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Why Craig Way hopes to never broadcast in the NIT again · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way and the producer Cameron Parker alongside, and glad
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  to have you with us, and we're with you up
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  until five o'clock this afternoon, and a reminder at six
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  o'clock we'll be recording Long Worn Weekly with Coach Sark.
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  That'll be the program out at Pluckers and the West
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  Campus location at twenty two twenty two Rio Grand, So
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  we'll be out there for that and hopefully if you
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  are interested, you can come on out and we do
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  allow you to ask questions if you'd like to. But
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  the way you do it is we have these question
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  cards and you fill those out, you write them in
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  the questions we get some entertaining ones. Sometimes, like last week,
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  somebody asked him m Jay or Lebron, just MJA or Lebron,
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  and I knew his answer before you can say. He said, well,
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  you know where I'm going to go. It's at Kobe. Yeah,
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  lots of and and of course as a West Coaster,
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  he's gonna definitely, I mean, Lebron's on the West coast now,
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  but his roots are not in the West coast there.
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  Speaker 2: What about you all the way? M J all the way?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I wouldn't have any argument with that. I mean,
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  and of course both of us grew up in Michael
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  Jordan's home state.
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  Speaker 3: If you're gonna say Kobe, now I know where it
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  starts coming from. But there is no Kobe Bryant without
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  Michael Jordan. So for me, you gotta take m J.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's that's fair enough. I And you know,
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  if I remember, when Kobe was still on this earth
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  with us, he gave a great deal of respect and
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  admiration for Michael Jordan, saying that my career would not
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  have been as you know, successful as it's been without
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  without Michael Jordan's competition, without his influence, all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And mj spoke at Kobe's funeral and gave a just
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  a fantastic guilogy to remember Kobe Bryant. It's still one
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  of the best things. It's tough to get through because
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  it's so sad, but you could tell the respect that
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  MJ had for Kobe Bryant. You know, there's a lot
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  of mj impostors, and you know, the way Jordan has
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  dealt with him has been very differently, but you could
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  tell how much respect he had for Kobe Bryant all
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  the way through his career and afterwards that MJ does
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  not always give to a lot of players in this league,
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  past or present.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely a no doubt about it. Our thanks.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Scott Howard, to play by play voice
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  of the Georgia Bulldogs, was home with us last hour.
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  If we missed the conversation, certainly you can listen to
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  it on our podcast page at AM thirteen hundred The
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  Zone dot com, so you can do that as well.
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  Coming up in a few minutes, we're going to hear
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  from log Oorne's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. There were a
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  couple of things we didn't get to the other day
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  that I want you to hear, and then from the
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  SEC teleconference there are other things that we'll get to also.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Cameron, I.
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  Speaker 1: Have a newly minted log in and password now for
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  our Texas I was using one that had been passed
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  along by a now former employee, and I just kept
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  using it, using it, and then when I had to
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  switch laptops because I had a laptop just go belly
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  up on me the other day. You know, when I
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  purchased that laptop during the NI t in twenty nineteen. Wow,
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  when Texas was in because I put it into play
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  in New York in the n I T Final four,
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  when Texas beat TCU and then beat Lipscomb in the
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  championship game there at Madison Square Garden, and I had
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  I've had folks ask me over the years, was that
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  just awful doing the n I T. And I said,
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  let me tell you something. Is the oldest college basketball tournament.
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  He was older than the NCAA Tournament by one year.
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  It used to have a much more prominent place than
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  it holds now. Having grown up in a state where
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  college basketball is revered like North Carolina is, and the
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  n I T.
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  Speaker 2: Grew a great deal of respect.
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  Speaker 1: If you couldn't get into the NCAA Tournament, that sort
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  of thing, I said, let me put it to you
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  this way. I am glad to have been able to
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  broadcast an n I T. I'm even more happy that
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  I was able to broadcast five games in the n
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  I T and that Texas won that n I T.
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  Having said that, I hope never to have to be
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  able to broadcast an n I ever again. Hopefully they're
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  in the NCAA Tournament every year. And I had I
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  had a coach tell me one time that the thing
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  about the n I T is it's one of two things.
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  You either won to win the whole thing or go
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  out in round one. You don't really want the in
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  between because if you go out round one, then you
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  know they're hitting the road recruiting and they're doing all
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  this other stuff and trying to prepare for the next season.
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  Because clearly, if you're in the niit the season did
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  not go the way you wanted it to go. You
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  wanted to be in the NCAAA Basketball Tournament, totally understand that.
