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Coach Sark Talks The Upcoming Game Against Kentucky · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew Zimofillian for Craig Way Craig
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  Speaker 1: Way in Brooklyn, New York. That is right at the
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  Speaker 1: Barclays Center as the Texas Longhorns get ready to take
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  Speaker 1: on Saint Joseph later tonight. That game tips off eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: Zone and on KVEDFM as well. So yesterday was the
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show, the We'll get that one right. That is
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorned Weekly with head coach Steve Sarkejian. That is
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  Speaker 1: the correct title for it, and Roger Walls interviewed. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Sark did an incredible job, had a ton of fun
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at Pluckers talked about previewing this one, asked coach
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  Speaker 1: Sark to kind of lay out the game plan a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. What is the last things we want to
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  Speaker 1: hear from our head coach before going into Saturday's matchup.
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  Speaker 1: This is it from Longhord Weekly with Coach Sark.
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  Speaker 2: A ton of respect for Mark Stoops. He's very good
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine. He's done a fantastic job at Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's built that program very similar to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the other SEC schools. They're enormous upfront on
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  Speaker 2: the Owen d lines, They're enormous. They're got They've got
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  Speaker 2: probably the top defensive lineman in the country for the
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  Speaker 2: NFL draft, who's six seven three and fifty five pounds,
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  Speaker 2: So we've got to work cutout for with him. They
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  Speaker 2: always play great defense and their physical running football team
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the ball. So we got
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  Speaker 2: to do a great job in this game of winning
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  Speaker 2: on first and second down so that we can force
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  Speaker 2: them into some third longs and get us off the
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  Speaker 2: field because they're gonna try to shrink this game. And
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  Speaker 2: then offensively, we've got to be really efficient because as
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  Speaker 2: we learned even last week, we only had four possessions
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  Speaker 2: in the second half of that game, and so these
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  Speaker 2: teams in this conference will shrink you down pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: and so you got to take advantage of your opportunities
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  Speaker 2: when you get them.
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  Speaker 3: And then just coming back home, Sark.
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  Speaker 4: Even the Florida eleven AM game, the students were out
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  Speaker 4: there in the northeast corner greeting you on your on
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  Speaker 4: your field walking about nine o'clock in the morning, and
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  Speaker 4: I know you want that place buzzin on.
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  Speaker 3: Saturday without a doubt.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing like going into DKR and for
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  Speaker 2: this to be the last one of the season. We
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  Speaker 2: never take it for granted. That's why I do my
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  Speaker 2: walk before every game to make sure that I like
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  Speaker 2: to say, be where my feet are and I'm in
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  Speaker 2: DKR for another game day. But you know, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited for our fans because I hope they can feel
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  Speaker 2: kind of this era of Texas football. What's happening, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from a year ago to where we were as a
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  Speaker 2: ten and one football team playing to go to the
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  Speaker 2: Big twelve championship game and where we are right now
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  Speaker 2: is a nine and one football team trying to play
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  Speaker 2: ourselves into the SEC Championship game and hopefully the College
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  Speaker 2: football playoffs again. I mean, this is an awesome time
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  Speaker 2: and we love the support from Longhorn Nation.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any such thing as a bad
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  Speaker 1: defense in the SEC. Every SEC defense, maybe outside of
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State, is a good SEC defense. And the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that Kentucky does better than most other teams is
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  Speaker 1: played defense. That is where they're bread and butter. That
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  Speaker 1: is a stoops team to the core. But when you
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  Speaker 1: go into the numbers. When you kind of get into
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  Speaker 1: the numbers a little bit deeper, Kentucky's a very good
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  Speaker 1: pass defense in team defensive team. When you go through
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  Speaker 1: the numbers and you look at how many yards they
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  Speaker 1: give up in the air per game, they are kind
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  Speaker 1: of right in the middle of the group. Right. Texas
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  Speaker 1: is secondary best in the conference. Has only allowed about
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  Speaker 1: two hundred ish yards two hundred and forty ish yards
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  Speaker 1: per game. Kentucky a little bit more three to twenty
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  Speaker 1: rush defense, however, correction, let's let's get that one right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get that right and right. Kentucky's past defense one
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight per game. It's like, wow, they give up
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  Speaker 1: a tony yards one eighty eight per game. Texas is
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  Speaker 1: the best in the conference that won thirty six. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: rush defense, however, Kentucky struggles against the run. That's something
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  Speaker 1: that Texas is gonna want to kind of take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of in this game, using that offensive line that the
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  Speaker 1: long Horns have been able to get via the Pancake
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  Speaker 1: Fund and then just going in the trans portal and
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  Speaker 1: also just coaching these guys up. This Longhorn front front
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  Speaker 1: five has done a very good job of not only
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  Speaker 1: keeping Quinn viewers alive and healthy for the most part
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  Speaker 1: this season, but also getting some rushing lanes for the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorn running backs. That is where this game is going
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  Speaker 1: to be won or lost. I talked earlier this morning
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Kickoff with Mark Henry, The World's Strongest Man.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to it right here on Sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and from seventy nine AM. We were talking
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  Speaker 1: about what is going to be the deciding factor in
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  Speaker 1: this game, and I have very strongly been on the
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  Speaker 1: side of if Steve Sarkisian wants to throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: around the yard, he's going to be able to. Texas
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  Speaker 1: can scheme up an offensive game plan that if they
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  Speaker 1: want to throw the ball, they will be able to.
