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Zimmel Hour: Texas Baseball Rolls, NBA Playoff Action Figure · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews Zimmill hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with you on a Thursday edition of The Craig
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  Speaker 1: Way Show. Craig will be joining us later in the
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  Speaker 1: program at three seventeen from Arkansas, as University of Texas
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  Speaker 1: Baseball goes to Arkansas, the number one team in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Roll In, roll In, Rolling, roll In, Rolling along.
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  Speaker 1: Ten straight winsh don't talk about it. It's baseball. It's superstitious.
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  Speaker 1: want to miss a thing. Later this hour, we also
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  Speaker 1: have Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's to talk to us
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  Speaker 1: about the fall of spring football, as every single university
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  Speaker 1: across the state of Texas, it seems, is moving away
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  Speaker 1: from the traditional spring game, and as college football itself
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  Speaker 1: kind of in a weird spot. What do we do?
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  Speaker 1: Do we go to scrimmages? Are we going to play
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  Speaker 1: other teams? Are we're going to have fan days like
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas did.
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  Speaker 2: Where do we go from here?
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  Speaker 1: He will help us explain how the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: state is doing it and what this means for college athletics.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm only slipping a question about how much does
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  Speaker 1: it cost to put a national championship program on the field,
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  Speaker 1: because we saw conflicting reports. One report says it's forty
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  Speaker 1: five million. Another report says that's lutacy. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to know not only for the University of Texas, obviously
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious about that, but I want to know about
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  Speaker 1: the rest of college football because I saw what SMU
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  Speaker 1: did last year getting into the College Football Playoffs after
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  Speaker 1: being a group of five team and then turning themselves
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  Speaker 1: into an ACC program, and then an ACC program that
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  Speaker 1: had to go on the road to Happy Valley ended
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  Speaker 1: up losing the Penn State. But I still stand ten
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  Speaker 1: toes down that if that game is played in a
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  Speaker 1: neutral zone, in a neutral stadium, that I think SMU
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  Speaker 1: has a better shot of winning. I think SMU has
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  Speaker 1: a better shot of winning if they don't have to
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  Speaker 1: go to Happy Valley. So we'll talk about all that
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  Speaker 1: with Craven from Dave Campbell's Football magazine coming up in
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  Speaker 1: the next segment.
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  Speaker 2: Also Inconceivable and the.
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  Speaker 1: University of Texas basketball program and they're rolling along as well.
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  Speaker 1: Three new players signed today. We will talk about what
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  Speaker 1: they bring to the table and all of that. But
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  Speaker 1: speaking of basketball, we got to talk NBA playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: we have to talk about the man. I know, I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people today want to talk Lakers basketball.
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  Speaker 1: The loser of the first round series, the three seed
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  Speaker 1: coming into it, Bye Bye goes home after a one
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  Speaker 1: h three ninety six loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 2: And Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: Who is getting all of the accolades rightly so as
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  Speaker 1: he's getting all of the press, all of the hype,
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  Speaker 1: totally understandable, had one of his worst nights in this
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  Speaker 1: game in his first round series last night in a
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  Speaker 1: fedwards forty three minutes of action fifteen points on five
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen shooting in the Staples Center. He's gotten compared
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  Speaker 1: to a bunch of different guys. He's gotten compared to
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Wayne when he came out of a Georgia he
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  Speaker 1: got compared to Kobe Bryant at twenty three years old,
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  Speaker 1: looking at how good and how polished he's looked. And
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  Speaker 1: I said to myself last night watching the game's putting up.
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant ted numbers more or fewer points on more shots.
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  Speaker 1: That's my guy, what Kobe used to do. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he used to do, used to have a swagger about him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot this out of this game, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it looking cool.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for ant Man and the Minnesota Timberwolves, they had
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  Speaker 1: the French Man the Eiffel Tower. Rudy Gobert twenty seven points,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four rebounds, his best player off game probably in
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  Speaker 1: the last six or seven years since he's joined the
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  Speaker 1: timber Wolves, and I am ecstatic. I'm so happy that
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  Speaker 1: we are turning the page on the Los Angeles Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: I like Lebron James, a Maluca guy. You know when
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  Speaker 1: they went over When Luca got traded to the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of me was disgusted.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, how do we let this happen?
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  Speaker 1: How do we let Luka Doncik top five player in
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  Speaker 1: the game end up on the Lakers. Is this what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing? Is the NBA conspiring against the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the league. Is the Lakers conspiring against the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the league to just hand over a championship to Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 1: But one percent of me was holding out hope that
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  Speaker 1: this was all going to blow up, and luckily with
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  Speaker 1: a rookie head coach and JJ Reddick in a team
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  Speaker 1: for the Lakers that desperately needed a center. Last night
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  Speaker 1: that desperately needed some sort of interior presence, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have it at all. And I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. I want to point out the confidence that
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  Speaker 1: this guy has.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start here.
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  Speaker 1: All week, all year, we've been hearing Lakers in the title.
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  Speaker 1: It's Lakers and Celtics. It's back to the eighties. We're
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  Speaker 1: taking the time machine. And we also heard the rhymes
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it's Lakers and five Lakers and five listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards last night talking about some Lakers in five nonsense. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know what makes it feel even better is that
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  Speaker 2: they said Lakers.
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  Speaker 3: In five and the Wolves won in five.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that makes it feel tea times better.
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  Speaker 3: That's like maya answer.
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  Speaker 1: We love Anthony Edwards and of course a swagger that
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  Speaker 1: comes with it to be a twenty three year old
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  Speaker 1: who now crosses off the list of the guys he's beaten.
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  Speaker 1: He's knocked off Kevin Durant last season, you can cross
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  Speaker 1: off that name on the top twenty five list. He
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  Speaker 1: took out Nickle like Jokic last year, you can cross
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  Speaker 1: that name off the list. The Western Conference five else
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  Speaker 1: he lost to Luca. Well, guess what he got his
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  Speaker 1: get back. He knocks Luca and Lebron off. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: take two more pencil crosses off there. And now it's
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  Speaker 1: gearing up. It's lining up that we're gonna get Anthy
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  Speaker 1: Edwards versus Steph Curry in the second round. And I
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  Speaker 1: know the NBA's ratings this year were a talking point.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't turn on the television without Shaq and Chuck
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  Speaker 1: on TNT talking about the bad ratings. He couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: on X or social media without somebody arguing about the
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  Speaker 1: bad ratings. I went to Thanksgiving family members, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: what happened to the NBA? I heard the ratings are
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  Speaker 1: really low. The NBA probably wanted the Lakers to move on.
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  Speaker 1: But it helps your ratings. It's gonna help Box off
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  Speaker 1: his TV to have Anthi Edwards in the second round.
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  Speaker 1: And he said earlier this year, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be the face of the league. That's what winn bin
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  Speaker 1: Yama's for, that's what Jokic is for. Luca can be
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  Speaker 1: the face league. I don't want to be the face
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  Speaker 1: of the league. I want to play basketball. I want
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  Speaker 1: to sell all my shoes. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: the face of the league. I'm sorry, brother. When you
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  Speaker 1: play like a superhero, hey, sometimes we got to put
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  Speaker 1: the cape on you. And Anthony Edwards played like a
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  Speaker 1: superhero last night. He played like a man. He rose
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  Speaker 1: to the occasion. He didn't shrink. He rose to the
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  Speaker 1: occasion in this series. And now the Timberwolves are right
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  Speaker 1: back fighting for a title. And look you're here to
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  Speaker 1: say to yourself, Well, look Zimble, Okay, Oklahoma City. They're
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  Speaker 1: set up for the success. They got Sga, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the MVP of the league. They got Chet
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  Speaker 1: who's from Minnesota. By the way, everybody forgets Minnesota, hotbed
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  Speaker 1: for basketball, hotbed for amateur basketball, for youth basketball. Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: They got all these different players. They can throw it Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: The Wolves, okay, see is by far and away the
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  Speaker 1: most talented team. That's what people are telling me. But
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  Speaker 1: when you have a player like Anthony Edwards on your team,
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  Speaker 1: you're set up for success. And this guy after the
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  Speaker 1: Netflix last year, the starting five with him and Lebron
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of other some bonus was in there.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say the King's Ford Andby Edwards left
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  Speaker 1: that Netflix series last year with a better Q rating
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  Speaker 1: than he came into it with average people. I call
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  Speaker 1: it the mom test. Does my mom know who this
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  Speaker 1: guy is? If she does, he's a superstar. You go
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  Speaker 1: on a Netflix series and you perform as an excitable
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  Speaker 1: young man the way that he did, you're getting mom points,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting Brownie points for the average NBA fan, for
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  Speaker 1: the average sports fan. And then you have a series
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  Speaker 1: against Lebron James, where if there's anybody who's a casual fan,
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  Speaker 1: it's a Lebron James fan. If there's ever a type
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  Speaker 1: of a casual fan, it's a guy who just turns
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  Speaker 1: on NBA Playoff Basketball to see what Lebron's gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: He's been in the league twenty something years now. It's
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  Speaker 1: a staple for early spring. So we'll turn on the
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's what Lebron doing, and you perform like that and
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  Speaker 1: you knock off him. Your heir apparent, Anthony Edwards is
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  Speaker 1: putting his name firmly in that conversation to be the
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  Speaker 1: next face of the NBA, if not already. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a couple other guys in the mix, right, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: she is winning the MVP this season. Yokich might be
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  Speaker 1: the best player on the planet. That probably helps when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about face of the league, But doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: like either one of those guys really wants it. Jason
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  Speaker 1: Tatum desperately wants it, plays for a legacy franchises Boston,
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  Speaker 1: and it seems like everybody consensus is like, hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: not giving it to you. You want it too bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's the guy that wants to hang out with the
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  Speaker 1: older crew, and the guys are just like, hey, man, sorry, kid,
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  Speaker 1: you're not hanging out with us. It's just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too much like leave it to Beaver, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit too much like the beef. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to be around the older kids. It's just too
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  Speaker 1: much for us, and that's what Jason Tatum has kind
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  Speaker 1: of felt like, Andy Edwards is too cool for school.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Edwards Duncanot guys have a cool commercials knocking off
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers that earns Brownie points to me. I firmly
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  Speaker 1: believe that the Timberwolves can win the championship this year
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  Speaker 1: after what they just did to the Lakers. They have
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  Speaker 1: a recipe for success. They've got Julius Randall and Rudy
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  Speaker 1: Goberrett interior defensive guys a lot of teams don't have
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  Speaker 1: on the wings, Anthony Edwards, Jade McDaniels one to two
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  Speaker 1: punch coming into the playoffs. Okay, yeah, maybe maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Wolves have something here now after the first round. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to over react, but I feel really good
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  Speaker 1: about where Minnesota is currently. All Right, speaking of feeling
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  Speaker 1: really good, do we feel really good about where college
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  Speaker 1: football is heading? As the spring games start to disappear?
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  Speaker 1: As it starts from spring games to spring practices to
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  Speaker 1: fan events, what is going on in college football? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's He'll tell Us What's happening
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  Speaker 1: next Craig Way Show rolls on Zimmel's sitting in for
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  Speaker 1: Craig on Sports Radio A thirteen hundred The Zone Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Craig joins us in
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  Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour from Arkansas's Texas Baseball Pitches Tonight
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  Speaker 1: first pitch six pm on one O three one, Austin's
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  Speaker 1: eighty station. On the on line with us right now
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  Speaker 1: is Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's Football Magazine to talk
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  Speaker 1: Texas Spring. Essentially across the state, Mike, more and more
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  Speaker 1: programs are moving away from the spring game into spring practices.
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  Speaker 1: What was your takeaway when you wrote this article for
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  Speaker 1: Dave Campbell's.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think for a lot of things in college
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  Speaker 4: football right now, we're living in two different worlds.
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  Speaker 1: And so my.
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  Speaker 4: Biggest takeaway is, you know, what is good for Mike
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  Speaker 4: Elcho at A and m Or Sarkesian at Texas or
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  Speaker 4: even Joey MacGuire Tech may not be, you know, good
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  Speaker 4: for GJ. Kinney at Texas State or Trailer at UTSA.
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  Speaker 4: And so when you go around to these schools in
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  Speaker 4: the spring and sit down with all the coaches, what's
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  Speaker 4: always interesting to me is, you know, college football can't
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  Speaker 4: be decided upon because it's such a big organization with
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  Speaker 4: so many different schools, with so many different budgets, with
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  Speaker 4: so many different needs, and springball just falls in.
