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All Fired Up For Texas Baseball, The Latest On Texas Basketball · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: Back in the saddle and ready to go again. Good afternoon, everybody.
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Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us this afternoon here on
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Speaker 1: AM thirteen hundred the Zone.
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Speaker 2: My name is Craig Way.
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Speaker 1: If you are hearing in the background some well it
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Speaker 1: sounds like lawnmowers or leaf blowers or however you want
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Speaker 1: to think about those those kinds of tools. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: what's going on right now, because we're bringing you the
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Speaker 1: program from UFCU just fog Field, where the plan is
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Speaker 1: still to have baseball tonight, the home opener for the
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Speaker 1: Texas log Worns, as there'll be an action against the
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Speaker 1: Houston Cougars. Now, first things first, just to let you know,
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Speaker 1: in case you hadn't heard, the start time for the
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Speaker 1: game has been moved up by one hour. It is
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Speaker 1: now a five thirty first pitch instead of a six
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Speaker 1: to thirty first pitch. The reasoning for that is we're all,
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Speaker 1: I think, pretty well aware of what's headed our way
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Speaker 1: in terms of inclement weather, mainly in terms of what
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Speaker 1: is really really going to be cold weather over the
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Speaker 1: next several days, especially the next two to three, and
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Speaker 1: it could get very very cold and inclement tonight. So
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Speaker 1: trying to think of the fans who would be coming
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Speaker 1: out for this home opener. The officials for the university
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Speaker 1: have decided to go ahead and move the start time
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Speaker 1: for today's game up by one hour from six thirty
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Speaker 1: to five thirty, and as we speak at this moment,
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Speaker 1: that's still the plan. And that's why, which brings me
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Speaker 1: back to the leaf blowers and trash bollers that you hear.
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Speaker 1: What they're doing is trying to dry out the ballpark.
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Speaker 1: They've got a crew walking around here on the main
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Speaker 1: concourse at UFCU dish Falkfield and into the seating bowl areas,
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Speaker 1: both in the upper areas and down below in the
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Speaker 1: seating areas as well, and they're just trying to clear
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Speaker 1: out as much of the water because we did have
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Speaker 1: rain here earlier this morning into early this afternoon. Now
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Speaker 1: it is not raining right now. It is murky and
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Speaker 1: misty and gloomy and overcast and all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 1: but no real precipitation coming down at the moment.
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Speaker 2: I just was out there a few minutes ago.
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Speaker 1: I went down and visited with head coach Jim Shlasnagel,
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Speaker 1: and you know, walked around into the ballpark and it's
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Speaker 1: not raining, and it's not even drizzling or even heavy
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Speaker 1: mist at the moment, so that's a good thing. It's
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Speaker 1: just gray and overcast right now, but with an eye
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Speaker 1: toward what could possibly happen with heavy duty cold weather
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Speaker 1: moving in. That's why university officials decided going in right
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Speaker 1: now in sixty three degrees and cloudy, and from now
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Speaker 1: until six o'clock there is a slight chance of precipitation.
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Speaker 1: But once they get beyond six, and again they're planning
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Speaker 1: on starting the game at five point thirty, then there's
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Speaker 1: almost no rain left in the forecast. However, starting in
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Speaker 1: the evening, around the time you get around eight o'clock,
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Speaker 1: the temperature is going to drop, and it's going to
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Speaker 1: really start dropping in the late afternoon into the fifties.
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Speaker 1: And by the time we get on to around eight
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Speaker 1: o'clock when we get to the back half of the
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Speaker 1: ball game, it's going to be in the forties and
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Speaker 1: then overnight, of course, it's going to get into the
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Speaker 1: high twenties into the morning.
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Speaker 2: So with that in mind, they want to.
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Speaker 1: Try to go ahead and you know, get a jump
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Speaker 1: start on the game and play it one hour. But still,
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Speaker 1: you know, at least relatively close to start time for
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Speaker 1: those folks who have their plans to come to the
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Speaker 1: ball game that had to get in the day of
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Speaker 1: work before coming in.
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Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us.
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Speaker 1: Ronald Savage, our producer, back in the studio this afternoon,
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Speaker 1: Keith Morland will joined me for the call of the
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Speaker 1: baseball game. As we we mentioned over the past couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks, with the newer configuration, if you will, of
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Speaker 1: how home baseball games will be televised at UFCU Dish
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Speaker 1: falk Field through SEC Network Plus and ESPN Plus. Those
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Speaker 1: games that are not selected for say regular SEC Network
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Speaker 1: telecast or an ESPN U telecast or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Any game that isn't selected for one of those would
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Speaker 1: be SEC Network Plus, which would then of course lump
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Speaker 1: into whatever subscription that you would have subscription based service,
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Speaker 1: whether you got Disney Plus or whatever it is that
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Speaker 1: includes ESPN Plus and would have SEC Network Plus that
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Speaker 1: would include that in in the in the subscription, so
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Speaker 1: you'd be able to watch it that way. But there
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Speaker 1: will be different broadcast crews that are working at We
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Speaker 1: visit with a good friend Ty Herrington, the former Texas
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Speaker 1: state head coach, who of course assists us on occasion,
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Speaker 1: did on quite a few occasions last season on Long
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Speaker 1: Worn Baseball and worked it around his ESPN Plus schedule
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Speaker 1: for Texas State telecast, and he's doing that again. But
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Speaker 1: he's going to largely be the lead analyst on a
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Speaker 1: lot of these games that will be locally televised or
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Speaker 1: at least televised through SEC Network Plus. What that means
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Speaker 1: is we have the benefit of having Keith Moreland back
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Speaker 1: in the fold for US for the Lion's share of
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Speaker 1: the telecasts to radio broadcast this season. So Keith will
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Speaker 1: join me as we did for nine seasons together of
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Speaker 1: Long Worn Baseball before he left to go to the
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Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs and then came back and was working for
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Speaker 1: Long Or Network. But now Keith back in the fold
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Speaker 1: with us, and glad to have him there all right.
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Speaker 1: Several things to get to on the program this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: You know, since we were off yesterday for the holiday,
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Speaker 1: we have not had the opportunity to talk much about
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Speaker 1: both Texas men's and women's basketball coming off. They're very
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Speaker 1: successful and busy weekends that they had the Long Worn
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Speaker 1: men on Saturday night, a huge win coming from behind
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Speaker 1: to the beat to defeat the Kentucky Wildcats. That was very,
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Speaker 1: very important and for their NC Tournament hopes, and we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that and look at some of the things.
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Speaker 2: Also the Texas women, who have.
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Speaker 1: Been named the National Collegiate Basketball Writers Association Team of
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Speaker 1: the Week for what they've done last week, adding two
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Speaker 1: more wins o our top ten teams to the one
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Speaker 1: they had a week ago Sunday against South Carolina, And
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Speaker 1: as a result of that, that's three consecutive wins over
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Speaker 1: top ten teams. That has not happened in twenty years.
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Speaker 1: The last team to do that was Rutgers back in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and five when ce Vivian Stringer really had
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Speaker 1: the Scarlet Knights going very well and they won three
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Speaker 1: straight games over top ten ranked opponents. Well, that's the
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Speaker 1: story for the Texas women. Three straight wins over top
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Speaker 1: ten ranked opponents and up to in the AP rankings
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Speaker 1: number two in the country. There's only one team ranked
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Speaker 1: to head them in the country, and that's Notre Dame,
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Speaker 1: which has been on a roll and continued its role
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Speaker 1: last night by beating Duke in a key ACC game
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Speaker 1: in South Bend. Of course, Texas has only two losses
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Speaker 1: total for the season. One was the South Carolina. They
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Speaker 1: haven't lost since. Since that game, the Long Worne have
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Speaker 1: won ten in a row. And the other loss was
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Speaker 1: back in December in the acc SEC Chalnel and at
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame in overtime. Long Worns lost that game in
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Speaker 1: South Bend in overtime. So Notre Dame is the only
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Speaker 1: team ranked to head of taxes right now, they're number
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Speaker 1: one in the country and the Long Orange are number
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Speaker 1: two in the country. More important than that, however, more
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Speaker 1: important than that two things one is the fact that
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Speaker 1: the Long Worns have an opportunity. It was something that
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Speaker 1: we visited with Vic Schaeffer about the other day, that
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Speaker 1: they have the opportunity in their first season in the
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Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference to claim at least a share of the
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Speaker 1: conference championship and can call themselves conference champions. If Texas
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Speaker 1: wins out and their next game is not until Monday,
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Speaker 1: they have a midwek by this week, as do the Men.
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Speaker 1: But if the Long Oorns went out, which would mean
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Speaker 1: a win on the road in Athens at Georgia next Monday,
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Speaker 1: followed by another road game in Starkville at Mississippi a
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Speaker 1: week from this Thursday, which would be kind of a
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Speaker 1: return to Starkville for Vick Schaefer, his first time back
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Speaker 1: in Starkville, Mississippi, where, of course he did such a
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Speaker 1: great job in Mississippi State before leaving to come to Texas.
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Speaker 1: So they had those two games back to back on
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Speaker 1: the road, a Monday game in Athens, come back home,
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Speaker 1: one full day at home, then travel on Wednesday to Startvilla,
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Speaker 1: and they would play on Thursday at Mississippi State.
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Speaker 2: So there's that, and then.
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Speaker 1: They come back home for their regular season finale, which
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Speaker 1: is a week from Sunday against Florida. There's only three
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Speaker 1: games remaining on the schedule. All three of those games
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Speaker 1: are very winnable games for the Texas women, So they
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Speaker 1: come past the most difficult part of their schedule, playing
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Speaker 1: South Carolina twice, playing a ranked Missouri team, a ranked
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Speaker 1: Vanderbilt team. Of course, they had already beaten a ranked
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma team, so they'd beaten several ranked teams and then
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Speaker 1: had the three consecutive win over ranked opponents, with the
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Speaker 1: home win over South Carolina nine days ago, followed by
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Speaker 1: the road win at Kentucky last Thursday.
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Speaker 2: Kentucky was number eight in the country.
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Speaker 1: Then coming back and two days ago getting that win
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Speaker 1: over fifth ranked LSU, and it was just a slam
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Speaker 1: bang matchup between two really good basketball teams. LSU was
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Speaker 1: up twelve in the third quarter with about four and
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Speaker 1: a half minutes to go in the third quarter, ls
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Speaker 1: who led that game forty three to thirty one. Because
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Speaker 1: the long Horns had such a dreadful shooting performance in
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Speaker 1: the first half, there was one point in the second
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Speaker 1: quarter where the log Worns were four for twenty six
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Speaker 1: from the field, that equates to fourteen percent.
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Speaker 2: They really struggled.
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Speaker 1: They warmed up a little by halftime and got it
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Speaker 1: up to nineteen percent, and then warmed up a little
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Speaker 1: more in the third quarter and got it into the
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Speaker 1: twenty percent tile. And then they hit eight of twelve
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Speaker 1: shots in the final quarter and that ultimately settled the
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Speaker 1: men at thirty three percent. In fact, they wound up
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Speaker 1: not only with the exact same shooting percentage as LSU,
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Speaker 1: but the exact same amount of shots taken in shots made,
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Speaker 1: they were each team was twenty one out of sixty
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Speaker 1: three from the flour. LSU made one more three pointer
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Speaker 1: than Texas Long Outs were a perfect perfect twenty one
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Speaker 1: for twenty one from the foul line, so all of
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Speaker 1: that led to Texas getting the winner for LSU sixty
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Speaker 1: five to fifty eight. The long Warts are now twenty
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Speaker 1: six and two three games to go, and if they
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Speaker 1: win their last three games, they'll have at least a
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Speaker 1: share of the SEC title. They would be sharing it
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Speaker 1: with South Carolina if South Carolina doesn't lose another game.
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Speaker 1: Wheuse South Carolina got stunned on Sunday at home by
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Speaker 1: a really good Yukon team. Having lost to Texas, so
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Speaker 1: they've dropped two out of three, I'm not really expecting
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Speaker 1: South Carolina to lose any more games in the regular season,
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Speaker 1: so it's probably would wind up being a tie between
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Speaker 1: Texas and South Carolina, and since both teams would only
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Speaker 1: have one loss in conference play against one another, all
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Speaker 1: the other tie breakers are even, which we mean it
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Speaker 1: would come down to a coin flip to see who
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Speaker 1: would get the number one seed for the SEC tournament.
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Speaker 1: But here's the other big factor. The thing is is
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Speaker 1: for the Texas women. As we pointed out, the long
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Speaker 1: Ones in recent recent bracketological prognostications had been listed as
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Speaker 1: a one seed. Obviously, they did absolutely no damage to
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Speaker 1: those efforts by what they did last week. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they strengthened them. So the issue for what Texas would like,
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Speaker 1: what South Carolina would like, you know, certainly, would be
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Speaker 1: to be a number one seed slated to go to Birmingham,
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Speaker 1: meaning you play your in the women's tournament, you play
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Speaker 1: your first and second round games. If you are a
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Speaker 1: top four seed in any of the regions, you play
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Speaker 1: your first and second round games on your own home floor.
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Speaker 1: Win those two home games, and then go. And then
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Speaker 1: there's two sites for the women's Sweet sixteen and the
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Speaker 1: Lite eight, not four like it is for the men.
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Speaker 1: They play two regionals at each site, and those two
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Speaker 1: sites are Birmingham and Spokane. The long Horns have been
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Speaker 1: sent to the Pacific Northwest three of the last four years.
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Speaker 2: Including in Spokane, and.
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Speaker 1: They would much prefer I can tell you Vic Shaffer
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Speaker 1: and Steph would much prefer being slotted into Birmingham will.
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Speaker 1: They certainly helped themselves a great deal by doing that.
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Speaker 1: And we'll talk some more about women's basketball and where
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Speaker 1: they are. But up next, we're going to hear from
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Speaker 1: Jason Kent, Long Orange four, who's been in the starting
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Speaker 1: lineup of late and came up with some big plays
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Speaker 1: the other night in the Texas victory over Kentucky. So
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from Jason Kent coming up. We do have
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Speaker 1: inconceivable this hour, we'll do that as well. All that
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Speaker 1: and more coming up on a let's just say murky
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Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon here at the ballpark where at ufcuish Fogg Field,
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Speaker 1: five thirty, first pitch five to fifteen pre game start
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Speaker 1: time for Texas and Houston on thirteen under the zup.
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Speaker 2: Let's Tuesday afternoon at ufcuws Frogfield.
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Speaker 1: There is baseball plan for this evening again a five
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Speaker 1: to thirty first pitch. They moved up start time one
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Speaker 1: hour for the Texas Longhorns to take on the Houston Cougars,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be on there five point fifteen with the
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Speaker 1: pregame start time of the first pitch is scheduled for
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Speaker 1: five thirty. We'll talk a little more long Horn baseball
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Speaker 1: a little later on in the program. Want to jump
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Speaker 1: to Texas basketball because the Longhorns have certainly helped themselves
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Speaker 1: in the past few days. When they went into the
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Speaker 1: three game losing streak. There are a lot of folks
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Speaker 1: that thought they there NCAA tournament at large hopes, barring
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Speaker 1: of course, a run all the way through the SEC tournament,
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Speaker 1: but the at large hopes were completely shot. Well, that
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Speaker 1: wasn't the case even as they were having to navigate
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Speaker 1: and deal with a three game losing streak, because even
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Speaker 1: then the lead brackets hologists and I usually consult three
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Speaker 1: or four different sets. But the two that are most
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Speaker 1: recognized and really the two that have been most effective
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Speaker 1: over the years, have been Joe Lenardi at the ESPN.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of the originator of bracketology, and the other
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Speaker 1: was Jerry Palm of CBS Sports, and both continued to
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Speaker 1: have Texas in the field even through the three game
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Speaker 1: losing streak. Now, I would tell you that in Jerry
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Speaker 1: Palm's estimation, they were in a lot more of a
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Speaker 1: dire predicament than for Joe Lenardi's ESPN bracketized to the
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Speaker 1: extent that.
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Speaker 2: Jerry Palm at Texas.
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Speaker 1: I think as the last team in and had him
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Speaker 1: playing in Dayton and as of today, as of this morning,
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Speaker 1: Jerry Palm still has Texas in the first four.
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Speaker 2: And this was updated.
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Speaker 1: This was updated yesterday, and so it was after the
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Speaker 1: games obviously of Saturday, or it was updated yesterday it
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Speaker 1: was after the games of Saturday and Sunday, and he
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Speaker 1: still has Texas in the first four as an eleven
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Speaker 1: seed playing in Dayton, Ohio against BYU. He also has Arkansas,
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Speaker 1: West Virginia Inn As eleven seeds there and then the
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Speaker 1: two matchup of sixteen seeds would be Quinnipiac against Southeast
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Speaker 1: Missouri State in America against Southern the four number ones,
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Speaker 1: he has Auburn in the south, Alabama in the midwest,
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Speaker 1: Florida in the West, and Duke in the East. And
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Speaker 1: that's how Jerry Palm has it Now. Joe Narni has
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Speaker 1: valued Texas a little more highly of late in large
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Speaker 1: measure due to their net ranking, which has been right
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Speaker 1: around thirty give or take one or two spots either side.
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Speaker 1: And he still has Texas not having to play in Dayton,
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Speaker 1: and in fact has upgraded him for being the last
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Speaker 1: of the four what they call the last four by
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Speaker 1: meaning the four schools that are the last ones that
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Speaker 1: would not have to play in Dayton, Ohio. At the
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Speaker 1: first floor, well, he had him as the number four.
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Speaker 1: Now he has him at the top of that list
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Speaker 1: with the winnover Kentucky with West Virginia the second team
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Speaker 1: out of that BYU is the third and Vanderbilt is
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Speaker 1: the fourth. The teams that he has playing in Daytony
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Speaker 1: as Omaha and Southeast Missouri in a sixteen seed matchup,
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Speaker 1: Southern and American in a sixteen seed matchup, and the
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Speaker 1: two eleven seed match.
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Speaker 2: Or eleven and a twelve.
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Speaker 1: He has the eleven seed matchup San Diego State and
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma still in the field, although falling precipitously the lost
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Speaker 1: to LSU did a lot of damage to the Sooners
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Speaker 1: NCAA tournament homes, and then Arkansas and Wake Forest as
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Speaker 1: a twelve there, and he has Texas as a ten
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Speaker 1: seed that's up a spot from eleven seed prior to
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Speaker 1: the Kentucky game and playing Saint Mary's in the first
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Speaker 1: round in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, that's an.
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Speaker 1: Update in terms of the of where the bright catologists
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Speaker 1: see Texas. They and the other projections I've seen all
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Speaker 1: have Texas in the field. And Lnardi, who is usually
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Speaker 1: in the ninety six to ninety eight percentile of correct
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Speaker 1: when the field is announced, has Texas not having to
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Speaker 1: play in the first four and date. But the logworts
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Speaker 1: have important games remaining. They have a midweek. By this
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Speaker 1: week they go to South Carolina where South Carolina is
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Speaker 1: still trying to win its first conference game. Then after
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Speaker 1: that they have a road game at Arkansas, which won't
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Speaker 1: be easy.
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Speaker 2: Of course, they already lost Arkansas home.
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Speaker 1: They have a home game against Georgia, a road game
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Speaker 1: at Mississippi State, and then they finished the regular season
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Speaker 1: at home against Oklahoma. So there's still some Quad one
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Speaker 1: opportunities to win games out there, most notably against Arkansas
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Speaker 1: and Oklahoma, so they do need wins. One of the
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Speaker 1: guys who has been important for Texas of late in
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Speaker 1: climbing back into NCAA tournament regular conversation as Jason Kent,
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Speaker 1: the Indiana State transfer forward. Jason had to be inserted
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Speaker 1: into the lineup mainly as a reserve at first in
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Speaker 1: the lost Alabama last Tuesday when Tremont Mark had to
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Speaker 1: leave the game and or excuse me not Tremont Mark
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Speaker 1: when Arthur Kluma had the check out of the game
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Speaker 1: with his knee injury, and Kent ended up having a
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Speaker 1: Texas career high seventeen points in that game. He came
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Speaker 1: back and played well on Saturday in a starting role
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Speaker 1: with again Arthur Kluma out of the lineup, and Texas
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Speaker 1: was able to win that game against fifteenth Frank Kentucky
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Speaker 1: despite not having Kluma on the floor. Kent certainly helped
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Speaker 1: on all of that. Remember, Jason Kent was one of
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Speaker 1: the other walking wounded for Texas. He had a wrist
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Speaker 1: injury and was unable really even to play in the
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Speaker 1: first few games. So earlier today, in a Zoom media availability,
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Speaker 1: Jason camp was asked some questions and the first one
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Speaker 1: that went into him was how long did it take
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Speaker 1: him to heal from that risk injury.
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Speaker 3: I would say it took me, you know, prodeically about
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Speaker 3: six weeks to get one hundred you know, even now,
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Speaker 3: you know, I still maintain it, you know, I still
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Speaker 3: do my recovery and stuff, but I feel like I'm
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Speaker 3: back to one hundred percent probably mid late January for sure.
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Speaker 1: Well, that certainly helps, and so that leads into this
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Speaker 1: next question for Jason Kent about the adjustment phase that
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Speaker 1: he's had to go through since transferring from Indiana State
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Speaker 1: to Texas. There's a lot of things to adjust to,
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Speaker 1: especially as he was coming off the injury. But Kent
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Speaker 1: was asked what's been the biggest adjustment for him transferring
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Speaker 1: in from Indiana State, getting acclimated to Texas and being
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Speaker 1: able to contribute for the longrnes.
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Speaker 4: Just understanding what the team needs.
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Speaker 3: You know, we have a lot of high steel guys
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Speaker 3: on the team, and you know, we all want to
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Speaker 3: be successful. But for me personally, you know, adjusting to
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Speaker 3: this different role of you know, ways to impact winning,
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Speaker 3: to help the team benefit. You know, whatever my minutes are,
21:05
Speaker 3: I'm going to do what I can in those minutes
21:06
Speaker 3: to you know, leave an impact on him. Well, that's
21:09
Speaker 3: certainly important.
21:11
Speaker 1: And then Jason was then further asked about the adjustment
21:17
Speaker 1: and had it been as difficult or as challenging for
21:23
Speaker 1: him to adjust to the offense that Texas has put
21:27
Speaker 1: in order as opposed to what he had to do
21:29
Speaker 1: when he was at Indiana State and the Sycamores offense.
21:33
Speaker 2: It was.
21:33
Speaker 3: It was definitely an adjustment, you know, coming from the
21:36
Speaker 3: office that I went to was a lot more movement.
21:38
Speaker 3: You know, we had a you know, we had a
21:41
Speaker 3: passing big man back on my old school. So just
21:43
Speaker 3: adjusting to the new players and the new team to
21:46
Speaker 3: figure out where I can cut and where I can
21:47
Speaker 3: get my opportunities to is definitely an adjustment.
21:51
Speaker 1: So in addition to that, a couple other questions for
21:54
Speaker 1: Jason Kent.
21:55
Speaker 2: He was He was also asked, was.
22:01
Speaker 1: Jason in adjusting to this team and getting ready for
22:07
Speaker 1: his opportunity to play for Texas. He was asked about
22:12
Speaker 1: the Kentucky matchup and how important that Kentucky game was
22:18
Speaker 1: for him, and really in a fact, because he came
22:22
Speaker 1: up with some key rebounds, a key putback buck that
22:25
Speaker 1: made a great pass to Trey Johnson as well for
22:29
Speaker 1: lay In. So Camp was asked, was the Kentucky game
22:33
Speaker 1: his best game? As a long worn this season?
22:36
Speaker 3: These past few games, it has been, you know, just
22:39
Speaker 3: getting back in the flow, especially being out for an
22:41
Speaker 3: entire month, figuring out where I fit in. Now, you know,
22:45
Speaker 3: guys been playing since November and I was out for
22:49
Speaker 3: you know, pretty much the whole k Noon Conference. So
22:50
Speaker 3: just figuring out where I can fit in with the
22:53
Speaker 3: flow that's already been created.
22:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So there was that, And then again,
22:57
Speaker 1: as I mentioned about the Kentucky game, was the Kentucky
23:01
Speaker 1: game his best game of the season. Next thing, also
23:11
Speaker 1: from Jason Kent was asked about adjusting to Austin and
23:16
Speaker 1: this was a question that I asked him when he
23:18
Speaker 1: was with us out at Pluckers, when I asked him
23:21
Speaker 1: about the you know, the big differences between terre Hood,
23:24
Speaker 1: Indiana and Austin, Texas, and there are definite differences.
23:30
Speaker 2: He talked about that at the time.
23:32
Speaker 1: Also, Julian Larry, who transferred with him from Indiana State,
23:35
Speaker 1: said it's a world of difference from Terrehod, Indiana to Austin.
23:40
Speaker 1: Jared Spencer, the left hander who started for Texas on
23:44
Speaker 1: Friday Night in the season opener, transferred in from Indiana State.
23:48
Speaker 1: He visited with both Jason Kent and Julian Larry and
23:51
Speaker 1: asked them about the differences, and he said, yeah, there was.
23:54
Speaker 1: So Kent was asked what is the best part of
23:58
Speaker 1: being in Austin.
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Speaker 3: Off the court, It's a lot of things to do,
24:02
Speaker 3: you know, in tara Hoe, you know, tara Ho is
24:05
Speaker 3: the Indiana State is there's not a lot of stuff
24:07
Speaker 3: to do out there. If you really want to do stuff,
24:10
Speaker 3: you had to go to Indy. But you know, Austin
24:12
Speaker 3: has a lot of things. You know, there's a lot
24:14
Speaker 3: of good food places out here. I'm a big sushi guy.
24:17
Speaker 3: I found some good sushi sushi bars down here. So
24:20
Speaker 3: just being able to get out to the city and
24:21
Speaker 3: experience a little bit of the city life is what
24:23
Speaker 3: I say is the best part of Boston.
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Speaker 1: All right, there, it is some sound from Jason Camp.
24:27
Speaker 1: We'll have some more from Jason coming up, and we're
24:30
Speaker 1: gonna hear for Rodney Terry coming up next hour as
24:33
Speaker 1: well on the program on AM thirteen under the Zone
24:35
Speaker 1: second hour of the program as when we come your
24:38
Speaker 1: way from UFCU Dish falk Field. There is a baseball
24:42
Speaker 1: game scheduled for this evening and the schedule still has
24:46
Speaker 1: it as going forward. Now having said that, they're moving
24:52
Speaker 1: the schedule up by one hour, so Texas will have
24:56
Speaker 1: its home opener coming up at five third instead of
25:01
Speaker 1: six point thirty as the Log Warns will be taking
25:04
Speaker 1: on the Houston Cougars. Houston took two out of three
25:07
Speaker 1: against Minnesota over the weekend. Of course, the Log Warns
25:10
Speaker 1: took two out of three up in Arlington at the
25:14
Speaker 1: Shriners Children's College Showdown, and because of that they actually
25:25
Speaker 1: were crowned the champions of that event based on run differential,
25:30
Speaker 1: going two and one over the weekend.
25:32
Speaker 2: So anyway, a good start for Texas going two and one. Yeah.
25:40
Speaker 1: Would they have liked to have been three and over
25:42
Speaker 1: the weekend, and they certainly could have been. They were
25:44
Speaker 1: up to nothing going to the bottom of the ninth inning,
25:48
Speaker 1: unable to hold the lead. However, Louisville came back and
25:50
Speaker 1: won the contest in ten innings, and they were able
25:55
Speaker 1: to do that four to three, had taken a three
25:57
Speaker 1: to two lead, or the long Wards took a three
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Speaker 1: to lead in the top of the tenth.
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Speaker 2: Louisville score two in the bottom of the tenth and
26:02
Speaker 2: won that.
26:02
Speaker 1: But Texas bounded back in a big way, a ten
26:06
Speaker 1: to seven inning run rule win over Ole Miss on
26:10
Speaker 1: Saturday night.
26:10
Speaker 2: And again, for all of those of you.
26:12
Speaker 1: Who have asked, and many have have asked me, why
26:15
Speaker 1: did Texas play Ole miss A conference opponents in a
26:19
Speaker 1: season opening tournament, non conference event, It's because that was
26:24
Speaker 1: set a year ago with the knowledge that Texas and
26:28
Speaker 1: Ole Miss would not meet in the regular season. You
26:30
Speaker 1: don't play everyone in your conference on the SEC schedule.
26:35
Speaker 1: You don't play every team in the conference. You wouldn't
26:38
Speaker 1: be able to get in you know, you'd barely be
26:41
Speaker 1: able to get in a couple of non conference series
26:43
Speaker 1: if you played everyone in the league, so they don't
26:46
Speaker 1: and ole Miss is not on the Texas Conference schedule
26:51
Speaker 1: the season, so they played them in a non conference
26:53
Speaker 1: game on Saturday night at Globally Field in Arlington and
26:56
Speaker 1: Logrns won that one.
26:58
Speaker 2: Ten to nothing in seven innings.
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Speaker 1: Luke Harrison went six and a third and was named
27:05
Speaker 1: the sec Pitcher of a Week for his performance in
27:10
Speaker 1: that one on Saturday. And then on Sunday, the log
27:14
Speaker 1: Worns kind of outslugged Oklahoma State. They won fourteen to eight,
27:18
Speaker 1: got up really big and in Oklahoma State scored some
27:20
Speaker 1: runs lake but the long Warns ended up winning at
27:23
Speaker 1: Max Blue had a big weekend overall. Will Gasparino had
27:25
Speaker 1: a big weekend overall, each of those guys with a
27:28
Speaker 1: couple of home runs, and the same thing for the
27:31
Speaker 1: freshman third basement Adrian Rodriguez, who hit a couple of
27:34
Speaker 1: home runs and was named the sec CO Freshman of
27:38
Speaker 1: the Week for his performance over the weekend. So prominencing
27:42
Speaker 1: start in this first season under Jim Schlisnagel as head coach,
27:47
Speaker 1: and the log Oorns take on the Houston Cougars this
27:49
Speaker 1: evening and again it was originally scheduled for six thirty.
27:52
Speaker 1: It's a five thirty first pitch that mainly not so
27:56
Speaker 1: much to dodge precipitation because it it's not raining here
28:02
Speaker 1: at the ballpark right now, but it's it's kind of
28:05
Speaker 1: murky and we've had some uh there was rain this
28:08
Speaker 1: morning and then a little bit of misted. Uh that's
28:11
Speaker 1: been kind of off and on, but nothing heavy duty
28:15
Speaker 1: about that. Logorne were taking some early defensive endfield and
28:20
Speaker 1: uh they're they're hitting inside today. Both ball clubs will
28:25
Speaker 1: hit in the indoor cages today. As Jim Slosnagle told
28:28
Speaker 1: me a little while ago when I was visiting with him.
28:31
Speaker 1: He said, that's that's the We don't want to ruin
28:33
Speaker 1: some baseballs out in this weather. So they're uh, they're
28:36
Speaker 1: hitting inside in the cage. The mounds covered right now.
28:39
Speaker 1: Of course, this field, uh it drains incredibly well when
28:43
Speaker 1: when they do have to deal with precipitation. So they're
28:49
Speaker 1: playing to play baseball this afternoon and again the first
28:51
Speaker 1: pitch coming up about two and a half hours from now.
28:54
Speaker 1: Texas did move up in the national polls. And something
29:00
Speaker 1: that I have pointed out on many occasions in past years,
29:05
Speaker 1: college baseball is different from all the other collegiate sports.
29:12
Speaker 1: In terms of the numbers of polls, UH.
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Speaker 2: There are five.
29:20
Speaker 1: Uh and depending on if there's there's actually a sixth
29:23
Speaker 1: pole that's out there, there's six. There's really and truly
29:26
Speaker 1: six different polls that rank college baseball teams weekly or
29:32
Speaker 1: bi weekly and UH. And then there's there's there's some
29:36
Speaker 1: that are probably more recognized than the other Baseball America,
29:39
Speaker 1: D one Baseball, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
29:43
Speaker 5: UH.
29:43
Speaker 1: Then there's USA Today, Perfect Game and Collegiate Baseball rankings
29:49
Speaker 1: as well, So there's really six polls involved that. But
29:52
Speaker 1: the long Runes didn't move up in just about all
29:55
Speaker 1: of them. They stayed number seven a Perfect Game, but
29:57
Speaker 1: moved up one three spots in D one Baseball from
30:01
Speaker 1: nineteen to sixteen, moved up to number twelve in Baseball
30:06
Speaker 1: America and the NCBWA they moved up to number seven
30:10
Speaker 1: from sixteen from seventeen. So anyway, they moved up in
30:14
Speaker 1: those rankings. And of course the rankings don't mean an
30:16
Speaker 1: awful lot right now. They're more conversational talking points right now.
30:21
Speaker 1: So that's what they've got going on right now. So
30:25
Speaker 1: they'll play Houston tonight, opening a homestand Dartmouth comes to
30:30
Speaker 1: town this weekend for a non conference series, so they
30:35
Speaker 1: have the series with Dartmouth and then they end upcoming
30:37
Speaker 1: home games in non conference play. And as they continue
30:44
Speaker 1: this homestand after they play Dartmouth, they have Incarnate Word.
30:52
Speaker 1: A week from tonight, on the twenty fifth, they have
30:55
Speaker 1: Incarnate Word at home. Then they go to Las Vegas
30:58
Speaker 1: and play three games for three days. It's another one
31:01
Speaker 1: of those deals like in Arlington, kind of a classic
31:03
Speaker 1: where you play three different opponents. They'll have a Friday
31:05
Speaker 1: nine game against Washington, then play an old conference rival,
31:10
Speaker 1: former conference rival, Texas Tech on a Saturday evening contest,
31:14
Speaker 1: and then finish it out with a Sunday afternoon.
31:17
Speaker 2: Game against Illinois.
31:18
Speaker 1: So they have that tucked in between one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
31:24
Speaker 1: eight nine home games otherwise before they begin SEC play.
31:29
Speaker 2: So it's Houston a three.
31:31
Speaker 1: Game weekend series against Dartmouth Incarnate Word. Then after going
31:35
Speaker 1: to Vegas for the weekend thing, they come back home
31:37
Speaker 1: with a Tuesday game or March fourth, against Texas A
31:40
Speaker 1: and and Corpus Christy, then a three game weekend series
31:43
Speaker 1: against Santa Clara before and then followed by a Tuesday
31:47
Speaker 1: game against UT Arlington and then they open SEC play
31:50
Speaker 1: And what a way to open it up on the fourteenth,
31:53
Speaker 1: Friday the fourteenth in Startingville, Mississippi at Duty Noble Field
31:58
Speaker 1: as they'll play Mississippi State there in what could be
32:02
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen thousand fans there.
32:04
Speaker 2: The way that they have.
32:07
Speaker 1: The residents is if you will be on the outfield
32:11
Speaker 1: walls and the party area, so it'll be an awful.
32:14
Speaker 2: Lot of fun on them.
32:16
Speaker 1: Also, the other thing I wanted to update on I
32:19
Speaker 1: mentioned last hour about I was talking about college baseball,
32:24
Speaker 1: but also a Major League Baseball update for you. Now,
32:29
Speaker 1: I know this is probably just going to absolutely thrill
32:31
Speaker 1: some people.
32:32
Speaker 2: I say that tongue firmly planted in cheek, but.
32:37
Speaker 1: Just to let you know when Major League Baseball has
32:42
Speaker 1: Opening Day coming up on March twenty seven. Now, this
32:46
Speaker 1: is not the opening day for the season in its entirety,
32:53
Speaker 1: because the Cubs and the Dodgers will actually open their
32:57
Speaker 1: season against each other in Japan a few day prior
33:00
Speaker 1: to that, but when the rest of Major League Baseball
33:03
Speaker 1: jumps into Opening Day on March twenty seventh, one of
33:07
Speaker 1: those games that will be on Opening day will be
33:12
Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Brewers at Yankee Stadium, New York.
33:16
Speaker 1: ESPN is going to air the game, it'll be two
33:18
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, and calling the play by play for
33:23
Speaker 1: ESPN that day on Opening Day.
33:27
Speaker 2: Joe Buck.
33:29
Speaker 1: Joe Buck returning to the baseball booth. Now, of course,
33:35
Speaker 1: he's been doing Monday Night Football with Troy Aikman, and
33:40
Speaker 1: so that's what he's gonna do. But he's gonna call
33:43
Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball national telecast for the first time
33:48
Speaker 1: in four years. His last national broadcast was with Fox
33:54
Speaker 1: Sports twenty twenty one, when he covered his twenty fourth
33:57
Speaker 1: World Series and that's when the Braves won the World Series.
34:02
Speaker 1: He did last year join Chip Carrey, who does the
34:06
Speaker 1: play by play for the Cardinals home games well for
34:10
Speaker 1: the Cardinals telecast, and he joined them last year on
34:16
Speaker 1: one local broadcast of a Cardinals game. He's been doing
34:20
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football since twenty twenty two. Now, for those
34:25
Speaker 1: who are saying, what in the world is he doing
34:26
Speaker 1: back in this thing?
34:27
Speaker 2: Is you getting back? I can't believe it.
34:29
Speaker 1: He's calling it a one off opportunity, says he's not
34:34
Speaker 1: returning to the booth permanently.
34:37
Speaker 2: That's where I said, I know that you.
34:38
Speaker 1: Know some of you are just gonna be absolutely thrilled
34:40
Speaker 1: by this, right because there's a lot of for whatever reason,
34:45
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fans who are not big Joe
34:49
Speaker 1: Buck fans.
34:50
Speaker 2: For whatever reason.
34:51
Speaker 1: I will tell you this, Joe Buck pokes a lot
34:57
Speaker 1: more fun at himself than you would imagine.
35:01
Speaker 2: He's pretty self deprecating on a lot of things.
35:04
Speaker 1: And say what you will about him if you don't
35:08
Speaker 1: like his personality or something technically mechanically, there's absolutely nothing
35:13
Speaker 1: wrong with the way he calls the game football or baseball,
35:16
Speaker 1: and he's got the Emmy Awards to prove it as well.
35:19
Speaker 2: But he's going to be joined.
35:21
Speaker 1: By former Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Bill Schroeder, who's
35:26
Speaker 1: the lead color analyst for the Brewers, and he issued
35:30
Speaker 1: a statement where he said Opening Day has always been
35:34
Speaker 1: a signature day on the sports calendar, and personally it
35:37
Speaker 1: remains special. ESPN approached me with this one off opportunity
35:41
Speaker 1: to help launch the season, and it was a quick yes.
35:43
Speaker 1: Joe and Bill are both great friends and better baseball minds,
35:48
Speaker 1: and I know they will carry in the telecast while
35:50
Speaker 1: I just plan to be along for the ride, so
35:53
Speaker 1: that's gonna be there. It's an opening day doubleheader on ESPN.
35:59
Speaker 1: The second game will be a night game with the
36:01
Speaker 1: Dodgers hosting the Tigers. And again that the season will
36:04
Speaker 1: actually be in several days prior to them when it comes.
36:06
Speaker 1: The Dodgers open the season in Japan, but Joe Buck
36:10
Speaker 1: back in the booth at least if only for one
36:13
Speaker 1: game for Major League Baseball. All right, Up next, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna hear from log Worn men's head basketball coach Rodney
36:20
Speaker 1: Terry talking about getting his team ready. They've got this
36:23
Speaker 1: midweek by this week, and then they'll travel to Columbia,
36:26
Speaker 1: South Carolina to play the South Carolina game Cocks on
36:29
Speaker 1: Saturday night as they try to bill momentum coming off
36:32
Speaker 1: that big win over fifteenth rank Kentucky on Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: So we'll hear from our tea.
36:36
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're at UFCU dish Fogg Field, Texas
36:39
Speaker 1: Baseball is the log Worns will host Houston a five
36:42
Speaker 1: thirty first pitch five to fifteen pre game start time
36:45
Speaker 1: right here on AM thirteen under the zone contend you
36:47
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday afternoon here in UFCU, just fog field again.
36:51
Speaker 1: They moved the start time up till five thirty today,
36:54
Speaker 1: but making all preparations and plans to go at five
36:58
Speaker 1: thirty and you can hear the game keep or to
37:00
Speaker 1: join me five fifteen airtime here on the zone. Let's
37:03
Speaker 1: shift back to basketball a little bit, Long Worn basketball
37:06
Speaker 1: coming off that big win over Kentucky and getting ready
37:10
Speaker 1: for the road trip to Colombia Columbia South Carolina's important
37:13
Speaker 1: to delineate the two because remember there's two Columbias in
37:16
Speaker 1: the SEC, the other ones in Central Missouri and Long
37:20
Speaker 1: Worn baseball has to go there this year, but basketball
37:25
Speaker 1: is in Columbia South Carolina.
37:26
Speaker 2: So that was a big win. It helped in a.
37:30
Speaker 1: Variety of things like net rankings and things like that
37:37
Speaker 1: as well, so all of that stuff helps out. So
37:40
Speaker 1: Rodney Terry, the Longhorns head coach, had a media zoom
37:44
Speaker 1: today and I was talking about a variety of things,
37:48
Speaker 1: and we'll hear some from RT starting us out. In fact,
37:53
Speaker 1: we'll start with the question that he was asked about
37:58
Speaker 1: transfer players, because we heard from Jason Kent's last hour
38:02
Speaker 1: the Indiana State transfer and Julian Larry's transferred from Indiana
38:05
Speaker 1: Tremont Mark has come in from Arkansas. I mean even
38:08
Speaker 1: zerk on Yama last year came in from UTEP. So
38:10
Speaker 1: you have you have transfer players in and it's more
38:13
Speaker 1: of a hypothetical question than anything.
38:15
Speaker 2: But Rodney was asked, is it.
38:17
Speaker 1: Easier to coach the transfer players now than it is
38:21
Speaker 1: in the offseason when you first get him in the program?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think they definitely have a more comfort level
38:27
Speaker 6: with what we're trying to do. I mean, you know,
38:29
Speaker 6: it's always hard for a first year guys to come
38:32
Speaker 6: in and get really comfortable with what you're doing.
38:35
Speaker 4: It takes some time. You know, there are a.
38:38
Speaker 6: Lot of times that they're still trying to figure things
38:40
Speaker 6: out as we go a little bit.
38:44
Speaker 4: But once they figured out and they have a comfort level.
38:46
Speaker 6: Now they're able to go out and play in and
38:47
Speaker 6: I'm thinking as much in terms of what we're trying
38:50
Speaker 6: to do offensively and defensively. But they've they've come a
38:54
Speaker 6: long ways, and uh, I think just in coninuity in itself.
38:59
Speaker 6: You know, when you were able to have guys in
39:01
Speaker 6: practice every day, able to have games every day, and
39:06
Speaker 6: you have better chemistry. Obviously we haven't had a whole
39:10
Speaker 6: lot of that issue with guys in and out of
39:12
Speaker 6: the lineup, in and out of practice, so we've had
39:15
Speaker 6: to try to play our way through it, and I
39:18
Speaker 6: do think those four guys have been pretty durable and they've.
39:22
Speaker 1: Had a chance to have more comfortable what we're doing well.
39:25
Speaker 1: One of those guys, as we pointed out, was Tremon Mark. Now,
39:28
Speaker 1: he to me is one of the how shall I
39:35
Speaker 1: put this feature curiosities of this basketball team. He came
39:38
Speaker 1: in as a scorer, came in from Arkansas. He's from
39:42
Speaker 1: Dickinson down in the Houston area and actually began his
39:44
Speaker 1: collegiate career at Houston, played at Houston, transferred to Arkansas,
39:48
Speaker 1: played one season at Arkansas, and now was.
39:50
Speaker 2: In a log horn uniform.
39:52
Speaker 1: Tremont came in as basically a recognized score. Got alto
39:56
Speaker 1: a slow start because he had the ankle injury in
39:59
Speaker 1: the second scrimmage I believe it was against Colorado, and
40:02
Speaker 1: so he couldn't even play in the first couple of
40:05
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. Finally came in kind of got
40:07
Speaker 1: off to a slow start. Then he had a couple
40:09
Speaker 1: of big games. Then he got a shoulder injury against
40:12
Speaker 1: ironically the team that he had played for prior Arkansas,
40:15
Speaker 1: and it really slowed him down over the course of
40:18
Speaker 1: the three game losing streak. In fact, wasn't even available
40:22
Speaker 1: in the midst of that and the loss of Vanderbilt,
40:25
Speaker 1: and so was able to come back and play against
40:28
Speaker 1: Alabama and then played really really well against Kentucky. And
40:33
Speaker 1: one thing tremon has done has really been to improve
40:37
Speaker 1: his defense as well as what he's able to do scoring. Now,
40:40
Speaker 1: having said that, he scored twenty six points on Saturday night,
40:42
Speaker 1: that was a Texas career high for him, and so
40:46
Speaker 1: Rodney terror has asked, what did Tremont do differently against Kentucky.
40:51
Speaker 6: I think the thing we've really trying to challenge tremon
40:53
Speaker 6: Wood is being a gad that's one of our better
40:57
Speaker 6: own ball defenders, got better team, he was offensive player.
41:01
Speaker 6: So he's had that challenge in a lot of ball games,
41:05
Speaker 6: you know, challenges and get lost playing really hard on
41:07
Speaker 6: offense on defense. So when it's time for him to
41:10
Speaker 6: make a meeting for Shot, make a meeting for Reid,
41:13
Speaker 6: you know, where he engages to and hits an open man,
41:16
Speaker 6: it's time for him to go crash and try to
41:18
Speaker 6: get an office and rebound. He's ready to do that.
41:21
Speaker 6: He's lathered up, he's ready to do that at an
41:23
Speaker 6: elite level. I thought he really set the tone defensively forced,
41:28
Speaker 6: and I think it led to an office of night
41:32
Speaker 6: where things came easy for him. You know, early in
41:35
Speaker 6: the game he went for a fifty to fifty ball,
41:37
Speaker 6: dove on the floor, was first to the floor, and
41:40
Speaker 6: really set the tone I thought for our team. So
41:43
Speaker 6: anytime you plan that way, I think offense is gonna
41:46
Speaker 6: come a lot easier to you.
41:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's a guy that has been able to
41:51
Speaker 1: contribute to both ends, and they're gonna need him, and
41:53
Speaker 1: they're gonna need him as as an additional score in
41:56
Speaker 1: addition to Trey Johnson, who just continues to be amazing
42:00
Speaker 1: in what he's done as a freshman and named again
42:02
Speaker 1: SEC Freshman of the Week, fourth time this season that
42:06
Speaker 1: he has done that. But going back to the transfer thing,
42:09
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned, we heard from Jason Kent last hour.
42:13
Speaker 1: Jason is an interesting story as well because his dad,
42:17
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, it's been a while, was the head
42:20
Speaker 1: basketball coach in this town at Houston Tillotson, and his
42:25
Speaker 1: mom was an athlete as well, and so Rodney Terry
42:27
Speaker 1: was asked if he how did he cross pass with
42:32
Speaker 1: Jason Kent's dad and his past experiences with coaches players
42:36
Speaker 1: on his teams.
42:38
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, I think you know Jason's dad and
42:42
Speaker 6: cross pass quite a bit.
42:43
Speaker 4: You know.
42:44
Speaker 6: When he was here as a head coach at Houston, Jillison,
42:47
Speaker 6: I was an assistant here for Rick during that tenure.
42:50
Speaker 4: His mom worked on campus. She worked over with.
42:54
Speaker 6: The Loss Does and his staff, Jim Bacon, those guys
42:58
Speaker 6: she worked you know, on camp for for a number
43:01
Speaker 6: of years. You know, I think a coach's son, I'm
43:06
Speaker 6: a product of being a coach's son.
43:09
Speaker 4: I think they always they always think like a coach.
43:11
Speaker 6: They always have a cerebral understanding of the game because
43:14
Speaker 6: they've been around the game their whole lives, you know,
43:17
Speaker 6: and uh, I think they're still always learning.
43:20
Speaker 4: But but you.
43:22
Speaker 6: Know, just instinct that if you're sitting there watching the
43:24
Speaker 6: game with your dad, you're looking at the game through
43:26
Speaker 6: a different lens that maybe you know a kid that
43:29
Speaker 6: doesn't have a dad that's a coach. So I think
43:33
Speaker 6: they're definitely all characteristics of being a coach's son.
43:37
Speaker 4: Just having a great feel for the game.
43:39
Speaker 6: Jason has a cerebral feel for the game and understanding
43:43
Speaker 6: of how to play defensively, cut offensively, spacing on the floor.
43:50
Speaker 4: Have I coached other coaches sons?
43:53
Speaker 6: Yes.
43:53
Speaker 4: Do you like coaching coaches sons.
43:56
Speaker 6: Yes, because you like to think that they're gonna be
43:59
Speaker 6: cerebral guy.
44:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Jason kenn is one of those guys. Here's
44:05
Speaker 1: a question that Rodnie's been asked, oh conservative guess eight
44:12
Speaker 1: ten times at various points during the season. The thing
44:15
Speaker 1: about trying to get a team to gel together, to congeal,
44:22
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And you know, Archie likes to
44:25
Speaker 1: discuss the fact when you ask him about what the
44:28
Speaker 1: identity of the team is supposed to be, he says,
44:31
Speaker 1: in November and December, you're really trying to establish that identity,
44:34
Speaker 1: and then once you get in the conference play, you're
44:36
Speaker 1: trying to solidify the identity that you establish.
44:41
Speaker 2: And carry you forward to winning.
44:43
Speaker 1: All of that involves the chemistry, the makeup, what's that
44:47
Speaker 1: c word we hear so often, culture, all of those
44:50
Speaker 1: kinds of things. So our team was asked if he
44:53
Speaker 1: had seen a moment where he felt like the team
44:56
Speaker 1: was gelling.
44:57
Speaker 4: Well, again, I.
44:57
Speaker 6: Think we're getting better with that again, I think, uh,
45:01
Speaker 6: you know, for us, and probably not just us, a
45:03
Speaker 6: lot of teams in this league play there are a
45:05
Speaker 6: lot of different guys that are going in and out
45:07
Speaker 6: of the lineup right now, just based on availability.
45:11
Speaker 4: You know.
45:11
Speaker 6: I think it's really hard to get into a great
45:13
Speaker 6: flow and have a lot of continuity when you don't
45:18
Speaker 6: have your guys consistently every day in practice and consistently
45:22
Speaker 6: in games.
45:23
Speaker 4: So you got to play through some of that.
45:25
Speaker 6: You got to play through some of that, and end games,
45:28
Speaker 6: you got to play through some of it, uh, you know,
45:30
Speaker 6: in the course of the season. And I think we're
45:33
Speaker 6: getting better with that as we continue to have more
45:35
Speaker 6: guys in the floor what we're doing every day. You know,
45:39
Speaker 6: Tray's gonna feel really comfortable, you know with Kate, and
45:42
Speaker 6: he's played with Katen all season. You know, he's getting
45:44
Speaker 6: more and more comfortable playing with Jason, you know, in
45:47
Speaker 6: certain situations and opportunities, whether it be offensively or defensively.
45:51
Speaker 6: So I think we're still a work in progress with that.
45:55
Speaker 6: I do think we're getting better, though.
45:57
Speaker 1: I know that that's a phrase that can be maddening
46:02
Speaker 1: to fans as the team is in the final. What
46:07
Speaker 1: one fifth of its regular season, and you hear the
46:11
Speaker 1: head coach say, we're still a work in progress. Listen
46:13
Speaker 1: Sark said the same thing late in the year, with
46:16
Speaker 1: the run that Texas had and winning thirteen ball games
46:20
Speaker 1: during the course of the year. He said, we're still
46:23
Speaker 1: trying to improve. We're still trying to get better every week.
46:27
Speaker 1: I think we'll hear Jim Schlasnegalis say that during the
46:30
Speaker 1: course of the season that they're still trying to improve.
46:32
Speaker 1: They're still trying to get better. Each game represents that opportunity.
46:37
Speaker 1: Vick Schafer says it about his women's team all the time.
46:39
Speaker 1: That he said, we're going to find out more about
46:41
Speaker 1: ourselves this week coming off that win, and we'll have
46:45
Speaker 1: more on the women coming up. One other from Rodney
46:47
Speaker 1: Terry before we take a break this stretch that I
46:50
Speaker 1: talked about. These five games that remain following the midweek
46:54
Speaker 1: open day at South Carolina on Saturday at Arkansas, the
46:59
Speaker 1: next wins at home against Georgia, at Mississippi State, and
47:04
Speaker 1: then at home against Oklahoma. If you're following those bracketological prognostications,
47:11
Speaker 1: some things like that, if you're following those things, they
47:14
Speaker 1: would say the long Orange would do well to at
47:17
Speaker 1: least win three of those games, and all five really
47:21
Speaker 1: and truly are winnable games. Some are going to be
47:23
Speaker 1: more difficult assignments than others, especially the two road games,
47:27
Speaker 1: the ones or two of the three road games, the
47:29
Speaker 1: one in LA and the one in Starkville, are going
47:32
Speaker 1: to be very difficult assignments. But if long Orangs could
47:35
Speaker 1: take one of those two, win the South Carolina game,
47:38
Speaker 1: and then protect the home court against Georgia and Oklahoma,
47:40
Speaker 1: there'll be a lot to be in the NCAA Tournament.
47:43
Speaker 2: So the question for Rodney.
47:44
Speaker 1: Terry, how can he get his team prepared now for
47:48
Speaker 1: this remaining five game stretch of the regular season.
47:52
Speaker 6: Well, for US, I mean this buye we couldn't come
47:55
Speaker 6: in a better time for US.
47:56
Speaker 4: We still, you know, in the process.
47:59
Speaker 6: Of mending guys, you know, whether it's Author Columba, whether
48:02
Speaker 6: it's Kendal Weaver, uh Devon prior to these guys really
48:05
Speaker 6: needed some extended time.
48:06
Speaker 4: Even Treymont needed.
48:08
Speaker 6: Some you know, extended time because these guys have all
48:11
Speaker 6: missed a significant amount of time, you know, this season,
48:15
Speaker 6: even Jason Kent, you know, missing over ten games. You know,
48:21
Speaker 6: just the recovery piece continue to get you know, better,
48:24
Speaker 6: with the with the with being on the floor with guys.
48:29
Speaker 6: Uh has been great for us, you know. I think again,
48:32
Speaker 6: you're playing your best basketball when you have everybody every
48:35
Speaker 6: day in practice and you're able to have competitive practices
48:38
Speaker 6: that assimilate game situations. We've had a few opportunities this
48:44
Speaker 6: year where we've had very competitive practices.
48:46
Speaker 4: I thought they carried over into our games.
48:48
Speaker 6: I thought last year's team got better as we continued
48:52
Speaker 6: to heal and men guys and they could practice the
48:55
Speaker 6: way we want to play. I think this team here
48:59
Speaker 6: over the next couple of weeks, he's gonna get a
49:01
Speaker 6: chance to have competitive practices as we continue to get
49:05
Speaker 6: bodies back into practices, so that way we'll be able
49:08
Speaker 6: to really similate the way we have to play in
49:11
Speaker 6: games with a lot of our main guys going against
49:14
Speaker 6: the main guys, you know. So I think that always
49:17
Speaker 6: helps and raise the level of play this time of year,
49:20
Speaker 6: when you were able to do that now for a
49:21
Speaker 6: long period of time, but for an hour at a time,
49:25
Speaker 6: we should be able to get in and have try
49:27
Speaker 6: to have really good execution, you know, with our ones
49:29
Speaker 6: and twos.
49:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, availability always helps when you get everybody.
49:34
Speaker 2: They've had all.
49:36
Speaker 1: Of the players on the roster available for all of
49:40
Speaker 1: one game this year.
49:42
Speaker 2: That's it one.
49:43
Speaker 1: There's only been one game where they had everybody available,
49:46
Speaker 1: and then and then injuries have set in. Somebody else
49:48
Speaker 1: would go down, somebody would come back, somebody else would
49:50
Speaker 1: go down.
49:51
Speaker 2: So getting everybody back makes a big difference.
49:53
Speaker 1: All right, we'll turn our attention back to long worn
49:56
Speaker 1: baseball coming up and this and this big match, the
50:01
Speaker 1: home opening debut for Jim Slasnaga when we continue here
50:04
Speaker 1: on Am thirteen under the zone here on a Tuesday
50:07
Speaker 1: afternoon at UFCU dish fogg Field, Texas.
50:13
Speaker 2: Let me just say they're due to play at five
50:15
Speaker 2: point thirty.
50:16
Speaker 1: Let me let me, let me let me just say
50:17
Speaker 1: that I love your optimism. Right now, I said scheduled,
50:23
Speaker 1: they're due to play. As I say that, there's rain
50:25
Speaker 1: now coming down there. And that's when I got here
50:27
Speaker 1: to the ballpark about noon today, there was no rain.
50:30
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of miss and then the
50:32
Speaker 1: miss stopped. It's raining again right now.
50:35
Speaker 2: Now. Having said that, I just looked at the forecast.
50:39
Speaker 1: The rain is supposed to be intermittent until late this afternoon,
50:43
Speaker 1: and then it's supposed to hold off, and then it's
50:45
Speaker 1: going to get cold tonight. As such, my broadcast partner,
50:49
Speaker 1: Keith Mortland, joins me up up here. And it was
50:53
Speaker 1: fifty years ago, yesterday, February seventeenth, nineteen seventy five. Fifty
51:00
Speaker 1: years ago. Yes, you did against that powerhouse known as
51:05
Speaker 1: Saint Mary's.
51:06
Speaker 7: We played them quite a bit throughout my collegiate career
51:09
Speaker 7: at the Clark and here at the Dish.
51:11
Speaker 2: That was not the only trip they came up that
51:13
Speaker 2: year to play.
51:14
Speaker 1: Really, Okay, Keith was on the field that day, starting
51:19
Speaker 1: we at third base that day, yes, as the Longhorns
51:22
Speaker 1: won a doubleheader from Saint Mary's to Christen then dishfalk
51:27
Speaker 1: Field now UFCU dish falk Field. All right, it would
51:30
Speaker 1: probably take all day to list all of the differences
51:34
Speaker 1: between how the ballpark played back then and how it
51:36
Speaker 1: did now. But what were the most you know, other
51:41
Speaker 1: than the old rug as opposed to field turf surface
51:44
Speaker 1: as it is here, the synthetic surface here, But what
51:48
Speaker 1: were the major differences in how the ballpark played on
51:51
Speaker 1: that day fifty years ago plus one day as opposed
51:55
Speaker 1: to how it will probably play this as.
51:57
Speaker 7: Far as the ballpark. This turf much slower than the
52:01
Speaker 7: turf that we had. Let's just start with that very
52:03
Speaker 7: fast turf at the time that was it was coming
52:06
Speaker 7: super turf with or something to that nature.
52:10
Speaker 2: That it came out of Saint Louis.
52:11
Speaker 7: If I remember Coach Gusson talking to us one times
52:15
Speaker 7: about where it came from and what they were doing.
52:17
Speaker 7: And I mean five days before the season opened, they
52:20
Speaker 7: hadn't finished the pits shit. Really, yeah, so it was
52:23
Speaker 7: a it was a mad rush to get it totally
52:26
Speaker 7: set and ready to go.
52:27
Speaker 1: Uh.
52:28
Speaker 7: The outside walls, so let's say just start with that.
52:31
Speaker 7: The outside walls were back off from home plate.
52:34
Speaker 2: More than they are now.
52:35
Speaker 7: It was a long way to home plate and the
52:37
Speaker 7: old dish really all the way around. You did not
52:39
Speaker 7: have the angles that folks have got a picture in
52:42
Speaker 7: your mind when you get through the dugouts here at
52:44
Speaker 7: the dish. Now it angles back to the file lines.
52:47
Speaker 7: Those were straight lines going down. So a ton of
52:51
Speaker 7: foul territory here in this ballpark.
52:53
Speaker 2: You mean like like like like sunken diamonds.
52:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, file territory. We worked on it all the time.
53:00
Speaker 7: I'm on making sure we got out. So Coach Gus
53:02
Speaker 7: would talk about a ball goes in the year, comes
53:04
Speaker 7: down to ballpark, we get out. So third and first baseman,
53:07
Speaker 7: second basement, and corner outfielders worked on a lot of
53:10
Speaker 7: drills back in those days. We had the old Jugs
53:12
Speaker 7: machine that had just come out. There were balls that
53:14
Speaker 7: go up and we would have to be in a
53:16
Speaker 7: position and.
53:16
Speaker 2: Turn and go. Worked on it a lot.
53:18
Speaker 7: We got good at it because we worked on it
53:20
Speaker 7: every day. But so the ballpark was a much bigger ballpark.
53:24
Speaker 7: It was three fifty down the left field line, three
53:26
Speaker 7: point eighty to the power out in left field, four
53:30
Speaker 7: hundred to dead center, three seventy five to right center,
53:33
Speaker 7: and three thirty to the right field line. Coach Guss
53:37
Speaker 7: had played at old clark Field and the wind blew
53:40
Speaker 7: in it seemed like every day from right field. So
53:42
Speaker 7: he said, hey, we're going to turn the ballpark a
53:45
Speaker 7: different shape.
53:46
Speaker 2: When they built it.
53:47
Speaker 7: So we're going to move the fences back because I
53:48
Speaker 7: think the ball's going to get out of here. The
53:50
Speaker 7: wind blew in every single day of my junior campaign.
53:54
Speaker 2: It was a cold spring and the wind blew in.
53:57
Speaker 7: Of course, we had great pictures like Richard Wortham and
53:59
Speaker 7: Jim Gideon uh Martin forst So they they loved it
54:02
Speaker 7: because all they had to do was just throw it
54:04
Speaker 7: to hit it into the wind, because it was difficult
54:06
Speaker 7: to hit a ball out of this ballpark when it
54:08
Speaker 7: first opened, So it played a lot lot bigger. It
54:10
Speaker 7: stayed that way for about fifteen years and then started
54:14
Speaker 7: some of the renovations. Coach Guss brought it in a
54:17
Speaker 7: little bit in.
54:17
Speaker 2: The left field.
54:18
Speaker 7: He was one of the first guys then, and obviously
54:22
Speaker 7: when coach Grido got here, he wanted to do some
54:24
Speaker 7: more things. They didn't quite get that done, even though
54:27
Speaker 7: he won two championships.
54:28
Speaker 2: He wanted to move him in and make it a
54:29
Speaker 2: little more of an offensive type ballpark.
54:32
Speaker 7: You know, coach adapted to this ballpark as because his
54:36
Speaker 7: style in California. If you go back to his great
54:39
Speaker 7: teams at cal State Fruls and they weren't bunt and run,
54:42
Speaker 7: I mean.
54:42
Speaker 2: They could away. They slung the back.
54:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, so he you know, his style, he had to adapt.
54:49
Speaker 7: He became more Augie ball when he got here because
54:52
Speaker 7: you looked at the ballpark, it was just one of
54:54
Speaker 7: the most gigantic places to cover and you always had
54:57
Speaker 7: to have great outfielders here.
54:59
Speaker 2: Now in the last few.
55:00
Speaker 7: Years, the ballpark has has definitely come back in the
55:05
Speaker 7: foul territory much smaller. It's closer to home plate from
55:08
Speaker 7: the back wall behind the plate where the fans that
55:11
Speaker 7: the stands have moved down a little bit when they
55:13
Speaker 7: put in the chairbacks stands.
55:14
Speaker 2: So when they had the big renovation in eighth nine.
55:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really has done an outstanding job of making
55:21
Speaker 7: the ballpark more of an offensive type ballpark. It would
55:25
Speaker 7: be wonderful to me if they could take and do
55:27
Speaker 7: the same thing they did with the yetty yard and
55:29
Speaker 7: do the same thing in right field, even though that
55:31
Speaker 7: is a storage area right now, there is that same space,
55:34
Speaker 7: but that space is where they store a ton of
55:37
Speaker 7: the equipment that comes out to work on the field
55:40
Speaker 7: and batting practice and screens and all that stuff. So
55:43
Speaker 7: you know, space is tight on the forty acre everybody
55:46
Speaker 7: says is forty acres, Well, it's a lot bigger than
55:47
Speaker 7: forty acres now, Yeah, but if they had some more space,
55:51
Speaker 7: I really think they would take that in and that
55:52
Speaker 7: would be another fantastic addition because it is so much
55:57
Speaker 7: fun to see those people having fun there. They're right
55:59
Speaker 7: on top of the fans. It gives you more of
56:01
Speaker 7: a home field advantage. The one thing I've heard from opponents.
56:04
Speaker 7: I know a lot of the ex coaches and Mark
56:06
Speaker 7: Mark was was a good friend. Skip Johnson's a good
56:09
Speaker 7: friend at Oklahoma. The intimidation is that there's so many
56:14
Speaker 7: people here, but you don't get that field of being
56:18
Speaker 7: right on top of you like you do at Bluebell.
56:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they we're going to see at Starkville. Yeah.
56:24
Speaker 7: So, but having the yetty yard and you've had another
56:26
Speaker 7: and right field, and all of a sudden you close
56:29
Speaker 7: that in a little bit because those outfielders can hear
56:31
Speaker 7: that they're a long way from home play, and so
56:33
Speaker 7: all of a sudden it becomes really creates a home
56:37
Speaker 7: field advantage. Of course, the long ORNs have played so
56:39
Speaker 7: well over the course of the fifty years of this ballpark.
56:42
Speaker 7: I mean it's got to be close close to eighty
56:44
Speaker 7: percent of the games they've won in this ballpark.
56:46
Speaker 1: Hang with me, I got a couple more questions for you.
56:48
Speaker 1: Where we before we get up to the top of
56:50
Speaker 1: the are keep Moreland with us here on the program.
56:53
Speaker 1: Of course, Keith will join me for the game broadcast
56:55
Speaker 1: and for the majority of the game broadcast this season,
56:58
Speaker 1: as you listen to Long Horned Baseball right here on
57:00
Speaker 1: AM thirteen under the Zone. Thirdly final hour of the
57:02
Speaker 1: program here on AM thirteen under the Zone, and then
57:06
Speaker 1: it's a quick turnaround because we have long warn Baseball
57:08
Speaker 1: for you. They moved the game time up one hour
57:11
Speaker 1: from six thirty to five thirty. That was in large
57:15
Speaker 1: measure to dodge really really cold weather that's going to
57:19
Speaker 1: be expected starting any moment. Yeah, well, according to the forecast,
57:27
Speaker 1: it would be in the neighborhood of the eight to
57:30
Speaker 1: nine o'clock hour, something like that. One thing that Jim
57:35
Speaker 1: schlosnegle ha has seized upon and he's one of those coaches.
57:40
Speaker 1: Of course, when did you or I Keith Morland ever
57:42
Speaker 1: know know a college baseball coach who didn't want to
57:44
Speaker 1: be plugged in the local mediorologist.
57:46
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no question to find out, and.
57:50
Speaker 1: Of course Roger Wallace or colleague happens to work manon
57:53
Speaker 1: what's going on. But yeah, between Nick and and and
57:58
Speaker 1: everybody else that's part of that crew to find out
58:02
Speaker 1: what's going on. So Jim schlist Angels been plugged into
58:06
Speaker 1: that ut as a meteorologists they consult as well. So
58:12
Speaker 1: with all of that in there, they were kind of
58:16
Speaker 1: been told that it really won't start getting real cold
58:20
Speaker 1: until probably eight nine.
58:22
Speaker 2: O'clock tonight somewhere in there, and as.
58:25
Speaker 1: A result of that, it's gonna get, it'll get, it'll
58:28
Speaker 1: get pretty uncomfortable.
58:29
Speaker 2: So they decided to move the game time up an
58:31
Speaker 2: hour now.
58:31
Speaker 1: Having said that, it still drizzly here at the ballpark,
58:35
Speaker 1: but of course the mountains covered. The teams are hitting
58:38
Speaker 1: inside today, So if the rain is able to let
58:43
Speaker 1: off like they think it might, and the forecast says
58:45
Speaker 1: it should certainly about the six o'clock hour, then they
58:49
Speaker 1: can start the ballgame if nothing else started at its
58:53
Speaker 1: originally scheduled time, but they are scheduled right now to
58:56
Speaker 1: go at five point thirty. So Keith Morland with me
58:59
Speaker 1: during this portion in the program, and we were talking
59:01
Speaker 1: about the veterans that the Longgorns had and young players
59:05
Speaker 1: coming back, Tommy Farmer making strides, Will Gasparino coming off
59:09
Speaker 1: the big weekend, Max Blue, as well Adrian Ryriguez being
59:12
Speaker 1: named co Freshman of the Week in the SEC Jayalen Forest.
59:16
Speaker 1: We know he's approven commodity eat the Mindoz of the
59:19
Speaker 1: transfer from Arizona State. Be interesting to watch him at
59:21
Speaker 1: second and Kimmel Schusler, veteran at first in Ryland, Galbin
59:24
Speaker 1: behind the plate. Those are regulars. And then you go
59:28
Speaker 1: to the mound and I correct me if I'm wrong.
59:32
Speaker 1: I think the biggest eyebrow raiser to folks who followed
59:37
Speaker 1: this program or follow college baseball overall, was how well
59:40
Speaker 1: the starting pitching performed, at least in the first two
59:42
Speaker 1: games in Arling.
59:43
Speaker 7: I don't think there's a question about that. I mean,
59:46
Speaker 7: I wasn't sure what to expect. Now there's things that
59:51
Speaker 7: that I saw in the in the eleven guys that
59:54
Speaker 7: got on the mound over the course of the weekend.
59:57
Speaker 2: Pitchability, everybody's got to have something.
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Speaker 7: Yes, you love to look at the board and it
1:00:02
Speaker 7: says ninety five ninety six, but if it's right over
1:00:05
Speaker 7: the top, right at you, I'm telling you, Craig, I
1:00:09
Speaker 7: can start swinging when you start winding up. I used
1:00:11
Speaker 7: to say that you can throw two hundred miles an
1:00:13
Speaker 7: hour straight hours.
1:00:14
Speaker 2: You throw it.
1:00:15
Speaker 7: If you throw it, you know, down in the middle,
1:00:16
Speaker 7: and I know it's common. I'm gonna get ready and
1:00:18
Speaker 7: get the barrel to it. So you have to have
1:00:20
Speaker 7: pitchability with that, and we saw that on Friday night.
1:00:23
Speaker 7: I saw a young man that's got a good arm,
1:00:25
Speaker 7: but I also like the way he used his break
1:00:27
Speaker 7: the ball and it's different ups and down, so really interesting,
1:00:32
Speaker 7: fun watch to.
1:00:33
Speaker 2: Watch him go out and pitch. Jared Spencer Jared Spencer.
1:00:35
Speaker 7: And then on Saturday you had Luke Harrison, who has
1:00:39
Speaker 7: never really been healthy except those first few days in
1:00:42
Speaker 7: his first year since he's been here. So you saw
1:00:46
Speaker 7: a healthy guy that has pitchability, pitches, changes speeds, those
1:00:51
Speaker 7: strikes in and out, has enough that he can, you know,
1:00:54
Speaker 7: climb the.
1:00:54
Speaker 2: Ladder with you.
1:00:55
Speaker 7: It's enough fastball to do that, but it's just the
1:00:58
Speaker 7: arm angle and the way he hides it.
1:00:59
Speaker 2: Now you still have to have two more starters.
1:01:02
Speaker 7: I don't think that they know who exactly they are yet.
1:01:05
Speaker 2: But that's why you play. Even though you got to
1:01:07
Speaker 2: go in a hurry.
1:01:08
Speaker 7: We're inside a month to a trip to Starkville, Mississippi,
1:01:11
Speaker 7: and we play conference, playing the best conference in America,
1:01:14
Speaker 7: so that's the first thing.
1:01:16
Speaker 2: So you got to find him. And so.
1:01:19
Speaker 7: I really liked the fact is that you've got some
1:01:22
Speaker 7: different guys.
1:01:22
Speaker 4: You can look at it.
1:01:23
Speaker 7: We're gonna get to see a freshman tonight and f
1:01:27
Speaker 7: Is you know, I haven't seen him, so that's out there.
1:01:30
Speaker 7: But coming out of the pin, you saw a veteran
1:01:33
Speaker 7: guy that's been around a long time, been away from
1:01:35
Speaker 7: the game for a little bit. And Will Mercer, you know,
1:01:38
Speaker 7: he made a mistake, left the ball in the middle
1:01:40
Speaker 7: of the plate.
1:01:40
Speaker 2: He makes one good pitch. Texas wins the Friday night game.
1:01:43
Speaker 7: Really did a nice job in a crucial situation coming
1:01:46
Speaker 7: into the game. I don't hold that against him at all,
1:01:49
Speaker 7: but I like his stuff. He's a guy that attacks
1:01:52
Speaker 7: and comes at you with good stuff. The other parts
1:01:55
Speaker 7: of that, you've got some guys that all make the ball.
1:01:58
Speaker 2: They summer three quarters, summer over the top.
1:02:01
Speaker 7: But overall, when you just look for everybody that you saw,
1:02:05
Speaker 7: you could see pitchability.
1:02:06
Speaker 2: It wasn't like they were coming out well, we hope
1:02:08
Speaker 2: that he can do this.
1:02:09
Speaker 7: It's then if you've got pitchability, then it's confidence and
1:02:14
Speaker 7: having some success and building that confidence and finding your role.
1:02:19
Speaker 2: And it will not take long for this.
1:02:21
Speaker 7: Staff to figure out where guys are gonna plug in
1:02:24
Speaker 7: and plug out the guy that came in on Friday,
1:02:28
Speaker 7: Ruger Riojas.
1:02:31
Speaker 1: That's correct, Bruger Riojas, the iss A transfer from Wimberley.
1:02:35
Speaker 7: From Wimberley is going to end up being that guy
1:02:39
Speaker 7: to get those last outs. He's got that type of
1:02:41
Speaker 7: stuff and it really did an outstanding job.
1:02:44
Speaker 2: Might have hit the end of that window in.
1:02:46
Speaker 7: His first outing just a little bit, might have had
1:02:48
Speaker 7: to go to him just a little early. But if
1:02:51
Speaker 7: you give him a four out, three out, say going
1:02:54
Speaker 7: to be very difficult because he has got really good stuff.
1:02:57
Speaker 7: And boy, that is such an important part of being
1:03:00
Speaker 7: a competitive program is to know, I've got to lead
1:03:04
Speaker 7: going to the ninth I've got a guy that slams
1:03:06
Speaker 7: the door.
1:03:07
Speaker 1: You know, one thing that's going to be unusual that
1:03:09
Speaker 1: we're going to see a right handed starter for a change.
1:03:13
Speaker 1: It'll be Jason Flores is the freshman from Naming Forrest
1:03:17
Speaker 1: in Garland, a four time All state hontere will who
1:03:20
Speaker 1: will get the call to go to the map And
1:03:23
Speaker 1: I would if he has success, I think you would
1:03:25
Speaker 1: leave him out there, let him go for a little bit.
1:03:27
Speaker 1: These guys have been stretched out of muff that any
1:03:30
Speaker 1: of them really truly. When they do their outings and
1:03:32
Speaker 1: preparing to get to this point, they all throw fifty
1:03:35
Speaker 1: to seventy pitches in their outing, even if they're a
1:03:38
Speaker 1: guy out of the bullpen, because you want to stretch
1:03:39
Speaker 1: that arm strength the way you gold arm strengths, throw
1:03:42
Speaker 1: more pitches. So I would expect him, if he has
1:03:44
Speaker 1: some success and not to go fifty to seventy pitches.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: Flores is a guy h fastball, sinker, cutter, and and
1:03:53
Speaker 1: and a guy who can also mix in a curveball
1:03:57
Speaker 1: and occasional splitter.
1:03:58
Speaker 2: So he's got an assortment. He's got an a sortment
1:04:00
Speaker 2: of pitches.
1:04:00
Speaker 7: But more times than not, when you say cutter, slider, sinker,
1:04:05
Speaker 7: he's got movement to his fastball. Because sometimes young pitchers,
1:04:09
Speaker 7: I'm not saying that he's the situation. Sometimes his young
1:04:11
Speaker 7: pitchers have to figure out how to hold it. And
1:04:13
Speaker 7: they're getting great education. Now a professional pitching coach, so
1:04:16
Speaker 7: to speak. So well, we'll see what he's got. But
1:04:19
Speaker 7: that tells me he's got movement to his fastball.
1:04:21
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me ask you a couple of
1:04:23
Speaker 1: generalized college baseball questions. We talked about this on the
1:04:27
Speaker 1: broadcast Friday night in the season over, and I know
1:04:29
Speaker 1: you and Roger talked about this as well. Changes to
1:04:32
Speaker 1: the game like we've seen in the major leagues, the
1:04:35
Speaker 1: umpires checking the gloves in the hands of the pitchers
1:04:37
Speaker 1: coming in. That's something that's pretty readily adaptable. The other thing,
1:04:42
Speaker 1: I was watching the Arkansas game yesterday and then we
1:04:45
Speaker 1: talked about the absence of PitchCom and the devices that
1:04:49
Speaker 1: that have been you might say.
1:04:53
Speaker 7: Redefined, redefined. And I've set in on the nationals Umpires meeting.
1:04:58
Speaker 7: It was about two and a half hours stuff. Most
1:05:00
Speaker 7: of the stuff that they would go over was stuff
1:05:02
Speaker 7: that we all knew. I did make a mistake on
1:05:06
Speaker 7: our broadcast. There will be microphones in the SEC, but
1:05:11
Speaker 7: it will not be explanation of every play. It will
1:05:14
Speaker 7: be explanation of a reviewed play.
1:05:17
Speaker 1: Sue and I saw that when we were in college
1:05:19
Speaker 1: station a couple of years ago, because we were given
1:05:21
Speaker 1: a patch to put into our feed that said this
1:05:24
Speaker 1: is the umpire mike. And I said, are we going
1:05:26
Speaker 1: to hear them say no, let's ball outside. I said no, no, no, no, no,
1:05:29
Speaker 1: if you get a review, and sure enough and it worked,
1:05:31
Speaker 1: and the guy came over and the home plate umpire said,
1:05:34
Speaker 1: they call on the field stands runners out at first.
1:05:37
Speaker 7: Well, but we're not going to get I had great
1:05:40
Speaker 7: umpires friend to call me and he says he Keith.
1:05:42
Speaker 7: I was listening and he said, the one thing you're
1:05:44
Speaker 7: not going to get even in the sec you're not
1:05:46
Speaker 7: going to get an explanation of a pitch count violation.
1:05:50
Speaker 2: It'll just go up one and know that they won't
1:05:52
Speaker 2: do that.
1:05:54
Speaker 7: So I misinterpreted that on the air and I take
1:05:57
Speaker 7: that back. Now any review, we're going to get a
1:05:59
Speaker 7: complete explanation, but you will not on some of the
1:06:02
Speaker 7: things that happen in a game where a guy may
1:06:05
Speaker 7: stand because if a pitcher's looking in and the hitter
1:06:08
Speaker 7: bounces out, you see all things time out and everything,
1:06:12
Speaker 7: and if you're not watching the pitch clock, and if
1:06:14
Speaker 7: it's at seven seconds, there's nothing can happen. But if
1:06:17
Speaker 7: it's at five seconds or under, the hitter gets cart
1:06:20
Speaker 7: charged with a strike. So sometimes it's decisive of where
1:06:23
Speaker 7: it's a striker or a ball or a ball or strike.
1:06:26
Speaker 7: And then if both guys look in and one steps
1:06:29
Speaker 7: off inside of five seconds.
1:06:31
Speaker 2: That the pitcher steps off, that's the ball. So all
1:06:33
Speaker 2: those rules are the same.
1:06:35
Speaker 7: We're just not going to get the explanation of those
1:06:37
Speaker 7: rules very very well. And over the weekend watching all
1:06:41
Speaker 7: the games, nine games that we saw some really nine
1:06:44
Speaker 7: or six really good teams. They need to do better
1:06:48
Speaker 7: at explaining that to tell what's going on. I've been
1:06:51
Speaker 7: around the game my whole life, and there's still times
1:06:53
Speaker 7: where I look at it and go, I'm not sure
1:06:55
Speaker 7: how to interpret what just took place.
1:06:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly what you described earlier about the batter
1:07:00
Speaker 1: by stepping out being called for a strike. There's no
1:07:02
Speaker 1: better example than that. And and I know you'll recall
1:07:05
Speaker 1: this game Roger and I were doing it. But there
1:07:06
Speaker 1: was a game I think three years ago in Fort Worth,
1:07:09
Speaker 1: Trey Faltini got called out a third strike. Oh yeah,
1:07:13
Speaker 1: for that, and the place was about to go on
1:07:15
Speaker 1: an uproar there in TCU, and then Mike and Tico
1:07:18
Speaker 1: made it all relevan irrelevant e in a home run
1:07:20
Speaker 1: and the very next pattern Texas up winning ended up
1:07:23
Speaker 1: winning the game. But it was a learning moment at
1:07:26
Speaker 1: that point, and it's a learning moment for young guys
1:07:28
Speaker 1: about stepping out, stepping out.
1:07:30
Speaker 7: The interpretation of the rules. And then the last one.
1:07:33
Speaker 7: All week are the practices I've been to. The extra
1:07:36
Speaker 7: base down the first baseline has been burn Arch. I
1:07:39
Speaker 7: thought it was gonna stay burn Arch, would come to
1:07:41
Speaker 7: find out they're all green.
1:07:42
Speaker 2: They're all green. So that man hated green. So uh.
1:07:46
Speaker 7: But during all the workouts, in the in the in
1:07:48
Speaker 7: the innsquad games and everything, all the time, it is, uh,
1:07:52
Speaker 7: it's been it's been burn Arch here.
1:07:53
Speaker 2: So I kind of thought maybe you could do it
1:07:55
Speaker 2: by the home colors.
1:07:56
Speaker 7: Well that's proved that wrong today because it's green, just
1:07:58
Speaker 7: like it wasn't in ar.
1:08:00
Speaker 1: So when we're in norm in the final week in
1:08:02
Speaker 1: the regular season, we won't see a red.
1:08:04
Speaker 6: You're not.
1:08:06
Speaker 2: It's going to be green, and we won't see them
1:08:08
Speaker 2: start and it is.
1:08:09
Speaker 7: It is odd, though, to look down and see those
1:08:12
Speaker 7: two bases together.
1:08:13
Speaker 2: It's just well, it's an odd look. I think Softball.
1:08:18
Speaker 1: League, Softball Craig Field, you unpleasant valley.
1:08:21
Speaker 2: That's what I think.
1:08:22
Speaker 7: I'm so much of a traditionalist, I probably will adapt
1:08:26
Speaker 7: to this pretty well. I don't want collisions, you don't
1:08:29
Speaker 7: want players hurt. Uh, I understand, and that the safety rule.
1:08:33
Speaker 7: I do understand. The breaking up the double play at
1:08:35
Speaker 7: second base, because there have been college players that have
1:08:38
Speaker 7: careers have been ended.
1:08:39
Speaker 2: Uh in the old.
1:08:40
Speaker 7: Rules, because you know, I played with a lot of
1:08:42
Speaker 7: guys that you didn't want to turn that double play
1:08:44
Speaker 7: at second base with this guy coming at you because
1:08:46
Speaker 7: they were coming to get you.
1:08:49
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you.
1:08:50
Speaker 7: So, I do like to slide in straight in rules,
1:08:52
Speaker 7: and I do like not being able to don't have
1:08:54
Speaker 7: to block the plate and uh that kind of thing.
1:08:57
Speaker 7: So uh, Tire Harrington, one of the head coach is
1:09:00
Speaker 7: one of my good friends.
1:09:01
Speaker 2: It's I'm about to steal a few minutes from him here,
1:09:03
Speaker 2: so is He'll come in and he'll tell you the
1:09:05
Speaker 2: same thing. He's a traditionalist too.
1:09:07
Speaker 7: I mean we both have raised in the same time,
1:09:09
Speaker 7: been around the games a whole long, but we also
1:09:11
Speaker 7: understand safety. There is some safety things that that they're changing.
1:09:15
Speaker 7: I was just saying, Tis, I'll hand you the headset.
1:09:18
Speaker 7: I think the one biggest safety change is breaking into
1:09:20
Speaker 7: double play as.
1:09:21
Speaker 2: A middle endfielder.
1:09:22
Speaker 7: He'll tell you because when we played, I'm the same way.
1:09:25
Speaker 7: I was pretty quick then I wouldn't let him throw
1:09:28
Speaker 7: the first base. I mean you were going to take
1:09:31
Speaker 7: him out, so that that part is that part's disappeared.
1:09:35
Speaker 7: All right, we need a break. Ty Harrington is going
1:09:37
Speaker 7: to join us up next.
1:09:38
Speaker 1: We're getting ready for opening night at UFCU Dish fart
1:09:41
Speaker 1: Field again. Texas and Houston still scheduled for five thirty
1:09:45
Speaker 1: on the first pitching. Moved it up by one hour.
1:09:47
Speaker 1: Will keep you posted if there's any change on that.
1:09:49
Speaker 1: This is AM thirteen under the zone.
1:09:51
Speaker 2: The afternoon. It looks like it looks like the rain
1:09:56
Speaker 2: has stopped.
1:09:58
Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. And it must have been
1:10:00
Speaker 1: because Ty Harrington entered the building. So that's that's that's
1:10:02
Speaker 1: why looking at that. So I'll we visit with the
1:10:06
Speaker 1: coach each week. And uh, I was kidding you about this,
1:10:09
Speaker 1: but I'm excited for you about this. You know, you're
1:10:11
Speaker 1: becoming a TV head and and and doing this, uh
1:10:14
Speaker 1: doing this thing.
1:10:15
Speaker 2: But you've been doing you've been at this for a while.
1:10:17
Speaker 1: You've been doing it with Texas State and you're still
1:10:19
Speaker 1: going to do your your Texas State scheduled this year.
1:10:22
Speaker 5: Right, Yep, I'm still doing Texas State games. I want, uh,
1:10:26
Speaker 5: I'll do that. They were supposed to have one this Friday,
1:10:28
Speaker 5: and that's debatable. Yeah, at this point, where the weather right,
1:10:31
Speaker 5: whether they're gonna move it, change it, and I'm not
1:10:33
Speaker 5: sure what they're going to do yet, but I'll do
1:10:35
Speaker 5: some of their games. And it worked out this year
1:10:37
Speaker 5: really that when Texas is at home, they're on the road,
1:10:42
Speaker 5: and so not every one of them, but a lot
1:10:45
Speaker 5: of them worked out that way. And so yeah, I'll
1:10:46
Speaker 5: go back to sam Markets and do a bunch of
1:10:48
Speaker 5: games there, and uh, we're at all got where it
1:10:51
Speaker 5: all got so where this all got started from me?
1:10:53
Speaker 5: And then I got one more weekend at with Flow
1:10:56
Speaker 5: uh College, and uh that I'll go back now next weekend,
1:11:00
Speaker 5: I think it's Auburn, Baylor, Ohio State, and Oregon State.
1:11:07
Speaker 2: And and that will be a globe life, all globe life.
1:11:09
Speaker 1: Okay, the last weekend that they have, Just like last year,
1:11:12
Speaker 1: you're going to see a good cross section of the nation.
1:11:15
Speaker 1: And and what what baseball looks like this year? Did
1:11:20
Speaker 1: you did anything really capture your attention on aside from
1:11:26
Speaker 1: Texas just the overall what you saw the product on
1:11:29
Speaker 1: the field, Uh this past week in the games at Irelandton.
1:11:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the gap you know, just took the headphones off,
1:11:36
Speaker 5: was gonna like it because he'd have been right in
1:11:37
Speaker 5: the middle of it too. Was the offense, Yeah, I
1:11:40
Speaker 5: mean it used to be that opening weekend. As a coach,
1:11:46
Speaker 5: you spent more time interested I don't use the word
1:11:50
Speaker 5: concern interested in your offense. And the hitters historically were
1:11:54
Speaker 5: behind the opening weekend.
1:11:57
Speaker 2: Then you know, the pictures always a little bit ahead.
1:11:59
Speaker 1: Funny that because Keith said that the other night, and
1:12:01
Speaker 1: Schlass said that to me about fifteen twenty minutes ago,
1:12:04
Speaker 1: and he said it was a it was kind of
1:12:05
Speaker 1: a flip up there.
1:12:07
Speaker 5: I mean, starting Saturday at eleven am in the game on.
1:12:11
Speaker 2: Saturday, you could just It's like the barrels were wide open.
1:12:16
Speaker 5: And even a lot of the outs to me were
1:12:18
Speaker 5: loud outs, hard.
1:12:19
Speaker 2: Outs, drives down the line, yeah, I mean.
1:12:23
Speaker 5: Just balls it And to me, and Keith knows that
1:12:27
Speaker 5: what you do too, you see more baseball as much
1:12:29
Speaker 5: as anybody. The amount of authoritated hip balls, not just
1:12:35
Speaker 5: balls danked in and not just flipped over.
1:12:37
Speaker 2: I mean, I just good me personally. Yeah, they were
1:12:40
Speaker 2: on time.
1:12:42
Speaker 5: I mean to me, if I sat there and somebody said, hey,
1:12:44
Speaker 5: what what did you think about this line for the line,
1:12:46
Speaker 5: and I said, man, nobody looked overmatched. Nobody looked like
1:12:49
Speaker 5: they were, you know, behind and hadn't seen anything, you know,
1:12:53
Speaker 5: a lot traditionally a lot of schools when he come
1:12:55
Speaker 5: down from up top, up north and come down here
1:12:58
Speaker 5: to play that first two days, they really have a
1:13:01
Speaker 5: hard time catching up with a velo, particularly on a
1:13:03
Speaker 5: Friday night where they haven't he been outside under the lights.
1:13:06
Speaker 2: Now this was indoors.
1:13:07
Speaker 5: But I just was probably more impressed with the offense
1:13:09
Speaker 5: than I was just about anything.
1:13:10
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is? Why do you think
1:13:12
Speaker 2: it's clipped? I don't know, I don't I don't know.
1:13:14
Speaker 5: You just heard it from three different people, right that
1:13:16
Speaker 5: have seen a lot of baseball, and Slash included him.
1:13:20
Speaker 5: Now Texas, on the other hand, that the two riding
1:13:23
Speaker 5: you know, shutouts for a little bit in game one,
1:13:26
Speaker 5: you know, and then game two between the starters now
1:13:29
Speaker 5: looks even more impressive to me.
1:13:34
Speaker 2: But I don't know the reason for it.
1:13:36
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe the training indoor training facilities with the machines
1:13:41
Speaker 5: being able.
1:13:41
Speaker 2: To Slast made mention of that.
1:13:42
Speaker 1: He said, how you can simulate, He said, we can,
1:13:44
Speaker 1: We could simulate Patrick Forbes there on Friday. He said
1:13:48
Speaker 1: that we can computerizing and put in exactly what the
1:13:51
Speaker 1: metrics is or what he.
1:13:52
Speaker 5: Throws, so which allows you to get set up on time,
1:13:55
Speaker 5: allows you to you know, physically and be able to
1:14:00
Speaker 5: get your mind set up on what the veto looks like,
1:14:03
Speaker 5: the breakers look like. So you're getting a look at
1:14:05
Speaker 5: what you're going to go face. And so maybe that's
1:14:10
Speaker 5: what it was. It's got to be something, because I
1:14:13
Speaker 5: thought it was unusual. Now what I didn't do and
1:14:15
Speaker 5: I didn't have a chance to nerd out because about
1:14:17
Speaker 5: this because we were all traveling home at three o'clock
1:14:20
Speaker 5: in the morning was I didn't get up on Monday
1:14:24
Speaker 5: and read all the total scores around the country, right,
1:14:27
Speaker 5: But I do know that there was a game between
1:14:30
Speaker 5: two teams and ended up thirty something to twenty three.
1:14:33
Speaker 1: Thirty six, twenty three, and it went seven innings because
1:14:36
Speaker 1: it was a thirteen run margin thirty six in it
1:14:38
Speaker 1: was the second highest combined scoring margin in college baseball history.
1:14:45
Speaker 1: And there was another game I think Rhode Island was
1:14:47
Speaker 1: involved in this where twenty runs were scored in the
1:14:49
Speaker 1: second inning, which tied for the most runs scored in
1:14:52
Speaker 1: one inning in Division one baseball.
1:14:55
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go I mean, look, it's an
1:14:57
Speaker 2: easy ask.
1:14:58
Speaker 5: I guess at the end to have some kind of
1:15:00
Speaker 5: data to Kendall Rodgers or maybe somebody could go x
1:15:02
Speaker 5: amount of number runs were scored in twenty four, twenty three,
1:15:06
Speaker 5: twenty four, and this is what was scored opening weekend
1:15:09
Speaker 5: in twenty five. And if it's a huge difference between
1:15:12
Speaker 5: those three years, and I don't you know.
1:15:15
Speaker 2: Somebody baseballs all over again. We started looking at that,
1:15:18
Speaker 2: you know, something like that, and I.
1:15:20
Speaker 5: Don't know, but I was in and again I would
1:15:23
Speaker 5: say it is for there to be four maybe what
1:15:25
Speaker 5: was it for almost five consecutive run rule games.
1:15:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, with those names of the teams.
1:15:31
Speaker 5: That were in that you know showdown last weekend, I
1:15:34
Speaker 5: would have never guessed. Somebody said, you know, you got
1:15:38
Speaker 5: what are you taking the up? And uh, you know
1:15:40
Speaker 5: over under on how many runs lets go? I would
1:15:42
Speaker 5: have taken it under one hundred percent. Okay, your review
1:15:44
Speaker 5: of Texas, well, I was impressing. I was impressed in
1:15:48
Speaker 5: the Alumni game. Yeah, I remember you said that, I
1:15:50
Speaker 5: look I look at things different and then maybe sometimes
1:15:54
Speaker 5: I look at it to too much of a positive lens,
1:15:57
Speaker 5: but I.
1:15:58
Speaker 2: Don't think so.
1:15:59
Speaker 5: This time was really impressed offensively they return and that's
1:16:04
Speaker 5: and he's not an easy equation, but that's an apparent
1:16:07
Speaker 5: equation that you can look at and depth and go,
1:16:09
Speaker 5: we've got these guys with this many at bats. And
1:16:12
Speaker 5: then to me, the difference started to become when you
1:16:14
Speaker 5: watch Farmer and then you watch gas Marino, that is
1:16:18
Speaker 5: a different hitter. Keith can tell you that nobody's no
1:16:21
Speaker 5: swings any better than Keith Morrelon. But that swing is tighter, shorter,
1:16:26
Speaker 5: direct and I think this past weekend I saw him
1:16:29
Speaker 5: chase maybe just a couple of balls out of the
1:16:32
Speaker 5: strike zone, which last year sometimes if you elevated and
1:16:36
Speaker 5: hollered he would swing and been.
1:16:38
Speaker 2: Working with too low.
1:16:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just I was impressed with that, but
1:16:41
Speaker 5: I thought the path of his and the directness of
1:16:44
Speaker 5: his swing was better. You can look at the physicality
1:16:48
Speaker 5: when he runs around now his chest is out a
1:16:50
Speaker 5: little bit more, with a little more you know, definitive
1:16:53
Speaker 5: definition to it. And then I think the last piece
1:16:56
Speaker 5: for me, offensively is the most obvious one of ball
1:16:59
Speaker 5: and Robertguez, i'man to look, he's a beast so far.
1:17:03
Speaker 2: Now how this year plays out for.
1:17:06
Speaker 5: Him, none of us know if we had a crystal ball,
1:17:07
Speaker 5: we'd all be millions and billionaires. But the reality is
1:17:11
Speaker 5: when you watch him for the first few times, he
1:17:14
Speaker 5: has an incredible ability, in my opinion, to get his
1:17:18
Speaker 5: hands in a position to get the barrel flushed to
1:17:21
Speaker 5: the baseball on a repeated event.
1:17:24
Speaker 2: Now, early in the year, early in the game.
1:17:27
Speaker 5: Breakers got sped up a little bit in the beginning
1:17:30
Speaker 5: of the of the tournament on opening night with the
1:17:33
Speaker 5: three punch outs. You couldn't have asked for. You couldn't
1:17:35
Speaker 5: have asked for a tougher start. And this is the
1:17:37
Speaker 5: second equation for me that it tells about that young man.
1:17:40
Speaker 2: Three punch outs and an air at third base.
1:17:42
Speaker 5: I don't know if they scored in there or not,
1:17:43
Speaker 5: but he misplayed it or it didn't make you up.
1:17:45
Speaker 5: And then he dribbles the ball to second base, and
1:17:48
Speaker 5: so you're thinking, well, at least he make contact right,
1:17:51
Speaker 5: and then he absolutely just landed all over the ball
1:17:55
Speaker 5: to give his team a chance. Now, if people have
1:17:57
Speaker 5: never been where you play your first college for a
1:18:01
Speaker 5: program like this in front of your home crowd, wearing
1:18:05
Speaker 5: orange and white, and you have the first four at
1:18:08
Speaker 5: bats that you have in your first defensive play that
1:18:10
Speaker 5: he had, and then you land on a ball and
1:18:12
Speaker 5: hit a homer starts to tell me a lot about
1:18:14
Speaker 5: that young man emotionally and what he did and then physically.
1:18:17
Speaker 2: Then the rest of the weekend was I'm here. You
1:18:20
Speaker 2: guys better get ready for it. That's cool, Hey, I
1:18:24
Speaker 2: appreciate you doing this.
1:18:24
Speaker 1: I know you got TV duties now to get to,
1:18:27
Speaker 1: but we'll all have fun with this tonight.
1:18:28
Speaker 5: Right, Always enjoy coming on with you, guys, And Keith,
1:18:31
Speaker 5: I'm going to be honest with you.
1:18:33
Speaker 2: I still watch stuff on reels every once in a while.
1:18:35
Speaker 5: It's it's a social media thing, and I'll watch it
1:18:37
Speaker 5: a once in a while and I'll watch those guys
1:18:39
Speaker 5: just run into people at second base.
1:18:40
Speaker 2: They don't even I mean run into them.
1:18:43
Speaker 5: And you had an advantage because most people, a lot
1:18:45
Speaker 5: of people don't know, but you're an unbelievable football.
1:18:47
Speaker 2: Player, so you had an advantage. You already knew. You
1:18:50
Speaker 2: already knew how to you already knew how to tackle
1:18:51
Speaker 2: people safety right, you knew how to do it. So
1:18:54
Speaker 2: all right, you guys have a great call, and I
1:18:56
Speaker 2: appreciate you.
1:18:56
Speaker 1: Let me come on, all right, that is a ty Herrington,
1:18:59
Speaker 1: who will be working on the telecast with David Salzman.
1:19:02
Speaker 1: All right, we have more coming up when we continue
1:19:04
Speaker 1: from UFCU Dish falk Field on thirteen under the Zone.
1:19:06
Speaker 1: We continue from the UFCU Dish falk Field getting ready
1:19:09
Speaker 1: for this matchup between Texas and Houston as the team's
1:19:13
Speaker 1: gone through the batting practices and again five point fifteen
1:19:17
Speaker 1: pregame start time and the first pitch is coming up
1:19:20
Speaker 1: at five point thirty. All right, let's let's hear some
1:19:23
Speaker 1: more from Longhorn's basketball coach Rode Terry.
1:19:25
Speaker 2: Like we said, they.
1:19:25
Speaker 1: Finally arrived at the midweek by did Texas finally able
1:19:31
Speaker 1: to get there in which they haven't had during the year,
1:19:34
Speaker 1: And obviously with the players banged up all season long,
1:19:39
Speaker 1: you would expect it would that that would definitely come
1:19:42
Speaker 1: in handy. So here's the comments from the head coach
1:19:44
Speaker 1: about how his group, the coaches, the players, everybody who's
1:19:48
Speaker 1: handling the midweek by.
1:19:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, Bron, I think the thing myself and our staff
1:19:52
Speaker 6: tried to do this week was really continue to get
1:19:55
Speaker 6: warn and Derby an opportunity to mend the guys that
1:19:58
Speaker 6: we need the men to try to get them back.
1:20:01
Speaker 4: To the floor force a little bit.
1:20:03
Speaker 3: Uh.
1:20:03
Speaker 6: We've been thin here the last the last week and
1:20:06
Speaker 6: a half of us or two weeks, just trying to
1:20:08
Speaker 6: get guys healthy a little bit, trying to get demand
1:20:10
Speaker 6: prior healthy.
1:20:12
Speaker 4: You know, he got out last year, last.
1:20:14
Speaker 6: Last ballgame, and it helped us a little bit, but
1:20:16
Speaker 6: he didn't practice two days prior to that, you know,
1:20:19
Speaker 6: and so he just literally went out and played for us,
1:20:22
Speaker 6: which is hard to do.
1:20:24
Speaker 4: You know, you're still working on.
1:20:25
Speaker 6: Getting other guys mended him back to the floor.
1:20:28
Speaker 4: You know, we don't know we'll have kender Weaver.
1:20:31
Speaker 6: We're we're hoping we're getting closer to having him back
1:20:33
Speaker 6: to the floor force. Got to get aught the back
1:20:36
Speaker 6: in the great state uh of uh, you know, playing
1:20:40
Speaker 6: the way he's capable of playing as well. I think
1:20:43
Speaker 6: for us, I gave the guys two days off. We
1:20:45
Speaker 6: went really hard, We had hard stretch, so we needed
1:20:48
Speaker 6: to take two full days off to try to get mentally,
1:20:52
Speaker 6: uh hit the reset button mentally and physically, uh, in
1:20:56
Speaker 6: terms of just you know, getting getting our body some
1:20:59
Speaker 6: rest a little bit. So we did that. Came back
1:21:01
Speaker 6: today with the short crisp practice. Really wanted to work
1:21:05
Speaker 6: on some things that we're gonna need down the stretch
1:21:08
Speaker 6: with our team, whether that's a change up defense, whether
1:21:11
Speaker 6: that's you know, working to gift zone, just things we
1:21:14
Speaker 6: have to continue to get better with. And then as
1:21:17
Speaker 6: we get into you know, middle to the latter part
1:21:19
Speaker 6: of the week, we'll get back in regular game rotation
1:21:22
Speaker 6: in terms of what we do. You know, Thursday of
1:21:25
Speaker 6: Friday leading up to a Saturday ballgame.
1:21:28
Speaker 1: And of course Friday would be the departure day for
1:21:31
Speaker 1: Texas headed over to Columbia, South Carolina to get ready
1:21:35
Speaker 1: for this matchup with the game Cocks on Saturday. Now,
1:21:39
Speaker 1: if you've noticed lately, the long Wards have gotten out
1:21:42
Speaker 1: to some quick starts in games. Even the game the
1:21:45
Speaker 1: lost Alabama Longhorns started off the game well quickly, did
1:21:50
Speaker 1: so against Kentucky as well and in recent games, and
1:21:53
Speaker 1: so he was asked, how is he happy with how
1:21:56
Speaker 1: the team has started the games offensively before going dipping
1:21:59
Speaker 1: down into the slumps during the first half when the
1:22:02
Speaker 1: other team made its rot.
1:22:04
Speaker 6: Oh, we've gotten off to gray starts in some games
1:22:06
Speaker 6: and then win some games. So it doesn't matter how
1:22:08
Speaker 6: you start, it's how you finish the game and how
1:22:10
Speaker 6: you play for forty minutes.
1:22:12
Speaker 4: You know, always tell our guys, you know, we.
1:22:14
Speaker 6: Loved, obviously love to get off to a great start,
1:22:16
Speaker 6: but but whether we get off to a good start
1:22:19
Speaker 6: or bass start, we got to work the game for
1:22:20
Speaker 6: forty minutes.
1:22:21
Speaker 4: At a forty minute game. We've had some games we
1:22:24
Speaker 4: played great basketball for thirty.
1:22:26
Speaker 6: Two minutes and then win the game. So it's not
1:22:28
Speaker 6: how you start the game, it's how you finish the
1:22:30
Speaker 6: game and how you work the game for forty minutes.
1:22:32
Speaker 6: But I think I do think it's important how you
1:22:34
Speaker 6: come out and set the tone.
1:22:37
Speaker 4: And for us, it's not on offense.
1:22:39
Speaker 6: I know you think, hey, I want to come out
1:22:40
Speaker 6: and get off till Gray star on offense. No, we
1:22:42
Speaker 6: got to get off till Gray star. Defensively, we got
1:22:45
Speaker 6: to come out and guard, set the tone. Then we're
1:22:47
Speaker 6: gonna play really hold on right end of the floor,
1:22:49
Speaker 6: go figure out what we have to do to score.
1:22:52
Speaker 1: You heard Rodney Terry talking about trying to get guys healthy,
1:22:56
Speaker 1: and you know, thinking about guys like Arthur Kaluma hadn't
1:22:59
Speaker 1: been able.
1:23:00
Speaker 2: You know, had to go out during the Alabama game.
1:23:02
Speaker 1: Midway through the first half and didn't play the rest
1:23:05
Speaker 1: of that game and didn't play at all against Kentucky
1:23:08
Speaker 1: and that they would need Arthur uh and and some
1:23:13
Speaker 1: of the other guys they've gotten banged up. Well, the
1:23:14
Speaker 1: guy who's been out the longest has been Kenda Weaver
1:23:16
Speaker 1: with that hip flexer situation. He's been able to start
1:23:19
Speaker 1: working and been able to start practicing. And so Artie
1:23:22
Speaker 1: was asked, is Kenda Weaver now able to be a
1:23:25
Speaker 1: full participant on the practice floor.
1:23:28
Speaker 4: He is not.
1:23:29
Speaker 6: No, he hasn't not participated with with our team in
1:23:34
Speaker 6: a full practice yet. He's done a lot of individual
1:23:37
Speaker 6: things right now leading up to to UH to the
1:23:40
Speaker 6: next couple of days and we'll kind of see see
1:23:43
Speaker 6: where he's at at the at the at the end
1:23:45
Speaker 6: of the week.
1:23:46
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh wea were unable to go uh, but
1:23:51
Speaker 1: his progress has continued to get better.
1:23:54
Speaker 2: So as the follow up.
1:23:56
Speaker 1: Artie was asked, how about Kenda Weaver's ramp up process?
1:24:00
Speaker 2: What has that been like of late?
1:24:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think WARN's done an incredible job.
1:24:05
Speaker 6: Dorby those guys done an incredible job of really trying
1:24:08
Speaker 6: to put him in position.
1:24:10
Speaker 4: To be in position.
1:24:10
Speaker 6: Kenno plays, He's a unique player. He plays a different
1:24:14
Speaker 6: way than than per se a lot of our different guys.
1:24:18
Speaker 6: I mean, he's a fast he's a fast twitch guy.
1:24:23
Speaker 6: He makes a lot of plays with his athletic ability
1:24:27
Speaker 6: and his instincts. So he needs to have those flat,
1:24:31
Speaker 6: those fast twitched motor muscles ready to perform at a
1:24:36
Speaker 6: high level. So you know, he's gotten better. He's in
1:24:39
Speaker 6: a better position right now. You know, we won't ever
1:24:42
Speaker 6: put him out in a position where he can play
1:24:44
Speaker 6: to his full capacity or that he he doesn't have
1:24:48
Speaker 6: the comfort level to play the way he plays. You know,
1:24:53
Speaker 6: he's one of those guys that he's an extra effort player,
1:24:57
Speaker 6: uh and super at the.
1:25:01
Speaker 4: And is what makes him the player that he is.
1:25:04
Speaker 6: So we used to have Mighty Mouse back in the
1:25:08
Speaker 6: day of Superman back in the day.
1:25:10
Speaker 4: That's the way he plays.
1:25:11
Speaker 6: He's one of those guys that plays with that kind
1:25:13
Speaker 6: of motor and he makes those kind of extraordinary kind
1:25:17
Speaker 6: of plays.
1:25:19
Speaker 1: All right, a couple more items from Rodney Terry before
1:25:22
Speaker 1: we take another break here, And in terms of where
1:25:30
Speaker 1: his team has grown and developed, one example this is
1:25:35
Speaker 1: Jason Kent. Kent really has started to play more of
1:25:38
Speaker 1: late in large measure because of the injuries to Arthur Kalumba,
1:25:42
Speaker 1: but there was times when Jason Kent would see very
1:25:46
Speaker 1: little action in games, and there is the frustration at
1:25:49
Speaker 1: times of not being able to play. So Archie was
1:25:53
Speaker 1: asked about how Jason Kent has dealt with the frustration
1:25:55
Speaker 1: of missing time.
1:25:58
Speaker 6: I think Bob has been It's been very difficult for him.
1:26:01
Speaker 6: Anytime you have a youngster that's really playing in this
1:26:05
Speaker 6: last season in college basketball and to get off to
1:26:08
Speaker 6: a pretty good start of the year and still trying
1:26:12
Speaker 6: to you know, etche out of his identity on this team.
1:26:17
Speaker 4: I think it's really hard.
1:26:18
Speaker 6: I think he started out as a guy that we
1:26:20
Speaker 6: talk could really stretch the four force. He had shown
1:26:23
Speaker 6: some confidence doing that early in scrimmages where he made
1:26:27
Speaker 6: you know it was three stretch the floor. It's always
1:26:30
Speaker 6: been an elite cutter, you know. And then just getting
1:26:34
Speaker 6: used to playing with the whole new team, new concepts,
1:26:37
Speaker 6: new schemes of how he wanted to play with the
1:26:39
Speaker 6: with the new team, and then now you gotta you
1:26:42
Speaker 6: gotta sit for six weeks. That's tough, you know. It
1:26:47
Speaker 6: was tough for him. It was tough for us because
1:26:49
Speaker 6: he was an older player with the experience that that
1:26:53
Speaker 6: that we missed having on the floor. So may he's
1:26:55
Speaker 6: got to come back. We've already been playing. He's got
1:26:59
Speaker 6: to try to edche out his identity again.
1:27:01
Speaker 4: Of who he really needs to be for us.
1:27:03
Speaker 6: It may not be the same that it was going
1:27:05
Speaker 6: to particularly start the wait this season.
1:27:08
Speaker 4: Maybe we didn't need him.
1:27:09
Speaker 6: To stretch the full force now now we need him
1:27:11
Speaker 6: to be more of a flow guy for us that
1:27:14
Speaker 6: you know, continues to be a ball mover, whether it's
1:27:18
Speaker 6: moving the basketball what we call get action, step up streams,
1:27:22
Speaker 6: just keeping us a good flow cutting you know, you're open,
1:27:27
Speaker 6: your feet are set, no problem with your threes at
1:27:30
Speaker 6: that point.
1:27:31
Speaker 4: But it was it's been.
1:27:33
Speaker 6: Tough for him because he's had to get in now
1:27:35
Speaker 6: and have a new identity and have a new role
1:27:38
Speaker 6: for us and really trying to.
1:27:40
Speaker 4: Be a start in his role. I think he's getting
1:27:42
Speaker 4: more comfortable with that.
1:27:43
Speaker 6: I think he showed a lot of confidence, you know,
1:27:46
Speaker 6: a lot of a lot of improvement with that in
1:27:48
Speaker 6: the Alabama game. Obviously people look at the scoring, but
1:27:52
Speaker 6: I always look at other things that he does that
1:27:55
Speaker 6: impacts winning, rebounding the basketball for us, giving a second
1:27:59
Speaker 6: chance opportunity.
1:28:00
Speaker 4: Trying to give us.
1:28:01
Speaker 6: A guy that can defend these physical forwards in this
1:28:05
Speaker 6: league has also been a challenge in something that we
1:28:09
Speaker 6: need to do for us as well.
1:28:11
Speaker 1: All Right, there's some more comments there from Rodney Terry
1:28:14
Speaker 1: there from the media availability. We wrap up today's edition
1:28:19
Speaker 1: of the program here on AM thirteen under the Zone