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HSFB Kicks Off, CFB Week 0 Preview and Calendar Changes · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Great to see you. Good to be on the verge
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  Speaker 2: of another weekend. And glad to have you with us
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  Speaker 2: as well. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program here
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  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone. And where
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  Speaker 2: you can always listen to us absolutely free of charge
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  Speaker 2: via the iHeartRadio app. My name is Craig Wade. Glad
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  Speaker 2: to have you with us today on a Friday. I
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  Speaker 2: always say it every Friday that if Friday is your
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  Speaker 2: traditional work Friday... like it is for a lot of folks,
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  Speaker 2: then good on you. Good for you. And I hope
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  Speaker 2: you enjoy the weekend. For those of you for whom
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  Speaker 2: Friday is the middle of your work week, hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: get you over the hump there. And as my producer,
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  Speaker 2: Jake Herman, points out, he knows some people who begin
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  Speaker 2: their work week on Friday. Those poor souls.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we missed our Tuesday window of congratulating those people again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting to the finish line there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday. But we'll do that next Tuesday. So hopefully
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  Speaker 2: your work week gets off To a good start. We
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of things on board here for Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Fire Me Up Friday, so some of our
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  Speaker 2: music return cuts will feature some of that. Here in
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  Speaker 2: the 2 o'clock hour, talking some college football, some interesting
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  Speaker 2: points that have been made in a couple of the
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  Speaker 2: online things. Now, the first college football weekend is truly
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  Speaker 2: upon us. I actually watched some parts of of some
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  Speaker 2: college football games last night. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There were some, some FCS games, some lower division games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I did actually watch, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I, and I skipped around because I know how, how,
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  Speaker 2: how folks can be, how people are when I tell them, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I watched, uh, you know, whatever I watched, uh, um,
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  Speaker 2: who was it that I was watching at one point
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  Speaker 2: last night, I was watching Furman against Anderson and I watched, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the Paladins.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then I watched a little bit of, um, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of other FCS teams, and I know some folks
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  Speaker 2: would say, why in the world are you watching that?
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  Speaker 2: I watched some of that, but I watched a goodly
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  Speaker 2: chunk of high school football that was televised last night,
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  Speaker 2: including the game, or half a game as it turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be, between Eastview, you know, from Georgetown, and
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  Speaker 2: Cedar Ridge from Round Rock. That was the KBVO game.
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  Speaker 2: Big game of the week with my colleagues, Roger Wallace
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  Speaker 2: and Keith Moreland. And Roger will join us in the
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  Speaker 2: 3 o'clock hour, not only to talk about the bizarre
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  Speaker 2: set of circumstances that happened in the reduction of and
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  Speaker 2: truncating of that game last night. We'll get his thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that, but also we'll talk about some of the
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  Speaker 2: other teams because they've got another game tonight. They do
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  Speaker 2: a live telecast on KBVO on Thursday nights and then
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  Speaker 2: on KXAN +. the streaming outlet for them. They stream
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  Speaker 2: a game, and they're going to have the renewal of
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  Speaker 2: an old rivalry, Leander and Pflugerville, tonight at the Pfield
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  Speaker 2: in Pflugerville, as I like to say. Now I'll wipe
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  Speaker 2: off the microphone. So we'll visit Raj, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: Longhorns with Raj as well and a couple other things.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll do that. But it is the start of
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  Speaker 2: a college football weekend, as we know. The headline game
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  Speaker 2: would be TCU and North Carolina in Ireland. Take a
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  Speaker 2: look at that. There's a couple of other games to
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  Speaker 2: mention because it is the quote-unquote zero week of college football.
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  Speaker 2: We're also going to hear from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian,
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  Speaker 2: who was on the third and Longhorn podcast this week.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to hear from Sark on that. So
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  Speaker 2: that's coming up as well. We do have inconceivable here
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  Speaker 2: in this first hour on a Friday. Jake, we know
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  Speaker 2: what Friday with inconceivable refers to and it is inclusive of.
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  Speaker 3: Inclusive of a one-way ticket down to the Sunshine State,
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  Speaker 3: also known as the most flaccid of the lower 48,
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  Speaker 3: where you can always find the low-hanging fruit on a
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  Speaker 3: Florida Man Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully it's just not a one-way ticket. Hopefully folks
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  Speaker 2: can escape and get back from it. Well, sure. Sure.
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  Speaker 4: You might not want to come back if you hear
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  Speaker 4: what's going on down there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday on the program, we visited with Gene Watson, our
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  Speaker 2: MLB insider. He was still in Japan. Uh, and Gino
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  Speaker 2: is right in the middle of the flight home. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you talk about your body clock getting, uh, taken for
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  Speaker 2: a ride, uh, by they took, by the time they
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  Speaker 2: took off, uh, I think it was, uh, about eight
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  Speaker 2: o'clock last night, but when they land in Houston, when
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  Speaker 2: he lands in Houston, It's going to be about, I
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  Speaker 2: think he said about 645 this evening. So it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a long turnaround for him.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing that we're going to get to in
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  Speaker 2: the four o'clock hour, I don't know if you got
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  Speaker 2: a chance to hear the conversation this morning. We bring
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  Speaker 2: you the Dan Patrick show. in the mornings here, following
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  Speaker 2: the morning kickoff with, you know, of course, Mike Hardball-Harge
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  Speaker 2: and Mark Henry, the world's strongest man. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they give you the three-hour variety now. You get the
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  Speaker 2: full Monty. You get the three-hour tour beginning at 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Monday through Friday. And always great to hear those fellows
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  Speaker 2: getting your day off to a good start. That's 6
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  Speaker 2: to 9. And then we bring you Dan Patrick from
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  Speaker 2: 9 to 11 before we get to Colin Cowherd. Dan
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  Speaker 2: Patrick this morning had Bijan Robinson on his show. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to bring you that conversation in the 4
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  Speaker 2: o'clock hour and let you hear a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: Bijan's mindset now in the National Football League. He just
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  Speaker 2: signed that massive contract, which made him the highest paid
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  Speaker 2: running back in NFL history for about a week or
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  Speaker 2: several days until Jameer Gibbs got his deal, I guess
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  Speaker 2: it was. But it's still a massively big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Deal.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but Dan Patrick has a lot of fun with
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  Speaker 2: him asking about his running back heroes and, uh, the
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing they get into this stream of consciousness
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  Speaker 2: about Bijan wanting to throw an option pass. And, uh, it's, he, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll let him explain it, but you know, Kevin Stefanski,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is the Falcons new head coach. And so
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  Speaker 2: there's this, A little bit of politicking going on by
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  Speaker 2: Dan Patrick. Get him to put it in a playbook
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  Speaker 2: to let you have an opportunity. So we'll get to that.
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  Speaker 2: That's coming up in the 4 o'clock hour. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, as always, on the program. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to start off with some college football because there
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  Speaker 2: are some games on the schedule this weekend. But also
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  Speaker 2: there was an interesting piece. I noticed it this morning
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  Speaker 2: from Bill Conley, you know, the veteran college football writer
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  Speaker 2: for ESPN. And he had an interesting, because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing these interesting pieces that come out right before kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: You know why that is? Because the mundane pieces, the
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  Speaker 2: regular rankings and blah, blah, blah, those have already been written.
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  Speaker 2: They were writing those in June and July and early August.
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  Speaker 2: And now these guys are dealing with the necessity of,
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  Speaker 2: of this final weekend without a full slate of college
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  Speaker 2: football games to come up with creative pieces. And he did.
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  Speaker 2: This one is a piece about who could be the
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  Speaker 2: next first-time national champion. And the headline is, After Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: Who Could Be College Football's First Next First-Time Champion? national champion.
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  Speaker 2: Cause as we talked about length yesterday, the, the, you know, Indiana, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, through some people for a loop. And last
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  Speaker 2: night I was on a podcast, uh, with a good friend,
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  Speaker 2: John Medani, who is a senior producer, uh, for ESPN radio.
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  Speaker 2: I was on with John and with, uh, Kent Cohen,
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  Speaker 2: who has worked in the market for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: So I've known that those guys have been friends and
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  Speaker 2: colleagues of mine for years. And, uh, they do a podcast, um, uh, and, um,
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  Speaker 2: And so I had a chance to be on with
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  Speaker 2: them last night, and we talked at length about all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff going on with the legal battles, and that's
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  Speaker 2: taken another turn that we'll get to as well. with
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  Speaker 2: regard to whether players can leave NFL tryouts or NFL
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  Speaker 2: rosters and return to college after the SEC, the Big Ten,
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  Speaker 2: the ACC, the Big 12, and others have said, nope,
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  Speaker 2: can't do it. A judge last night in Dallas said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you can. So that's just the latest thing. I told you,
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  Speaker 2: and it was hardly an original thought on my part,
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  Speaker 2: all I was doing was echoing what a lot of
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  Speaker 2: folks said. And I've been saying this for about the
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  Speaker 2: past week when this thing really started to percolate, that
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  Speaker 2: this is tip of the iceberg and that this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be dragged out in the courts. It will
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  Speaker 2: be for some time. The interesting thing will be what
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  Speaker 2: will be the turnaround on this deal punitively for teams
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  Speaker 2: like LSU who are bound and determined to get those
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  Speaker 2: guys on the field, on the roster, and use Daquan
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  Speaker 2: Wright on the field? And will there be repercussions from
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  Speaker 2: the NCAA? And would that initiate another round of legal stuff?
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  Speaker 2: So that's a completely different issue, and we'll you know,
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  Speaker 2: break that down as we have again. Also, we're going to,
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned Roger Wallace didn't high school football last night.
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  Speaker 2: They'll do so again. And I will tell you about
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  Speaker 2: some of the biggest matchups. Well, we'll just tell you
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  Speaker 2: what the computer is saying about the matchups for the
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  Speaker 2: first week of the high school football, including, Jake Herman's
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  Speaker 2: game tonight over Montgomery is Jake will head over there
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  Speaker 2: to call the matchup between Bastrop and Montgomery, Lake Creek.
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  Speaker 2: So Bastrop against Lake Creek on Vibe, right? That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Free to watch, Vibe Live, YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so there you go. I'll tune in and watch. Oh, good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell you what the computer thinks of that matchup.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that we do every week throughout the
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  Speaker 2: high school football season. We tell you what the computer is.
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  Speaker 2: It is not for wagering purposes, even though there are
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  Speaker 2: point differentials listed. I'm uncomfortable saying point spreads because it's
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  Speaker 2: a projection from a computer from our friend Jerry Forrest
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  Speaker 2: who has this massive computer with pigskin prep based out
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  Speaker 2: of the Waco area. and it's a subscription-based service. And
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  Speaker 2: what the computer does is it spells out how much
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  Speaker 2: better one team is supposed to be than another. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll get the computer's thoughts on some of these week
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  Speaker 2: one matchups. There were week one games last night, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to all of that.
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  Speaker 3: So If you're using these for any other purposes besides projection,
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  Speaker 3: you don't need our text line.
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  Speaker 4: You need the hotline.