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  Speaker 1: But if Texas wants to do what I think is
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  Speaker 1: the plan, which is just lean on Kentucky to the
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  Speaker 1: point that you get a couple early scores in the
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  Speaker 1: first half and you kind of ride this one out.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a grit grind type of game through Senior Day,
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  Speaker 1: get through the emotion, get through all of the other
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  Speaker 1: stuff to get to Texas A and M next week
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  Speaker 1: to control your destiny and to play for an SEC championship.
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  Speaker 1: In a few weeks. That is the game plan, and
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  Speaker 1: the way that you execute that game plan is by
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  Speaker 1: running the ball. Now, Texas is offensive plan this entire season.
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  Speaker 1: The running back room has been very good. But don't
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  Speaker 1: take my word for it, and don't take Steve Sarkeesian's
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  Speaker 1: word for it. You're gonna want to listen to Mark
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  Speaker 1: Stoops because he kind of gave a lot of credit
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  Speaker 1: to the actually not kind of. He did give a
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  Speaker 1: ton of credit to the Longhorned team. This is cutting
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  Speaker 1: number eight. Mark Stoops on no weaknesses on this Longhorned team.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, there's no weaknesses on this team. But
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  Speaker 4: if you the eye test there, they're as strong as
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  Speaker 4: anybody in the country.
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  Speaker 3: To tell me one group.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you look at them offensively, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: dynamic play caller and a great coach.
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  Speaker 3: O line is completely solid.
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  Speaker 4: Running backs two great ones, maybe probably more than Pot four,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But wide receiver room arguably
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  Speaker 4: the best in the country. H dynamic tight end tight ends,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Defensively front four, you know, they lost some guys that
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  Speaker 4: were pros, replaced them in the portal with pros, really deep,
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  Speaker 4: really big, you know, I'd say, you know, arguably again
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  Speaker 4: the best secondary in the country with bar Non and
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  Speaker 4: you know, you put that together a pretty solid team.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I want to point this out that because we're
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  Speaker 1: going to play another clip from Mark Stoops kind of
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  Speaker 1: giving given credit to Steve Sarkisian and the coaching job
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  Speaker 1: he's done, and the way that sark talks about Stoops,
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  Speaker 1: you would think that they've been best of friends for
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  Speaker 1: years and years and years, which might be the case. However,
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  Speaker 1: I do think that there's another level to this, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get to that secondary level. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to onion this one through, but let's play cut number
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  Speaker 1: ten on the creativity of Steve Sarkisian and the offensive
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  Speaker 1: game plan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, creative, you know, creative, you hear the word, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I can. He's probably thrown a lot around, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in press conferences across the country, but dynamic getting you
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  Speaker 4: he does a great job of marrying the run in
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  Speaker 4: the past, you know, and then a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 3: In the screen game off all of that.
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  Speaker 4: So you think it round, you're taking play action pass,
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  Speaker 4: come back to a screen and he ties it together
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  Speaker 4: as good as anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Which I think most Longhorn fans. In fact, not most
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  Speaker 1: all Longhorn fans would agree that Steve Sarkisian is one
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  Speaker 1: of the better play callers that has come through the
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  Speaker 1: forty acres. I like the fact that other teams are
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  Speaker 1: copying what Texas is doing. They say the most the
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  Speaker 1: best form of flattery is imitation, and if people are
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  Speaker 1: trying to run the imitation of the long worn offense,
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  Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about that. And a Sarkisian talked
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  Speaker 1: about Andy Reid taking from the playbook. I guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: this coming Sunday, you're going to see some more Texas
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  Speaker 1: long war plays going throughout the NFL, let alone college football,
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  Speaker 1: let alone high school football. Through a high school football
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  Speaker 1: game on a couple days ago, and I saw a
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  Speaker 1: Sarkesian screenplay, It's like, oh, it's going everywhere. Is Steve
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  Speaker 1: Starksian is Steph Curry of football? Has he changed the game?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Baby? Time will tell uh Mark Stoops on coach starks
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  Speaker 1: coaching philosophy and the way that he has kind of
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  Speaker 1: built this thing up. Because there's another again part to
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  Speaker 1: this with the Mark Stoops angle here that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get to.
