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Vic Schaefer speaks on the Texas/Texas A&M rivalry · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Obviously Texas, Texas A and M is going to headline
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  Speaker 1: across the nation in collegiate sports as as well as
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  Speaker 1: in the Greater Austin area and in the Brass Valley
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  Speaker 1: in basketball. As we mentioned, Texas men are in action
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night against Delaware State. That is an eight
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  Speaker 1: o'clock tip all, by the way, because it's being done
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  Speaker 1: at the SEC network plus. So that's an eight o'clock tip.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have plenty of time to recover from trip
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  Speaker 1: to fan overload and you know, eating all the turkey
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  Speaker 1: and dressing and all that other coinsts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Craig. Hopefully Delaware State does not have any
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  Speaker 2: travel issues. Like their football team in Hawaii, that was tough.
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  Speaker 1: They did win last night over a team called Penn
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  Speaker 1: State Wilkes Barry and beat them pretty handily. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so they'll play Delaware State on Friday night and then
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  Speaker 1: of course the Texas women as we speak are in
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  Speaker 1: the air right now, flying the southwest Florida, flying down
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  Speaker 1: to the Fort Myers area. They're going to play in
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  Speaker 1: the Gulf Coast Showcase. That's a They play this in
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  Speaker 1: an arena that seats about nine thousand, eight thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Something like this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a bad building. It's kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: AGB Center in Cedar Park's a little older, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not a bad building and not a bad tournament field
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  Speaker 1: as well. They have some good teams in there, including
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  Speaker 1: a team that they could conceivably play in the championship,
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  Speaker 1: an unbeaten West Virginia team and long wards. Head coach
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  Speaker 1: Vic Schaefer was asked about how this trip to Florida
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  Speaker 1: over the Thanksgiving we can break will help in terms
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  Speaker 1: of connecting his team and continuing to work on that
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  Speaker 1: all important bonding thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm excited about it. I think our kids are
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  Speaker 3: excited about going on the road. But you know, the
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  Speaker 3: gauntless fixing to start for us. We have three straight
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  Speaker 3: you know, easy it could culminate with a you know,
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday night, if we take care of business, could
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  Speaker 3: have to play at top ten, top twelveteen in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, we got a lot of work to
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  Speaker 2: do before we get to that point.
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  Speaker 3: You come home late Sunday night, You leave on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: to go to US to South Bend to play Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame and on Thursday on National TV.
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  Speaker 2: Come home late Thursday night and.
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  Speaker 3: Leave again on Saturday to go on the road again,
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  Speaker 3: and then we we've got another one on the road
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  Speaker 3: after that and then a home game with South Dakota State,
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  Speaker 3: who's top twenty five always in the NCAA tournament. Well, coach,
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  Speaker 3: right before Christmas, so you know, the gauntlet's here for us,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got to be ready to go. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to take this team on the road kind of
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  Speaker 3: get away a little bit. And I loved our focus
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  Speaker 3: at to Paul and so now we'll see what it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be like in Fort Myers.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit different there in Florida, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: with the three games down there, and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: take a little longer. So this is something that comes
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  Speaker 1: up every year when a team travels over a holiday,
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  Speaker 1: a holiday, be it Thanksgiving, Christmas, there's always that h
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  Speaker 1: word that comes into play, homesick, not being there with
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  Speaker 1: your family for the holiday. And so how does he
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  Speaker 1: as a head coach and his staff help the players
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  Speaker 1: who might feel a little homesick, especially the younger ones
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  Speaker 1: freshman or sophomores on Thanksgiving Day with the team in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And I know our friend Jeff Jones from kV You
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  Speaker 1: also had a question in the mix here about this,
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  Speaker 1: but here's Vick's thoughts on how he deals with the
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  Speaker 1: team in countering that situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we usually Thanksgiving is usually a tournament weekend,
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  Speaker 3: so we're usually gone on Thanksgiving. I will say this,
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  Speaker 3: I won't be gone next Thanksgiving, and y'all can figure
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  Speaker 3: out why. But I'm we're gonna be at home next
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  Speaker 3: next week, next year, I promise you.
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  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, we are typically gone.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm a big traditional Thanksgiving day meal guy.
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  Speaker 3: I like turkey and dressing. We don't have stuffing, we
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  Speaker 3: have dressing. If I was at home, I'd be making
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  Speaker 3: my mama's homemade dressing.
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  Speaker 2: I've got her recipe and it is off the chart.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Always going to go over to the Bontain to my
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  Speaker 3: guy Jimmy Wyckel's place there in La Grange and get
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  Speaker 3: me some homemade pies, or I'm gonna go get them
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  Speaker 3: up in Marble Falls at the cafe at.
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  Speaker 2: The Blue Bonnet. I'm always gonna have some good desserts.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, we'll have a good traditional day
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  Speaker 3: meal in Fort Myers and and uh, and then we
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  Speaker 3: got to play Friday, Saturday, Sunday back to back to back.
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  Speaker 3: We have to play every night at seven point thirty,
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  Speaker 3: which is not my I've never had to do that, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been in a tournament.
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  Speaker 3: And I got stuck at the same time every day,
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  Speaker 3: especially at late, you know, late at night, and so
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  Speaker 3: that'll be a challenge for us to navigate a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll get through it. But you know, our kids
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  Speaker 3: are I think, excited about going and playing in a tournament.
