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Jim Schlossnagle previews upcoming Texas Baseball season, No. 7 Texas holds off No. 17 Tennessee, and Texas A&M Broadcaster Andrew Monaco · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome to the program here on thirteen hundred the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Craigway. So glad to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us here on a Friday. I always say it, if
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  Speaker 1: Friday is the end of your work week, if it's
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  Speaker 1: the advent of the weekend for you, good on you,
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  Speaker 1: good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy the weekend. For those.
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  Speaker 1: Of you for whom Friday really only means the midweek
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  Speaker 1: or maybe even the start of the week, hang in there,
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  Speaker 1: push forward, Hope things go well for you. Glad to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us. My name is Craig Way. Glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us. Us of course includes the
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  Speaker 1: producer of this program, Cameron Dee Parker. The D on
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  Speaker 1: the birth certificate stands for Dallas, who after we talked
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  Speaker 1: at some length about Cameron's choices and non choices for
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  Speaker 1: the guy to be the next head coach of the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: you even kind of tossed up your hands and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take Pete Carroll. Sorry, he's gone now the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: have him, now.
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  Speaker 3: Gone, goodbye. And that was after yesterday there was a
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  Speaker 3: report that Jerry Jones did talk to Pete Carroll at
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  Speaker 3: some point. Now, of course I think Jerry Jones talking
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  Speaker 3: to someone is a lot differently than how other franchises talked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, I don't know what what
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  Speaker 1: that would have meant it had been the case, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter now? Does it matter? Now? Tom Brady got
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  Speaker 2: his head coach?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of similarities between Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll,
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  Speaker 3: both over seventy both well respected head coaches, Both have
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  Speaker 3: their kind of method, their programs. I think Las Vegas
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  Speaker 3: this is probably the best coaching higher they've made since
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, John Madden.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've.
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  Speaker 3: Had they're talking about, I mean, for all the crap
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Jones gives. David's family has had some troubles with
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  Speaker 3: h Yeah. I mean how many of they had? Just
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  Speaker 3: let's see, you know, obviously you got Antonio, Oh Pierce
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  Speaker 3: was a last head coach. You had, uh Pitt Boss,
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  Speaker 3: Rich Pasaccia, John Gruden, that awful contrac who is that
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  Speaker 3: coach before John Gruden?
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  Speaker 1: Remember they had Bill Callahan.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, who's now with Tennessee or his sons with Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Callahan who had been the coach at Nebraska and
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  Speaker 1: got really mad when they played at Oklahoma and the
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  Speaker 1: Roughnecks were shooting off their little blank guns and he
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  Speaker 1: talked about pop guns and throwing frud at him when
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  Speaker 1: they were throwing Orange Bowl because we're going to Orange Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Josh mc daniels was the head coach, Josh McDaniels, Jack
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  Speaker 1: del Rio, Jack del Rio, Tony Sperano, Tony Sperano.
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  Speaker 2: That Tony Soprano they hired Sopranos. Sperano was with the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: She was an assistant, went.
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  Speaker 3: Three nine, only coach twelve games, Dennis Allen, Hugh Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: Tom Cable, Lane Kiffin. By the way, none of these coaches,
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  Speaker 3: only del Rio had a well. Gruden had a winning record.
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  Speaker 3: Del Rio had a winning record, Art Shell, Yeah North Turner,
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  Speaker 3: Bill Callahan, he went fifteen and seventeen. Gruden, who went
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight and twenty six the first time Callahan at
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  Speaker 3: least won an AFC champion.
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  Speaker 1: He was the coach when they won the AFC and
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  Speaker 1: they played Gruden and Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: and they had not changed any o their plays and
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  Speaker 1: the signs and the signaling, and Gruden knew all of
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  Speaker 1: that and it was the system that he had set up.
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  Speaker 1: So Tampa Bay just wiped out the Raiders when they played.
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  Speaker 3: It in the next season. Yeah, Gruden realized, wait a second,
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  Speaker 3: all my plays.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Callahan wasn't long for the NFL then, and
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  Speaker 1: then he was at Nebraska and that didn't work really well,
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  Speaker 1: only wound up losing his job there as well.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders have had their issues, just as the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: have had their issues. We had a lot to get
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  Speaker 1: to today on the program. Yeah, we're gonna preview the
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  Speaker 1: AFC NFC championship games. We'll talk about that. We're else
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear from some coaches. Uh, We're gonna hear from Vic.
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  Speaker 1: With that big win for the Texas women last night
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  Speaker 1: over Tennessee, what a gut check contest. We're gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: from Taylor Jones here in just a few moments, who
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  Speaker 1: talk about gut checks with a bad shoulder and everything
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  Speaker 1: going back out there and just out offensive rebounding. The
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  Speaker 1: entire Tennessee team was Taylor Jones last night and that
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  Speaker 1: eighty to seventy six win.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna hear from Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Rodney Terry on the eve of
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  Speaker 1: their rematch in the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown rivalry
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  Speaker 1: series matchup with Texas A and M. Of course, Longhorn's
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  Speaker 1: lost that first one eighty to sixty, was tied thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven at the half, and then A and M grabbed
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  Speaker 1: seized control of it in the second half and ended.
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  Speaker 2: Up winning the game eighty to sixty.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Roddy, not only from his media zoom,
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  Speaker 1: but also some comments he had last night when we
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  Speaker 1: do our usual matchup segment or talk about the opponent
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  Speaker 1: on Longhorn Weekly, which we had last night at Pluckers
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  Speaker 1: the West Campus location. So Artie, we'll get his thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the Aggies at that matchup and we'll hear from that.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear from Jim Schlasnakel, Longhorn's new baseball coach.
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  Speaker 1: Today is the first day for full team workouts. So
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  Speaker 1: I just, I mean literally walked in spilling in just
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes right before we got on the air.
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  Speaker 1: I was out at the media availability with Schloss and
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  Speaker 1: the other assembled media there in the dugout.
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  Speaker 2: They had to get him on.
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  Speaker 1: They had to use the third base dugout camp because
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  Speaker 1: the first base dugout, the regular home dugout, they were
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  Speaker 1: doing some work in it. There were some work being
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  Speaker 1: done on it, some refurbishing or something like that. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot was gathered over on that third base side,
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  Speaker 1: which a long time ago was the Texas home dugout
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  Speaker 1: before they flipped dougouts, before the remodeling with UFCU Dish
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  Speaker 1: fark Field, and so no less than a sage writer
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  Speaker 1: like Kirk Bowles now the Houston Chronicle for so many
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  Speaker 1: decades at the Austin American station, I walked in and
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  Speaker 1: looked around, goes, why are we in.
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  Speaker 2: The third base talk?
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  Speaker 1: His thought is there have been another change to slash
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  Speaker 1: make this chance that they're doing work over the other one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, So we're gonna hear from Schlass talking
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  Speaker 1: about his players, his team, uh and putting it all
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  Speaker 1: together and starting. So we're gonna hear from that. We
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  Speaker 1: have inconceivable again. We know what inconceivable means. On Friday,
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, we go south. We were just in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have any Florida man. Well, I guess actually
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  Speaker 1: we probably have do have one Florida Baggage handler story,
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  Speaker 1: but we go to the more flasks, the lower forty
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  Speaker 1: eight states, reach for that low hanging for you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, we're really going to make up for it.
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  Speaker 1: Normally normally after in one, two at the most three,
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  Speaker 1: but usually just one or two Florida Man stories along
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  Speaker 1: with other content. But because we haven't done when's the
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  Speaker 1: last time we did a Friday show right after Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Like the twenty seventh, we weren't here last last Friday, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or Saturday. Right the friday before that, Texas was playing
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  Speaker 1: in the Cotton Bowl. Yeah, and the Friday before that
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  Speaker 1: we were off on January third, mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're also in College Station.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it might have been December twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been almost month. So to catch up.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm taking a page from Andrew Zimml's book, because
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  Speaker 1: even though I've told Andrew when when when Zimble steps
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  Speaker 1: in for me on the program, he loves Friday because
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  Speaker 1: he loves Florida Man. And I told him, I said,
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  Speaker 1: that's great, But Andrew, don't feel like the entire inconceivable
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  Speaker 1: on Friday has to be Florida Man. You can mix
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  Speaker 1: some other things in and then drop one in there
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  Speaker 1: right like he loves to just load it up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: today we're taking a page from Zimmle's book. It's all
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  Speaker 1: Florida Man today because we got plenty. So so that's
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  Speaker 1: we've got that coming up later this hour. And then,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, we've got those other pieces and and
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  Speaker 1: we're planning, I want to say, planning to visit with
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Monica, play by play voice in the Aggies of
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M. He is leaving with the with
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  Speaker 1: the Aggie basketball team to bus over, so he's anticipating
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  Speaker 1: arriving just past four o'clock, and that being the case,
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  Speaker 1: we should be able to pop him on in the
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  Speaker 1: program in the four o'clock hour. So I just that's
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  Speaker 1: why I say we're planning on it right now. So
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  Speaker 1: there'll be a little bit of that. But big win
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  Speaker 1: for the Texas women last night over Tennessee to get
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen and two five and one in SEC playing
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  Speaker 1: the Loghorns.
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  Speaker 2: They were in a battle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean early on they were down six at fourteen eight,
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  Speaker 1: but then they fought back and they had a five
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  Speaker 1: point lead and intermission could have been larger. Then Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: fights back, they take the lead on a couple of occasions,
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  Speaker 1: something by four, and then Texas fought back and got
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  Speaker 1: up by five again, and then it was just back
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  Speaker 1: and forth and nip and tuck all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to the end, and a lot of the key figures
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  Speaker 1: stepped up as usual. Rory Harmon hit two crucial free throws,
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  Speaker 1: Madison Booker had what third straight game over twenty points scoring,
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  Speaker 1: and then we mentioned Taylor Jones, what was a twenty
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  Speaker 1: one points, nineteen rebounds things, So yeah, and did a
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  Speaker 1: massive job on the morts. Had to come out of
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  Speaker 1: the game for a little bit. She got banged up.
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  Speaker 1: It was I think her left shoulder and they had
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  Speaker 1: to do a little work on that and retape it.
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  Speaker 2: And she went back out there and she was just grinding.
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  Speaker 1: So after the game, Roger Wallace was visiting on our
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  Speaker 1: postgame show with Taylor Jones about this huge win and
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  Speaker 1: her huge performance and what it meant to this basketball
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  Speaker 1: team as they were able to turn it turn it
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  Speaker 1: around in a game that I would say really crucial
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  Speaker 1: because if you look around the SEC and you see
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  Speaker 1: some of the eyebrow raising results have happened in conference play.
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and m B Kentucky last night in College station.
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky was unbeaten in conference play, you know, so now
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to conference play, and there's a huge
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  Speaker 1: game this afternoon, South Carolina and LSU and they're playing
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon, I think four o'clock our time. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason why they're playing at four o'clock our time this
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  Speaker 1: afternoon is because ls who could not get to South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina for they were going to travel on Wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: then play the game last night, and that was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the early game in Colombia, and then the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tennessee game was going to be the eight o'clock game.
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  Speaker 1: But because LSU was unable to travel because of the
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  Speaker 1: heavy snowfall in the state of Louisiana on Wednesday, they
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  Speaker 1: pushed the game from Thursday to Friday, so they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: play this afternoon, and that's why they moved the Texas
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  Speaker 1: came up from eight o'clock to seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's the deal. All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Taylor Jones coming up, and we'll also
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  Speaker 1: hear from Rodney Terry coming up a lot on in
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  Speaker 1: store today here as we take a break here on
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 5: It's the Craig Way Show with a voice the Texas
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  Speaker 5: Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: Here on a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Is this designed to be part of your fire me
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  Speaker 1: Up Friday selection?
