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6-Man Preview and The Future of TXHSFB Championships in Arlington with Greg Tepper · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: The road to football championships, both the collegiate and the
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  Speaker 1: high school levels. Truly Internest begins this week welcoming back
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  Speaker 1: to the program, and of course, if we're doing that,
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  Speaker 1: that means it's time for our weekly conversation with the
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  Speaker 1: editor in chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine. That's
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  Speaker 1: Greg Tepper, who has his own road destinations this week.
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  Speaker 2: Do you not?
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  Speaker 3: I do. I'm on Thursday, after doing our little dog
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  Speaker 3: and pony show around here at Dave Campbell's Texas Football,
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  Speaker 3: We're going to load up to Dave Campbellmobile and drive
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  Speaker 3: west on I twenty until we hit Abilene Beautiful Shotwell
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  Speaker 3: Stadium for Wolforth's Friendships taking on Byron Nelson Across regional.
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  Speaker 4: Matchup to open the season.
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  Speaker 3: Because we're here, we made it like we have finally
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  Speaker 3: arrived at the fireworks factory.
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  Speaker 4: There are more.
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  Speaker 3: Than eight thousand Texas high school football games on the
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  Speaker 3: docket over the next seventeen weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'll be I'll be in attendance of one of
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  Speaker 4: them on Thursday night, and it's it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: More important question here is the White Elephant Truck stop
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  Speaker 1: in Cisco still open, because if it is that you
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  Speaker 1: go to, I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: To report back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm presently being bullied by other members of the staff
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  Speaker 3: to stop at Mary's Cafe and straw and on the way.
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  Speaker 3: So we're there there, we will. There may be a
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  Speaker 3: couple of stops. It may take us longer than than
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  Speaker 3: would be a direct route to get to Abilene.
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  Speaker 4: For you know, for cultural purposes, I would say, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: For yeah, I sorted to say Mary's Cafe isn't exactly
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  Speaker 1: on the way, but I can certainly understand the detour
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  Speaker 1: over there. I can certainly understand that for folks who've
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  Speaker 1: never seen the larger chicken fried steak in human existence,
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  Speaker 1: you need only go over to Palipito County and you'll
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  Speaker 1: see it in all in glory there.
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  Speaker 2: You've been there before, right, I have.
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  Speaker 4: Actually never been.
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  Speaker 3: I've I've heard tell Basically, it's it's one of those
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  Speaker 3: things that I think on my Texas bona Fide list
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  Speaker 3: is missing a check mark.
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  Speaker 4: I intend to put that check mark fair on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you need to do that, and I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you this again. The argument can be made, and I
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  Speaker 1: understand it, and you've heard it before that while it
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  Speaker 1: may not be the best chicken fried steak in existence,
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly the largest. If you get the big one,
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  Speaker 1: the big one's about sounds of a truck tire. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't exactly recommend you go there, even though you have
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  Speaker 1: a healthy appetite like me. The small one would probably
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  Speaker 1: do you. The medium would definitely be more than enough
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: I also the other thing about it, and like, if
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  Speaker 3: we are to go to a football game after that,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Be, as I would say, have the itis.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to be a a little bit mobile,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit able to enjoy myself as opposed to
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  Speaker 3: being splayed out in the middle of the floor of
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  Speaker 3: a Shotwell Stadium press box enjoying my opening night of
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  Speaker 3: seconds high school football wishing I hadn't eaten so much
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  Speaker 3: chicken fried steak.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, then the small ones you get your your
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  Speaker 1: go to, then that's the one that's one of yours.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, if and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: the White Elephant is still open, but that was used
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  Speaker 1: the in off of I twenty there at Cisco.
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  Speaker 2: That was the stop off.
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  Speaker 1: And you go in there and you have what's called
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  Speaker 1: the trucker special, which is like in Geladas and they
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  Speaker 1: got like crushed FreeDOS over the top of them or
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  Speaker 1: something like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a highway. That's a highway for you.