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  Speaker 2: Gamblers Anonymous and that sort of thing. Our good friend,
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Howell, who I used to host a show with,
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  Speaker 2: said that, he said, you laugh when I told him
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  Speaker 2: about this. And we used to do what the computer said.
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  Speaker 2: You laugh. He said, but I guarantee you, there's some
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  Speaker 2: old boys sitting down. It used to be a convenience store.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's there anymore in Florence called D Boone's.
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  Speaker 2: He used to say, there's some guys sitting in the
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  Speaker 2: back room back there at D-Booms, and they're discussing whether
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  Speaker 2: there's a wager or two to be laid down on
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  Speaker 2: like a 3A Division II game. So we'll try to
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  Speaker 2: dissuade you from that. This is for the purposes of
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  Speaker 2: just telling what the computer thinks of each of these
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  Speaker 2: teams and what might happen. So we get to all
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  Speaker 2: of that. As always, glad to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: It is a fire me up Friday here on Sports
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  Speaker 2: Radio AM 13 under the zone of the iHeartRadio app. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this is Friday night. I crashed your party. We're crashing
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  Speaker 2: your Friday afternoon party here. Offering from the great Billy Joel.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: You may be right. They're off the glass houses. That
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: was the noise of the glass shattering there. Great album
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  Speaker 2: cover with him with a big rock in his hand
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to throw it in a glass window.
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  Speaker 3: That's what every minor league stadium in America has adopted
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  Speaker 3: on the foul ball that leaves the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do it at Dell Diamond as well.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that wasn't your car.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if so, go down to Joe's Glass Repair.
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  Speaker 4: They'll get you right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Um, let's start off, however, uh, listening, uh, to, uh,
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  Speaker 2: some comments from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. Now he
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  Speaker 2: was on the third and Longhorn podcast on Tuesday. And
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  Speaker 2: so Sark was asked, um, that, uh, he was, uh, the,
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  Speaker 2: about the consistency factor and, uh, you know, how have
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  Speaker 2: your teams been, uh, In terms of the consistency factor
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  Speaker 2: at Texas compared to what he had, say, at Washington
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  Speaker 2: before he even went to USC.
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  Speaker 6: I think just that, Fozzy, you know, like I was
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  Speaker 6: thinking back, you know, 2009, I became the head coach
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  Speaker 6: at University of Washington. And I was 33 when I
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  Speaker 6: got the job. I was 34 for my first game.
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  Speaker 6: And I think about those first five years and that
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  Speaker 6: five-year run at Washington. And I mean, I coached hard,
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  Speaker 6: don't get me wrong. And I was trying to be
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  Speaker 6: creative and then we were recruiting really well, we're doing that.
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  Speaker 6: But my messaging was not consistent to your point. And
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  Speaker 6: my approach on a daily basis wasn't consistent. And so
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  Speaker 6: the result was our team was not consistent and not
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  Speaker 6: consistent equals inconsistent, right? And so- This time around, third
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  Speaker 6: time around being a head coach, like that was part
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  Speaker 6: of it. And part of that was my time with
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  Speaker 6: Coach Saban. And that guy was a model of consistency
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  Speaker 6: every day. You knew exactly what you were going to
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  Speaker 6: get out of him. And he was true to himself.
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  Speaker 6: I've learned to be true to me, but yet there's
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  Speaker 6: a level of consistency. I think people know what to
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  Speaker 6: expect from me every single day. And if they know
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  Speaker 6: what to expect from me, then they know what I
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  Speaker 6: expect from them. And not everybody's perfect. And we all
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  Speaker 6: have some days a little better than others. But when
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  Speaker 6: there's a level of consistency in that approach, I think
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  Speaker 6: then ultimately the play results in consistency in play. And
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  Speaker 6: we aren't perfect, but you have a pretty good idea
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  Speaker 6: of what you can expect when we take the field
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  Speaker 6: every Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: He was also asked about that culture word. You know,
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  Speaker 2: coaches love to do it and to talk about team culture.
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  Speaker 2: And Sark is no exception to the rule. It means
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  Speaker 2: an awful lot to him. He'll say the culture and
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  Speaker 2: hard work will outlast talent in a lot of cases
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  Speaker 2: if the talent isn't properly motivated and is driven and
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. He was asked about the
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  Speaker 2: team culture that sets this group apart in camp.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You know, this team, I'm going to dive a little
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  Speaker 6: bit into this team because I think this team is
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  Speaker 6: really embodying the culture that we want. And every year
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  Speaker 6: is a little bit different. You know, personalities are different.
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  Speaker 6: The personalities of the leaders are different. But this team
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  Speaker 6: is really unique. When you think about all of the
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  Speaker 6: new faces that we have, I think there's 49 new faces.
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  Speaker 1: Bianca's got to fact check me on that.
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  Speaker 6: But But what do our leaders look like? And you
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  Speaker 6: think about Arch, year four in the program. Trevor Goosby,
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  Speaker 6: year four in the program. Jelani McDonald, year four in
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  Speaker 6: the program. Colin, year three in the program. Ryan Wingo,
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  Speaker 6: year three in the program. Connor Robertson, year five in
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  Speaker 6: the program. You start to look at the core leadership
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  Speaker 6: on this team, guys who have grown up in this
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  Speaker 6: culture and know what the expectation is of the culture.
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  Speaker 1: That's one piece of it.
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  Speaker 6: Then it's the buy-in from the other guys. And you
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  Speaker 6: think about the 49 new faces, half of those being transfers.
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  Speaker 6: And I credit the transfers for coming in with the
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  Speaker 6: mindset of this is a championship program. And yes, I
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  Speaker 6: came here because of opportunity. Yes, I came here because
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  Speaker 6: of scheme. Yes, I came here because, hey, you guys
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  Speaker 6: know me, I'm very transparent. NIL was good, right? Like
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  Speaker 6: maybe not the best, but it was good comparatively. But
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  Speaker 6: I came here because I wanted to compete for a championship.
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  Speaker 6: I came here because I want to be playing in
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  Speaker 6: December and January and not watching from my couch. And
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  Speaker 6: those guys have bought in. Cam Coleman, Hollywood Smothers, Raleigh Brown,
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  Speaker 6: Michael Masunis, Melvin Ciani, Rasheem Biles, Bo Masco, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: just naming a few. So I credit those guys for
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  Speaker 6: buying into the culture.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 6: When your leaders are living the culture, your transfers are
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  Speaker 6: living the culture, then here comes this freshman class, very
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  Speaker 6: talented freshman class. They're like, oh, wait, I wanna be
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  Speaker 6: really good. I recognize those guys are really good. That's
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  Speaker 6: how they act on a regular daily basis. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: go emulate that. I wanna be like that. And so
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  Speaker 6: whether it's D'Abel, Jermaine Bishop, so Derek Cooper, I can
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  Speaker 6: go down the line. that freshman class has bought into
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  Speaker 6: the culture. Like we have very few issues because so
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  Speaker 6: many guys are just like, this is how we do it.
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  Speaker 6: This is the way we're going to go do it.
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  Speaker 6: And D, you've been around us enough to know we
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  Speaker 6: have a lot of fun. I think sometimes you hear
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  Speaker 6: culture and you think boring, stiff. We are not that way,
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  Speaker 6: but yet there's a belief in the program and there's
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  Speaker 6: a belief in the way that we go about our
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  Speaker 6: business on a regular basis, all the while having a
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  Speaker 6: lot of fun doing it. And so I credit kind
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  Speaker 6: of layers in that locker room to get this culture
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  Speaker 6: in a place to where I really like this team.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: And every year as a coach, you know, every coach
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: can tell you that I love every team.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You do?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: It's like your kids, man.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: You like some a little more than that for varying reasons.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: And yeah, we're a talented roster. Don't get me wrong.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: I'm not naive to say, hey, well, we'll be okay.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: We're a talented team, but the culture is what makes
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: this team special. Now we got to put it all
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: together and we got to go play the games and
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: do those things. But the culture to me has been
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: a huge component of that.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: We'll hear some more from Sark coming up a little
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: later on in the program. I want to go back
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to this piece that I was mentioning. And again, that
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: was from the Third and Longhorn podcast that Sark was
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: on earlier this week. Okay. This piece written by Bill
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Conley was, after Indiana, who could be the first college football,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the next, first time? college football national champion. And he
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: starts off by saying Indiana's 2025 national title was jarring
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: in about 100 different ways that the losingest major program
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: in the sports could win it all meant that in
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: this new era of college football, possibilities are endless for
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: a program that can hire well and invest properly. Again,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: that was one of the things I was saying on
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the podcast that was on last night and what we've
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: said here. If Indiana can do it, a lot of
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: programs can do it. Maybe not all, but a lot
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: of them. can do it. He said, sure, it helps
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: quite a bit if you're in one of the nation's
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: two richest conferences, and it certainly doesn't hurt to have
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: a spectacularly huge alumni base just waiting to be inspired
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: enough to spend lots of money, as Indiana's evidently was.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: For all of the extreme losses in the Hoosiers' history,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: there was a sleeping giant element here that not too
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: many other programs can match. He said, still, When Kurt
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Cignetti lifted the national title trophy and cracked a beer,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: remember he did that as well afterwards, it signaled a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: moment of hope for a number of programs. College football's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: ruling class is a pretty exclusive party, and the Hoosiers
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: were the first time national champs since Steve Spurrier's 1996
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Florida barged through the door almost three decades earlier. So
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: he goes on to do some other things. He said
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the first team on the list is extremely obvious. Things
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: get interesting. After that, the first team on his list
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: is Oregon. And they've had 13 AP top 10 finishes,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: including number two in 2001, 2012, and 2014. So it
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: says for number one here, there's no tension whatsoever. Oregon
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: is obvious. The Ducks reached the national title game in
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: 2010 and 2014, and it finished second in the poll
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: three times in the century. So with what they have
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: coming back, yeah, they're going to be one. He has
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech number two. Their peak ranking was number seven
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: last year as well. And he said, the power of
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the checkbook has allowed tech to cut in line. Going
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: strictly by the metrics above, the Red Raiders should be
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: around sixth on the list, even with an emphasis on
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: 2026 projections. But with big spending and incredible talent evaluation,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Joey Maguire's program surged to a number of firsts last season.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: First Big 12 title, first top 10 finish, first college
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: football playoff berth, et cetera. No matter how much Last
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: year's roster cost, a large percentage of transfers Tech added
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: to its 2025 roster outperformed any production at previous stops.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: For the moment, at least, the Red Raiders staff gets
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the full benefit of the doubt. This program is loaded
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: and prepared to make a number of runs at CFP
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: berths in the coming seasons. It stinks that you might
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: need a sugar daddy oil billionaire to compete for a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: title if you aren't in the Big Ten or SEC,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: but Tech has won, so that's a problem.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Other programs put that on a game day sign sugar
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: daddy oil billionaire and.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: There's the poster shot of Cody Campbell at that point right.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Sure yeah or the cover of Dave Campbell's Texas football.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Magazine absolutely um okay uh number three is Ole Miss
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: 13 AP top 10 finishes their peak was last year
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: uh 2025 he says Ole Miss's place on this list
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: is blurry as it claims yeah I was a little
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: bit I was a little bit skeptical when I read
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: this this morning about this, because Ole Miss claims national championships,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: three of them, 59, 60, and 62. For whatever it's worth,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the Rebels were first in the ESP Plus in four
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: of those five seasons between 59 and 62.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure that was a big part of the
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: national conversation back then.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Right, but it's never finished atop the poll, so here
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: they are. And considering they basically finished one place short