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  Speaker 2: Line with that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what's interesting is, and you were the first person
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  Speaker 1: that I had ever heard kind of give us take
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  Speaker 1: about the split between the haves and the have nots,
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  Speaker 1: the power for and everybody else. Do you think it
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  Speaker 1: is easier to be a power for team in the spring?
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  Speaker 2: Is that? Is that kind of where I'm getting where
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  Speaker 2: you're coming.
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  Speaker 4: From, right, Because like at Texas A and M, they
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  Speaker 4: know their numbers and they have plenty of them. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the guys who leave Texas A and M or Texas
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  Speaker 4: or Texas Tech TCU, those are typically backups. They're not
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  Speaker 4: the frontline players. Every now and then they may lose
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  Speaker 4: a store rolling into spring with sixty seventy eighty guys
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  Speaker 4: that they're comfortable playing football with. That's not true at
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  Speaker 4: Texas State, that's not true at North Texas, that's not
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  Speaker 4: true at UTSA. And you can just watch the spring
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  Speaker 4: portal and see who jumps in.
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  Speaker 2: You know you're you're.
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  Speaker 4: Lose and real starters at the G five level. And
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  Speaker 4: so I think the biggest contention for the G five
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  Speaker 4: coaches is, why are we going through a whole fifteen
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  Speaker 4: spring practices and having a spring game with a roster
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  Speaker 4: that's not even the one we're going to play with
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  Speaker 4: in the fall. Why would we do third down install?
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  Speaker 4: Why would we do red zone specific stuff? Why would
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  Speaker 4: we put in blitzes and schemes? And so they're using
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  Speaker 4: it more for evaluation than they are for install and
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  Speaker 4: for really preparation for twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: As GJ.
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  Speaker 4: Kinney said, they signed three new quarterbacks over that last
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  Speaker 4: Bortal window. They just wanted to see who could drop
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  Speaker 4: back and throw it to an open receiver, much less
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  Speaker 4: going through progressions and next level stuff. So I just
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  Speaker 4: think we're operating in two different worlds. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: what's true in College station isn't true.
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  Speaker 2: In San Marcus.
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  Speaker 4: And you know there's plenty of examples of that being
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  Speaker 4: the case.
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  Speaker 1: And now you and I didn't play, so we're coming
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  Speaker 1: from a fan point of view. But I got to imagine, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: that none of these coaches are going to have the
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  Speaker 1: playbooks that they'd like to have week one of the
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  Speaker 1: collegeable seasons, or let's say this ten years ago, they
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  Speaker 1: could have more complex playbooks versus what they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go with going forward. If they're not doing
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  Speaker 1: install during the spring, right.
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  Speaker 4: That the spring, you're losing that those fifteen days. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's that you're just not having a roster for
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  Speaker 4: two or three years. Your quarterback hasn't been there for
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  Speaker 4: three or four years, your wide receivers haven't organically grown
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  Speaker 4: up into the system by the time their upper class,
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  Speaker 4: and they know the playbook by the back of their hands.
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  Speaker 4: So I think college football in general has been simplified
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  Speaker 4: over the last twenty to twenty five years, and that's
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  Speaker 4: probably true at the NFL level as well. But they
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  Speaker 4: do so much of that install in the summer, you know,
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  Speaker 4: on fall camps, the month long and it was built
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's another archaic you know thing is a
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  Speaker 4: month long fall camp. Now that was made back when
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  Speaker 4: you know, athletes went home for the summer and didn't
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  Speaker 4: work out, you know, and they had to come back
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  Speaker 4: and get whipped into shape. They're all staying there all summer.
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  Speaker 4: They're doing install. You know what your roster is come June.
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  Speaker 4: You just don't know what your roster is in March
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  Speaker 4: when you're having spring ball. How many resources? How much
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  Speaker 4: time do you want to invest into a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: guys who you know you may or may not roll with?
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  Speaker 4: Come you know, August thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: Now we saw that Colorado and Dion wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a scrimmage type Do you did
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  Speaker 1: when you talk to these other coaches, Mike, did you
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  Speaker 1: see any of them or hear any of them say like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's something we'd like to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think about half of them want to do
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  Speaker 4: something like that, and half of them, you know, think.
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  Speaker 2: It's too risky.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I think as budgets grow and as payrolls come,
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  Speaker 4: you know what happens the first time you lose your
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  Speaker 4: started running back because you're intersquad scrimmaging against Indiana or
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  Speaker 4: something like that. Right, Like the pushback is going to
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  Speaker 4: be big. But also college football is the only level
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  Speaker 4: of football where you don't play anybody else until the
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  Speaker 4: season starts to matter, right, I mean even in seventh
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  Speaker 4: and eighth grade, you're playing scrimmages against other schools. High
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  Speaker 4: school obviously, NFL has preseason games, So in college you
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  Speaker 4: just kind of roll out and play other I think
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  Speaker 4: I think you could find support for more of a
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  Speaker 4: split squad kind of what the NFL does, more so
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  Speaker 4: than the Colorado Syracuse idea of holding like a real
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  Speaker 4: spring game against each other. I don't think we ever
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  Speaker 4: see that, but I wouldn't be surprised if in a
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  Speaker 4: few years TCU can give North Texas a million dollars
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  Speaker 4: to come practice for two or three days and North
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  Speaker 4: Texas can use that towards nil and revenue share like
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  Speaker 4: they're going to have to get creative to make some
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  Speaker 4: money because the gap is so big and what the
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  Speaker 4: revenue share is about to be. I wouldn't put anything
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  Speaker 4: past trying to trying to figure out ways to make
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  Speaker 4: some money in the spring and and get some other competition.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to Mike Craven from Dave Campbell's Football Magazine,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and Mike, you mentioned that revenue sharing split. You talked
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: about the haves and the have nots and the and
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the split here. Could you see a world where if
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I'm a unt fan, I don't want the Mean Green
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to go scrimmage against SMU were TCU, because I don't
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: want one of those coaches to see our backup running
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: back who could be, you know, a sneaky sneaky good player.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd have to come up with ways to you know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: if we practice against you can't sign on one of
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: our players for a full cycle or something like that.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: And you know, I don't think any of this stuff
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: happens until they're employees, right until like you can put
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: them under contract. And then once they're under contract, and
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: then it would be harder for that. You know, there's
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: rules in the NFL when the Bills and the Texans
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: practice against each other, the Bills can't just go straight
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: signed a practice squad player from the Texans or something.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: And so I think once that's kind of figured out,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: and also the other deal is there may not be
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: a second spring window for very much longer. It may
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: just be a one window situation in the winner. And
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: if that's true, I think springbald becomes to have, you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: kind of a resurgence and importance. The issue isn't when
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: it is and having the practices like they want the
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: rest they want to do. Insult to your point earlier
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: about kind of having to simplify offenses. They want to
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: have as many practices as possible. They just don't want
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: to do it with a roster that's still fluid.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: So we've been seeing conflicting reports here, Mike about the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: cost or the amount of it's expected to cost the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: roster for the twenty twenty five season for the Texas
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Lawhorns between thirty five and forty million that we hired
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: another report that said, that's crazy. What is your take
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: on this and how much does it cost to run
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: a football program like the University of Texas.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Well, I think we need to start at the rev
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: share number. So the rev share number for power for
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: schools is going to be probably thirteen to fifteen million dollars.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Obviously Texas is gonna is going to maximize that. I
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: think when we go to like the American Athletic Conference,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: I think schools are going to have a budget about
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: two to five Sun Belt maybe two to three Conference USA,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: maybe in the one million to two million range at
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: the top. Right, So there's a huge gap there and
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: just kind of where you're starting at. I just from
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: talking to coaches, and that's all I can go by
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: is what head coaches around the state think. You know,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: they don't see that as a as a cap. You know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: they don't think LSU is all of a sudden going
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: to start working under the same operating budget as Vanderbilt, right, Like,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: they're going to spend their money. And last year it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: reported that Texas spent about twenty million dollars in NIL,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: twenty two million dollars in NIL. If you add a
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: thirteen to fifteen million dollars in REBISH share, you get
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: to the mid thirties. I think, OHI State walk erate
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: at that same level as well. If you've if you
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: created this system to funnel in that money and the
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: donors aren't fatigued and they're fine with putting in that money,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Like why wouldn't you use that for a competitive advantage?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: It used to be putting waterfalls in the locker room,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: and now it's funneling money to the players. And so
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I guess I refuse to believe that college football is
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: going to stop trying to cheap the wrong word because
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: it's within the rules now. But I just think the
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: programs that have always spent more are going to continue
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: to spend more.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: If it's going to equal.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Out to thirty five million dollars, Like, I don't know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: we're probably splitting hairs in terms of like what's technically
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: money and what's not because some of this stuff is
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: like a house that you're getting to live in or
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: a car that you're getting to leave, So it's not
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: like real cash when they're when they're throwing out these evaluations,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: and so we could probably split hairs on that number.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: But I would imagine Texas continues to spend the amount
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: of money that it's always spent in comparison to the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: teams around it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And I think that this is gonna be one of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: those I want to say, like almost like a bragging
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: rights when you go to hang out with your friends
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: at other places, because I can't imagine that a Texas
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: alum and an SMU alum and a Baylor alum and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a Tech alum are all going to get together and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: go like, hey, we outspent you or you or you
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that that's gonna happen. I think that's going to be
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: more of an interesting angle to me.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, I think if you have that
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: kind of money, right, like, I mean, you see what
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: NFL owners do, like Jerry Jones likes to play GM.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Like if I had a billion dollars or like enough
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: money to spend it on a roster, like I'd probably
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: try to try to make utsa really good you know,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: and spend some players and brag about that and all
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. And so you know, you used
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: to give money to the athletic department for whatever fill
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: in the blank, and now you can give money to
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: the athletic department or to the nil to help get
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the running back or the tight end from cal or
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: like whatever the case may be. Personnel matters, you know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: more than the look of the weight room or the
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: name on a building. And you know, once when you
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: have a proven commodity like Stark has proven that it's winning,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: like the places that lose, like Old Miss goes all
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: in and it doesn't work.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe if that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Happens one or two more times, you get fatigue. We
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: saw what happened at Florida State. Maybe there's fatigue. Let's
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: say tex Bus this year, maybe you see some fatigue.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: But Texas has gone to back to back semi finals,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Like I just don't think that they're running out of money,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Like I don't. I don't think they're having a bunch
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: of donors going like, well, you know, we ponied up
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: the last couple of years for this roster, but we're
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: going to pull back now, like, I just don't see
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: that happening. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Texas had a roster of thirty plus million dollars. But
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Texas won't be alone there, So will Ohio State, so
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: will Georgia, so will a lot of the programs that
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: have always spent more money on on you know whatever
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: around the football program they were allowed to spend.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: The arms race continues. You can follow them on Twitter.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Mike Craven and Dave Campbell's Football magazine. Hey, do you
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: have any updates for us on the magazine?