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  Speaker 1: So all of this to say that the highway to
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  Speaker 1: college and and and high school state championships.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get that back to high school in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I normally do with you, and
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  Speaker 1: that is I removed Texas from the equation. Okay, uh,
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  Speaker 1: And in this case, I'm removing it for probably a
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  Speaker 1: very good reason. And the reason is this, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to pick out the collegiate game involving a Texas
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  Speaker 1: school that most intrigues you this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously I'm removing Texas Ohio State from the equation. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll be up in Columbus. But because the duty calls.
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  Speaker 1: But for the purposes of this conversation, what outside of
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  Speaker 1: that game has your attention?
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  Speaker 3: That's a fair that's a fair response because otherwise, obviously
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  Speaker 3: Texas and Ohio State, that's going to be that's probably
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  Speaker 3: the game of the week in the nation, let alone
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  Speaker 3: within the state of Texas. But there is plenty of
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  Speaker 3: other really intriguing football going on across the state this
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  Speaker 3: week that I'm very I'm gonna I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: keeping a close eye on a number of them. One
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  Speaker 3: of them is going on in College Station on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: night when Texas A and M welcomes in a UTSA
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  Speaker 3: team that you know, darn well would love to take
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  Speaker 3: a scout home to San Antonio and would love to
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  Speaker 3: get what would be undisputedly the biggest winning program history.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I think they got the capability
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  Speaker 3: to do it. You know, look, they're going to be
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  Speaker 3: a huge underdogs obviously. I mean, this is an AAC
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  Speaker 3: team against an SEC team playing simple on the road.
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  Speaker 4: But we know that Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: Trailer is going to be out there coaching rear end often.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to lay it all out there because he
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  Speaker 3: unders stands what a win like this could mean for
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  Speaker 3: his program. And furthermore, you know, we do.
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  Speaker 4: Have questions about this you team, about the sex't A
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  Speaker 4: and M team.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see exactly how the Marcel Read situation
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  Speaker 3: kind of bears itself out. I want to see, especially
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  Speaker 3: the linebacker situation, what that looks like there with Texas
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  Speaker 3: A and M, and can utsa take advantage of of it.
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  Speaker 3: That's one thing that I'm certainly keeping my eye on.
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  Speaker 3: I am also going to be keeping an eye on
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  Speaker 3: what is going to be happening, I think on Thursday
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  Speaker 3: with Houston welcoming in SFA and obviously, look again Houston's
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  Speaker 3: a big favorite at home, but year two under Willie Fritz,
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  Speaker 3: I would like to see this team look like the
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  Speaker 3: kind of team that is making that step, that is
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  Speaker 3: ready to take that next step in their development, and
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  Speaker 3: against the Stephen of Austin team at the FCS level
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  Speaker 3: that is not a pushover, that is a contender. I
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  Speaker 3: think within their conference. I am interested to see what's.
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  Speaker 4: Going on there. Those are the two that I'm especially
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  Speaker 4: interested in.
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  Speaker 3: And then obviously I think the Friday night one with
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  Speaker 3: Baylor welcoming in Auburn obviously a big big twelve, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a Big twelve versus the SEC matchup, an SEC team
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  Speaker 3: going on the road, an SEC team that I think
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  Speaker 3: is there for the taking. And look, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you're a big twelve school and like you know, like Baylor,
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  Speaker 3: you don't apologize for getting the SEC win. You just
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  Speaker 3: go out there and you take it and you you
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  Speaker 3: you hang the banner, And so I think for Baylor
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  Speaker 3: that is a really intriguing opportunity to really make a
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  Speaker 3: name for themselves and say, hey, we are in fact
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  Speaker 3: back to where we you know, back near the top.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Just look, we got a big Week one win against
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  Speaker 3: an SEC squad in Auburn.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the three that really catch my eye.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with all of those choices. Two questions.
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  Speaker 1: One, is your co host Ashley Pickle fired up about
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  Speaker 1: the North Texas opener against the Lamark Cardinals on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she she hasn't shout up about it.