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: of a spot in the national title game, they're capable
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of a huge run. If you look at Ole Miss'
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: media guides... And I've read, you know, in all of these,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: they claim national championships. Kind of like how Texas A
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: & M has claimed some in some years on that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: But they do have legitimate reasons on some of that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: All right, number four, Iowa. He said that Iowa, another
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: program with a few historic title claims but no top
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: pole finishes, has the best average SP plus rating of
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: any team here over the last 10 years. But only
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the fifth best peak tells a pretty clear story. Kurt
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Ferentz's Hawkeyes. have generated a level of consistency that few
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: programs ever see, winning between eight and 10 games in
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: 11 of the past 13 seasons and claiming a top
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: 15 defense for 11 straight years. When the breaks go
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: their way in close games, they win 10. When they don't,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: it's more like eight. Keep that up and they'll reach
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the college football playoff pretty soon. So we had them
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: number four. He's got Missouri number five, which kind of
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: surprised me a little bit, but said that Eli Drinkwitz
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: has them trending upwards. Louisville is number six, Utah seven,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Illinois eight, uh, SMU number nine.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: By the way, I'm in on SMU this year.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Everyone forgot about Kevin Jennings.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: And he's, uh, I didn't forget about it. Cause I
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: called a state championship game. Dude can play.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Well, you never forget any sports game.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Well, when he played at South Oak cliff and led
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: them to their first ever state title, that was something else.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: But anyway, um, Wisconsin is number 10. South Carolina, number 11.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I think they might be picked and finished like 11th
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: in the SEC.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Well, but I was listening yesterday to Todd McShay tell
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: me Lenora Sellers could be the best quarterback in the class.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Now that I won't disagree with. I think he could
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: be something special. When we had Todd Ellis on the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: play-by-play voice of the Gamecocks, he talked about how incredible
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that guy is. And he just didn't have a good
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: enough offensive line last year and was running for his life.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Bryles offense is score so we'll see if that if
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: that turns things around for them this year they could
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: be that could that season could go any number of ways.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: That's kindle bryles yes uh our bryles by the way
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: he is back in coaching coaching eastern new mexico in
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the lone star conference so he'll be out in portales
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: new mexico uh coaching this year sounds pointy uh virginia
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: is number 12 on his list I'm a little bit
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: in on Virginia. Now, we'll find out a little more
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: about it. They play tomorrow. And it's kind of a
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: weird deal there that we'll get to with their game tomorrow.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: And it's a conference game, no less. Houston, 13, coming
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: off what they did last year. He said over the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: last 12 months, Willie Fritz and Houston have proved capable
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of both winning double-digit games— the Cougars were 10-3— last year
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: and signing five-star quarterbacks. Landing Keyshawn Henderson, the number four
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: prospect of 2026, was a statement of intent, as was
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the ambitions of a high-level and surely pretty expensive transfer
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: class that included three all-conference FBS offensive linemen and former
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Fritz player and Tulane star Makai Hughes. The fundamental numbers
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: shown aren't particularly great, but Houston's aiming high.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, Houston, Utah, October 24th, with
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: how both of those schedules kind of shake out favorably
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: in the Big 12, that's a big game.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: It is. It'll be an even bigger game if Houston
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: wins in Lubbock in Week 3.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I was kind of penciling that one in
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: as an L. It'd be huge if they win that one.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be. Boise State, number 14. Of course,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: they've gotten close a couple of times. Kentucky, number 15.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: We'll see how Will Stein does there. Vanderbilt, 16. And again,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: these are teams that have never won a national title.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: His rating on it is best. Arkansas. Now, Arkansas actually
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: does have a national title. And he says, Arkansas was
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: once a genuine powerhouse. The Razorbacks enjoyed 12 top 10
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: finishes in the 24 seasons between 1959 and 1982. Under first,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Frank Broyles, then Lou Holtz, And they claim the 1964
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: title thanks to an 11-0 finish. So they finished second
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: in the AP poll. Here's the deal with that. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Connolly's leaning heavily on the AP poll. And he votes
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: on the AP poll. So it's kind of understandable. In 1964,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the national champion was declared by the polls before the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: bowl games. All except one, which I'll get to in
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: a moment. But the two major polls were the AP
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: poll and the UPI poll, which was the coaches' poll.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Both of those polls crowned Alabama as the national champion
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: following the 1964 regular season. Joe Namath was the quarterback,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and they had great players and all this kind of stuff.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Alabama lost to Texas... In the Orange Bowl, the first
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: night-time bowl game ever, national televised on NBC, and it
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: was a huge game. Tommy Nobis, the long-worn All-American, stops,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: name it, at the goal line. To this day, some
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Alabama fans think he got in. Texas fans say, no,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: he didn't. The officials said he did not. And Texas
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: held on. They won 21-17. Texas only lost one game
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: that year. It was to Arkansas. It was a Saturday
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: night at DKR. And they lost by the margin of
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: a missed extra point, 14-13. Arkansas won the game on
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: an 81-yard pump return from Ken Hatfield, later a Razorbacks
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: coach and Rice head coach as well. But Arkansas won
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: that game. They went on, finished the regular season undefeated,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and as the Southwest Conference champions, went to the Cotton
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Bowl where they played Nebraska, and they beat Nebraska 10-7.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: So they finished 11-0. And the Football Writers Association of
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: America said, crown them national champions. Now, you would say, well,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: wouldn't those be the guys that voted on the AP poll? Some,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: not all, but the Football Writers Association voted awarded Arkansas
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the national championship, and they claim it. They are a
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: dog with a bone with that deal. They claim it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: It's a big bull letters. They are the national champions.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: They're the only team that went unbeaten that year, and
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of people who argue that much
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: with it other than to say, okay, it wasn't an
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: AP or UPI, but it was a legitimate Football Writers
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Association poll. That team also featured two offensive linemen, Jerry
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Jones and Jimmy Johnson. They were on that team, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: they're very, very proud of that national title. So Arkansas
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: does have to its credit that it's not an AP
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: national title, but it is looked at as being a
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: national championship.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: You want to know something I've really learned since coming
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: on to produce this show a year ago?
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: That college football today is crazy and different and disruptive
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: as the era it is now.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: It's always been. It's always been a crazy circus.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: And for years and years, and this was before you
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: were born and everything, we just kind of shrugged our
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: shoulders and took it to mean... that when the polls
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: were split, that there were co-national champions. Georgia Tech and
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Colorado in 1990. Nebraska and Michigan in 1997. Texas has
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: a split national championship. It's counted as a national title.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It was the coaches' poll when they finished off the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: 30-game win streak in 1970 coming off the unbeaten 69
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: season when they were the unanimous national champions. They beat
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, won the great shootout
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: game with Arkansas, all that other kind of stuff. and
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: beat Joe Theismann in Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, 21-17.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: They went that year, winning the national title. And then
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the next year, they had a 10-game regular season schedule,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: won all 10 games. They destroyed Arkansas in a rematch
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: at the end of the regular season of the shootout
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the year before in Fayetteville. They won 42-7 in Austin.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: So they were crowned national champions by the coaches bowl
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the upi they were given this day this big trophy
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: called the macarthur bowl that they would give for the
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: national champions so they claim it and it is a
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: part of a split national champion but a banged up
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: texas uh was hobbled and had several of its players
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: limited and some unavailable lost to notre dame in the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: cotton bowl 24 to 11 joe theismann going out of
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: winter and all that so because of that and because
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: stanford with jim plunkett at quarterback upset ohio state Because
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: that happened. Nebraska's win over LSU in the Orange Bowl
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: that night gave Nebraska the AP National Championship. So we
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: lived in an era of the split national champions. And
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: we all just kind of went, okay, yeah, they're a
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: national title. They're a national title. It's kind of like
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: being on Oprah. You get a national championship and you
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: get a national championship. And the thing that used to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: get me all the time was, why can't we have
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: a playoff? And I was one of the ones. the
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: voices in the wilderness. And so then it went on
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: from there to the college football playoff. You had the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: bowl alliance, the bowl coalition, the BCS, and it's just
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: evolved over time to where we have a playoff and
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: who knows the playoff system is probably going to get bigger,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: but there was a time when it was just.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: At the end.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: And this goes back to the old educationalist thing. They
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: played college football for the season. Yeah, go ahead and
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: recognize it. But bowl games were a reward. It was not,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: to be factored in. For years, the NCAA did not
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: count the stats from your bowl game in your stats overall.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: That changed finally in the 2000s, so Ricky Williams' numbers
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: were retroactively added in there, but that's what happened with
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: all of that. The last three teams on the list,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma State at number 18 because of Eric Morris coming
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: up from North Texas and bringing all of his offensive
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: firepower with him, Virginia Tech at number 19, and James Madison,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: number 20.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Harrisonburg.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: They got a Buc-ee's.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, they do. They don't have Kurt Cignetti anymore, but
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: they do have a good football program.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Up next, inconceivable for a Friday on Sports Radio AM
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: 13 under the zone and the IR radio app. Second
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM, 13
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: under the zone, here on a Friday. A fire-me-up Friday.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Craig Wade joined by the producer, Jay Kerman. In a
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: few minutes, Roger Wallace, sports director, KXAN, my broadcast partner
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: on Longhorn Football Games, will join us. And Roger will
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: also ask him about the high school game he called
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: last night, or at least the half game he called,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: and the game that's on tap for tonight and what
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: KXAN Plus is doing, giving opportunity to see KXAN. Multiple
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: games via the streaming platform. The Cowboys play their final
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: preseason game of 2026. Tonight, their only home preseason game
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: at Jerry World. They're in Arlington. The Cowboys will play
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: the New Orleans Saints. Brian Schottenheimer asked yesterday about things,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: starting off with an injury update.
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so really three guys will miss practice today. Bull's
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: doing much better. He's moving around, but he'll miss practice.
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: DJ Rogers will miss practice. And then Johnny is going
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: to miss practice. Trigg will work back in, get a
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: little bit of work. And there's one other that's coming back.
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: But who? Jay Wood's still in the protocol.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he's doing individual stuff, but he's still in the protocol.
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: And he'll probably take that up to game time.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Headed down this home stretch now of the preseason, this
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: being the final thing, and then you have the big
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: roster cut down to 53. Shadi was asked, how many
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: roster spots are generally available at this point?
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: I think it's different. I mean, I really do. I'm
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: not trying to dodge the question. I think it's different.
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: I would say this year, some of these battles are
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: really contested, you know, I mean. last year, maybe it
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: was a little easier process, not easier in terms of
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: the emotion and things like that. But I do think that,
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: you know, it was a little bit more clear cut
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: now because we're a deeper, better, more talented football team.