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  Speaker 2: Here? You know? Probably not? You know, I think fired
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  Speaker 2: up as we're fired up from last night. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't there. You don't have to have music. Very good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Toward that end, here's what we were talking about, Taylor Jones,
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  Speaker 1: the big effort from her or the postgame conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Roger Wallace one.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight for Taylor.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if you've seen the numbers, twenty one points,
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  Speaker 7: fourteen rebounds, you offensive out rebound at Tennessee tonight. You
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  Speaker 7: had more offensive rebounds than Tennessee.
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  Speaker 8: Oho.
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  Speaker 2: Just take us through what a grinder this was.
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  Speaker 9: Coming into this game, we knew that it was going
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  Speaker 9: to be really tough. I mean, this is a historic
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  Speaker 9: program that we're playing against, and so we knew that
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  Speaker 9: there they were to be well coached and they're number
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  Speaker 9: one offensive team, and so that was a real point
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  Speaker 9: of emphasis. And I think coming into this game, coach
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  Speaker 9: Schaeffer and Blair. Schaeffer told us that getting on the obors,
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  Speaker 9: we could do that, and so that was kind of
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  Speaker 9: a point for me, was just to try and do
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  Speaker 9: what I can on the offensive boards and just sort
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  Speaker 9: of play do my job, and so yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 9: I tried to do.
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  Speaker 7: Great block shot, but obviously banged up the shoulder. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: how tough was it to get back in there? How
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  Speaker 7: you feeling?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, this isn't I've played through injuries a lot
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  Speaker 9: in my life, so it's nothing new. Adrenaline is a
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  Speaker 9: very very fun thing in games. So I'll definitely have
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  Speaker 9: to ice it afterwards and do some rehab for sure.
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  Speaker 7: So all right, admit, if you hit nine field goals,
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  Speaker 7: are you most proud of the one that was just
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  Speaker 7: inside the three point line?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I think that may have been the closest I'll
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  Speaker 9: get to a three in my college career, So I'll
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  Speaker 9: take it.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 7: And I know you obviously had the big bucket down
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  Speaker 7: the stretch. But Craig went for you, guys. Craig week
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  Speaker 7: for you guys. Congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she had a big effort twenty one points, fourteen rebounds.
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  Speaker 1: She had more offensive rebounds than the entire Tennessee team
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  Speaker 1: did accumulate throughout the course of the game, so it
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  Speaker 1: was big for he end. Yes, she did get banged up,
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  Speaker 1: but was able to come back in and really affect
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the Long Wars are now nineteen and two, they're
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  Speaker 1: five and one in SEC play, and they got a
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  Speaker 1: tough road assignment on Sunday in Oxford, Mississippi. It's interesting
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  Speaker 1: the way the schedule has fallen. Both the Texas women
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  Speaker 1: followed by the men will play in Oxford three days apart.
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  Speaker 1: The women will play at the pavilion there on the
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  Speaker 1: Old Miss campus Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. You can
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  Speaker 1: hear it at one of three point one FM, Austin's
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  Speaker 1: eighty station and also on the Texas Long Wornes Appvarsity
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  Speaker 1: Network app, and I think it'll be on serious X
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  Speaker 1: as well are broadcast, But anyway, it'll be Sunday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock in Oxford. Then the men will be there
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  Speaker 1: the following Wednesday, three days after that to take on
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss. The women's team is four two. Are you
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  Speaker 1: going to stay in Oxford residency? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I'll come home we've got We've got some work to
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  Speaker 1: do before that. I don't think so, but I mean
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  Speaker 1: I'll come home Sunday night and then turn around what
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday we head back right, so to give me you
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  Speaker 1: knows day.
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  Speaker 2: And a half listen this day and age.
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  Speaker 1: A day and a half in the office is good
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get that because of all the
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  Speaker 1: work that's got to be done. We've got the advent
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  Speaker 1: of baseball approaching softball. Softball schedule finally got released yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot to get
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  Speaker 1: ready for for the coming season. So anyway, the women
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  Speaker 1: will play there Sunday afternoon. The men will play there
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. But first the men have Texas A and
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  Speaker 1: M the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown rivalry series. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, in case you're interested in the standings right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's four and app points to one point Texas four
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  Speaker 1: point five to one point zero for Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 1: Walborne's head coach Rodney Terry. Yesterday in the media zoom
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  Speaker 1: talking about this rematch with Texas A and.
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  Speaker 10: M warton Archie two questions for You'll start with the
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  Speaker 10: first one. Outside of effort, what did you see from
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  Speaker 10: your team in the win over Missouri that you think
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  Speaker 10: is transferable to the A and M and the rest
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  Speaker 10: of the season.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I thought again, I thought we played really hard
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  Speaker 11: for forty minutes. It's one of our more complete games
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  Speaker 11: on the season in terms.
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  Speaker 6: Of playing that way.
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  Speaker 11: I thought on both ends of the floor, I thought,
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  Speaker 11: I thought we played really hard.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Missouri is a really hard team to play against.
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  Speaker 11: You know, they play really hard nosed defense, switching defense,
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  Speaker 11: a challenging passing lanes. They make it difficult for you
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  Speaker 11: to initiate your offense. They're a really difficult team to
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  Speaker 11: play against. I think the thing that translates for us
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  Speaker 11: from that game that will have to have carryover with
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  Speaker 11: the A and M game is competitive plays.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 11: I thought we made a lot of competitive plays in
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  Speaker 11: the game Tuesday night against Missouri. And when I say
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  Speaker 11: competitive plays, you know, and it was the best I
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  Speaker 11: think in the country at fifty to fifty balls. They
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  Speaker 11: do a great job of out competing you to loose balls,
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  Speaker 11: long rebounds, the the best at extra effort plays. I thought,
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  Speaker 11: we have a lot of really good extra effort competitive
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  Speaker 11: plays in the game that we'll have to try to
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  Speaker 11: have on Saturday against the team that I think that
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  Speaker 11: does it best in the country.
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  Speaker 2: The follow up arty.
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  Speaker 10: In relation to Trey, since SEC players started, he's had
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  Speaker 10: to believe all all six SEC games, he's had extended
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  Speaker 10: stretches in the second half where a shot isn't falling.
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: I'm just curious, from your perspective, do you see that
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: as a byproduct of how hard he's playing defensively.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: I think they could be a little bit of it,
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 17:05
  Speaker 11: I think I think it takes time a little bit
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: for you know, not even just young players, older players.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Last year we had Max Aspis, and it took Max.
• 17:16
  Speaker 11: Middle of the conference, in the conference play to where
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: he exerted itself so hard on the defensive end of
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: the floor that he still had to have legs to
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: be able to make shots in big.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Moments in games. But he got to a point where he.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: Could do that and he didn't take any plays off.
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: He played thirty five minutes a game, which is not
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: easy to do. The play really hard on offense and
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: play really hard on defense. You know, if you were
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: somewhere where you could take plays off and rest on
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: defense to.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Be easier, They're hopefully you were asleep.
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: But if not, did you catch any of the A
• 17:49
  Speaker 12: and then last said, and what were something takeaways over
• 17:52
  Speaker 12: over that crazy button?
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: You know, uh, you know, and I thought that both
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: teams obviously well coached, uh, both of them really hard
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: on those defensive teams, teams that take a lot of
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: pride on that end of the floor, teams that take
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: a lot of pride and competitive plays.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: You know, I thought old.
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: Miss shot the ball really well last night against those
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: guys that Old Miss or a better part of the game,
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: really control the game, you know, give or take, you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: thirty eight minutes of the game, you know, to where
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: they had the game in hand to win the ball game.
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: And again you know A and M played the game
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: to the bone, you know, they played it all the
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: way to the end and they found a way to
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: win the game, you know, down the stretch.
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: And then just a quick fall from that, if I will,
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: you know, even going back to y'all boss watch up
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: with Texas, Adam, what do you need to improve on,
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: especially when it comes to maybe the second half struggles.
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: Well, you know again, you know I think and them
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: again is part you know, they're the best offense rebounding
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: team in the country, you know, and when you play
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: it to you and that rebounds the ball as well
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: as they do, they're gonna give themselves second chance, third
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: chance opportunities. You may go out the first opportunity really well,
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: it's the second and the third one that puts you
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: in a bad position, you know. And I thought in
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: the second half of our game, they really, you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: did a great job of attacking that glass really really hard.
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: I mean the first first game of in the first half,
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: they had three offensive rebounds, you know, and I think
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: they finished with double figure offensive rebounds in the second half,
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: So you know, it really changed the game when you're
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: giving them second and third chance opportunities where it makes
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: it very difficult.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: And they're they're really good, and they they beat us
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: really in the in the fifty to fifty game.
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: They came up with every loose ball, every loan rebound,
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: and and again I think, you know, they're they're all
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: going to be the best in the country at doing that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: So you've got to be the match match their energy
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: and activity with those type of plays.
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: Well, real quick, I was gonna ask if there's been
• 20:02
  Speaker 13: any update of progress on Kendall Weaver. And then also
• 20:06
  Speaker 13: you kind of answered it with Ann Parker's question for
• 20:09
  Speaker 13: a team that likes to hit the offensive board so
• 20:11
  Speaker 13: much like the Aggies, coach, do you tweak your light
• 20:15
  Speaker 13: your rotation, do you get some of those young bigs
• 20:18
  Speaker 13: more amendments or how do you handle.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: That in New Weavers.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: Kenda Weaver is still a guy that's out in definitely
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: right now. You know. We again, we've got the best
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: training stamp in the country. We feel like he's at
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: full strength and ready to go, then we'll try to
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: give him an opportunity, but we're not there at the
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: moment uh with him and in his progress with his injury.
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: You know, I think Thomas, I think the guys we've
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: been playing right now have been doing a pretty good job.
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: When we got him the conference play, we had to
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: learn to really try to put our helmets on a
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: little bit. That's a physical league with guys crashing. You know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: our young guys that good young developmental players, but they're
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: not for these grown men that we're playing against right now.
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: You know, we're playing grown men right now, fifth year,
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: six year players right now, you know, so you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: could they get out there and mix it up a
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: little bit.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: You know, they could.
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: I'm not saying that they would be the answer, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: to what we're doing. I think our guys that are
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: out there right now fighting really hard and giving us
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: a great effort right now. I think kayten Cedric play
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: physical all year long. I think Arthur Kaluma has played
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: physical all year long. He's got twelve rebounds in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: last ball game against against a good Missouri team. You know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: Caden's done that, Katon had nine rebounds. You know, those
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: guys that played physical all year I think Z's getting
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: to the point where he's playing more physical. I think again,
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: we have to have by committee, our guards come down
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: and help us rebound. Kendall Weaver when he went out
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: in Atlanta, there was seventy seven rebounds that went out
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: the lineup, you know, So you know it's not solely
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: on our big guys. We have to rebound, rebound by
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: committee and the teams that do it really well, Maun
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: by committee.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: They're not all big guys that are rebounding and him.
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: Wing guys are great rebounders, you know, So you know
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: we've got to keep those guys off the glass as well.
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: Hey, coach.
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: You know, Julian Larry made a big difference for you
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: guys last night as far as when he was on
• 22:16
  Speaker 14: the court versus not on the court. Obviously, he's the
• 22:19
  Speaker 14: guy that you know, comes from the Missouri Valley who
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: has been an adjustment. But at this point, I guess,
• 22:23
  Speaker 14: what are you seeing from him and what would you
• 22:25
  Speaker 14: like to see from him moving forward?
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: I think Julius played his role really well for us
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: over the last you know, give or take five ball games.
• 22:32
  Speaker 11: You know, he comes in and he's a guy that
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: gives us energy off the bench. He's a guy that
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: comes in, initiates the offense, plays with really good defensive intensity. Uh.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: He's a guy that has has gotten.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: Better as the season's going along, reading pick and roll
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: and and uh and just really described in the basketball
• 22:51
  Speaker 11: and sharing the basketball. He comes in and really gets
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: the ball movie when he when he enters the game. So, uh,
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: those those are some things I think that that that
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: Union brings to the game when he comes in.
• 23:03
  Speaker 15: Hey, coach, with so many new transfers, fighting an offensive
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: for rhythm tends to take time. Do you feel after
• 23:08
  Speaker 15: the Missouri win that that was the first steps in
• 23:10
  Speaker 15: which the offense was clicking more in terms of ball
• 23:12
  Speaker 15: movement or is that still a point of emphasis right now?
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: I think on the offense for us, we tried, we've
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: tried to have a point five mentality all year loan,
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: you know, engaged to hit the open guy, make the
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: simple play, get the ball moving.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: You know, in the perfect world, you want to have
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: great space.
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: And then move the ball side to side, and and
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: and try to do that trust your teammates, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: and and not try to get sped up. I think, uh,
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: I think for us, we really tried to hold in
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: on identity. You win in this league with really good
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: defense and rebounding and taking care of the ball, you know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: so you know, offensively, you have to figure it out
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: from gaining the game in game what's working best for
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: you in terms of how you're attacking the different defenses,
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: because the different defenses in this league are really good,
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: and you got older players that then again coached really well.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: So it's not easy as cordlessly, you know, so.
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: You got to you gotta, you know, you gotta value
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: taking care of the basketball, value taking shots on your terms,
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: trying to have the full balance where you don't put
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: your deep defense in a compromising position on the other
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: end of the.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Four some thoughts from Rodney Terry there the longhornon said coach,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we'll hear more from our team, not only from that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: media availability next hour, but also in the four o'clock hour,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: we'll hear Rodney from last night's edition of Longhorn Weekly,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: dialing in specifically on Texas A and M and tomorrow
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: afternoon's matchup with the Aggies one o'clock airtime, one thirty
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: tip off here on the Zone, Tomorrow afternoon up next
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Inconceivable for A Florida, and Friday here on AM thirteen
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: under the Zone. Craig Way, Cameron Parker, the producer, alongside
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: with you here on this Friday, getting ready for the weekend,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: which includes basketball for both the Texas men and women.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Longhorn Men in action tomorrow afternoon at home at Moody Center,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: one thirty tip off against Texas A and M. Cotton
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Holdings Lone Star Showdown rivalry series. Aggie's won the first
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: meeting at the three weeks ago tomorrow. It was January fourth,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: they won in College station that opened the first part
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of conference play for Texas As. They fell in their
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: sec opener eighty to sixty. So the rematch is tomorrow.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Rodney Terry on that coming up
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Texas Women will play Sunday in Oxford, Mississippi.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Seventh ranked Longhorns defeed the number seventeen Tennessee last night.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: What a ballgame, eighty seventy six. Just Hammer and Tom
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: back and forth between those two, and the Longhorns were
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: able to score the game's final four points to get
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a four point victory. After the game, head coach Vick
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Schaeffer visiting with Roger Wallace about the Texas victory.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Your reaction, you haven't had a game like this at home,
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: you know, a tight ballgame. Your reaction after that buzzer
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: sound had set it all on the sideline, You're pretty pumped.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look y'all, this is not was not
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: our best night.
• 26:07
  Speaker 16: We made plenty of mistakes. Proud to that kid right there,
• 26:14
  Speaker 16: Leam Moore playing on one leg. We just had you know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 16: I told him it's gonna be a game of one possession.
• 26:20
  Speaker 16: We had so many one possessions. We just didn't do
• 26:23
  Speaker 16: a good job and just really it wasn't our best night,
• 26:29
  Speaker 16: and when you can win be the top fifteen team
• 26:32
  Speaker 16: on your not best night, I guess you're okay. Booker
• 26:35
  Speaker 16: made some big shots and Leah Moore made some big
• 26:37
  Speaker 16: shots down the stretch. Tell you we did execute down
• 26:40
  Speaker 16: the stretch. We executed some good stuff and then we
• 26:43
  Speaker 16: just found enough stops. I mean, that team is shoot
• 26:48
  Speaker 16: coach Arson. That looks like the old Tennessee teams with
• 26:52
  Speaker 16: that length and how tall they are and the skill set.
• 26:55
  Speaker 16: I mean, good night, they just they're a loaded vicky.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: You guys start the fourth one for ten to close
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: it four for five on.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: The biggest possessions of the ball game.
• 27:07
  Speaker 17: What does that say about your team?
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Well, again, I told Booker, I'm coming to you till
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Gabriel blows his horn. I mean, I don't care how
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: many you miss, I'm coming to you. We're gonna get
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: some good looks.
• 27:17
  Speaker 16: I did go to Amo some because I really thought
• 27:19
  Speaker 16: we had an advantage there. On the post up, Taylor
• 27:22
  Speaker 16: had a couple of big stick backs, you know, offensive boards.
• 27:25
  Speaker 16: Tell you we were worried about their offensive rebounding.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: We got them.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Taylor, how had more offensive rebounds than he did.
• 27:31
  Speaker 16: Yeah, and so I was proud of our effort there
• 27:33
  Speaker 16: and what we were able to do. Of course, Rory
• 27:35
  Speaker 16: stepping up making two free throws makes life a whole
• 27:38
  Speaker 16: lot easier, you know, to finish that last three seconds.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: So I'm proud of them, y'all. It just it was
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: not our.
• 27:44
  Speaker 16: Best night, and yet we still found a way to
• 27:47
  Speaker 16: compete and win and beat a really good team.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: That team's gonna win a lot of games.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: And your guards had to go ninety four feet every
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: time down. I mean they left the tank empty. Yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I'm sure it's empty. I'm sure I'll have to do
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: really careful with them tomorrow.
• 28:01
  Speaker 16: And you know, we got to go on the road
• 28:03
  Speaker 16: and play a really good Old Miss team on Sunday, so.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: You know, that's for another day. I'm proud of them.
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: I'm happy for him, and again that's a that's a
• 28:12
  Speaker 16: good win against a really good team.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and a great response Monday. You guys were so good.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Made it look easy. You knew tonight wasn't good to
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: look easy, but your kids obviously were locked in even.
• 28:23
  Speaker 17: After a thirty eight point win on Monday.
• 28:25
  Speaker 16: Yeah, you know I was this morning. How we started
• 28:27
  Speaker 16: got down in ain't seven nothing? Seven to two, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 16: it happened to just the second half to we started
• 28:32
  Speaker 16: the same way that you know, again it's this is dealing.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You know, this is kids, and this is competition.
• 28:40
  Speaker 16: And again not our best night. I got so many
• 28:44
  Speaker 16: things to pick on, and yet we found a way
• 28:47
  Speaker 16: to win. We executed down the stretch. You know, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 16: told them with four whatever the media was at four
• 28:53
  Speaker 16: and a half, I'm like, I told him, I go.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Y'all, like I love this crap, Like.
• 28:58
  Speaker 16: This is this is what I love man in the
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: games tide, this is what we this is what we do, man.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: And so you just gotta, you know, you gotta find
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: a way.
• 29:07
  Speaker 16: You gotta fight. You gotta the execution when you're tired.
• 29:11
  Speaker 16: When they were tired, I thought was really big and
• 29:14
  Speaker 16: I thought we we did some ran some good stuff
• 29:16
  Speaker 16: late and again kids.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, I guess that was it there. It was at
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the tail end of the interview.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: There about the only thing we missed with him saying
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: praise the Lord and hooking horns, which is how Vic
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: concludes his postgame conversations with us, and for that matters
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: pregame conversations with us when we do that.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: So obviously he was pleased.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I was struck by the fact that he mentioned he
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: goes it was not our best night, And I understand
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: what he means by that. For folks who are going
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a minute, you know, they they beat the number seventeen
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: team in the country, A really good teams up in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: down the floor and presses you and forces you into turnovers.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And he's referring to some of that. He wants his
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: team to take better care of the basketball. But I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: will submit to you that they will probably not face
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a team that will put more pressure on the ball
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: like Tennessee, and that includes South Carolina maybe LSU, But
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: LSU and South Carolina are constructed differently, and I saw
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it firsthand with South Carolina and they play LSU today.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: LSU has its big players inside, but they won't press
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in waves like Tennessee did, where they would just it
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: was like I heard Roger made reference to it on
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the broadcast when I was driving home from Pluckers as
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: hockey lines, they'll swap out five and bring five more in.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It was kind of like the immortal Dean Smith used
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to do in North Carolina with what he called his
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Blue team and would sub in five guys so Normally
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: when coach Smith did that, it was because he wasn't
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: really happy with what he was seeing out of his
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: starting five. But in Tennessee's case, they would swap out
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: five so they can maintain that relentless press and relentless
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: pressure on the basketball. So there's some thoughts on that,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: all right. Coming up next, we'll shift it a little
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: bit to baseball. We're gonna hear from Loggorn's head coach
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Chim Schlasnigle on today's first day of full team workout
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: practice over at UFCU dish fald Field. That's next when
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Zone here on a Friday afternoon on the program, I'm
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: on thirteenth under the Zone, Craig Way alongside the producer
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Cameron Parker.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: We just heard from Vic Schaffer.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: You've heard a little bit from Rodney Terry lash How
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: We're going to hear more from the long worn men's
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: basketball coach coming up a little bit later on this hour.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But we are twenty one days away, three weeks from
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the start of the twenty twenty five Texas Longhorn baseball season.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Longhorn's open play at the Shriners Classic in Arlington where
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: they're going to play on successive nights Louisville Ole Miss
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma State. Now the Old Miss game. For those
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: who know, why are they playing a conference? Ole Miss
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: is not on the conference schedule this year. You don't
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: play everybody in baseball on your conference slate, so it
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: works as a non conference game because it's they do
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: not have ole Miss on their conference schedule. So that'll
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: be Valentine's Day the fourteenth of February, then the fifteenth
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and the sixteenth, and they'll start with Louisville on that
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So today was the first day for Long Worn players,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: especially the pitchers and catchers, just started to get acclimated
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to things and to new head coach Jim Schlastangle. Of
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: course they had the fall workouts, but this first time
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: for the season to come. Twenty twenty five practices and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the first full team practice day. So coach Slass met
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: with the medium, had opportunity to sit down and hear
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: from him. So this is the media session that we
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: had just a little while ago, right before the show
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: started with Long Worn's brand new head baseball coach, Jim Schlastangle.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, super excited for the day first day of practice,
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: got a great weather day, which is always you know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: two thirds of the battle when you're a college coach
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: and three weeks away from playing. So next year the
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: rules change where we get more practice time, and it's
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: always an anxiome time for a coach when you're you
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: haven't played an inter squad game yet and you have
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: a game in three weeks.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: So, uh, we're excited to get going today.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Did you approach this first day like you've approached first
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: days at other places?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. It's all about getting your pitchers ready. You know.
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: Max Wiener, our pitching coach, has had them on a
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: twelve week build up plan to be able to you know, throw,
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: you know, the potential potential starters throw a couple of inches
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: today and then we'll gradually build them up. So it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: all everything is about having the pitching ready, trying to
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: figure that out. The position players, you know, those guys,
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: especially at this age, they need two or three weeks
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: of work and then they're ready to go. So I'm
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: sure you know, uh, we're just getting started today, but
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: in two weeks, everybody would be tired of looking at
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: each other and we'll be ready to play somebody else.
• 34:47
  Speaker 18: As you've gathered more intel this team and everybody through
• 34:51
  Speaker 18: the fall and everything, what's.
• 34:52
  Speaker 19: Something that excites you by this kind of group's potential here.
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the the makeup of the older players is uh
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: is awesome, Rylean Galvan Schustler, Max Blue, uh dre To Plantier,
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: Jalen Flores, Uh, and there's more.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: But these guys are They're super hungry.
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: They want to you know, whenever they leave Texas, they
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: want to leave it, whether it be graduation, in the draft,
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: you know, they want to leave it on a high note.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: They understand what the standard is. And so just an
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: awesome core group. That's Coach Pierce did an awesome job
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: having those guys ready and having them here is very
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: similar to my first team or a first team at
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: a M very very similar.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: Some kids that you know, they hadn't had a great
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: year of the year before, but you know, kind of
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: that new coach honeymoon period, super hungry and uh, you
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: know that team turned out pretty pretty solid year, so
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: you know, uh, praying for that.
• 35:46
  Speaker 18: Just to pick back off of Craig's question, what's the
• 35:49
  Speaker 18: thought process over the next four weeks as he kind
• 35:51
  Speaker 18: of tried and set the rotation and.
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: Take a look at the gut stat I'm a firm
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: believer that player that players right the lineup.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: You know, I've never written a lineup.
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: The player right the line up by how they practice,
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: how they perform in the practice, how they perform in
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: the games.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Certainly, you know, guys who have track record.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: You're going to give them the benefit of the doubt,
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: Guys like Flores and Max, you know, Kimball Ryland. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: just need those guys to be ready, right the best
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: ability is availability. I need those guys to be healthy
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: and ready to go. And then there's other guys that
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: are trying to win jobs.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: So it's getting the pitching ready.
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: And then there's some team things, you know, team defensive
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: type stuff that we have to get put in. But
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: for the most part, you know, we had a good fall.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: The guys know how we want to play, and we
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: just need to get repetition, need to get at bats.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: You know, we don't get spring training games.
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: So between the intersquad games and then next week's alumni game,
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: that's our preparation.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Then we got to go. You mentioned pitching a couple
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: of times.
• 36:47
  Speaker 12: Now, who has started to kind of catch your eyes,
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: especially as you're looking to form that starting rotation.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think Jared Spencer, you know, he's certainly going
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: to be a part of it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I would have to think. He's ultra talented guy.
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: Transfer has been a kind of I think he's only
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: had nine starts in his career, so it's a big
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: jump to go from him and we're having nine starts
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: in your career to potentially, you know, pitching on the
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: weekends in the SEC. But he's capable of that. I
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: think Luke Harrison is, he's a strike thrower. Max has
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: done some really good things with him. I gotta think
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: he would be a part of that. After that, I
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: don't know. There's there's some really good competition going on
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: and we just have to see we we don't stretch
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: guys out in the fall to throw more than two innings,
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: and so nobody has on this campus since since we've
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: been here, has thrown more than two innings. So we
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: got to see who can handle that, you know, up
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: to like sixty seventy pitches. We have a group of
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: probably six or seven that will stretch out like that,
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: and the rest of them relievers.
• 37:43
  Speaker 20: They're as excited as you are to finally get this
• 37:45
  Speaker 20: going right, what do you You can't You can't win
• 37:50
  Speaker 20: the national championship on day one, right, So do you
• 37:53
  Speaker 20: have to slow things down, like, hey, we cannot cut corners,
• 37:57
  Speaker 20: just make sure we're doing all the right steps.
• 37:58
  Speaker 17: Do you have to tell the guys that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: I mean, I mean that you're what you're talking about
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: the culture you know? And then and I and I
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: think you are. You are making you are playing for
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: a national title. You're playing for it every day by
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: the decisions you make, and that your decisions and your
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: choices are gonna dictate your behavior, and behavior is gonna
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: really likely to dictate the results. And you can't control
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: the results, but you can't control your behavior. So you know,
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: that's that's one thing I'm really confident in with this group.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: The thing that changes that is the first time I
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: post a lineup, right, and the first time I post
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: a travel squad. And so how what defines a team
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: besides the health of the team is how does the
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: team handle adversity, whether it be the adversity within the team.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: Right when I post the lineup today, everybody gets to play,
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: you know, it's like Little League. But then when we
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: only only nine nine ten guys get to play the
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: first game.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: So how does everybody handle that?
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: You know, the ups and downs of the season, the winning, losing,
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: the tough, tough losses, tough tough streak. I'd like to
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: think we're gonna win them all, but probably not gonna happen.
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: So that's what that's what's going to define every good team.
• 39:04
  Speaker 17: Jim Worg is max for them with the pitching. And
• 39:07
  Speaker 17: where's a sad as he kind of comes back from
• 39:09
  Speaker 17: when he.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Was doing mush Yeah, aces of ways off.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's got a lot of things to work through
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: health wise to to be able to help us. Uh
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: so he he'll be down. We're still getting trying to
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: get some answers on him. He had a tough surgery.
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: Uh the surgery didn't happen until later in the summer, sure,
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: which it could have happened a lot earlier. So you know,
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: he'll be he'll be a part of that's just not
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: sure what it's gonna look like at the moment. But
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: talking about Max Wiener, Grubs, Max Grubs, Okay, yeah, Grubs,
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: Grubs is doing pretty well. You know, he had some
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: shoulder issues. He had to get through and he's coming
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: out of it pretty well. He's thrown a lot of strikes,
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: but this week gonna be the first time I've seen
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: him pitch, you know, on this field, because he didn't
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: he didn't pitch at all during the fall, so, uh,
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: you know, he's such competitor. He throws strikes, which obviously
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: any coach values, so I would imagine he'll be a
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: part of it, but he's he's behind the other guys
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: you brought up.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: When does your staff, in your staff in the places
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you've been also need ramp up time, just like you
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: as coach is just getting used to getting used to
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: your guys everything and obviously the way you do things
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and they know how you do things, But how it relates.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: To here, Yeah, I think I think Max, Nolan, Chuck
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: and I think the four of us you know that
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: came over here together. You know, we're solid, Troy Garrett,
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: Garrett Moziello, who's part of us, Chuck Box. I mean
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: that those guys know. It's more of been myself and
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: Troy honestly, just and it's been awesome, you know, him
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: getting an idea of how we like to do things,
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: and I think it's really in tune with who he
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: is and his discipline, his competitiveness, how what he believes
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: in terms of offensive baseball, and so I'm super excited
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: about it. He's a big believer in the mental game,
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: which I am. Like Coach Gurrito, it's a It's a
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: huge part of what we do. And frankly, I've never
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: had a hitting coach. I've had some good ones, but
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: I've never had one that is as bought into the
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: mental game as Troy is. And that aligns well with me.
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: So we're speaking the same language all the time. I'm
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: really excited about our staff.
• 41:15
  Speaker 19: So, coach, would you say that as your key ingredients,
• 41:18
  Speaker 19: I mean, you have a history of winning, you have
• 41:19
  Speaker 19: a history of being in omah is the mental game.
• 41:22
  Speaker 17: The difference is that your secret sauce and taking games there?
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean good players and bounce to the ball. Yeah.
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: I heard coach Savans say I'm never in his podcast
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: here they never never coached a bad player and being
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: a good player.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: So that's the first thing.
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: But yeah, I'm just a big believer that it all
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: starts with that. You can't be in control of your
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: performance and tune your control of yourself and so that
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: is mental skills are like physical skills. Those can be
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: practiced every single day. They can be practiced every day,
• 41:50
  Speaker 8: so that when we get to those moments, right, whether
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: it be Friday night, first SEC Series at Mississippi State,
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: if it's good weather, there's going to be fifteen, sixteen,
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: eighteen thousand people there, you just go have it at
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: that and you and you trust those skills, and so
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: when you have those moments, you just do what you
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: do and then that's all you can control anyway. So
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: and at bat here in the today, and at bat
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: at Mississippi State and at bat in Omaha, it's just
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: an at bat. But sometimes players make it more than
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: what it is. And so if you train for that,
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: I do believe it's a difference maker.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: Otherwise I wouldn't do it.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: That's the first part of the media conversation with Jim Schlosnakel,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the long Ones Head coach, and you heard him talking
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: about ramping everybody up and getting pitching up. You heard him,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: unfortunately mention it, you know, with Ace Whitehead with regard
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: to his surgery and the timetable in definite right now
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: when he might be back, but he likes a lot
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of a lot of the guys. One one guy that
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear uh is completely healed and thrown
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: wells Luke Harrison, because when he's healthy he shows some
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: really good things. But obviously he has battled injuries each
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: of his first couple of seasons, so it's good to
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: hear that he's playing. And Schloss quite impressed with the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: long worn veterans like Max Belou and Jalen Flores, you know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of real veterans afterwards. So anyway, it was,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you know, all of that was was good stuff from
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: coach Lass. All right, coming up, we're gonna hear more
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: from Rodney Terry and in and just down the road
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit. We'll hear also from Jordan Pope, the
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: long orange point guard as well as they get ready
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: for this matchup with Texas A and really important because
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: if the Longhorns're able to, you know, get a victory there,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: get it to three and FOURIGN conference play, you start
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: then stacking wins of a ranked opponents, which is really
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: good for NCAA tournament profile to make sure you land
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: in the field of sixty eight. So we'll hear more
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: from RT coming up from Jordan Pope in a little
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: lot more from Jim Schloasnagel we'll do that, and Andrew
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Monica play by play Voice of the Texas A and
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: m Aggie's that's all still to come here, you might say,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: second half of the program, since we're right out about
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: halfway through our three hour tour each weekday afternoon Monday
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: through Friday. Right here on thirteen hunder the Zone.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: We're back.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: It's The craig Way Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: in Voice of the Texas Longhards Craig Way.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Friday afternoon.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Here on the program, Greig Way and the producer Cameron
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Parker getting ready for this weekend. Before we get to
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: her into Rodney Taylor, let's get it on the record
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: from you your predictions here on this because we have
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: three vampire predictions yet again, because both of us had
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the Lions going to the Super Bowl.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I remember I've changed the Eagles.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Remember we did this before the playoffs and I said
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Eagles and Chiefs.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Did you really did? I didn't remember that. I remembered
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: you saying Lions.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: And Chiefs and then asked can I change it? And
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: you said you obliged. Yeah, Chiefs, Eagles, I'll go back
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: and find find it, Craig, you want, Okay, I don't know.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I believe you. I believe you. So now you're going
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: to stick with Eagles and Chiefs? Yes, yeah, I have to.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: I have to.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Unfortunately, well on the Eagle side. Unfortunately for the Chiefs.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: But judging based off some of the texts we've gotten
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: on our text line and comments on our stream, people
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: people don't like Mahomes.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's and and I'm really kind of.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know, fascinated is the right word, but I'm
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: intrigued by the level of the disdain that a lot
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: of folks have for Patrick Mahomes. Some in these parts
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: is because a memory played a Texas tag, some think,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and I think this is a large measure. A lot
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: of folks feel that he is given the benefit of
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: every doubt on every call by the officials, to the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: extent that it's been unfortunate.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: And some will tell you unfair. They think it's unfair
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: that they.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Haven't they haven't gotten uh uh you know that that
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: their opponents have have not been given the benefit of
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the doubt on that and that and that. You know,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: we've all seen the memes about, you know, the the
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: officials wearing red uniforms and Roger Goodell and all that
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. We've seen that. So yeah, there's a lot.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Like somebody said, if you're going if you aren't going
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: to acknowledge this was this morning. Somebody said this to
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Hardball hard and Mark Henry, if you aren't going to
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: acknowledge how many times my homes is handed a new
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: set of downs for BS calls, you aren't having a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: serious conversation. So somebody that's, like you said, is not happening.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Somebody else asked about the number, saying the number one
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: album they had when they were born was nineteen eighty
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: two John Cougar's American Fool, a number one album when
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I graduated high school? What's our MANCB? May twenty seven,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: two thousand, in sync?
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: No streams? I kind of filling. CB's a big in
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: sync fan. Yeah, I wonder about that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: He also said, speaking of the Mavericks and the Thunders,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and I did well.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: I saw this on Twitter this morning.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Did you see the clown do the horns down after
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: hitting the half court shot to win money? Dude won
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars. He had a half court shot, and
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: then he turned around and with horns down after.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: It's funny, this happens at okay See. Every year someone
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: hits a half court shot. It happens. It's been happening
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: since the Katie Russ era.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Really, and like someone on Twitter, Nate Jones, who's kind
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: of an NBA Twitter account, was like, we need Pablo
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Tory from ESPN to do an investigation on this because
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: it does feel like every single year, at least once
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: or twice, an okay See thunder fan hits a half
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: court shot during the game to win.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I think he went twenty thousand last night.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: The other thing, you know, how, like when you're like
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: just a kid, because it was just like a teenager, right,
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: maybe like a younger male, right. You know how like
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: when you take pictures and stuff you don't want to
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: do with your hands, so a lot of times it's
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: like maybe like a thumbs up or something stupid. I
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: think that's horns down for a lot of stupid kids.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Like if they're like on video or taking a picture
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: or something, what do you do with your hands?
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: They don't know? Horns down? Okay, what comes? But Hey,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: rent free, Yeah, rent free, there you go. We like
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: keep doing it. Yeah.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine up in the Dallas for where
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: their ty walker's worked in sports radio a long time,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: had I guess he. I don't know if he retweeted this,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: but the title is what would happen if each of
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the four remaining teams wins the Super Bowl? It's got
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: their logo and then a slugline. For example, for Kansas City,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: it's got the chiefs arrowhead, and then it says Patrick
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Mahomes enters serious goat debates. For Buffalo, it says Josh
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Allen officially as sends Lamar in Burrow. For Washington, it
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: says Jane Daniels immortalized for best rookie season ever. And
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: then for the Eagles, it says, we'd all probably quickly
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: move on with our lives. Sounds like a frustrated Cowboys fan.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I think that it would be the same reaction with
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: like Ohio State winning the championship.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: But they and it had what they said, really poor ratings,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: twenty two million, which is down.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: It was twenty five for Michigan, Washington was down. Do
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: you think college football needs to move up the national Championship.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Well, the only way they can do that, and the
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: only way they can do a lot of things differently,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get rid of the conference championship games,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and the conferences don't want to do that because of
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: the revenue on that. So there's it's gonna have to
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: be a lot more discussed about that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Look, because if they expend the playoff Craig, then it's
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: back at least another week, which means the National Championship
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: would be this Monday. Maybe gets to a point where
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: you play it during the Pro Bowl weekend.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Well, the only weekend they have that they can do
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: that is the weekend of Army Navy, and they'd have
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: to move Army Navy into the Conference championship weekend, which
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: if Army or Navy qualifies for the Conference champions like
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Army did, it wouldn't work.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: So then you got to push it back a week.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or play summer suggesting play Army Navy either at
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the start of the year or in the middle of
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: the year, I like Texas OU or whatever.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what the answer to
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: that is.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Let's hear some more from long Warren men's basketball coach
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Rodney Terry as he gets his team ready for tomorrow's
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: matchup with Texas A and.
• 50:54
  Speaker 21: Him, Hey ARTSI so Kaden Sederick he had in the
• 50:59
  Speaker 21: second happy at that moment where you know, he's on
• 51:01
  Speaker 21: the receiving the end of a big dunk, but then
• 51:03
  Speaker 21: he responds by diving on a loose ball that was
• 51:05
  Speaker 21: really important into a bunch of free throws, had that
• 51:09
  Speaker 21: one basket in the lane. Can you just talk about,
• 51:12
  Speaker 21: you know, his toughness and you know what that sequence
• 51:15
  Speaker 21: can kind of mean for him moving forward, about you know,
• 51:18
  Speaker 21: establishing you know, culture for this team, especially on a
• 51:20
  Speaker 21: team where you don't have a ton of returners and
• 51:22
  Speaker 21: he is one of the only returners. Can you just
• 51:25
  Speaker 21: talk about that sequence and you know what that shows
• 51:27
  Speaker 21: about him?
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 51:29
  Speaker 11: Sure, is that, no question about it. I think Cain
• 51:31
  Speaker 11: has been one of our more consistent players. You know
• 51:34
  Speaker 11: a lot of times he doesn't get a lot of
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: conversation because people are equating a good game with how
• 51:39
  Speaker 11: many points you score and things of that nature.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: But if you look at what.
• 51:43
  Speaker 11: Caden does with all the intangibles and how he impacts
• 51:47
  Speaker 11: winning and whether or not your team successful a lot
• 51:50
  Speaker 11: of times it does show up in the statue. He's
• 51:53
  Speaker 11: a cerebral player who knows his calend report inside out.
• 51:56
  Speaker 11: He knows the personnel, he knows the schemes we're trying
• 51:59
  Speaker 11: to do offensively defensively. At times I challenge him to
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: try to be more offensively minded because he is a
• 52:06
  Speaker 11: guy that can't score the basketball and have some good
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: twos to work with offensively.
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: Sometimes he doesn't see himself being that kind of guy.
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: But when he is and he's putting pressure on the
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: other team in the paint, it makes our team so
• 52:20
  Speaker 11: much better. He runs the floor, He's very agile. He
• 52:23
  Speaker 11: could be a guy that protects the rim. He's rebound
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: the ball well for us. He doesn't mind, you know,
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: giving his body up fifty to fifty balls.
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: He's shooting free throws right now at a high level.
• 52:35
  Speaker 11: You know, and I think again he's playing with a
• 52:37
  Speaker 11: lot of toughness. I think Cayden Cedric has posted in
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: every game this year in a very very positive lightboars
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: on both ends of the floor.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: Artie the idea of not making it bigger than it is,
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: but a big resume opportunity home game. You know, these
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: are so important. How do you kind of strike that balance.
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: Well again and him well coached team Buzz has done
• 53:02
  Speaker 11: an incredible job with this program. There, you know, one
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: of the top teams in the country. They've got a
• 53:10
  Speaker 11: lot of continuity.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: From last year, a lot of experience.
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: Uh.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: They play physical, they show the basketball.
• 53:20
  Speaker 11: They have an older leader and Wade Taylor, who's one
• 53:23
  Speaker 11: of the best players in the country. You know, pain
• 53:27
  Speaker 11: has come in and really given them the inside presence.
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: Officially again, I think they're the best offensive rebounding team
• 53:34
  Speaker 11: in the country and then the best you know, fifty
• 53:36
  Speaker 11: to fifty team in the country.
• 53:38
  Speaker 22: Uh.
• 53:39
  Speaker 11: And and they put a lot of pressure on the basket,
• 53:42
  Speaker 11: you know, attacking the basket. So you know, again you're
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: you're excited about an opportunity gets one of the top
• 53:47
  Speaker 11: teams in the country. We know we have our work
• 53:50
  Speaker 11: cutout for us in terms of how hard we have
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: to play and you know, the execution, we have to
• 53:56
  Speaker 11: try to have them both ends of the floor.
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: But a lot of respect for or Texas A and
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: M in that program.
• 54:02
  Speaker 14: It kind of following up on the resume component after
• 54:05
  Speaker 14: that Missouri win, like, has was there any discussion about
• 54:08
  Speaker 14: what that does to boost you guys, and that you know,
• 54:11
  Speaker 14: really your goals are all potentially ahead of you as
• 54:14
  Speaker 14: far as tournament edplications and stuff like that.
• 54:16
  Speaker 11: You know what, I think, there's h I think in
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: this league you only have the game for one night.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: You win, you lose.
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: You got it for one night, and it's on to
• 54:28
  Speaker 11: the next challenge, because every every game in this league
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: is a challenge. There's not one bad team in this league. Uh,
• 54:36
  Speaker 11: there's not one team in this league it's not well coached.
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: So it's on to the next one. And always tell
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: our guests control what you can control and live where
• 54:45
  Speaker 11: your feet are.
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: And for us, it's.
• 54:47
  Speaker 11: A and M right now, and we're all in on
• 54:51
  Speaker 11: this this one game.
• 54:53
  Speaker 14: And then last one for me obviously a bunch of
• 54:56
  Speaker 14: you guys. You know, you go into College Station and
• 54:58
  Speaker 14: you lose, you feel I feel like your guys understand
• 55:01
  Speaker 14: like the rivalry here and kind of what this would
• 55:04
  Speaker 14: do for you know, fans and that component of this game.
• 55:08
  Speaker 11: Oh, they felt the robbery of it of the game.
• 55:11
  Speaker 11: The minute we walked in that building. You know, they
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: had a great crowd, great atmosphere and a great home
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: court that day.
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: I'm hoping that we.
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: Have a great home court ourselves in terms of Long
• 55:23
  Speaker 11: Order Nation and our student uh you know group last
• 55:28
  Speaker 11: ball game, the Corral and our students just in general.
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: Last game came out and it showed out. I mean,
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: you know, we don't probably win that game if we
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: don't have the energy in that building from our student body.
• 55:41
  Speaker 11: You know, they they are a difference maker. They will
• 55:44
  Speaker 11: our teams and they have willed out our teams in
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: the past in the Movie Center two wins, and so
• 55:51
  Speaker 11: it does make a difference in terms of the atmosphere.
• 55:54
  Speaker 11: You have, every atmosphere we going into in this league
• 55:57
  Speaker 11: has been sold out. We haven't gone to building that
• 56:01
  Speaker 11: hasn't been sold out. Student section has been full, and
• 56:04
  Speaker 11: so it makes a difference when.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: You play in those kind of environments.
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: And you know, I think for us, you know, our
• 56:12
  Speaker 11: guys get excited about it.
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: They know how big a robberies.
• 56:16
  Speaker 11: And it's a great robbery for the state of Texas
• 56:18
  Speaker 11: and and for college athletics for us.
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: To be playing again.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: It's a long worn's head coach Rodney Terry. So we're
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: gonna have some more from RT from last night's edition
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Longhorn Weekly. Some specifics about Texas, A and M coming up.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: We've got some NFL notes up next here on AM
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone. We hope we're adequately preparing you
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: for the weekend of sporting activities NFC AFC Championship. You're
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: picking Kansas City. You think it'll be a close game
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: like they've had some of the past.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: Think so, I think so. I think it'll be a
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: very close game. There's going to be a past interference call.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: There's going to be a rough, laid hit out there,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: like a disconcerting signals type call, something.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Ridiculous side aid.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that that's going to aid the Chiefs
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and just anger people all over again.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: That's it's gonna be funny about that.
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: If the Chiefs, like and I'm not expecting this, I'm
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: expecting a close game like you are. But if the
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Chiefs wallop the Lions that they are Lions, the Bills,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: if they beat them decisively, you know, people will be
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: as disgusted as they would be if they want a
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: tight game, they just won't have as much to grumble
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: about if it's lopsided on it. But I do think
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: it'll be a close game as well. What about the NFC.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: You think it's going to Eagles will handle I think so.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: I thought Philly was going to have their way with
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles because of their ability to run the ball,
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: and it came down to the fourth downstock right. So
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: Washington has played Philadelphia pretty tough the last two years.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: They beat him last season, they beat him this season
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: in a game where I think they had five turnovers
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: the Commanders did and they still weren't. Of course, Hurts
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: got injured in that game, but they play him tough,
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: and I do think Washington has some sort of bravado
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: confidence within the team and the coaching step.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: They're like, we're not scared of the We're.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Not at the number two and number three rushing teams
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: in the NFL.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: What I do worry about, though, is Washington's defensive line,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: which was was pretty average this season. But what's the
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: weather going to be?
• 58:22
  Speaker 23: Like?
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: That's another factor. Well, it's Philly in January, so that's
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be tough. I think both games will
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: be tight. I think both will be real fun football games.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm excited for this weekend. All Right, it was
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: a good day for baseball workouts. However, in the UFCU
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: dishfallk Field, first day for the team workouts there for
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: the in advance of the brand new season which begins
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: three weeks from the day at Global Life Field and
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Arlington against the Washington No No against the Louisville Cardinals
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: on the Friday night. That'll be the season opener for
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Texas there as they play Global Life Field. A little
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: while ago, had a chance to pop over to UFCU
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: Dish Farfield with other media for media session with Long
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Warren's head coach Chim Schlostegel.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Here's the second part of that conversation with the coach.
• 59:11
  Speaker 18: How important was he to bring in new arms to
• 59:13
  Speaker 18: help ulster a pretty depleted squad, but also bring.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: In some sec experience arms like McCreery and Sonya.
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think all that's important.
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: Grayson has been in the league, McCreary's been in the league.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: I think that helps some.
• 59:29
  Speaker 8: It's more about bringing in the best arms we can find,
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: you know, getting the job June twenty fifth or twenty six,
• 59:35
  Speaker 8: whatever it was, and then you have four or five
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: days left in the transfer portal. We were on the
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: tail end of all that stuff. So yeah, but it's important.
• 59:44
  Speaker 8: I think anybody, you can't teach birthdays, you can't teach experience,
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: and so having those experience guys and even Spencer, who
• 59:52
  Speaker 8: didn't pitch the SEC but he's pitching the super Regionals and.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: At a really high level of Indiana State.
• 59:56
  Speaker 18: Coach, can you talk about some of the freshmen classic
• 59:59
  Speaker 18: came in this past semester as well as some of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 18: the guys that followed you, and you know, how's Adrian
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 18: coming along in terms of his development.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 8: Specifically, Yeah, start with Adrian. Adrian's done really well. He's
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 8: We've asked him, you know, we've had a massive, massive well.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: I said, really a lot of stuff on the weight room,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 8: Like I'm a big believer in the weight room, and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: Adrian's gotten nineteen pounds heavier, he's running faster, he's a
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: switch hitter, but he's he's really young and it's hard
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: to be competitive. It's hard to be great in our
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: league as a freshman. You can do it, but when
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: you do it, you're awesome. And so he's got a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 8: chance to do that. Really excited about some pitching Jason Flores,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: Drew Rerick, Bryce Navarre, and Dylan Valantis, especially Valantis Valantis
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: is super talent and he's He's a guy that.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: We got late in the summer, was got drafted.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 8: Was was that USC got out of that situation and
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: we were able to get him right. He was the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: last player we took very very end of the summer
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: as a high school player, and I'm really excited about him.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 23: What do you do with a guy like Jonah Williams,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 23: you know, size of him as a baseball player, and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 23: you know you and Sark are both big on your
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 23: guys being dialed into your team's How do you, you know,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 23: talk about the Jonah Williams experience.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: I guess yeah, so far, it's been amazing. Jonah.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: Got to give him a lot of credit for how
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: he's handled himself coming in as a high school senior
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: basically and coming into a team, how he's handled himself
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 8: in the clubhouse.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: He speaks up, he's not afraid to be assertive.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: But he's also a lot of he's really funny and
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 8: our guys love him.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: But he's he hasn't healed yet.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: You know, he had that broken collarbone I think the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: sixth or seventh game of his high school season, and
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: so that bone is not fully healed yet, so I
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: haven't got to see him do anything but run.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: He can really do that. Uh, you know, he's been
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: in the weight room a little bit, but I have
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: no you know, is he a pitcher? Is he a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: position player?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: I don't know, but yeah, Sark and I, you know,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: we're on the same page, and I certainly wanted to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: have a great experience on the baseball side.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: So he's ready to go help the football team.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 17: Coach, you talked about the guys being hungry.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: How hungry are you?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Really hungry. Yeah, I mean I'm I'm just like
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: anybody else.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 8: I get giddy about Opening Day, I get giddy about
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 8: the baseball season. I'm excited to be a part of everything,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 8: all things Texas. And but I feel that way every season,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 8: and whether it's been at UNLV at thirty years old
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 8: or whether it be at Texas at fifty four.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 12: Go back to the Luke Harrison for a second and
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 12: just talk about his recovery and what you expect from him.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, he's knock on wood, he's fully recovered.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: He's he's he's he's gotten a lot bigger. I think
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: our weight room emphasis that's the word I was looking for.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 8: Emphasis in the weight room has really helped him. He
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 8: definitely looks a lot better in the uniform. I don't
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 8: like little players unless unless you can really run or
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 8: you're left handed. So I like big, strong, fast players,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 8: and so does everybody, I guess. But Luke's Luke's really
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 8: done a good job and just throws a lot of strikes.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: And I don't think I've ever heard a baseball coach
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 8: go home and say, Godly, my pitching staff throws way
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: too many strikes. Right, So we'll just we're gonna the
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 8: guys who pitch the best pitch the most. The guys
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: who throws the most strikes are the ones that are
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: gonna pitch.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 19: Coach talk about being giddy and being in the new program.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 19: Is there anything about Texas that you experienced that you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 19: haven't experienced before that you know only you have that perspective?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 8: Well, another question, Uh, I don't think so, not yet.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, I don't think so that. The support
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: has been amazing.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: Obviously, my relationship with with Chris Delcante that helps out
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 8: a lot because I know how he operates the people
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 8: that help him. Sarah Baumgardner, you know Drew Martin Drew
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 8: I work with at TCU, so a lot of familiar
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 8: faces here, but also a lot of familiar faces like
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: Craig and other people that are around the program makes
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: it a lot, you know, super comfortable, at least in
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: the moment, So I'm sure it'll be uncomfortable once we
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: get going. But that's okay, you know, I mean, that's
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: that's part of it. You know, I'm excited for this.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: I've I've worked my entire life for, you know, play
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: for opportunities like I had at A and M and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: like I had here where you're coaching at the absolute
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: highest level of your profession against the best teams.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: I love my time at TCU and and we did
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: an awesome job there. But when you're in this league,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 8: wait till you guys see it like it's it's the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: big leagues of college baseball, and it's every single day,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: which will drive you crazy, but it's it's so fun
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 8: and so challenging. So that personal challenge to do try
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 8: and try and win here at this great place in
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: that league is what excites me a lot.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 23: What what do you think something your players have already
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 23: noticed that's different now with Jim Flasnagel as coach.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: What would what would you think they're.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 8: Uh, you probably I'd be interested once you asked them
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: when they come up here. But uh, I mean I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 8: think they Well, I'd like for them to see how
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: invested I am.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 8: I don't play golf. I don't have that. I'm pretty
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 8: boring guy. I don't have hobbies.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 13: Uh.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: I like to be here and I'm at the point
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 8: in my life with my children grown where I can
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: be here all the time and and be around and
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: help them and encourage them and hold them accountable too.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: And so I'm I'm active in practice, and I love baseball,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 8: and you know, and I like the lifestyle of coaching.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: It's not a profession to me. So I would hope
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: they feel that, you know.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Said omahall is mandatory.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 17: It's true.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Kirk, you say that too. We are the same church.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: So so I'll pray for you appreciate. Yeah, Yeah, I
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 8: get it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it. I know thirty eight trips.
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  Speaker 8: I sit that I sit in an office that coach Dish,
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  Speaker 8: coach falk Uh, coach Gus and Augie. Their pictures on
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: the wall, and I it stares at me every single day,
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  Speaker 8: so but I'm not afraid of that. And every game
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  Speaker 8: is not gonna be perfect, Every season is not going
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: to be perfect. I would love but you know, I'm
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: excited for as long as you have high support.
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  Speaker 4: I'm totally cool with the high expectation.
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  Speaker 12: There's a lot of kids from Texas on this roster.
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  Speaker 14: How much did your connections around the state help in
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 14: building this roster, as you mentioned, was kind of a short,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 14: short time period.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, i'd have to go back and look,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of them already here, you know that
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  Speaker 4: are from the state.
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  Speaker 8: Certainly, a lot of great players, great high school coaches,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 8: great summer summer teams in the state of Texas. We
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: want the best players in Texas easily, obviously, but that
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: in today's travel baseball, kids play all over the country,
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  Speaker 8: so they're they're used to being away from homes and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 8: sometimes you see a guy. We recruited a kid from
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: Houston this fall who's going to Florida, and ten years
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 8: ago you would have never seen something like that. And
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 8: now because they play all over the country, you know
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 8: kids are going to leave the state. But at the
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 8: same time, we have commitments from best left a pitcher
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  Speaker 8: in the northeast. We have the best centerfielder in North
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  Speaker 8: Carolina community here like so I think we want the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: best player. And if he's in Texas, great, If he's not,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 8: then that that's finds him to here.
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  Speaker 20: To hear your excitement from your voice when you talk
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  Speaker 20: about those guys, Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: You know you're not inheriting this broken down julyn. You know,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 17: you're you're hearing a pretty good, pretty machine.
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  Speaker 20: And I wonder when you look out there, do you
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  Speaker 20: see that's an that's what that's what an SEC team
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 20: is supposed to look like.
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  Speaker 17: And now you just got to get them.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I think I think we I think the
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  Speaker 8: the front end of our team is that.
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  Speaker 4: I think that what we have to build up over.
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  Speaker 8: Time is you know, like last year, you know, at
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 8: A and M we get we get a guy go
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  Speaker 8: down and you plug somebody in and he, you know,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 8: Kayden Kent becomes the hero of the College World Series.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 8: He's SEC players sit on your bench. You know that
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: just couldn't happen to get in that line up. And
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 8: so that's what we have to build up here. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I'm super excited, very thankful to Coach Pierce and his
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  Speaker 8: staff for the guy, the guys that are here, we
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 8: just need those topic players. We got to keep him
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  Speaker 8: healthy and they need to do well. Not that the
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  Speaker 8: other guys can't do that, they're just not They're not
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  Speaker 8: ready yet.
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  Speaker 4: And there will come a day.
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  Speaker 8: Here where if a guy goes down, we feel really
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  Speaker 8: good about the next one.
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  Speaker 4: Jim. I know a last question for COO Jim.
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  Speaker 18: I know it's early, just your initial impressions on Jalen
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  Speaker 18: Flora's now now so you faced him, but I told
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  Speaker 18: to him on the side.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jalen's great.
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  Speaker 8: He's got a really awesome mentality, prepares baseball means a
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  Speaker 8: lot to him.
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  Speaker 4: Texas means a lot to him.
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  Speaker 8: He had chance to sign you know, seven figures potential
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 8: bonus as a draft eligible sophomore and came back. That
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 8: says a lot about how he feels about this place.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: And I think the weight room has really helped him
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 8: as well. He was a guy he was. He was
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 8: already a big frame, but I don't know how strong
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 8: pure strength he had, but that's greatly improved, and so
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 8: we need him certainly to stay healthy all year.
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  Speaker 6: Can you give us thoughts on the A and M
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  Speaker 6: vim number one.
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  Speaker 8: I mean they have a great teams and there's there's
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: there's no question they have a great club. They have
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: Omaha experience, Michael do a great job with him certainly,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: have you know most of the team backs of the
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: character in chemistry of that club is uh is awesome
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  Speaker 8: and uh, you know, we'll see what happens when we
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  Speaker 8: get to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was a pretty interesting question because Kirk
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Bowles will drop that in there on occasions. And what
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  Speaker 1: you think of A and M being number one in
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: the preseason Paul and he's, well, they're really good and
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: Michael easily, he'll do a great job with him, and
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: you know the character and the talent of that ball club.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: And we said thanks coach, And then when we all
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: turned off to our machines, I think it was Ann
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Parker Coleman from from kV who said, well, you helped
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: build that to that point. He said, I'll let you
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: report that. We got to laugh it the earlier big
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: laugh you heard in case you missed it was uh,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: Kirk Bowles asking him about you know, because schlaw Us
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: had referred to Augi Gurito a couple of times, and
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: he said you know, Aggie used to say Omaha's mandatory.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I'm well.
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  Speaker 1: Aware where that you would say that he goes and
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  Speaker 1: we go to the same church, so I'll pray for you.
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  Speaker 22: That.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he's well aware of the expectations, but he's
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: not ducking them or running from them or hiding from
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: them or any of that kind of stuff. Hey, that
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: huge women's basketball game they got postponed because of the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: snow in Louisiana where the LSU women were unable to
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: leave on Wednesday, so they couldn't play Thursday at six
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  Speaker 1: at number two South Carolina and LSU number five, and
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: so because of that, that necessitated moving up the Texas
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  Speaker 1: game from eight o'clock to seven o'clock. Well, they're playing
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: the game right now in Columbia, and right now number
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  Speaker 1: five LSU is leading number two South Carolina twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to seventeen hundred two minutes remaining in the first quarter
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: in that one. All right, we got more to come.
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  Speaker 1: More preview of Texas and Texas A and M who
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: play tomorrow here on thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: We'll visit with Andrew Monico play by play Voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Texas A and M Maggie's I think he's just
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: got the town. They'll have their workout inside a Moody
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  Speaker 1: Center tonight. The way the reciprocal reciprocal deal. You know
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: they won't be inside a mood isn't w W E
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: raw or raw?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: Ra okay, So yeah, you keep up with that stuff.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I do not keep up with that.
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  Speaker 3: I just noticed that when checking the Moody schedule because
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: we have to tear down our equipment. Yes, we had
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: to right right. And then then I see Mark Henry.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: I will give him a handshake and say thank you
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: for all you've done.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: But yeah, well, uh so, I think they'll they'll probably
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: shoot inside of the Texas Practice Gym this evening.
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  Speaker 3: Probably do that. You're not going to Austin High.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they'll go over to Burger Center or
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Austin High. I don't think it's some shots. I think
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: they'll great gym. The floors are warped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, doubt that will happen. It'll probably be in the
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: in the other the other.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the that that big matchup we told you about
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: on the women's side, Uh, number two South Carolina snack down.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, my car's corrected me, So you were right.
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  Speaker 2: I was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you keep up with it more than me.
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  Speaker 1: And then well I thought I'd seen somewhere that it
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: was going to be SmackDown.
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  Speaker 2: So there it is. It's SmackDown tonight.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: That big matchup between number two and defending national champions
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: South Carolina, number five LSU, the who is unbeaten at
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: twenty to zero. They're starting the second quarter in Columbia,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: LSU with a twenty two to twenty one lead.
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  Speaker 2: That thing is probably going to go to the wire.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Might go to the wire tomorrow between Texas and Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M. This is from last night's edition of
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  Speaker 1: Logorn Weekly with head coach Rodney Terry out at Pluckers
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: at the West Campus location. Riddey and I talking about
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: this matchup between Texas and Texas A and M tomorrow night.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: Here's the first team that you will be seeing for
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: a second time this season. I always ask you about
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: this when you get to the second half of the season,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: of the conference season, and really, Truther, you're not even
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: at the second half. Yeah, you're getting closer to it.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: That How much can you take from the first game?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: It was three weeks ago, So how much can you
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: take from the first game against Texas? He and them
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: the game over in college station as you get your
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: guys prepared for this one.
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  Speaker 11: WUR team's grown tremendously from our first league game to
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 11: where we are right now. Uh, in just understanding how
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 11: competitive you have to be in this league, how physical
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 11: you have to be in this league, how you have
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 11: the value taking care of the basketball, how important it
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 11: is with.
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  Speaker 6: Player movement, ball movement. You know, we've we've learned a lot.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 11: You've got to be able to put consecutive stuff together
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 11: throughout the course of the games. Uh, in this league,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 11: you know, and it was a team again that's well coached,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 11: they're older, you know, they've got a lot of experience.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 11: Wayne Taylor one of the best guards in the league.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 11: You know Phelps is playing, is one of the best
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 11: guards in the league. How about a bask hitting the
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 11: winning another experienced player that played really well in postseason
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: play last year.
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  Speaker 6: I mean toward the latim Porter last season.
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  Speaker 11: You know, he's a guy who scored sixteen points a
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 11: game almost down the stretch for him, so he's a
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 11: capable score great body gets downhill.
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  Speaker 6: They're bigs, are physical, they come.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 11: To rebound, they're extra effort players and you know, I
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 11: think again they're the best in the country and rebound
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  Speaker 11: in the basketball and fifty to fifty game in the game.
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  Speaker 6: Within the game.
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  Speaker 1: In the first meeting in College Station, you had a
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: couple of six point leagues in first half, you were
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: tied at the half at thirty seven. They hit the
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: big explosion out of the gate. I think a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to two run at the start of the second half
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: and sometimes at the sides games and sometimes a dozen't
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  Speaker 1: I know, your team was fighting to try to get
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: back in it, and that's kind of tough when they
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: come out of the gates.
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  Speaker 2: That tough in the second half.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they're a physical team. I thought we did.
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  Speaker 11: We did a really good job in the first half
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 11: over there, keeping them off the glass and second chance opportunities.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 11: You know, I think they have three offensive rebounds in
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 11: the first half over there, and second half, you know,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 11: they really stepped their game up in terms of getting
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 11: second chance opportunities and really just kind of wores down.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 11: Their defense is really good as well. They changed their
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 11: defenses up there. They're switching defense. They played some men,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 11: you know, they play some zone defense as well. And
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 11: then their pressure up the floor a little bit, you know,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 11: in terms of trying.
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  Speaker 6: To slow you up and take time off the clock.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 11: And you got to do a great job of value
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 11: taking care of the basketball, scrolling with the basketball.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: This is a is a grown man's game.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's a deep team, isn't there.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: They've got guys who can give them some valuable minutes.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: You brought up way Taylor who most folks feel that way.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: Taylor Forth is probably the best player on the roster, but.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: He was injured for a while, came back.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: He has had a couple of games where he wasn't
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: in his full throttle self that we're used to seeing.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: But even in those moments, Zurick phelps or a basket here,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: some of the other guys picked up the slide well.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 11: His leadership and his experience even when he's not on
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 11: the floor for their team, it's a big deal for them.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 11: I mean, he's almost a two thousand points scorer over there.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 11: I think he's a second leading leading school over there,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 11: close to climbing up to trying to be the number
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 11: one all time leader in points over there.
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  Speaker 6: So when you have a guy that's won at a
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: high level, he's.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 11: Put it in the books at a high level, you know,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 11: he commands the respect of his team and he's a
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 11: great leader for his team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So there are the thoughts from Rodney
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: Terry about this matchup with Texas A and M and
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: some of the parts, the guys off the bench, the
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: guys who aren't like number one and number two mentioned
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: Waye Taylor has been banged up and trying to get
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: back in the groove and the rhythm of all of that.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: So we're about to find out a little more about
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: that coming up here in a few minutes. We're going
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: to visit with Andrew Monica Theyaggies played by playvoice to
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about that.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: So we'll do that.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: That women's game is nearing the midway mark of the
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: second quarter in South Carolina leading LSU twenty five to
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Heck of a ballgame. That'll I'm sure go. Like I said,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: the distance in that one.
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  Speaker 1: Are up next more on this matchup between Texas and
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M. Will visit with the play by
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  Speaker 1: play voice of the Aggies at Texas A and M,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Andrew Monica. When we continue on A thirteen Under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: the Zone, and you've heard from Rodney Terry talking about
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  Speaker 1: her from Jordan Pope as well. Texas against Texas A
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  Speaker 1: and M tomorrow afternoon. Let's hear from the other side
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: as well, and always enjoy busy with our good friend
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew Monico, the play by play voice of the Aggies
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: of Texas A and M, who had once again the
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: shining example of one of the stark differences between Austin,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: Texas and the Brasses Valley is the traffic of rolling
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: in Towston.
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  Speaker 2: Am I right, Andrew, It's.
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  Speaker 17: The absolute truth.
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  Speaker 4: Craig.
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  Speaker 17: How are you my friend? Thank you for having me?
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's I'm glad you're still able to
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: visit with us, because that could be a harrowing experience.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: You know that drive over twenty one and two ninety.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: You know, once you get on into town, that could
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: be a big yeah.
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  Speaker 22: And then you get on thirty five and you can
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 22: see where you want to be. Right there, that's where
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 22: we want to be, and it just takes a little
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 22: bit longer.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, you're right. Six wasn't nearly as crowded.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty one.
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  Speaker 22: Its clear sailing, seven, clear sailing, and then thirty five.
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  Speaker 22: But you know, I do it from the lower end
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 22: for so many years in San Antonio. If you want
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 22: to get someplace fast, don't take thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, There you go. That's sage advice. Okay.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: I wanted to visit with you a not only to
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: preview this matchup, and it's a unique thing, as I
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: mentioned Rodney Terry last time, because you know, mathematically, mathematically,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: neither side has reached the midway mark of the conference season.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Yet here it is a second game between the two
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: teams already the as as our good friend brad Mark Quard,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: who handles the media relations for Aggie Basketball, puts it,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: the mirror matchup with the long win. So it's it's
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: the back side of that and it's it's come on,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: it's just three weeks later. But before we even get
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: into talking about that, I got to get you to
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: take us through what was going through your mind in
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: the final two minutes and one minute of the game
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: in Oxford, where I mean, I said at home, I
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  Speaker 1: was spellbound as many were watching, how the Aggies scrambled
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  Speaker 1: back to win that game.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, Craig, I didn't think there was a way. I
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  Speaker 22: thought they were just going to run out of time
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  Speaker 22: the Bobby Lane line, right, We didn't lose. We ran
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  Speaker 22: out of time.
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  Speaker 2: And you're just.
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  Speaker 22: Thinking back to like, what's the running the running joke
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  Speaker 22: that coaches, what's the most important possession in a one
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  Speaker 22: possession game, any of them, no matter what sport you're playing,
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  Speaker 22: And you're thinking of whether it was a miss free
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  Speaker 22: throw or this opportunity or an unpredictable shot. But then
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  Speaker 22: he saw down the end, Craig I thought, in a
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  Speaker 22: way Old Miss got out of there, Andy and out
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  Speaker 22: of their style a little bit, where they were playing
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  Speaker 22: so well for the first thirty six minutes and then
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  Speaker 22: they go to a different style where the Aggies just
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  Speaker 22: continued to do There's no panic on that sideline. There's
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  Speaker 22: no panic on the on the court as long as
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  Speaker 22: they kept giving them the chance. But in the back
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  Speaker 22: of my mind, I'm like, great, the Aggie's gotten to
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  Speaker 22: the bonus early. Then I look up they have three
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  Speaker 22: team fouls. I'm like, oh, no, is Ole Miss just
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  Speaker 22: going to play keep away. We're never going to get
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  Speaker 22: them to the line for the one and one, And
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  Speaker 22: the clock kept dripping and dripping. Unfortunately for them, they
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  Speaker 22: had enough enough time left. It reminded me, Craig of
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  Speaker 22: this that Ole Miss. All our players said before that
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  Speaker 22: it's a team with good chemistry and they do have experience.
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  Speaker 22: Maybe the problem with Old Miss, though, was when things
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  Speaker 22: were going wrong. Craig, I'm not sure they played with
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  Speaker 22: that chemistry. I thought they were hunting shots and I
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  Speaker 22: thought Layton shot clocks. They had the ball in players
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  Speaker 22: who the Aggies wanted to have the ball in their hands.
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  Speaker 22: It wasn't the scorers, and there were some scorers who
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  Speaker 22: weren't touching the ball. So yes, they had that experience,
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  Speaker 22: but maybe not a ton of experience together. This year
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  Speaker 22: they've got seven thousand points scores and it's really a
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  Speaker 22: good team, please don't get me wrong. And the Aggies
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  Speaker 22: are lucky to win that I'd said it. They stole
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  Speaker 22: one there, but sometimes it matters. Can you be forced
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  Speaker 22: through some fire that the Aggies kind of went through
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  Speaker 22: this had Oklahoma earlier, that they've had games like this
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  Speaker 22: that they've lost earlier.
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  Speaker 17: They had a little more experience than their new not
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  Speaker 17: to Paddock.
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  Speaker 22: But my thought was, honestly, Craig boy, there's just not
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  Speaker 22: going to be enough time in this game. When forty
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  Speaker 22: minutes come out, there would be a valiant comeback, but
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  Speaker 22: they may come just short.
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  Speaker 17: But they found a way to win.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the ways, obviously at the tail end,
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  Speaker 1: was Mandy Obassek hitting the three.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a guy who averages seven points a game. But
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  Speaker 1: watching him play, and I might add watching how he
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  Speaker 1: played against Texas the first time, he's one of I'm
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: sure a roster full of them there for the Aggis.
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  Speaker 2: But the guy who plays fearlessly, yeah.
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  Speaker 17: He really does.
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  Speaker 22: We jokingly call him march Manny when he plays like that,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 22: that's march Manny because that's what he did. At the
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  Speaker 22: end of the end of the conference season and then
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  Speaker 22: into the SEC Tournament and the postseason.
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  Speaker 17: Some of his best games.
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  Speaker 22: When he is playing measured Craig, he's dangerous when he's
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  Speaker 22: out of control and forcing going downhill. He's a turnverwaiting
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  Speaker 22: to happen, and I hate saying that about him. But
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  Speaker 22: Manny is also a product of playing with Boots Radford
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  Speaker 22: last year, playing with Dexter Dennis before then playing with
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  Speaker 22: Quinton Jackson before that. He's learned and to me, those
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  Speaker 22: are the legacies of those players. Is players like Manny,
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  Speaker 22: and then you hope some of the younger players rub
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  Speaker 22: off on Manny. He's really adapted his game. Same thing
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  Speaker 22: like this is what impressed me most. One he ran
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  Speaker 22: to his spot so we could get that pass from
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  Speaker 22: Zurich Phelps, but there was no celebration. He knew I
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  Speaker 22: had to get back on defense, and you know some
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  Speaker 22: players get caught up in the moments. It's his first
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  Speaker 22: game winner, but he knew, Hey, the priority now is defense.
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  Speaker 22: Have to get the stop then we can get the win.
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  Speaker 22: So yeah, the bench I think is vital for Texas
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  Speaker 22: A and M they go ten deep, buzz, we'll use
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  Speaker 22: all ten and many is important because if Wade and
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 22: Zurich are not in the game, Many Obasiki is the
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  Speaker 22: one who has.
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  Speaker 17: To initiate this offense.
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  Speaker 22: And Craig, I think anytime that you have to run
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  Speaker 22: the show a little bit, I think that helps you
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  Speaker 22: off the ball, because I think you have more of
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 22: an understanding of the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Visiting with Andrew Monicoho play by play Voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and Maggie's here on a thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Under the zone and we lost him Hotel WiFi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll take a break here up against it.
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  Speaker 1: If we can get him back on there for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of final words.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: When we continue here on thirteen under the Zone, we
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  Speaker 1: pay homage to Alexander Graham Bell for hooking us up
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: regular phone wise. So when last we left you, Andrew,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: you were just starting to answer the question when he
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: lost it when we were talking about Wade Taylor the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one, what he means to that Aggie ball
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: club even when he's not one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he becomes a coach.
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  Speaker 22: I just want to say, there's an Aggie joke in
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  Speaker 22: here somewhere is there about not being.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't going there. I wasn't going there.
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  Speaker 22: So I will, Craig, he's the heart and soul.
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  Speaker 2: Craig, he really is, and you know it's it's so fun.
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  Speaker 22: You know this probably better than anyone when you watch
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  Speaker 22: a player from their first season to their last season
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  Speaker 22: and how much they grow and mature. Though he was
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 22: a bench guy his first year, now he's the leader.
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  Speaker 22: And Craig, you also know, when you moved to the
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  Speaker 22: top of that scouting report, and he's been there for
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  Speaker 22: the last three years, you got to do something different
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  Speaker 22: with your game, and that's what he's done. But even
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  Speaker 22: when he was on the bench, he knows this offense
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  Speaker 22: and this defense, and he knows his teammates so well
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  Speaker 22: that he is he's another coach and players. Talking to
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 22: players is different from coaches talking to players. And when
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  Speaker 22: the players had some questions whether we're playing Oklahoma or
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 22: Alabama or at Kentucky, that way was there to answer
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 22: those questions. And now on the floor, he's a he's
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 22: a calming presence.
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  Speaker 2: At home, he can he can lift a he can.
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  Speaker 22: Lift the twelfth men out of their seats. And on
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 22: the road, I love something my partner, doctor John Thornton, says,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 22: he can get he can get fans to sit down.
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  Speaker 22: He's a sit down type of player, it means an
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 22: awful lot. The moment is never too big for him.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 22: Craig home road neutral. He always seems to respond.
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  Speaker 1: The one glaring thing more than anything else that came
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  Speaker 1: out of the first meeting, at least from the Texas
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  Speaker 1: side of thing, is how they were outmuscled and out
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  Speaker 1: rebounded and what the Aggies did on the on the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: glass in the second half from that thirty seven to
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: thirty seven tie and get it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a fifteen to two run to
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  Speaker 2: start in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: The rebounding is just and looking at the numbers Andrew
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: looks like it's just been a exercise of ferocity on
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  Speaker 1: the part of the Aggies on what they do in
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  Speaker 1: the glass.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, and it did not that Alabama out rebounded Texas
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  Speaker 22: A and M at home at rit Arena. Alabama got
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 22: win despite the fear As comeback. Same thing with Kentucky.
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  Speaker 22: It's part of the identity they have to rebound and
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  Speaker 22: Craig Buzz Williams has said it like this, the moment
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  Speaker 22: that that shot leaves and opponent's hand, that is a
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 22: live ball. That's how the Aggies you know, treated as
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 22: a live ball. The moment that it's in the air.
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  Speaker 22: You don't wait for the shot to hit the rim.
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  Speaker 22: That's too late. And this is also an offense that
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 22: is constructed on predictable shots.
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  Speaker 17: Are you going to take the shot from your spot?
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  Speaker 22: Because they have guys who will crash the glass in there,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 22: guys who will get back on defense. And when you
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  Speaker 22: take that unpredictable shot, then that becomes a broken floor
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 22: and usually a fast breakpoint because you have, you know,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 22: guys who aren't in position. But no rebounding has been
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  Speaker 22: part of the identity. Look, if you're only going to
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  Speaker 22: shoot forty three percent, you'd better get the mint or
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  Speaker 22: or you're going to be in a in a tough time.
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  Speaker 17: So get getting getting that rebound.
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  Speaker 22: Offensive rebound is big for them as well, and.
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  Speaker 17: Guard rebounds are also of important emp just the bigs,
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  Speaker 17: the guard have to.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: Rebound as well.
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  Speaker 22: And in that win over Ole Miss on Tuesday, excuse me,
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  Speaker 22: on Wednesday, there were fourteen guard rebounds buzz likes. Anything
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 22: between twelve and fifteen is usually a good sign for
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 22: Texas A and m.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, uh, you haven't been inside of Moody Center, yet,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: have you correct?
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  Speaker 22: I have not, So we were going to shoot around
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 22: tonight that's now been moved. Tomorrow will be my first
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 22: time in this gorgeous new facility. Yes, now, my family
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 22: has been here for concerts. Okay, I'm the last one
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  Speaker 22: to come over here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, which concerts? Andrew, that's an important question to
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: me and Craig.
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  Speaker 17: It was it was it was it was my daughter.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 17: So it was Harry Styles.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh was that? There you go?
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: Sark always tells the story about how he's looking outside
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: of his window and seeing the line wrapped around the
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: building for Harry Styles. And that was at five thirty
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: in the morning to get tickets morning. Yeah, at five amazing. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: you're going. Well, it's fortunately or unfortunately, whether you're a
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: fan of w W SmackDown takes President tonight apparently at
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: Moody will look forward to seeing you over in the
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: building tomorrow. I look forward to seeing you as always,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you taking the time to join
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: us today.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: Craig, thank you.
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  Speaker 22: Hey, can I congratulate your partner Sportscaster of the Year.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 22: Well deserves you know, it's well deserved when your peers
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 22: are thankful. Congratulations to Roger, no.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: Doubt about it. He's richly deserving of the honor. You're
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: exactly right. Hey, thanks Andrew, I'll look forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 22: Same to you.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Creig. You bet.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: That's Andrew Monica, play by play voice the Aggies of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: He and M.