speaker 16: think last year was kind of a youthful, cocky confidence
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 16: in a way that like, you know, I'm Arch Manning,
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  Speaker 16: I'm starting now, I'm ready to go, which there's nothing
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  Speaker 16: wrong with that, but I think now it feels like
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  Speaker 16: more of a man. I just went through a tough
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  Speaker 16: year and I'm past that, and we've really built a
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  Speaker 16: roster that's going to allow me to succeed in twenty
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  Speaker 16: twenty six and now were interesting, like, yeah, I've earned
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  Speaker 16: my stripes a little bit, I've gone through the tough
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 16: parts of football, and now it's just about kind of
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 16: having fun and letting a team that's really good around
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 16: me playing to my strengths. And of course it helps
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 16: when you're coming with It's Colin Simmons and Trevor Gooseby.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: Gooseby from his class, who's his blind cyberrotector.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 16: Cam Coleman's getting voted All SEC first team right there
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 16: during the day. So I did feel like in a
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 16: way that that arch just seemed a little happy year like,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 16: not to psychoanalyze the guy, but he just seemed to
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 16: have a smile on his face a lot, seem to
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 16: be embracing the chaos of what happens when he comes
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  Speaker 16: to the stand. I don't know if people see my
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 16: tweet about it, but you know, he's the most popular
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 16: guy in college football, and you can see it with
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 16: the media scrum just huddling around him about six rows.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: Deep were the bodies of reporters.
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  Speaker 16: But he didn't seem phased by it the way he
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 16: might have done earlier last year when he was really struggling,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 16: and we even had him kind of answer our questions saying,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 16: you know, hey, when did you start having fun last year?
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 16: He goes, and we started winning, which that was about
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 16: six weeks into the season, Jake. So that's where you
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 16: can see the difference and how his mental is coming
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 16: into the year.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we played that SoundBite a little earlier in the
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: show and last segment we heard Sark's comments about Parker
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: Livingston say they want to kick his tail in the
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: Red River game, and he also kind of expanded later
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: on in that availability about some of the guys that
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: departed the program in the off season, that they had
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: to let guys leave to quote create cap space. What
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the way Sark kind of handled
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: this issue when it was brought up, and maybe the
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: reactions that it it's getting on x and other media
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: outlets today, Well, I was.
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  Speaker 16: Just gonna say, I think the reactions are so funny
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 16: to me because this is not the first time he
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 16: said this right, Like this was these were headlines that
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 16: were coming around in January and February and into the spring.
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  Speaker 2: When we were.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 16: Talking to him about the transportal class he said, like
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 16: I had to make some tough decisions about DeAndre Moore.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 16: You know, he ended up kind of posting some emoji
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 16: reactions on Twitter and CJ. Baxter and Trey Wiser like
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 16: this isn't the first time he said we had to
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 16: get rid of these players, and get rid of might
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 16: be harsh. Cut it sounds harsh as well, but it's frankly,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 16: what it is is, we're not going.
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  Speaker 2: To give you a raise.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 16: I know you think you need a little bit more
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 16: money here, but we're not going to adhere to that.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to stay and compete, then that's fine.
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  Speaker 16: But if there's a place of offering you more money
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  Speaker 16: for a better opportunity, go get it. We're not going
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 16: to stop you from doing that. And that's just the
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 16: modern date reality of college football. Players want this to
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 16: be a business where they're making seven figures and overall
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 16: getting into that two to six million dollar paychecks here,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 16: they have to realize that some other guys are going
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 16: to get paid and if a team doesn't feel like
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 16: you are the writing investment at your spot, they will
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 16: pick over you. So, you know, there was a lot
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 16: of outrage about the cap space comment, and every coach
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 16: is doing this.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: You know, it's a different level with certain things.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 16: Sometimes it's at the G six level, where you know,
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  Speaker 16: if your quarterback's one of the best in the country
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 16: when he was playing at you know, Texas State, which
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 16: is a bad example because Brad Jackson did stay. But
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 16: a guy like Jackson could have gone for a higher
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 16: paycheck somewhere else. And what's Gjken can you gonna do?
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 16: He doesn't have the salary cap to match that most
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 16: of the time. So it happens everywhere. It's just that
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 16: starts very vocal about it. He's very vocal about how
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 16: he operated the transfer portal. And then the day, Jake,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 16: are you upset that they turned the money that DeAndre
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 16: Moore and Parker Livingston were making into cam coleman Or
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 16: you've set that the two running backs have been traded
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 16: out for two more explosive running backs. You've set that
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 16: they added Rashim Biles and bow Mascow. It felt like
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 16: good moves at the time, and it still feels like
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 16: even better moves as it's aged longer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think providing potential bulletin board material has to
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: be low on a list in the in the C suite.
