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Texas Basketball falls to No. 2 Auburn, Vic Schaefer's feisty comments, and NFL Playoff predictions · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Get after doing.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 2: thirteen under the Zone. My name is Craig Waite. No,
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  Speaker 2: I have not yet gone up to the dal for Metroplex.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's like this mass exodus today. The long
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  Speaker 2: warn football team headed up there right now. The athletic
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  Speaker 2: department personnel headed up there. In fact, there are several
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  Speaker 2: from the athletic department who have encouraged and urged others
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  Speaker 2: who have a specific or cential function with the football
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  Speaker 2: program's appearance in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl there in the
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  Speaker 2: semifinals of the college football playoff to get up there
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday instead of Thursday because of what could happen.
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  Speaker 2: Updated weather information that I received this morning is it
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  Speaker 2: might not be quite as bad as folks seven originally anticipated.
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  Speaker 3: Can imagine that?
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  Speaker 2: Can meteorological forecast be a little over the top, Well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe not?
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  Speaker 1: Find out.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us on the program, and
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  Speaker 2: of course us includes the producer of this program, Cameron D.
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  Speaker 1: Parker.
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  Speaker 2: The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as
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  Speaker 2: in his favorite pro football team that has packed away
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  Speaker 2: the gear, but it could be for Dicey as in
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  Speaker 2: the weather when you and Mike Hardball Harge Mark Henry
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  Speaker 2: head up there to bring everybody the Longhorns game Day
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  Speaker 2: show from Boomer Jackson, Arlington. That's at I thirty and
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  Speaker 2: one fifty seven right there in the Lincoln Center shopping center.
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  Speaker 3: So it could be a little when's your planning to leave?
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  Speaker 2: Is it sometime Friday morning? Friday morning? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the worst of it may already have passed by the
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  Speaker 2: time you leave Friday morning. Yeah, what folks are thinking
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  Speaker 2: may be more of an issue, could be tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 2: might be an issue.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see about that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let me tell you what's coming up on
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  Speaker 2: the program here in a minute, we'll let you hear
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  Speaker 2: from Rodney Terry, long worn men's basketball coach.
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  Speaker 1: For a couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 2: One to recap the game last night against number two Auburn,
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  Speaker 2: a game of the long Worn trail by twenty one
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  Speaker 2: points of twelve fifty seven to go and cut it
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  Speaker 2: to three twice in the final minute, did not pack
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  Speaker 2: it in, gave a really game effort to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: But Auburn, obviously number.
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  Speaker 2: Two in the nation for a reason, really really good
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  Speaker 2: and they were able to hold on for the victory.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Rodney Terry about that.
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  Speaker 2: Also the other reasons that the reminder that our SEC
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  Speaker 2: Conference season premiere of Long Worn Weekly with Rodney Erry
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  Speaker 2: from Pluckers is going to be recorded tonight. Normally it'll
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  Speaker 2: be Thursday evenings live at six o'clock at Plucker's the
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  Speaker 2: West Campus location. It's at twenty two twenty two Rio
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  Speaker 2: Grand normally this particular week because of the weather and
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  Speaker 2: to allow the Long Worn fans who normally come out
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  Speaker 2: to the show but are thinking they might need to
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  Speaker 2: get an early start to Arlington in the Dallas Fort
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  Speaker 2: Worth area chance to do that. So as a result
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  Speaker 2: of that, the show is going to be recorded tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be recorded this evening from six o'clock to seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to come out for the show,
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  Speaker 2: Julian Larry Longhorns guard we'll join us out at the show,
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  Speaker 2: so we hope you'll have a chance to that.
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  Speaker 3: You know who else is going to be on the show,
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  Speaker 3: cam I do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: For folks who don't know who Darby Rich is, he's
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  Speaker 2: an interesting dude. Uh and he is also the Long
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  Speaker 2: Orange Strength and Conditioning coach, and so Julian Larry will
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  Speaker 2: come out the long orange guard and Darby Rich.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always interested.
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  Speaker 2: In getting the frame of mind of the of the
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  Speaker 2: strength coach because a lot of times he is the
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  Speaker 2: closest guy to the players, closer even than the head coach,
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  Speaker 2: because he spends an incredible amount of time with them
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  Speaker 2: in their conditioning and they're off season work and then
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  Speaker 2: in season work as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got to know Darby pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, real nice guy. You know, he's been around the block.
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  Speaker 4: He had a lot of good experience. He's worked at
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma with Blake Griffin. He's worked at Texas A and
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  Speaker 4: M with Alex Caruso. He's worked at Memphis with with
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  Speaker 4: Penny Hardaway and those guys, and now at Texas. So
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  Speaker 4: a wealth of knowledge and he gets fired up man.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of times during the games
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  Speaker 4: where he's out almost at mid court, you know, barking
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  Speaker 4: at the players of the referees. So he's a very
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  Speaker 4: passionate guy and he's done a good job so far
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  Speaker 4: this season with this team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll visit with Darby, We'll visit with Julian Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight is when we record the program on Loghorn Weekly
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  Speaker 2: with Rodney Terry normally, as I said, it'll be live
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  Speaker 2: Thursday nights at six. Tonight, we're recording it from six
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  Speaker 2: to seven. Then it's airing tomorrow night. It's airing at
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  Speaker 2: seven o'clock tomorrow night, isn't it just six to seven?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, six o'clock all right, So.
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  Speaker 2: It'll air in its normal slot six o'clock tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 2: but we're recording it tonight at six, So just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make you aware of that, all right. Also, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna hear from Vic Schaeffer, the Texas women's basketball coach,
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  Speaker 2: had his media availability, and you know how Vic can
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  Speaker 2: get on a roll.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he got on a roll yesterday and a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of it was haranguing against the Southeastern Conference for
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  Speaker 2: scheduling women's conference games on Thursdays and Sundays. His point
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  Speaker 2: being they don't really get a true day off for
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  Speaker 2: the players because of that. And it even gets into
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  Speaker 2: a little ecumenical discussion because you know, some kids would
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  Speaker 2: like to be able to attend church on a Sunday
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  Speaker 2: can't do it as a result of that.
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna hear Vic on this.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna bring you portions of it because the entirety
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  Speaker 2: of it is pretty long. So we're gonna bring you
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  Speaker 2: portions in the two o'clock hour, the three o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 3: Four o'clock hour, we're gonna We're gonna do that as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk some NBA A huge game to night Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: City and Cleveland Thunder with a fifteen game winning streak
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  Speaker 2: and the Cavaliers with a ten game winning streak, and
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  Speaker 2: that'll be going on tonight Cleveland. You know former long
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  Speaker 2: Horns stand out Jared Allen playing for the Cavaliers, So
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that some NFL. We'll get to all that,
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  Speaker 2: but right now, let's hear the postgame conversation that we
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  Speaker 2: got right after the Longhorns lost the game last night
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  Speaker 2: to Auburn, and again they were down twenty one, they
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  Speaker 2: cut it to three twice in the final minutes, and
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  Speaker 2: the conversation that Eddie Orn and I had with head
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  Speaker 2: coach Trondy Terry. I say this up from because I
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  Speaker 2: know how you feel about this. We live in the
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  Speaker 2: world of no moral victories. Having said all of that,
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  Speaker 2: the fight, the resiliency, the toughness. Your team showed from
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  Speaker 2: down twenty one to cut it the three twice in
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  Speaker 2: the final minute of the ballgame.
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  Speaker 1: You had to be pleased with that.
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  Speaker 5: No, you know, echo your same thing you just said.
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  Speaker 5: I said that to our team with Texas, don't we don't.
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  Speaker 5: We don't celebrate a more satisfied with more victories. We
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  Speaker 5: expected win every game that we we line up and play,
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  Speaker 5: lace up to play. That's a really good team over there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Bruce has a really good team. They're finding
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  Speaker 5: four caliber team. I thought a guy showed a lot
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  Speaker 5: of fight. I thought that kept competing. I think again,
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  Speaker 5: you know, early in our journey here in comforts play,
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  Speaker 5: our guys are learning what it takes to play for
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  Speaker 5: forty minutes and when it's gonna take the win it
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  Speaker 5: in this conference.
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  Speaker 3: What was the biggest thing you noticed in the final
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  Speaker 3: twelve minutes that turned it to where your team.
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  Speaker 1: Gave itself a chance by the fight they showed.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we said we had to try to sit down
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  Speaker 5: and get some stops, and if we were able to
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  Speaker 5: put some stops together, we could come down and find
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  Speaker 5: a way to score and get what we needed to
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  Speaker 5: get done. On the other end, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 5: a long game and that's what our guys are finding
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  Speaker 5: out again in the two games we played, you know,
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  Speaker 5: both of the games have come down to possession games.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they extended the game over there and then
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  Speaker 5: we got more points. That's toward the end. But really,
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  Speaker 5: you know, seven minutes to go, it's anybody's game, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just learning to work the game. You know, we have
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  Speaker 5: four new starters. Both of those teams have older players
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  Speaker 5: that know how to close our game and win games.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's the growth curfter for our team. But I
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  Speaker 5: love that effort. I loved are still want to and
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  Speaker 5: trying to get it done and we're gonna find a way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and two of those guys that had that that
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  Speaker 1: want to.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan gives you seventeen and the second half an art
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  Speaker 2: what a ball game, a career game for him with
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  Speaker 2: the thirty four.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we did a much better job of taking care
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  Speaker 5: of the basketball in the second half. We had nine
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  Speaker 5: turner was in a half. That was one thing that
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  Speaker 5: was really hurting us. And you know, they're points in
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  Speaker 5: the paint early. They made some threes early. They're a
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  Speaker 5: really good shooting team, probably the best shooting team we
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  Speaker 5: played all year and again that's a team that could
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  Speaker 5: go to the final four. And I think we have
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  Speaker 5: a really good team. I think we're just going through
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  Speaker 5: a little growth curve in terms of understanding what it
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  Speaker 5: takes to win this league.
