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Greg Tepper previews the TXHSFB State Semifinals and CFP · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: With regard to football that we always enjoy visiting with
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  Speaker 1: the managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine. And
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  Speaker 1: not only that, my co host on High School Scoreboard
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  Speaker 1: Live alongside Aaron Hartigan as well, and I'm happy to
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  Speaker 1: say I'll actually be able to join them again on
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  Speaker 1: the program, So look forward to doing that. We'll be there,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Teppers, how you doing, Tip.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 3: And a quick note on Willie Nelson, which is a
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  Speaker 3: great way to start a.
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  Speaker 2: Sentence in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there is, there is a very I'll tweet this out.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't tweeted it out in a couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: I think my favorite video on the internet is this
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  Speaker 3: really like bizarre video it.
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  Speaker 2: Is, It's on YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: It is I believe in Daryl Royle's birthday. And they
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  Speaker 3: are sitting It's a group of people sitting in an
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  Speaker 3: apartment with Willie Nelson sitting like cross legged on the
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  Speaker 3: floor playing one of his songs songs, And you panned
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  Speaker 3: the camera pans up to the couch there and sitting
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  Speaker 3: next to one another are Lee Corso and Dave Campbell
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  Speaker 3: and Rema Campbell sitting on a couch listening to.
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  Speaker 2: Willie Nelson at DK our birthday party.
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  Speaker 3: It is truly just a snapshot in time from like
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy two or something. I watch it like every
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  Speaker 3: three three months when I remember about it. It is
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  Speaker 3: one of the wildest videos you'll ever see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would imagine, especially with some of the other
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  Speaker 1: company mention. Now, you do fully understand that down in
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  Speaker 1: these parts, seeing photographs of Coach Royal and Willie was
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  Speaker 1: a really rather commonplace thing. They played golf together a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They had the Ben, Willie and Daryl Golf Tournament for
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  Speaker 1: decades with Ben Crenshaw and Willie Nelson and Daryl Royal,
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  Speaker 1: and that it was adopted later after Coach Royal passed
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  Speaker 1: by Mack Brown with the Mac Jack McConaughey, which is
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  Speaker 1: with Mac Brown, Jack Ingram and Matthew McConaughey. Even after
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  Speaker 1: even after Mac went to North Carolina, they still have
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  Speaker 1: the Mac Jack and McConaughey.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh so that works out. But you're but you're
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  Speaker 4: right seeing some.
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  Speaker 1: Of those pictures, and I'll tell you the thing that
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  Speaker 1: really just flipped me out, And it happened only because
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  Speaker 1: it happened by happenstance when they first made when we
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  Speaker 1: were all still into in the uh in the age
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  Speaker 1: of it doesn't seem like it's been that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: Tip that we will watch DVD's on television, right, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there was a there was a d They started offering
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  Speaker 1: the DVD sets of Saturday Night Live, and I bought
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  Speaker 1: I think the first four seasons were available. So in
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  Speaker 1: the first season, there is an episode that is hosted
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  Speaker 1: by Mary kay Place who was an actor and producer
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  Speaker 1: and director who was in television a lot in the
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  Speaker 1: seventies and eighties.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: The the muschool guest was Willy Nelson, and Willie sings
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  Speaker 1: his acts and stuff like that. And so they do it,
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  Speaker 1: and they have this episode and when it's over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they come out on stage and they wave and
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  Speaker 1: they say thank you thanks to Willie Nelson. Think, oh
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And then people are standing there on
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  Speaker 1: the stage hugging each other. During the credits, well among
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  Speaker 1: the people out there, just sounder elseon.
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  Speaker 4: I did a double take. There's Darrel Royal standing on
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  Speaker 4: the stage. It's Saturday I Live. If you go back,
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  Speaker 4: if you find it, you find it the.
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  Speaker 1: Episode and I think what all the Saturday Night Live
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  Speaker 1: episodes are now available.
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  Speaker 4: I think it used to be on Hulu. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if it's is it Camas Were Peacock two, Nat
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  Speaker 4: the Cock, Yeah, Rock Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you look up the episode and it's in the
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  Speaker 1: first maybe the second season, but I'm almost an undercent.
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  Speaker 4: Sure it's the first year.
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  Speaker 1: Look for Mary k Place to host, and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: and Willie Nelson's a musical guest. And you go to
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  Speaker 1: the credits, you'll see Coach Royal with those glasses he
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  Speaker 1: was wearing at the end of his coaching career.