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  Speaker 1: Over there on campus as to how these dissions are
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: being made in how they operate. Obviously, a national championship
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: and an SEC Championship are at the top of the list.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts now on the predicted
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: order of finish that you and your media colleagues use
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: that term pretty loosely voted on in the SEC media
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  Speaker 1: days in Tampa. Surprise to see Georgia at number one,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: in Texas just behind them at number two.
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  Speaker 2: No surprise at the very top.
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  Speaker 16: I think a lot of people that I've talked to
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 16: have shared this sentiment that George is probably the best
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 16: equipped to go out and win the SEC Championship.
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  Speaker 2: But we're talking about national title.
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  Speaker 16: That's where I'd probably give Texas to the edge, and
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  Speaker 16: that's just the result of how these rosters are built
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 16: as schedules that they play. I think Texas has a
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 16: harder schedule in Georgia pretty clearly.
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  Speaker 2: So the Bulldogs keep doing it. They've won the past.
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  Speaker 16: However, many that have come around and really only feels
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 16: like Alabama is a team that gives them problems. So
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  Speaker 16: I would not be surprised if George is the team
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  Speaker 16: that wins the SEC. But Texas goes farther than the CFP.
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  Speaker 1: Alabama's down at number six. You brought them up first
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: time since the pre Sabin era they've picked to finish
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  Speaker 1: that low in the conference. Is that position maybe justified
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 16: I felt that four through seven were very interchangeable, and
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 16: me personally, I would have had ole Miss in that
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 16: tier as well. But I think gave will Miss the
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 16: edge and I will find about this on Twitter. Is
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 16: it feels like the top three teams, you can pick
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 16: a superlative that really fits why they are in that
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 16: top spot.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia. It's not hard to explain why Kirby.
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  Speaker 16: Smart's teams are gonna be number one Texas the investment,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 16: the talent, the star players, and ole Miss. At the
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 16: end of the day, they have a defensive coach and
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 16: also the best quarterback and running back in the SEC
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 16: and maybe even in college football. Off of a long
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 16: CFP rob like they were going to be top three,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 16: but that four through seven tier, it could have gone
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 16: anyway because it's all teams that play a tough schedules,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 16: all teams that have good but questions about them, especially
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 16: like Jake. The quarterback spot really lights up here for me,
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  Speaker 16: I think all these coaches are good at a baseline level,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 16: and probably you know Kiffin and Elco Debora especially, and
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 16: not to throw venables under the bus here, but really
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 16: really high level, maxim.
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  Speaker 2: But every single quarterback position here has some question marks.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 16: Right Alabama redshirt freshman starting quarterback and Kielan Russell, how
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 16: good can he be? Sam Levitt was not representing LSU
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 16: at media days, and he's going to be a starter,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 16: but injury concerns he hasn't really pieced to you that
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 16: are full season of a really good, amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Accurate college football as a quarterback.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 16: Arizona State that that year they played Texas was the closest,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 16: and then A and M and Oklahoma. They've had these
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 16: starters now for two two and a half years, and
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 16: you're talking about A and M, but haven't truly been
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 16: these force multiplier bring the team ahead of where the.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 4: Rest of the roster is kind of players.
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  Speaker 16: So I would bet that whoever has the best quarterback
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  Speaker 16: of this tier probably breaks into that three four spot.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tier you're discussing with Texas aem for LSU five,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: Alabama six, and Oklahoma seven for those of us on
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred the zone. Of course, you can also join
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: us on x and Facebook and YouTube every day for
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: the show where we've got these rankings projected up for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you on a tier break though, between seven
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: and eight Oklahoma down to Tennessee. I'm not as high
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: on the balls this season in general. Is there any
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: team eight through sixteen that you feel as though is
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: ranked too low and might have the best chance to
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: catapult up into that tier we just discussed.
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  Speaker 16: You know, it's not too far below, but I would
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 16: have put Florida above Tennessee, and that might be a
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 16: hot take given that Tennessee's got a little bit more establishment.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 16: But you know, these quarterbacks are going to be good
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 16: no matter who gets taken as Josh Aipel's guy like that,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 16: he's not going to have a bad offense, but just
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 16: not really bought into the team that they built this year.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 16: I don't think that they're going to completely maximize what
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 16: this player in year one of starting is going to be,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 16: and they play some really tough games. I have them there,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 16: and it's hard once you get to that ten, eleven,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 16: twelve through sixteen, because it does feel like they're in
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 16: the right spots right like I wouldn't say yes, Vanderbilt
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 16: with whoever they pick us for sure above Auburn, or
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 16: that Auburn should be breaking ahead of Missouri. So I'm
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 16: not sure there's one where I'm going yes, they will
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 16: definitely be there. I will say that of all those teams,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 16: I think South Carolina has the clearest chance. Of everything
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 16: goes right, they will be in that top six where
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 16: I don't know if everything goes right with Kentucky.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: Or Vanderbilt, they will be in that spot.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 16: Lenora Sellers is back to the kind of theoretical Lenora
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 16: Sellers we've heard about. If the wide receivers are really
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 16: really good, they ended the year well. But if Harbor
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 16: and Sellers can really take up a tier, I think
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 16: they could be a very good team. And that seats
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 16: hot for Shane Beamer. So if he plays well, you
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 16: know too, it's to save his job more than anything.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's kind of gone up and down and
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: up and down for Beamer at South Carolina. We're talking
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: SEC media days, polls, preseason All SEC rankings, and teams
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: with Evan Veief from Inside Texas. We're looking now at
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: the All SEC first Team a few Longhorns represented Cam
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: Coleman at the wide receiver spot, Trevor Goosby on the
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: O line, Colin Simmons on the defensive line, and Rashim
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: Biles at one of those linebacker spots. We ran through
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: the whole teams and told you about all the Longhorns
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: who are represented earlier on in the program. What was
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: your reaction to this? Did you break from the consensus
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: on anything that we can see here?
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 16: You know, one of my big quips with with how
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 16: these things work, and I tried my best to avoid
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 16: it as I could, but they don't really ask me
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 16: to rank it in a football sense, like like the
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 16: tiering for the D line is just rank your twelve
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 16: best defensive line and not who is your first team,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 16: who's your second team?
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: Is your third team?
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 16: So you don't really get to calculate out a team.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 16: You just get to name players. So you see, like
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 16: this is three edge rushers. This D line would not
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 16: actually look all that great because Will Eccles is kind of.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Only tackled anchor.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 16: You're not seeing any guards on the O line tier, right,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 16: It's all these tackles in the center. So that's where
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 16: I tried my best you know, I had Patrick Coutis,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 16: who's the ole Miss guard higher there, and on my
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 16: d line, I had David Stone on my first team,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 16: I believe, you know, at linebacker, I thought Kip Lewis
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 16: was should have been ahead of Whip Meeks.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: That's the guy I noticed.
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  Speaker 16: Myself as I was looking back, I'm like, wow, I
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  Speaker 16: am way higher on Oklahoma than a lot of people
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  Speaker 16: in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: They're in my three to four tier team.
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  Speaker 16: I think they are the of those teams we were
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  Speaker 16: talking about in that four through seven tier. Like I
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  Speaker 16: think that you could have had Isaiah Satanna there over
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  Speaker 16: Ryan Coleman Williams, who, like, let's be honest about what
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 16: Ryan Coleman Williams was last year.
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  Speaker 2: He was getting benched on his team like that.
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  Speaker 16: They had low Zerra Brooks playing more at the end
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  Speaker 16: of the season and getting more targets. And I do
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  Speaker 16: think Coleman Williams will be good this year. But that's
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  Speaker 16: the thing to keep an eye out. So some things
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  Speaker 16: about Garden d tackle those individual spots.
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  Speaker 11: dB.
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  Speaker 16: I believe I had Kelly Jones as a cornerback over
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 16: Ellis Robinson, the six to four player at Misissippi State.
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  Speaker 16: Absolutely lotched down players outside of cam Coleman, and then
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  Speaker 16: I had Jade and boh at running back over Amad Hardy,
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  Speaker 16: just because I felt like that top three running back
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  Speaker 16: spot in SEC was all three really good players. It's
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 16: just about like who was in the better situation, Who's
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  Speaker 16: gonna en up getting the yards this year?
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  Speaker 2: And with Hardy's situation, I just thought Bob was a
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  Speaker 2: safer pick.
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  Speaker 16: So a lot of it was pretty I think a
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  Speaker 16: lot of chalk and consensus at the top. You know,
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  Speaker 16: Chambliss is going to be their Lacy, Colin Simmons, Dylan Stuart.
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  Speaker 16: But I tried my best to keep it within the
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  Speaker 16: lines of what was allowed. Jake, I will ask you
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  Speaker 16: one question because I want to know how many people
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  Speaker 16: noticed this. Did you see who the third team kickoff
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  Speaker 16: specialist was?
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it now, I know that Ryan Nibblett
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: was what a first team return specialist and then a
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: second team all purpose guy? Third team kickoff specialist? Wait,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: why don't you what's going on behind this?
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  Speaker 2: So the kickoff specialist spot not to take over the show?
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  Speaker 16: Here is no so most people the guys who kick
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  Speaker 16: off the ball, like you know, I don't know will
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  Speaker 16: Stone last year for Texas. The one who got third
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  Speaker 16: team is Terry Boosey. He's a returner. He has never
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 16: kicked a football in his college career. They messed it
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 16: up and people just decided to vote for him. So
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  Speaker 16: Terry Boosey is a third teamer at a position he
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  Speaker 16: doesn't play, and Ryan Nibblett got second team AP votes
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  Speaker 16: at a position he also doesn't really play. Like nibble
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  Speaker 16: will play on offense for Texas. He is not the
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  Speaker 16: same type of player that Mario Kraber is who got
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 16: the first team. It just goes to show the SEC
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  Speaker 16: is such a messed up voting system.
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  Speaker 1: A well, look, at the risk of reforming everything, why
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: don't we just think about it this way?
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  Speaker 2: There were eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Total Longhorns who saw their name on an All SEC
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  Speaker 1: team of some kind. There's limitations to how much you
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  Speaker 1: can take from this, clearly based on the flaws and
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: the voting process that you're revealing for us here. We've
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: become a courtroom drama here this afternoon. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just wondering of the Longhorns whose.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: Names we didn't see.
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  Speaker 1: Are there a couple who you feel as though should
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: feel shorted here or feel slighted here? And are there
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: a couple who you feel as though could play their
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: way into these conversations this season in particular, because I know,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: you know, you never really know until you see it.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, your timing is impeccable because I released this article
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 16: right before I came out of the show as my
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 16: internet was having some difficulties where I could come on.
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  Speaker 16: But I feel like there's only one true snub, a
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  Speaker 16: guy who should have been there who didn't get taken.
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  Speaker 16: It's because of the problems I've already addressed. Is that
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 16: here Kanu, Like, that's one of the sixth best and
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 16: tier defensive linemen in the SEC coming into this year.
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  Speaker 16: I would have had him at third or fourth, right,
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  Speaker 16: I think Eccles and then Elijah Griffin and Will Stone
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 16: who or David Stone. Excuse me, I said Willstone earlier
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 16: who made it on second team, are there, But when
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 16: we're talking about him or DJ Hicks, he's more proven
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 16: than hickses and just a lot of edge rushers got
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 16: in on the D line instead of Kanye, so I
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 16: thought he should have gotten there. And then there are
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 16: some players who I think, as the season progresses, will
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 16: maybe get some buzz there. I look at all three
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 16: cornerbacks for Texas, I think one of Mascow, Phillips, Littleton.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 16: You could see them, especially with the way they're going
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 16: to play some more pressman coverage, like a five interception season.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 16: That's the kind of thing that gets you on an
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 16: All SEC team, and I think any of those three
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 16: can do that. And especially if Lyttleton is playing in
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 16: base formations as an outside cornerback and getting some of
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 16: those tackle and PVU breakups in the slot, he could
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 16: be there. And then I'll throw out Melvin Sionni Melvin
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  Speaker 16: sin I. We haven't actually got one hundred percent common
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 16: information on which one it is, but he's a guy
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  Speaker 16: who was I think fourth in the transfer portal offensive
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 16: line on on three's rankings. He's going to start right
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 16: tackle for Texas, and if he is really good, then
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 16: it's gonna show up a lot for Texas. There's gonna
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 16: be a lot of people that go, Wow, this line
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 16: is so much more improved. What's the reason you look
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 16: at the right tackle spot? So I can see that
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 16: being someone who as the ear progresses on, he ends
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 16: up getting on to one of these teams.
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  Speaker 2: Because Texas' z line looks better and he's a good
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: reason for that.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's somebody Sark has mentioned quite a bit. I
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: also love the focus that you had both in your
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: piece over at Inside Texas and on the show here
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: today about the long corn defensive back room. I think
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: it's fascinating the track coming into the year, and if
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: we had more time, we'd be able to dive into it,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: but we do need to break Evan, thanks so much
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: for stopping by. You're not only taking over this show,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: you're taking over Bucky and BK coming up after this too,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: so I know we're keeping you busy today. Thanks so much.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: As always, Thank you guys, appreciate you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's Evan Vief from Inside Texas. You can
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: follow him on x at Evan Vief.
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  Speaker 11: More to come.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Colin Simmons some sound bites from
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: his media day presser coming up right after this back
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: here on AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Thanks to Evan
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: B for joining us to talk Texas football in that
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: last segment, getting some thoughts on the rest of the
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: SEC as well. One of those guys we mentioned on
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: that first Team All SEC squad. Don't think there was
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: much doubt over the fact that Colin Simmons would find
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: himself there. He was asked several questions in Tampa, one
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: of the Longhorn players along with Arch Manning and Trevor
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: Goosby who made the trip. And we're going to bring
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: you some soundbites from his time at the podium.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: Yesterday.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: We heard his exclusive conversation with Craig Way and that
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: is available for you over on the iHeartRadio app wherever
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. So, Simmons was asked in this
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: particular press conference a few questions We'll bring you here
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: this one starting with whether or not he can find
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: yet another level to his game and grow even more
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: now working with Will mus Champ.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, much time, definitely broaden all of ours mindset. You
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 17: know when it comes to defense, when it comes to
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 17: the play style that we play, the aggressiveness.
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  Speaker 4: How he how he carried hisself and how he come
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 4: about the game of football. Man, I ain't gonna lie.
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  Speaker 17: I'm I'm happy to be a part of this defense
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 17: and I'm happy to be coached under him.
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  Speaker 1: How about the relationship that Simmons has now with his
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator will much champ on and off the
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: practice field.
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  Speaker 4: I came in, I came in his office.
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  Speaker 17: I came in his office probably the first second week,
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 17: sat there, we talked, chopped it up. You know, obviously,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 17: I asked him, is there anything you know more than
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 17: I can do to you know better myself are better
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 17: the defense? And you know, he just telling me just
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 17: to be myself, be myself, be you go out there,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 17: have fun preciously off and I just I feel like
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 17: much champions is a is A is a player's coach.
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  Speaker 1: And the version of Simmons that we got last year,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: particularly down the stretch, was a confident one and a
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: player who is no doubt looked at as one of
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: the leaders of this defense. Going into his third and
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: what might be his final season here on the forty Acres,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: he was asked how his leadership has grown.
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  Speaker 17: Just being myself, being myself, showing my teammates that they
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 17: could just beat themselves. You know, they don't have to change,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 17: they don't have to impress nobody. You know, people are
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 17: going to have opinions regardless of what it is.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 4: Good are bad. But at the end of the day,
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 4: as long as you stay true to yourself.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: And then move you That's the voice of a confident player,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: and that tracks in his next answer. And this is
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: one of those questions that a reporter asked to every
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: single player who came into this room. Will you get
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: goosebumps when you're back on the field, back out at
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: your home field? Back in Simmons case of DKR, and
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: Colin took it a different direction.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 4: And DKR, No, it's it's home.
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  Speaker 2: It's home.
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  Speaker 17: Our fans are welcoming, they love us, and they know
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 17: a reason to getting nervous in DKR, you know, isn't it.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 17: It's not a reason because if we make a mistake,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 17: move on to the next player. O, fans still don't
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 17: love us.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: And they don't but.
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  Speaker 4: But they still don't love us. And I just feel
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 4: like we got a great fan base, a great alumni.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, it's probably a question that ninety five
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: percent of the players said, Yeah, I'll get goosebumps. That's
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's that's what happens on a fall Saturday.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: That's what you play for. Simmons says, Now, no reason
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: to be nervous. That's the sign to me of a
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: confident player not to read too much into it. Finally,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: Sark asked what he thinks a next step for Colin
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Simmons could look like this season.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 15: Well, I think it's the ultimately complete player. You know,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 15: I thought Colin evolved last year. You know, I think
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 15: his freshman year he was a pass rusher. I thought
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 15: last year he grew up in the run game. And
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 15: now it's that versatility. You know, it's not just lining
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 15: him up into the boundary and defenses know where he is.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: It's moving him around.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 15: It's the creativity a coach mus champ and our defensive staff.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 15: It's calling embracing those things hits him, Understanding you know,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 15: really understanding blocking schemes and techniques and how people are
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 15: going to try to utilize him with chips by running
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 15: backs or sliding protections in his direction. And then how
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 15: do you take advantage of those things. I think that's
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 15: what the really good rushers do. And then it's leadership,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 15: and it's him growing into, you know, one of the
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 15: leaders of our defense and of our team, and I
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 15: think we've seen a huge uptake in that for him.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: There you have it, the thoughts of Colin Simmons and
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: his head coach, Tief Sarkejian at SEC Media days. So
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: much fun to hear these players, these coaches sound off
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: before we get closer to kickoff, which is coming up
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: sooner than you might think. We've got another break, and
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: then we'll wrap up the show here on this Friday
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: afternoon edition of the program, Jay Kerrman in for Craig
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: Way on a thirteen hundred zone