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  Speaker 6: For forty minutes, Ronny, A lot of positive takeout of
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  Speaker 6: this game, But you got a tough one coming in here, Saraday.
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  Speaker 6: Not a lot of time to get ready. But another
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  Speaker 6: team that's coming here. But I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 6: these guys will build off of this one.
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  Speaker 5: Again, a number one team in the country coming in.
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  Speaker 5: Coach Barnes. You know, his team's always physical. You know
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  Speaker 5: they play with the tough defensive mindset.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: But we'll regroup, we'll be ready, play in ready to
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  Speaker 5: compete at high level.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I have two mad basketball teams in
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  Speaker 3: here on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I mean it's not easy to win in
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  Speaker 5: this league, and then this league's hard.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's nothing.
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  Speaker 5: We got the best league in the country, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: again every night, you got to come play at a
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  Speaker 5: high level. You don't have to play perfect, but you've
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  Speaker 5: got to play at a high level and you've got
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  Speaker 5: to play with a lot of urgency, and you got
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  Speaker 5: to be extremely tough and competitive to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were a couple of references to me. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, mentioned Jordan Pope had seventeen points and in
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  Speaker 2: the second half, and then Arthur Khumba a career game
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  Speaker 2: for him. His career I had been twenty eight at
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State. He had thirty four points and eight rebounds
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  Speaker 2: last night for Texas to try to At one point,
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  Speaker 2: Kaluma had scored fifteen of the long range twenty four points.
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  Speaker 2: So he kept them in the ball game and worked
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  Speaker 2: real hard. The other thing we were talking about, number
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  Speaker 2: two has come and left Town Auburn with that five
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  Speaker 2: point win eighty seven, eighty two. Now number one comes in. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to be number one for long. In
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  Speaker 2: case you didn't hear about it, the Tennessee Volunteers, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Rick Barnes team the last unbeaten team in the country,
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  Speaker 2: and they are unbeaten no more. Not only did they
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  Speaker 2: lose at Florida last night, they lost by thirty thirty
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  Speaker 2: seventy three, forty three. They hit four to three pointers
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  Speaker 2: in twenty nine attempts in the first half. They were
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  Speaker 2: four for twenty nine from the field overall, so they're
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  Speaker 2: going to come in obviously coming in hot, a little
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  Speaker 2: mad about how they did. So that'll be Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 2: at five o'clock as Texas will host number one Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear that here on AM thirteen under the
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  Speaker 2: Zone beginning at four thirty Saturday afternoon, the tip off
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  Speaker 2: at five o'clock. All right, up, next, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear from Vick Schaeffer, Texas women's head coach when we
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  Speaker 2: continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone. The
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  Speaker 2: Loghorns are trying to get to number one, the Texas
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  Speaker 2: women's basketball team, and right now they're number one on
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  Speaker 2: top tie to top the SEC standings with Alabama and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to face the Crimson time.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow night at Moody Center.
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  Speaker 2: So Walwar's head coach Vic Schaeffer, had a media availability
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  Speaker 2: that lasted was a little bit lengthy, so we've kind
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  Speaker 2: of cut it up and we're gonna let you hear
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  Speaker 2: parts of it each hour because he has some really
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  Speaker 2: interesting points that he's making about things and his thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on the state of the game and SEC scheduling and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. So here's Part one of the media
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  Speaker 2: availability with Vic Schaeffer.
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  Speaker 7: Good afternoon, everybody appreciate you being on today. Another's second
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  Speaker 7: week down the SEC and just got out of practice,
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  Speaker 7: had a good workout this morning, a lot of film
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  Speaker 7: and getting ready for a Top twenty matchup of another
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  Speaker 7: one with Alabama. Virtually the same team, except they've added
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  Speaker 7: a sick their seventh year player and Zay Green, who's
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  Speaker 7: was a heck of a player coming out of high school.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a great career.
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  Speaker 7: In college, and she's now added so much to their
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  Speaker 7: to their team, and so we're, uh, you know, we're
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  Speaker 7: we're gonna have to really obviously they're a really good
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  Speaker 7: basketball team, and we're gonna have to play well. Uh,
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  Speaker 7: Christy does a great job, or her staff, her husband,
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  Speaker 7: they've been around a long time. But just really, no,
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  Speaker 7: we've we've got a big test in front of us
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  Speaker 7: on Thursday night. You know, Zay's averaging almost seventeen a
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  Speaker 7: game and four and a half rebounds a game, shooting
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  Speaker 7: it at a high percentage fifty three percent. Of course,
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  Speaker 7: they've got Barker back, who's an All SEC performer. It's
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  Speaker 7: right behind her at almost sixteen points a game.
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  Speaker 1: And six rebounds a game. So that's a good place
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  Speaker 1: to start.
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  Speaker 7: And they got a Leah and I back who's a
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  Speaker 7: monster out there that can shoot it, you know, shooting
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  Speaker 7: forty five percent from three and averaging fourteen a game.
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  Speaker 7: So and then they got the aircraft carrier inside who's
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  Speaker 7: much improved from a year ago, essence Cody, and she's
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  Speaker 7: averaging eleven a game and seven rebounds. So this is
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  Speaker 7: a really good basketball team. This will be a you know,
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  Speaker 7: a really big test for us, and we're gonna have
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  Speaker 7: to play well.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday was the day off. Today we got back.
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  Speaker 7: At it and we got to get ready to play
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  Speaker 7: again another top twenty team in the SEC. Proud of
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  Speaker 7: Jordan Usbwa freshman National Freshman the Week and certainly deserving.
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  Speaker 7: You know, she's she's really shooting it well for us
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  Speaker 7: right now, playing at a high level. She's a great defender,
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  Speaker 7: but she's shooting it at a really extraordinary mark right now,
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  Speaker 7: and just in her last five she's shooting it really well,
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  Speaker 7: fifty from three on the season, I think sixty percent
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  Speaker 7: in the last five games. So she's really developed offensively
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  Speaker 7: and is providing us both ends of the floor right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's it's good to have a have her
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  Speaker 1: in there and being able to make shots. Thanks coach,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go Mark and then Denny.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Heyvig. Speaking of Jordan, was she known more as
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  Speaker 8: kind of a mid range player in high school? And
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  Speaker 8: does she need to be a starter an hour?
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  Speaker 1: She ready for that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: You know, first question is I think we thought she
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  Speaker 7: could score it all three levels. I watched her in
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  Speaker 7: aau a lot, you know, went out to the West
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  Speaker 7: coast a bunch more than I've ever done in recruiting.
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  Speaker 7: In I think the thing that stood out to me
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  Speaker 7: I knew she could score, and I knew she was
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  Speaker 7: really smart and good offensively, but she's way ahead of
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  Speaker 7: the curve defensively. She's really really a great help defender.
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  Speaker 7: She's got great feet defensively on ball. So she's tough.
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  Speaker 7: She's a tough kid, really competitive kid. So I think
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  Speaker 7: her stats right now certainly warrant. You know, if we
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  Speaker 7: wanted to start her, we could. I think the dilemma is,
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  Speaker 7: do you want to bring in somebody like her who's
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  Speaker 7: really bring something offensively to the table and defensively, or
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  Speaker 7: do you want to start her and then now you're
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  Speaker 7: bringing in, you know, somebody who might not be playing
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  Speaker 7: as well as she is. So that's the million dollar question.
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  Speaker 7: We'll find out Thursday night. I'm big first.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if it makes a huge difference, but
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  Speaker 9: big picture wise, do you like this format go on
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  Speaker 9: Thursday Sundays as opposed to I guess it was Wednesday
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  Speaker 9: Saturday in the Big twelve and it's the same distance
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  Speaker 9: between games and stuff like that. But do you like
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  Speaker 9: this Thursday Sunday format or doesn't make a difference?
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  Speaker 1: No, I hate it.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's you know, I think it's it sends
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  Speaker 7: a bad message to me personally, to your student athletes,
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  Speaker 7: to your coaches. This all started Danny back in the
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  Speaker 7: day when our window for TV was only one day
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  Speaker 7: a week and that was on Sunday. And the commissioner
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  Speaker 7: then two commissioners ago, said hey, if you want to
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  Speaker 7: play on TV, you got to play on Sunday. We're
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  Speaker 7: in the Bible Belt, most of the SEC's in the
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  Speaker 7: Bible Belt, and you're asking these kids to play on Sundays.
