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Steve Sarkisian on the challenges of facing Brent Venables and Oklahoma · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
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  of the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: You probably noticed that we weren't rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Back with yacht Rock today, which we normally do on Wednesdays,
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  but we had so much going on today on the
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  Texas o U week, we decided just to step back
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  and step away from the yacht rock for one week.
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  But it'll be back. I promise we'll roll it back
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  in for all of the reasons. Because Cameron Parker misses
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  the yacht rock, right you becoming.
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  Speaker 2: We'll bring it back. Oh yeah, for sure, Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's hear a little more from Longhorn's head coach,
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  Steve Sarkisian. This is from the SEC teleconference. This this
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  next answer to a question is a question that in
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  the inverse was kind of directed at Lynn Venables minimals.
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  Excuse me, Brent Mivinnibles, the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners,
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  because I was perusing and watching all of that the
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  news conference.
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  Speaker 2: This is.
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  Speaker 1: A question about matching up mentally in the chess match
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  with Brent Vinnibles, the Oklahoma Sooners head coach.
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  Speaker 2: A ton of respect for coach Venibles.
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  Speaker 3: He's been a great defensive coach for a long long time,
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  multiple stops. His defense definitely has a lot of personality
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  to it. You know, there's a lot of defense. They
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  play hard, they they play with amazing effort. You know,
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  they're they're very opportunistic. They create turnovers, and that's everywhere
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  he's been in this Oklahoma defense is no different. You know,
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  I think they're one of the leaders in the countries
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  in the country in sacks. Uh, they're one of the
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  leaders in turnover and turnover margin, and they you know,
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  they can create a lot of havoc and I think
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  that all is a byproduct of his style of defense
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  and the way he calls it to barry gress in
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  nature and creates a lot of challenges.
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  Speaker 1: There was a similar type question posed to Brnt Venables,
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  but it was more along the lines, well, I mean,
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  it was kind of like that, but it was really
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  kind of directed into the whole element of a chess match,
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  Venables being the defensive guru against Sark the offensive specialists,
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  and it was kind of the direction a little bit
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  about that. He talked about Brent Vinibles defense Venibles when
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  he was asked about it. So I never really don't
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  look at it that way, you know, he said, he
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  I don't look at it as a chess match of
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  how I do my defense act on how he does
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  his offense with this and this, and he went on
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  into some other reasons as well. But folks are going
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  to go there naturally, because that was truly Brent Venables
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  area of concentration. What he built his reputation on is
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  being an outstanding defensive coach.
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  Speaker 2: And we all know what the reputation.
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  Speaker 1: Is for sarka as an offensive play caller and an
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  offensive mastermind of when it comes to college football. So
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  that's going to be a natural comparison and conversation that
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  folks have on them.
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  Speaker 2: That the other thing, when you flip it the other.
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  Speaker 1: Way and you talk about the Texas defense against the
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  Oklahoma offense, this is when you think about it. It is
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  kind of a unique question put to Sark about his
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  defense gearing up for Michael Hawkins junior, the freshman from
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  Frisco Emerson. How Hawkins is, now in Sark's fourth season
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  at the Helm as head coach for Texas, is going
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  to face his fourth different starting quarterback for Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: I have not enjoyed. I think you said it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the norm, you know, in this day
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  and age of you know, just the reality of that position,
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  the reality of the climate of college football right now.
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  You know, it's more about the scheme and then and
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  then getting the feel for the quarterback within from year
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  to year. I mean, even that the scheme has changed some.
