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Texas Basketball opens 2024 season in Las Vegas · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Bragway alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Glad to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us and with you up until five o'clock this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: A reminder, no Longhorn Weekly was Sark this week because
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  Speaker 1: of the open date on the schedule, so there's no
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  Speaker 1: coaches show out at Pluckers with Sark on Wednesday. However,
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  Speaker 1: we do have one on Thursday with Rodney Terry, another
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  Speaker 1: basketball preview edition because the long worn basketball team in
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  Speaker 1: case you haven't noticed, And every time my wife Linda
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  Speaker 1: stumbles upon this over the past few days, she's like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Basketball's about to start. I'm like, yeah, it's coming up
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  Speaker 1: on us Monday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, Texas taking
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  Speaker 1: part of that Hall of Fame series and they will
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  Speaker 1: play the Ohio State Buckeyes on Monday night at eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty. There's a women's game Michigan South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: precedes that, but Texas will play Ohio State at eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty on Monday night and you'll be able to hear
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  Speaker 1: that on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll bring it to you on Monday night. Cameron Parker's
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  Speaker 1: very excited about going back to Las Vegas, I am,
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  Speaker 1: it's will be how many trips to Vegas? See?
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  Speaker 2: I went there for my friend's engagement and I think
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  Speaker 2: I've been back one other time since then. So first
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  Speaker 2: time going getting to enjoy a sporting event passed by
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  Speaker 2: Leeding Stadium And unfortunately the Las Vegas Raiders will not
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  Speaker 2: be playing a football game, because that would have been
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  Speaker 2: fun to get to a ten. But I like Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fun city with a lot of good food options.
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  Speaker 1: That she's from, it's good for about three days. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to spend a lot of time in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas unless you have a lot of money to spend,
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  Speaker 1: because you get past three days, like, okay, so you
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  Speaker 1: go into the casino, you're going to the show. Both
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  Speaker 1: cost money, you know, the buffer cost many quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit unless you're a eye roller and you happen to
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  Speaker 1: win a lot. You know, good on you if you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard you and Edgar going down the Blagio
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  Speaker 2: and just going to be high rolling in at the
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  Speaker 2: crab stable. Is that the plan?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who you would have heard that from.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to happen, you know, it's interesting you
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  Speaker 1: bring that up the last time Texas played in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: It was four years ago and the men and women
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  Speaker 1: were in a doubleheader there on Sunday in December, and
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  Speaker 1: it was very strange. It was that big twelve Pac
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  Speaker 1: twelve Challenge series and both were to play Stanford.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, what's Stanford?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but only the men played Stanford COVID the women. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Stanford women had to decline due to protocols. And
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty late in the game when that came out.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I think the Texas women were already in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas when they got word of this. So Vick
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  Speaker 1: Schaeffer and his staff set about on this mad pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of trying to get ahold of teams that had an
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  Speaker 1: open date that might want to come to Vegas and
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  Speaker 1: play them. It was fixed first year, Yes, it was so,
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  Speaker 1: and so was this. There was this scramble underway. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the men played Stanford, didn't handle them pretty easily won
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  Speaker 1: the game. The women were still looking for an opponent
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  Speaker 1: and managed to get one. The University of San Diego
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  Speaker 1: came on very late notice, flew in and actually played
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  Speaker 1: Texas pretty tough. I think the Long Words ended up
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  Speaker 1: winning by the maybe twelve or something like that, but
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  Speaker 1: but it was it wasn't a cake walk for them,
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  Speaker 1: so they had those two games. The other footnote about
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  Speaker 1: that deal is Eddie weren't had flown out with the
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  Speaker 1: team on the charter. I did not because that was
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  Speaker 1: state championship week of for high school football and I
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  Speaker 1: was working the state championship games on television and then
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna fly out six o'clock Sunday morning, which
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  Speaker 1: I did and landed like eight something like that, eight
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  Speaker 1: o'clock Pacific time. The game wasn't until I think two
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon or something, so I landed plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time obviously, and was going by there and I find
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  Speaker 1: out when I land from Eddie that he's tested positive.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt really bad for Eddie because he was
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  Speaker 1: in a tough spot because he couldn't get on the
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  Speaker 1: team charter. He wasn't gonna be able to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and he couldn't get on a commercial flight. He had
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  Speaker 1: to rent a car and drive it all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to Texas and it took him two days because
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  Speaker 1: he felt so awful. He said it was a rough,
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  Speaker 1: rough trip going back. So David Garrett, our producer and
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  Speaker 1: also sometimes analyst and play by play guy pitched in
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  Speaker 1: as the analyst on that game, and then he engineered
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  Speaker 1: the women's basketball broadcast at Kathy Arson and I did,
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  Speaker 1: and it was it was just kind of a strange,
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  Speaker 1: bizarre forty eight hours then when that happened, and that
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  Speaker 1: that was the last time I went to Vegas. I
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  Speaker 1: went there five years ago, Lindon and I went out
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  Speaker 1: to see Steely Dan playing in their residency at at
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  Speaker 1: the Venetian. But the last time I went there was
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  Speaker 1: that kind of bizarre deal. So so it'll be nice
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  Speaker 1: to go out there. Hopefully things will be quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit more normal. We'll find out, all right. Up next,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to visit with Greg Teffer, managing editor of
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  Speaker 1: Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, to talk about college and
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  Speaker 1: high school football in the lone Star State. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: that coming up when we continue here on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: AM thirteen under the Zone, where you always listen to
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  Speaker 1: us for free on the IR Radio app.