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  Speaker 7: You're asking coaches to work on Sunday mornings. I just again,
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  Speaker 7: it fits the world, right, the world is it's that
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  Speaker 7: way and I hate it though. I just think it
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  Speaker 7: sends a horrible, horrible message. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 7: kids grew up in the church, and whether they would
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  Speaker 7: go or not, one thing's for sure. They're not going
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: in this format, and so I'm dead against it. I've
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: been raising hell about it for years. I think it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: in the old days of the Landers and Summit and
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Champions and those people when you're trying to get your
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: teams or the game on TV, that was one thing.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: But even in Landers late years.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Matthew Mitchell at Kentucky, you know myself, I think people
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: have seen the real value of giving kids a true
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: day off.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: They get no true day off in January and February.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Their drave day off is Monday when they have a
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: physics exam or they have to go to class, or
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: they have a biology test. Like that's not a true
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: day off. Getting up and going to eight o'clock class
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: like my kids do, that's not a true day off.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: And so I think by the time you get through
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: this sixteen game grind, and now they're wanting us to
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: play eighteen games, it's about enough playing sixteen having to
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: deal with this for eight weekends.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Now they want us to go to sixteen eighteen.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: By the time you get to March, your kids are fried,
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: coaches are fried.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You're just you're really putting, you know.
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: And again, we're the only sport we get no spring break,
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: no Christmas, no Thanksgiving. I know there's sports that go
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: both semesters, but a lot of those sports get one,
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: two or all three of those.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: We get none of them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: And so it's a really tough, tough grind for our kids.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And my staff.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: And so I'll get off my soapbox.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: You probably knew i'd get on it when you ask
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the question. You're that way, but I heard it cause
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the heat of league before.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: But that's right, That's exactly how I feel about it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: It's embarrassing to me that that we do that, you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: to our kids, but it is what it is, and so,
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: you know, I just don't think it's I don't think
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: it's right.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair to our kids. You know.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: I just don't like it. So it's just my opinion.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: But I've seen the room change a little bit. You know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: you're worry about your kids, you're also worried about a staff.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of these staffs work really hard.
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: So do you have to adjust anything you're doing as
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: far as practice wise to give your players a little
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: bit more of a breather or is there any like,
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: you know, logistics adjustments you have to make with the
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Thursday Sunday split.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Not really, I mean Monday is you know, I can't.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: They don't get to sleep in, they don't get to
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: veg out, they don't just get to come into treatment
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: from a to want and go back home and lay
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: in the bed and and but other than that, with
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: my staff, yeah, I usually gave them Sunday off and
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: I would come in, I might work, or they might
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: work from home. Now on Mondays, I give them half
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: a morning to wash clothes, do laundry, pay bills, just
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: two personal things.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We meet for a meeting at lunch.
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: Bring I pay for lunch and bring lunch in, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: we have a staff meeting, and then we work in
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: the afternoon.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: They work in the afternoon. I was here.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Yesterday morning at seven point thirty and dealing with things
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: that you have to deal with in basketball. But you know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: for them, I want to give them a little time
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: to kind of regroup and recharge their batteries too. My
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: group works really hard, so but no other than that,
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: it's it's what we signed up for, so we got
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: to do it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: How's that first start at VIC Shaeffer talking about his team,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: talking about Jordan Lee being freshman the week and then
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: railing on the SEC for that Thursday Sunday scheduling format
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that they have and he's not done with that either.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: There'll be more coming up next hour. We'll hear more
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: from VIC with regard to that, but up next inconceivable
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: on a Wednesday afternoon here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: under the Zone way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Glad
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to have you with us on this Wednesday afternoon. Hope
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: you're staying warm and drive. It's going to get rainy tomorrow,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: but I think we're going to largely stay away from
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the frozen stuff and that's good. It might be a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: different story for those of you headed north to the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Dallas Forward Metroplex for the Cotton Bowl. The Cotton Bowl
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Classic be the first time the Long Orange will have
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: played in two bowl games in the same season, not
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: his calendar year, because that's happened a couple of times
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: where they were in a January first Bowl, and then
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: we're in a December Bowl the next year. But the
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: first time they will have played certainly in two New
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Year's Six Bowls in the same year, the Peach Bowl
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: last week, making Texas the only program to have appeared
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: in and won. By the way, also all six New
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: year Six bowls Rose Bowl. They won a couple of times,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: of course, including the National Championship Orange Bowl. Last time
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Texas played in the Orange Bowl January first, nineteen sixty five,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: first time a bowl game was played at night. Alabama
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: had already been crowned the national champion and Texas it
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: was January versus sixty five. Arkansas won the Football Writers'
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: National Title. Alabama had been crowned the national champion already
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: by the AP and the UPI Coaches Bowl, and Texas
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: beat them. That was Tommy Nobus with the gold line
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: standing against Joe Namath. Long Orange won that one, twenty
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: one to seventeen. They they won the Sugar Bowl and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: did that. They'd done that a couple of times. They
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: also won the Orange Bowl and Tom Landry was the quarterback.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: January first, of nineteen forty nine, coming off the forty
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: eight season and the Long Horns beat Georgia in that one.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: They won the Sugar Bowl a couple of times as well,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and the Cotton Bowl. They won more than any of
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the other New Year's Six bowls. Oddly enough, this is
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the first time Texas will have played in the Cotton
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Bowl in twenty one twenty two years. January first, two
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: thousand and three the last time the long Horns played
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: in the Cotton Bowl. The quarterback was Chris Simms and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: he was finishing up his collegiate career. Roy Williams had
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a big day. Texas beat LSU coach by Nick Saban
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: beat him thirty five to twenty.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: And I was a ten am.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Kickoff in Dallas in that one, and I said that
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: was yeah. That was the last time that they played
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: in it. The time before also a ten am kick
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: They played a couple of times it in ninety eight,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: January ninety nine and the Y two K Cotton Bowl.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Ki William's final game at the end of the nineteen
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: ninety eight season. They beat Mississippi State thirty eight to eleven.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: January first of ninety nine and January first of two thousand,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the Y two K Copon Bowls, when they lost to
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Arkansas twenty seven to six. That was a game where
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: major appoy had the torn acl happened in that contest.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: So those teams, those three Cotton Bowl winning teams were
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: coached by Mac Brown, and it was good to see
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: coach Brown last night. He and Sally moving back to
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the Austin area. Mack was at the game last night.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Came by and said highly had a great visit and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: is ready for he said, for the next chapter in
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: his life out of that after his time in his
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: second stint at North Carolina. Speaking of the head football
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: coach at the University of Texas, announced today Steve Sarkishan
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: is a finalist for the Bear Bryant Coach of the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Year Award. The American Heart Association had made that announcement
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to day. It's a second straight season that sark has
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: been a selected as a finals for the award. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Steve sarkeisha of finalists for that award. Here are the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: other finalists, Shane Beemer of South Carolina, Kurtzignetti of Indiana,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Spencer Daniels in a Boise State, Kenny Dillingham of Arizona State,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Marcus Freeman, and Notre Dame Rhett Lashley. Of SMU and
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Jeff Munkin of Army. So those are the other finalists
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: for that award. So we'll see how that ultimately turns out. Okay,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: where was I going with the what I said at
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the end of the last hour about football notes and coaches.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: That's sort of thing you said, I have no idea
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: where you're going. You should have known where I was
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: going with this. I was interested in your take, Cameron
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: on the fact that the Cowboys said no, you don't
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: to the Chicago Bears who asked for permission to interview
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy and they said no. So apparently after twenty
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: four hours of deliberation, the Cowboys denied the Bears a request.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: According to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: So who's the better man, because it's it's not the
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: O the better man, right, Jerry Jones, Right.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I'm asking you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: You know, well, first off, I don't know why the
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Bears would want to interview Mike McCarthy. And then if
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the Cowboys are gonna keep McCarthy, why would they let
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: him interview with them their team? So this tells me
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: that mich McCarthy's coming back.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I thought you might say that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And it also confirms that I will not be back
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. You will continue your bride.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: We've discussed this at length. Some would say at nauseam
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: this year about your steadfast refusal to watch them, even
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: though you still kind of somewhat claim them as your
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: favorite team. You know you can move on and pick
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: another team if you want.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, you can.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Andy way did it now? He's got his girlfriend's influence something.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: You know what team they pick now is their favorite
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: team to follow and cheer and root for the NFL
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Frans huh, Lions. It's not the Lions. They had some
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: parameters involved. First of all, it couldn't be any team
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that either of them had as their favorite team in
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: the past. She's from Wisconsin, so she was kind of
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a Packer fan, but could not would not be able
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to bring herself to root for any of the other
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: teams in the NFC norths, so that eliminates the Vikings, Bears,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and Lions. They also decided they would not adopt the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: favorite team of anyone close to them relatism family, so
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: no Rams and a couple other teams as well. So
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: what did they ultimately wind up picking. They wanted to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: pick up a team that they thought had some upward mobility,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: a chance to at least be a playoff team in
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: coming years.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Which narrows the field even more so.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: And then they kind of decided they didn't want to
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: root for a cold weather team because she had been
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: around that. So after the dust settled to smoke clear
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the team they selected that they're going to start rooting
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: for the Miami Dolphins.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Yikes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, really, okay.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Sam, Miami Dolphins, who may be having to let go
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: of Tyreek Hill?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because he's a cancer in the locker room.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Would would that be part of the reason why?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: So, I don't know. They said they picked that.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I told him, I said, you know, you've already torn
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: the scab off there, you ripped the band aid off.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You know that means you can just change teams every
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: year if you want. It doesn't even really matter anymore.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: You can just adopt a team every year and root
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: for them every year if you want.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: So you could do the same Cam. I'm just reading
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: for good football. You know, I'm excited for the NFL playoffs.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm cool with any team winning, except for
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: the Eagles and Commanders. But at the same time, you
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: know it's like, actually, good for you, dan Quinn. You
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: got out of Dallas and you proved yourself right. But
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: the FC, I love every I love every storyline in
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: the AFE. I love the Lions storyline. I like Sean McVay,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I love I love the Rams, I love I love
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford Texas guy. And there's there's some great storylines
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: in these playoffs. You know, the Chiefs going for the
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: three p ken Lamar Jackson, who might win his second
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: m VP.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Can he finally get over the hump the Chiefs?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Can you bring yourself the root for Pittsburgh?