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: I think, you know, these decisions are going to be
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: harder and, um, you know, it's part of it, but,
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: you know, each situation is different. And so, you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: is it 12? Is it 18? Is it 15? You
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: really don't know. And so, um, Have a great practice tonight.
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: Excited about tonight's work and get through the game and
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: we'll put together a hell of a roster. I have
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: no question about that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: He has been really pleased, Schottenheimer has, with some promising
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: depth that has shown up throughout the preseason. I think so.
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I really think that's a big part of it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: We see it in practice every day, but I think
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: you see it in us in the fourth quarter of
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: some of these games in Seattle and being able to
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: put the game away. In Arizona, we jumped on them
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: early but still be able to finish the game the
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: way we did. I think you're seeing, like I said,
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: we sat 29 guys last game, and we're still able
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: to function and play really well with a great play
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: style that jumps off the tape, and that's because of
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: the depth that we have on this football team.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yesterday on the program, we had Isaiah Stanback on with us,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: and I asked him who was surprised the most or
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: impressed him. He said LT Overton. And you know what?
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Shotty agrees.
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: Great sack. The other night, it was an effort sack
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: set up by T. Wheat, who did a great job
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: with his rush of not going past the quarterback. I
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: would say LT is one of the most natural pass
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: rushers I've been around for an interior guy. We saw
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: that at Alabama. Um, you know, he's still learning some
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: of the techniques that we believe in terms of playing,
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: you know, combination blocks and run defense and things like that. But, um, he's,
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: you know, been elite in a lot of ways, rushing
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: the passer. And, um, you know, he's a guy we're very,
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: very high on. And, um, we were high on in
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: the fourth round when we took him and, uh, he's, uh,
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: having a great camp and, um, you know, we'll, we'll
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: see what we decided to do with him on, on
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: game day.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And a couple of comments about Jonathan Mingo, the receiver
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: called a touchdown pass. That battle for that fifth wide
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: receiver spot may be settled after tonight. First of all,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: talking about the mental preparation and what the mentality was
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: for Mingo during camp.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: Could not be more proud of Jonathan. You know, he,
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: you know, everybody, they figured out at different stages of
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: their career for different reasons, you know, being selected high
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: like he was in Carolina and then being traded. That's
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: not easy. I mean, that, you know, Believe me, you're
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: talking to guys who have been fired a lot. And
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: so you kind of like you start second-guessing yourself and whatnot.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: But he's figured it out. And, you know, he's not
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: just done it on offense. He's done it in another phase,
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: which is really important to us, and that's special teams,
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: whether it's a gunner, whether it's a returner. He's figured
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: out what creates value on a football team, and that's versatility.
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: And I could not be more proud of him and
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: just kind of what he's done. And really, really pleased.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: And was there a moment that Schottenheimer saw things really
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: click for Jonathan Mingo?
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: No.
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: You know, I just think that, you know, like I said,
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: I think, you know, I can't speak for him. But
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: I do know that, you know, sometimes when you're, you know,
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: sent to a different team, there's guys that they attack
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: it one way and there's guys that attack it a
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: different way. And for whatever reason, I think he just said, hey,
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: it's time for me to go do this. He's incredibly talented.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: He's incredibly gifted. but it's been really fun for us
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: to see him put it all together, and it's not
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: been one or two plays. It's been every day, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: so that's what I think we're so excited about for him,
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: and it's cool for him to get his first touchdown
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: the other night.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: So the Cowboys will conclude the preseason against the New
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Orleans Saints, and that's tonight, and then all of their
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: games in the regular season and postseason can be heard
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: on our sister station, 98.1 FM KVETS. That will begin tonight.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: a week from Sunday. They have that Sunday night season
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: opener against the New York Giants. We'll shift to college
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: football and high school football. Coming up, we'll visit with
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Roger Wallace, sports director at KXAN and my broadcast partner
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: at Longhorn Games when we continue on Sports Radio AM13
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app. There are certain
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: immovables elements of this program. For example, that we bring
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you Inconceivable during the afternoons. We bring you Longhorn coverage
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: like nobody else. The other immovable element thing is that
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: whenever Roger Wallace joins the program, the producer, Jake Herman,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: is sure to bring us back from the break with
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: a Jimmy Buffett offering. This one might, I stress on
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the word might, might be Roger's favorite if backed into
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: a corner. Is that right, one particular harbor? Is that correct?
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: I would think so. I appreciate it.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: That always gives me a great feeling when I come
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: on and hear a little Buffett. But yeah, that's That song,
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: if you had to say one song, that would definitely
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: be near the top.
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: But I appreciate that, Jay.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it that you enjoy about that particular one?
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: I think it's the fact that it's got a little
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: bit of everything. It's got the storytelling, but it also
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: has just a great musical aspect of it. Not that
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: I speak Portuguese, but you show his versatility there, starting
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: off in Portuguese.
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: It's kind of Buffett.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: You think of Buffett, you think of the water, you
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: think of boats. Everybody's Got that one particular harbor in
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: their mind. It might not actually be a harbor, but
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: I think you know what that means. Everybody's got that
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: place in their mind, their special place. And so I
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: think it just kind of brings it all together. You
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: and I had a fun text thread about some Buffett
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: music a couple of weeks ago, and I think this was.
• 41:04
  Speaker 10: One of the... for that thread.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: And Linda was preparing dinner that night and it was
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: going to take a little longer than normal. And so
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: we just went, I think we went to Apple Music
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: and started pulling this up and then you turned me
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: on to that one and then you turned me on
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: to another and then you had a story with each one.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: You know, people say, I have stories with stuff and
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I do, but you had stories about songs. So that
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: was fun. And we ended up listening to a lot
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: of Jimmy Buffett that night, a lot of his offerings
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: that we never heard before or only vaguely had heard
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: And so it was a lot of good. It was
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: One of my favorite ones, Craig, is that he's sitting
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: in a bar in Key West, and he hears guys
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: talking at the bar saying that Jimmy Buffett's in town.
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: And so that was the inspiration for I Heard I
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: Was in Town.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Love that. And what was the song, and I liked it,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: I've just forgotten the title, the one where Walter Cronkite's
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: mentioned in the song.
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's Learn to Be Cool From You.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: And he's got a couple of Walter Cronkite references. He
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: had some interesting kind of friends along the way. Ed
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: Bradley from 60 Minutes and he were good friends and just.
• 42:16
  Speaker 10: He kind of.
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: Span the spectrum and like to say that he could
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: bring everybody together.
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: And in this day and age, I think that's pretty rare.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we could use a little bit of that.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: You could have used a better weather situation last night
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: at the Palace Home Farmer. And I want you to
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: tell folks a little bit about this. Roger and Keith
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: were calling on KBVO the season opener between Eastview and
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Cedar Ridge. And everybody's all excited about it. And you
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: texted me before the game to say we're going to
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: be pushed back a little bit. It ended up kicking
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: off right around 720 or so when it was supposed
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: to kick at seven. And I was like, is it
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: raining down there? And then, you know, between Nick Mann
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: and your chief meteorologist there at KXAN and what was
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: a bizarre evening, my question, and you wound up only
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: getting half the game in, did it ever rain at
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: all there at the stadium?
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: We had a few drops early, late afternoon, but the
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: rain wasn't anything we thought. We thought, okay, that's kind
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: of nice. Maybe that'll cool things down. But even that
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: was really short. I think it was maybe 530 or
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: so when it started to rain. But yeah, and I
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: joke that how long have we gone? Seems like we
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: haven't seen a cloud. And then on the first night
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: of high school football, these weird pop-up electric episodes happen because, yeah,
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: there wasn't the great rain to accompany it and, you know,
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: at least get something good out of it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And then you only get half a game out
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: of it, right?
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: And, you know, it was a pretty good game. It
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: was three scores in the first three possessions. And then,
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: you know, Cedar Ridge kind of established themselves.
• 43:56
  Speaker 10: And they waited a while.
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: It happened right after Eastview performed their halftime or at
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: least part of it. And then they cleared the stadium
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: and waited and waited.
• 44:04
  Speaker 10: And then finally the.
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: The coaches and Howard McMahon, the assistant AD for Round
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: Rock ISD, got together, and it was a good choice
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: because as I was texting with you on my way home,
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: the lightning show continued late into the evening, so we
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: would have been up against them. The fact that it
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: was Thursday, and it's a school night, I'm thinking non-district games, so.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 44:26
  Speaker 10: Cedar Ridge is 1-0 and ECU is 0-0?
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: It's really weird. I've been asked about this many times
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: in the past, and I've heard different perspectives on this.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: And I think it almost always, or at least in
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: large measure, boils down to whether you were ahead at halftime.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: or trailing at halftime. Jake brought up a good point
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: about Liberty Hill's game last night. Jake, that Liberty Hill
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: was down at the half and actually scored to go
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: up in the third quarter before the weather stopped it?
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were down 30-20 at one point. I think
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: they scored once right before the half, and then once
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the third quarter, they went into
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: a lightning delay in the third, and they didn't resume.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it almost reminds me, Roger, of like a Major
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: League Baseball game. If you got a couple of runs
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: in the top of the fifth, And then the other
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: team scored one run, but they were still down. And
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: then the fifth ended and the skies opened up and
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: you couldn't resume. And they called and said, ball game
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: after that. But what I've found is, it depends on
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: the coach you ask for. Quite often, the coaches of
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: the winning teams will say, if they were up at
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: the half, especially if they're up by two scores, as
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Cedar Ridge was, to say, well, we won. We're counting
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: it as a victory. Whereas the coach of the trailing
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: team might say we didn't play the game to its completion,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: so therefore we're counting it as a no contest. And
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: there's no– I remember this coming out in the past.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: There's no real rule about it from the UIL, especially
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: as it relates to non-district games. I mean, does it
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: really matter that much?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: Now, I don't know if Brian Vardaman or Bill Robertson
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: are going to coach for 25 more years and suddenly
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: that win total might– might put them in some rarefied
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: air and then you start looking back at the, but yeah,
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: I think, I think they, they got some work in.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: It was unfortunate.
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: He was going to get the ball to start the
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: second half. So, you know, they can go down and
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: get a score. Then it's one score game, but just
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: kind of unfortunate how it, how it worked out for
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: both teams. And hopefully we'll get a, We'll get a
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: full game in tonight at the field.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Which brings us to this telecast that you're going to
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: have of two old rivals, Leander and Pflugerville. And even
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: though they've kind of gone their separate ways in terms
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: of classification. And there was a time when Pflugerville was
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: a 6A and Leander was a 5A. Now it's the
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: other way around. That sort of thing. And coaches are
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: looking for different things, I guess, in non-district play. And
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: that's what non-district is all about because it doesn't It
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: doesn't prevent you from qualifying for the playoffs or having
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: a shot to win a state championship. But what's the
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: feedback you've gotten from the coaches on what they're looking
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: for out of this game at the field tonight?
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, let's start with Leander. He got a first
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: year head coach in Ahmad Zayden. So, you know, he's
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: familiar with Leander ISD, coached with Chris Ross and Joe
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: Willis at Cedar Park and was part of a state championship.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: But clearly they're trying to kind of get that thing
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: turned back around from the last several years where.
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: They have not had any luck getting into the postseason.
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: So, you know, first year coach, they got a new
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: quarterback or a first year starting quarterback. So I'm sure
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: he's just anxious to get them out there and see
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: what they've got. Pflugerville, you got the veteran and Charles
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: Taylor in his ninth year. They got two rounds in
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: the playoffs, but of course he's replacing his son, a
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: quarterback who who accounted for 48 touchdowns. But it's interesting, Craig,
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: I think back, was it the 07? Was that the
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: memorable Andrew Pflugerville Thursday night statewide telecast you did?
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Sure was. 38, 37?
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: Get in at quarterback.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Quarterback. Defensive back, he snapped the ball on, he was
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: the deep snapper on conversions. He scored a two-point conversion
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: in the game. And the thing is, we did that
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: game on Fox Southwest, and I had to talk because
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: it was during NBA lockout. And I had to talk
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: John Heike, the general manager, into doing that game. They
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: wanted to pick another game from the Metroplex or this,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: and I said, I guarantee you this is going to
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: be a great game. He said, okay, we'll go with it.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: And he still thanks me to this day because that
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: game was unbelievable.
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: I don't remember much from that long ago, but I
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: remember that game. That was before we started doing the
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: Thursday night package. So I was at work, and I'm
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: sure it wasn't over in time to get highlights. I'm
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: sure it went about three and a half hours with.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: All the scoring.
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: But that game jumps out.
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: But it's interesting because these are kind of the flagships
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: of their district, and they both– certainly felt the squeeze
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: from all the growth and all the added high schools.
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: Charles Taylor said, we are a 5A Division II school.
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: Their numbers are low. It's a far cry from back
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: in the day with George Herman and Steve Gideon running
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: those teams as far as just the kind of the
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: way the city in this.
• 49:22
  Speaker 9: Area has grown.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Roger Wallace with us here on
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: 13 Under the Zone. I wanted to give you an
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: opportunity to tell people about the blossoming flower that KXAM
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Plus has become when it comes to high school football
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: because it's far more than just that game, which folks
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: can watch for free tonight on KXAM Plus. And this follows,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: of course, the UIL edict that Thursday night games can
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: be over the air on television live, but Friday games
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: all have to be through streaming platforms. And the nice
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: thing is that you can watch it on your television
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: while streaming on KXM Plus. And more is the point,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: as you're about to detail, is more than just that
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: game you guys got up on KXM Plus tonight.
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: And we hope this is just the start, Craig.
• 50:06
  Speaker 10: We're trying to kind of figure this all out.
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: But yeah, we're adding this game that we'll produce along
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: with Westlake and the Chap Nation and their production. And
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: that game will be on KXM.
• 50:20
  Speaker 10: Plus as well. So You're going to be able to
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: go to the app.
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: You have to download the app on your smart TV and,
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: and you got two games to choose from Westlake. Interesting
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: matchup with the team from Englewood, California and Southern California
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: coming in. And then, then our game with Pflugerville Leander. And,
• 50:37
  Speaker 8: you know, again, this is all, it's.
• 50:39
  Speaker 10: The wild, wild world of the, of the digital age now.
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: So we're working hard to see if this thing can
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: grow even more, and hopefully there'll be a time where
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: you can go to the app, and it's almost like
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: ESPN Plus. You've got a menu of games that you
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: can watch, but we are going to offer two tonight,
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: and they're going to look like TV games, but we're
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: playing by the rules.
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: It's a stream game.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and then on top of that, aren't you
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: still in the evolutionary process by getting some streams of certain...
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: athletic programs or stadiums that you're going to actually be
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: able to put up on the platform. It won't be
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: your true TV telecast, but folks will be able to
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: kind of watch the game and follow what's going on, right?
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the best I can say is there are, you know,
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: discussions are going on. And so there's a lot of
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: technical stuff that I don't claim.
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: To know about. But, yeah, to pull that off.
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: But, yes, the bottom line is we're trying to grow this.
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: And we think that this can be something that can be,
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: you know, beneficial to us to allow people to have access.
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: options and so they come to our our kxam plus
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: and obviously we think it can be beneficial to.
• 51:48
  Speaker 10: To high school fans because you know i get i.
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: Get it every week what do you have tonight and
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: they don't care necessarily about the matchup as fat as
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: much as there's a game on to watch live high
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: school football well you know now we're hoping to expand
• 52:01
  Speaker 8: that to to fridays and i get it it's not
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: turning on your tv and simply going to a channel
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: a little more work's involved but uh You know, Craig,
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: we're trying to keep up. I'm an old guy trying
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: to keep up with the times here. They're dragging me along.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: All right. So let me, let me, uh, let me
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: tap into your, uh, like, like mine curmudgeon mind on
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: this thing. As I shift to college football, uh, this
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: thing has just accelerated by leaps and bounds. All of
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: the legalese that surrounding, uh, the, the, the players trying
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: to go back from the NFL, uh, at least from
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: training camps into college, there was a, Last night, an
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: injunction issued by a judge in Dallas. We knew that
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: was going to happen. There was going to be more
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: and more court battles on this. I like what Sark
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: had to say at his availability the other day. He
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: said it seems like he's changing every 15 minutes. So
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: they have to kind of stand back and take a
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: deep breath on this. How about your thoughts on the
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: phenomenon now that has been created due in part to
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin wanting to have guys back on the roster?
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's hard to keep up, but it's kind of double-edged.
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: You go, okay, this seems absurd that you can be
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: in an NFL camp and be back on a roster.
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: And then you go, okay, you've got to be flexible
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: enough to say if these are the rules, As Sark
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: has always said, I'm never going to sit back and
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: complain about the rules. I'm going to try to figure
• 53:23
  Speaker 8: out how to adapt to the rules. So which side
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: are you on? It seems far-fetched. And yet if those
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: are the rules, you better try to keep up. And
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: then the latest I saw, maybe you guys have talked
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: about it as well, now is the CFP going to
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: get involved and say, okay, you're eligible for your team
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: and the judge's ruling allows you to play, but we
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: can not have you in our tournament. So, you know, that's,
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: that's a group of humans that picks it. And so
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: they can deem them. They at least talked about, do
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: they deem anybody ineligible that's played, you know, professionally signed
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: or been on a roster.
• 54:01
  Speaker 10: So I can't wait for the games.
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: I don't think anything's going to go away because of
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: the games, Craig, but it is, it's hard, hard to
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: keep up. I mean, the latest I saw what Kendall
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: Weaver is now ineligible at Houston, Jordan Pope, Does the
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: judge's ruling affect that so they're eligible again? Anybody that
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: thinks they know everything is not telling the truth because
• 54:24
  Speaker 8: it's going too fast and furious.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and as you point out, if the CFP says,
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: we'll go ahead and continue to use LSU as the
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: example on this, say LSU is good enough to be
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: in the college football playoff and the CFP people say, no,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: you played with those guys under an injunction. This is
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: what I meant when I said earlier in the program
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: that about what the consequences could be, and they could
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: say you're not eligible, then what's to stop, and I'm
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: sure it won't stop, LSU from lawyering up and then
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: trying to get the injunction to play in the playoffs, right?
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: Unless they don't have an automatic bid, and then it
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: doesn't matter because they don't, you know.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 55:06
  Speaker 10: It's an invitational after that.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 55:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, clearly if they didn't win the SEC, but they're
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: ranked in the top 10 and they were kept out,
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: It's pretty clear what's going on. But at some point, and,
• 55:18
  Speaker 8: you know, it's always the grownups in the room.
• 55:20
  Speaker 10: You know, I don't blame any of the kids.
• 55:22
  Speaker 8: They're trying to do what, either extend their career or
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: if the pros aren't an option all of a sudden
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: and there's a way for them to get back and
• 55:32
  Speaker 8: play and earn more money.
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: Of course, that's obvious.
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: Another thing behind it is they can go back and
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: make money. But the grownups came to keep messing this
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: thing up.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Roger Wallace was for a couple
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: more minutes. Let's jump to Texas. Game week actually begins
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: next week. All of the press conference on Monday and
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: all that other kind of stuff as well. You know,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: we're eight days from kickoff, but what still stands out
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: in your mind, not necessarily as a trouble spot or
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: a concern, but a curiosity you may have on on
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: an area or a player or a position or whatever
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: to step up. What still stands out in your mind
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: about a question or at least a curiosity in one
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: area of the team?
• 56:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they go a couple different ways. The curiosity is,
• 56:23
  Speaker 8: are these backs going to turn this offense into what
• 56:27
  Speaker 8: it appears it could be that they.
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: Didn't have last year?
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: And that's just that another element of explosiveness that and
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: the home runs that they can provide.
• 56:38
  Speaker 10: Can they do that?
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: Obviously, Arch and this receiving core, everyone wants to see them.
• 56:43
  Speaker 10: They want to see it lighted up.
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: But clearly, if you go the other way, it's, all right,
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: how's this linebacker core look? You lose a big piece
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: to Anthony Smith. It was already a room that after
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: Smith and Biles, who hasn't played a snap yet, uh,
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: for Texas, you got some veteran portal guys and you got.
• 57:00
  Speaker 10: Some young guys.
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: So to me, that's the curiosity on both sides of
• 57:03
  Speaker 8: the ball. What's that look like at the linebacking position?
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: And then does this, uh, tandem of Brown and smothers
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: make this offense really dynamic?
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no question about that. Uh, is Roger Wallace.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: You watch, uh, Roger and key tonight, KXM plus for
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Leander and Pflugerville. They also offer up the Westlake, uh, Englewood,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: California non-district matchup to open the season. You got half
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: a game last night, so it was just enough to
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: whet the appetite, right, for tonight?
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we're going for the full 48.
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: I do want to say, you know, we were originally
• 57:38
  Speaker 8: supposed to be at Dripping Springs tonight, Lake Travis, Dripping Springs.
• 57:42
  Speaker 8: Our heart and our thoughts go out to the Lake
• 57:45
  Speaker 8: Travis program and the family of Odin Hensley and Hank
• 57:48
  Speaker 8: Carter and those guys. And so we were able to
• 57:51
  Speaker 8: pivot and get the game at the field. But certainly
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: thinking about that program and the unimaginable way that they
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: have to play.
• 57:59
  Speaker 10: You know, carry on this season. So I wanted to
• 58:02
  Speaker 10: make sure that I got that out there.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Roger.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 58:06
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Craig.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: All right. That's Roger Wallace, sports director at KXAN, my
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: broadcast partner in Longhorn football, and he'll be calling that
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: action with Keith Moreland tonight, Leander, and Pflugerville. We have
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: more coming up as we continue on this Friday afternoon
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and the
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. on a fire me up friday one of
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: the bands that was very popular during my collegiate days
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: in excess i never worked an in excess concert or
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: saw them but always liked the music not too familiar
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: they had they had a couple of big time hits
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: um the one thing i think might have been their
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: biggest hit but uh but devil inside which is what
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: this one is is uh is good and uh yeah
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: that's uh something that Rolls in nicely and will fire
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: me up Friday. Okay. So, if you're trying to decide,
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: you know, what games... what football, there is football, actual
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: counted in the records football to watch this weekend. Now,
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: there's actual not counted in the records football to watch
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: this weekend, like the Cowboys preseason game tonight. I did
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: watch some of the Rams Chargers last night since it
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: had such a late kickoff, a 9 o'clock kickoff.