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Well, May it's kind of when we start turning everything in.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: All the interviews are done. Transfer portal make that hard,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: especially for the G five team. So I'm just doing
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: a lot of writing. I've passed the twenty five thousand
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: word mark. I got probably about fifteen twenty thousand left
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to go, and then we send it off kind of
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: that first week in June, and then it's out in July.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: There he is read the magazine, read his stuff online
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: as well. Mike, thanks so much.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you all.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Right, when we come back Inconceivable, the wildest stories we
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: can find all coming up next to the Craig Way Show,
• 22:36
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• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable that I don't think I miss
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: what you're thinking.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Miss Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone, Andrew Zimmil
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: hanging out with you. Not inconceivable to be in the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: big chair? Is it inconceivable for Tech Baseball to keep
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: their winning streak alive? Ten game win streak? Currently going
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: to Fayetteville against Arkansas, first pitch, six pm. Craig Way
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: will be on the program in the three o'clock hour
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to give us a preview of it. All Right, now,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: many of us don't bend over for loose change anymore.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: This is a lesson that my mother's hobby a long
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: time ago. If you see loose change on the ground,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: pick it up. Doesn't matter if it's a penny, a quarter,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: But how about a dime? Because yesterday the Texas Department
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of Transportation they had a very difficult, very unusual cleanup
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: operation after an overturned truck lost Get this, eight million dimes, yes,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: eight million dimes spilling out all over the roadway, which
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was about eight hundred thousand dollars worth of change. Now
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. Ten cents. If I'm leaving
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the grocery store and I see it, I might not
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: pick it up, right. But eight hundred thous dollars worth
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of dimes, yeah, I'm picking them up, all right. The
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Texas Department of Public Safety says an eighteen wheeler rolled
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: onto its side to the southbound lane of US eighty one
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to eighty seven near Farm Road sixteen fifty five. Okay,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: now we're gonna have to talk to Craig about where
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that exactly is. He has the entire Texas Transportation Highway
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: system memorized. He'll tell us exactly where it was, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: maybe where the closest BUCkies is too. All right, The
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: department said the truck lost got off the road and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the driver over corrected, causing the vehicle to overturn. Uh oh,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the driver pastor, we're taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Now,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the Alvoid Fire Department confirms the truck lost its load
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of eight million freshly minted dimes. This entire thing sounds
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: like an old story from the nineteen twenties, doesn't it
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: seem like some sort of body inclyde type.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Of robbery deal.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Oh hey, they tried to steal all the actually minted
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: dimes in the middle of the Great Depression. Doesn't that
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: what this whole story sounds like to you? The highway
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: is closed for several hours while the Department of Transportation
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: closed the highway to pick up the loose change. Now again,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you get up in the morning on a crisp Wednesday morning,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you say to yourself, Oh, I hope this day brings
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: me something fun.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Picking up loose change in.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: The smallest of currencies too, because if you remember, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: don't know how many of you have change on you
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: right now, in your cars, or in your pockets or
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: in your couches. The dime is tiny, so to pick
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: them up. I'm looking at a photo here there's a guy,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: hands and knees picking up dimes to put them in
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a plastic bag.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: What a pain in the neck, all right, Now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Alabama's been known to have some strange things. I think
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: we've all driven through Alabama at some point. You just
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: kind of keep driving, keep your eyes on the road,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: don't look over off the sides. Well, this actually the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Alabama Highway was temporarily closed yesterday thanks in part to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a kangaroo. Yeah, a kangaroo hopping on Interstate eighty five
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: between Tuskegee and Auburn on Tuesday cause not one, but
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: two vehicles to crash amid the chaos. No injuries were reported.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: This isn't a good sign, though officials closed off a
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: section of the highway and a sheriff's deputy live streamed
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the kangaroo on Facebook. Again, you know, maybe we focus
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: on getting the kangaroo off the road. Fellas all right,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So the kangaroo was tranquilized, captured by its owner.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Quote.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: When somebody said there was a kangaroo, of course I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: didn't believe them, the deputy said, But now I'm looking
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: at him. Brunson says that the kangaroo escaped from its
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: home petting zoo in Lee County. Quote, we were chasing
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: him for quite a while. Traffic was stopped for a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: long ways. Now, this is a lesson to all of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: those who want to rubberneck.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: If you see some.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Thing on the side of the road, do not stop.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Do not swerve in and out of the lanes to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: try to get a better glimpse of the kangaroo. Continue
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to drive, because yes, you don't want to hit the kangaroo. Obviously,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: but by the evasive maneuvering of the cars, they caused
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a piloup. Multiple cars ran into
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: each other, all trying to get a better look.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Of the kangaroo. This is not good.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Now, Kangaroos are very powerful animals, so you do not
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: want to get into any sort of tango with any
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of them. But I will say if there was a
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: debate online about could one hundred men take a kangaroo,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I think we would agree we're taking that kangaroo. So
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: luckily it's fine was able to get back to his owner.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But the wallaboo wallabee way of the kangaroo jumping around
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: it is something to behold. Now, finally, we've all had
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: an annoying person, maybe on a plane with us. Maybe
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you're in public and you're going to a restaurant and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the kid across the dining area is causing a little
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: bit of a stir. I think we've all been there before, right, Well,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: this British kid might be the most annoying person on
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the planet. So this British boy his name nicknamed Seagull Boy.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: He's won his second consecutive title at the European Championship
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: gull screeching event in Belgium. Now, how do you know
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that you have that type of I don't even want
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to call it a talent, but we'll call it a talent.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Let's say Cooper Wallace. He's ten, He's dressed in a
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: seagull costume. He performed his bird imitation at the Sunday competition,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: scored him his second consecutive win in the junior category.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Now Wallace, who's seagulls screeching career began when he was
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: bitten by one of the birds, turned to not only
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: be an ear perse piercing performance in the family, as
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: his seven year old sister Shelley, otherwise known as Seagull.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: See girl seagull, she plays fourth quote. I was very nervous,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: but I was happy. I like being on stage. I
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: was kind of annoyed that I didn't get a medal,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: but I'm very happy for Cooper Shelby Wallace told the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: local news. Now again, I say, how do you find
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that you have this sort of skill, this sort of talent. Well,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: imagine you have to practice, right, and if we know
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: anything about little kids, they're not practicing in their home.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: They're practicing in public. Obviously they're practicing other places. Obviously
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I watched the video from this event so you didn't
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: have to. And I thought about, hey, maybe I should
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: pull some of this audio and we can play it here.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And I decided against it because when I go to Galveston,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: when I go to Corpus, when I go to the coast,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the seagulls screeching probably one of my least favorite sounds
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: in the world. It's like chuck or it's the nails
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: on chalkboard for me. And this seagull boy is the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: closest I've ever heard to anybody getting that screech, perfect pitch,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: just right, and I can't stand it. I hope nothing
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: about the best, but I will say that the award
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that he won was much larger than any award I've
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: ever won. I could believe how big the medal was.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It was like the size of a dinner play. It
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: was a giant medal for the British seagull Boy. All right,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: what's the most inconceivable story?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: The dimes on the side of the road. Would you
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: stop to pick up eight hundred thousand dollars worth of
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: dimes on the side of the road after eight million
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: dimes spill earlier this week.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Is it the Kangaroo Store?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Is that the most inconceivable driving down the road you
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: see the kangaro on in the side of the road
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: or is it seagull boy are when we come back?
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Not inconceivable?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Texas Long Worm Basketball retooling and reloading with Sean Miller.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: They get three new commits. We'll talk about it next
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio
• 30:44
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• 30:47
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• 30:52
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• 31:00
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• 31:05
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• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you very much. Do not want to miss tonight's matchup
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: as University of Texas Baseball Travis to Fayetteville take on
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the Razorbacks. No love loss there. Texas the number one
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: team in the country taking on the Razorbacks and Craig
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Way will join us at three seventeen from the ballpark
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to give us a little bit of a preview of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: what we can expect. First pitch tonight six pm, airtime
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: five forty five on one oh three to one, Austin's
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: eighty station, and Craig will be there. It will be
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I'm excited for it. A ten
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: game win streak on the line, lot a lot riding
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: on this game, and he will give us a little
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: bit of behind the scenes of what is happening as well. Okay, So,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: University of Texas basketball after losing in the first four
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: game against Xavier, bringing in their head coach Sean Miller.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Al Miller is off to the races. Three signees today
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and I feel pretty confident in what the game plan
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: is when it comes to coach Miller. All right, so
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: we'll start here. Candon Heidi. He signed his athletic scholarship agreement,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: which is what we're calling it now, to play basketball
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: next season at the University of Texas. Heidi played his
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: last two years at Purdue. He's joining for this upcoming
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: season from Minnesota. We talked a little bit of Minnesota
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: basketball earlier. Right, Hey, hotbad for youth talent. Seventy five
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: career games, about four points per game and about three
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: rebounds per game in his career at Purdue. But he's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a very good shooter from the floor fifty two percent
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: from the floor and forty one percent from downtown. During
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: his sophomore season at Purdue, played in all thirty six games,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: starting eight of them. He was third on the team
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and rebounding, fourth in minutes, and seventh in scoring. What
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you're looking for if you're Miller, is you're looking to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: build a roster of guys who can play at the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Power four level. Last year, Texas had a struggled a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, we'll say, having guys who can play consistent
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  Speaker 1: minutes in the SEC. There's a couple of games last
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  Speaker 1: year where the long Horns were, you know, outs played
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  Speaker 1: by some of the talent on the floor. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: would go as far as to say that of the
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  Speaker 1: Power four conferences, the Big Ten is one of those
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: conferences that is a historic program. Like historic programs, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: when you're in the Big Ten and when you're in
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: basketball country, whether it be Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, when you're
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: in basketball country, every single one of those amateur games,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: of those high school games, they matter. They carry out
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of weight. And when you play it Purdue,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: when you're fighting for supremacy in the state of Indiana
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: against the who's yours like, it matters. So I want
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a guy like Heidi who can show up, give me
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: consistent minutes and play at a consistent level. Okay, I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: like that signing. Mathuse Mattu what cuitis. Mcoitas is from Lithuania.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: That's why we messed up his name right there. The
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  Speaker 1: seven foot center from Lithuania played in thirty four games
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  Speaker 1: last season for Florida Athletic or Yeah Athletic Atlantic Florida Atlantic,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Played in thirty four games, starting twenty of them.
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  Speaker 1: He was the AAC Freshman of the Year. He was
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: All Freshman Team. He ranked second of the team in reboundings,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in third in blocks. He helped the Owls get to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the n T first round. He was a important player
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for that team to get to this to get to
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the postseason. The Owls last year eighteen to sixteen record.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: But again, you want guys who can play consistent minutes
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  Speaker 1: and stay on the floor, and that's what he did
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  Speaker 1: last season. He was on the under twenty national team
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  Speaker 1: as well for Lithuanian competed in the Under twenty euro
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  Speaker 1: Basketball Tournament in twenty twenty four, and Poland played international basketball. Again,
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  Speaker 1: these aren't guys, at least in Mattouthis and Heidi who
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you're asking to play major minutes for you. But you
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: want guys on the court who can stay on the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: court and can d up and play tight defense. And
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: then finally Dalan Swayn. He played four Miller at Xavier
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: last season. Swayn is a six foot eight two twenty
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  Speaker 1: forward guard from Colomos, Ohios. Played in twenty three career
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: games thirty six starts, averaged about eight points wall at
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Xavier last season, played in all thirty four games, led
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the team in steels, and was second in rebounding a
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: third in scoring. This is a guy who has played
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in the Sean Miller system. He knows what it means
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to compete at that level at Xavier, and this is
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the one that I'm probably the most excited for, Dalan Swayin.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I'm most excited for this because, like I said, when
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Miller came in, he was the name that most Texas
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: fans knew obviously from that first four game, that was
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: a team in Xavier that you wanted to You saw
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: across the court, Hey, this coach, this cross, late's dot
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: of the eyes. Guys, guys ready to play. We like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: where the Xavier program is. If you're a Texas fan,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you bring that guy in and now you expect him
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to kind of lead the charge. And you listen to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Crystal Conte, the athletic director for the University of Texas,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: talk about the competitiveness in all of the programs that
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the standard is a standard obviously, but your goal is
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to compete and your goal is to win in the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: SEC And Miller already going out and getting guys gives
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: me a little bit of hope, makes me encouraged, gives
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: me a little confidence in what's coming down the pipeline
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: for Texas basketball. That's really the biggest thing to me
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: is what's coming down the pipe? Where are where's this
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: program going? New captain at the helm? Where is Texas
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: basketball going? Is a trending in the correct direction. And
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: with the signings today, I'd like to think so other
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: news and this came down the pipe yesterday, It came
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: across my desk, and it's worth mentioning. I think University
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: of Texas they clinched the Cotton Holding Lone Star Showdown
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Rivalry Series already. The Cotton Holding lone Star Showdown is
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the official moniker for all varsity men's and women's athletic
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: competitions up to nineteen sports between Texas and Texas A
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and M. And after that sweep last weekend, the Longhorns
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: currently have a eleven to five advantage. There's only two
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: total points remaining a competition that's men's and women's outdoor
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: field points in the sec Channe Ship that's coming up
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: later this month. Of fifteen to the seventeenth marks the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: seventh time in all nine Showdowns, long courts have claimed
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the Rivalry Series trophy. Startuck in the two thousand and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: five you'll remember, this is what everybody was most excited for,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: and it helps you beat little brother. Home series against
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M last weekend gets the baseball program
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: feeling pretty good as a take on Arkansas tonight in
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: a three game series. All right, when we come back
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: our number two of the Craigway Show, Nixon Pistons get
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: excited for it tonight next fours Radio AM thirteen hundred,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: his own The Craigway Show rolls on, Andrew zim Will
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: hanging out with you this Thursday. Had to do my
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: quick mathter how to make sure I was on the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: right day. Okay, So Thursday May first, and we have
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a lot going on in our number two. Craig wait
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: joins the program here in about seventeen minutes from Arkansas.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: University of Texas continues to do what they do, which
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: is win SEC ballgames. Ten game win streak currently on
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the line as they go to Arkansas, the consensus number
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: one team in college baseball, and I'm excited to see
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: how this will continue to go for the University of Texas.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be good. This is gonna be a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: great series. Craig Waite joins us in seventeen minutes. You
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: can hear the game on one of three to one
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Austin's eighty station five forty five hour time, six pm.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: First pitch, and then from Houston, our guy Ross Valerie
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: comes on to talk Houston Rockets Golden State Warriors. Because
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: things got chippy last night between the Warriors and Rockets,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks says, hey, if I had a bad ankle,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I'd be going after my ankle. What does it matter
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: if Steph Curry has a bad thumb, I'm going after
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the thumb. So we'll talk about that. We will see
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: did the Rockets have a chance to rebound to come
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: back three to one against the Warriors to potentially win
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: that series? Now, remember they're the two seed in that series,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the young, up and coming Rockets versus the old dogs
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: on the block, the Golden State Warriors. Do the Rockets
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: have enough for the tank to get the job done.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Ross about that, But I want to
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: start here when we talked NBA playoffs tonight's matchups. This
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: will be a deciding game tonight, potential deciding game tonight
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: between the New York Knicks going to Detroit three to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: two up on the Pistons, and then the Nuggets three
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to two up on the Clippers. That games later to
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: net as well. But let's start Nix and Pistons here,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: because it is what everybody has wanted from the NBA
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: since about the turn of the century. Let's be honest here,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: we all wanted nineties basketball back. We were begging for it,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: we were pleading for it. We want physicality. We want
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: old school rivalries, we want those teams that we grew
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: up watching. Well, here you go Nicks and Pistons, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: it feels as close to nineties basketball as you can
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: get without getting a time machine. The Knicks came into
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: this series. They're gritty. They lost last year in the playoffs.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: They decided to move off of Randall, bring in karl
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Anthy Towns, give them a secondary scorer, and Town's has
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: been playing incredible like he legitimately might be the best
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: scoring big left in the Eastern Conference. With him being
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: out for the majority of the season, he has looked
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: like the best big man on the Eastern Seaboard this season.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And now he goes into a series against the Pistons
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: that don't have the glitz. They don't have the glam.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: They don't have the player that you're gonna put on
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: your wall. They don't have the guy who's cute. He's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: gonna get to the free throw line twenty thirty times
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: a game.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: But they gut is hard.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: They got hard hats, they got hard hearts, they got
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Start willing to throw a hard right hook. Okay,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the Pistons are as close as you're gonna get to
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the bad boys of the NBA at this point. Isaiah Steorart,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I've seen them on more of those fight videos on
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Twitter that I have seen highlights of him play okay,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: And that's why I think the series is so interesting,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and I think it's so interesting with where the Knicks are.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: The winner of the series plays the two seed Boston Celtics,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the defending champion Boston Celtics, and in a series that
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: is as physical as it has been in New York
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and in Detroit. Between these two teams, in a series
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that has been as physical as you can ask for,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: as physical as you can win, you gotta wrap it
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: up tonight if you're in New York, because you cannot
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: afford for this series to go to a game number seven.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Everybody has always said it's been a common knowledge at
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: this point. The playoff basketball is just different. It takes
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: more out of you. That's why we have to give
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: them games in between, and weeks in between or days
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: in between games, because if you are playing a back
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: to back in a playoff series, somebody's gonna have to
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: go to the hospital, get an IV drip, go get
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: some oxygen, because guys are going all out. Doesn't matter
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: if it's game one, Game five, or god forbid, in
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: this series, a game number seven, you can't afford it
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: if you're in New York because you need to close
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the book tonight. You cannot let Detroit back into this series.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Game number six, I should say game numbers yeah six
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Tonight the game is in Detroit, so you know those
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: fans are going to go absolutely wild. They haven't had
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: a team to really cheer for in almost a decade.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: This is one of the worst run franchises over the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: last ten years. And now with Kate Cunningham, a former
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick, running the show for Detroit, they
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: look like a whole different type of ball club. They
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: look like the type of ball club that is going
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to fight you tooth and nail to keep their playoff
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: hopes alive. New York Castle close the door tonight because
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: if you open it up for a game number seven,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: anything can happen. Anything can happen if you open the
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: door up for a game number seven. New York has
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: to win it tonight. They can't afford to lose, and
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: then they have to go up against the defending champs,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, who did easy work, a gentleman's sweep
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: of the Orlando Magic. They're sitting back and they're enjoying
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: watching the NBA playoffs. They're sitting back and they're resting up.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown's busted.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: K me.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Hey, he's getting some more icy hot on it. Jason
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Tatum's wrists, he's got it in a bucket device as well.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: He's fine.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: They're watching the playoffs from the sideline, just deciding who
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: is going to be the team that has to face us,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: has to come to the Garden and play us, Calves
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: and Pacers. That'll be another Midwest showdown. But it's fun.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: It excites me that we have gotten to the point
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: now in the NBA, in the Eastern Conference where it
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: used to just be all of the big name cities
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: on the coast. It used to be just all the
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: big name cities on the Eastern seaboard. Oh hey, we're
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: rooting for the Celtic and the Knicks and the Philadelphia
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: seventy six ers in the Miami Heat. But now pendulum swung.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: We're back in the Midwest. We're excited for Midwest basketball.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be good tonight. Also, Denver and La the Clippers.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Lakers are out, Clippers trying not to join them. They're
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: down three games to two in the series. And with
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, you think about the two games that
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: they've won in the series to this point, right, they
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: were down two games to one. The two games that
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: they've won since one of those games came on a
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: tip in. Nikola Jokic just said, Hey, that wasn't a
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: three point or that wasn't a pass attempt. That was
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: a three point attempt that I took at the last
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: second that Aaron Gordon was able to dunk in to
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: win US game number three. And then in game number four,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Game number four, Game number five, it was
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the Jamal Murray Show. I didn't think we were ever
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: going to get a performance like that out of the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: best export candidate might have ever had. Jamal Murray not
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: an All Star, but an all star performer in the playoffs, okay,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and all world performer in the playoffs. That is what
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: he was able to do in game number five to
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: get to this point for Denver.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Now, Denver, they have championship pedigree, but they're looking at
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: their way. Their brackets filled out to this point and
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: they're staying to themselves. We got to get the job
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: done to day as well. We're up three games two,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: we're going to LA. We're sending the Clippers home. The
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: next opponent for them Oklahoma see Thunder, And I think
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: that this is exciting. Actually, I know this is exciting
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: because SGA Jake Gis Alexander for the Thunder is the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: de facto MVP this season. It seems like you did
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the straw polls before the playoffs started. He was the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: guy that everybody was picking to win the MVP award.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that yokiship better numbers. It doesn't matter
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that Yokichi one of the best offensive seasons ever seventy
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: five years of NBA basketball. Yokic just season ranks as
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: one of the five best when you do the advanced stats,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the true shooting percentage, the efficiency rating, the way that
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: he averaged a triple double. Hey, remember when triple doubles
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: means something. Remember when Oklahoma c Thunder, where the fan
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: base that was banging the pots saying, hey, look at
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: our MVP, Brissell Westbrook. He's the MVP because he got
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: a triple double. Remember that now, Thunder fans don't care
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: anymore because Westbrook's on the Nuggets, because Yokic is averaging
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the triple double this season as a center. They don't
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: care anymore because their guy Sga got them the number
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: one seed. They care more now about the wins. Okay,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: but for the Nuggets, Okay, Hey, we get the job
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: done tonight in game number six. We get a chance
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: to dance with the number one seed. We get a
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: chance for our multi time MVP, for arguably the best
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: player on the planet. We get a chance to knock
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: off the guy that everybody says is the MVP. We
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: get a chance to knock off the guy that everybody's
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: been touting as the best small guard. Hey, we got Sga.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: We're won sixty plus games. We're the team that everybody
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: wants to dang our chests on. No, the Nuggets are
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: trying to hush all of that. The four seed versus
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: the five, it's supposed to be a good series. But
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: I'm taking Denver tonight. I think that they have the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: heart of the champions, something the Clippers lack historically speaking,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: but also on this team, Yeah, Kauhai is a champion. Yeah,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: he had a great series almost what seven years ago now,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: when he was playing for the Toronto Raptors. That's the
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: last time Kawhi actually was on a team that could
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: win a title. Since then, it's been injuries, it's been
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: guys not showing up. And yeah, I think Kawai's gonna
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: have a good game tonight. But the rest of the Clippers,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: you're expecting me to root for James Harten. James Harden
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and Game number five looked more like Jim Harten. He
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: looked like the guy that could work in the accounting department.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: He looks like the guy that didn't want to be there.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna take James Harden, Powell, Zubac, it's gonna
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: take all those other Clippers to win the game tonight
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: for LA Game number six, anything can happen, obviously, But
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: I got my rooting interest in the Denver Nuggets. I
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: want to see Nuggets and Thunder in the second round.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I want to see what Jokic looks like when he's
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: looking across the court of the guy that everybody has
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: just given the MVP two. They just hey, here, here's there,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: here's the trophy. Sgeah, you can take it. It's fine.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Your team won sixty games. The best player on the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: planet plays for the Nuggets. But yeah, you're the most
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: valuable player. But the air quotes on that one, all right.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Craig Way talking about the MVP.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Craig Way and the Texas Longhorns. Who will be the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: MVP tonight in the SEC rivalry between number one Texas
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: and number eleven Arkansas. First pitch, six pm on one
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: oh three to one time five forty five. Listen to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: it on the free iHeartRadio. When we come back, Craig
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: joins the program NAX in the Craigway Show on Sports
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: hundred The Zone. Well, it's the Hackfields and the Quays.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: They've been playing each other for over one hundred years.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: It's Texas and Arkansas tonight and Craig Way is on
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the call. Craig, how are you doing in Fandville?
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I'm great.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: One slide added on that Arkansas went without baseball for
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: a long time, so they really only have been playing
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: in baseball since nineteen seventy four, a little over fifty
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: years now. But you're exactly right about football. It goes
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: way way way back in basketball as well, and you know,
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: but they made up for lost time here in Arkansas.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: They're really good.
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: Every year they've had I mean, I'm looking at their
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: outfield board. That's one, two, three, four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty,
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: twenty five, thirty appearances in the College World Series in
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: the fifty one years I guess that they've had, uh
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: collegiate baseball program. So they've been they've been really really
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: good and uh, they they're they're going to be and
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: they've been good again this year. They've had a stumble
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: or two of late and some of these weekend series
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: and some of that has to do with the injuries.
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: But every team in the in the throughout the uh
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: the course of the country, including Texas and the SEC,
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: has had to deal with the injury bug.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: So uh, that's that's been part of it.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: But they've got some guys back healthy and this ought
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: to be a fun series.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of really really good, Texas Longhorns cracked ten
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: straight wins, number one team in the country three straight
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: weeks in a row. I didn't know it could get
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: this good, but boy, I'm loving it.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: Well what they're doing, if if if you ask people.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: And I brought this up last weekend to keep Morland.
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: I said, if if someone were to tell you, uh,
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: what's it the older ESPN thirty for thirty. What if
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: I told you that, uh, with nine games to go
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: in the season, nine conference games to go in the season,
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: the Texas would be thirty eight to five, that they
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: would be ranked number one in the nation in all polls,
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: and that they would have a five game lead in
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: the conference standings with nine to go.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: You know, and the answer nobody would believe that. Nobody,
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: including Jim's last tangle.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: He would tell you that, you know, they thought they
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: could be good, and especially to be up five with
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: your number one Friday Night started gone for the year
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: and your best hitter who's been out for over a
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: month now. They hope to get Max Blue back on
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: the field, if not for the Oklahoma series in a
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks, then certainly in time for conference tournament
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: play in Hoover, Alabama, the SEC Tournament. But to be
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: where they are, to do what they have done without
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: some key pieces has been mind boggling to a lot
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: of people.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: And I would just tell you this.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: Zim, It's it's some might think it's smoking mirrors because
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: it's different guys doing different things on a different day.
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: There's no with Blue out of the lineup. There's no
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: real big boppers on the team. In terms of the offense. Uh,
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: there's no picture that who singularly is mowing people down
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: other than Dylan Valantis, who was the last freshman really
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: to sign a scholarship offer with Texas. So he kind
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: of appeared from nowhere after signing and has been absolutely phenomenal.
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: So it's been different guys doing different things. You know,
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Schloss has developed this this phrase, it's either a three
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: word phrase or a two word phrase. With all the
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: injuries they sustain, the two word phrase applies win anyway,
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: you know, you just win anyway. Then in finding the
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: different routes to victory, it's three words, win any way.
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: So they've had to find different ways to do it.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: And whether it's a late game hit, you know, somebody
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: out of the bullpen giving them four innings of work unexpectedly,
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: things like that, all of that I think has added.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: Up to where they are right now.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like you already have the thirty for
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: thirty title done. Craig win anyway, sounds we figured it out.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something like that. If they if they go
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: on and win this thing, you know.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: But they have three difficult series remaining. Obviously, this one
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: with Arkansas is going.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: To be tough.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: While the Razorbacks have dropped to the last three or
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: two of three in the last three series, and they
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: played good teams, you know, in playing Florida last weekend,
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: in playing Texas A and M and playing Georgia. You know,
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: while they've done that, they can still they can mash
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: the ball. They've got some guys who can still pitch
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: very well. This is a real hitter friendly ballpark here.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: It's beautiful ballpark, by the way, and whether if the
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: weather's were going to looks like it's blowing out a
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: little bit toward left today, so that could be. It's
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: only three twenty down the lines here, so it's quite
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: hit or friendly here at this ballpark. So they're really
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: good team. And then the Long Horns have to play Florida,
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: who's surging, who comes off taking two of three from Arkansas. Yeah,
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: they're only eight and thirteen in the league, but they
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: have been surging of late. And that would be at
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: home on Senior weekend. And then they're going to finish
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: it Oklahoma. And that's where that phrase it is what
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: it is applies. When it's long orange against the Sooners,
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: they're going to have to deal with that. And Oklahoma's
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: a really solid ball club too, So to be up
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: five with nine to play in conference, that's a solid thing.
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: That's very good because they may need some cushion. They
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: might really need some cushion when they get down the stretch.
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: Here as it stands now, it's kind of a floating
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: magic number.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: It's been.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: It's either four or five, depending on how you're looking at.
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: For example, Arkansas and LSU are both tied for second
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: in the league. The magic number versus Arkansas four. If
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: they win two of these games, had they had they
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: eliminate Arkansas from it. LSU Texas has the tie break
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: on them, so it would be a magic number four
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: for clinching at least a tie and the number one
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: seed since they owned the head to have tie breaker
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: on LSU having won the series back in March in Austin,
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: But to win it outright, the magic number would be five,
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: So four or five whatever, And they're not dialed into
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: any of that.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: That's just what media people like me.
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: That's what we do is we figure out the numbers
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: and hey, what do they need to do to do
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: this or do that or whatever. And this group has
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: just gone about playing baseball, which is part of the
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: reason why they're having so much success.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Well, part of the reason I love baseball, Craig is
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: you get to use phrases like big Bopper talks about
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Rylean galvaugh because he has been I think the bopper
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: who stepped up now that Blue is.
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: On, well he's you know what he's done is he's
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: become a much more accomplished hitter. When he was in
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: high school in Centon, which is down by Corpus Christie,
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: he was coached by Adrian Alanize, who was a freshman
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: right hander twenty years ago when Texas won the national championship.
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: Adrian was an outstanding pitcher for the Longhorns, and now
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: it has proven.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: To be a great high school coach.
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: He's won three or four state championships, including one with
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: Ryland Galvan on the team. Ryland was a hit the
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: all fields guy when he played them. When he got
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: to Texas, he got a little bit one dimensional for
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: a time. But Troy Tilwitsky has worked diligently with Galvan
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: and he's gotten to the point where he can hit
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: the all fields and hit some with power, and that's
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: what's made him a much more discipline hitter this year.
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: And he's you bring him up, he's a veteran. Then
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: you got younger guys and transfers. You know, you have
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: a guy in Ethan Mendoz who in the leadoff spot
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: for Texas.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: He's a native Texan. He played at South.
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: Lake Carol, but he started at Arizona State, but he
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: always wanted to be a long one. When the coaching
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: change happened and he put he was in the portal
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: and when Schlas had interest in he wanted to come
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: back home to Texas. He's a real interesting case. Here's
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: a guy who's the long one's leading hitter right now
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: among the active players. He's batting three fifty three. He
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: leads the team in batting average, he leads them in triples,
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: he leads them in multi hit games. He has twenty
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: one multi hit games. This is the same guy who
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: three weeks ago at Kentucky injured his shoulder playing second
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: base diving for a ball, and so the shoulder is healing,
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: but he's unable to play the field right now. So
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: he goes in and he's and he's the DH. Then
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: you got a guy and Adrian Rodriguez who came in
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: and just lit it up as a freshman switch hitter,
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: was tearing it up, was looking great, and then he
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: took a pitch in off the top of his hand
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: right by the handmate bone. Fortunately it didn't break the bone,
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: but it did have an edema, and he's had a
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: hard time coming back for that. Now he's been able
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: to go back in the field and he alternates between
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: playing second base and.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: In left field.
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: And a rod as they like to call him, has
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: to bat exclusively from the left side of the plate,
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: and he's always hit well against right handers from that
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: left side of the plate, but he couldn't hit left
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: handers from that left side of the plate. In fact,
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: ZIM going into the Texas A and M weekend series
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: against left handed pitching, Adrian Rodriguez was batting, had had
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: two hits two total, two for twenty seven against left handers.
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: Then over the weekend he got five hits. So he
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: got four over the weekend and one on Tuesday, night.
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: So now he's seven for thirty four against left handers.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: He's batten in two oh six against left he's that's
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: better than fifty one, and he's hitting three point thirty
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: seven against right handers. So it's been an interesting mix
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: of different guys who've had to contribute. Jalen Flores probably
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: has not had the type of offensive season folks thought
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: he would have. The right now, Jalen is batting two
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: seventy six, but he's second in the SEC in doubles,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: and he's developed a knack for the clutch and leads
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: the team in hits that have either tied or given
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: Texas to lead this season. For what that's worth, so
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: that different guys win any way, different guys who contributed, a.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Lot of different guys. The pitching staff is going to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: be kind of I think set after this weekend going
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: into next week as well as the SEC regular season
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: wraps up. First pitch Tonight, six pm, five forty five
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: airtime on one of three one, Austin's agy station. Craig,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Have I missed anything?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 5: No, this but this this is going to be a
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: I think a very well tightly contested series. I think
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: throughout the course of the weekend and uh and we'll
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: do this again tomorrow as ZIM and recap kind of
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: game one and look ahead the game too.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: I love that it's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday because I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: get to talk to you after a game. This never happens, Creig.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: I like it because I'm back in my living room
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: by late Saturday night.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Greg Way, thanks so much, Greig. All right, we'll see
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Andrew all right when we come back. Rockets and Warriors.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: That might be the half fields of McCoy of the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: NBA all coming up next on sports Radio AM thirteen
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: hundred Zone Sorts Radio AM thirteen hundred of the Zone
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: is our number two of the Craig Way Show. Rolls
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: along and on our phone line right now, friend from
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio seven to ninety in Houston. I figured i'd
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: get the Houston side of things. It's Ross Villareal.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Ross.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: How you doing today, buddy. How the Houston Rockets feeling
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: after beating up Steph Curry last night?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're feeling a lot better. Obviously, getting down three
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: to one not the way you wanted to play out,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: but you do get two of the three games out
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: of at home if you can win a game number
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: six on the road and force a game seven. So
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: a big test coming up on Friday. But feel a
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: lot better than we were, say pre tip off.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, which I think is so funny. So let's start here.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors took a three to one lead,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: the game goes back to Houston, and Houston absolutely dominated
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Golden State last night one thirty one, one sixteen, and
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Steve Kerr for the first time in a long time,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: felt like he was way in over his head.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: I think part of the reason that the season the
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: series turned the way that it did is that the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: Rockets are the younger team. They're very physical and perhaps
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: wearing down the Warriors a bit. I mean, you have
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: Draymond Green thirty five years old, Jimmy Butler with a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: hip injury, and thirty five years old Steph Curry thirty seven,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: and they looked every bit that age. In Game five
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: at home in Houston was the third game in five nights,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: first couple of games of this season. You were getting
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: this series, I should say, getting a couple of days
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: in between games. Now it's every other night, and that
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: to me tips the scale to the young Rockets. Advantage
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: to where they can get out on transition. Steph Curry
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: looked like he didn't even want to be there. And
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: then by the middle of the third quarter, five point
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: fifty mark of the third quarter, Steve Curse said, we're
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: packing it in. We were having the veterans sit down.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: We're going to try to win this bad boy in
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: San Francisco on Friday. Now, of course, the Rockets bench
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: unfortunately didn't hold out there into the bargain. They had
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: to have the starters check back in for a little
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: bit there in the fourth but no harm, no fouts.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: Rockets get to win, and I think they're in a
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: great position to get a win in San Francisco on Saturday.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: The human victories to guard reached. Sheppard got minutes ross
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: like this is huge.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: Reached Shepherd man, Bless his soul, he got seven. He
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: was in there for six and a half minutes. He
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: didn't score a point and he was a minus fifteen,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: so not a great playoff debut for him. They had
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: to check the starters back in as like it was like, Okay,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: why is who the heck is Kevin Knox and why
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: is he going off? Moses Moody and Pat pat Spencer,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: who's this guy? Like?
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: It was all these nobodies at the end of the.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: Bench for the Golden State Warriors playing like they were
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: the eighty six Celtics and just destroying the rockets. Say
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: that checked the starters.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Back in all right?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Now, the national media obviously is against you guys, mostly
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: because of Dylan Brooks, Dylan the villain, and he was
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: accused on the Golden State broadcast of going after that.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Right thumb of Steph Curry.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Now, Brooks came in in the post game and said, Hey,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: if I had a bum ankle, they'd come after my ankle.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: I know that you're gonna look at things maybe through
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: a little red sunglasses here, Ross, But what is your take?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Do you think that Dylan Brooks is going after Steph
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Curry's thumb?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: I honestly don't know.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you it wouldn't shock me if that
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: was the case. I saw the slow down. This is
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: the thing too, This is the thing we do too
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: much in twenty twenty five. We put everything in super
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: slow motion and then we think we can figure things out.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you gotta look at things in full speed. If
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: you look at that play where people are trying to
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: act like he swiped that it in full speed. You know,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: people are breaking this down, like, look, Steph Curry clearly
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: gets the shot off and Dylan Brooks five seconds later
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: he's swiping at his hand. It's like, well, if you
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: played in real time, the ball just leaves his hand
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: and he's swiping at him. So I don't know, it's
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: a gray area to me. Would I be shocked if
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: if Dylan Brooks is trying to key in on Steph
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: Curry's thumb, No, I wouldn't. But I mean that's just
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: wayoff basketball.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: That's that's how it goes. That's I mean you had
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Kevin McHale back speaking of the eighty six Celtics back
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: in the day, Kevin McHale was out there trying to
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: play a break and broken foot and Detroit business players
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: are literally stomping on his foot the whole game. So
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: this is just kind of part of the game. It's
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: the way that it goes. And and Draymond Green on
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: the flip side, I mean, that guy will go after anyone.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: There is a clip from a twenty seventeen series I
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: think it was where Draymond Green literally punches James Harden
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: in his injured hand and then admitted as much after
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: the game. So, if you know, you don't want to say,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: you know, an eye for an eye in this situation,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: but it's just kind of the way of the world
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: in any sport. If you're going to go out there
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: and you're not a one hundred percent, the other guys
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: are going to find a way to find an advantage.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Friend Ross from Sports seven ninety Sports
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Talk seven ninety in Houston about the Rockets and Warriors series. Now, Ross,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: the other part that's kind of fascinating to me about
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: this series is that it is one of the longest
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: rivalries in the modern NBA. Like we've got in ten
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: years of Rockets and Warriors in the playoffs going back
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: and forth against each other. How much of that plays
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: into this do you think?
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: I think very little for this team. I mean maybe
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: for the fans and.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: For me as well.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: Like and also, is it a rivalry If the Rockets
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: never beat the Warriors, liked, doesn't rivalry? And it kind
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: of imply that it's been a little bit of a
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: back and forth. I mean, the Rockets has been beat
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: down by the Warriors for the last ten years. It
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: definitely hangs over our heads. Like when you see Steph
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: Curry throw up another prayer fallaway shot, not even looking
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: at the basket. This is the thing to me, Andrew,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: it's not even that like it rattles in or for
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: banks in, like it just splashes in, no net, no nothing,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: Like how does he make these shots so perfectly? He
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: is just from another planet, Steph Curry. So we're definitely
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: sick of him. We're sick of Draymond Green beating up
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: and starting altercations all over the time. Like getting over
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: the Warriors hup would be huge. Meant, it would be
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: huge for the Rockets to get to the conference semifinals
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: and have home court advantage against the Minnesota Timberwolves. It
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: would also just be huge for all of us to
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: breathe a sigh of release of this reign of terror
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: that Steph Curry, Steve curR and Draymond Green have been
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: putting on us here in Houston for a decade.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: It's funny that you talk about the Wolves, because I
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: was talking about him Men Thompson for the Rockets, and
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: I was saying that I like the way he's progressed
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: and grant. He's a little older coming into the league
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: than Anthony Edwards was, But I think that that's kind
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: of Thompson's ceiling. What have you liked at him in
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: this series?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been talking that he had real bad game
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: in Game three. I think it was where they were
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: just completely hanging off of them. Jimmy Butler was out
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: of the starting lineup. They went with Quinton Post and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: they were giving him a runway and saying, hey, we're
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: going to back up all the way to the basket.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: If you can make anything in the mid range, good
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: luck on you and men. Thompson was poor in that
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: game and he shot five to sixteen from the field.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: But in the next couple of games he's been knocking
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: down some of those shots with confidence. But also part
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: of his game isn't really.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: Just being in the half court.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: That's not where he thrives because he is not a
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: half court player. He's not a really good shooter at
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: this point in his career. So he's been getting out
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: more in transition. He's been getting more of the basket
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: cuts and those and putbacks and easy baskets for him
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: to be able to score. And he's been a big
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: part of well keeping in the game in Game four
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: and then winning the game in Game five to where
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: he had five steals in that first half. He was
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: just a minute on the defensive end of the floor
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: and creating some of his own offense with those steels that.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: He was getting.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: Do you think that this series can get to a
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: game seven?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: Ross?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. To me, this is the coin flip game
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: coming up on Friday. Vegas has the Rockets and open
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: in five and a half. I think it's sitting in
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: four and a half right now. To me, it's a
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: coin flipper. Anything can happen. Steph Curry could very well
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: go off. I do think those are the fatigue and
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: the wear down factor of the veteran players of the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: Warriors is real. So if I want to kind of
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: invent an edge for myself, in my mind.
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  Speaker 2: It lies there.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: And then if they come back to game seven and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: play in Houston again, that's I think it's wraps. I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: think the Rockets take it in Game seven at home.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: The Warriors will be defeated in my opinion, so they
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: have to win it in game seven tomorrow. To me,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: coin flipper game. We'll see how it goes.
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  Speaker 1: You can follow him on x Sports r V. You
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  Speaker 1: must have jumped on that immediately. I don't think anybody
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: else is looking for that handle their Ross. Congratulations on that,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: and congratulations and Rockets. Hopefully you can get a game seven.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see. I will be rooting for them. So
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: we are the home of the Rockets at Sports Talk
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• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: he Houston for a game seven.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, you listen to on the free iHeartRadio app as well. Ross,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks man, thank you. It's time all right. When we
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: come back, we will wrap up our number two of
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  Speaker 1: the Craig Ways Show and put a bow on it.
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  Speaker 1: War coming up next on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: rolls on Craig Is in Fayanville, Arkansas, as the Texas
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Baseball Program travels to take on the Razorbacks.
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  Speaker 2: First pitch six pm.
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  Speaker 1: To night five forty five airtime on one oh three
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  Speaker 1: one Austin's eighty station.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good one. Craig told us.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: A little bit behind the scenes, was saying that he
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: expected this to be a very competitive series, which is
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: something that we like. I also like a Thursday, Friday,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Saturday three game series because I get to talk to
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Craig in between the games. He likes the three game
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: serious because he gets to go back to his house.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: He gets to be home on a Saturday afternoon. I
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: totally get that. I understand that Sunday Sunday evening you
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: want to be where you need to be. You don't
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: want to have to be traveling. I totally understand that.
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  Speaker 1: So all three games can be heard on one of
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  Speaker 1: need to get to to listen to the University of
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Texas Athletics.
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  Speaker 2: Just a suggestion.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: News out of college football today, Trey Taylor, the number
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: one top passer in the class of twenty twenty seven,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: will he announced where he's gonna go today. He decided
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: to stay in the Midwest. Covety recruit out of Illinois,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: He's going to Nebraska. Folks, Yeah, Nebraska. Taylor becomes the
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  Speaker 1: first player to commit to the Huskers in the twenty
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh cycle, giving his verbal pledge RUSS roughly twenty
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: months before the eligibility form needs to be signed. Now
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: six foot three hundred and eighty five pounds, he follows
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Ohio State pledge Brady Emmons as the second elite quarterback
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: prospect to announce already. Taylor shows between the Huskers. He
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: also had offers from Illinois, LSU, and Texas A and M.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Now he's the former or he's the son of the
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: former Eastern Illinois Husky's running back j R. Taylor, who
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: ran for fifty one touchdowns as a college teammate. A
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: former four time Pro Bowl quarterback Tony Romo talked about
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: a sixty Degrees of Operations story Trey Taylor has thrown
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: for three thousand yards, twenty touchdowns, seven interceptions, and only
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: his sophomore season. What makes this a little bit more interesting,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: of course, is that he's going to sit behind Dylan Royola,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: who is the current quarterback, who is I guess related
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: I think their cousins.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: He dresses like him, which is kind of weird to me,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: but whatever, Glenn Thomas is the quarterback coach.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Quote, sitting down.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Next to coach Thomas and getting the offense, seeing how
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: the coaches how they coached Dylan to the next level.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: I really can't wait, Taylor told ESPN earlier today. So
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: the Husky or the Huskers get their quarterback for the future,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: future future. I don't know what this means for Big
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Ten football. What I do know what this means is
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: that the hype around Nebraska, which has not been very
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: quiet over the last decade after they bring in Scott
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Frost and now Matt Ruhl is running the pro they
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: have tried to kind of figure out where do they
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: fit in college football, and with NIL and the transfer
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: portal and everything that goes with that and comes with it,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: you have to imagine that programs that were very successful
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties are now going to probably
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: have a resurgence. I find it quite fascinating in fact,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: that the University of Nebraska has a lot of donors
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: in their state. I think I read somewhere that of
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: all of the universities at the power for level, I
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: think they hold the record for most in state donations
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: to their program. So that means that other schools that
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: they might have big donors who are outside of the state.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: I think Nebraska they were either number one or they're
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: in the top ten when it comes to donors inside
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: the border of the state that the school is in.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: It's one of those fascinating statistics that you have for
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: college football that, yeah, it doesn't matter a ton, but
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: it is something to kind of consider when we talk
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: about Nebraska football. And again in the Big Ten, where
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: you have Ohio State and Michigan both winning national championships,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: in Penn State making the playoffs last year, the competitiveness
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: in that conference is second only to the competitiveness of
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: the se seed. All Right, all other news and notes,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: NBA playoffs continue to roll on Tonight, we get two
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: big games New York Knicks Detroit Pistons. Game is in Detroit.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: New York holds a three to two series lead in
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: the seven game series against the Pistons, and I think
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Detroit is going to give everything blood, sweat and tears
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: to make sure that they continue their season tonight.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: It'll be curious.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: It will be interesting to see how guys like Kid
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Cunningham show up in his first playoff experience. Jalen Brunston,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Karl Amfty Towns both have played in big games before,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: but to close Detroit out in Detroit would mean a
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: lot for this team going forward. And if I know
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: anything about Tom Thibodeau, the head coach of the New
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: York Knicks, I hope that Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Karl
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. I hope that entire starting five they get
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: used to playing. Because they're playing forty eight minutes today
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: in a close out game. Thibodeau is going to run
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: those boys into the dirt. He's gonna run them until
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: they're raw. So I'm hoping that the Knicks get the
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: job done, if for no other reason that I do
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: not want to see them run out.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: For a game seven.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: As fatigued as I know that they potentially could be
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: if they don't get the job done tonight. Speaking of fatigue,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be fatigued. I'm gonna be fatigued because Detroit
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: or Denver and LA the Clippers the final LA team
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: left after the Lakers lost yesterday to the Minnesota Timberls.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: The Clippers and Nuggets tonight nine pm tip. So that
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: game is not gonna get done until almost one am
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Central Standard time, but it's gonna mean a lot. I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: had to fight sleep. I was fighting off the sandman
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: to see a game winning dunk from Aaron Gordon in
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: game number four, and now game number five, Jamal Murray
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: showed up, got put the Nuggets on his back, took
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: them to now the brink of chance to match up
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: with the Oklahoma ce Thunder and round number two. Yeah,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: you fight and fight and fight this Clippers team that's
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: not going away, and then yeah, congratulations, you get the
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: number one seed that won sixty plus games and has
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: the preeminitive MVP, the guy who we all have said
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: that SGA will be the MVP of the of the
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: NBA this season. So yeah, talk about getting a nice break.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: A better team that had a break would be the
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: to Minnesota Timbrels, who won last night's game against the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: LA Lakers, a team that with Luca a little bit
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: banged up. He was sick in Game three, he had
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: a bad back. Last night, Wolves showed up, showed out,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: dominated essentially from start to finish. Almost made JJ Reddick cry.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: At one point in the pre game, he was very
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: upset that he was getting questions about how his team
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: was set up to win this series after not playing
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: a center, after deciding to play Maxi Kleeber last night,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: JJ Redick is getting a lot a lot of grief today,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: and rightfully so. I think when you're a rookie head
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: coach and you're giving the keys to one of the
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: premier franchises in not only the NBA but in North
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: American sports, expectations come with that. There's a lot of expectations.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of eyeballs, especially when you fail to
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: have good rotations, especially when you're making decisions that the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: guy on the couch could say, I don't agree with that,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: and when the results, again, it's the result driven business.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: You and I working dollars and cents. NBA franchises, Yeah,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: dollars and cents matter, but wins and losses matter more.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Wins and losses are the results that you're looking for
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: when you're the head coach of an NBA franchise, and
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: the Lakers under JJ Reddick better than last season, but
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: not where you want to be. When you have a
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: guy like Lebron James, and when you have a guy
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: like Luka Doncick, you can't lose games. You can't lose
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: in the first round. You sure cannot lose as the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: higher seed Lakers with a three seed in the matchup,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: the Wolves have to go to the Western Conference finals.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: Last year trade away Carling. If the town's struggled throughout
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: most of the season, they now were in the second round.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards is getting all of the flowers, as he
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: rightfully should. JJ Reddick is getting all the tomatoes, probably
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: as he rightfully should as well. So the funniest part
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: to me is the Lebron James angle of all of this,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: where people were asking him are you going to retire?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Are you done? Where do you go from here?
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: All those type of questions that a guy like Lebron
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: will get, and he's been able to bat him away. Oh,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to make my decision later. We all know
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: that he's not going anywhere if no other reason. Next
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: season will be year number twenty three. He's worn twenty
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: three his entire career. Michael Jordan wore number twenty three.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, the All Star Game is
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: in LA next year. And if there's anything you can
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: pretty much mark in right in permanent marker, it's Lebron
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: James will be an All Star. There's no way that
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: Lebron is going to give up a chance to play
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: his final All Star Game in LA in year number
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: twenty three. There's no way that he's not playing one
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: more season.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Are the Lakers going to be competitive team next year
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: and try to win a title next year?
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: Probably not even with Luca. This team feels many, many
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: pieces away from being a true title contender, especially in
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: the Western Conference. But I can guarantee you that Lebron
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: James will play one more season, all right, when we come.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: Back more NBA.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: In fact, perfect segue into which small market superstar is
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: most likely to get moved this offseason. We'll talk about
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: next to the Craigway Show on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: The Zone Sports Radio Am thirteen hundred The Zone Andrew
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Zim will hanging out with you this Thursday. Texas Baseball
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: plays tonight six pm, first pitch, five forty five airtime
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: on one of three one Austin's eighty station. Craigway will
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: be on the call from Arkansas consensus number one Texas
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: baseball team taking on number eleven Arkansas. As long Horns
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: have won ten consecutive games, ten straight games. It's their
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: second winning streak of ten plus games this season. But
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: we're not gonna talk about it. We don't want to
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: jink some We'll talk to Craig tomorrow after the Longhorns
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: get the job done and hopefully win. According to Craig,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: every one of these games are going to be down
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: to the water. They're going to be very exciting games
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: for the University of Texas. So if you have a chance,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: you should have a chance. You should be listening on
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: one oh three to one Austin's Ady Station, five forty
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: five hour time, six pm, first pitch. All right, we
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: were talking about Lebron james potential retirement. Many people have
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: been clamoring for this for the Beast, I don't know,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: probably half decade they've been asking when will Lebron retire?
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: While the old man ever slowed down in every single
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: step of the way, he said, not so fast. But
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: now after three consecutive first round exits, things are starting
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: to get a little crazy in La La Land now.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Seam Sharani was on the Pat McAfee show earlier today.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: He was talking about Lebron and potential hanging up the
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: uh the old Jays.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: There's no expectation for Lebron James over retirement.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 7: I will say that my sense, my understanding is he
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: will play at least.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Another NBA season.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 7: You think about here, twenty five to twenty six, it'll
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 7: be year twenty three. That would settle league record year
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: twenty three for number twenty three. The All Star Game
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: is in Los Angeles.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: He potentially playing in Los Angeles.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of stars that would align for next
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 7: season potentially. If that's what Lebron James decides, he'd be
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 7: forty one years old in December. He's forty years old
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 7: right now. So the expectation is he's going to be
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 7: playing at least another season, but again, how long And
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 7: the other thing Pat is does, the Bryce James, his
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 7: son does that factor play into it at all.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: His son is going to be potentially.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: Draft eligible in twenty twenty six next year. So if
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 7: he feels at some point next year, Bryce James might
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 7: be an NBA player, might be a draft eligible player,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 7: does he extend that window?
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go again. Will Lebron play with
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: his son? He's playing with Ronnie right now. Will he
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: stay around for Bryce? That's exactly what every single NBA fan,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: casual and die hard alike loves to hear from Sham Sharani. Now,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: of course, some things do catch your attention. Yeah, twenty
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: three for number twenty three, that makes sense. All Star
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: Game in LA, that makes sense. The kid thing. Man, Look,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: I was defending Ronnie James's draft pick at number fifty five.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: How many other number fifty five picks does anybody know
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: in the league? Unless you are locked in, locked in
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: on your favorite franchise, most of us do not know
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: where our second round picks go. We know if we
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: have a lottery pick, we know if we have a
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: late first round pick, we hope that those guys will be.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: Contributors to our teams.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: But for the most part, we kind of have the
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: idea that if you are a late round pick, enjoy
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: the G League, continue to develop, Maybe you turn into
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: somebody that's decent. Maybe you turn into a role player
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: near the end of the bad Maybe lightning strikes and
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: you get a monaging nobly second round pick. This guy's
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: a future Hall of Famer type of steel. But those
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: are one in a billion. When Ronny got drafted at
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: fifty five, I was like, Okay, great, this doesn't really
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: mean that much. But of course media, social media, hype
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: everything behind it. It turned into an entirely different story.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: What does matter to me is the productivity, because if
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: you stripped away the name, the accolades, the championships, the MVPs,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: it's about what you're doing on the court. And for Lebron,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: this season, he's averaging the second fewest points of his career.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: His second his fewest points recorded as the NBA player
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: was his rookie season. He had twenty one points per game,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: won the Rookie of the Year, played seventy nine games
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: at year forty. Now this does go to the longevity
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: of Lebron. Year forty, he plays seventy games, averages twenty
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: four points, the second fewest points of his career. His
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: scoring drops year over year over year. His fewest points
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: scored have all come while he is in LA. After
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: turning thirty five, you can see a significant dip in
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: the productivity of Lebron James. Now he is better than
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: most guys. He's better than every forty year old basketball
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: player ever. Right, But is he better than every twenty
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: five year old basketball player ever? Which is the answers?
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: Is he a serviceable player? Sure, but if we're holding
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: into the standard that he has to carry a team,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: he's not going to pass that standard. That bar is
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: too high. It pains me to say I like Lebron,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: I like rooting for greatness. I've always been on the
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: side of I want to complain to my kids the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: same way that the other older generation complained to me
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: about how things.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: Were better when I watched him.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: And if I get to see a Tom Brady and
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: a Patrick Mahomes and the Lebron James and the Serena
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: Williams and a Tiger Woods, and I can turn around
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: and tell my kids one day, well, you don't know
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: anything about how good the old days were. Now I'm
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm always rooting for greatness. I want
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: to see the dynasties. I want to see the best players,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: even if those players tend to be a little whiny
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: and you know, tend to be not as funny as
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: you'd like them to be. Like, let's hear this joke
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: from Lebron last night. Lebron got asked a question in
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: the post game about what this team needs going forward.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 8: Basically, from mid January on, right when Ad got injured,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 8: you guys started playing a lot of centerless basketball and
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: not required a lot from you and Doe and Ruie
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 8: and then Van Doll once he got back, just from
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 8: a physical like taxing standpoint, How how tough was that
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 8: for the last three and a half months to play
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: that style?
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: And do you feel like that caught up at all
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: in this series?
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, no comment. I'll never say that, because.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 6: My guy eighty said what he needed and h that
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 6: he was gone the following week, So.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: I got no comment. I put that uniform oil every night.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: I gave everything I had And.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: Now you obviously can tell. Towards the end, he's laughing
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit. He's having fun with the media. The
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: media is asking him, Hey, is it taxing to have
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: to play power forward to play. It is a big
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: man role. Again, you're forty. You're asking a forty year old, Hey,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: is it hard to bang down low against guys like
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert and nas Reed and get absolutely demolished and
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: physicaled up by a guy like Anthey Edwards who's twenty
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: three years old. It could be your son. Does it
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: bother you?
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: Do you need more? And he goes no comment, which
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: is again fair. Lebron is a pretty well spoken guy,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: the guy that talks a lot, probably to the chagrin
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: of some other people, probably not out what every NBA
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: fan loves to hear all the time is from Lebron James.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: But give him credit. He does talk to the media.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: We want our superstars to be upfront and honest with us,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: and Lebron again, to a fault, might be a little
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: bit too honest. Look, I want him to have fun.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: I want him to make JOKINGI jokes and but of
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: course the angle is, hey, this guy is making a
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: joke about getting traded. He's throwing another first round exit
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: at the feet of Rob Polenka and Genie Buss in
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: the front office of the Lakers. Even though the Lakers
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: are able to make a massive swing and go get
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: him a guy like Luka Dacik to play next to.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: This would be the perfect plan for the Lakers going forward.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: Is you have to lock Luca into some sort of
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: device where he has to follow Lebron around throughout the offseason,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: because even a year forty, I know that Lebron is
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: taking better care of his body than Luca has in
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: the last twenty five years of his existence.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: I know that Lebron.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he might have a last of wine and every
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: now and then maybe has a cigar on a yacht
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: somewhere on the south of France. But for the most part,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: he is doing more with his body. He's keeping himself
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: in shape. He's taking care of the greatest body the
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: NBA has ever seen. But possibly Luca needs to take
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: some pages of that. I'm not asking you to turn
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: into Lebron. I'm not asking you to become a super
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: freak athlete and to only have a keto diet and
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: to never have any fun. But when we lose in
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: the first round, and yeah, Lebron very much struggled in
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Game five against the Wolves, but Luca also struggled, and
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: he also dealt with the illness and injury throughout the season,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and his body started to break down again in the playoffs,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: and you look across the street and what the Clippers
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: are dealing with Kawhi Leonard takes pretty good care of
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: his body. He's just genetically.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: Hurt.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: I guess by the fact that he has the injury
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: bug every single season, like we are essentially sinking our
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: watches to him having some sort of injury here pretty soon.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: That's just the way that his career has gone. He
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: cannot stay healthy. Luca, you still have a little bit
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: of runway here. You potentially could stay healthy, Which leads
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: us to this offseason. Because Lebron and Luca the Lakers' core.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: I don't see a world where the Lakers are making
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: any more big moves. And with Giannis maybe the largest
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: small market star we have had since Tim duncan Tea,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: leaves are saying is unhappy, reports are saying he's unhappy.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: We know how this game goes. When a superstar is unhappy,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: they start packing their bags, they start getting on Zillow,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: they start looking for other places to play. So if
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: there is a small market superstar available, I don't think
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: the Lakers are the team that are gonna be able
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: to go get them. However, I do think that a
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: guy like you will be moved this offseason to which team, well,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: the team that has the biggest haul. I would like
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: him to stay in a small market. I would like
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: him to go to Oklahoma City if they don't win
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: the title this year, I'd like to see a Yannis
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: and SGA match up. A team up there, a superstar
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: group in Oklahoma City, an organization who has been very
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: successful this season. They have been successful since they moved
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma City. But to get a guy like Giannis
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: would be very very good for again small market teams,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: And that's what I want. If we're going to rob one,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: let's not give him to another big market team. Let's
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: not send him to New York or Boston or Miami.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: If he's going somewhere, let's keep him in a small market.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: It's my point, all right. When we come back, I'm
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: going to talk to you about my favorite NFL pick
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: this season, and it is, by far, I think, the
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: most entertaining guy. We'll talk about it next on sports
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• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: this Thursday as we continue to work our way through
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: the work week together. First pitch tonight, six pm on
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• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: on the call as the Longhorns, the number one ranked
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• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: now the NFL Draft is coming gone, and I have
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: found myself falling in love with Will Campbell, the LSU
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman who went to the New England Patriots. Let's
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: start here. This is was Will Campbell after getting drafted.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: What he had to say about his quarterback, Drake May.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 8: Basically from mid January on.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: You are brought to New England to protect Drake May.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: What kind of.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: Tone are you going to set up in this offensive line?
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: I'm all fighting to protect them with everything like that.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: I love a guy like that.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: It's rare, very very rare for me, and I think
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: for most people to get super excited for an offensive
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: lineman like my favorite team in the minist of the
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Vikings picked the offensive lineman. I couldn't tell you the
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: first thing. If it's a good pick, if it's a
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: bad pick. I read a couple of the draft blogs.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: They team to give the Vikings good grades. But Will
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: Campbell top five pick, goes to the Patriots after the
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Patriots win in the final week of the season to
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: drop from the number one overall pick to number four. Okay,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: the go get Will Campbell and I am head over heels.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know a ton about them. I knew he
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: had short arms at one point. I think that's what
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: people were talking about at the combine. Hell, you know,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman need to have long arms. What about big heart,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: because that's what Campbell sounds like he has.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: Drake May spoke to the media today and talked about
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: what his offensive lineman, what it meant to him.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, listen to a love I mean, man,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 5: you could go into juice going.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: I think it makes someone to go out there to
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: play football.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: Now, so you'll pump that we picked Will and we
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: got a chance immediate when he came in influence on Friday,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 4: so and pumped to get things going.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: And obviously, you know, seeing football players.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: Were going around here now, Drake May is the premier
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: example of you'd rather be the guy who follows the guy.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Uh for to follow the legend, right, you don't want
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: to be the guy that immediately follows Bruce Springsteen on stage,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: but she wouldn't mind being the guy that follows the
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: guy because everybody's already forgotten about Tom Brady or you know,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: they're not comparing you to Tom Brady as quickly off
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: the jump. There was a little bit of time right
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: Mey gets drafted in twenty twenty four. Between him and
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: the goat was Mac Jones and Cam Newton, any of
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: other quarterbacks that kind of rotated through New England before
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: Drake May shows up. In the twelve games that May
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: started last season, he played pretty well fifteen touchdowns, ten interceptions, not.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: Bad for a rookie.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: You would hope that the New England Patriots continue to
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: get a little bit better, a little bit better, a
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: little bit better, and I think with a guy like
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: Will Campbell on the offensive line, they will get better.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: That this is the first step.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: People were really excited with Joe Thomas in Cleveland when
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: the Browns had this iron man who's playing every single
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: down and it was even more liked because the Browns
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: stunk for the most part Owens sixteen season, and Joe
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Thomas is out there every single snap, every single game,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: fighting for a team that's going nowhere, right, And then
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: people fell in love with Jason kelcey. They even gave
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: him a TV show on ESPN, a late night show
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: on ESPN, because we liked the big guy. We liked
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: the offensive lineman, the center who dressed up funky to
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl parade, and we liked him
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: because they had the push push and he was crying.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: He's playing his brother in the super Bowl, and it
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: is all we like.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: Jason kelce an offensive lineman.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, both those guys are going
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: to take a seat behind the love that Will Campbell
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: will get because if he continues to play and fight
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: as hard as he talks from LSU, listen to this quote.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: This is him at LSU talking about Amazon being an
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: Amazon worker. If he doesn't do a better job like
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: this is an incredible quote.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 6: You give up one sack a game for twelve games,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 6: you're gonna work at Amazon.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 6: But whenever we're here, this is what we're striving for
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 6: If you ever got the time, go back and watch
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 6: my first player college football. I got my face ran through, punished,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 6: and that's just what it is. I mean to be
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 6: thrown in the fire like these this against good teams.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 3: These dudes are.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: Trying to get paid and all they got to do
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 6: is get to the quarterback. One thing we live by
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 6: in the Ovine room at b Diman get one sack
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: a game and that's the only thing he can do.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 6: Twelve games, he'll be a top five pick. You give
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 6: up one sack a game for twelve games, you're gonna
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 6: work at Amazon.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: What a quote. What a guy.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: And I know he played for the Tigers, but still
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: I'm all in now that these out of the college ranks.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: This is the guy that I'm watching this season. If
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: there was a way to vote for an offensive lineman,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: like it'll never happen, Like it will never ever happen
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: that offensive lineman wins Rookie of the Year. But if
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: there was a way for us to get behind this
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: kid and root for him.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: I don't even like the Patriots. I don't really care
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: how the Patriots do, but this is the rookie that
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: I am all in on while everybody else was worried
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: about Shador Sanders as he dropping in the draft and
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: prank phone calls, and you see that. We finally figured
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: out who was doing it. It was the sun of
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons. Cost him one
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: hundred and k cost the Falcons two hundred and fifty
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Look, if you scratched your parents on Prom night,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: you were chipping, you're chewing your fingernails off, You're worried.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't I can't look at my dad
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: in the eye because I scratched the car. This kind
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: of costs his family one hundred thousand dollars three hundred
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars overall for a prank phone call.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: While everybody else is worrying about those stories and worried
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  Speaker 1: about what's cam Ward gonna do in Tennessee? And will
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  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter play both ways? I've been locked in on
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  Speaker 1: Will Campbell. I've been locked in on where was this
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  Speaker 1: kid gonna go? I knew he was going to go early,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if he was going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots or not. Then he gives me
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  Speaker 1: a quote that I'm going to fight and die, leave
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  Speaker 1: it all on the field for my quarterback. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear. That's what I love to hear.
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  Speaker 1: This guy has a fan for a life in me,
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  Speaker 1: and that's rare. It's very rare. That Draft night is
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  Speaker 1: when I decided to pledge my allegiance to a guy.
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  Speaker 2: I pledged my allegiance to Will Campbell, New England.
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  Speaker 1: If you win ten games this season or three games
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  Speaker 1: this season, I'm watching every one of them because I
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  Speaker 1: want to see how my boys doing on that offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we'll put a bow
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  Speaker 1: on it. Send you on your way to The Craigway
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  Speaker 1: Show rolls on continues in a moment on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: The Zone Andrew Zimmel wrapping up The Craigway Show on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday edition. Craig will be back on the program tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: most likely in the three o'clock hour as we preview
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  Speaker 1: Game number two of Texas and Arkansas and recap tonight's
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  Speaker 1: matchup six pm. First pitch five forty five Ever time
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  Speaker 1: on one of three to one. Austin's eighty station Craig
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  Speaker 1: Ways on the call from Fayetteville as the number one
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  Speaker 1: ranked Texas Longhorns take on the Razorbacks.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good game.
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  Speaker 1: From everything that they've told us, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the better games down the stretch. And
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns take on a series against Florida that has started
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  Speaker 1: to kind of gear in the right direction. And you
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  Speaker 1: also consider they finished the season against Oklahoma, which is
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  Speaker 1: a team it has been very good. Historically speaking, they're
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  Speaker 1: a program that has given Texas trouble in the past,
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  Speaker 1: we'll put it that way. So these are two series
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  Speaker 1: coming up that are exciting. This weekend series is exciting
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. Every one of these games matters as well.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about RPI and potential's final seeding. The
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  Speaker 1: five game lead for the Longhorns in the final stretch
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  Speaker 1: nine games, you feel comfortable. You feel confident that they
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  Speaker 1: could win the regular season and go into the SEC
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  Speaker 1: tournament as a one seed and then of course going
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  Speaker 1: into the regionals and super Regionals that come afterwards in
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  Speaker 1: Omaha and everything else. You got to do it one
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  Speaker 1: series at a time, one weekend at a time, one
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  Speaker 1: inning at a time. But I'm looking ahead because I'm
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  Speaker 1: the type of person who likes to prepare and plan,
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  Speaker 1: and I also like to get hotel rooms. So I
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  Speaker 1: would like to know as soon as possible what the
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  Speaker 1: deal is. Also breaking news out of Texas women's basketball.
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  Speaker 1: According to coach Vic Shaeffer, freshman forward Alea Moore will
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  Speaker 1: have surgery that will sideline her the entirety of the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five to twenty six season. The plan for More,
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  Speaker 1: who battle ten a ninety cent a right knee throughout
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  Speaker 1: the past two seasons, is to return for the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six twenty twenty seven campaigns. So not what we
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  Speaker 1: would want to hear from the Texas women's basketball program.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to get that adjusted, to get that fixed.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad that we're gonna go through the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to twenty six season without a Lea Moore, that
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  Speaker 1: is according to Vick Shaeffer. Also, all right, so this
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  Speaker 1: is kind of how I wanted to do in the
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  Speaker 1: show today on a Thursday. If you've been online recently,
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  Speaker 1: you've been seeing this debate rage on. I cannot get
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  Speaker 1: enough of it. This has been something that I have
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  Speaker 1: been very, very very much locked in on And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not only locked in on it because it's the topic
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  Speaker 1: of conversation currently. I'm locked in on it because this
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  Speaker 1: is something I've been thinking about for a very very
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  Speaker 1: long time, longer than I'm kind of embarrassed with. Man, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred v one debate, one hundred men versus
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  Speaker 1: one gorilla? Could it happen? How would it go down?
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  Speaker 1: Why where would the games before the fight happen? All this,
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  Speaker 1: I have been as locked in on any conversation as
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  Speaker 1: I've had ever. This is this is the biggest Internet
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  Speaker 1: debate going on right now, and this is something that
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  Speaker 1: I've thought about pragmatically for a very long time. And
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  Speaker 1: I liked that there's now a mix too, where at
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  Speaker 1: first it was okay, it's one hundred strangers, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was like, okay, well can we get people all time?
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  Speaker 1: And then could it be you know, can we pick
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  Speaker 1: certain people like, hey, can I go get Connor McGregor right,
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  Speaker 1: who's set on social media that it would be him
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  Speaker 1: versus one hundred gorillas and you would take himself.
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  Speaker 2: So he's confident. I went through historically speaking who would
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  Speaker 2: I want?
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  Speaker 1: And I've come down to one historical figure that I
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  Speaker 1: think would change everything. I think would completely change how
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  Speaker 1: this fight would go down if it was one hundred
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  Speaker 1: v one. Everybody's always going, oh, I want Prime Mike Tyson,
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  Speaker 1: I want Prime Mark Kennedy, the world's strongest man who
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  Speaker 1: can listen to on the morning kickoff seventy nine am
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  Speaker 1: right here on the zone. I want Prime hul Cocin. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you go through down the list, and everybody wants these
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  Speaker 1: combat veterans. Bruce Leie, right, you want to go, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going further back if you gave me Prime William Wallace. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going all the way back to Scotland. Give me
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  Speaker 1: Prime William Wallace in a fight against the gorilla. Because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all those other guys they're great individuals, they're great individuals,
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  Speaker 1: and if it was one v one they might have
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  Speaker 1: a shot. To be completely honest with you, But if
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  Speaker 1: I need one hundred random guys, I'm picking one hundred
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  Speaker 1: guys off the street, ninety nine other guys on the street,
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  Speaker 1: and I got one of them with William Wallace as well,
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  Speaker 1: who led a freedom march in Scotland centuries ago.
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  Speaker 2: Get the history books out, kids, I'm going with him.
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  Speaker 1: Because I need somebody that is going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to rally the troops. I need somebody who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get everybody excited, everybody on the same page,
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  Speaker 1: everybody fighting for a similar cost. Why are we fighting
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  Speaker 1: this grilla? I don't know where are we fighting? It
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  Speaker 1: beats me. When is it happening that could happen tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I need somebody who's locked in, who can get all
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  Speaker 1: these strangers to pull in the same direction. I think
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  Speaker 1: William Wallace is my answer, and I want to get
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  Speaker 1: your answers as well. So I want you over the
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  Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. We're gonna be back on the
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  Speaker 1: show again tomorrow. Craig's still in Fayetteville in Arkansas. For
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  Speaker 1: Texas and Arkansas over the next twenty four hours or
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  Speaker 1: I guess twenty hours. Ish tweet at me at Andrew Underscore,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: Zimbo on Twitter, at Andrew Underscore, Zimo on x you
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  Speaker 1: can follow me over there. I want to get your answers.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna compile them. We're gonna get some of those tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You also gonna use the free iHeart radio apps talkback feature.
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  Speaker 1: I want to use the talkback feature. It's a little
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: red button. Go on the free iHeart radio app, Go
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  Speaker 1: to the zone should already be a pre set, use
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  Speaker 1: the talkback feature, and give me your person who you
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  Speaker 1: would want in this one hundred v one against the gorilla?
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  Speaker 1: And look, is it kind of crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the number one pressing topic in the world
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  Speaker 1: right now? Probably not. You know, we got a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on, we got tariffs, we got a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: But this, to me is the thing that's gonna unite
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  Speaker 1: us and for all those people. And because again I've
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  Speaker 1: been on the other side of this debate a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I've been fighting this fight since I was in fifth
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  Speaker 1: grade and I saw Coco the Gorilla signing. I was like, really,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're spending my precious time library time on,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: is watching this video. Ever since then, I've been against
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  Speaker 1: the gorilla propaganda that has been pushed out our throats,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: gorilla versus grizzly bear. Give me the grizzly bear one
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  Speaker 1: hundred v one, Give me the one hundred dudes. And
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: if you are one of those people who is saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Zimmo, you know what, Zimmo, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: the gorilla. I think the gorilla could beat you when
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  Speaker 1: you're ninety nine. Friends, I tell you this, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the heart of the champion. You don't have the
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: desire to go out and try to win something. You
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  Speaker 1: need to rethink how you are going about your life.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: If you're picking the gorilla over one hundred of mankind,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: what does that say about you? Just consider that. So
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: tweet at me at Andrew unders square Zimo on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: You can also use the free iHeartRadio apps talk back
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  Speaker 1: feature because I want to get your answers when we
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  Speaker 1: do the show again tomorrow. I think that's a good
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  Speaker 1: way to end the week. I think that's a good
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  Speaker 1: way to wrap up a Friday show is kind of
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  Speaker 1: here's some of those answers. I want you to think
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  Speaker 1: about it critically. I with you. If I have the
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  Speaker 1: way back machine, if I could get the time machine
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  Speaker 1: and go grab somebody, I'm grabbing Scotland's greatest William Wallace,
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  Speaker 1: because I need a leader. I need somebody who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: lead us into battle, all right. Also happening tonight NBA
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  Speaker 1: playoff Basketball. It's the best time of the year. You
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: get the playoffs and basketball, you get the playoffs. In hockey,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: both happening at the same time. The wonderful, wonderful time.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's matchups is Nicks and Pistons. I'm gonna leave here
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  Speaker 1: and try to go find a place that's gonna be
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: playing that game, and then tonight Nuggets and Clippers. Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: need to get this game done. They cannot afford to
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  Speaker 1: be tired trying to go up against the number one
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  Speaker 1: seeded Oklahoma seed Thunder. They got to get the job
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  Speaker 1: done tonight. Win tonight in LA, knock out both the
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  Speaker 1: LA teams, and let's see you in Oklahoma City. You
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  Speaker 1: can't give the Thunder that much time off. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thanks guys, We'll be back again tomorrow. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: Craig Will recap NBA basketball, we'll get geared up for
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. All that coming on tomorrow's edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Craigway Show. Until next time, I'm Andrew Zimble. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: I'm not wrong. I'm just early Peace.