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: That's tough. I mean they're not gonna win though, which
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: is which is? You know you think they'll They'll lose
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: to the rate. Yeah, I think Mike Tomlin he gets
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: the ten wins, he gets the playoff berth, and he's
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: all right, we're good, We're done. I mean, Russell Wilson
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: and Justin Fields are not going to win you a
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: playoff game, even the Chargers. What Chargers and Broncos. What
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Sean Payton has done in his second year with bo
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Nix as a rookie quarterback and that incredible defense that
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: has a lot of former Texas Longhorns playing some big roles,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Brandon Jones, PJ. Locke to name a few. And in
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: the Chargers, you know, like Harball, who's got it better
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: than us?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Nobody? Nobody like People don't don't like the Harball stick.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I think he's a hell of a football coach. You
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: got Cam Dicker as the kicker. That's a fun you know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: with some new playoff teams, it's fun to see.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I like Herbert LA team.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, LA team.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Actually, as history teaches us, they actually started in Los
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Angeles in nineteen sixty the AFL reached the AFL championship game,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: lost to the Oilers, and then and then they moved
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: to San Diego because they could be with the Rams.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Well now they've backed obviously, so yeah, they're they're a
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: playoff team.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: What about the Texans?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Could you be a Texans fan?
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I just the way their their offense is and how
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: banged up they are. I just don't see them making
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: a run.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: But yeah, or can you or can you not bring
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: yourself through for any team from the city of Houston.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm okay with the Texans. Okay, I'm okay with
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Texans. That's fine. I just don't think they have
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a chance. Sorry, Texans fans.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I think I think the Chargers have a good chance
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: to beat them. Having said that, that is almost like
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: a fifty to fifty game to me, mainly because it's
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: in Houston.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: If LA can establish the run and get the ground
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: game going in Stroud's a little bit shaky interception here
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: or there, I think the Chargers can steal that m H.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: And like again, I don't think Houston has a great
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: home field advantage, right, neither did the Chargers. So I
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: mean again, maybe it's just kind of exed it out
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: because I don't think the Chargers have fans that will travel.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: But I don't expect, you know, NRG to be rocking
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: on Saturday.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: The Cameron's picks and I didn't bring him in with
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: me today. But you have the Jets in the playoffs.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Think of the Jets, And I went off the notion
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: let's see because in the last I think last three years,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: at least seven teams from last year's playoffs did not
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: make it the following year. This year, I think only
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: four teams. Only four teams that were in last year's
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: playoffs that make it this year. So it was a
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: little bit of a down. You had the forty nine
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: ers in the playoffs, but of course they had that
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: year from hell. Had the Bengals in the playoffs. They
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: struggled the Jets pick. Yeah, that was a dumb thick.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I've had too much invested in Aaron Rodgers and in
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: big shot Bob sala as a head coach. But I
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: you know, I think uh. I think I had the
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: had the Rams in the playoffs.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: He had them in the playoffs.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: You did had the Rams. I did not have Minnesota.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I did up Green Bay, I did at Philadelphia. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: did not pick the Cowboys. I told everybody that you
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: did not. But I think you picked somebody like the
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Saints Atlanta.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I think Atlanta, well, they went down to the last week,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: like I had the Dolphins in. They went down to
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the last week to get in to the playoffs.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: And and then you had I think we both had
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Kansas City, yeah, uh in in in the Super Bowl.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I think my super Bowl pick was Chiefs Lions.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I think we both did. I think we both did
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: and picked the Chiefs to win.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Are you gonna would you change your pick if you
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: could tell what we're gonna do.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: What we're gonna do.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: First segment next hour is we're gonna We're gonna go
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: ahead and uh pick our our our NFL playoff teams
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: because by the time we reconvene.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: It be tough to do.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I will check in tomorrow obviously from the Dallas Forward area,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: but we're gonna, we're gonna make our picks. Coming up
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: all right, up next more from Vic Shaffer, Texas women's
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: basketball head coach.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: When we continue on AM thirteen under the Zone.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Let's hear some more from Texas women's basketball coach Vic
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: shape You heard him last hour when he got on
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: his soapbox, because I think Danny Davis and the Austin
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: American stations put him up on the soapbox and let
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: him rant and rail about the SEC scheduling women's games
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: on Thursdays and Sundays Thursday's. Vic doesn't have a problem
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: with it's Sundays he is the problem with for any
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: number of reasons, mainly not having a day off, but
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: also he said some of his players and expressing concerns
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: about you know, they can't go to church on Sunday,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you know, unless it was real early for a home
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: game that couldn't do it on the road. There was
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: those kinds of things, and that all of that rolls
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: into some of the concern He had some more thoughts
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: on that and some other items as well.
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, coach, I want to go back to the Sunday
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: thing because I'm kind of interested in that. And you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: watching that national broadcast we all played Oklahoma, one of
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: Rory's goals for the resolutions was to read the whole Bible.
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: And so do you kind of feel like you have
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: more of a spiritual bearing on Sundays as a head
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: coach since no one's really going to church?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And how has that? Have you seen kind of religion
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: played a factor in the locker room? Yeah?
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: So typically, and I didn't do it this past sy,
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: but typically I read them my Bible study for that
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: day at pregame, and I try to just keep it,
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: you know, as short as I can, but I go through.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I have the coach's.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: Bible, and you know, I'll read that day's you know,
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: devotional and to them and just to just to give
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: them five minutes worth, you know, ten minutes worth, you know,
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: I listened to my preacher while I'm running on that
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: day before the game.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: But again that's not the same as being in.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: The house of the Lord, and so I try to,
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: you know, expose them to it. I do think I
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: have a lot of great kids that you know, grew
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: up in that grew up in the church or do
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: believe in God. And you know, it's whether they would
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: go or not. They're definitely not going in this setup.
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah, well, why are you so so shy about this?
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: I don't know why you don't speak out a little
• 35:39
  Speaker 11: bit more seriously, if you pulled all the coaches, would
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: they back to you and try to avoid Sundays?
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, Kurk, one thing that even here at Texas,
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: some of our best crowds you know that we're going
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: to have during the year are playing on Sundays, and
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: so you know, that's what probably administrations want you to do,
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: you know, for us, if we want to play in
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: front of some not But I think we play in
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: front of good crowds on Saturday too. And I think
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: if you probably ask the people work in the game,
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: would you rather work two games on Saturday or one
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: on Sunday? They probably go, Hey, let's go to on Saturday,
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: so they have Sunday off too. But you know, I
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: think we'd have some coaches that are both ways, you know.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: I know, I know certain coaches are going to go, no,
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: I want to play on Sunday, you know. And then
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: there's there's some coaches like me and some others that
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: are like, man, it's a grind. And you know, when
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: you're talking about kids and quality of life for them,
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: the student athlete, what's best for them health wise? You know,
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: I don't think there's any question having a true day
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: off versus getting up and going to eight o'clock class
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: and walking around campus for half a day or taking
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: a test that day. That's hardly a day off mentally.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: And so even though you might study on Sunday, you're
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: doing it on your you know, that might be a
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: great time to really catch up academically, you know, but
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: you're not going to do that because you're tied up
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: with shoot around eight thirty, pre game ten, play at two.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: If you're at home, you get out of the locker
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: room at five o'clock. If you're on the road, you're
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: not getting home till eight nine o'clock. So it's just
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: you know, it's even in the Big twelve. We might
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: have played on Sunday, but that was National TV games.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: That would be a game ESPN said, hey, we want
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: y'all on TV. You know, y'all got to play on Sunday.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: But if you weren't on National TV, they don't have
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: any network. So every other game was on Saturday. And
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: you know, I've even proposed that, look, if we're not
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: on National TV on Sunday, let us play on Saturday.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: But anyway, nothing about that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 11: On another subject, do you got any thoughts from Jay
• 38:18
  Speaker 11: Hartzell leaving to go to SMU and are you throwing
• 38:21
  Speaker 11: your name your hat in the ring?