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  But once you're in it, are you in it to
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  win it? And that's that's the deal. So I'm glad
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  it was done for those people who have snided the comment,
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  what do you do hang a ban or they didn't hang.
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  Speaker 2: A separate banner for the NIT.
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  Speaker 1: Just like most basketball programs, they'll hang banners up showing
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  all a list of all the NCAA tournament appearances. There
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  is one banner that shows NIT championships. I think maybe
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  even total appearances, but championships they won two nineteen seventy
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  eight when A. Lemons was the coach, and then of
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  course in twenty nineteen. Those were Those were the two
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  and that's it, and hopefully never had to do it again.
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  But anyway, I had a newly purchased laptop and it
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  finally gave up the ghost the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I was working pretty well but finally died out.
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  Speaker 1: So I had this other laptop that Linda had given
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  me for Christmas and said, you need to put this
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  in the plane.
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  Speaker 2: I had not, so the months had gone.
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  Speaker 1: By, had not intended to do it, and then finally
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  it did it. It went under and I had to
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  do it, and to press it in the service. Well,
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  that meant re establishing passwords and you know, easy shortcuts
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  to things, documents, all that other kind of stuff. So
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  but I do now have my own specific password which
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  brings me to the text line, and you're certainly welcome
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  to text the program like these folks did. For example,
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  we were talking about Jerry Jones earlier and somebody called
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  him Jerryatric He is eighty two, turned eighty two on
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  Sunday and somebody else. As much as I don't like
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  Jerry Jones, I just hope he doesn't have the same
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  downhill spiral like Vince McMahon did. Considering these two have
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  very similar personalities. Vince McMahon, I think it was a
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  little more aggressive. Alpha had to be that alpha dominant
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  personality because of WWE and all that other stuff and
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  UFC and all all of those things. So anyway, that
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  or Vince McMahon what the XFL also was his other
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  big thing. So then and then somebody else said the
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  Oregon coach talking about Dan Landing kind of gaming the
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  system using that twelve minute on the field thing because
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  it ran time off the clock, so it ran four seconds,
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  so it left him with six seconds, so that by
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  the time Will Howard slid to the turf, time ran out.
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  So yeah, they gained the system on that, and then
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  it got changed today by the NCAA. Somebody elsead the
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  Oregan coach reminds me too much of vodka Tom, and
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  I may or may not be saying that because I'm
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  a Buckeye fan.
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  Speaker 2: Help me. I'm vodka Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Herman was vodka. I never saw Tom Herman have
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  a vodka. I never saw that. Okay, and then somebody
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  else said, hey, your alma mater also won the n IT.
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  Yes they did. North Texas did under Grant Maccastle, who's
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  now the coach of Texas Tech. They did. They won
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  also a CBI. A CBI Texas playing in the CBI once.
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  That's one I could say, I hope never happens again,
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  and probably never.
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  Speaker 2: Would of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that Texas would accept the reason they
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  did in twenty thirteen. It was the only time in
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  his whatever sixteen years that rig Barnes ever missed the
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  NCAA tournament. And the reason they accepted it that year
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  in twenty thirteen was he had I think seven freshman
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  and he wanted them to play and said, these guys
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  need experience. Well, the Irin Center had all kinds of
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  date conflicts, so they couldn't play any home games, at
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  least they were not. They were going to have to
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  play two on the road at Houston, and if they
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  won that, they were going to have to go to
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  James No, George Mason and play there before getting a
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  chance to host I think a semifinal. Well, they didn't
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  get that far because they lost on a tipping at
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  the Buzzer to Houston seventy five to seventy year or
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  seventy three seventy one.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, they lost.
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  Speaker 1: At what is now the what is it for Tita Pavilion. Yeah,
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  we were there last year and it was it was
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  rather it was not good for Texas. Houston's a good
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  basketball program, but anyway, they lost that night to that
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  and that was the only time they've been in the CBI.
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  And this Texas men's team is picked. It's ranked nineteenth
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  in the preseason Bowl pick seventh in a very competitive SEC.
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  And we're gonna hear from Rodney Terry tomorrow on the
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  program about that. And we're also gonna hear from Vic Schaefer,
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  the Texas women's head coach, because they've been at SEC
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  basketball media days, so we'll hear from them about that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Up next, we'll hear from Long Words head football coach
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  Steve Sarkisian from the SEC teleconference and a couple other
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  things that he had to offer on Monday that we'll
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  get to as well when we continue here on Sports
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  Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.