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: I saw the one throw. From Herbert to QJ, Quentin Johnson.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. That was a very, very nice start. How
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: about Matthew Caldwell, the former Longhorn backup to Arch Manning,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: throwing a touchdown pass for the Rams in that game?
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: The hero in Starkville.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know he was on the roster. And
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a Rams fan. I didn't even know. Because all
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: of the attention, obviously, has been focused on the battle
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: for the number two spot between Stetson Bennett and Ty Simpson.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: and I didn't even know Matthew Caldwell was on the roster,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: but there was, you know, and Caldwell throwing a touchdown
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: pass in the game last night, so you may be wondering, okay,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: what games should I watch if I'm watching college football,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: in addition to high school football we talked about, well,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: here's a list of eight FBS games of what's called
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: week zero, what they used to call that in high
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: school football in Texas, now it's just week one with
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: an open date, this is called Week zero games, and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: this is according to The Athletic, they ranked them from
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: the least interesting to the most. Number eight, Sacramento State
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: at Eastern Michigan. It says week zero matching because featuring
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: FBS and Mid-America Conference newcomer Sac State. Yeah, they're moving
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: into FBS, Sacramento State, and of all conferences to join,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: they're in the MAAC. And they're going to have a
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: conference game, hoofing it all the way to Ypsilanti to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: face EMU for a very green showdown. They both have
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: green in their uniform.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: The good old conference regional rivalry of Sac State and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: Buffalo in November.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one's coming.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Number seven, New Mexico State and Florida State. It's nice
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: to have a marquee brand like the Seminoles on opening weekend,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: but the talk all season has been about Mike Norvell
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: being on the hot seat, blah, blah, blah. So they're
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: playing New Mexico State. Number six, Jacksonville State at North
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Dakota State. This is now a G6 game, and they say,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: don't sleep on this because this will be 530 tomorrow.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: North Dakota State finally making that leap to FBS, and
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: they're playing Jack State, who went to a bowl game
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: last year. They've reached the Conference USA title game two
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: years running. Number five, Hawaii at Stanford State. And that's
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: on ACC Network. By the way, these other games that
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: I meant to tell you, the first one, Sac State,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Eastern Michigan is ESPN +. New Mexico State, Florida State
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: is on the CW tomorrow night. Jacksonville State, North Dakota
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: State is on CBS Sports Network. Hawaii at Stanford is
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: on ACC Network. Number four is San Jose State at USC,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: ranked 14th. That's on NBC. tomorrow afternoon. Number three, North
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Carolina State, Virginia. This is the game that was going
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: to be in Rio, Rio de Janeiro, but it was
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: moved to Charlottesville due to operational issues overseas. Logistics aside,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: the ACC petitioned to keep the game in week zero,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: bringing a little extra shine as to what should be
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: a fun matchup. Virginia was going to be the home
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: team of the game, so they get to host it.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Number two, Memphis at UNLV. That's tomorrow night, 9 o'clock,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: and that's on Fox. And then finally, number one, North
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Carolina TCU, which will be at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: So there's some college football for you there to watch.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: We'll be back to wrap up hour number two on
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: 13 Under the Zone. Third and final hour of the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: program here on Sports Radio AM 1300 The Zone. Craig Wayne,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: joined by the producer, Jake Herman. Glad to have you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: with us here as we get you to the finish
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: line of a work week. Those, again, for those of
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: you for whom Friday is the end of the work week.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: And then, like we said, there's others that are working
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: through the weekend. Starting next week, by the way, that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: will clearly and obviously include me working through the weekend,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: at least through the Saturdays. And then when we get
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: to basketball, it really kind of, Takes that path.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to tell folks what's going on with
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: all of our Saturday stuff around the game, too.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: I'll be involved with some of the Longhorns game day crew.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Yep. Our game day, of course, coverage will begin next week.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: We actually have Longhorn Monday starting. Our Longhorns Monday start
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: when we bring you Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkeesian's weekly
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: news conference live as we have all the years that
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: I've been back here. And by the way, I meant
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: to say that. Today, on this Friday, is August 28th.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: It was three years ago today that I started back
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: here at 1300 The Zone in the Ihart family. So
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: thanks to the staff and management of the Ihart family,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: and I'm happy to be home again. So three years
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: back here, I was here for 19 years, going back
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: even before Ihart owned 1300 The Zone, back when it
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: was still the AM 1300. It was here for 19 years,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: then went across town. And when the Longhorn games were
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: across town, then came back. So yeah, here we are.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: So it's good to be back again.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: So we'll actually start with the Longhorn Mondays again, starting
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: on Monday.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Before we get to hearing more from Longhorn's Well, we're
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: going to hear from Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkeesian a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: little bit later on this hour. Also coming up in
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: the next segment, Bijan Robinson. In case you missed it,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: this morning he was on with Dan Patrick. So we're
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: going to do a little encore presentation on here because
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: it's pretty entertaining stuff. And we're going to hear from
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: Brian Schottenheimer here momentarily. But I told you what the
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: pigskin prep computer was thinking about the area. 6A games
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: to start this off. So 5A Division II, which includes
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: the team that Jake Herman broadcast, the Bastrop Bears for VIPE,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: opens its season tonight. On the road, you'll be hustling
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: over to Montgomery Lake Creek to call that action there
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: between the Bastrop Bears and the Lake Creek Lions. So
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: you'll have that. Also from schools out of that district, Pflugerville,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I mentioned, playing Leander. and Pflugerville, according to the computer,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: is 16 points better than Leander. The computer, Elgin is
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: playing at Mainer, and the computer favors Mainer by eight.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Crockett is playing Blanco.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: That happened last night.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: And how did that end up?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: Blanco won big.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: How big?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: 61 to 20-something.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: So people would say they covered the 27 that the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: computer thought they would win by or whatever. Gerald and Navarro,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: that's tonight. That game's in Gerald. between Navarro early college prep.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: So anyway, there was that. So Bastrop and Lake Creek.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: You care to guess what the computer thinks of that matchup?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: I'm landing on 17 points for Bastrop as the pick.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: That's a little more optimistic than the computer thinks, but
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: not much. The computer likes the Bears by 15 points.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 9: 15.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll take within two.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd be okay with that. Okay. Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: head coach, getting ready for this preseason finale tonight. against
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: the new Orleans saints and roster cut down day is
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: coming up right after that. It's two days earlier than
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: what it's been in the past. And that wasn't an
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: adjustment for shotting and the staff. You know, the process
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: is still the same. We do it the way we
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 9: You know, we'll, you know, we'll play the game on
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 9: Friday and we'll get in here early on Saturday and we'll,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 9: you know, blink the film for some of those, you know, last, um,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 9: looks if you will and some of these guys that
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 9: are in contested or heated position battles and we'll have
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 9: a meeting and we'll dissect a lot of different things
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 9: and we'll start with one side of the ball or
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: the other and we'll debate and then we'll take a
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 9: break and we'll come back and we'll debate some more
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 9: and talk about different things and of course your phone
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 9: starts to ring and you know people start calling about
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 9: different things and uh at the end of the day
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 9: i think you know it's no different than how we
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: do the draft process you know long conversations but real
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: conversations hard conversations disagreements discussions and then hey this is
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 9: what the Dallas Cowboys are doing in 2026 with final
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 9: cuts and um the hardest part is you know you
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 9: bring the guys in and you have to have real
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 9: conversations with them and tell them that their dream is
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 9: not over uh just means that their dream might not
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 9: be with us this year but um I'm very very
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 9: uh certain that uh The players that we have to
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: move on from will find homes elsewhere because, like I said,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 9: we're a very talented roster, and they're incredible young men
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 9: that are great professionals.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Clearly, after the roster cutdown happens, there are guys on
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: the waiver wire all around the National Football League, and
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys will peruse it as well. And so Shottie
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: was asked what he's looking for when he looks at
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: that waiver wire.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: We look at the talent side of it first because
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 9: it's hard to get to know these guys. You don't
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: have time to bring them in like you do the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 9: rookies for draft visits or free agents. so you've got
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 9: to go off talent. a lot of these guys we
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 9: have draft reports on that speak to the character. Um,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 9: you know, it's a, you gotta be careful calling your
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 9: buddy from another team about a player. Cause they might
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 9: be trying to get them back on practice squad or whatnot. Um, but, uh,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 9: it's very similar process. You know, you, you trust the
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 9: tape first and then you have conversations and you look
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 9: back at reports. I mean, the personnel guys, they don't
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 9: sleep really for a couple of nights, 48 hours. So
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 9: they don't sleep. And, um, But again, I love the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 9: give and take that we have between ourselves, Jerry Stephen,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 9: Will McClay, and all the personnel guys. It's real conversations,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 9: and I.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Look forward to it. This was a pretty entertaining exchange here. Now,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: remember when the Cowboys and Saints had the joint practice.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: They had the fight. It was an all-out fight. A
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: helmet was thrown. Teams were fined half a million dollars each.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: So I joked about it yesterday with Isaiah Stanback about
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: whether there'd be more. And Brad Champ, our good friend
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: and voice of the Cowboys, had an exchange with Schottenheimer
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: about would there be a discussion of that joint practice
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: fight before the actual game?
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: Brad. Brad Shan, Cowboys Radio 105.3 The Fan.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 6: Before kickoff Friday, will you have felt the need to
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 6: remind your team that last Tuesday was last Tuesday and
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 6: there's no need for anything to carry over?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 9: I mean, we're into these position battles and things like that.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 9: And these guys are excited to go out and play football.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 9: And mostly we're excited to be back home in AT
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 9: & T Stadium and can't wait to watch these guys compete.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 7: But as to the question, will you be speaking to
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 7: them about this today?
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 9: I talk to our guys about a lot of different things, Brad, so.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: That's my damn question.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: He knows I'm not going to answer that question. We're
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 9: playing off each other right now. It's pretty cool. Do
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 9: you know what I know that you know that I know?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, good.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 9: You can ask the same question. I'll answer the same.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: Pretty good, right?
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: And Brad is checking with the schedule, by the way,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: to see if he can join us next week.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: One day.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: But if so, I'm going to ask him about that.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: That's hilarious. And I like Clarence Hill in the background.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Answer the damn question. A man chill.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: Keep shouty and check this is the same press conference
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: he tried to find the guys who were late so
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: you know they started off on great terms right exactly.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: Um uh he was asked about the rookie skit that
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: happened with caleb downs and christian parker the defensive coordinator.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 9: Well the rookie skit uh he was he was doing
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 9: really good uh tommy dunn cut him off unfortunately so
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 9: he couldn't quite finish his christian parker but the mannerisms
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 9: were very very good uh and uh it was it
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 9: was it was a lot of laughs but They spend
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: a ton of time together. Christian's one of those guys
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 9: that he is wanting to be in meetings and wanting
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 9: to be doing extra. And so they spend a lot
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 9: of time together. You can see them before practice working together.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 9: And I think that's important for any player, but certainly
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 9: a young guy that has the high expectations of himself
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 9: that Caleb does.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: No matter what happens with Jayden Blue, whether he makes
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: the club or practice squad or is released or whatever,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: One thing that Sean Ivers has been impressed with the
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: former Longhorn with is that the level of maturity that
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: has grown throughout the course of the summer.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think he came back. I've said this before.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 9: I think he came back with a different mentality, which
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 9: is great. He's always been extremely bright and picked up
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 9: the scheme very, very well. It's been good for us
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 9: to see him take the next step in certain areas,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 9: whether it's pass protection, whether it's um you know some
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 9: of the stuff in the return game um but uh
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 9: i noticed it i noticed it early on that uh
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 9: there was a little bit different intentionality about him um
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 9: but uh again he's got to continue to compete because
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 9: that's a deep room as well and uh you know
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 9: we'll uh you know see how we figure out the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 9: rotation but uh uh it.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Was early on for sure and one more question about
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: the rookie skit uh on the defensive side jay sean
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: barham was asked, or Schottenheimer was asked, what was Barham's
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: role in that rookie skit? That's a good question. He
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: was an extra, I will say. He was involved.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: He played his part beautifully.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Beautifully.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 9: Jay Sean, great job. But he was more of an extra,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 9: which some of the guys were only extras.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: He didn't intimidate or he didn't do his impression.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: Of a coach?
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: He did not, but he was very good, Oscar-worthy of
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 9: what he did as an extra. All right, Taylor Sheridan,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 9: take notice.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. All right, up next, we'll keep
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: it in the NFL, but taking a look not in
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: specific at the Atlanta Falcons, but a conversation with Bijan Robinson,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: the lifetime longhorn from the Dan Patrick show that aired
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: this morning. That's next, right here on Sports Radio AM
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: 13 Under the Zone. I think I've said this before
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: on the program. I can't remember if you were producing
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: at the time of it. But did you ever hear
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: me tell the first time I ever heard this song?
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: This is the fall of 1978. Album came out. This
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: is Van Halen, obviously, Run With the Devil. And it's
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: the first album. And I get off the elevator. I'm
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: a freshman at UNC Wilmington. I get off the elevator
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: to the second floor of Galloway Hall, where my dorm
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: room was. Dorm room was 211 Galloway Hall. A friend
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: of mine down at the end of the hall, I
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: think it was like 217 or 218, was just always
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: on the cutting edge of what was going on with
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: rock and roll. Like I heard out of his room
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: for the first time ever, Hold the Line by Toto.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 4: That's okay.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: This all sounds familiar because I heard this story on
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: Hold the Line. Yeah.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: Same guy. And you just hear that boom, boom, boom.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Going in and out. What in the world is that?
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: First of that sound. Blasting Van Halen.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: That's movie-like.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: First time I ever heard it.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Here on the Fire Me Up Friday, a little Van
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: Halen to get you fired up as well. We should
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: all be fired up, obviously, for football season. B. John Robinson,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: one of the nicest, most sincere, pleasurable guys to interview,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: to visit with. Just a good guy all the way around.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: Stan Drayton did just an absolutely spectacular job recruiting him.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: And wound up, of course, with that outstanding career at Texas.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: Now one of the richest guys in the National Football League.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: had the largest contract ever given to a running back
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: for a few days before Jameer Gibbs got one that
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: was a little bit bigger. But still, it's a lot
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: of money for Bijan. And this morning, he was on
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: the Dan Patrick Show. And Dan had some questions to
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: ask him about growing up and who his favorites were. And, well,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: we'll just listen to it. This is from this morning,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: heard here on 13 Under the Zone.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: More phone calls coming up. hour two dan and the
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: dan it's dan patrick show he's uh bjorn robinson the
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: falcons running back two-time pro bowler and was the eighth
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: overall pick in the 2023 nfl draft there uh 1400
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: yards last year seven touchdowns rushing four touchdowns receiving good
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: to see you back on the program how you feeling.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 7: I'm feeling great man it's good to see you back
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 7: too um down here in Miami, just trying to finish
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 7: up his last preseason game. But I was going to
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 7: be back on the show with you.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: We want to play guess the poster that Bijan had
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: on his wall growing up of a running back.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: Don't. Okay.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: Did you have a poster on your wall of a
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: NFL running back?
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 7: I didn't have a poster, but I had a, I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 7: had like a, um, action figure of, of, of him.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: Okay. Okay.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: So Todd, I'll start with you.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 9: Adrian Peterson.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 5: All right. Dylan. Eric Dickerson.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: Marvin.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: LaDainian Tomlinson.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: Paul.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Bijan's from Tucson. I'm also going LaDainian Tomlinson.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say Barry Sanders.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, I had both. So I had Barry Sanders and LT.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 5: So you guys are both right.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: Okay. So you met both of them.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 5: I have met both of them, yeah.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah. They're, uh, they're pretty cool, man. Like, just, so
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 7: my first time, so my first time actually talking to
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 7: LaDania was on a text message, and somebody gave me
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 7: his number, and it was in college, and I was like,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 7: this can't be real.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: Like, somebody actually just, you want to talk to him?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: And I was like, what?
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 7: It was a pretty cool moment, and then, you know,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 7: Barry Sanders was, I put the Lions the first year,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 7: so it was cool, like, kind of meeting them both
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 7: how I did.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: And it was, I mean, they're both, they're both the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 5: idols right there.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Can you explain Barry Sanders? If, if somebody didn't see
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: him run, how would you describe that?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 7: I think if you've never seen Barry Sanders or heard
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 7: of his name, like you would think he's just a normal,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 7: normal dude. Like he, just a very down to earth guy, uh,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 7: very respectful. And I mean, we were just talking about
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 7: life for a minute, just how everything's going. Uh, but
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 7: I could tell if you didn't know Barry Sanders as
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 7: a legend that he is and all that he's accomplished,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 7: like you would think he just another man just walking
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 7: on the street. Um, which is pretty cool. That's kind
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 7: of how I live my life too. So it's pretty cool.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I remember when I saw him in, I met him
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: in college when he was in college. And so you're
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: just seeing somebody we had not seen before. And, and
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: I've seen all the running backs going back to Jim
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Brown and Barry to me, like he made people look silly. He, he, he,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: do you ever, have you ever felt sorry for a defender?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 5: Never.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: Okay. Like if you made somebody embarrassed, you know, like
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: when they have an arm tackle and whiff on you
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: or you jump over somebody, but you never felt bad.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 7: That's, that's, that's the, that's the joy that it brings.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 7: Like after it happens, you know, you're, you're just smiling.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 7: Everybody's energy's up, but it's just that moment. And you're,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 7: you know, you, you won in that moment. Once one,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 7: you got past him, but it's just the way you
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 7: did it. And even the way that Barry Sanders did it, Like,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 7: it just brings so much joy and confidence in that
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 7: next play.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 5: It's crazy.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: Anybody ask if they could tackle you? Like, somebody on
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the street? Does somebody, you know, fans? Does anybody want
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: to try to tackle you?
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: Nobody.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 7: I mean, there's been a couple kids that was like,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 7: you know, if it was me and you, one-on-one in.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: The open field.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Wait, this is just a fan?
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 7: And I'm just like, there's a lot of things that
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 7: you might be able to do in life.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Last time I was on or you're on with us,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: you talked about still pursuing acting Matthew McConaughey with the
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Texas connection. So is there any update on that or
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: do I need to maybe kick Matthew McConaughey to the
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: curb and hook you up with Adam Sandler?
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: No, no, no. So I've been doing the commercials, which
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: have been fun.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 7: I've been about four for this year that's on TV.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 7: So those have been really cool. And I think you've
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 7: got to start somewhere. And just for me, starting at
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 7: that level has been a blessing. But Matthew McConaughey, we
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 7: still talk all the time. And I'm actually going to
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 7: see him next week at the Texas game.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 9: So.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 7: it's uh it's it's been it's been fun like to
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 7: to like use my chops a little bit in that
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 7: space okay yeah acting chops okay all right.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Well i i introduced derrick henry to adam sandler okay
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: yeah so derrick henry gets first shot at any acting
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: roles you know for running backs but i can i
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: can put in a.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: Man don't i would appreciate.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: It okay help me understand what was going on jameer
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: gibbs and you it felt like who's going first to
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: sign their new contract yeah okay you went first but
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: what what strategy did you and your agent have of
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: it felt like whoever was going second was going to
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: make a little bit more money than who went.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 7: First yeah and i mean we knew that um it
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 7: was more just like For her, Nicole, she just wanted
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 7: to make sure everything was great. On the contract side
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: that people really don't see. And me, I was getting
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 7: ready to go. I was like, I want to get
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 7: on the field. And they were almost done. So that
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 7: all helped as well. But yeah, I knew when we
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 7: got done. And then Jameer, if whoever would go second,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 7: that would be the case. But it didn't affect me
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 7: at all. I'm actually very happy for him because we
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 7: are close. That is one of my really good friends,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: really outside of the game too, as much as we
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: compete against each other. But it's cool that he has
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 7: that title, the highest paid, because I know that I
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 7: got a lot of work to do now to get there.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: He doesn't make that much more than you. You're going
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: to be fine.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 7: It's just a cool feeling to know that position is
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 7: getting some momentum now.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: It's cool.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: How good can the Falcons be this year? And who
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: is going to be your starting quarterback?
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 7: I think that the sky's the limit for us. We
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: have a lot of great talent on the team. I'm
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 7: at this point now where I'm not trying to put
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 7: anything in the world that like, Oh, wants to play
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: all Superbowl. Like we have to, we have to compete
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 7: for it.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: We have to, you know, do it one day at
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 5: a time, obviously.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 7: Uh, cause every single year I say we're one game
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 7: away or, or, or we're so close or we, we
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 7: needed this win or that win. But now I think
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 7: that with, with the unit that we have now and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: the group that we have a team, like, we just
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 7: want to just go one, one day, one play, uh,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 7: one game at a time. Cause we know if we
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 7: just have that mentality, um, We'll be fine. But for
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 7: your question on the starting quarterback, and Kevin Stavansky took
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 7: on this show.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: After me, you should ask him that question because I
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 5: have no idea. I have no idea.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Where is he right now?
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 5: He's probably in the middle room or somewhere. Okay.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: You did a good job trying to juke me, fake
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: me out there.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: So I'll let you off the hook there. You can
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: guarantee that your quarterback, starting quarterback, will be.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 5: Left-handed, correct? Correct, yes.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: Just want to make sure. You're left-handed too, aren't you?
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Wait, do you have a touchdown pass?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: So it's in the playbook.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, not yet, but I think I still got
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  Speaker 7: to show them a little bit more. They see what
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  Speaker 7: I can do, but it's the confidence level.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to know that you're left-handed like this. Well,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: they do now. Tomlinson threw seven touchdown passes in his career.
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  Speaker 5: He threw seven? Have they all been from the 10-yard in?
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 5: Or have they been past the 10-yard lead?
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, do you want to throw a bomb?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I aspire to have that dream.
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  Speaker 1: Paulie, how many touchdown passes does LT have?
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  Speaker 2: LaDainian Tomlinson in his career as a passer was eight
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: for 12 with seven touchdowns, and three of them were
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: over 20 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah, me and Tommy have some things to talk about.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: Come on, Stefanski, offensive-minded guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No, they're very creative, like Kevin and Tommy. very creative, um,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 7: what they do. And I really appreciate that. So you
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 7: never know what, what you can see. All right.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: I think Gail Sayers was, was he left-handed too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. The classic is Gail Sayers.
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  Speaker 7: I want to ask you, do you think Gail Sayers
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  Speaker 7: can be, can be who he is in today's game?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the way he ran. Like Jim Brown probably
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't be, like he'd be maybe a smaller Derrick Henry.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But Gale Sayers was Barry Sanders before Barry Sanders.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: His moves were, nobody had ever seen something like that.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: get caught up in generations, like that guy couldn't play today.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: Gale Sayers would be able to play today. Jim Brown
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  Speaker 1: was still an unbelievable athlete, but he wouldn't be running
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  Speaker 1: over people the way he did back in the 60s.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Any other running back you want to ask me about?
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 7: See, Walter Payton, like, will he be Walter Payton in
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 7: today's game? Like, will he be his exact same self.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: Right now?
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  Speaker 1: He would be maybe a Christian McCaffrey. Because Walter Payton
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: didn't have great speed, but he had so much determination.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: You just weren't going to bring him down. Yes, Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Walter Payton, Bijan, eight touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, you got to get caught up here. And you
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: call yourself a great running back? Come on.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: That's something I gotta talk about.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: Does Christian McCaffrey have any touchdown passes?
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 5: He probably does, honestly.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: Who's the best running back in the NFL?
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure I'd probably say Are you? I'd probably
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 5: say like Jameer.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: Christian Christian McCaffrey has two touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, see, I'm at zero.
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  Speaker 2: Dang.
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  Speaker 5: I play Wildcat, so I don't know if that counts.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, you didn't throw it. No, I want a
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: touchdown pass out of you this year. At least one.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: Jameer Gibbs hasn't thrown a touchdown pass.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 7: Isolate.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: So I guess we're the same boat.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Are you playing tonight?
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 7: I think they'll let me know. Coming up here in
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 7: our meeting, so we'll see. I'm regardless, ready or not. Okay.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: Would you prefer not to get all taped up and,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: you know, go through the motions and play like one series?
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, I, I know like me going out there
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 5: would be great.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 7: Uh, just like get my feet rolling and get my
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 7: feet wet a little bit. Uh, at the same time,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 7: like I understand, you know, being healthy and getting ready
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 7: for week one. So that's always kind of been my
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 7: thing the past couple of years is, is get ready
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 7: for week one.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: Uh, So that's probably going to be, it might be
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: the case here tonight.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Do you even take a shower after the game? Like
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: if you don't play, do you even, right?
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 7: So if I got the uniform on, because I like
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 7: to wear a uniform, then yeah, I'll take a shower.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: Just want to make sure I understand everything goes along
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: with preseason. Go talk to Stefanski and say, hey, coach.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: is a halfback pass in the playbook. And if not,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: I want to be like Gale Sayers, LaDainian Tomlinson, Chris McCaffrey.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: And just tell coach that I suggested that you should
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: throw a pass.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: Let's not get greedy. Let's go 10 yards. And then
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: you want to go 20. Then I'm fine with that. Okay.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 5: Cool. But, No, yeah, it was good.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: Good luck this season, and we hope to catch up
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: with you during the season. But thank you again, Bijan,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: and congrats on the contract.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, Dad. It's great talking to you, man.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: There he is, a guy who's never thrown a touchdown
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: pass in the NFL. And you want to be LaDainian Tomlinson?
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, Paul.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: Real cocky, hard-to-like guy.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: We've said that before about Bijan, all about himself.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: Jeez, what a nice guy. He's at the Steelers week one.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: Good stuff from Bijan. I'm with Dan Patrick this morning.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: And just like the Danettes were saying, just a great guy.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: They had tongue in cheek saying, oh, all about himself. No,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: he's just the opposite.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: Every experience that my friends both in and outside of
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: the media have had with Bijan Robinson, whether it's in
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: a sporting context or not, all echo that same thing.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: Yep. Just great dude all the way around. So you
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: wish nothing but good things for him.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: You would You would draft him if you could in
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: your fantasy league, right?
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think he'll be falling to me in the
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 4: fifth pick next week.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: I would. Fifth out of how many?
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 4: We're at 10.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: Just like my league, and it's a snake draft, and
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: it'll go back through?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like drafting in the middle.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: You know, most people say you either want to draft
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: at the front end or the back end because you
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: would pick early in the next round for those that
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: are into fantasy football. I can see... the value in
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: doing that but i picked it i think in the
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: middle last year and i didn't mind it.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: The math says that you're right you know it's better
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: to be at the front of the end but i
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 3: like drafting in the middle because then you don't get
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: a run of guys at the same position taken before
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: you're up.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: Exactly and that seems to be in my league as
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: well but what a great guy bjohn robinson is all
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: right uh we're gonna hear from his uh his head
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: coach in college. Well, the second one, it started with
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: Tom Herman and then ended with Steve Sarkeesian. But we're
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: going to hear from Sark coming up next when we
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: continue on this Fire Me Up Friday on Sports Radio
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 9: It is Friday here.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: And getting ready for it. Quite the football weekend. High
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: school football tonight around here. A few college games.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 10: Tomorrow, the first.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: weekend of college football and did you read something that
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: said that the ncaa rules are going to adjust to
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: make zero week just a regular week next year starting
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: next year in college football i believe.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 4: That's right season will be starting now next year.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: Okay so no more exceptions or dispensations or you know
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: waivers needed to do that it's just They're just going
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: to do it. I mean, you still are. And that
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: makes sense. You're still maxing out at 12 games. You
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: just have an extra week to get that 12th game in.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: So maybe, maybe that might be a logical next step
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: in my ongoing battle to say, if you really want
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: to move the college football playoff up to get it
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: done by the end of January, you got to do
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: something with that standalone Army-Navy game. So maybe... Although it's
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: hard to imagine that being the only game on Thanksgiving
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: weekend if you did it that way. But you did
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: it on what would be conference championship weekend. Then you
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: would have your conference championships, right? If you did that.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: Be weird.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: But maybe you have the conference championship weekend be Thanksgiving weekend.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: Then have the Army-Navy and then start your playoff the
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: next week.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: But maybe it's a step forward by adding an extra
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: available week of action of college football. football.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: There's also some off-season changes.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: You can have two OTA-like practice periods every spring, and
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: there was also a shortening of the transfer portal down
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: to 10 days in January.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: Very good.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Sark will be asked about that on Monday
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: at the press conference, which you'll hear live here on
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: 1300 The Zone. Let's hear from Sark. This was from
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: the Third and Longhorn podcast this week. Coaches, by and large,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: especially ones who... are still striving to win their first
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: championships and things like that, are a little reluctant, hesitant
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: to talk about legacy when their time as coaches comes
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: to an end. Nevertheless, Steve Sarkeesian was asked, what kind
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: of legacy would he like to leave as head coach
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: when he's done? Because he has said, He plans to
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: coach nowhere else, wants to be the coach of Texas
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: for a long time and then call it a career.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: So what would he hope his legacy to be?
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, that's tough.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 6: Because when you think about the history and tradition here,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 6: you know, and you think about all that Coach Royal
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 6: accomplished in his time here and some of the great
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 6: teams Coach Akers had that didn't just quite get over
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 6: the hump. And then you look at what Coach Brown
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 6: accomplished in his time here. Um, you know, you always
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 6: want to be able to leave a program better than
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 6: it was when you arrived. And I think we've gotten
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 6: to that point and I feel very comfortable in saying that,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 6: and that's not trying to be arrogant or pat myself
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 6: on the back, but I believe that, you know, that,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 6: that we've built this program the right way. Um, and
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 6: I think that we've graduated our players. Our players are
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 6: doing well in school. We're producing NFL players. Um, we're
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 6: recruiting well. I think ultimately it's about championships, you know,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 6: and that's what the University of Texas is about. And
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 6: you compete for championships year in and year out. And
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 6: we have one conference championship in five years, and we
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 6: haven't won a national championship.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: We've been close.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 6: And so I think ultimately from a legacy standpoint, it's
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 6: like when people look back on this era, however long
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 6: it is, I hope it's a long time. If you
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 6: guys want to know the truth, I really do. I
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 6: like Austin and I love UT and I just love
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 6: everything about it. I hope at some point when people
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 6: look back, one of the topics of conversation will be
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 6: about the championships we won, right? And that's a journey
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 6: to win championships with an S, right? And whether that's
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 6: SEC championships now, national championships, whatever that looks like. And
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: so each year it's like, how do you put forth
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 6: a team and a staff and a support staff that
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 6: is in position that can compete for that? Especially in
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 6: this era of college football, it's different. You know, it's
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 6: not about what just you did in the regular season
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 6: and go win one game. Like, you've got to build,
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 6: you've got to have the crescendo towards the playoffs and
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 6: then be at your best in November, December, and January.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: So hopefully, you.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: Know, when I'm old and gray and you know, there's
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 6: reminiscing about the championships we won, but beyond that, the
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: people that we produced that came through this university that
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 6: played under us, that went on to have great NFL careers,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: like a lot of you, that went on to be
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: great in the business world, like a lot of you,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 6: that became great fathers, like a lot of you, right? Husbands,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: things of that nature, because it's all of that. And
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 6: that to me is what a legacy is.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: So in addition to preparing for the season, Sark and
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: other college football coaches may be preparing for more litigation
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: that happens through the courts because it was a Dallas
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: judge who signed that order last night that prohibits the NCAA,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: the SEC, and Commissioner Greg Sankey from stopping the group
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: of athletes, three of whom are currently listed on NFL rosters,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: from returning to college for one more season of play.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: Cowboys wide receiver Jordan Hudson, Chiefs linebacker Wesley Bisante, And
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: Chiefs wide receiver Omari Evans, among the 41 players listed
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: as plaintiffs on the restraining order. Christina Walla and Bailey Maupin,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: who was a guard at Groover High School in the Panhandle,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: led them to a state championship. And she ended up
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: playing at Texas Tech, did Maupin. She signed a contract
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: with the WNBA team this summer, but also named. on
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: the order. The case the latest in that growing number
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: of legal challenges to the NCAA's eligibility rules.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: Judge Martin Hoffman wrote in the order, quote, as long
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: as they would have been eligible to continue playing college
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: sports in the following semester, if they had a fifth
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: year of eligibility, they are eligible today. We'll see where
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: the next step takes us. We'll be back to wrap
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: up today's show and the week here on Sports Radio
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.