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: Jay Hartzell's leaving? When did that happen this morning while
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: I was in practice? Obviously I need to check and
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: see if he called me to ask me in my opinion?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: God, no mighty, nothing went to voicemail.
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: But I will tell you all something. I've worked for
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: some really good presidents. He's the best man like I
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: love that guy. That's I'm I'm I did not know
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: that that happened. I'm certainly happy for him because I
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: think he is a great man, and I think he
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: is he's the best they got. They hit a home
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: run at SMU. That's what they did. So I'm sure
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: we'll get somebody good. But man, what a home run
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: for SMU. Dang it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Why do you like him so much?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Number One, He's accessible.
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: Anytime I needed him to help me with a recruit
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: and their family.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Man, he's right there. He's all in.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: He sits at my games at half court, he's there
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: a lot. But he has what I call a presence too.
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: Like I think he's really smart and you need to
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: be obviously in that role.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: But he's not one of these Ivory tower guys like.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: He he's he's like me and you like, he's just
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: a he's really he's a humble guy. I think I
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: think he's you know, I just I I think he's
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: he's a good guy.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: He's a good man, and.
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: He's got you know, he's got the IT factor to me,
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: and he's just always been super super good to me.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: We've had a great relationship and you know, and I
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: hate to see him go.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've covered all the non basketball topics I
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: wanted to ask about, But big, what did you think
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: of Amo the other night?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And do you want you want to see more of that. Yeah,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I thought she was really good the other night's.
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: You know, when she's healthy and feeling good, she can
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: be a pretty impactful player. We had the player at
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: five because Taylor wasn't available, and you know, she helped
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: us there as well, So you know, getting that from
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: her a double double in an SEC games really really
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: beneficial for us. And you know it was good to see.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: I was glad to have her, that's for sure.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And Taylor is Taylor cleared for d born eight or
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: as of today.
• 41:21
  Speaker 12: Okay, coach, I'm also curious about Amo. We've seen what
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: she could do on the court, especially when she's healthy.
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: What is her impact her role on the team this year,
• 41:32
  Speaker 12: particularly off the court, but you know, also on it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean I I just think the kid has
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: struggled so much with her health and and with with
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: her knees, both of them, that it's just been really
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: hard for her to to, you know, be as effective
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: and be as impactful as she can be. Amo does
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: have a voice, She talks a lot and communicates with
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: our players quite a bit, so I think you know that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Hasn't him undered her ability to do that.
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: But you know, she's impacted some big games for US
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: this year, but she's also been hindered quite a bit more.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: I need her healthy. I mean, that's the only way
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: I know how to say it. It's we got to
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: get her healthy and keep her healthy. We can keep
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: her healthy the next two and a half three months.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: You know, we're a little bit different team.
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: I think you told us right at the start of
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: the conference season that you explain to the team that
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: this great pressure defense might not always work against.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: You know, SEC competition.
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: But you've forced fifty two turnovers in two games.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: What do you attribute that to?
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: Well, I do think, you know, I think we've been effective,
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: you know, especially with Oklahoma.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I think we did a nice job.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: We gave up a couple of backdoors, but other than that,
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: I mean we forced twenty seven turnovers on the road.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: We had to offset the twenty one offensive boards gave
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: up again. But I thought Arkansas did a good job
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: against US, and and and so we constant consequently worked
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: really hard today on some things that we've got to
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: get better at, you know, on the ball. So you know,
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: it's a work in progress. I think you've got to
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: play personnel sometimes you know better than than uh than
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: than trying to impose your will. There's certain spots on
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: the floor that you have to uh impose your will,
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: and then there's certain spots on the floor you've got
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: to be careful and just try to do something different.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: And so I think for us, that's my job as
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: a coach. I got to make sure our kids understand
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: that and that we go through it and they have
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: a real good feel for how we want to defend
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: things and defend sets and knowing when somebody's trying to
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: run their pretty offense and when they're not, because that's
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: two different, completely different things, and it all comes down
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: to competitive spirit, y'all. Toughness, you know, that's that's really
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: what defense comes down too.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: We're gonna hear more from Vick Shaffer coming up next hour,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: and he's got some other things to rant about as well,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: so we'll do that. But we've got some other topics
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: we've got to coming up next here. On AM thirteen
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: under the Zone, I mentioned that tomorrow I'll be in
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Arlington for the final Head Coaches Press Conference.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: It takes place around twelve thirty to moor afternoon.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I mentioned that and that's when they get the two
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: head coaches together, sitting separated only by the actual bowl
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: trophy itself. It's as it is as standard as the
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: old Classic Coaches show. We have the play by play
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: guy as the host and the head coach, and you
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: have a potted plant and a football helmet on an
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: end table between him or a coffee table. Yeah, it's
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: been around as long as Coaches shows have been around.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Same store.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: With these Bowl press conferences, they have the photo o
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: op because both the local TVs and the national TVs
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: and then the still photographers for the newspapers and wire
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: services and want to get the picture of the them
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: shaking hands and standing there with the with the bold
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: trophy and the and they do that. Then they sit
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: down and they ask questions or answered. They are asked
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: questions and they answered. So tomorrow is the one with
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkesian for Texas and Ryan Day for Ohio State.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Today was the final press conference previewing the Orange Bowl,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: which is tomorrow night between Penn State and Notre Dame.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: She had James Franklin, the head coach of Penn State,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: and Marcus Freeman, the head coach at Notre Dame is
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: anything meaningful?
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Well get this.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: James Franklin was asked about the opportunity that was there
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: for Penn State in the college Football Playoff, and he
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: said that the showdown against Notre Dame is about quote
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: representing our schools and our conferences. He then it said
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Franklin then caught himself realizing Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: was sitting just to his right. He goes or our conference,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: excuse me, our conference. He then went on and he
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: said he thinks a larger college football playoff ultimately requires
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: more uniformity around college football, including every team to be
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: a part of a conference and playing the same number
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: of league games. Of course, No Dame is an independent.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: They're one of three remaining at PS independents. They see
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: their status as central to their school's identity, and they
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: resisted chances join the Big Ten in other conferences. Of course,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: they compete in the ACC for most of their other
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: major sports, and they have a scheduling agreement with the
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: AEC and football.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: But that's it.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: So Franklin the quote, He said, it should be a
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: consistent across college football. This is no knock at coach Freeman.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Other Dame. But I think everybody should be in a conference.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: I think everybody should play in a conference championship game,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: or nobody should play a conference championship game. I think
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: everybody should play the same number of conference games, so,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Franklin said. He remember he had coached at Vanderbilt. He
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: praised the SEC for remaining at eight league games, which
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: is what the league's coaches wanted. The SEC IS repeatedly
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: considered going to nine during Franklin's time of the Big Ten.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: His quote was, I was not a math major at
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Each Stroudsburg, but just the numbers are going to make
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: things more challenging if you're playing one more conference game,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: so he said. He also highlighted other areas of the
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: sport that could be made more uniform, including starting the
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: season a week earlier to ease the strain of playing
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: more games with an expanded playoff.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: He reiterated his desire.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: To appoint a college football commissioner unaffiliated with a schooler conference,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: and once again mentioned longtime coaching. Current ESPN analyst Nick
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Saban is an option, along with former Washington and Boise
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: State coach Chris Peterson, who's now a college football analyst
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: for Fox and Dave Clawson, who recently stepped down a
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Wake Forest's head coach. Quote, we need somebody that is
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: looking at it from a big picture perspective. Now, Freeman
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: countered by saying Notre Dame prides itself on it's independence.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: He said the team uses the weekend of conference championships, which,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: when they're guaranteed not to be playing, is another open
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: week for recovering other priorities. He also know that he
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't have a strong opinion on whether college football needs
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: more uniformity. Quote, I'm a guy that just thinks, tell
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: us what we're doing, and let's go and you move forward.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: I love where we're at right now.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Pete Mvaqua, that's their athletic director, and our Notre Dame
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: administration will continue to make decisions that are best for
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: our program. So anyway, there's some differing opinions on that
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: one from a guy not only in a power for conference,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: but basically a Power two coming from the Big Ten,
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: and one guy who continues to operate his school as
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: an independent and doing quite well, thank you. So there
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: it is Penn State and Notre Dame and tomorrow night
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: good football games. Notre Dame is what a slight favorite
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: in that like three points, maybe maybe even less than that,
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: might even be like one and a half, one and
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: a half. It could be that good tomorrow night down
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: in Florida.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think with Abdul Carter's status up in the air,
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: I mean Franklin's at the day that when he first
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: he says he needs to play, and then he said,
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: well there'll be a game time decision. They need him
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: to play to win this game.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: The way he impacts the game defensively, in the way
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: that he can kind of handle Roley Leonard, because I'll
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: do Carter it'll be a tough tash with his Penn
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: State team.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back to a wrap up hour
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: number two here on sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: third and final hour of the program here on Sports
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Radio AM thirteen one hundred. Let me check this right now,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: at exactly four o'clock, the temperature in the Greater Austin
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: area is a robust forty four degrees.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: And that's the high right now. We've hit the high point.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: It's going to fall off a little during the next hour,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: and then tonight overnight it's going to get eh, mid thirties.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: It's still not going to be freezing. It'll be It'll
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: be in the mid thirties. So anyway, it's it's certainly
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: not nearly as but it could be raining tomorrow. The fact,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: there's a real good chance there will be some rain
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: tomorrow on the earth. It's just like cold drizzle.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Here in the Greater Austin, Central Texas area and the
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Dallas Forworth Metroplex where the Goodyear Cotton Bowl will be
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: contested on Friday night, things could get a whole lot
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: more inclement over the next twenty four to forty eight hours.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: For example, in Fort Worth right now, it's partly sunny,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: they're forty one, but they could see a mixed tomorrow
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: of snow, sleet and freezing rain. And then Friday it
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: looks like snow for sure, about an eighty percent chance
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: of snow. So that could all happen up in the
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: metroplex as well. Meanwhile, Weren't basketball team will get ready
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: for number one Tennessee coming in to Moody Center on Saturday.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: I say number one. They will fall for number one
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: because they lost by thirty to Florida last night. Stunning
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: lost their first loss of the season. But it's one
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: of those nights, and all teams have them where you
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: have nights where you just can't or don't shoot the
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: basketball very well. Rick Barnes, of course, four sixteen years
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: the coach of the Texas Long Orange, used to say
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: good shooting can make up for a multitude of sins,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: and they had a multitude of sins last night, and
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: they didn't have the good shooting, and the Long Orange
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: didn't have a good shooting for a lot of the game.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: They got better down the stretch when they made their
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: big push. Texas was down twenty one to second rank
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: to Auburn. Last night, they were down sixty one to
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: forty with twelve minutes plus remaining in the game and
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: went on a big run I think outscored the thirty
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: eight twenty two and manage of forty one twenty two,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: managed to pull them within three twice in.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: The final minute.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Couldn't finish it, however, despite a career high thirty four
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: points from Arthur Coloma and then also Jordan Pope was
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: seventeen second half points. So those were big moments there,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: and they got some stops and played better and hit
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: some shots, but could not overcome Auburn's hugely and they
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: wind up losing. After the game, Eddie Orn and I
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: visited about these factors with long Worn's head coach Rodney Terry.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I say this up from because I know how you
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: feel about this. We live in the world of no
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: moral victories.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: Having said all that, the fight, the resiliency, the toughness
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: your team showed from down twenty one to cut it
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: to three twice in the final minute of the ballgame.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: You had to be pleased with that.