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  You know, they obviously lost their offensive coordinator. Coach Levy
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  is now Mississippi State too, so you know, have the
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  set there last year as an analyst I think has
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  helped them. But that's what I was saying about us
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  this year, We're we're really the anomaly. Having a third
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  year starting quarterback in Quinn is probably more of the
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  anomaly than you know, the turnover at the quarterback quarterback
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  position that a lot of people have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, He mentioned Seth Latrell, who had been an analyst
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  there at OU. After Seth Latrell been at North Texas
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  I think seven years and took him to a couple
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  of bowl games before he was fired from North Texas
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  and he signed on with Oklomb. Of course, Latrell played
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  at Ou in the nineties to early two thousands, and
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  then he was an analyst. Now now he's the offensive
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  coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Brent Vinnable's there, and then
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  something off the grid. As always, always, always, the question
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  is going to come up. And when you're on an
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  SEC teleconference, and I've mentioned this before and I'll continue
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  to mention this, you are fielding questions if you're a
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  head coach on this conference call, because every all sixteen
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  head coach has participated. It starts like at ten in
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  the morning, goes to at like one o'clock in the afternoon,
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  and there's like between five and ten minutes for each coach,
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  and there are writers, broadcasters, bloggers, fan site writers and
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  reporters of various sorts who are all on this conference call,
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  on this teleconference, and you're invariably going to get questions
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  from reporters from different parts of the country, in other words,
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  not from the state of Texas, from Florida or South
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  Carolina or Kentucky or Georgia, and they'll l ask a
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  question that folks down in these parts very well know
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  you know how Sart's going to answer it or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Then you get questions like this, and.
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  Speaker 1: It can only come really and truly from one of
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  two places, Texas or Oklahoma, and the question is has
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  he ever had a Fletcher's corny Dog or any other
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  state fair food. That question was put to Sarks, so
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  you know it had to be a reporter's question coming
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  from either inside the boundaries of the state of Texas
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  or Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: I have not enjoyed I think you said, a corny dog,
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  and have not had a chance to really to partake
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  in the state Fair. But I know it's a great time.
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  I know our fans really enjoy it. It's always fun
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  when we show up to the stadium. We kind of
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  drive through the fair and see the fans from both
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  Texas and OU and the that they have in both programs.
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  Very unique setting for a football game, and I think
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  that's what makes this game so special, is just that
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  it being at the Fair and there's almost as many
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  people outside the stadium, or more people outside of the
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  stadium there are inside the stadium. The fans getting split
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  right there at the fifty ton of energy in the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: So it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe if we win, I'll try to find
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  a corny dog or something.
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  Speaker 1: Sarta does not remember this apparently from his answer there,
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  but I'm going to remind him of this this evening
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  when we're recording Walghorn Weekly over at Pluckers the West
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  Campus location. Yes, it is Wednesday, so we're back to
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  having Coach Sark back on.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We took a week off during the bye week, but
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  we're back and we normally record the program from six
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  until seven. I think we're going to start a few
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  minutes earlier tonight so that Sark and the team can
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  get over to the Ut Tower for the Texas Fight Rally,
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  because that actually starts at six point thirty with students
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  gathering and all that sort of stuff, But the program
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  itself starts at seven, So we're going to begin our
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  recording of the show a few minutes prior to seven
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  o'clock to six o'clock so that he can be done
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  a few minutes prior to seven and get over there
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  with the team for the Texas Fight Rally. Here's where
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  I'm going with this. Two years ago, the question was
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  brought up to Sark about all the deep fried foods
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  and things like that. If you're going to ask Sark
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  about a deep fried food at the State Fair, don't
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  go coin dog, don't go turkey leg don't go any
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  of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Sark has a sweet tooth.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the desserts, and he said there might
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  be something there, and I rattled off the list. I'm
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  going to do it again tonight, the recording some of
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  those desserts because you uncovered a few other ones, didn't
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  you camp Yeah, well extra ones. All right, we'll go
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  over some of those in four o'clock hour. But he said,
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  if we win, then I might go. Well, that was
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  forty nine nothing two years ago. So somebody went out
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  and brought him like I think it was the thing.
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  I had the bisco offer something in the bowl and
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  chocolate and all this other kind of stuff, and he
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  loved it. So I'll remind him of that as Hey,
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  the last time you did that, you had just won
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  forty nine nothing.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back and wrap up our number
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