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Texas offensive coordinator Kyle Flood ahead of Texas/Arizona State · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We're back. It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame broadcaster and voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: About halfway through the day's program, Cameron Parker filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Craig Way. Glad to have you with us here
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  Speaker 2: on this Monday afternoon on AM thirteen hundred, this zone
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  Speaker 2: less than forty eight hours away from Texas and Arizona
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  Speaker 2: State kicking off at the Peach Bowl. And as we
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  Speaker 2: continue to preview this game, we wanted to bring you
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  Speaker 2: some sound from Texas offensive coordinator and offensive line coach
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Flood from his media day press conference.
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  Speaker 3: Sure on behalf of Coach Narcisian and our officer staff.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys being on today, Appreciate the people at
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  Speaker 3: the Peach Bowl, and we couldn't be more excited to
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  Speaker 3: still be playing at the stage of the season. Should
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  Speaker 3: be an exciting game and everything. I've never had the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to play in this game, but I've heard from
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  Speaker 3: other coaches who have and I know everything's done first class.
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  Speaker 3: So we're really look forward to getting Atlanta tomorrow and
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  Speaker 3: being part of a great game.
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  Speaker 4: With that, all the questions all right, thanks coach Thomas,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead and start us off.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, good affinute coach, thanks for joining us. You know,
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  Speaker 5: could you explain the differences between playing left and right tackle,
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  Speaker 5: and also, you know, with your Richard freshman Trevor Grousby,
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  Speaker 5: what makes it a uncomfortable with him playing in in
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  Speaker 5: his spott.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know that.
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  Speaker 3: There's necessarily a difference, you know, for the way we
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  Speaker 3: play the game.
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  Speaker 6: We don't shame.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have plays that we run to the left
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  Speaker 3: or to the right, or protections or things like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's a matter of reps, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Can you get enough reps in practice to get comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: I think when a guy only plays one one position,
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  Speaker 3: it generally takes like three to five days to kind
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  Speaker 3: of flip that guy over and get them comfortable on
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  Speaker 3: the other side. But sometimes for a guy who's a
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  Speaker 3: depth player like Trevor's been for us, he's been playing
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  Speaker 3: both sides the entire season, not always, not every week.
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  Speaker 6: Some weeks he played one side.
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  Speaker 3: Some makes my putty other some weeks, but he's had
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  Speaker 3: the experience of doing it, so he's had to be
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  Speaker 3: trained like that. So I think it's it's a testament
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  Speaker 3: to him to be able to do it and to
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  Speaker 3: play at the level that he did. So we're certainly
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  Speaker 3: excited about him in his future. But I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if there's necessarily a difference. I just think it's a
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  Speaker 3: matter of can you find the reps over time to
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  Speaker 3: get a guy to be comfortable to do it.
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  Speaker 6: Would he have been able to do that week one?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that, but you know, we're pretty far
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  Speaker 3: down the road this season, so he's had ample time
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  Speaker 3: to do both sides.
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  Speaker 6: Go cook, go ahead, Kyle.
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  Speaker 7: Speaking of Trevor, he was someone who wasn't super highly
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  Speaker 7: ranked by some of the services, but you know, obviously
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  Speaker 7: with his track and field exploit, showed some athleticism. But
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  Speaker 7: what else during the recruiting process attracted y'all's program to
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  Speaker 7: wanting to recruit him and bring him into your offensive
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  Speaker 7: line room.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, like, the first thing I would say
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  Speaker 3: is he was pretty high in my mind. You know
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure now. Early on in the process. He
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  Speaker 3: was a guy who was really lean, and when you
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  Speaker 3: have a guy like that, you're always trying to assess,
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  Speaker 3: all right, hey, can this guy ultimately put on the
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  Speaker 3: bulk to play in the SEC really really athletic guy.
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  Speaker 3: I got a chance to watch him play basketball, really
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  Speaker 3: really athletic on the basketball court. So all that stuff
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  Speaker 3: was great, And I thought his coaching staff up at
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  Speaker 3: Melissa did a really good job of keeping me up
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  Speaker 3: to date with kind of his progress.
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  Speaker 6: So I thank them for that for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But as he went through his senior year, or I
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  Speaker 3: should say I apologizes, as you went through the spring
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  Speaker 3: before his senior year, you could really see him start
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  Speaker 3: to put on the weight.
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  Speaker 6: And I think when he hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: Officially visited in June before his senior year, I want
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  Speaker 3: to say, we wait a minute, right around two seventy,
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  Speaker 3: two seventy five, which for a guy with his frame
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  Speaker 3: was was more than enough in my mind that we'd
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  Speaker 3: be able to get him to where he wanted to
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  Speaker 3: get to.
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  Speaker 6: And then I think he was two ninety when he
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  Speaker 6: got here.