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: No, you know' ankle your same thing you just said.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: I said that to our team with Texas.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: We don't we don't.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: We don't celebrate a more satisfied with more victories. We
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: expect to win every game that we line up and play,
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: lace them up to play. That's a really good team
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: over there, you know, a really good team. They're finding
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: four caliber team. I thought that guy showed a lot
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: of fight. I thought they kept competing. I think again,
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: you know, early in our journey here in comforts play,
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: our guys are learning what it takes to play for
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: forty minutes and when it's gonna take to win it.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: In this conference, what was the biggest thing you noticed
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: in the final twelve minutes that turned it to where
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: your team.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Gave itself a chance by the fight they showed.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: Well, we said we had to try to sit down
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: and get some stops, and if we were able to
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: put some stops together, we could come down and find
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: a way to score and get what we needed to
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: get done on the other end, you know, And it's
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: a long game and that's what our guys are finding
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: out again in the two games we played.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: You know, both of the.
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Games have come down to possession games. You know, they
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: extended the game over there and then we got more
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: points there towards the end. But really, you know, seven
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: minutes to go, it's anybody's game, you know, just learning
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: to work the game. You know, we have four new starters.
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: Both of those teams have older players that know how
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: to close our game and win games. That's that's the
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: growth curster for our team. But I loved that effort.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: I loved are still want to and trying to get
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: it and we're gonna find a way.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and two of those guys that have had that
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: that want to.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Jordan gives you seventeen and the second half an heart,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: What a ball game, a career game for him with
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: the thirty four.
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we did a much better job of taking care
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: of the basketball in the second half. We had nine
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: turner was in a half. That was one thing that
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: was really hurting us. And you know, the points in
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: the paint early, they made some threes early. They're a
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: really good shooting team, probably the best shooting team we
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: played all year. And again that's a team that could
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: go to the Final four. And I think we have
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: a really good team. I think we're just going through
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: a little growth curve in terms of understanding what it
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: takes to win this league.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: For forty minutes, run a lot of positive takeout of
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: this game. But you got a tough one coming in here, Saraday,
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: not a lot of time to get ready. But another
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: team that's coming here. But I think it's you know,
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: these guys will build off of this one.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: Again, a number one team in the country coming in
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: Coach Barnes. You know, his team's always physical. You know
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: they play with the tough defensive mindset, you know. But
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: we'll regroup, we'll be ready to play and ready to
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: compete at high level.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I have two mad basketball teams here.
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: On Saturday, right, Yeah, I mean, I mean it's not
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: easy to win in this league, and then this league's hard.
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: Now it's nothing. We got the best league in the country.
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: And you know, again every night, you got to come
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: play at a high level. You don't have to play perfect,
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: but you've got to play at a high level, and
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: you've got to play with a lot of urgency and
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: you got to be extremely tough and competitive to get
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: it done.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about that in this league on a
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: regular basis. Not only did Tennessee lose to Florida at
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Florida and lost by thirty Kentucky, which had beaten Florida
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: of the weekend, and Lexington went down to Georgia and
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: lost by thirteen to Georgia. Now maybe, well, I started saying,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: maybe the most impressive win. Listen, if you beat the
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: number one team in the country about thirty points, it's
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: probably the most impressive win.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Of the night.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: And incidentally, that was the third largest blowout loss for
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: a number one ranked team ever. There was one Saint
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: John's lost to Kentucky, I believe in nineteen fifty three,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: I think it was or fifty two, lost by like
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: forty one points. And in nineteen sixty eight, the Houston
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Cougars were number one in the country and lost the
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: number two UCLA by thirty two points.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: The lost one hundred and one to sixty nine.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: The circumstances around that that was the year they had
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: the Game of the Century game between what was then
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: number one UCLA and number two Houston. They played it
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: in the Astrodome and that was the man who became
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: known as Kareem abdul ja Bardi people. Leu al Cinder
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: back then was the center for UCLA and Elvin Hayes
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: was the center for Houston, and they matched up in
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the Astrodome and it was on national TV, and it
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: was a big moment for college basketball. And if you
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: ever if if you've ever seen pictures of this, this
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: was in the days when they didn't know how to
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: properly configure domed stadiums for basketball. For example, you know,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: it'll be in the Alamo Dome this year. And of
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: course they do it different the way they raised the
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: level of states, but they bring in the temporary stands
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: on the sides to make it much more like a
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: basketball arena.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: Not in nineteen sixty eight, in the Astrodome.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: They just laid a basketball floor out right in the
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: middle of the dome and there was a press row,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I think, on either side, and that was it. Anybody
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: that had a seat to that game sat in the
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: regular like football or baseball seats. So it's like this
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: just laid out in the middle of the floor and
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: everybody was way back from the floor and.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: No big jumbo trot either. Yeah to see it.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: And Houston won that game by two of her UCLA
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: seventy one sixty nine. And also, to be fair and accurate,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, back then known as Leewausin, had had
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: a scratch cornea and still wasn't quite one hundred percent.