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  Speaker 3: And you know they made the comment yesterday, man, the
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  Speaker 3: game against Charleton seems like a month ago. And uh
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  Speaker 3: so they're ready to get you to play, and we're
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  Speaker 3: fixing to play a bunch of them in a short
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  Speaker 3: period of time. And just for quick clarification, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to bring the pies with you to Florida or you
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  Speaker 3: have here.
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  Speaker 2: No, I probably won't be able to bring them with me,
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  Speaker 2: but uh.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's always It's always something I've always looked forward to.
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  Speaker 2: My mother always made a great.
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  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving meal, and you know, with with the turkey and
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  Speaker 3: dress and the mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, corn,
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  Speaker 3: homemade rolls, and then she always had some great pies,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, we've just tried to carry on that tradition
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  Speaker 3: in my family is as we can.
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  Speaker 2: And when I've had the kids over on Thanksgiving, we
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  Speaker 2: we have it as well. So but now I won't
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  Speaker 2: be able to bring them with me.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good idea, you know, let me put my
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  Speaker 3: mind to that. It might be a good idea to
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  Speaker 3: put them on a plane and take him with us.
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  Speaker 1: So then that also asked the question of Vic Schaeffer
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  Speaker 1: about this matchup with Texas A and M. The reporters
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to talk to Vic about the end because remember,
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  Speaker 1: Vick is seeing it from both sides, both the A
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  Speaker 1: and M and Texas side. He was a longtime assistant there.
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  Speaker 1: He went to school there obviously, so he was asked
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  Speaker 1: about Texas A and M. And did he feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Aggies had to bring it against Texas every single
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  Speaker 1: time when he was coaching in Collin Station, And does
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  Speaker 1: he feel the same way now with these roles somewhat reversed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you have to remember when we got there in three,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, coach Conrad was coming off of the Final
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  Speaker 3: four that they had destroyed us at Arkansas in the
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  Speaker 3: second round the NCAA tournament the year before, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: and and so the league was so good, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there were several teams that were really good.
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  Speaker 2: They were in the top ten.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we were just trying to keep our
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  Speaker 3: head above water. They left us a nice little Division
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  Speaker 3: three team, you know, over there to try to compete against,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Texas is of the world. And so
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was a struggle. But we slowly but surely,
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  Speaker 3: you know, built it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that.
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  Speaker 3: As time as it happened, and I think coach retired
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  Speaker 3: and then I think that the streak is either eleven
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  Speaker 3: or thirteen straight. And again, we Coach and I understood
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  Speaker 3: the importance of winning those games because when we got there,
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't we couldn't beat Texas on a kid. We
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  Speaker 3: couldn't beat Baylor on a kid. We couldn't beat Texas
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  Speaker 3: Tech on a kid. So we were going to recruit
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  Speaker 3: the state of Texas. We were going to get the
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  Speaker 3: fourth best player. And you can't do it. You can't
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  Speaker 3: catch anybody getting the fourth best player in the state
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  Speaker 3: of Texas every year.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? And so we.
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  Speaker 3: Knew, you know, we had to we had to hang
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  Speaker 3: our hat on something, which was our defense, and slowly,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just kind of creep around and try to
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  Speaker 3: catch up, and then you get you know, you get
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  Speaker 3: lucky on a kid or two, and next thing you know,
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  Speaker 3: you you know, you're you're playing hard in your guarden.
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  Speaker 2: And and so, uh.
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  Speaker 3: We understood the importance of that game in the big
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  Speaker 3: picture for us to try to survive and be a
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  Speaker 3: factor in this you know, as a as a as
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  Speaker 3: a basketball team in the state of Texas, because at
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  Speaker 3: that point it was Texas, it was Texas Tech, and
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  Speaker 3: really it was steven F.
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  Speaker 2: Austin when coach was at steven F. Austin.
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  Speaker 3: Those were the three schools that were committed to women's basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody else was committed. They had teams, but they weren't committed.
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  Speaker 3: Texas and Texas Tech and Steven F. Austin were three
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  Speaker 3: of the best teams in the country. But it was
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  Speaker 3: because their administrations were committed, and part of that commitment
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  Speaker 3: was having good coaches, and then those good coaches understood
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  Speaker 3: the importance of recruiting. So yeah, it's it's something that
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  Speaker 3: we certainly understood, respected and it's it's really what motivated
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  Speaker 3: us day in and day out, And it's why they
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  Speaker 3: hired us there because we were Texas guys and they
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  Speaker 3: knew that that we had had success recruiting the state.
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  Speaker 2: We had been a part of the state in coaching
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  Speaker 2: for so many years.
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  Speaker 3: And the bottom line is, y'all, there's if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to function it at the University of Texas or an
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  Speaker 3: A and M or anywhere else, if you can't recruit
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  Speaker 3: this state, it's gonna be hard for you. Men, it is,
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard for you. So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: what you see right now in football. Both those schools
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  Speaker 3: are going head to head, you know, in recruiting a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, we're just we feel like at Texas
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  Speaker 3: we ought to constantly being the running for the best
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  Speaker 3: players in the state.
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  Speaker 2: So we make it a priority.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the thoughts of Vick Schaeffer. We'll be back
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's show and the week going into
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  Speaker 1: the holiday on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.