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  Speaker 3: I think now he's now usually between three ten and
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  Speaker 3: three fifteen, three seventeen, that's usually where he is. But
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  Speaker 3: the athleticism was always there. I was always really excited
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  Speaker 3: about his athleticism. And then ultimately, as soon as he
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  Speaker 3: showed me that okay, this guy's going to have the
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  Speaker 3: size to play in the sec To me, he was
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  Speaker 3: a no brainer.
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  Speaker 6: He went right to the top of my list.
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  Speaker 4: Danny Davis, go ahead, Kyle. Since he's talking to us,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to assume he's healthy. But Jake would be
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  Speaker 4: in mind to set the career starts record at Texas
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  Speaker 4: and he plays on Wednesday. Why has he been such
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  Speaker 4: a consistent course for y'all since you got here and
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  Speaker 4: inherited him from the previous staff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, center Jake has started every game of center for
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  Speaker 3: me since I've been here. You know's that's pretty neat.
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  Speaker 3: I don't over four years. I don't know if I've
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  Speaker 3: ever had that before. So that's a that is certainly
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  Speaker 3: a really really nice luxury for me to have somebody
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  Speaker 3: who's been with me and thinks like me.
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  Speaker 6: But you're quite is like, what does that mean to us?
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  Speaker 6: Or why? You know? Why is that a good thing?
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  Speaker 6: I think because he loves everything about football.
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  Speaker 7: He is.
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  Speaker 3: He's a catalyst for the energy of the football team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if he to steal Coach Stark's expression, like
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be a thermostat or a thermometer, Well,
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  Speaker 3: he's a thermostat. He sets the temperature in the room.
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  Speaker 3: He's not taking the temperature. He sets the temperature, and
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  Speaker 3: he kind of sets the standard for us in that
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  Speaker 3: offensive line room. And I think it does fill over
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  Speaker 3: to the rest of the offense just because of his personality. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think it starts with his love for
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  Speaker 3: everything about football. He loves practice, he loves the meetings,
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  Speaker 3: he loves the rehab afterwards, he loves the training and
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  Speaker 3: the weight weightlifting, and there's just nothing about it he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't love. So that that's infectious on a football team,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's really really invaluable.
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  Speaker 6: Josh New go ahead, yeah, Kyle, just to kind of
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  Speaker 6: follow that up.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Jake and some of the other guys have
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  Speaker 8: been you know, with you for a long time and
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  Speaker 8: build me moving on. Of course, you're worried about here
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  Speaker 8: and now in the Peach Bowl, But somewhere in the
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  Speaker 8: back of your mind are you at all thinking about
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  Speaker 8: what twenty twenty five could look like and just you know,
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  Speaker 8: the need to ingratiate some new pieces.
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  Speaker 3: As a as a college coach especially, you're always like
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  Speaker 3: coaching your current team and then there's always an eye
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  Speaker 3: to the future of hey, you know, how are we
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  Speaker 3: building this roster. How are we building this position group?
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  Speaker 3: So you know we have to do that. That's just
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  Speaker 3: good practice in terms of what you have to do
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  Speaker 3: as a coach. It never never takes away from from
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing right now. But I'm excited about my room.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've got a deep room. I think we've
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  Speaker 3: got a versatile room in terms of guys being able
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  Speaker 3: to play different positions. And you know that'll be something
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  Speaker 3: that'll all shake out in the offseason. But they're practicing
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  Speaker 3: hard right now. You know, one of the advantages of
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  Speaker 3: playing this long is we get to continue to practice.
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  Speaker 3: So these practice weeks are really really valuable to these
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  Speaker 3: young players. You know, the freshman in our group like
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  Speaker 3: Nate Kibble and Danny Cruz It's and Brandon Baker. It's
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  Speaker 3: like the guys who've only been here a year. Well
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  Speaker 3: now not only do they practice with us through the
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  Speaker 3: regular season, now we're we're kind of deep into the
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  Speaker 3: postseason and it's it's just those practices are really valuable.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, we're always looking at it.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I like, I like the room that we have,
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  Speaker 3: but you know that's the flaw shakeout in the offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, we're kind of focused with the team on
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  Speaker 3: on getting a win in.
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  Speaker 6: This game that are cold and you're up.
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  Speaker 9: I think of the line was pretty healthy for the
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  Speaker 9: most part, but when these injuries came, you know, with
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  Speaker 9: Calvin and with Cam, how important was the cross training
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  Speaker 9: that you did in the preseason just in case this happened.
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  Speaker 6: It's really important. I think it's really important.
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  Speaker 3: I think my part of my obligation to coach Sark
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  Speaker 3: and to the offense is to make sure we can
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  Speaker 3: always get whatever combination of the best five players on
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  Speaker 3: the field is. And that's why I tell people it's
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  Speaker 3: not like, Okay, this guy's the backup right tackle, this
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  Speaker 3: guy's the backup right guard, this guy's the backup center.
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  Speaker 6: That's not how it works. And it's it's not a
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  Speaker 6: it's not.
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  Speaker 3: A negative to any player who didn't go in the
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  Speaker 3: game when the injuries happened. It's just to me, I
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  Speaker 3: got to make sure we've got the best combination of five.
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  Speaker 3: So if that means Cole Hudson's got to play right
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  Speaker 3: guard or left guard, well that's kind of how we
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  Speaker 3: train him during the week. And if that means Trevor
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  Speaker 3: Guzby's got to play right tackle or left tackle or
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  Speaker 3: Hayden Connor's got to go to center so that we
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  Speaker 3: can keep that best combination in there. You know that
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  Speaker 3: that's really we start that very very early in the
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  Speaker 3: year to make sure we're ready to do it when
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  Speaker 3: we need it. And we were fortunate this year to
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  Speaker 3: not need it for a while, but you know, now
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  Speaker 3: we need it and we're gonna probably need it going forward.
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  Speaker 6: Bron go ahead. Hey, hey, Kyle, are you interested in
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  Speaker 6: being a head coach again? Right now?
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested in winning the Peach Bowl, So I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: that question. I think, you know, those kind of questions
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  Speaker 3: are always a function of success, and generally when you're
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  Speaker 3: an assistant coach, if you get an opportunity to be
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  Speaker 3: a head coach is because you were really good at
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  Speaker 3: the job you were doing and the team you were
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  Speaker 3: with was successful. So you know, well, we'll entertain those
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  Speaker 3: things down the road, you know, if and when they come,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's always flattering to be considered for those things,
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  Speaker 3: But I don't ever like put my mind there because
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  Speaker 3: right now we've got we've got enough of a challenge
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  Speaker 3: trying to trying to play really well against a good
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  Speaker 3: Arizona State team.
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  Speaker 6: David Ecker, Go.
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  Speaker 1: Ahead, Kyle. I appreciate the time today. I was just
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  Speaker 1: curious something interesting that came out of yesterday was a
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  Speaker 1: couple of the players talked about coach p K and
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  Speaker 1: I guess his his patience when it comes to making
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  Speaker 1: late adjustments in the play clock pre snap. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: curious from an offensive perspective, what kind of challenge does
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  Speaker 1: that pose one of the defensive coordinators is willing to
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  Speaker 1: do to that and kind of tweak things late before
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  Speaker 1: the snap.
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  Speaker 3: You mean, like when the defense changes late in the year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, no, that's certainly, that's certainly a challenge I think.
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  Speaker 3: You know, offensively, you know, we try to be really
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  Speaker 3: good at controlling the tempo to try to make the
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  Speaker 3: play callers on the defense not have the ability to
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  Speaker 3: know when the ball is going to be snapped. And
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  Speaker 3: sometimes that you know, you saw us in the last game.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes we go faster and sometimes we don't go nearly
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  Speaker 3: as fast. But no, it's an issue.
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  Speaker 6: It does. It does complicate things, you know.
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  Speaker 3: One of the harder things to deal with on offenses
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  Speaker 3: that is when the picture changes, you know, because now
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  Speaker 3: eleven guys got to got to make a change in
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  Speaker 3: their mind in terms of what their assignment and technique
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  Speaker 3: is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear more from Kyle Flood throughout today's show. I
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  Speaker 2: love this response back when asked about it if he's
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  Speaker 2: pursuing head coaching jobs, and he said, I'm focused on
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  Speaker 2: winning the Peach Bowl, and then from the Peach Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: focus on winning the Cotton Bowling. From there, focus on
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  Speaker 2: winning the national championship. But without a doubt, a function
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  Speaker 2: of being successful program is you have other coaches on
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  Speaker 2: your staff who are being looked at for other coaching positions.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen Brendon Marion move on the UNLV
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  Speaker 2: from receivers coach to to offensive coordinator. We've seen Johnny Nansen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Jeff Choke, the Linemacker's coach takeover at Nevada,
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  Speaker 2: and there's gonna be other guys. I think Dashar Choice
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  Speaker 2: is a big name that eventually get looked at to
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  Speaker 2: be coming up. It's a coordinator at a D one program.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure Kyle Flood and pk are being looked
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  Speaker 2: at by other coaches by their schools as to be
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  Speaker 2: their next head coach because the success that Texas has
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  Speaker 2: had these last few years breeds that type of development
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  Speaker 2: from coaching, from coordinator spots to head coaching positions. But
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  Speaker 2: we will see and we will hear more from Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Flood throughout today's show here up next to Craig Way,
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  Speaker 2: able to sit down with Jade Baron, Thorpe Award winning
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  Speaker 2: defensive back in Flugerville, Connelly native Jade Baron up next
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  Speaker 2: as the Craig Way Show continues on this Monday afternoon