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  Speaker 4: Standing there. I my jaw hit the floor. I thought,
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  Speaker 4: one of these.
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  Speaker 1: Things is not like the other Coach Royal and Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Night Live and NET Yeah, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Royle had a sense of humor, but that's probably
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  Speaker 3: a little rich for his for his comedy chops, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure Willie though Clawn was going up there
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  Speaker 1: and probably calling out.
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  Speaker 4: On the stage at the end of everyone was waving.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it so spectacular all right, So, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of of of astronomically uncommon things in Texas, I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember it were you, at least from Afar or as
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  Speaker 1: a kid growing up in the Dallas Forward metroplex. And
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  Speaker 1: still are you a frustrated Cowboys fan?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. Somehow I ducked it.
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  Speaker 3: Long story short, my family moved around a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I moved back when I was when I was in
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  Speaker 3: middle school, and at that point that was the Quincy.
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  Speaker 2: Carter era of the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: That's really when I started gaining football consciousness, and I
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  Speaker 3: just thought, I don't need I don't need this pain.
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  Speaker 4: In my life.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've got the I've got the Texas Rangers. That's enough.
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  Speaker 2: So no, I'm not. I'm not a long.
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  Speaker 3: Suffering Cowboys fan. But they're all a lot of them
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  Speaker 3: in my life that I know are in some pain today.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Cameron Parker is kind of this divorced himself from it,
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  Speaker 1: but he can't completely let go. But we're telling him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of either something or another thing,
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  Speaker 1: something about getting off the pot or whatever. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: just because we've seen you and I have seen even
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  Speaker 1: this year, and we see it every year, some bizarre
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  Speaker 1: things happen on a football field. With the amount of
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  Speaker 1: take that we watch and the amount of live telecast.
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  Speaker 1: We watch of college and high school football games, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't be that shocked or surprise, especially since
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys were involved about what happened with that block
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  Speaker 1: punt moving forward, don't touch it a warrior that it happens.
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you something?
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  Speaker 2: And I think you'll agree with this.
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  Speaker 3: There is and certainly I understand that the NFL is
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  Speaker 3: it is like people are coming in and coming out
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and there's roster turnover, especially on
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  Speaker 3: the special teams where players get injured and get healthy
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. But I would say that that is a
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  Speaker 3: mistake that ninety eight percent of high school football teams
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  Speaker 3: in Texas don't make that.
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  Speaker 2: They're just that they they understand that they are all drilled.
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  Speaker 3: And I think part of it is that like everyone
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  Speaker 3: goes through special teams drills, you know, on on on
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  Speaker 3: usually on Thursday Thursday, if you plan on Friday Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: we're doing a lofer room, we're doing special teams and
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  Speaker 3: we're practicing. Hey, you know, we're attracting Yell and Peter,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting away from the ball and so yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: was one thing that crossed my mind last night, was
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  Speaker 3: like that was I would say that that is a
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  Speaker 3: that is an amateur play from from the Cowboys special teams.
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  Speaker 3: But even amateurs I think could avoid something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And notice how everybody was recalling nineteen ninety three
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  Speaker 1: and Leon Rolette. This is the most celebrating example of
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  Speaker 1: that very same type of mistake. Unfortunately it loves a cowboy,
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  Speaker 1: same deal.
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  Speaker 3: You're wearing the same helmet, man, Like, you need to
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  Speaker 3: sew a little bit about you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys have a history of this kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's start with from college football and get
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts first of all on the bowl selections for
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  Speaker 1: the teams in the state. And and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we should do a tip of the cap
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  Speaker 1: to incarnate word at the FCS level, which is advanced
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  Speaker 1: to the next round. And even though it didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out for Charleton and Abilene Christian in their first year
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  Speaker 1: of eligibility for FCS playoffs, I think they showed themselves
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  Speaker 1: well to be able to advance to it there.
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  Speaker 4: And now you got incarnate word taken the next step.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will say that overall, it's just a
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  Speaker 3: really healthy year for football in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Mary Hard and bayl are still live in the divisions
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  Speaker 3: three ranks. You mentioned, you know, you mentioned incarnate words
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  Speaker 3: is still cooking.
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  Speaker 2: And then yet ten of.
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  Speaker 3: The thirteen FBS teams in the state of Texas qualified
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  Speaker 3: for bowls, and that.
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  Speaker 2: That is not nothing, and that is there.
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  Speaker 3: There have been years in the past where that would
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  Speaker 3: have been a cause for celebration. But overall, you know,
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  Speaker 3: between Texas getting two teams in the in the in
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  Speaker 3: the college Football playoffs and another eight teams going bowling,
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  Speaker 3: I think that that the state of the union as
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  Speaker 3: far as Texas football is concerned, is very strong, not
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  Speaker 3: just at the FBS level and not just at even
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  Speaker 3: the power floor level, but all the way down to
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  Speaker 3: the to the SCS, the Division two, the Division three levels.
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  Speaker 3: There's just a real healthiness to the football landscape right
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  Speaker 3: now that we haven't seen in a while. There were
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  Speaker 3: some lean years back in the later part of the
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  Speaker 3: last decade where ten teams making.
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  Speaker 2: The playoff, making that could.
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  Speaker 3: Be uh making you know, the bowl a bowl would
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  Speaker 3: have seemed impossible. But things have certainly rebounded.
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  Speaker 2: In a big way here in the Lone Star state.
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  Speaker 4: Were you as many were.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling uneasy about AMU's chances to get into the playoff
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  Speaker 1: field after Saturday nights.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because you're leaving it up to a committee.
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  Speaker 3: And I've said this before. I have a very cynical
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  Speaker 3: view here. I recognize that, but but I always view these.
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  Speaker 2: People as television executives and not football people. That's what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. They're making television decisions.
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  Speaker 3: And the right television move is probably to put in
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  Speaker 3: Alabama over SMU. But I think that you know, our
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  Speaker 3: Mike Craven was there in Charlotte for this game and
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  Speaker 3: when when SMU drove to tie the game, uh and
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  Speaker 3: came with the game tying score. Obviously it didn't last,
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  Speaker 3: but he he even put in our in our kind
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  Speaker 3: of our team slack.
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  Speaker 2: Just saying I think they clinched the playoff spot with that.
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  Speaker 3: Drive, that getting there and being that competitive, I think
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  Speaker 3: is going to take away any sort of doubt. And
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  Speaker 3: sure enough, Look, I think it's worth saying, like commend
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  Speaker 3: the committee. I think they did the right thing, and
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  Speaker 3: they put the right teams in there, the teams, the
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  Speaker 3: most deserving teams in there, and they didn't let the
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  Speaker 3: brand name get in the way.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And and I think that Semu is deserving of making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that that was that was a pleasant surprise.
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  Speaker 3: But I think especially considering last year with the the
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  Speaker 3: nonsense they pulled with Florida State, I think that that uh,
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  Speaker 3: there were there were SMU fans and people who observe
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  Speaker 3: S and U who were understandably very leery of the
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  Speaker 3: of the of the playoff bracket reveal, simply because they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to make sure that the committee would do of
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  Speaker 3: them they didn't last year, which is to take a
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  Speaker 3: look at the teams and and and make the right
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  Speaker 3: decision as far as the teams that are most deserving
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  Speaker 3: of the playoff, which I think is certainly SMU instead
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  Speaker 3: of a team that got drilled by Oklahoma or in
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  Speaker 3: a team that lost to.
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  Speaker 4: Vanderbilt, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Tepper, managing edit Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, joining
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  Speaker 1: us here on the program, how do you feel about
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  Speaker 1: each of the two representatives from the state of Texas
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  Speaker 1: chances in this CEP.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll start with SMU, and look, there's no two
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  Speaker 3: ways about it, and I do mean exactly what I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to say. It's going to be tough sledding for
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  Speaker 3: SMU quite literally. I think moving up going up to
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  Speaker 3: State College, of course they are a and taking on
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  Speaker 3: the Penn.
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  Speaker 2: State and Happy Valley.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be I think that's actually it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of a poor matchup. I think for SMU, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think they match up very well with Penn State. The
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  Speaker 3: things that Penn State does well kind of neutralize the
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  Speaker 3: things that SMU does well. And I'm a little concerned
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  Speaker 3: about that. And they are fond of doing a white out,
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  Speaker 3: and it may in fact to be in multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Ways a wide out.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that I think people don't necessarily
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  Speaker 3: realize and may be taken into account is that, like
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  Speaker 3: there's a reason that all of the Bowl games are
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  Speaker 3: in southern cities or they're in domes. Like there's a reason,
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  Speaker 3: and it's because it's December and Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be the.
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  Speaker 3: First December game in Pennsylvania, you know, outdoors in quite
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  Speaker 3: some time, you know, maybe outside of you know, whenever
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  Speaker 3: they played Army Navy. But certainly that's if that's any
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  Speaker 3: guide to what we're going to be seeing. We may
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  Speaker 3: be seeing some income near weather. So for s and U,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be tough sledding.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's at a tough draw.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Texas is the big winner of the playoffs draw.
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  Speaker 3: I think they got an absolutely dreamy draw when you
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  Speaker 3: take a look at their first couple of matchups, taking
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  Speaker 3: on a Clemson team, I think they match up really
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  Speaker 3: well against I'm just not sure how Clemson moves the
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  Speaker 3: ball all that much on Texas, especially in Austin, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's huge. And then to be paired up with
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  Speaker 3: Arizona State, a team that obviously Big Ten champions and
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  Speaker 3: certainly deserving, but a team that I think everyone thinks
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  Speaker 3: is a bit of an overachiever in this spot. I
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  Speaker 3: think for Texas you're feeling like, hey, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: for them to have to go to the Peace Bowl, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's not like they're playing in their backyard in Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna have to travel across the country. I think
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  Speaker 3: for Texas you do not have to squint very hard
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  Speaker 3: to see them in the final four here. I thought
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  Speaker 3: for overall, for the way that the.
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  Speaker 2: Season ended in a bit of a bit of a disappointment, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think that they have to be really buoyed and really
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  Speaker 3: encouraged by grabbing that five seeds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if they do win the two games, then
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about them in all probability ticketed for the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, which, by the way, they've not played in
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  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl game since my first year of play
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  Speaker 1: by played for Texas the two thousand and two. It's
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  Speaker 1: been twenty two years since Texas played in a Cotton
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  Speaker 1: Bowl game. All right, now, in terms of the other bowls,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fully prepared to call Jeff Trailer and give him
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  Speaker 1: seat restaurant recommendations. In Myrtle Beach they play Coastal Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It is kind of weird having to play a team
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  Speaker 1: on their own home field there. But utsay close strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to be able to I think handle coach to
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  Speaker 1: win that Myrtle Beach Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I think so too. And the other well,
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  Speaker 2: here's the other thing, and here's here's the if you need.
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  Speaker 3: To know one thing for you, I'm a big believer
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  Speaker 3: that bulls are a measurement of how motivated your team is.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the only thing you need to know right now.
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  Speaker 2: UTSA is six and six.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Trailer has literally, at any level, never finished with
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  Speaker 3: a losing record, never, never, ever, ever, not at Gilmer,
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  Speaker 3: not at UTSA, he's never done as.
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  Speaker 2: A head coach. I think they're going to be motivated
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  Speaker 2: going into that kick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How about Texas Tech Arkansas and the Liberty Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, listen, we're getting Southless Conference back together. And
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  Speaker 3: for Joey maguire, who grew up an Arkansas fan, this
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  Speaker 3: is a lot of fun for him.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of Texas high.
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  Speaker 3: School football products also on that Arkansas Arkansas squad.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a fun matchup.
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  Speaker 3: And and I think the text got to feel really good.
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  Speaker 3: I will again, if it's a measurement of how how
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  Speaker 3: motivated you are to go in going to the game.
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  Speaker 3: I think Joey mcgar is gonna have these boys ready.
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  Speaker 2: They are They've been very good in bowl games under
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  Speaker 2: joe mguire, and I think that they they've got to
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  Speaker 2: feel pretty good going into this game as well.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, and we'll talk about some of the other
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  Speaker 1: bowl games next week when visit. But but uh, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the high school playoffs now. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I felt the tremors, after all,
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  Speaker 1: I was in Atlanta, but I know the earth must
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  Speaker 1: have moved when Alito lost in the state quarterfinals last week.
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  Speaker 4: That and as well as De Soto. With both of
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  Speaker 4: those teams getting.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the pair of tremors that were felt across
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  Speaker 3: the Texas high school football landscape. You know, Alito is
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  Speaker 3: one of those teams that anytime they lose in his news,
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  Speaker 3: right when they lose, when Carthage loses, right when Katie loses,
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  Speaker 3: when Duncanville loses.
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  Speaker 2: There's just a handful of teams are like that.
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  Speaker 3: And certainly to go out there and to lose to
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  Speaker 3: Dent and Ryan, a team they've already beaten, it's a
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  Speaker 3: remarkable story there for Ryan, for them to get able
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and basically just play forty eight
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  Speaker 3: minutes of Ryan football. They played great defense, Quinn hen again,
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback play made them big time throws and they
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  Speaker 3: ran the ball with Nemo Warmatee. It was spectacular. And
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  Speaker 3: they are now through to the five A Division one
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  Speaker 3: State semifinals where they get Highland Park in what is
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  Speaker 3: as I mentioned on Texas of Wall dot Com of
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  Speaker 3: a high school football fan of a not so by
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  Speaker 3: gone era remembers Hiland Park versus Ryan as an annual tradition.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting that band in the dock together.
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  Speaker 3: And then Longview over De Soto is the single most
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  Speaker 3: shocking result of the year in the playoffs.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: And it's not that long View beat.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: De Soto, although that is certainly surprising. It is that
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: long View drummed De Soto and Boosey Washington, the running
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: back for Longview, I think he's the most dangerous player in.
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  Speaker 2: Texas right now.
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  Speaker 3: He ran for three hundred yards and five touchdowns. They
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: just lined up in twenty one personnel and they just
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: ran the dang ball at DeSoto and De Sota couldn't
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  Speaker 3: do anything about it. So yeah, and it really reshaped
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  Speaker 3: both the sixth A Division two state brackets as well
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  Speaker 3: as five A Division one because the teams that we
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: thought were penciled in to a spot in Arlington suddenly
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  Speaker 3: are gone and you're going to have some party crashers there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Wimberley le Vega, I mean that sets up is
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a real quirker in Georgetown on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: A coin flip.
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  Speaker 3: A coin flip, because you, first of all, you want
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: to talk about I think a matchup of the two.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I just go so far as to say the two
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: single most underrated coaches in Texas high school football.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: In Don Hyde and Doug Warren.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: What those guys do at those programs, The consistent success
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: there is absolutely remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a great coaching matchup.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: And then you've got star power here Cody Silver just
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: an unbelievable career, what he's done there at Wimberley, looking
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: to finish that with a state championship.
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  Speaker 2: And then you add it and then you look on
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: the other side Vega with Bryce and Rowland.
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  Speaker 3: They're running back who has been on another level in
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: the in the playoffs. Uh, something's got to give there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: But I think both teams are going to move the
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: ball and it's going.
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  Speaker 2: To come down to stop.
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  Speaker 3: It is a fabulous game, uh there. And and one
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: of those too close to call type games.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: All right, the other two Greater Austin aary teams for
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: those listing Hell of the Area might be curious. Vandergriff
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: has done pretty much what we thought Drew Sanders would
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: do in getting them through the bracket. Now it's a
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: challenge of a different sort to go up Agains Summer Creek,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: isn't it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah? It is?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: And of course a team to play in the state
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: championship last year, they've got they their defense in the
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: front seven is relentless with Chad wood Fork uh and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: and then they've got a quarterback in Blake Thomas, who's
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: who's one of the hottest seaster than a pistol right now.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: He's been unbelievable.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: This is the final game of the week. Of the
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: weekend is seven o'clock in Waco on Saturday.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Uh. I am fascinated to see if.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: If the offensive line for Vandergris can hold up against
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: this big front from from from Summer Creek and give
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Miles Kavaki some time to throw. That's gonna be the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: real question this one. If he's running for his life, the.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Game is probably over in favor of Summer Creek.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: But if they can protect and give him some time
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: to throw, I think their plays to be made against
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: the Summer Creek secondary.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: That's the real question there, I think for the papers.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And then the game that you and I are calling
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon, Westlake and North Shore meeting yet again.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: They know each other pretty well and meeting this time
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: in Katie, fourth time.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: In five years.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: And actually they're going back to Katie, which is where
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Westlake last beat North Shore. And this is a really
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: fascinating matchup of quarterbacks with Caleb Bailey before year started
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: for north Shore, going up against Reese Wives, who I
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: think is playing some of his best football right now.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And then if you like defenses, you're gonna love this
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: ballgame because north Shore's defense is outrageous. Okay, to two
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: FBS cornerbacks, right you two power four quarterbacks quarterbacks in
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Nigel Pringle and Devin Sanchez, plus outstanding playmakers all over
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: that defense.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And then you got on north Shore, or rather on
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Westlake Elliott Shopper, who is I think one of my
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: very favorite players in the state, just a playmaking dude
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: there in the middle of that west Lake defense, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: they have been really, really sound all year long, as
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: we come to expect from Tony Salazar.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I think this is a fabulous ball game.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I want to see if Westlake's able to control or
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: if they're able to control the line scrimmage on the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: defensive side, because what Dorshore is good when they're throwing
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: the ball, they are unbeatable. When when they're running and
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: throwing the ball, that's the real question I think for Westlake.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, as you like to say, the meanest thing we
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: do each week I give you three games, and it's
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: not the one that we're calling is not in the list.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: So I give you three games.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You choose one of the three you can transport to,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and it would either be on the other side of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that six A D one bracket North Crowley Duncanville six
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: A Division one, five A Division two Argyle, South Oak Cliff,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: or and the third choice is the aforementioned la Vega Wimber.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I think I'm going north.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: To North Crawley Duncanville because I think we might see
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: something that hasn't happened in a while, which is I
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: think we might see somebody beat Duncanville. I think North
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Crowley's got the juice. Quentin Gibson, Chris Jemmerson, Daniel Bray
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Cornelius won They're loaded offensively. I want to see if
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: they can dethrone Duncanville. They got embarrassed last year against
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: those Panthers, got embarrassed by the other Panthers, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: And I think that North Crowley want another shot.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But Duncanville, even though.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: They have struggled at times in the past couple of weeks,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: they've got this weird trick where they've got an Alabama
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: signee at quarterback and an Oregon signee a wide receiver,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: and they just it's the one weird trick to win
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: a football game, and so can they find a way
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: to contain that pass catch combo of Keilan Russell and
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: the Corey Moore's. It's also only one of two battles
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: of unbeatens across the state of Texas. The other one,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: just like we all predicted Stamford and Hamilton, which is
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: going on in Mineral Wealth.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, I didn't mean the gloss over
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this the way you're feeling about North Crowley against Duncanville.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Are you feeling that way about Wall against Gunner?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I think they got a shot. I think so.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: It's the notable thing is what this game isn't, which
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: is it's not Gunner Canadian because Wall sent notice to
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Region one last week with a dominant win over Canadian.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And the thing Wall is a different Baul club. They're
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: not running a flexible anymore.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: They've got three thousand yard passer in Land in York,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: and they are a track team, a legitimate track team
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: that has speed that I think can give Gunner some problems.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I think Gunner's got to be your favorite because of
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: there two time defending state champs. But wall is a
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: different a different kind of scenario and it's a different
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: challenge for Gunner than this Canadian team would have been.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And I think that's what makes this this kind of
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Mattine there four o'clock in Ablee on Friday really interesting.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And finally, which of the Cinderella seasons, if any, come
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to an end this week? Canyon West Plains against Thelina, Woodvillagains,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: tide Haven or Joaquin a fourth place district against.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they all enter as underdogs in their
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: respective games.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Walking is unbelievable.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: A fourth place scene make into the title or semi
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: finals is unbelievable. And then I think Woodville's got a
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: great shot against tight Haven. I think tight Haven's probably
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: got the experience gap and that's probably it. But remember
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Woodville's within the third round of the playoffs for the
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: first time in program history.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Now that in the fifth round of the playoffs.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: But I think one of the things I want to
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: make sure we point out is Canyon West Plains, who
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: knocked off Stevenville last week in what I think can
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: only be described as one of the all time biggest
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: pedigree upsets in Texas high school football history. I mean,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you're talking about third year varsity program beating one of
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the most decorated programs in Texas high school football history
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: in Stevenville. And now they have an opportunity to pull
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: the greatest double dip in pedigree disparity history. If they
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: knock off Stephenville in Salina in consecutive week they might
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: as well just like hang the banner then, because that
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: would be truly remarkable if they can pull.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: It off, no doubt.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: He's Greg Tapper, managing editor David Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I actually we'll be back in the studio with him
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and Aaron Hartigan on Saturday night. That's after Tip and
• 23:09
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• 23:13
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• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Appreciate the timetap. Looking forward to the weekend meet too,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: my friends.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Greag Tapper from Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine.
• 23:23
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• 23:25
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