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: But Houston won that game.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: But they met up again in the final four in
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: the semifinals and UCLA destroyed them in the rematch, beat
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: them one hundred and one and sixty nine, and then
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: the UCLA beating North Carolina to win the national championship
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: that year. They beat them by twenty three in the final.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: That's often been called the greatest of all those. John
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Wooden coached UCLA seven consecutive national championship teams. The best
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: of them all Loueuse Centers junior year nineteen sixty eight,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: with what else they had their unbeaten and a national
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: champion in nineteen sixty eight. So any time a number
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: one team loses by a large margin, it's noteworthy, and
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: Tennessee's thirty point loss at Florida last night was noteworthy,
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: and that it was the third largest blowout loss by
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: a number one team in college basketball history since the
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: rankings system went into play. However, the Georgia win at
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: home over Kentucky was impressive and maybe just as impressive
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: certainly as the Georgia game, and maybe right up there,
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: not quite to the level of Florida's thirty point win
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: over Tennessee. But worthy of being mentioned is Mississippi State
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: winning on the road at Vanderbilt, which had gotten off
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: to a great start, but Mississippi State went in there
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: and got out.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: To a huge lead and then eased in for the win.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: So Chris Chian's team is I think fourteen and one now,
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: so they're either fourteen to one or fifteen to one,
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: so they're off to a great start. Texas does play
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State one time. It's the next to last game
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: fourteen and one.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: They played them next to last game of the regular
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: season in Starkville at the Hump Humphrey Coliseum, So something
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: to take note of.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: A quick note on the Auburn game last night, Craig, Yeah,
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: Texas actually moved the four spots in the kimpon rankings
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: after last night. Yeah, it reminded me a lot of
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: last year's lost to Houston at home at Moody yea
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: top ten, top five Houston team came in on Big
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: Monday Texas. Texas played them really well. Now I think
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: they actually led in that game against Houston, whereas against
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: Auburn mostly trailing but ended up losing by you know,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: less than single digits. So as artist said, and this
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: team is learning what it's going to take the you know,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: contend and SEC play. And for Texas fans who are
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: just you know, reacting off of these first two games
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: in conference play, hey, the front of this schedule is insane.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, the first five games Texas plays a SEC
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: play against top twenty five teams. Auburn, on the other hand,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: only plays only has to play one top twenty five
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: Teamsissippi State. So you know, wait until March before you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: decide what to make of this. Texas Certainly they're still
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: they're still you know, they're still figuring out their offense
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: in the chemistry, right and no Kenda Weaver yesterday, and
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: the second half of the SEC schedule was a little
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: bit easier than the first half. So so is this
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: team can grow together and stick through it against this
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: tough opening slate. I think it's going to help them
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: the second half of conference play season, you know, maybe
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: make a run, get back off the bubble, do some
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: damage in the SEC tournament and who knows what can happen.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: And as is the case with football, as was the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: case with football, there will be some cannibalizing. Yes, that
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: happens in the SEC. Teams will be knocking one another
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: off left and right, so we'll see.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: And in this unique.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Round robin schedule, so to speak, it kind of reminds
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: me of the old Big twelve schedule that Texas used
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: to play, but that was even more uniform, almost called
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: scheduling North and scheduling South, even though they were not
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: in separate divisions, but they would only play the teams
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: from the geographics scheduling North like one time one time
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: against Kansas, one time against k State, one time against Nebraska,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: one time against Missouri, one time against Colorado they would play,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: and one time against Iowa State when those teams were
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: all in the league.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: I mean Joel Nari's latest bracketology. Oklahoma seven seed, Ole
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: miss An eight seed. Those are two teams that can
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: be Sweet sixteen bound, easily lead eight bound. It's just
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: you mentioned the cannibal the cannibalization of this conference. There's
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: going to be some messy seed teams that are going
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: to be a high low seed, but they're going to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: I think they're going to be a popular pick to
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: go deep because they have that tough resume. They've played
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: the tougher teams.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: True, and even though the NCAA didn't announce they're not
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: using the Ken Pom rankings anymore as an evaluative tool,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: it's still a good measuring stick to do that as
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: well as looking at the net rankings. All Right, we
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: shift from men's basketball to women's basketball. The number five
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: team in the country, the Texas Longhorns. Tomorrow night host
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: number eighteen Alabama. The two teams are both fifteen and
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: one going into the game. Remember Texas beat Alabama in
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year Moody Center.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: Christy Curry brings another really talented group in the Moody
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Center tomorrow night. We'll hear more from Vic Schaffer coming up.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: You're on Sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the Zone. All right,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: let's talk NFL because we had some good predictions and
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: we had some stinkers at the start of the year
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: about teams we thought would get into the playoffs.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: You had the Jets getting in. Why don't we focus
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: on the positives the team.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think of I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: had the Cowboys in, so.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: You know, I can tell you who I had. I had.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: I had the out of the AFC yep East, I
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: had Bills yep.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: In Jets YEP.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: In the AFC North, I believe I had the Bengals
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: and Ravens. That's four teams in the NFC South AFC South,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: excuse me I had. I think I only had the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: Texans five. And then in the AFC West, I had
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: the Chiefs, and I think I said the Chargers. That's right, Okay,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: that's right, So I go was wrong in the Jets.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: And then in the AFC I had the doll fits
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: in who didn't get in, yeah, which I think is
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: a good pick and who knew to it would get
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: his thirtieth concussion.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: This year, right right, And I had the Bengals in
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: as well with that h's in.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: The final week and in the final week for the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Bengals and.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: The Dolphins, that's right, all right, So NFC I had
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys in, which.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: Was not a not a good pick, I think NFC
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: I was. I was a little bit more off on
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: were you. Well see you have the Saint and Eagles
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: from the east, which is correct. Yeah, in the in
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: the North, I think I just had Packers line, so
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: that's three teams. In the South, I think I had
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: the Falcons four, and then I had the forty nine
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: Ers and Rams in the Rams. Yeah, who was my
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: I think I either picked the Bears at the Seahawks
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: as my second one, you know what, it was the Bears.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was high on.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: I was high on the Bears, which, like the Jets,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: huge mistake, you know, look back on it, you know,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: I regret my actions.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: But we move on.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let's talk about the first of all
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: the wildcard matchups on Saturday. This might be the best
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: game of the weekend. Texans Chargers, Really you think so?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: I think this has a good chance to be good.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: I will go with the Texans narrowly, but I won't
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: be surprised one bit if the Charger. It's a five
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: to four matchup, and I think it plays like a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: five to four matchup.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: I think the Chargers win this. Okay.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: I like I like Harball, I like Herbert, like the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: rushing attack, Like their receivers that more healthy than the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Texans right now. Okay, Houston's kind of limping into the playoffs.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: Baltimore and Pittsburgh. I like the Ravens.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Baltimore gets refined. I think Tucker has
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: a big game, you know, because he had a couple
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: of big misses in the first meeting, which Pittsburgh won.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I think they bounce back. All right.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: Sunday, Denver Buffalo. There are people who are giving the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Broncos a chance in this game.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Good defense, but I think Josh Allen's playing like Superman,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: and I think it'll be too much for Denver to handle.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: I agree, I like Buffalo, Green Bay at Philadelphia.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Any chance for the Packers to do it as a
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: seven seed second year in a row.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: Christian Watson done for the year, Jordan Love, he keeps
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: getting injured. Philadelphia is I think, played like the best
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: team in football over the past month, sneakily.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: I like Philadelphia. They rested Saquon Barkley. Yeah, it's gonna
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: be tough to beat the Eagle, especially in Philly. Washington
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: at Tampa Bay this also could be one of the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: better games of the weekend.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are leading Tampa Bay.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: They're favored by three.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: I like Washington just because I think jayde and Daniels
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: can give you a little bit more than Baker Mayfield.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: And I think the Bucks had a little bit of
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: an easier schedule and also kind of limped into the playoffs.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the same thing I'm gonna go with.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to Washington and then Monday night Vikings
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: at Rams.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: I like your Rams, Greg, I like your Rams. I
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: think they're gonna be able to get to Sam Darnold,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: and I think we're gonna see a big game from
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: Karen Williams, from Cooper Cup and from your from your Rams.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, did the Rams beat him on that
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: Thursday night game? There?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: They did?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll go I don't feel real good about it,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: but I'm trying to figure it out. If it's as
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: much just being bummed about McVeigh resting the starters and
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: dropping that game to the Seahawks. It would have given
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: them the three seed, and it would have felt a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: lot better about them playing Washington in Minnesota because then,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: even if they win, the prize for that is a
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: ticket to Detroit, whereas had they won, of course going
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: to Philly, what could be a great Yeah, it might
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: be in the weather. The Rims barely got past the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Jets and the cold weather, so you know, yeah, you
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: may be right. And they did play the Lions tough
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: on Opening night, lost that game, so we'll see. And
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: the Lions number one seed for the first time ever.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we're do you have one yet?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Oh well, I'm gonna stick with my original pick of
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: Kansas City in Detroit, and I'm gonna pick the Detroit
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Lions to win their first Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna flip it. I'm gonnay, We're gonna get a
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  Speaker 4: rematch at Kansas City. Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we're going to hear more from
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  Speaker 2: Vic Shafer because because we can have plenty to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: he'll talk more about his players and this matchup with Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: which is going to be very, very difficult. Before we're done,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have a little more on the NBA the big
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  Speaker 2: matchup Oklahoma City at Cleveland tonight. Cam's thoughts on that
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  Speaker 2: big matchup, So we'll have that and a reminder Long
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  Speaker 2: Worn Weekly the recording with Rodney Terry comes we at
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  Speaker 2: six o'clock tonight from Pluckers the West Campus location. Air
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night at six, but we'll be there to record
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  Speaker 2: it at six o'clock. We'll continue on AM thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: The Zone. All right, let's burn right on into Vic Schafer,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: who was claiming to be an Elvis fan as well.
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  Speaker 2: We've heard from Vic in the first two hours of
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  Speaker 2: the program, excerpts from his weekly media availability the Zoom
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  Speaker 2: and Vic you've heard him really be on a roll
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  Speaker 2: on certain topics. So let's go back to the final
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  Speaker 2: portion of this with long Worne's head coach, Vic Schaffer.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, Coach, I just want to go back to the
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  Speaker 10: inconsistencies with the health at the BIGS position with Taylor
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  Speaker 10: and Amo, like, does that kind of force you to
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  Speaker 10: maybe do that four guard line up a little bit
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  Speaker 10: more or has that come up at all?
