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How Texas can get off to a fast start against Georgia · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craigway Show.
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  Speaker 2: Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
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  talkback feature on the Ihearts Radio app here. On Thursday afternoon,
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  Game number three of the American League Championship Series is underway,
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  Yankees batting in the top half of the first with
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  two down and to a board, and Cleveland trying to
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  get through that first thing. Remember, the Yankees are up
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  two games to none, so when today they would have
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  a stranglehold on the series and pretty much put it
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  out of reach, all but put it out of reach,
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  and they would have four chances to close it out
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  too in Cleveland and two in New York if that happened.
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  The Dodger trying to get a commanding edge on the
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  Mets and the National League Championship Series. It's just a
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  two to one series league for LA. They'll play this
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  evening in New York with the Mets trying to get
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  even at two games apiece before Game five tomorrow, and
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  then if the Mets win tonight or tomorrow, it would
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  send the series back to Los Angeles for a sixth
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  game on Friday, and then if it turns out that
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  they need a or the six game, excuse me, would
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  be on Sunday. The game five, it would be tomorrow Friday.
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  A sixth game would be Sunday. In a seventh game
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  that necessary would be Monday. Jass Chisholm strikes out to
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  end the top of heirs, so it is scoreless. Going
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  to the bottle off. Somebody on the text line when
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  we mentioned Tony Bennett retiring, So Tony Bennet retired, who's next,
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  Frank Sinatra?
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  Speaker 1: Not that Tony Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: Neither that Tony Bennett nor Frank Sinatra are with us
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  any longer. It's the Tony Bennett of the basketball coaching variety,
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  all right, speaking to the coaches, trying to hear some
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  more from long Orne at football coach Steve Sarkishan. As
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  has been chronicled, it was not a real fast start
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  for the long Worns last Saturday in the win against Oklahoma,
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  scoreless first quarter, first time they've been scoreless this year,
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  first time they trailed in a game this season. They
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  were down three to nothing after a turnover and two
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  punts in the first quarter before they really kicked it
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  into the high gear. But sark was asked after examining
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  that slow start against Oklahoma. How can his team get
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  off to a fast start this Saturday against Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, first of all, looking back on it now,
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  I'm glad that that happened. You know, I think that
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  that was good for us offensively to have to have
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  some of that adversity early on in the game. I
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  learned a lot about the maturity of the offensive football
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  team and the leadership on of that group. And so
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  with all that being said, I would sure love for
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  that not to happen again.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want.
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  Speaker 3: Three, you know, three you know, three three play drives
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  and thirteen yards in a quarter. So the goal is
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  to put together some good openers. The goal is to
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  make sure that our players understand the openers and know
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  the adjustments to those things. The goal is to put
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  our guys in really good positions on third down and
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  to feel comfortable with the stuff to extend drives and
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  then ultimately, you know, call your best stuff in the
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  red area that that gives you a chance to get
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  in the end zone. So but I think all that
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  goes back to confidence and belief in what we're doing.
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  And you know, like I said, I've got a ton
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  of belief in our staff and the game plan they
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  put together. I've got a ton of belief in our players,
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  and these guys have earned it, and, like I said,
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  looking forward to to them going out and competing and
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  playing at a high level Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: The next came and I mentioned this earlier about Michael
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  Kern having the injured ankle, the punter, he's still held
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  on placements. But Ian Ratliffe started and punted for Texas,
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  and Sark was asked about his evaluation of Ratliffe as
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  well as the status of Kerrent.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he did a heck of a job first
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  time out. You know, we didn't protect very good on
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  his first punt, but I thought he did a heck
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  of a job after that. I thought Michael looked really
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  good today. I thought both he and Ian both punted
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  the ball well today. So we're fortunate that Ian actually
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  got some experience and feel good about, you know, kind
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  of where where Michael's at as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so if Current can't go, the Ratliff would be
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  ready to go. We here here's.
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  Speaker 2: Another one of those terms, like like somebody had call
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  a text in on the text line and asked about
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  good on good and that's a football phraseology. Another one
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  is call sheet. The call sheet is what the coaches
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  use when they're calling out an offense or a defense
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  in sending, you know, putting in a play, especially on
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  the offensive side of the call sheet. And sometimes the
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  first ten to fifteen plays might be scripted out, and
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  other times fewer than that, and sometimes not at all.
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  But Sark was asked about his process of building a
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  call sheet for a game.
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  Speaker 1: I love putting a call sheet to together.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's a it's a blank canvas
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  for us. And we start on Sunday and we start
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  going as a staff pass game run game run, game, pass,
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  game screens, specials, and we do the bulk of our
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  We do the bulk of our base game planning on
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  Monday and Tuesday, and that thing starts filling up, and
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  then we start working ourselves into third down and red
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  area and backed up in two minutes, and then we
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  start talking about musk calls through as practice goes, and
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  the stuff we really like, and then we start formulating
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  our openers. And then I get a chance to visit
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  with the quarterbacks, you know, Friday night, and then depending
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  on when kickoff is that sometimes I like to stay
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  up Saturday nights kind of Friday night's kind of late
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  working on it. There's other days I'll kind of pause
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  in the middle of it and get up early in
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  the morning and have a cup of coffee and just
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  start formulating my thoughts and I just keep trying to
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  play the game forward and what would it look like
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  if this situation or that situation, and ensuring certain plays
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  getting enough touches so that they can find their rhythm.
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  So all that's just kind of the I guess, the
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  playing the chess match before you actually sit down at
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  the table. But that's that's the fun part for me,
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  Like I love that aspect.
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  Speaker 1: Of it all.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is obviously quite the environment this week here
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  in Austin. You have this game number one against number
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  five in the country. There's the F one race going on.
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  You have ESPN's College Game Day here on Saturday morning.
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  ESPN itself will send it two crews to anchor Sports
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  Center throughout the weekend here in Austin, beginning tomorrow with
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  I believe it's Kevin and Gandhi and El Duncan who
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  are going to be anchoring on campus, and then there'll
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  be a crew out at CODA, including I think Nicole
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  Brisko will be out there one of the anchors for
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  Sports Center over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot going into this.
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  Speaker 2: Sark was asked by our colleague Roger Wallace about the
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  impact that a crowd can have and he cited UH
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  Tennessee breaking a record for sound and noise against Georgia
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  last year, and he and Roger asked that of Sark
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  about how big a factor would a crowd be that
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  could be that noisy this time around.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that stat Tennessee against Georgia broke the record. Okay,
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  you know, I think I think for us it's a
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  it's a huge component. You know. I think in my
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  time here through four years, d k R has has
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  created an environment that has become intimidating, that has become loud.
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  Our students do a fantastic job, but I think in
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  this game especially.
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  Speaker 1: We need more than our students.
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  Speaker 3: We need everybody, uh in this ballgame, it should be
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  a rocket environment. We need to make it as difficult
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  as we can on Georgia. And I think our fans
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  can do that. I know, I've I've heard it really
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  loud before, and most notably I remember heart hearing it
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  really loud against Alabama in twenty twenty two. I heard
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  it really loud at the end of that Kansas State
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  game last year. My goal is that it's that loud
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  for four quarters Saturday night, and then my goal is
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  when I sit in my press conference after the game,
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  you tell me Roger that we broke that record that
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  Tennessee said against Georgia last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, be a nice That'd be a nice goal to
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  try to set to try to see if he could
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  do something off that.
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  Speaker 1: A couple more things from Sark.
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  Speaker 2: One is for the second time this season, he'll have
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  a player going up against his former school. Remember when
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  Texas played UTSA and there was alt of the conversation
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  about Trey Moore, who transferred it from UTSA. Same story here,
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  but slightly different wrinkle to it. Bill Norton, the long
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  worn senior defensive tackle transfer him from Arizona, actually began his.
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  Speaker 1: Career at Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Kirbie Spartan had really complimentary things to say
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  about Bill Norton in his news conference earlier this week,
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  how he had really emerged as a special teams player
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  and was in the rotation along the defensive front. He
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  transferred to Arizona and then of course came along with
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  Johnny Nansien to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So Sark was asked.
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  Speaker 2: About, Uh, did he have any kind of conversation with
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  Bill Norton by going up against his old team like
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  he did with Tray Moore before they played UTSA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Bill's a little bit a little bit
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  more of a unique situation and the fact that you know,
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  when he left Georgia, Uh, he went to Arizona and
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  then left Arizona has come here, which I think now
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  is becoming more of the norm, right guys kind of
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  going to a couple of different schools. I know, he's
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  got a ton of respect for that program. You know,
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  they recruited him. They had obviously a great defensive lineman
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  when he was there, and and he's done a really
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  nice job for us. You know, he's a big man inside.
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  I think he's really grown into our style of play
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  and it's been you know, I think that's why our
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  run defenses has really started to step itself up, just
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  because of that middle can get difficult to run on,
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  and that allows guys like an name Leonga and David Benda, Uh,
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  kind of to fly around because he's taken up multiple blockers.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and then one more from Sark and this is
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  about getting his team ready to play a Georgia team
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  that played Alabama in that epic game a couple of
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  weeks ago, and he was asked what were his thoughts
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  about Georgia his takeaway about Georgia from their loss to Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was a little bit of an
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  anomaly early on. It was kind of an avalanche early
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  in the game. You know, there was a lot of
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  a lot of turnovers, a lot of third and long
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  type situations. Georgia was in that that forced, you know,
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  had him behind the sticks into Alabama's credit. They kind
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  of jumped on them, you know, and they were using
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  milrose legs and so on and so forth. The one
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  thing I gathered I took from the game is, you know,
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  Georgia's got the heart of a champion, and the way
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  they fought back in that second half, the way they competed.
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  I was super impressed, and I was impressed watching it live.
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  I got a chance to watch the second half of
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  that game. I was impressed watching the tape now and
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  I don't know if it was necessarily straight adjustments. I mean,
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  they obviously had to just start kind of throwing the
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  ball to get back into the game. But more importantly,
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  I just felt like it was the heart of a
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  champion that showed up, and that's something for us to
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  hold on to going into Saturday night. Regardless of how
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  this game goes, it's going to be a four quarter game.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So there it is the thoughts from Long Wornon's head
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  coach Steve Sarkeshan.
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  Speaker 1: From today's media Zoom Now.
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  Speaker 2: A reminder will bring you Long Worn Weekly with Coach
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  Star tonight at seven o'clock. That's the program we recorded
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  last night and we will We always recorded on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Nights at Pluckers, and.
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  Speaker 2: We recorded at Pluckers and then on Wednesday nights from
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  six to seven and then it airs from seven o'clock
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  to eight o'clock on Thursday night. So it'll be on
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  tonight at seven o'clock. Yankees and Guardians are still scoreless.
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  Each team stranded two runners in the first inning. Yankees
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  had runners at first and second, Guardians had runners at
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  second and third, and both teams stranded two runners in
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  the first inning. So they're one in the books. In
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  Game three in the ALCS, Yankees lead that series two
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  games tone, no score going to the top of the
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  second there at Progressive Field. Up next, we'll hear from
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  long worn men's basketball coach Rodney Terry.
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  Speaker 1: Will continue on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone