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Texas Men's and Women's Basketball sign top ranked players on Signing Day · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker, and we're with
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  Speaker 1: you up until five o'clock this afternoon, and then it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty busy time. Pretty busy time for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of reasons. First of all, you should know that it
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  Speaker 1: and I mentioned this last hour, but we'll remind everybody
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  Speaker 1: of it again. Longgorn Weekly with Coach Sark comes your
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  Speaker 1: way at six o'clock tonight, not on the air, that'll
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  Speaker 1: be on the air tomorrow night, but we record the
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  Speaker 1: program on Wednesdays, So tonight at six Pluckers the West
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  Speaker 1: Campus location at twenty two twenty two, yeo, grand hope
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  Speaker 1: to see out there. Ricky Williams is going to join
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  Speaker 1: us tonight, So that's that's going on. Then in addition
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  Speaker 1: to that, there's Texas Women's basketball, which is on one
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  Speaker 1: oh three point one FM, Austin's eighties station tonight. That's
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  Speaker 1: where Cameron will be. I'll be involved with the recording
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  Speaker 1: of Long Worn Weekly with Coach Sark, So Roger Wawlis
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  Speaker 1: will step in for me to call the Texas women's
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  Speaker 1: game tonight against the Lamar Cardinals. And then for the
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  Speaker 1: women this weekend, they get their first really good sized
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  Speaker 1: test to go to Chicago to play Paul. Now that
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  Speaker 1: game on Sunday does not tip off until six thirty
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  Speaker 1: Sunday evening. You remember why I told you why it's
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  Speaker 1: not tiping until six thirty.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even see who the Bears are playing, but
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  Speaker 1: there it doesn't matter. Yeah, the Bears are at home.
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  Speaker 1: Might be Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, really, I think they're getting into their visional, visional
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  Speaker 2: part of the schedule because they haven't played anybody. Yep'
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  Speaker 2: screen Bay. Wow, you might wander down there or some
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  Speaker 2: Soldier Field. Have you been? I've never been in, so
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  Speaker 2: that'd be fun. Yeah, bucket list.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the Bears have a noon game, he said,
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  Speaker 1: what's that got to do with Texas women's basketball? They're
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  Speaker 1: playing at the Paul who plays at wind Trust Arena,
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  Speaker 1: which is not far from Soldier Field and they share
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  Speaker 1: a big parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: So the Blackhawks play and they play at the United Center, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's correct? With the Bulls. That balls?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that balls, that's exactly right, that Bears. That's where
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  Speaker 1: in that where they had the or where was the
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  Speaker 1: where was the uh draft? The Champions Classic play the
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  Speaker 1: last night isn't.
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  Speaker 2: That Atlanta State Farm Arena is State Farm? Yeah, Kirk
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  Speaker 2: Cousins there in his goofy sweater. Yeah, it was Atlantic
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  Speaker 2: goofy sweater.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, they share a parking lot the Paul with wind Trust,
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  Speaker 1: and so the game was originally I think it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be noon or one o'clock, but because the Bears
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  Speaker 1: are kicking off at noon, it wasn't gonna work for parking.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so it's six point thirty Sunday evening and
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear that on one or three point one. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what's going on. So it's a busy time.
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  Speaker 1: It's what I like to refer to as the overlap
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  Speaker 1: portion of the season. Longhorn men's basketball, Uh, impressive enough
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  Speaker 1: now again speaking of Chicago, Chicago State obviously not a
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  Speaker 1: world beater, but but it was good to see Texas
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  Speaker 1: go out be very aggressive right from the start, jumped
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  Speaker 1: right in and today, first day of the early signing period,
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  Speaker 1: Rodney Terry's staff signed a consensus top fifty national prospect,
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  Speaker 1: John Clark. It's his name from Houston. He's a forward
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  Speaker 1: six and thirty pounds forward, plays at Link Academy. That's
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  Speaker 1: where Trey Johnson was. He had played at Cline Kane
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  Speaker 1: his freshman through junior seasons. That's the high school where
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  Speaker 1: Jaydan blues from Cline Kane in the Houston area. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he's a six nine forward and earned all of the
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  Speaker 1: das Performer recognition on the twenty twenty four Adida's three
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  Speaker 1: SSB circuit this past summer and competing for tj fod
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  Speaker 1: Elite DJ's team out of that. So anyway, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the early signing there for the men and the women
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  Speaker 1: also had an early signing and it's a big one
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  Speaker 1: top five recruit Alia Crump. She had committed to Texas
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  Speaker 1: home back. She's from Shackape, Minnesa, Minnesota. Ranked number five
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  Speaker 1: on the espnW Top one hundred list six to one
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  Speaker 1: guard averaged twenty four and a half points, eight rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: four steals, three assists and leading her high school Minnetonka
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  Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty four for a state championship. She's
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  Speaker 1: a two time All State honoree team captain, selected the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Max Preps Minnesota Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 1: and named the watch list for the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Nate Smith Trophy Girls High School Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year.
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  Speaker 2: Watch so saw her win that state title game in
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  Speaker 2: a room with Fick Schaeffer and the women's basketball team
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  Speaker 2: last season, Agaana say of Missouri, Oh yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that's exactly right. When that was going on Minnetonka.
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  Speaker 1: When I hear in Minnetaka, you know what I think of?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever see the movie Purple Raid? No, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard the song before by friends. Okay, well it came
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  Speaker 1: from that's the soundtrack and all that. But so he's
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  Speaker 1: telling what's her name. I guess it's Apolonia. I guess
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  Speaker 1: he talked about when he's on the motorcycle, said, you
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  Speaker 1: have to this prince actually in the movie. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's the star of it. And he tells her she
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  Speaker 1: has to purify herself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.
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  Speaker 1: And so she takes off her well she has on
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  Speaker 1: underwear and runs and jumps in the in the lake
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  Speaker 1: and it's freezing cold. He goes, but because why what
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  Speaker 1: by But and she goes and jumps It's okay, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes, but that's not Lake Minnetonka. So it makes
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  Speaker 1: me think about that but anyway, she's Olia Crumps from
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  Speaker 1: Minnetonka High School.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna shift back to.
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  Speaker 1: Football, I promise, and we're gonna talk about this Texas
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas matchup. Joining us will be the play by play
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks, Chuck Barrett. That's up next
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