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  Speaker 3: She's very excited about about what they've got cooking there
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  Speaker 3: at at North Texas. So yeah, I think they think
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  Speaker 3: should be comfortable favorites there. I want to see exactly
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  Speaker 3: what that offense looks like, which is overrun an overhaul
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  Speaker 3: in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: And I would imagine you're probably not that intrigued by
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  Speaker 1: SMU welcoming in East Texas A and M the former
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M commerce the transitional FCS program.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, SMU go out there, take
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  Speaker 3: care of business. I'm really interested just to see the
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  Speaker 3: look on East Texas A and M just because you're right,
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  Speaker 3: they have been commerce for quite some time. It will
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  Speaker 3: be a new look and I'm interested to see what
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  Speaker 3: that looks like. But yeah, SMU should be pretty comfortable
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  Speaker 3: favorites to move to one and on here.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Jepper, editor in chief Tape Campbell's Texas Football Magazine joints,
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's jump to high school. Your preseason pulls
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  Speaker 1: out the top twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Five in six A.
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  Speaker 1: As we always point out that it's a top twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: it's a top ten in the classifications that have divisions
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  Speaker 1: and they don't split into the division still the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: at the six A level, But you know, I look
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  Speaker 1: at at it, I look at the computer rankings from
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  Speaker 1: a friend, Jerry Farest. There's lots of similarities there. How
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  Speaker 1: about your thoughts on this preseason top ten? And that's
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  Speaker 1: South Lake Carol at one, North Crowley two, and of
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  Speaker 1: course they're bound to go different brackets, different directions, and
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  Speaker 1: it's Duncanville, Westlake, North Shore, vandergriff Alan, Katie Lake, Travis
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  Speaker 1: inon Dinesota for the top ten.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a really intriguing kind of top ten,
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  Speaker 3: specifically because you've got this group of teams at the
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  Speaker 3: top that I think would you would Claire cross By
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  Speaker 3: at blue Bloods right, it's a lot of blue bloods.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously North Crowley maybe and vandergriff would be the newest
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  Speaker 3: blue bloods quote unquote of these groups. But they are
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  Speaker 3: of course the reigning state champon deserve our respect and
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see what they put out there, especially
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  Speaker 3: in in Week one.
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  Speaker 4: Both of them a very interesting Week one openers.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a couple of teams that I want to
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  Speaker 3: draw your attention to, kind of lower in the top ten,
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  Speaker 3: that I'm very intrigued by. One of them is a
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  Speaker 3: long time program that you know for you know, people
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  Speaker 3: not much you know, don't have to be a high
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  Speaker 3: school football fan for long to remember when Allen was
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  Speaker 3: ruling the roost in six A. I think Allen's back
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  Speaker 3: in a big way, and I think what Lee Wigginson
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  Speaker 3: is building there is maybe a vintage Allen team that
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  Speaker 3: is going to be a legitimate contender. I think in
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  Speaker 3: six A Division one, they are that good. They are deep,
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  Speaker 3: they are talented, They're going to be exceptional defensively.
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  Speaker 4: I'm interested in that.
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  Speaker 3: And the other one is, again you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: think far, go back far when Katie was the Kings
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  Speaker 3: in the Houston area and obviously won the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: state championship. People may forget that because I think we've
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  Speaker 3: all kind of tried to push that out of our minds.
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  Speaker 4: But you think about what.
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  Speaker 3: Katie I think has has it's been a minute since
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  Speaker 3: aside from twenty twenty, they kind of ruled the Houston roosts.
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  Speaker 3: North Shore has taken that kind of that mantle as
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  Speaker 3: the program of record in.
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  Speaker 4: The Houston area.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think Katie's back in a big way, and
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  Speaker 3: I think this might be Gary Joseph's best team in
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  Speaker 3: a decade or so. I'm really excited about. They're very
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  Speaker 3: good in a lot of the Katie ways.
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  Speaker 4: ISAAMH.
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  Speaker 3: McMillan leads the way on the defensive side. Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 3: is just an old school linebacker that is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun to watch. And they're going
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  Speaker 3: to run the stink and ball and simple and so
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  Speaker 3: that's what really.
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  Speaker 4: Catches my eye.
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  Speaker 3: In the six A top ten, yes, of course, Southlake
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  Speaker 3: Carol Wou've talked about them for quite a while. They'd
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  Speaker 3: fall in that category of maybe a blue blood of
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  Speaker 3: yesteryear that's having a revival. A lot of the usual
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  Speaker 3: suspects there, but especially Alan and Katie.
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  Speaker 4: They may be kind of.
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  Speaker 3: On the upswing, and the trajectory may be such that
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  Speaker 3: this may be a year where they are capital b back.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right now before we jump to our six
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  Speaker 1: man previews. To close out of previews, we'll do what
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  Speaker 1: we always do. We always call it the cruelest, meanest
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  Speaker 1: thing we do each week is I give you the
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  Speaker 1: choice of three games, and you tell me which one
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  Speaker 1: really intrigues you, the one that's your most If you
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  Speaker 1: could transport to one and had to be at one,
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  Speaker 1: which would it be?
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to give you the choice of these.
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  Speaker 1: In six A Westlake prosper in UH five A Division one,
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  Speaker 1: simply because of the number one team Alito against Denton Geyer.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the our telecast on victory plus.
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  Speaker 2: I won't be there obviously. I think Josh Bograd will
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  Speaker 2: be on the call for that, but it'll be that,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: So there's that five A Division two South O'cliff against
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  Speaker 1: from six A north Shore, and then just just is
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  Speaker 1: a bonus for a Division two Carthage kill Gore.
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  Speaker 4: You're yeah, yeah, well that's brutal. We are very back
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  Speaker 4: my friend doing radio.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, the answer is probably Carthage and Killgore, just because
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  Speaker 3: these are just the team that played for state championship
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  Speaker 3: last year in Kilgore and a team that won the
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  Speaker 3: state championship last year in Carthage. And and the star
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  Speaker 3: power here is absurd for a four four a game,
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  Speaker 3: but all four of them are really really interesting. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the North Shore South Okcliff game has big name brand potential.
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested to seeing what a new look North Short
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  Speaker 3: team looks like going.
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  Speaker 4: On the road.
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  Speaker 3: Remember this is even Dudley Harris County very often, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested except for basically to come to Arlington.
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  Speaker 4: I'm interested to see what they look like. And then
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  Speaker 4: you mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: Alito getting guyer. What does the guy or offense look like?
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  Speaker 3: They're basically a mystery and is this an Alito year
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  Speaker 3: where they are back to their their normal self they
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  Speaker 3: start the year number one? This would certainly kind of
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  Speaker 3: cement themselves as the team to beat in five day
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  Speaker 3: Division one. But then you mentioned the local game, and
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  Speaker 3: of local in you know, air quotes because being played
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  Speaker 3: in Belton and mary Hart and Baylor, but.
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  Speaker 4: Prosper and Westlake.
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  Speaker 3: This is a real take your eye off the ball
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  Speaker 3: type game because I think Prosper might have the best
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  Speaker 3: offensive line in Texas with Baden Crimpen leading the way.
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  Speaker 3: They've got three fbs that commits on the offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: which is insane going up against Maddi Splint and a
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  Speaker 3: defense there led by coach by coach Tony.
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  Speaker 4: Salazar that we know it's going to be good, so
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  Speaker 4: they're all great.
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  Speaker 3: I will go with Carfudge and Kilgore as the game
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  Speaker 3: that that you got to be at. But but it
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  Speaker 3: is a it's a whopper Week one of Texas IG school.
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  Speaker 2: Football, absolutely no question match.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's move to our six man previews, because
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  Speaker 1: we previewed every classification, so now we're down to one
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  Speaker 1: A six man Division one, one A six man Division two,
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  Speaker 1: the two divisions of six man. Is it too simplistic
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  Speaker 1: to say it's a run it back for both Gordon
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  Speaker 1: and Jaydon in six AD one In six A D two.
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  Speaker 3: It is going to be very hard, I think, to
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  Speaker 3: pick against either of these teams to go to win
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  Speaker 3: another state championship. Obviously be three in a row for
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  Speaker 3: Gordon and then it will be a back to back
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  Speaker 3: for Jayden. I do think that Gordon is a borderline
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  Speaker 3: prohibitive favorite in one A Division one.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they have.
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  Speaker 3: Three potential FBS guys there with Ry Reid who is
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  Speaker 3: committed to Army, Striker Reid who's committed to Air Force,
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  Speaker 3: and now Brad Walters their wide receiver. Who you talk
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  Speaker 3: with coach Mikereed, he'll tell you that they might be
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  Speaker 3: the best. He might be invest of the bunch. Now
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  Speaker 3: they have a really interesting first week test against the
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  Speaker 3: Richland Springs team that could be on that short list.
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  Speaker 3: And one A Division two two up in Jaydon is
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  Speaker 3: a good Jaydon team with Sean Standalon their quarterback back,
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  Speaker 3: the coach's kid leading the way. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: that there are two legitimate threats to the throne. I
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  Speaker 3: think for Jaydon one of them is Lemisa Klondike, coached
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  Speaker 3: by Dalton de Graff and Red and he's only like
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight and driving me nuts. I covered him in
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  Speaker 3: high school. But he has got a team this year.
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  Speaker 3: They have a they had a really awes non district ship.
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  Speaker 3: I think they started to year like one in four
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  Speaker 3: or zero and four. They ran through a brutal non
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  Speaker 3: district schedule and then got white hot towards the end
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  Speaker 3: took their lumps. I'm interested in Clyde I and they're
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  Speaker 3: Richland Springs, Richinald Springs absolutely fascinating this year for a
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  Speaker 3: couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: One of them, they're very very good guys like Billy.
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  Speaker 3: Cohen, Billy Cohen Lee in the Way or Billy Perry
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  Speaker 3: and Cohen athrisly in the Way. But also who's coaching them,
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  Speaker 3: because you may remember a few years ago Jerry Burkhardt.
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  Speaker 4: Was suspended for three years. That was three years ago.
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  Speaker 4: But we do not know.
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  Speaker 3: It is an open question as to who is going
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  Speaker 3: to be coaching Richland Springs this year. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: understand that Sean Rodger is the guy who's been there
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  Speaker 3: coach in the last few years. That's what we think
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  Speaker 3: it's to me, But there is there the chance that
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  Speaker 3: that you've got, you know, one of the most decorated
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  Speaker 3: coaches in the six man football history just wandering up
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  Speaker 3: to the sideline and coaching the Coyos this year. So
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  Speaker 3: fascinating there and I think one A Division two probably
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  Speaker 3: the road to Arlington is more treacherous for Jaydon than
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  Speaker 3: it is from Gordon, who looks like the clear team
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: the people won a Division one.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: You know what, maybe maybe I did six man at
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the service. Maybe in those games that I made you
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: choose one, maybe I should have included Gordon versus Richland
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Springs this week.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Hey, I'll throw another one at you. Is I believe
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Do I have this correct?
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: I believe Abbott is opening the season against Ogle Speed again,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: which is a terrific top five matchup in six man
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 4: Fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about six man is that all these teams,
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  Speaker 3: they're all these coaches that there's just not enough teams
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  Speaker 3: for you to run away.
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  Speaker 4: From from our money, So like you're going to.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: End up with some absolutely wropper first round or for
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: you know, non district matchups, and and week one is
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: chopped full of them.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Final thing I want to get to here, Uh, I've
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: been meaning to ask you this for for about two
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: or three weeks now, and keep forgetting to do it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to do it because you're your Your
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: staff did a very good job of presenting multiple opinions, perspectives,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and and and comments on this whole issue of whether
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the state championship should remain at AT and T Stadium.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: There are those who have San Antonio's interest at heart
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and talk about that in the Alamodome.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Uh, there're those who talk about the n.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: RG and in Houston and uh, you know those kinds
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: of things. So I'm curious to get your thought as
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the US starts to settle again, because to me, it
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: seemed like a FATA complete that we would ultimately see
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: or hear that the u I L has has reupted
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: with Jerry World again and that it's going to continue there.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: But until it's official, it didn't official. So how about
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on all of that.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think you're hearing the same rumblings that
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I am, that that there is a deal that is imminent,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: therefore an extension to the existing deal for the state
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: champions to remain at AT and T Stadium in Arlington.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I will tell you, and I know you know this,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: that the that the Oil likes playing at and T Stadium,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: playing a simple and they don't. They don't rotate. You'll
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: notice that other UIL state championships don't rotate, like the
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: soccer Sea Championship are always in Georgetown, you know, the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: baseball state championships always in round rock.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Uh, they they don't rotate them.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Obviously, football is a different beast than a lot of
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: those other UIL sports.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that one of the things.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: That I have learned throughout the course of this debate
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: is I understand where people are coming from. They're saying, Hey,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: why should a team from Why should when Galena Park
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Northshore plays Duncanville every single year? You know, theoretically, why
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: does Galena Park North Shore always have to go on
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: the road and drive up the road while Duncanville get
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: to sleep in their bed? And I understand what they're saying.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: There's a couple of things. I think it's just not
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: quite as simple as that. Specifically, and this is the