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  Speaker 7: You know, the analytics say we're better with the four
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  Speaker 7: guard lineup, Just so everybody knows, I mean, the analytics
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  Speaker 7: are not and day. You know, if I coach by
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  Speaker 7: my eye and buy you know, the way I've done
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  Speaker 7: things a lot in the past, you know, I might
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  Speaker 7: not play it as you know, I might not play
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  Speaker 7: it as much on some nights, I might play it
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  Speaker 7: way more than I'm playing it now. But the analytics
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  Speaker 7: say we're way better with four guards on the floor,
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  Speaker 7: and we're better in transition, and I do think we'd
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  Speaker 7: probably be better in the half court a lot of
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  Speaker 7: nights defensively. So I think, you know, again, people know
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  Speaker 7: my team, they know my personnel, and so they're going
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  Speaker 7: to try to do certain things. The first two teams
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  Speaker 7: we've played this year have really tried to attack us
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  Speaker 7: in some different ways and put us in a in
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  Speaker 7: some awkward positions.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've you know, we've got to be able to.
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  Speaker 7: Adjust and realize that early on and then attack them
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  Speaker 7: in in a way that we can score and uh
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  Speaker 7: and defend.
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  Speaker 9: Big You mentioned postgame about she's off night. I'm kind
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  Speaker 9: of wondering with her kind of struggling a little bit
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  Speaker 9: this season. You know, are you concerned about that? Do
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  Speaker 9: you think she'll just figured it out? She is a
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  Speaker 9: fifth year player. Is that a concern for for you
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  Speaker 9: at this time?
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I mean it's I'm concerned about it. You know,
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  Speaker 7: she's she's uh, you know, it's a kid that works
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  Speaker 7: really hard and and you know she she's got some
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  Speaker 7: some little nagging things going on too, that you know,
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  Speaker 7: she doesn't speak about and doesn't talk much about.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they're they're affecting her a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: But you know her and Booker, you know those two man,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to that well every night.
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  Speaker 1: Like those kids.
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  Speaker 7: Those both those kids have been to the Wars and
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  Speaker 7: those are two of the most consistent players I've ever
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  Speaker 7: coached in my life. So I'm going to them a bunch.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Shay brings so much to the table from
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  Speaker 7: a just a role player and knowing her role and
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  Speaker 7: doesn't try to do too much. But you got to
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  Speaker 7: have players like that because when you have other players
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  Speaker 7: like Rory and book and two five players down there
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  Speaker 7: are shooting seventy something percent and sixty something percent.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to do your job.
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  Speaker 7: And you know Booker, she enjoys the past as much
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  Speaker 7: as the score. You know, that kid is so unselfish,
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  Speaker 7: almost to a fault. You know, she had a couple
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  Speaker 7: of turnovers the other night where she's she's trying to
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  Speaker 7: make a really really good pass. And because she's that way,
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  Speaker 7: she's just a That's what makes her one of the
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  Speaker 7: best players in the country is her vision, her unselfishness.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she wants that, she wants that role.
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  Speaker 7: She's not all about I got to have this many points.
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  Speaker 1: She's about I just want to impact the game. And
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  Speaker 1: she can.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's what that's what's so special about the
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  Speaker 7: kid is in and about her not only her mental approach,
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  Speaker 7: you know, but also her her game and their skill set.
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  Speaker 7: She just as we all saw last year when we
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  Speaker 7: played her at point, she she just she can do
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  Speaker 7: it all. And I'm just trying to get her to
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  Speaker 7: do a little bit more in every avenue and.
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  Speaker 1: Help her to realize.
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  Speaker 7: You know, she's shooting forty nine percent on the season,
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  Speaker 7: forty six from three. This time last year, she was
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  Speaker 7: shooting forty two per y'all. So she's way better, way better,
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  Speaker 7: and she's still our leading scorers. She's still somebody I
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  Speaker 7: want to go to, you know, a lot, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think we as a team need to, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think we can do some things with her that
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  Speaker 7: really can keep people uncomfortable. And so, you know, it's
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  Speaker 7: still January. I still put in a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 7: between now in March, and I think that's the challenge
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  Speaker 7: with this team is how much can they absorb. My
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  Speaker 7: veterans can absorb a lot. It's those three freshmen that
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  Speaker 7: I worry about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 12: You mentioned the importance of toughness. I'm sure that you
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  Speaker 12: have ways you coach toughness, but also know that you
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  Speaker 12: recruit it, putting you on the spot here. But do
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  Speaker 12: you have a story about being on the recruiting trail
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  Speaker 12: and seeing toughness and just knowing like this is my
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  Speaker 12: type of player based on that moment.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, Justice Carleton is the most physical high
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  Speaker 7: school kid I've ever seen. Like she head hunts your
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  Speaker 7: chest plate like she ain't trying to dodge you, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and at this level, you know, you got to be
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  Speaker 7: a little bit careful because there's people that will take charges.
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  Speaker 7: But that kid don't dodge contact when she has the ball.
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  Speaker 7: She's head hunting you. You know, she's kind of one
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  Speaker 7: of those full backs that doesn't try to run around you.
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  Speaker 1: She's trying to run through you.
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  Speaker 7: And so but I can't get her to post up sometimes,
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  Speaker 7: and that's with that same mode, if you know what
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  Speaker 7: I mean. I'm trying to get her to really be
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  Speaker 7: an aggressive post up player too, because she's very aggressive
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  Speaker 7: with the ball off the bounce, like she's unbelievably aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: But really really physical kid.
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  Speaker 7: And of course Jordan Lee was a great charge taker
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  Speaker 7: in high school AAU, you know, which again you got
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  Speaker 7: to be tough and physical to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that's something that I noticed when we when
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  Speaker 7: recruiting her. And so those are things that you know,
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  Speaker 7: when you're recruiting kids, you really notice. And again, all
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  Speaker 7: these kids played big minutes in high school and that
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  Speaker 7: takes an amount of toughness too. All these kids were
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  Speaker 7: kids that other teams were trying to get in foul
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  Speaker 7: trouble because for their respective high school teams, if they
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  Speaker 7: could get them in foul trouble, they'd have a chance
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  Speaker 7: to beat them, and so now they come here, well,
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  Speaker 7: it's a way different level dealing with college coaches and
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 7: college players that are trying to get you in foul trouble,
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  Speaker 7: take you out, not let you score. And so it's
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  Speaker 7: not like in high school when you got five bunch.
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  Speaker 7: You know, five players out there that are five to
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  Speaker 7: five double team and you. This level is way different
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  Speaker 7: when somebody doubles you here or plays trying on two
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  Speaker 7: boxing one. It's a way different diamond in two boxing
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  Speaker 7: one than the you know, the the five little ones
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  Speaker 7: that we're trying.
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  Speaker 1: To do it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, quickly, Beck, I'm sorry, Booker out is out rebounding
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  Speaker 8: everybody but your two centers. Is that what makes you
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  Speaker 8: confident that in the four guard lineup because she's one.
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  Speaker 1: Of the four Yeah, no, I think you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 7: Plus, her athleticism and her size at that position really
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  Speaker 7: really allow her to really be a factor both offensively
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  Speaker 7: and defensively. In my mind, you know, in that lineup,
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  Speaker 7: she potentially would be matched up with a four player,
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  Speaker 7: and a lot of times, you know that four player
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  Speaker 7: ain't out there on the perimeter like them other three,
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  Speaker 7: so you don't have to chase them around near as
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  Speaker 7: much as you do that one.
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  Speaker 1: Two, and three.
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  Speaker 7: So sometimes you like playing that position a little more
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  Speaker 7: because all you got to do is lay on them
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  Speaker 7: in the whole little bit or on the block and
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  Speaker 7: den I am down there versus dealing with pick and
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  Speaker 7: roll and somebody driving on you. So but you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think for her, it's just her skill set that
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  Speaker 7: separates her. You know, they're gonna have to make up
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  Speaker 7: their mind who they're gonna put on her, and nine
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  Speaker 7: times out of ten it ain't gonna be good and
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  Speaker 7: for them, and it's gonna be really good for her.
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  Speaker 7: So but I think that's what makes the kids so
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  Speaker 7: dynamic and so special.
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  Speaker 1: We all know she can play point.
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  Speaker 7: She did it last year, and when she got thrown
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  Speaker 7: in the fire, that's not you know, that wasn't her
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  Speaker 7: natural position coming out of high school and coming here.
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  Speaker 7: But I think we did a good job developing her
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  Speaker 7: and she did a great job embracing the challenge of
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  Speaker 7: being our point guard.
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  Speaker 1: And then she's our point guard.
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  Speaker 7: But she wins the three Player of the Year award
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  Speaker 7: with the WBCA, and so you know, that's the thing
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  Speaker 7: about book. That's why she's gonna be great for fifteen
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  Speaker 7: twenty years down the line. People know that at the
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  Speaker 7: next level, they know she can play one, two, three,
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  Speaker 7: and four, and it just really is what allows her
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  Speaker 7: to separate herself when you start looking at you know, again,
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  Speaker 7: even for us, you want players that are multi dimensional,
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  Speaker 7: You want players that can play multiple positions, and she's
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  Speaker 7: certainly that.
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  Speaker 2: And then so there it is the comments from head
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  Speaker 2: coach Fix Shaeffer. Big game tomorrow night, number five Texas,
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  Speaker 2: number eighteen Alabama to loss his total between the two
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  Speaker 2: of them, a rematch of the NCAA second round game of.
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  Speaker 1: A year ago.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
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  Speaker 2: program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone