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CFB Coaching Carousel, HSFB Playoff Push, World Series Tilts Back to Toronto · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: How about this.
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  Speaker 2: We are almost to the weekend, getting close anyway, and
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  Speaker 2: so that means Thursday means there's plenty on tap for
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  Speaker 2: today's show. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to the program here
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  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone and where
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  Speaker 2: you can always also listen to us for free on
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  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. My name is Craig Way. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: very much for joining us this afternoon. We're with you
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  Speaker 2: up until five o'clock and then at seven o'clock a reminder,
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  Speaker 2: this week's edition of Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark comes
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  Speaker 2: your way. We record the program on Wednesday evenings over
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  Speaker 2: on the UT campus and then it airs Thursday nights
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  Speaker 2: at seven E three airs on Friday Friday evenings at
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  Speaker 2: seven if you're unable to catch the Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Airing of it. And a fun show.
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  Speaker 2: We have linebackers coach co defensive coordinator Johnny Nansen. What
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  Speaker 2: a job he's done with that linebacking corps. And also
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Shipley, one of the all time long worn heroes,
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  Speaker 2: the last guy before Ryan Niblett, the last guy to
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  Speaker 2: return two punts for a touchdown in a single season.
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  Speaker 2: Shipley did that back in two thousand and nine, the
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  Speaker 2: year the Long Ones went all the way to the
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  Speaker 2: National Championship the BCS National Title Game before falling to Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: and Chipley had two punt returns for touchdowns that season.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll visit with Jordan tonight on the program as well.
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  Speaker 2: Producer of the program is Jay Carman. How's your day going?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like DC out there today, like Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little colder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a little more like climatetologically speaking, more inside
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  Speaker 2: the Beltway?
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  Speaker 1: What you feel this time of year?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's a little bit, a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a sharp change from what we saw byt a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: That was fast.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a crawl on the bottom of it said
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  Speaker 2: the National was getting close to naming their new field manager.
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  Speaker 3: Then they did name their new field manager.
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  Speaker 1: That's how close they were.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I heard it, saw it this morning as
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  Speaker 2: it was close, and then I got caught caught up
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  Speaker 2: in media Zoom's first one for Steve sar Keys and
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  Speaker 2: then one for Sean Miller.
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  Speaker 1: So they have a new manager.
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  Speaker 4: Blake Viewterra is going to be the youngest manager in
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  Speaker 4: fifty years in the Big Leagues, thirty three year old
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  Speaker 4: director of player development from the Rays. Some folks thought
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  Speaker 4: he was going to be a front office candidate, but
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  Speaker 4: many saw him as a future manager. Paul Taboni, youngest
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  Speaker 4: GM now in Major League Baseball, taps the youngest manager.
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  Speaker 3: So youth movement in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you to be served. We'll see how that plays out. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: coming up in a few minutes, Roger Wallace, Sports director
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  Speaker 2: k x A, and of course NBC thirty six here
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  Speaker 2: in Austin and my broadcast partner and Long Worn Football
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  Speaker 2: will join us. We'll talk some long worn football clearly
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  Speaker 2: as they get ready for the Vanderbilt Commodores. And Roger
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  Speaker 2: and Keith Warlan will call a very important high school
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  Speaker 2: football game tonight in the next to last week of
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  Speaker 2: the regular season in twenty five six a huddo at
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  Speaker 2: Vista Ridge. And so we'll visit with Roger about that
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  Speaker 2: later on in the program. Obviously, we'll have him conceivable
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  Speaker 2: this hour. In the three o'clock hour, we'll hear from
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  Speaker 2: Sean Miller, the brand new men's basketball coach University of
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  Speaker 2: Texas Longhorns open the season next Tuesday in Charlotte against
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  Speaker 2: Duke and so we'll hear from Sean Miller coming up
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  Speaker 2: at the three o'clock hour. In the four o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 2: long wrn's head coach Steve Sarkisian, we'll hear from Sark
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  Speaker 2: the update of the final media weekly opportunity that is
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  Speaker 2: afforded the media, the media Zoom. So we'll hear from
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  Speaker 2: Sark coming up in the four o'clock hour. But we
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  Speaker 2: begin with baseball, where now the Toronto Blue Jays are
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  Speaker 2: one went away from winning their first World Series in
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  Speaker 2: thirty two years since nineteen ninety three, and they wasted
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  Speaker 2: no time getting off to a good start, as we
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  Speaker 2: did this yesterday. This is fun to hear this audio
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  Speaker 2: because this is father and son Dan Shulman. You've heard
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  Speaker 2: him a lot on ESPN, but he's doing the telecast
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  Speaker 2: on Sportsnet in Toronto and his son Ben Shulman is
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  Speaker 2: the play by play voice on radio for the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: So the Jays wasted no time in getting off to
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  Speaker 2: an excellent start. David Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior back
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  Speaker 2: to back home runs to open the ball game. First,
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  Speaker 2: the call from the Elder Statesman, Dan Shulman.
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  Speaker 5: Game five is underway with a fly ball to d
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  Speaker 5: Cleft done the first pitch of the ball game, and
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  Speaker 5: David Schnyder has hit it out.
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  Speaker 2: What a starts, Okay, So that was the runt. Two
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  Speaker 2: pitches later with Vlad Junior up.
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  Speaker 6: This happened here and the Blue Jay fans making a
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  Speaker 6: ton of noise, and.
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  Speaker 1: Now Calero rips one to d Clift, p.
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  Speaker 7: It's gone, and two.
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  Speaker 5: Batters in up two to that thing. My oh my,
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  Speaker 5: what a start for the Blue Jays here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: It was all of that, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's Dan Shulman on Sportsnet, the television network in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's his son Ben Schulman calling the two home
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  Speaker 2: runs on Blue Jays Radio.
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  Speaker 6: Snell into the Liners the first pitch of Game five
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  Speaker 6: of the World Series, and it's in high left field
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  Speaker 6: and deep callback at the track, leaps at the wall.
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  Speaker 7: And that ball it's gone.
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  Speaker 5: Our first pitch homer for David Schneider.
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  Speaker 6: And the Blue Jays take the.
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  Speaker 1: Lead of the first.
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  Speaker 7: Welcome to Game five.
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  Speaker 1: And the one Lottie rocks the.
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  Speaker 6: Ball left field and deep back.
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  Speaker 2: To the wall.
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  Speaker 8: It is good again.
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  Speaker 1: Back to back Blass.
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  Speaker 6: In the first and in three pitches the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 6: leap to nothing.
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  Speaker 1: What in the world are we watching right now?
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  Speaker 2: They were watching was only getting started because that was
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  Speaker 2: the offense. And then trey Is Savage struck out twelve
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  Speaker 2: batters and in the game, absolutely dominant in the game
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  Speaker 2: full the Blue Jays who wind up winning it by
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  Speaker 2: a score of six to one. So a tremendous effort
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  Speaker 2: by trey Ya Savage, who then you know, just had
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  Speaker 2: all the support and the adulation from his teammates with
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  Speaker 2: what he did and also from his manager. But before
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  Speaker 2: we get to that, there was David Schneider, the guy
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  Speaker 2: who really got it off and going with that first
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  Speaker 2: pitch home run.
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  Speaker 8: He has a really good change up as Austi's his curveball,
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  Speaker 8: his slider, so he has a lot of good pitches. Obviously,
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  Speaker 8: his fastball is ninety six ninety eight, so you can't
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  Speaker 8: really take that for granted as well.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, George kind.
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  Speaker 8: Of always preaches always be ready for the fastball first
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  Speaker 8: pisch lead off the game, and George has done it
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  Speaker 8: for numerous years, and you know, I got to take
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  Speaker 8: some advice when I can get it, And yeah, sitting
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  Speaker 8: fastball was up on his zone. I didn't really think
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  Speaker 8: I got it, but you know, maybe playoff baseball, they're
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  Speaker 8: a little bit juice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: George, of course, being George Bringer, who I think will
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  Speaker 2: be back for Game six. He was available for pinch
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  Speaker 2: hit duties if needed last night, so I think he'll
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  Speaker 2: be back for Game six.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So John Schneider, the manager, talked about this historic outing
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  Speaker 2: for tray You Savage, Uh, he was pretty good.
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  Speaker 9: Historic stuff, you know what I mean when you talk
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  Speaker 9: about that stage and his numbers, getting ahead of a
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  Speaker 9: lot of hitters, tons of swinging miss you know, it's
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  Speaker 9: it's one thing to be in the zone and it's
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  Speaker 9: another thing to be in the zone and get some
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  Speaker 9: swinging miss. So slider and split were electric. You know,
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  Speaker 9: I said it before the game. It's it's a different
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  Speaker 9: picture when he has his stuff. You know, Game one
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  Speaker 9: didn't have a feel for his splits, so kind of
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  Speaker 9: blown away at what he did.
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  Speaker 2: As many were, including his Savage himself, talking about his journey. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he started the season in Class A ball in Jupiter, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Then he went to High then he went to Double A,
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  Speaker 2: then he went to Triple A, then to the bigs.
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  Speaker 2: Now in the World Series with a rookie record twelve
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  Speaker 2: strikeouts scattered three hits over seven innings to get the win.
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  Speaker 10: It's a crazy world, crazy world. Hollywood couldn't have made
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  Speaker 10: it this good. So just being a part of this,
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  Speaker 10: I'm just very blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So now the Jays are one went away and they're
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  Speaker 2: going back home with a three games to two series lead.
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  Speaker 2: A game six tomorrow night Toronto and Los Angeles, and
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays will.
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  Speaker 1: Try to wrap it up. The Dodgers try to stay alive.
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  Speaker 2: They do have Yoshinoba Yamamoto going to the mountain tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: If the Dodgers win, there will be a seventh and
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  Speaker 2: final game on Saturday night. All Right, we'll hear more
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  Speaker 2: on this throughout the course of the program afternoon, but
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  Speaker 2: up next we talk to football with Roger Wallace here
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  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app Here on a Thursday afternoon on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: AM thirteen hundred of the Zone on Thursdays, we take
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to talk football with Roger Wallas, my broadcast
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  Speaker 2: partner on long worn Football Broadcast and of course sports
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  Speaker 2: director at KXAM, where they do their high school football
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  Speaker 2: telecast on Thursday nights on KBVO, which you can see
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  Speaker 2: tonight on KBVO channel fifty one. As Roger joins us down,
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  Speaker 2: I'm completely throwing you a curveball on this only because
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  Speaker 2: it's fresh in my mind last night after watching the
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  Speaker 2: World Series game. Of course, you know me a Dodger fan,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm all out of sorts, so I'm just flipping
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  Speaker 2: around the channel, and then I remembered that Austin FC
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  Speaker 2: was in game one of its playoff series with LAFC,
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  Speaker 2: So I turned it on and watched the second half
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  Speaker 2: of that, and I just had a total heartbreaking night
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  Speaker 2: all the way around, because that was kind of tough
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  Speaker 2: for SC last night, giving up that late Lake goal
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  Speaker 2: there for l a f C to win.
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  Speaker 3: Okay't quite here yout thim at Roger.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Okay, we we might have.
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  Speaker 1: A mute bender or table.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it may just have to give Roger call if
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't pop up there on the phone. So I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what, Roger, We'll try to reconnect with you
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  Speaker 2: on the phone on this. But it was it was
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  Speaker 2: a tough, narrow two to one defeat, and that was
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  Speaker 2: after FC had fallen behind one deal close first half,
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  Speaker 2: kind of some bad luck for the Verdium Black Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Hollingshead played a low pass across the six yard box
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  Speaker 2: and deflected in off Brandon Heinzeich and then Austin responded
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  Speaker 2: well at a halftime John Gallagher, uh equalized it. But
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  Speaker 2: l A f C getting that lead, they okay, so
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  Speaker 2: rogers with us now. Uh, like I said, just it
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  Speaker 2: was a bad, bad luck, bad night for me all around,
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  Speaker 2: but it was. It was certainly some ill misfortune for
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  Speaker 2: FC last night.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, last last team to play in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 12: They've been so anxious to get this going, had success
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  Speaker 12: in their two regular season matches with with l A
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  Speaker 12: f C. And then you know, it seems like about
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  Speaker 12: every other goal you're wondering was there off sides or not?
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  Speaker 11: But belongs a goal.
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  Speaker 12: Obviously Austin f C probably thought he was off sides,
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  Speaker 12: but regardless.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, now they've got to come home and at least
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  Speaker 12: it's a you know, the format changed for years ago
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  Speaker 12: where they.
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  Speaker 11: Get another shot two out of three series.
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  Speaker 12: So Sunday night, either the season comes to an end
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  Speaker 12: or or they go back to Los Angeles next.
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  Speaker 2: Week exactly in uh, the you know the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a nice response from FC when
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  Speaker 2: they got down one nil on the on that unfortunate
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  Speaker 2: goal which definitely could have had offside call, and there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of conversation about it, and then on
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  Speaker 2: the second one it's well, so it's it's been kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting to see that. But you pointed out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: FC's done well against LAFC last tear match, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure this isn't a mental thing or a confidence thing
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  Speaker 2: for them.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I think they're confident.
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  Speaker 12: I think the way the season's gone just because they've
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  Speaker 12: had a battle through so many different things, and you know,
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  Speaker 12: the US Open Cup run was great. They got a
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  Speaker 12: chance to play for a trophy, but it kind of
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  Speaker 12: took its toll on the front end and on the
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  Speaker 12: back end because.
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  Speaker 11: Of the way they had to manage the roster.
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  Speaker 12: And then you know, I mean go back to losing
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  Speaker 12: their leading score Brandon Vasquez in July, and owen Wolf
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  Speaker 12: has emerged. Obviously Galler got the goal last night, but
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  Speaker 12: I think regardless of what happens Sunday night, it's been
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  Speaker 12: quite a first year for a coach that people weren't
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  Speaker 12: sure if that was the right move to get Nico
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  Speaker 12: Svez and then he had to kind of work with
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  Speaker 12: a patchwork roster as well. So I would say moving
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  Speaker 12: forward regardless, as we now year five of the MLS,
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  Speaker 12: you kind of learned that these rosters can can get
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  Speaker 12: overhauled pretty quickly. It seems like they have a good
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  Speaker 12: base moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. All right, let's jump to the
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  Speaker 2: American football. So now I say that and it's a
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  Speaker 2: combination of American football and Australian rules football, because that
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  Speaker 2: was one of the fascinating things that came out of
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  Speaker 2: the Sark or rather the Clark Lee SEC teleconference yesterday
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  Speaker 2: was the fact that.
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  Speaker 1: The Gold Coast Suns team from Queensland.
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  Speaker 2: Australia watched that Netflix series The Enny Giving Saturday following
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  Speaker 2: the SEC teams and saw the shock the world thing
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  Speaker 2: of Vanderbilt beating Alabama and their head coach so taken
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  Speaker 2: by Damian Hardwick, he and his assistants fly twenty two hours.
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  Speaker 1: It's been two days with.
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  Speaker 2: The commodores this week to say how do you guys
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  Speaker 2: do it? That sort of thing, But it kind of
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  Speaker 2: reflects an overall national fascination about this program and how
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  Speaker 2: quickly Clark Lee has turned this group around, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it really does.
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  Speaker 12: And I may have told this before, but I was
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  Speaker 12: I was working in Kansas when Bill Snyder did what
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  Speaker 12: he did at Kansas State, and at the time that
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  Speaker 12: was the greatest build people would say of all time,
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  Speaker 12: from Sports Illustrated calling them the worst team in college
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  Speaker 12: football to being a constant contender, and Vanderbilt maybe even
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  Speaker 12: more so because what we thought might be a you know,
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  Speaker 12: limited resources, a school that maybe didn't have the fan
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  Speaker 12: base or the resources for football.
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  Speaker 11: We know they have resources.
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  Speaker 12: And then being in the SEC you combine all that
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  Speaker 12: is it is amazing what they've done. And I think
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  Speaker 12: it's too simple, and I fall into this trap to think, oh,
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  Speaker 12: they got Diego Pavia, they got this pied piper and
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  Speaker 12: success followed. Do that in bad basketball a little bit
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  Speaker 12: more than you can do it with one player in football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And and UH had a good conversation about him last night,
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  Speaker 2: UH with Sark when we were doing the show, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, he said, I want I want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that I'm clear on this. He's he's a very
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  Speaker 2: talented football player. He he does some really well skilled things,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're not locking him down. That said, his
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  Speaker 2: best talent is his attitude and his leadership in getting
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  Speaker 2: everybody to believe that they're that that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: win every game. Andrew Ali Gretta, their play by play guy,
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  Speaker 2: was on with me yesterday and uh, he said that
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  Speaker 2: he one time said to pave you know, I really
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  Speaker 2: kind of believe that you believe that every game is winnable.
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  Speaker 2: And Pavey said, it is. It is and everybody does
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  Speaker 2: believe that. But but beyond that, and I think Sark's
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  Speaker 2: point was Pavey, along with Clark Lee, of course, has
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  Speaker 2: instilled the belief.
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  Speaker 1: Now they've had a talent to it.
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  Speaker 2: And of course we're all familiar with Cedric Alexander and
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  Speaker 2: what he did at LBJ. And by the way, is
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  Speaker 2: is his record now on the verge of is Crenshaw
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  Speaker 2: on the verge of breaking that record?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, we might have it. We might have it next week.
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  Speaker 12: I think he needs two fifty now the Anderson running
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  Speaker 12: backs start at LBJ to get that AISD record, So
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  Speaker 12: we might have it in that season finale. Anderson and
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  Speaker 12: Weiss a week from tonight out at the Field.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So but then in addition Cedric Alexander, he got mk Young,
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  Speaker 2: who's a native text and he's from Midland Legacy. He
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  Speaker 2: like pavienn Eli Stowers, transferred in from New Mexico State.
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  Speaker 2: So there's this pipeline from Los Cruises to Nashville. What
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  Speaker 2: does that say about the state of college football these
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  Speaker 2: days when really good football players are moving from Los
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  Speaker 2: Cruises to Nashville.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, and the common threat is Jerry Kill, who was
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  Speaker 12: kind of Clark Lee's right hand man, and you know,
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  Speaker 12: he was the one I think Jerry Kill pretty much
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  Speaker 12: told Clark Lee if the story goes as I remember, that,
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  Speaker 12: you need to get this guy.
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  Speaker 11: And Clark Lee had enough confidence in what he said
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  Speaker 11: to go get him. So yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, you got a fair estate transfer leading a
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  Speaker 12: top five team in Ole Miss or top ten team
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  Speaker 12: in ole Miss. So yeah, we're way beyond trying to
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  Speaker 12: make sense of oh if they played here. Certainly that
• 17:33
  Speaker 12: doesn't translate to here that those stories are too many
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: And we don't know what's going to be the quarterback
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: situation on Saturday with Texas, but there could be a
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: guy that was at Gardner Webb and Jacksonville State and Troy.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Matthew Calwell will be ready at the ready if needed.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I Sark, I think feels optimistic. I guess is the
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: way because Arch has practiced. But the way the protocol works,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and Sark's very quick to try to help people understand this.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: The way the protocol works, you can't just declare him
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: ready to go, you know, just because he practiced on
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: was he first and foremost he has to practice on Thursday.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: That's part of the protocol.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So he did go through the practice this morning, but
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: there's some other cognitive things and some other stuff he
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: has to go through before he can be cleared to
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: then be classified as probable or questionable or whatever. He's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: questionable right now, but you can't declare him ready to
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: go for the game until he passes all those those
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: other tests. Still, I think Sark feel's confident aut And
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the one that's kind of surprising me is Michael Taff
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: being able to come back and work so quickly.
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and that would be that would obviously be huge
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: depending on how they wrap up that hand, and you
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: know what, they.
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: Can can get a soft cast on.
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: There's something that's legal that he can go out there
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: and play with just just having is not only his.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: Ability but his leadership and a guy.
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: That played in that tough Vanderbilt game last year he
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: had I think he ended up picking that game as well,
• 19:10
  Speaker 12: So that would be big both get both sixteams back
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: on the field Saturday.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, against this Vanderbilt offense.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And we've talked about it and one of the guys,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I guess we should give some credit to old pal
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: tim back with what he's done with this Vanderbilt offense,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: with Pavia, with Alexander, with the one two punch with
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Alexander and Young and Stowers of course being being a
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: big time targeted tight end.
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: Yeah, they're scary now.
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: They didn't.
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: You know, they weren't great offensively obviously in a seventeen
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: to ten win over Missouri, So then.
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: You go, okay, they must have a pretty good defense too,
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: and they do.
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: But even last year when we were there, it kind
• 19:47
  Speaker 12: of felt like Texas took control and you look up
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: and it's a one score game and Texas needs fourth
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: down stops and and you know, field goals to a
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: big run and then a field goal to kind of
• 19:57
  Speaker 12: ic it. But this team, it doesn't go away such
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: a mirror I think, not not just Pabia, but I
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: think the way Clark Lee has built the program as well. So, uh,
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: you know it's gonna be ah, it's gonna you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: pack your lunch and your hard hat Saturday for this
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: one for the Longhorns.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Visiting with Roger Wallace, sports director k X A N
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And of course I broadcast partner in Long Horn football.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Let's shift to high school now, because the telecast you
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: guys have is a huge matchup tonight and uh, in fact,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: uh you even said it last week when you were
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: talking about games on down the road. You said, we
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: we've kind of had to take our lumps on some
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: of those. Uh, some of those games have been lopsided.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But these next two weeks, tonight's game with Huddo and
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Vista Ridge and next week with Anderson and Weiss, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: mean they promised to be really impactful games, not only
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: in terms of the quality of the game itself, but
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: what it means to the district races.
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 12: I mean you look at twenty five six day and
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: it's five pretty much five for four and Huddo's in
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: good shape, Bobby, they have the five wins they have
• 21:03
  Speaker 12: the win over Round Rock. They also have that win
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: over Vandergriff or they lost I'm sorry to vander it,
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: but they have the win over a round Rock. So
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: tonight's kind of a pivotal game there, Vista Ridge. If
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: they can get past this one and get to five
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: and two, you like their chances against Westwood somebody. A
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: pretty good team's going to be on the outside looking
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: in in a very competitive nine team district. Round Rock
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: sitting at four and too, and they still have to
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: play Vandergriff next week after they play Stony on Tomorrow
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: night at the Palace.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Well here, you know, me, I get into a lot
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: of the minutia thing and if if I'm going to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: if I'm going to be the one and I did
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the other day to when somebody asked sarka question that
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: was so it delved into so much minutia, I said
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: it bordered It was bordering on the booger eating status.
• 21:54
  Speaker 13: You know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: So if I'm going to say that about that, I
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: got to say that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: About myself as well.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: But in diving in this the thing that I came
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: up with that that just kind of really raised my eyebrows,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: was you laid out who had beaten who. Vista Ridge
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: had beaten round Rock but lost to Vandergriff and lost
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to McNeil. McNeil beats Vandergriff but loses to round Rock,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and now they've got that tough closing schedule, and they
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: were also upset by Sea to Ridge. And then you
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: have Huddle, which has the loss to Vandergriff, but they've
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: beaten everybody else, and then they've gotten these two big
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: games left tonight against Vista and then next week against McNeil.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: The shakedown on all of this stuff is, and you're right,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Huddle's in the driver's seat if they win tonight to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: be the top seed in the Division one bracket, Huddle
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: of the five contenders, Huddle would definitely be Division one,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Round Rock would be definitely Division one. But round Rock
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: still us to play Vandergriff if they were to lose
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to Vandergriff next week, and if Vista Ridge were to
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: beat Huddle tonight, and then this to plays Westwood next
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: week and to places McNeil. If they both get in
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and the other two of McNeil and Vandergriff, then this
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the Ridge goes is the top seed in Division one
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and avoids Lake Travis and by district and plays Bowie
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: in a rematch of the game that the you and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I had on back earlier in the season. Now that's
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: also uh you know, depending upon Booie beating Austin High.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: If they lose to them tomorrow like they did last year,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: then it's gonna you know, mess things up again and
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: you're gonna wind up seeing Westlake back in.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: The D one bracket again. But it's those kinds of things.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: And that's the fascinating thing I always find about six
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: A is because they don't decide who goes Division one
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and who goes Division two, is done by ing rollments
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: at the end of the year, unlike all the other classifications.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: It does bring that extra element of drama into the
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: final two weeks of the regular season.
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: No doubt.
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: And uh yeah, I was, I was thinking the same
• 23:59
  Speaker 12: thing with with Booie and and Austin High. But we're
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: trying to avoid two years in a row with you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: having the Maroons keeping out of the playoffs and creating
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: some certainly some chaos in uh in six A, Division
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: one and Division two that you know, twenty six twenty five.
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: Six a's pretty well set.
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: Just when you look at the the enrollments, you kind
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: of know where where they're gonna be.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: D one, D two. But to this to your point
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: about the seating, but yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: It's gonna be It's gonna be a fun finish. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: you know, it was interesting last week, Craig. I'm sure
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: you took notice sitting in two below as I did
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: with what Lake Travis did to h Westlake last last
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: week at Chaperone.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and and they look, you know, really really solid,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: uh so, and and Hank Carter's got that team on
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the roll. And and I'm sure you're looking forward to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: this not only are you know, we think about some
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: huge final week of the regular season matchup like Bastrop
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Liberty Hill would be really really big next week. Assuming
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: bast Drop handles it business against Blugerville this week, that's
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: one big, one big game. Then obviously west Lake dripping Springs,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: that's a huge game. And then those other two matchups
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: we mentioned in twenty five to six a Round Rock
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: against Vandergriff and Huddo against McNeil. I mean, all of
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: those could really really be climactic on the final weekend
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: of the regular season.
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: Might be better than some first round playoff games depending
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: on how they take out, and you know, as much
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: on the line if you're talking about trying to get
• 25:29
  Speaker 12: to that first round. So yeah, and Dripping Springs, I
• 25:33
  Speaker 12: mean that program. You know that they're the other ones
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: when you think of west Lake and Lake Travis and
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: Lake Travis and Westlake.
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: However you want.
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: To just say it, but man, what a job Galen
• 25:42
  Speaker 12: Zimmern's done in that district to kind of be that
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: third team and maybe even not just the third team
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: but one of the tops. So fun finish, got some
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: great football weather tonight.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: I'm fired up on this better tonight.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: There you go, There you go.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, probably we're we'll go with what sweaters
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: or quarter zips on Saturday morning?
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: Whatever you say, I follow your lead.
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: That sounds good to me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do that sweaters or quarter zips. Sorry, we
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: just made the decision. It's on tape somewhere, yeah or digitally.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: So hey, thanks for the time. I appreciate you. Have
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: a great call tonight. Thanks Craig, talk to you all right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: That's Roger Wallis. Keep for on a little joining for
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the call tonight. It would be a lot of fun
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: at seven o'clock on kbv O Vista Ridge hosting Huddo.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: That's one of the marquee matchups of this weekend and
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: it's a Thursday night er, so that's that's really cool,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: all right. Coming up next, we have Inconceivable here on
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Zone and the iHeartRadio app here.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: It is now Craig.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Wa second hour of the program here on Sports Radio
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: AM thirteen hundred the Zone. Glad you could join us
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: on this Thursday afternoon Craig Way alongside the producer Jay Carman.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Exciting stuff right around the corner Tonight seven o'clock Long
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Worn Weekly with Coach Stark. It's the program we recorded
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday evenings over on campus and a lot of
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: fun talking about this football team in this matchup with
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the Vanderbilt Commodoores on Saturday. Joining us on the program
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: will be Johnny Nansen, the co defensive coordinator, the guy
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: who handles the linebackers are playing at another worldly level
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Some of what those guys are doing, especially Anthony Hill.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: In addition to that, we'll visit with Jordan Shipley, the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: lifetime long horn because he was the last long worn
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: to return two punts in a season for touchdowns. He
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: did it in two thousand and nine against Texas Tech
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and Colorado.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Our broadcast operations manager Terry Kelly does a fabulous job
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of culling the highlights that we use in the show
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: and other things, and that goes back historically as well.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So when we found out Jordan Shipley was going to
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: be on the program, the request was made, Hey, can
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you guys pull up one of those two pump returns
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: that he had for a touchdown in two thousand and nine.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: One was against Texas Tech, the other one was against Colorado.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: So Terry went to diving in to find him and
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: she found him.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: The problem with.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The Texas Tech one was that there was a flag
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: on the play, and I remember this.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I remember this.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna throw my broadcast crew under the bus. Okay,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that, but I will tell
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you this. At the time, we had a best producer
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I've ever worked with, Bill Harwell, the late Bill Harwell.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: And Bill had carried with him a yellow flag like
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: a penalty flag in his back pocket, so if there
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: was a penalty he would wave it just to let
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: us know. And but he would do it unobtrusively, kind
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: of do it out to the side just so I
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: could see it, but that I would finish the call
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: and then say there's a flag on the plate, because
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: you never know, the flag might have not been germane
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: to what was going on in penalty declined or whatever.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: In this particular case, as Shipley takes off of the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: plumb return, I had several different people in the booth
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: all going waving their arms like flag, flag, Like you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Bill goes into reach to pull out the flag, but
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: he was going to do his normal thing out on
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: the side, but it flew out of his hands and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: it flies like right in front of me. So naturally
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: write in mid sentence, there's a flag on the play
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah bah. Here's Shipley's in for the touchdown.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the flag was on tax It didn't matter.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: So the call you might say, to use internet terminology
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: was corrupted a little bit. Fortunately, the Colorado one was
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: clean and it was longer. It was he had to
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: step out of a couple of tackles. It was kind
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: of like the Ryan niblewin. So it worked out well.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: So you'll hear it tonight if you're listening to the program.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: But we'll talk with Jordan Shipley about it and the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: science of feeling punts. Sark asks him about, you know,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: feeling that punt when guys are bearing down on you
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: and all that other kind of stuff, and then we
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: talk about his receiving this. He's still the all time
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: leading receiver in yardage and or in touchdowns and second
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: in yard I mean he's either one or two in
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: about five or six different categories.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Great guy, Jordan Shipley.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So we'll have that tonight on Long One weekly seven
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: o'clock here on the program.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: It re airs tomorrow night. It said, we'll also have
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: one segment.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: We always bring you the opposing teams segment that we
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: do in the program on this program on Fridays, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: we'll do that on tomorrows show with start speaking in
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: some pretty specific terms and in depth terms about the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt Commodorees and what they have to do. The World
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Series is shifting back to Toronto with the Blue Jays
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: now up three games to do.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Think about this now.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: In this postseason, Toronto, of course had the best overall
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: record in the American League. They won ninety four ball games,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and as such they drew a buy in the first round.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Then they would have home field throughout the throughout the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: American League playoffs and beat the Yankees. Trey Ya Savage,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: who did what he did to the Dodgers last night,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: did that to the Yankees in the Division Series. Then
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: they dropped games one and two at home to Seattle.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: They go to Seattle, take two out of three, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: then come back home down three games to two and
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: win the last two games at Rogers Center to win
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the American League Championship. So now they go into the
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: World Series. They played the Dodgers. The Dodgers were the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: number three seed, The one seed was Milwaukee, the two
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: seed was Philadelphia. The Dodgers first swept out Cincinnati in
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: the wildcard round. Then they take out the Phillies, not
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: having home field advantage, and take them out three games
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: to one in a best of five. Then against the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: one seed, the Brewers, they sweep them dominant, just get
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: masterful performances from their starting pitching, and they won it
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: in four straight over the one seed. They lost in
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: all of the great pitching, and then Shoe Aotany's unbelievable
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: final game that he had in there with the three
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: home runs and the six shoutout innings, was that the
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: rest of the team really wasn't hit much. Now it
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: sticks out like a sore thumb in this the way
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Toronto would shut them down of the last three games,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: including the eighteen inning game that the Dodgers won. So
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: their struggle to find their offense right now. And now
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I know everybody's looking at the defense and the bullpen.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: The bullpen defense was kind of floppy last night.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Blake Snell's not looked good in his two starts in
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: this World Series, and the bullpen kind of became the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen again, one that struggled throughout the course of
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: the season. So as a result of that, Dave Roberts,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the manager, was asked last night after the game, are
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the bullpen problems catching up to you and your team
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: now in this series?
• 33:32
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it's hard because you know, you can only push
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: a starter so much. I thought Blake emptied the tank,
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: and you know you have an opportunity with the base
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: open in the sense in this situation, second base was
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: led up, and you know, I felt Henriquez was the
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: guy to get him out and you also have a
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: chance to get a shout out. I pushed Blake as
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: much as I pushed him all year, and yeah, you
• 33:58
  Speaker 14: look at the three games that we lost, it you know,
• 34:02
  Speaker 14: spiraled on us with guys on base, but guys who
• 34:07
  Speaker 14: got to be better. They certainly had a good game
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: in Game four, whatever it was. But yeah, I mean
• 34:14
  Speaker 14: that's just kind of guys have got to do their jobs.
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: Everyone's got to do their job. And so right now
• 34:20
  Speaker 14: we're at elimination and we've got to kind of wipe
• 34:23
  Speaker 14: the slate clean and find a way to win Game
• 34:25
  Speaker 14: six and pick up the pieces and see where we're at.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, I will tell you this, Dave
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Roberts is right about that with regardless pitching. But I
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: think they would also be the first to tell you
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the pitching is put on a more backed up against
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: the wall because the offense isn't happening right now. Mookie Batts,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: who I think is three for twenty now in the
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: World Series, actually got to hit last night, but he said,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: we've got to figure out something.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: But you look even at the hits they had last night,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Craig obviously, Kei k Hernandez, the big home run and
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: then you had two kind of seeing eye infield singles
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: for ta Oscar.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: That was it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's the Dodgers truck out twelve times. They
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: managed three hits and seven innings against you, Savage. So yeah,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: since it since they swept the Reds in the wildcard round,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: this is the Dodgers team batting average team batting average
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: in the postseason after the Wildcard round because they clubed Cincinnati,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: but after that against good teams Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Toronto,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: they're batting two to fourteen as a team in thirteen
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: playoff games, five forty four ops with runners in scoring position.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: The nine wins in that stretch are obviously a testament
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: to the starting rotation that's now being asked to kind
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: of tote it along. But I will tell you this,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and he said he pushed Blake as far as he could,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and Snell did try to give them all that he could.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: But Snell hasn't had command of his breaking ball, and
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: that's a big part of it. So their backs are
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: to the wall. Now here's another wrinkle, and then and
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: we'll take a break of them. We're going to hear
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: from Sean Milder. Here's another wrinkle about this. Remember I
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: mentioned that the the Blue Jays won ninety four games,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: so they got home field advantage in the American League,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: and as such, they at home field avtage in the
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: World Series by one game. The Dodgers won ninety three.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: You don't want to know what the difference was. There
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: was a series in July at Dodgers Stadium. LA won
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: the first two games. The bullpen blew the lead late
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: in the Sunday afternoon game. I was watching that they
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: lost that game. Didn't think too much about it at
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the time, other than the fact that Dodgers weren't playing
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: well at the time. That one game is the difference
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: between LA having home field and Toronto having for home field.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: So if you think games.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: In June and July are meaningless, think again. It can
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: go a long way.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: At middle fifty one, right, you know, you're always going
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: to win about fifty, you're always going to lose about fifty.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: And now the Blue Jays are on the precipice, they
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: are on the verge if they win them a night.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Now the Dodgers have shout Noble Yamamota going for them,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and they have to have it. So they come back
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: with their their best guy, who had a complete game
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: in Game two. But even if they win that game,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: now you're to Game seven and you get to Game seven,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are going to have to come back
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: with another starter who has not been good in his
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: two most recent outings.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now wasn't good.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: In Game three in the in the eighteen inning game,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: but forgot about that because the game win eighteen innings.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: He got no decision, and he wasn't good against Milwaukee
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: and the NLCS. The Dodgers rallied back and one of
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the thing, but he struggled. He didn't get through five innings.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: So that would be in game seven if it gets
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to that point.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: But they're gonna have to win game six to fours.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Game seven more reason you might see Kershaw available for
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: a quick relief appearance if it gets to that point.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: And if it gets game seven, their reports don't be
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: surprised to see Otani come out of the bullpen for
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the first time ever Game seven. Like I said, my
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: broadcast partner in Long Run Baseball, Keep Morland put it best.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: He played. You know, he was in the bigs for
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: thirteen years. It was a three time all American Baseball Texas.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: You know what he always says, when you get to
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: a game seven or the final game of a regional
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: everybody's got their spikes on.
• 38:13
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Well in the Nobbies, everybody's got the spikes on there
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: forget for the final game.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Didn't this whole baseball season of sorts begin with Otani
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: coming out of the bullpen getting us safe to seal
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: the World Baseball Classic in Japan?
• 38:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: How about that? How about that?
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: So chance for some so we'll see chance for some
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: symmetry there.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but la.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Is gonna have to and uh and by the way,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember who it is. It's pitching for Toronto.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: He's not exactly Chop Liver will be Gosman in games
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: it's Gosman and and uh, you know he was. He
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: wasn't bad in Game two. It's just Y'ama Mota was
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: incredible so the Dodgers. In fact, he didn't give up
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: that much. It was the bullpen for Toronto that gave
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: up the bulk of the Dodger runs. Later in the
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: ball game, when Will Smith hit the home run and
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Max Untsey hit the home run, you know you had
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: most of the damage done later in the game, So
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Gosmin in game six. So it's not chop liver now
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: for the Brewers, I mean for the Blue Jays, But
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers have got to have another outstanding performance from Yamamoto,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: and they have got to find some offense they don't.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: It won't matter how well Yamamoto pitches unless he pitches
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: a no hitter.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Otherwise they're going to lose, all right.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Up next, we're gonna hear from Texas men's basketball coach
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Sean Miller right here on thirteen under the zone in
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: This is I think one of the.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Really underrated songs that Billy Joel did that Kurt he
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: used to play it in concerts, doesn't do so much anymore.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And of course now since he's had health issues, he's
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: been off tour for a while. But it's called Summer
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Highland Falls, and it's off of the Turnstiles album, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I think that's part of the reason why doesn't get
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: some of the aarplay back even back then. Also because
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: he had a mega, mega block buster hit off of Turnstiles,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: which he wrote about twenty minutes is as the story
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: goes and that's New York State of Mind, which that
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: whole thing came from him coming back from California after
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: he'd done Piano Man and all that stuff about his
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: time back there. But he was coming back. He was
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: sick of La and wanted to get back to New
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: York and he took a bus home. He still have
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: not broken it up big and was and was on
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: his way back home. And he had a house there
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: in Highland Falls in upstate New York. And that's why
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: it's called Summer Highland Falls.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I love that song. I'm so glad that you appreciate
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: it well.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: And it's it's a sad song.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: It's it's about, you know, couples who drift apart, you know,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But it's but it's really done.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: The piccolo trumpet that comes in later they have I
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: think is just beautiful. You know.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: I like knowing that he wrote it on a bus.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: You can kind of feel it moving underneath the song.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Same thing with New York State of Mind. At New
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: York State of Mind kind of came to him in
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: the deal. And the way the story goes, he gets
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: off the bus at the bus station, he takes a
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: taxi up to his home. He gets out of he
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: races into his house and says, I gotta find a piano.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Got to pay They had just moved into he didn't
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: know where the piano was. They got to get to
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: a piano because he had it in his mind. And
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: that's how he did the New York State of Mind
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: in about twenty minutes. And he was working on that
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: song as well. So anyway, a little bit of music
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: history there.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: That's going to keep playing my favorite songs coming back
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: and you'll teach me all about it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Wow, I'm a big billy Joel fans folks. Now, all right,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Long Warren basketball team is getting ready to embark on
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: a new era. Sean Miller, a new head coach coming
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: down from Xavier, getting ready to start his first season.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Texas will open the season on Tuesday night in Charlotte
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: against Duke. So they're playing six ring team in the
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: country in their backyard. So that's going to be a
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: very very difficult. But he was asked, uh and and
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: he did a media zom today and here's his opening comments.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: He's also going to let you know a little bit
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: about the injury status because they had some injury status
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: in Modes Pokatitis, who is their sophomore transfer from Lithuania,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: and Lesina Treiori, who is a grad transfer, and both
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: of those guys had gotten banged up.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: So and that's a seventh foot and a six nine guy.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, same position. Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So he gives us an update on those as
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: well as starting to get his guys ready for the
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Duke Blue Devils.
• 42:38
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I wanted to start off just on a couple
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: couple of fronts. One just to update you know, our
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: our team in terms of our health and where we stand.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: Uh as I think a lot of you know.
• 42:50
  Speaker 15: We went into two unfortunate injuries about three over three
• 42:55
  Speaker 15: weeks ago with Lesina trey Orri and and mod Ore
• 43:00
  Speaker 15: to five men, and in both of our closed scrimmages,
• 43:04
  Speaker 15: neither of those two guys participated, which made both of
• 43:08
  Speaker 15: those scrimmages problematic. And it's also no doubt about it
• 43:13
  Speaker 15: put us in a unique situation of the thirty practices
• 43:17
  Speaker 15: to have you know, in essence about three week period
• 43:19
  Speaker 15: of time with you know, you're kind of like your
• 43:22
  Speaker 15: two five men that are going to play a lot
• 43:23
  Speaker 15: of minutes, both out at the same time. I think
• 43:27
  Speaker 15: the good news is in Modess's case, he's not only
• 43:32
  Speaker 15: returned to practice but doing really well. He had an
• 43:35
  Speaker 15: ankle sprain of significance, but a lot of the bad
• 43:39
  Speaker 15: is behind him, and I think he's not only set
• 43:42
  Speaker 15: to play, but my hope is he can have a
• 43:45
  Speaker 15: good four or five six days before we begin, before
• 43:49
  Speaker 15: we played Duke in terms of Lessina get a mid
• 43:52
  Speaker 15: foot sprain injury, and that, you know, is a little
• 43:57
  Speaker 15: bit more complicated simply because, as you know, a year
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: goal he missed the season with an acl on his
• 44:02
  Speaker 15: other leg, So we're just making sure that we don't
• 44:05
  Speaker 15: put him in a bad position. And either way, we
• 44:08
  Speaker 15: also are anticipating him being available for our season opener,
• 44:13
  Speaker 15: and he too has returned to practice, more in a
• 44:17
  Speaker 15: limited capacity than.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Modest, but no doubt about it.
• 44:22
  Speaker 15: You know, selfishly, as a coach, you want your entire
• 44:24
  Speaker 15: roster to be able to practice every day. Those two
• 44:27
  Speaker 15: guys missing the time that they missed has really hurt everybody.
• 44:33
  Speaker 15: If there's a silver lining in it, you know, I
• 44:35
  Speaker 15: think John Clark and Nick Cody have gotten a lot
• 44:38
  Speaker 15: of additional reps. They played a majority of the scrimmage
• 44:42
  Speaker 15: minutes against both SMU and TCU, and you know, we've
• 44:46
  Speaker 15: we've learned to kind of like play without those guys
• 44:51
  Speaker 15: during their absence, but we are very much looking forward
• 44:54
  Speaker 15: to getting them back full time, and especially from their
• 44:59
  Speaker 15: perspective if both guys are very important to our team,
• 45:02
  Speaker 15: meaning Lesina and Modes. In terms of the Duke game,
• 45:06
  Speaker 15: as you know, the Duke game was scheduled before I
• 45:08
  Speaker 15: became the head coach here. We look forward to the
• 45:13
  Speaker 15: challenge of playing, if not the best program in America,
• 45:19
  Speaker 15: certainly one of them. And we have an amazing amount of
• 45:21
  Speaker 15: respect for Duke, and I really have a lot of
• 45:24
  Speaker 15: respect for John Shire as a coach. I think the
• 45:26
  Speaker 15: job that he's done taking over for Coach k is
• 45:30
  Speaker 15: in itself, on its face, superior. I don't know if
• 45:35
  Speaker 15: anybody could do a much better job than John has
• 45:38
  Speaker 15: done kind of taking Duke to taking over at Duke
• 45:42
  Speaker 15: and then leading them here to the future. So we
• 45:45
  Speaker 15: know it's going to be a difficult challenge, but I
• 45:47
  Speaker 15: think at Texas to go where we want to go
• 45:50
  Speaker 15: and be the program we want to become. Part of
• 45:53
  Speaker 15: that path is you have to be able to play
• 45:55
  Speaker 15: against the best and Duke certainly represents that.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I no doubt about that. They're going to play
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: game at the Spectrum Center. That's where the Charlotte Hornets
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: play at the NBA. That's where Texas played in the NCAA
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Tournament a couple of years ago when they won the
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: first round game against Colorado State and then fell to
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Tennessee in the second round.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: So they have played on that floor.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Before next He was asked by that this game is
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: actually called the Dick Vital Classic, named an honor obviously
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: of Dick Vital, the longtime ESPN broadcaster who has come
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: back from cancer and expects to be able to work
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: again this year, and coach Miller has asked about Dick Vital,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: what he means to the game and his impact on
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: the sport.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:37
  Speaker 15: You know, when I think of Dick Vitel, I think
• 46:39
  Speaker 15: it starts with what he's done for pediatric cancer. You know,
• 46:42
  Speaker 15: the amount of money that he's raised, his event, which
• 46:45
  Speaker 15: has become a signature event towards, you know, changing people's lives.
• 46:50
  Speaker 15: And it's incredible what his foundation has done, what his
• 46:54
  Speaker 15: event has done, and just it all starts obviously with him.
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: I think the second part of it.
• 47:00
  Speaker 15: Is, you know what he's meant to college basketball over
• 47:03
  Speaker 15: what four or five decades now. And I remember back
• 47:07
  Speaker 15: when I was a high school player playing in a
• 47:10
  Speaker 15: Dopper Dan round Ball Classic in Pittsburgh, and you know,
• 47:13
  Speaker 15: just being excited on many levels, one of which was
• 47:16
  Speaker 15: because Dick Vitel was on the he was the commentator
• 47:21
  Speaker 15: on the game. And what it feels like to have
• 47:23
  Speaker 15: him say your name and talk about the game that
• 47:26
  Speaker 15: you're in. That's I think how we all felt. And
• 47:29
  Speaker 15: that was in the mid nineteen eighties. But you know,
• 47:32
  Speaker 15: his passion for college basketball is knowledge. He made the
• 47:35
  Speaker 15: game better and certainly impacted coaches, players, teams, and I
• 47:39
  Speaker 15: think he really created an excitement with the fan base
• 47:42
  Speaker 15: around the world to point them towards college basketball. So
• 47:47
  Speaker 15: the impact is immense. I look at him as a
• 47:50
  Speaker 15: Hall of Famer and what he does, and I'm honored,
• 47:54
  Speaker 15: and I think we are honored as a program to
• 47:56
  Speaker 15: be a part of this game, all right.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: He was also then with a question about Duke and
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: that outstanding six nine freshman incoming freshman Cameron Boozer, his
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: impressions of Cam Boozer, and is that one of the
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: reasons why he brought in Dalen Swain when he came
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: in from Xavier to guard guys just like him.
• 48:17
  Speaker 15: Yeah, my early impressions of Boozer is, you know, he's
• 48:21
  Speaker 15: like that generational freshman. You know, there's always the number
• 48:25
  Speaker 15: one pick in the draft, not all of them are
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: the same. You know, there's always the best freshman that
• 48:30
  Speaker 15: plays in college basketball, but from year to year that
• 48:34
  Speaker 15: varies on actually who that great freshman is. You know,
• 48:38
  Speaker 15: I look at Cam as the best of the best.
• 48:41
  Speaker 15: His ability to rebound, you know, just look at the
• 48:44
  Speaker 15: rebounds that he's had in the first couple of games
• 48:46
  Speaker 15: he's played. You don't see many players, let alone freshman,
• 48:50
  Speaker 15: able to do that. And I also think that John
• 48:53
  Speaker 15: Schier uses him in a very intelligent way, playing both
• 48:57
  Speaker 15: the four and the five, and makes the match up
• 49:00
  Speaker 15: with Cam even more difficult than just his already unbelievable ability.
• 49:06
  Speaker 15: So I think it's unfair to even give Dalen that assignment.
• 49:11
  Speaker 15: I think you have to guard him as a team,
• 49:13
  Speaker 15: You have to run multiple people, and I think the
• 49:16
  Speaker 15: biggest point is you just have to control his second shots.
• 49:20
  Speaker 15: You know, if he can get five, four, six second shots,
• 49:24
  Speaker 15: all of those offensive rebounds translate into very bad things
• 49:28
  Speaker 15: for your team. So how can we do blocking him out,
• 49:32
  Speaker 15: keeping him off the glass? He follows his own shot
• 49:34
  Speaker 15: in a really big way, so he misses, he gets
• 49:37
  Speaker 15: it back and goes back up. We have to be
• 49:40
  Speaker 15: aware of that and do the best job that we
• 49:42
  Speaker 15: possibly can. I think that's a big starting point with him.
• 49:45
  Speaker 15: You know, just how many second shots does he get?
• 49:48
  Speaker 15: He's like a one man wrecking crew with that stat alone.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Back to talking about his own team, he was asked
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: about how he feels his team is acclimating to the
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: offense that he's bringing in given all the injuries they've
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: had to deal with.
• 50:03
  Speaker 15: I'll go back to Lissina and modest being out. You know,
• 50:06
  Speaker 15: I think when you get a new job, you're a
• 50:08
  Speaker 15: new coach, new staff. You know, these thirty practices in
• 50:13
  Speaker 15: forty two days. They're important to everybody. But I would
• 50:17
  Speaker 15: use the word crucial, and it's crucial to us because
• 50:20
  Speaker 15: we just don't have We just have such a lack
• 50:23
  Speaker 15: of familiarity, right, So when you have two players, especially
• 50:28
  Speaker 15: they both play the same position out for this extended period,
• 50:32
  Speaker 15: that has not helped our progress offensively, and unfortunately that's
• 50:36
  Speaker 15: just that's where we're at.
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: The good news is everybody else is learning and growing.
• 50:42
  Speaker 15: And the other part of it is, I think we're
• 50:44
  Speaker 15: going to have both guys back and hopefully they can
• 50:46
  Speaker 15: have a great stretch of health. But that hasn't helped
• 50:50
  Speaker 15: what we're trying to build and what we're trying to grow.
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: Time is not on our side when it comes to that.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, all right, we'll hear some more from Seawn mill
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: are coming up but next hour. But up next we've
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: got some more college football notes to get to when
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: All right, is this one of your favorites? Is that
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: what you're hitting me with here?
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: Little Sam Fender with seventeen going on their lil homage
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: to a seventeen point comeback by the Texas longmark.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, I like it.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I like the what you're thinking college football notes. First
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: of all, when we were talking earlier about the coaching
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: vacancies and Matt Rule was one of those candidates listed
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: or at least target possible targets for Penn State because
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: he played there was there. Yeah, that's off the table.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Now you mentioned you'd heard rumors of an extension. Is
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: now official to your contract extension Nebraska's given Matt rule.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: That'll take him through twenty thirty two.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's a lot for a guy that hasn't gotten
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: the signature wins there.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: But in this cycle, you got to keep your guys,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: don't you.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to continue to build it. He's
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: a builder. It's just taken longer to build, I think
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: than he was hoping or planning on. What's also interesting
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: to note about this is that his buyout has been bumped.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: It was five million dollars a month. Now it's fifteen
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: million on the bump.
• 52:27
  Speaker 11: So.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Probably not going to take another job during the cycle.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: As a result of that. He said his happiness his
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: family's happiness in Nebraska as the primary reasoning behind why
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: he agreed to the deal. He's in his third year,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: they're six and two this year. He did lead the
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: program to its first Bowl game in eight years last year,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: and he continues to say that the program has the
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: potential to return to the greatness that they had in
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: the past. Then and like I said, he frequently was
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: linked to the job opening at Penn State, but that
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: pretty much takes his name out of contention. Uh, not
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: only for that, but for the other eight Power Conference
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: jobs that have opened so far this year. So, by
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the way, this new deal does not include any change
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: in base compensations when the bump when the rule when
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: they are raised, just gave him an extension.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Offer additional incentive for base salary if Nebraska reaches the
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: College Football Playoff. There's a new clause in this deal
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: that states that every time Nebraska qualifies for the CFP,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: his base salary on the deal increases by one million dollars.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: So if he gets them into the playoff, well, it
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: won't happen this year. But if he gets them into
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: the well, I mean if they win out, find a
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: way to get in the Big Ten Championship game and
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: then like beat Ohio State and win the Big Ten
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: championship or Indiana, you know.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Win over Cincinnati's aging nicely.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is, it is.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: So if if they did that those sorts of things,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: then yeah, they could get in and he gets a
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: million dollar bump.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have to win.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: They have to beat usc this weekend, then Ucla, Penn State,
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: and Iowa who's playing some good football.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah, they all be easy for him.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: So they'd have to run the table that might I
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: don't know all the type Breakerstan where everything's tends on
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: that with a Big Ten right now, but that might
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: get them into the Big Ten championship against either or
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Hio State or Indiana.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, against one of the big bads, so we'll see.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they'd have to win that game to
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: get into the playoff a.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Lah Clemson last season.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right. So anyway, his salary, I mean,
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: it's similar to the client Texas has right now. Larwers
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: have to be three top ten teams fan to built
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: this Saturday. Then then they have to after an open date,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: have to be number five Georgia, so it's number five,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: then the number nine, number five. Then they come home,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: they'd have an unranked Arkansas team a rivalry game, and
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: then they'd have to be Texas A and M who
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: currently is number three in the country. We're going to
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: hear Sarks speak to that coming up next hour on this.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: But his salary, Matt rules salary during the course of
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: this deal has an average annual value of more than
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: eleven point seven million dollars, and that includes retention bonuses,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: and that puts him the highest echelon of college coaches
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: of the course of the deal. So they like him
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: to matt Rule and want to hold on to him,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: and he wants to stay.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: So there it is.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: There's some job security there. Okay, there's another story you're
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: going to get to here. We are all very very
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: familiar with. If you follow college football and a half
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: of the past couple of years, you're quite familiar with
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: everything with the name Connor Stallions. You're very familiar with
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: his role and that the signs dealing scandal stuff at
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Michigan and now Michigan got punished for this, and Stallion's
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: basically given a death penalty in terms of being an
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: assistant college football.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Is he watching us right now? Are we clear here?
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: I think we're okay? Okay, where we are?
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: All right? No one can see my my monitor for
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: what's coming up next, you know.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I think we're okay there, all right. So here's the thing.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: One of the instances cited in the NCAA report when
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: they punished Michigan was when he was seen on the
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: sidelines for Central Michigan when Central Michigan was playing Michigan State.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Now Michigan wasn't playing Central Michigan on down the road,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: but obviously they they were going to play Michigan State.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: So that's that was, you know, one of the things
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: that was cited in the report. So Michigan gets punished
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: for this. Well, he was seen wearing Central Michigan coaching
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: gear on the sidelines of Central Michigan. And you might think,
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: they're so, why in the world would they do that,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: How how could they pull that off?
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you. Jim mcelwaine.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: It was the head coach at the time, and he
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: had been remember his Stars on the Rise, he'd been
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: in Colorado State and then went to Florida and work
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: and you.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Know all that kind of st Yeah, o c under saban. Yep.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now he's the former coach at Central Michigan. Doesn't
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: mean he's not in trouble for this. Jim mceawaine, three
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: of his former staff members and the Chippewas program will
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: face NCAA penalties for their roles in allowing Connor Stallions
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: to be on their sideline during that game two years
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: ago against Michigan State.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Good because he wasn't he didn't just spawn there. He
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: had to be allowed there.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Well, here's how, here's how I rolled out, and he
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: acknowledged earlier this year on social media they knew almost
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: every signal opponents used in seven games over two seasons,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: including Michigan's twenty twenty three National championship season. All right,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: so here's where the Central Michigan Park comes in. Mcaway
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: was the head coach and along with three former CMU.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: As they call him Central Michigan, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: And the university agreed to take the deal first offered
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: by the NCAA Enforcement Staff on Sportsmanship and then later
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: approved by the Governing Bodies Committee on Infractions, which closes
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: the book on one of these strange scandals. So the
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: nineteen page report was released today. This is what the
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: NCAA found. Former quarterbacks coach Jack Costner bypassed the program's
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: normal procedures by requesting extra coaching gear from Nate Mason,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the former coordinator of athletic equipment operations. There's you know
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: you've seen going back to the equipment cage there and say, hey,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: I need another I need another pullover you win shirt
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: and Anita had and I need what do you need
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: that for?
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Coach?
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: I just need I got a guest coming, Okay, So
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Costler then asked Mike McGee, the former director of recruiting,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: to give the clothing and a sideline pass to his friend,
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: Connor Stallions. Although Costner had used an alias to avoid
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: detection before kickoff, the NCAA wrote McGee was unaware of
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: whom exactly the gear was four, but he knew it
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: was for a friend of Costner's who was skilled in
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: deciphering signals during the game. Stallion student close proximity to
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: McGee and the other football staff. Given his staff's direct
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: involvement in the arrangement, Jim mcawaine, former football head coach,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: is responsible for their violations under the head coaching responsibility legislation.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Yep, Buck's got to stop somewhere.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Will Costner, the guy who requested the gear, He got
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: a four year show cause, meaning any school that hired
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: him had the NCAA approval and must also demonstrate why
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: it should not be penalized for hiring him in the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: first place. He's also banned from all athletically related activities
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: for the first year and fifty percent of the second year,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: and would face the suspension of fifty percent of the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: football season in his.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Second year aka go coach high School Right.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Like Connor Stallions, Mason McGee were given two year show
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: cause orders and will be restricted from all athletically related
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: activities in the first year. They would face suspensions for
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: thirty percent of the football games during the second year. Mcawain,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: by the way, is now a special assistant to the
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: athletic director at CMU. He's a former head coach, but
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: he's still employed by the university. The athletic director is
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: Amy Follen, who used to be the director of compliance here.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: She was the director of compliance at Texas before becoming
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: the athletic director. Mcawaane received a two year show calls
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: or he would be restricted from all football coaching duties
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: during the first year and would be suspended from thirty
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: percent of the football games during the first year and
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: twenty percent in the second year. Central Michigan also will
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: be placed on two years of probation. They have to
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: pay a fine of thirty thousand dollars in addition to
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: one percent of the football budget. So yeah, they got
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: in trouble for being accessories to the crime.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: There you go if you will, wow.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: So before we get to the break It is time
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: for our DJC law injury updates, which has certainly been
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: a great deal of conversation obviously this week for the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: long worn football team. So we can tell you from
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: the SEC Student Athletic Availability report we mentioned this earlier.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Arch Manning is listed as questionable right now. We'll hear
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: more about his situation from Sark coming up next hour.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: As well as Michael Tapp. Both have been able to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: practice this week.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: Edge rusher Lance Jackson and center Cole Hudson also listed
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: as questionable. Aaron Butler wide receivers listed as profitable. So
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: there it is your d j C loll injury update.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: We'll be back to wrap by hour number two. I'm
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: thirteen under the zone.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, here we go with the third and final.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Hour of the program. Here, what are you gonna do
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: with your Thursday night tonight.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Prep spotting boards?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: There you go, getting ready to ready to rock and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: roll tomorrow for the biggest game of the bass Drop season.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Big matchup for bass Drop in Flugerville tomorrow night in
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: that district. And there's lots of other important games and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: we mentioned the one where we had Roger Walls on
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: in the first hour of the program about that Vista
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Ridgehuddo game that'll be televised by kbv O tonight.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: That should be an awful lot of fun.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe a batt'll flip around with Thursday night football
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: and the backdrop for me with no baseball tonight, we're
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: playing We've got the Ravens and the Dolphins with Lamar
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: Jackson returning for Baltimore.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's not it's not a popcorn match.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Up, Yeah, right, right exactly. World Series, of course, is
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: a travel day. Shifting back to Toronto where the Blue
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: Jays now hold eight three games to two lead. Tray
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Savage was tremendous, seven innings, scattered, three hits, struck out. Well,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: this is a rookie who started his year in a
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: ball down there. I believe it was the Jupiter Hammerheads
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: he was pitching for. But he was there at a
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: ball and then moved up the ladder each step the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: way and now doing great things in the World Series,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: And was asked, you know, how fresh can you be?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: You know, go back, You've got a travel day to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: day and then Game six tomorrow. Could he be ready
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: if the Jays maybe needed an inning or two.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: Out of him? Yeah. I mean, tomorrow is a full
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: recovery day.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 10: Get to a place where myself and the staff here
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 10: feels comfortable with me. Mentally, I'll be prepared for Game six.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 10: But I mean I'm just ready for whatever's next.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: If there is a next, all right, there won't be
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: a next for the Dodgers if they don't win tomorrow night.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: And Dave Roberts was asked to give an overall for
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: his overall outlook on where they are, having dropped too
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: in a row now and they're down three games to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: two and they have to go back to Toronto, and
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: his thoughts on their chances to still win this.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 14: There's a fight in there, there's a compete that I
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 14: think there's more in there.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: I know there's more in there.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 14: You know, we've won two games in a row, but
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 14: again it just comes down to one game. So I
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 14: think that we've been in a lot of elimination games
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 14: and we found a way to come to the other side,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 14: get on to the other side. So I expect Yamamota
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 14: to throw well, but you know, we still got to
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 14: take it abat and play catch a baseball, convert outs
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 14: and we play a good, clean game.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: I feel good about our chances.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: All right, So we'll see. That'll be tomorrow night at
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: seven o'clock. Here's some more from Sean Miller, the Texas
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: men's basketball coach. We heard a little bit from him
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: last hour as the Long Warns are finalizing the preseason
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: preparations getting ready for the season opener on Tuesday night
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: in Charlotte against the Blue Devils. He was asked about
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: this rule about the G League players who can sign
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: with college teams and his thoughts on that in terms.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 15: Of the G League news, I don't even know if
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 15: I have the proper response to it. I was really surprised.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 15: I think as you read and educate yourself more on
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 15: why and how this has happened, you know that leads
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 15: me to international basketball, and I just think the byproduct
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 15: of the G League is one part of it. But
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 15: I think what you're going to continue to see is
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 15: ready made international players who made a lot of money,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 15: who are now two, three, four years in the EuroLeague,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 15: in the highest leagues in international space, come to college
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 15: and now be another version of a really ready impact
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 15: to transfer. You know, so far the international recruiting, you
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 15: have to put them in a category of a high
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 15: school player, whether they're young and they're coming here to
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 15: go to college for the first time. You know, that's
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 15: the majority of who you've seen enter this space. But
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 15: the G BIG is one part of this. What it's
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 15: going to do, I think is is going to put
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 15: some really ready made again twenty one year old, twenty
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 15: two year old pros who come to college and maybe
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 15: not have four years, but can be more of an
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 15: all conference player on day one. So I think, like, yeah,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 15: it's going to continue to go for that direction.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: Next, he was asked what he's learned about his team
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: in the close scrimmages, even with their adversity.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 15: Yeah, no, I think they have a group that's really coachable,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 15: that wants to learn, wants to grow, wants.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: To be a together group.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 15: Being a new coach in the season of twenty five
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 15: twenty six comes with it's set of challenges, and I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 15: would just say to you guys, like we're going to
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 15: be a very difficult team to judge in the months
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 15: of November and December. In my best attempt and I
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 15: think all of our collective best attempt to be the
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 15: best that we can be, we have some limitations simply
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 15: because we just haven't been together and through experiences long enough.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: You know, we just don't have enough of those.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 15: So I think the silver lining when you watch our group,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 15: but I hope we bring to life for everybody, is
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 15: we're a team that continues to develop and get better
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 15: as we go along, and that we hit our stride
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 15: at the right time with continued good health and just
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 15: constant work and improvement. But the best you know, you
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 15: talk about you want to be a team that grows
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 15: as the season goes on and gets better and improves
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 15: and hits its stride at the right time. You know,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 15: in my mind, we really don't have a choice, Like
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 15: that's what we have to do. And I think that
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 15: the more we play games, the longer we are together,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 15: I believe that will be a better team, a more
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 15: competitive team, and a team that can win bigger games
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 15: later in the year. That doesn't mean we're starting off
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 15: with a bunch of excuses or you know, don't feel
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 15: like we can do it. But I think you guys
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 15: know what I mean when I say time isn't on
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 15: our side.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Next, he was asked about his guards, the ones you
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: have and who's really stood out and led the team
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: in the scrimmages.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 15: You know, I don't know if one necessarily stood out,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 15: but you know, obviously, I think when you look at
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 15: the strength of our team, you have to point to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 15: our guard play.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: And our experience.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 15: You know, the three guys that played here at Texas
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 15: a year ago, you know, Tremond, Kendall and Jordan, they've
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 15: been constance for us, not just in the two scrimmages,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 15: but I think every day they put a lot of
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 15: good work in their experience, shows and shines forward. I
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: think for me as a coach, I'm just trying to
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 15: really learn them, to know how to bring out the
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 15: best in each of them, you know, put with them
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 15: in the right seat on the bus, so to speak.
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  Speaker 15: And that's why I keep bringing up Lessina and Modest
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 15: in their absence. Everybody's affected when two people at the
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 15: same spot, same position are missing. It doesn't just affect
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 15: that position, it affects what you're able to do on
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 15: an everyday basis. And so that's why I'm so anxious
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 15: to get both guys back with us full time because
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 15: you know, in Jordan, Kendall and Tremont's aspect of things,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 15: they're trying to learn a new system, and they are
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 15: and you know you want to truly give them the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 15: system as it will play out in real games. So
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 15: I think, you know, looking at those three, and then
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 15: I think when you add sim Wilcher, Dalen Swain and
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 15: Cam Heidi, you know, the three guys that have come
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 15: with us as transfers. You know that I think is
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 15: a big strength of our team, the experience, the depth
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 15: at the guard position, maybe even the versatility, and I
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 15: think as a coaching staff, we have to bring out
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 15: the best in those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: Next up asked about Kendall Weaver and of course he
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: was coming off injury and everything, and is he progressing
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: the way that Sean is hoping and expecting.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: I would say that of all of our players, and
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 15: I'll start.
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  Speaker 7: In late May early June when.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 15: Our team came together for the first time, Kendall may
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 15: be the most consistent, meaning not only his quality of
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 15: play every day, but his demeanor showing up being a
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 15: guy who's early to the gym, late to leave, and
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 15: super competitive in all that we do, defense, offense, drills,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 15: player development. He wants to be good. He loves the game.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 15: He really pours his heart and soul into what he does.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 15: I don't know if any coach could ever say anything
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 15: other than he's a pleasure to coach. I think that
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 15: sometimes when I watch Kendall, you can't believe how athletic
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 15: and what he is able to accomplish at his size.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 15: He's not a very big guy. You knows how much
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 15: he weighs, how tall he is. He plays much bigger
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 15: than the actual size. You know, he walks into the room,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 15: you almost are taken back, like, wow, I thought you
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 15: were bigger, right, Because that's how he plays the game.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 7: You know, he can play above the rim.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 15: He's just really fast and quick, and he gives a
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 15: lot of himself to what his team does.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 7: So he's been really consistent. We need him to be healthy.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 15: I know you guys have seen him when he is
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 15: and isn't, and we're hoping for a healthy season. And
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 15: if that's the case, I would bet on him having
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 15: his career best year. I believe that he's set up
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 15: to do that. Not just three point shooting or scoring,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 15: but you know, he can check the box in a
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 15: lot of different areas. He's a very versatile guard.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, there's some from Sean Miller will here's some more
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: from Seawan tomorrow as they get ready for or the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: matchup with the Dude Floyd Devils. Up Next, we hear
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: from coach Sart from the Thursday media zoom here on
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: thirteen under the Zone. Well, long Oorns are at home
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: this weekend after forty two days between games. Texas a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: play on Saturday morning eleven a m. Kickoff as the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: Longhorns will take on the Vanderbilt Commodorees on Saturday. So
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: let's hear from Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian and we'll
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: start off with sarks opening statement.
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  Speaker 16: Forty eight hours and we're back in DKR, which is
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 16: obviously very exciting for us. You know, it'll be forty
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 16: two days Saturday from our last home game. So the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 16: idea that we get to run out of our own tunnel,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 16: play in fun of our you know, our one hundred
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 16: thousand fans and feel their support, their energy, I think
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 16: is exciting. I think, you know, one point to be
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 16: made to the team, which is very critical, the connectivity
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 16: that bond our ability to stay connected over the lastlast month.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: We need to bring that to d k R.
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  Speaker 16: You know, we can't just rely on you know, external
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 16: factors to provide that energy. We got to make sure
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 16: we're providing our own energy and then feed off of
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 16: the energy from from the crowd and then in turn
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 16: give them the energy to keep their keep our crowd
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 16: alive in this game.
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  Speaker 7: And so it's got to be a two way street
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 7: that way.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: We know, we're we know it's a heck of an
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: opponent we're playing.
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  Speaker 16: It's gonna it's gonna take all three phases performing at
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 16: at a high level.
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  Speaker 7: But I think we're you know, we're up for the challenge.
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  Speaker 16: It's gonna be a heck of a game, and looking
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 16: forward to the opportunity, all right.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: Next up, uh as our friend Kirk Bowles from the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Houston Chronicle asking about the danger of risking playing man
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: and man coverage. Playing man coverage against Vanderbilt when you
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: have a guy who is mobile and versatil and throwing
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: the run or tucking in and run like Diego Pavia.
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  Speaker 16: It's a challenge both ways because you know, I think
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 16: I think one thing is because of the multiplicity of
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 16: personnel groupings, informations and run schemes, you got to make
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 16: sure your your gap integrity is is sound in all
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 16: that they the looks that they can give you, and
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 16: and so there's times when sometimes zone coverages are a
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 16: little easier to adjust things out. Sometimes man is a
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 16: little easier to adjust out. But always in the on
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  Speaker 16: the back burner is how are you going to account
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 16: for the quarterback and how are you going to count
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 16: for the quarterback in the designed quarterback runs? To make
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 16: sure you have enough hats to fit the design quarterback runs.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 16: You always have to account for do you have enough
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 16: people to defend the triple option? Which which is a factor.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 16: And then you have to make sure that if they
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 16: do throw the ball that you have the ability.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: To defend the the the ad lib plays.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 16: And when he starts to scramble and move out of
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 16: the pocket, and it's not always to run, you know,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 16: one of his bigger plays last week was on a
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 16: broken play, throwing it back to the running back for
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 16: a critical first down. So, you know, really discipline, eye control,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 16: really discipline in our zone drops, really discipline in man
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 16: of our rush lanes, our rush lanes, integrity of trying
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 16: to cage that pocket. I mean, all those things you're
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 16: gonna play a part, you know, as as it points
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 16: to it, you know. So I just don't think we
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 16: can be one dimensional. They're two well, coach, they got
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 16: too good of a scheme. We're gonna have to continue
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 16: to mix our looks and and and and try to
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 16: make things, you know, difficult on him and and try
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 16: to create some negative plays.
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  Speaker 2: Next, he was asked about Special Teams play and outside
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: of the Big Three, if you will, uh, the kicker
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: Mason Shipley, the punter and holder Jack Bomester Uh, and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: of course the punt returner Ryan Niblet. He was asked
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: to evaluate how Special Teams has done overall as a whole.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 7: A lot of guys are doing a nice job.
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  Speaker 16: And there's some frontline players that are key components to that,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 16: to that unit.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 16: And there's some unsung heroes that we don't hear a
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 16: lot about, you know, I mean, Michael Taff before he
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 16: got injured. Was it was was this mainstay on Special Teams,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 16: Jolan and McDonald, Another guy on Special Teams, Ty Anthony Smith.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 16: Another guy on Special Teams which you see out there,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 16: DeAndre Moore. So some of your frontline guys, but then
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 16: you talk about Marshall Landware, Jordan Johnson, Rebel Warren Roberson,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 16: now Jonah Williams. So you're seeing some of those other
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 16: guys that maybe aren't frontline starters on offense or defense,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 16: but are impactful players for us on special teams.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 7: And you know, we take a lot of pride in
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 7: special teams.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 16: We have since the day I arrived, and so the
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 16: last year going kind of the way that it went
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 16: was a little out.
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  Speaker 7: Of character, I would say for us.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 16: And so for us to get back playing to the
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 16: standard that we want to play two on special teams
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 16: I think is big for us because that's a huge
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 16: component of the game, especially in our conference, in games
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 16: like this, when you're talking one score games. When that
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 16: when that phase of the game can impact the game
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 16: from in a positive manner, it's surely beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Next, Sark was asked about third down defense and the
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: challenge of dealing with a slower, more deliberate tempo that
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt has when they come to the line of scrimmage.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 7: Hey, Steve, they played put on well.
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  Speaker 16: I think that's one of the keys to their success.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 16: Right They're they're one of the top third down teams
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 16: in the country. I think they're over fifty percent maybe
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 16: fifty two percent on third down, which is which is
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 16: an excellent number. And part of that is doing part
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 16: you know, they they generally move the ball forward, you know,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 16: they they run the ball, they get themselves in third
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 16: and short situations, they convert third downs, they stay on
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 16: the field, and then that allows them to be to
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 16: be inefficient offensive football team.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: And so the.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 16: Idea is how well can you do on first and
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 16: second down to put yourselves in a winning situation on
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 16: third down and then when they do get to the
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 16: red area to doing a great job of playing red
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 16: zone lockout and keeping them out of the end zone.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 16: On the flip side offensively is you know that it's
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 16: probably more pressure there to remain efficient on the offensive
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 16: side of the ball, just knowing how deliberate they can play,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 16: and it's a it's a it's a nice style of play.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 16: They do a good job of playing complimentary football, Vanderbilt does,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 16: and so you know they your ability to remain e
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 16: fishing offensively, I think is is equally as important.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Next up, he was asked about the challenge of preparing
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: for two quarterbacks, meaning preparing his own two quarterbacks. If
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: Arch doesn't completely clear all the protocol.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: And all of that other kind of stuff.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: Uh and and he has to go with Matthew Caldwell
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: and the adjustments that they might need to make.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 16: You know, we haven't we haven't changed anything that we've done.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 16: You know, our our system has been our system. I
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 16: know that as coaches and his teammates have the utmost
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 16: you know, confidence and respect for for Matt Caldwell. You know,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 16: he's he performs really well. I know you guys have
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 16: a very small sample size of what you see in game,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 16: but he gives us a ton of confidence in the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 16: way that he practices every day, the way that he works.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 16: Naturally, He's been thrown into the fire here a couple
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 16: of different times in SEC play and has performed very well.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 16: So the game plan is the game plan, and I
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 16: think that they, you know, all of his teammates have
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 16: a ton of confidence in Matt if it's his time
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 16: to go.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Next up, I asked about ty Anthony Smith and what
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: he has done not only as a linebacker, and again
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: you'll hear that along word weekly tonight with Sark and
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: our guest linebacker's co defensive coordinator, Johnny Nansen, and he
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: speaks at length about ty Anthony Smith, but Sark was
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: asked about ty Anthony's role on special teams and the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: growth he's had.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 16: I think it's a byproduct of his commitment to it.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 16: You know, he's he's gone for it. He was a freshman,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 16: that was his way. He figured out early on that
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 16: was going to be his way to get on the field,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 16: and he worked at it. He became one of Coach
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 16: Banks's kind of go to guys on special teams and
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 16: that actually earned him more playing time on defense as
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 16: a freshman. And then he's continually grown. You know, I
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 16: think one thing about ty Anthony is how much he's
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 16: matured from the day he arrived to where he is today.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 16: I mean, he he's a leader on our team. He's
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 16: you know, football is important to him. He's a great teammate.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 16: And at the end of that game last week, you
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 16: know he was in there playing those last four drives
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 16: on defense. And he's impactful. He's got a knack for
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 16: the football. He plays with fanatical effort, he's physical, he's fast,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 16: and those are all great attributes obviously on special teams
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 16: as well.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: All Right, Next up, I was asked about the interior
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: defensive line depth. They had to play eighty three snaps
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: or eighty six snaps last week, eighty three the week
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: before in those two overtime games.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: And how important is having.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: That interior defensive line depth be able to spell one another.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 16: I think the one thing that has gotten notoriety for
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 16: Vanderbilt's offensive line is that they played with a strong
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 16: and a weak side. You know, most size more typically
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 16: as you have a left tackle, a left guard, and
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 16: then a right guard and a right tackle, and they
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 16: they flip sides, you know, And that's a little bit
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 16: of an older model, but your very effective model worked
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 16: for a long long time and it works for them.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 16: There's not much really to make of it outside of that.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 16: That's what they do. I do think this is an
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 16: excellent run blocking unit. They use a variety of schemes.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 16: They they pull well, they get to the second level well.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 16: And so the task is really on our defensive front.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 16: You know, if if this game wants to go the
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 16: way we wanted to go, you know, our defensive fronts
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 16: has got to play and we need to play well,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 16: and we need to be we need to be dominant
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 16: on first and second down, and we need to do
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 16: a good job on third down of caging the quarterback.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 16: And so I think our depth has played a part
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 16: over the past couple of weeks. You know, their ability
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 16: to stand tall and a goal line stand at Kentucky
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 16: on the ninetieth play of the game to get a stop,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 16: their ability to sack a quarterback on the ninetieth play
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 16: of the game and overtime at Mississippi State. I think
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 16: speaks volumes to the depth that we have and the
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 16: trust that we have and a lot of those guys
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 16: to play at critical moments.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, one thing that can be said about the team
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: you heard me mention a little while ago, the steep
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: hill they have to climb just to even have a
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: shot to reach the SEC Championship Game. And by the way,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: the math does add up if they defeat Vanderbilt, Georgia,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: Arkansas and Texas A and M. Even if it came
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: the tiebreakers, Texas would be in the SEC Championship game
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: based on head to head wins important head to head
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: wins over those three ranked teams Vanderbilt, Georgia and Texas
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: A and M. They don't play Alabama, they don't play
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss. But it would the tiebreakers would set up
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: well for them. On that all that said, Sark was asked,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: does he have to keep his guys focused on the
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: here and now or does he even bring up the
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: down the road possibilities.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 16: The one thing about me with our team, I'm not
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 16: naive that they don't read and see and understand, and
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 16: so I want to make sure that they can understand
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 16: my perspective. So I had about a minute and a
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 16: half discussion about what your point is. We've got four
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 16: regular season games to go, and if we can handle
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 16: our business, we have as good as opportunity as anybody
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 16: to play in the SEC Championship game and be part
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 16: of the college football playoffs. But none of that is
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 16: going to happen if we don't handle business this week.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 16: And so as long as that just went for you guys,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 16: for me to explain what it is, that's about how
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 16: long I talked to the team, then our focus went
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 16: right back into this game. This is the most important
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 16: game of the year because without this game, those other
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 16: three games, you know, they lose, they lose the impact
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 16: of what they can matter down the road. So we've
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 16: got to pour all of our energy and our efforts
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 16: into this one.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 7: For Saturday.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: Next, asked about him at mostly the fifth he had
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: the two big touchdown catches and really coming on after
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: all the injury issues, and Sark was asked what has
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: impressed you most about what he's seen from himitt.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 16: All the things I thought he would be he's growing
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 16: into and so I'm not really surprised. You know, he's
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 16: got elite hands, he's an excellent route runner, he's got
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 16: deceptively he's got deceptive speed, he's got length, he's a
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 16: physical blocker, he's smart, he's a good teammate, and so
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  Speaker 16: all the things like I thought he would be in
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 16: our program now are starting to come to life. So
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  Speaker 16: I don't want to say that I'm surprised by anything,
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  Speaker 16: because I think what he's doing is exactly what we
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 16: thought he could be.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Next asked about his relationship.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of relationship, if any, does he have with Clarkley,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: the Vanderbilt coach, and his thoughts on the job that
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: he's done.
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  Speaker 16: A ton of respect for Clark obviously, you know, we
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 16: go to SEC meetings and things and we spend some time.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 16: But a ton of respect for the job he's done.
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  Speaker 16: That's not easy when when you're rebuilding the program, and
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  Speaker 16: I think the belief that he had in his process
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 16: to get them there, he's held true to you know, obviously,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 16: you know, it's not always about the vision that you have.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 16: You have to put things into action, and Clark clearly,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 16: clearly has done that. You know, he's brought in some
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 16: nice pieces to the puzzle from a recruiting standpoint. Obviously
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 16: Diego Pavia one of those. I mean in the impact
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 16: that he's had and maybe attracting other players, and a
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 16: sense of belief in that locker room, a ton of
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 16: credit and a ton of respect for Clark and the
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 16: job that he's done and continues to do at Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 2: The last two weeks, long Wards have had to really
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: ramp up, rev up the two minute offense in come
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: from behind situation last week, down seventeen twice in the
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter to Mississippi State. The week before Kentucky trying
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: to get down the field like they did to get
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: the field goal that they thought would give him the
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: win in regulation, only to see Kentucky get it to overtime.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: But they end up winning anyway, and.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: Sarker's have to ask if there is a benefit to
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: having put his offense through that the past couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 16: I think it's confidence building, you know, especially you know
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  Speaker 16: one when you when you execute it at a high
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 16: level and you get things done, and that builds confidence
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  Speaker 16: and belief in what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Too.
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  Speaker 16: There's valuable lessons learned when maybe you don't execute them
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  Speaker 16: the way you would have liked to have executed it,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 16: and so you've got to look at it from both
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  Speaker 16: ends of the spectrum. We do try to practice a
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  Speaker 16: lot of special situations and scenarios, you know, and that
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 16: has been something that I've learned in my time and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 16: as an assistant coach and have tried to evolve more
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 16: into and I think it's really benefited us. And we
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 16: do a situational Master's meeting every Friday morning. We'll start
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 16: tomorrow morning with that meeting and go through different scenarios
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 16: of examples from around the NFL or college football or
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 16: whatever it might be, and then how we would play
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 16: that scenario. So we try to put them in as
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 16: many of those scenarios.
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  Speaker 7: As we can.
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  Speaker 16: You can't predict all of them, and they only show
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 16: up when they show up, you know. But as long
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  Speaker 16: as we keep trying to raise the football IQ of
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 16: our players and executing in those critical moments you have
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 16: a better chance. There's so many one score games right
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 16: now that ultimately you know, your performance at those critical
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 16: moments I think is vitally important.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally, this roll is all the way back
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: to something that talked about during fall camp workouts in August.
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  Speaker 2: At that time, I mentioned from being at the press
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: conferences and things of that nature and hearing Sark's responses,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: was that I think I'd heard more questions about team
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: leadership than I'd ever heard about any football team ever before.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: And that was going in the season.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: And then you know, there's the established team leaders Sarch
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: Banning on offense and Michael Taff on defense. Two of
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: those guys, Anthony Hill on the defensive side for the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: Logarns offensive linemen are there as well. Okay, so now
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: two of those guys got banged up. Two of those
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: guys are questionable for this week at least right now,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: Manning and Taff. So Sark was asked, are there other
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: guys who have stepped up in the leadership category?
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  Speaker 16: No, I think that's a great point, and I think
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 16: a lot of guys have grown over the past month,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 16: and I know it's easy to point to now this week,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 16: like the guys have been growing into this role.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 7: You know, I've said I think d J.
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  Speaker 16: Campbell has grown into the leader that I was hoping
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 16: he was going to be, you know, six seven months
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 16: ago and now you know where his leadership's at. DeAndre
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 16: Moore has grown into that role. I think Parker Livingstone
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 16: has grown into that role.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 16: You know what Trey provided when he got back, I
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 16: think has helped us immensely.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 7: Trevor Guseby on the.
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  Speaker 16: Defensive side of the ball was probably a little easier,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 16: you know, when you have Ethan Burke, Anthony Hill, Colin Simmons,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 16: Manny Mohammad, those.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 7: Guys were easy.
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  Speaker 16: But to watch the progression of Jolen and McDonald, to
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 16: watch the progression of a you know, ty Anthony Smith,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 16: which we touched on. You guys have heard me rave
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 16: about Leongelafal, but I've been talking about hero Canoe, Cole Brevard,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 16: Alex January.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 7: Is coming out of his shell.
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  Speaker 16: And so you're I'm watching a team mature every single day.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 16: And I know there's a focal point on this week
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 16: and that's understandable. But I've been watching a lot of
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 16: these guys grow up and mature over the last month,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 16: and I think that's why their connectivity is better, because
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 16: guys are feeling a lot more confident and comfortable and
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 16: being vulnerable and being honest with one another, taking accountability
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 16: for maybe when they're not on point, and then having
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 16: the ability to step up and the lead in their
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 16: own right. So it's a good place to be that
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 16: way for us. If I didn't have these two guys
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 16: earlier in the year, I would not feel as comfortable,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 16: But now going into this game, feel I feel a
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 16: lot more comfortable if I don't have those two, knowing
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 16: that we have the leadership on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Of the ball, all right.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: That's sort that's the final media availability he does with
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: the media overall.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: Of the week prior to the game.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: The next time he speaks, the conversation that I'll have
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: with him about about an hour forty five before a kickoff,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: So that was they carry the one about nine fifteen
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: on Saturday morning there and we'll get the final update
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: from him on his guys, you're coming back from injury
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: and the feel of the team and going back to
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: an eleven am kick as well. Should be a great
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: day for football. It's only about a twenty percent chance
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: of rain. So good that went down. Yeah, yeah, I
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: think you'll be okay. I think you'll be okay.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: What section are you Inhi? Going?
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 14: No?
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: I got to figure that out. I don't haven't had
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: the tickets on my phone yet. Oh okay, all right,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: I'm leaving that to the other people, the other.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: People that it's up to them that pull it off. Okay. Well,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: I think he'll be in good shape regardless. Otherwise, all right,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: we have more coming up. Some other football notes when
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: we continue on thirteen.
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  Speaker 13: Out of the Zone.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: There's some George Harrison solo work there. What is Life There?
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: From believe seventy five something like that from mid seventies.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: There some of his great solo work post Beatles.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: Announcement king down from the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: The twenty twenty six class that will be honored on
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: April eighteenth, conducted on April eighteenth, has this class some
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: things that were really noteworthy about it. For example, Clinton Dempsey,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: outstanding American soccer players from Nacadoch's Chad Hedrick, Olympic speed skater,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: Charmagne James World champion rodeo writer, also Lewis Santop who
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: was a great Negro League Hall of Famer going in
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: the Texas Western Miners basketball team nineteen six, the entire
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: team that won the National Championship now known as UTEP,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: back then it was Texas Western, the first college basketball
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: team to start an All African American starting five. For
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: that they are being inducted the Class of twenty twenty six.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: And then these from the world of football, Von Miller
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: from Texas A and M and great career in the NFL,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: current commander YEP, Gary Patterson, former TCU head coach, Zach Martin,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: the former Cowboy, and Steve McMichael, the great Longhorn defensive
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: lineman who just passed away recently from als. But what
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: a great career that Steve McMichael had, as he'll be
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: posthumously inducted. He played fifteen years of course, former All
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: American of the Longhorns, and then played fifteen years with
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears. Was part of the Chicago Bears nineteen
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: eighty five Super Bowl championship team. He was inducted into
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: the Class of twenty twenty four, also a member of
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame in two
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: thousand and nine. A four year letterman at Texas from
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: seventy six to seventy nine, a member of the nineteen
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: seventy seven Southwest Conference championship team, twice selected All Southwest
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: Conference in seventy eight seventy nine, and graduated as the
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: school's all time leader and career tackles with three hundred
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: and sixty nine and thirty sacks. Also a finalist for
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: the Lombardi and Outline Awards in nineteen seventy nine. He
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: claimed Team and Hulable MVP honors that season after totaling
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty three tackles during his time at Texas.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: He also posted forty tackles for lost, ninety nine quarterback
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: pressures and eleven force fumbles as the Long Orange went
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: thirty four to twelve and one during his time. He
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: becomes the fifth former Longhorn. He became the fifth former
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: Longhorn to be inducted in the Pro Football Hall of
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: Fame Earl Campbell, Bobby Dylan, Tom Landry, Bobby Lane. In
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: addition to five Texas football greats in the Football Hall
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: of Fame. Texas Tech Shram, the former Cowboys and Pro
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: football executive for forty four years, was also inducted in
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: the Hall in ninety one, and McMichael was an integral
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: part of that Bears famous forty six defense that led
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: him to the championship of Super Bowl twenty. So good
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: to hear that news about the late Steve McMichael as
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: the class of twenty twenty six for the Texas Sports
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame was announced. So that's good to hear that.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: The college football coaching search, We've talked about this and
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: the whole thing, all the politics that are involved at LSU.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: How seemingly all of these schools, at least all the
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: SEC schools and perhaps Penn State as well that are
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: involved in this, are playing the waiting game. With Lane
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: Kiffin to said to gauge his interest in all of this.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: Florida State could come open, Auburn could come open as well.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: He would be high probably on those wish lists as
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: well if it were to come to that. Also, it's
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: been mentioned that Mike Elcho might fit into what Penn
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: State would want, given his roots and how he spent
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: the first fifteen years of his coaching career in the Northeast,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: mid Atlantic, in the Midwest. He is talking about breaking
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: down the barriers with Jexas, A and M. He said,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: we have high goals and expectations for this team in
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: this program.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: We know in order to meet them, we have to
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: do things that haven't been done.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: So on your list, yeah, Wisconsin might open.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's that's another possibility. So anyway, that supposedly
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: a quote unquote industry source whatever that is college football
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: media said quote Elco should take that Penn State job?
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why is that a better job?
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: People are asking and the one thing that Penn State
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: has of our Texas A and M is history.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: But that's about it. Texas A and M. In terms
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: of resources.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: You know, the stadium is almost the same size, you know,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: Beaver Stadium, Happy Valley might be a few thousand seats
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: to me, one O nine as opposed to like one
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: O four, one five at A and M. But the facilities,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: the program, the visibility of the conference in the SEC
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: and Penn State's visibility in the conference in the Big
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: Ten pretty much offset one another. So what it would
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: appeal to him more being a Midwestern guy and or
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: the guy's opposted down there, but he's done quite well.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: He was a defensive coordinator of Texas A and M,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: and then of course he went to Duke, did a
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: good job as head coach there, and Al's come back
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: and here they are number three in the country and
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: unbeaten and would seem to be a lot to be
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: in the College Football Playoff barring a complete collapse the
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: rest of the way. So I think they're probably in
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: good shape for that. So it'll be interesting to follow
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: that over the course of the next few to the
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: text line where somebody said Trey you Savage was facing
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Rice in the spring of twenty twenty four, now throwing
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: gyms in the College World Series.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: And somebody said long Horns, baby, God blessed Dicky V.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: Talk about the dig Vitou classes. Yeah, that the Longhorns
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: will be playing in next week. And somebody said, look
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: for Brian Hartline to get a lesser power for job
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: like Wisconsin. Possible, certainly possible. He would seem to be
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: in line to be up for a head coaching job
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: being the offensive coordinator there and maybe in the Big Ten.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin might be that type of job. There for him.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: Our man Seapal said, TCU and Sunny Dyke's were told
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: that Michigan was known for stealing signs when they played.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: The story was told, you're probably right, Seapowe. The final
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: score of the game was sixty five to seven. I
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: think Michigan could have given their playbook to TCU and.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: Not Michigan.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: Georgia could have given the playbook to TCU and they
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: would have beaten him that bad. TCU beat Michigan in
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: spite of what might have happened in that Fiesta ble,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: so that's why you didn't hear any squawking about it.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: But then in the next game they lost sixty five
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: to seven in the National Championship to Georgia, and like
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: I said, Georgia could have given him their playbook. Probably
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: Blane still when and won the football game off of that.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: But I agree with you the whispers were going around
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: for a while about Michigan and sign stealing.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 4: Kind of like how the Nationals knew the Astros were
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 4: sign stealing in twenty nineteen and they were tipped off
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 4: on that from other teams. I think it's a similar
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 4: sort of thing where TCU was aware of it and
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 4: took the precautions.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely all right. We'll be back to wrap up
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: today's edition. The program on thirteen under the zone