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: this gets into real nerdy stuff here, but the locker
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: room situation at these stadiums are not equal. The locker
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: room situation specifically at a teen and T stadium was
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: it's essentially a stadium built to host the event because
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: they've got multiple full sized locker rooms that you can
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: bring in the team that's playing in a three o'clock
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: game while the eleven o'clock game is going on, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you don't have to move the teams that are currently
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: playing out of their locker room. That's one thing that
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I think is going on there. I think there need
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to be some renovations to the Alamo now for that
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: to happen as well. I know that that was a
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: real sticking point when it was at NRG in two
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: thousand fifteen. I understand, and we did a survey of
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: coaches on Texas Football dot Com and the to be clear,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: a plurality of coaches, about forty five percent of coaches
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: wanted to remain permanently of AT and T Stadium, but
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: there is a decent minority about a twenty to twenty
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: five percent of coaches we surveyed that said they would
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: like to see a rotation between between the three Dome stadiums,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and so I think the UIL will continue to listen
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to them, but for now, it does feel like they're
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: comfortable they're at AT and T Stadium, and until I
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: think there are some renovation to those other stadiums that
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: make the UH operational part of it a little bit
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: more equal, I think.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: They're gonna they're they're happy there.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: In Ireland, Yeah, I would say this if there was
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: either on the north side of the I thirty five
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: corridor of the Greater Austin area, or the east side
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: off the two ninety, or the south side if there
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: was a thirty thousand seat dome stadium there, the state
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: championships would be in Austin every year and we would
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: never hear anything more about it, simply because they'd like
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to have them in the headquarters city.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: As you laid out, whatever possible.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they like being in Austin, they like they understand
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the central location of it. But it's also worth mentioning that,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: like to your point, if we did this study a
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: couple of years ago, that if you take all the
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: UIL member schools and you put together, the average distance
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: to the three dome stadiums, AT and T Stadium is
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the most central, is the most central on average, and
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: is the most central to the most number of teams.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: And so that I think, I think, like we think
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: of a lot about Houston driving to DFW and San
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Antonio driving DFW, and I get that, but there's a
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: whole West Texas guys at West Texas at and T Stadium.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Is the closest for those teams.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I think we kind of take for granted how far
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: south San Antonio is and how far.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: East Houston is.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: DFW is a little bit more central. I think of
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the three stadium it is the most central to the
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: most number of teams.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I think that's appealing to the UIL as all well.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And we'll put it in as simplest too, the fans,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: fans of the Panhandle schools stay away from Houston and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: San Antonio and droves if their school is not in it,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: as evidenced by more than one hundred thousand fans if
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you were in attendance at the twenty fifteen games at
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: NRG as opposed to the ones at AT and T Stadium.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the numbers, and I know that there is some concerns,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: certainly because the numbers the past couple of years have
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: been slipping. I think that you look, I don't want
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: to get into a whole thing, but part of that
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: is certainly the teams that were playing this past year.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: For example, Vandergrats a terrific story, but a young program,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: and they just don't have a ton of alumni, right
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Richmond Randall a thirty year varsity program, they have essentially
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: no alumni base, and so.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I think that's part of it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I don't necessarily thinks all it's only one thing.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I know the UI else paying attention to it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: But I also think that AT and T Stadium feels
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: like the place that they're the most comfortable and right now,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: from an operational and a centralized location, it is I
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: think the best option.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's great, Tepper, Editor in chief Dave Campbell's Texas
• 22:06
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• 22:09
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• 22:13
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• 22:15
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• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so excited and I am excited for you
• 22:20
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• 22:22
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• 22:24
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• 22:25
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• 22:28
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• 22:31
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• 22:38
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• 22:41
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• 22:54
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• 22:57
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• 23:00
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• 23:02
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• 23:09
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• 23:11
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• 23:26
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• 23:32
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• 24:02
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• 24:03
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• 24:07
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