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  Speaker 4: Say again, another great opportunity another great challenge going into Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Stark at them playing at a very high level,
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  Speaker 4: a very good football team that he's been building for
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  Speaker 4: some time. I think, you know what's evident, they have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of continuity, and I think it's the only
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  Speaker 4: power for school in the countrary that had the same
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  Speaker 4: offense of coordinator, same head coach, and same defensive coordinators.
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  Speaker 4: So they have continuity and that it shows both in
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  Speaker 4: their recruiting and you know the portal that the additions
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  Speaker 4: that they got in the portal, especially offense where you
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  Speaker 4: look at their wideouts, a couple of guys they got
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  Speaker 4: are added to a dynamic wide receiver group.
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  Speaker 3: But just a good football team top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: So coach Stoops is doing a whole lot of talking here,
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  Speaker 1: giving the Texas Longhorns message boards absolutely nothing to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: That is the part that I think is the most interesting,
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  Speaker 1: because when you are a head coach of any college
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  Speaker 1: football team, the number one thing you do not want
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  Speaker 1: to do is put your foot in your mouth. The
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  Speaker 1: number one thing you do not want to do is
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  Speaker 1: give your opponent, give message, give fans, especially when you're
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  Speaker 1: coming into a hostile environment like DKR. You do not
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  Speaker 1: want to give anyone any sort of extra material to
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  Speaker 1: put on that bulletin board. And Coach Sarkisyan did the
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  Speaker 1: exact same thing. When you go through and you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the way that Sark talks about Stoops, when you
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  Speaker 1: go through and talk about the type of coach he is,
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  Speaker 1: this is Sark cutting number twelve. What does Mark Stupe's
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  Speaker 1: stability say about the type of coach that he is?
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  Speaker 1: This is from Thursday's SEC press conference.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, Mark and I are very good friends,
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  Speaker 2: very good friends, and we've known each other for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. I tried to hire him actually when I
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  Speaker 2: got the job at Washington, I tried to hire him
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  Speaker 2: away from his brother, and he told me yes, and
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  Speaker 2: then he said no, I can't leave my brother. So
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  Speaker 2: we go back a ways. I've got a ton of
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  Speaker 2: respect for him as a coach. You know. It's a
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  Speaker 2: blue collar approach to what they do. They play the
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  Speaker 2: game the right way, you know, and I think he's
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  Speaker 2: instilled that in that program. They have an identity. They
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  Speaker 2: know how they want to play, you know, every game.
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  Speaker 2: They know what type of team they want to put
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  Speaker 2: together each year. As they as they go through it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's what speaks volumes to the coach
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  Speaker 2: that he is. There's a level of consistency in his
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  Speaker 2: approach to it all. So, like I said, we're great friends,
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  Speaker 2: a ton of respect for him and look forward to
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  Speaker 2: seeing him.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone Andrew zim Will
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Craig Way as we continue our number
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  Speaker 1: one of the Craig Way Show. That was Coach Sarkisian
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  Speaker 1: talking about Mark Stoops, the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats,
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  Speaker 1: because I was going through this whole thing. I truly
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  Speaker 1: believe that both these guys have respect for one another.
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  Speaker 1: This game on Saturday is just another speed bump for
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns ultimate goal of winning a national championship. After
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  Speaker 1: playing in the playoffs last year, the goal is to
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  Speaker 1: win a national championship this season. They are already firmly
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  Speaker 1: in the playoff race. They're already a firmly set up
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  Speaker 1: to potentially have a buy So we'll get to you
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  Speaker 1: here later as well. But the coaching coaches cannot give
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  Speaker 1: bulletin board material to their opponent, and Mark Stoop's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of grief this offseason. When Texas A and
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  Speaker 1: M almost hired him, Mike Elko seemed to be the
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  Speaker 1: guy at A and M. Texas A and M owns
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  Speaker 1: their destiny, They own their fate on how these next
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks go. They have the biggest game in Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M history coming up next weekend when the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns come to Talent for potential to play in the
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  Speaker 1: SEC Championship game. And what does Mike Elco do. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make sure you don't put your foot in
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  Speaker 1: your mouth. You're trying to make sure you don't give
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  Speaker 1: any bulletin board material to material to anyone. This is
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  Speaker 1: what he does.
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  Speaker 2: If we didn't have that steak, what's at steak, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you would worry about it.
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  Speaker 3: I think our focus is single handling on Texas.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in on Auburn right now, And.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't put your foot in your mouth. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Sarkisian is doing the opposite. He has continued to win
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  Speaker 1: big games, win press conferences. The standard is a standard
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  Speaker 1: and he is raising the bar every single day. When
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  Speaker 1: we come back on The Craig Way Show, it's a Friday,
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  Speaker 1: which means it is time to pick on our brothers.
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