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July 22, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Near my favorite Willie Nelson song to end this first
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  Speaker 1: hour of the program Here on Chip Howard Sports.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome back to.
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  Speaker 1: Chip Howard's Sports Talk here on and all Willie Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: as we get ready to speak with Tory Valdez and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to go out to the phone lines
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  Speaker 1: with Tory.
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  Speaker 9: Tory, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 4: I'm so good. Thank you guys for having me.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it's great to have you on.
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  Speaker 1: Before we start talking about you getting to play at
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  Speaker 1: David Diamond and you know how fun that will be
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  Speaker 1: for a former Aggie All American to come back and
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  Speaker 1: play in this tournament. What did you think of the
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  Speaker 1: first inning of the Spark game the other day. No,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what was that like for you and
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  Speaker 1: your team, knowing that the Sparks had to lose for
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  Speaker 1: y'all to advance, and it just kept It was like
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  Speaker 1: they started going downhill for them, and it was like
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  Speaker 1: so so much fun for y'all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually watched the game as a team and
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  Speaker 4: we went to like a little sports bar there in
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  Speaker 4: Portland that's really close to the field and we just
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  Speaker 4: watched together. You know, we were wearing our pink. We
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  Speaker 4: were cheering really hard for the Blaze. And in this league,
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  Speaker 4: it's so funny because we all have played against each other,
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  Speaker 4: played with one another the format before the AUSL was established.
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  Speaker 4: We were all on rotating teams, so like we have
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  Speaker 4: really good relationships with everyone, but we're like Blaze today,
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  Speaker 4: we're your biggest fans, Like, we need you to win
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  Speaker 4: this game. So for us, once they started to pull away,
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  Speaker 4: we were cheering for every strike, every foul ball that
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  Speaker 4: was hit. Everything, We're celebrating those little wins. And then
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  Speaker 4: it was just like the Blaze, everything was falling their way.
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  Speaker 4: So it worked out perfectly for us, especially not holding
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  Speaker 4: our own state in our head anymore so, knowing that
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  Speaker 4: they came a big time for us. We expected them
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  Speaker 4: to pull at least one. It's hard to be the
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  Speaker 4: team three times in this league. But yeah, after they
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  Speaker 4: won the game, we all celebrated together and really just
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  Speaker 4: trying to soak up these last few days that we
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  Speaker 4: have together as a team.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the new format and getting to six teams
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  Speaker 1: and being permanent teams. I mean, I know the pool,
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  Speaker 1: there were some players that have moved around that have
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  Speaker 1: been in the pool when teams have needed players. But
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  Speaker 1: how much different is it to now be like, this
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  Speaker 1: is my team this year, and you know, is it
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  Speaker 1: a big change from previously or was it because there's
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  Speaker 1: so many players that have kind of had influx into
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  Speaker 1: this and this is their first year and it just
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  Speaker 1: seems like softball to them.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I think last year, the inaugural season, was
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  Speaker 4: a little different because we didn't have home bases. We
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  Speaker 4: were just traveling around, so it's a lot more on
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  Speaker 4: the road. Things didn't feel as established, which of course
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  Speaker 4: is the first time. Like what we were able to
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  Speaker 4: accomplish was incredible, But now seeing from last year to
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  Speaker 4: this year having home bases, being able to create a
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  Speaker 4: home atmosphere with your own fans, and really the buy
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  Speaker 4: in from the communities around like Portland for us has
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  Speaker 4: been quite literally the most insane fan base I've ever
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  Speaker 4: seen for women's sports in general, not just softball, but
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  Speaker 4: they've got also the Portland Fire basketball WNBA team. They
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  Speaker 4: also have the Thorns for the soccer league. So it's
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  Speaker 4: been really really cool to see how the fans show
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  Speaker 4: up and how much this was wanted from the outside
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  Speaker 4: and from a player's perspective, like we got a chance
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  Speaker 4: to play our last three series at home, or no
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, it was actually I think four series at home,
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  Speaker 4: so we got to post up in Portland and really
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  Speaker 4: make ourselves at home and really find a routine. So
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  Speaker 4: I think it definitely helps in that aspect of getting
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  Speaker 4: your feet settled and getting back into a routine, and
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  Speaker 4: while you are playing softball, it helps to have those
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  Speaker 4: those outside factors all kind of line up for you.
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  Speaker 4: So we've enjoyed having home bases this season, and the
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  Speaker 4: fans that have shown up have been great.
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  Speaker 1: In this And i' mean I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time watching this. You know, my daughter's a college softball
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  Speaker 1: player up at Bryant. I love the Little League commercials.
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  Speaker 1: I love everything that the opportunities that y'all show that
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  Speaker 1: previously professional softball really wasn't the target for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people to play it in the United States. You
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  Speaker 1: could go outside this country and women's basketball was like
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  Speaker 1: this twenty years ago, and then they got the WNBA.
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  Speaker 9: It seems like this.
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  Speaker 1: Is a serious attempt to make sure that professional softball
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  Speaker 1: has not just a toe hold but an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: for growth.
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  Speaker 9: And you're on the ground floor.
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  Speaker 4: Of that absolutely, And the cool thing is like being
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  Speaker 4: a part of this is my ninth year professionally, so
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  Speaker 4: it's been cool to be a part of that growth.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the biggest differences you see is it
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  Speaker 4: was never whether people wanted to watch sopball or not.
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  Speaker 4: They've always wanted it, they just didn't know where to
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  Speaker 4: find it. So having the exposure with ESPN AUSL bringing
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  Speaker 4: Kim Ang on to be the commissioner and really behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes, to me is what sets apart the AOSL
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  Speaker 4: from previous leagues that have tried to start. The money
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  Speaker 4: that's involved, the TV deals that are involved the business
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  Speaker 4: side of it, getting the content, like making sure that
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  Speaker 4: we're seen as softball players of course, but also behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes, like what are we doing outside the season,
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  Speaker 4: who are we like, how do we show up, what's
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  Speaker 4: our personality like? Because that's truly what fans want to
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  Speaker 4: see and connect with. And so I think when you
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  Speaker 4: talk about where this league can go, the limit is
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  Speaker 4: truly endless. Now you're seeing play young players say I
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  Speaker 4: want to be in the AUSL and to me, that's
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  Speaker 4: like music to my ears because we've put so much
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  Speaker 4: work in almost the last decade of my life, I know,
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  Speaker 4: long before that, into growing the sport and hoping that
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  Speaker 4: the young athletes that come after us are going to
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  Speaker 4: do the exact same and get more and more for
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  Speaker 4: our sport because that's what we deserve.
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  Speaker 9: Lots of Aggie tize on your team as well. How
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  Speaker 9: fun has this been?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's been so fun. I've really been
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  Speaker 4: like one of the few Aggies professionally for a little while,
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  Speaker 4: so I haven't had the opportunity to play with any
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  Speaker 4: former teammates. I've got to play with Riley Startin a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago in the AU and then Ashley
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  Speaker 4: Walters was a pro for a little bit, so in
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  Speaker 4: my early seasons I got to play with a few people,
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  Speaker 4: but I haven't been able to run into any of
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  Speaker 4: the younger aggies. So now it feels kind of full
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  Speaker 4: circle having kp on our team who just graduated, myself
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  Speaker 4: being class of eighteen, and then Jamie low Price also
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  Speaker 4: our GM class of eight So it's been nice not
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  Speaker 4: just having aggies, but aggies that have spanned generations because
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  Speaker 4: we've actually been able to compare stories and talk about
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  Speaker 4: things in college station that have changed, and so many
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  Speaker 4: things that have come up and been the same or
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  Speaker 4: different throughout our years, and just having someone there that
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  Speaker 4: understands the college experience that you lived, or you know,
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  Speaker 4: the core values that you hold close to your heart.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a little bit different for everybody,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just a sense of understanding with one another,
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  Speaker 4: and I've loved every part of it.
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  Speaker 1: How exciting you are you to get to play at
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  Speaker 1: David Steimon again, I mean, y'all had to watch that
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  Speaker 1: get built. They got it done for that twenty eighteen season,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean it was kind of like something you
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  Speaker 1: could see and touch, but y'all didn't even know if
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  Speaker 1: y'all were gonna get on the field in that last year,
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  Speaker 1: your senior year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I so whenever I committed, the whole stick was
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  Speaker 4: that it would be done by my sophomore or junior year,
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  Speaker 4: And so I got to school sophomore year, we met
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  Speaker 4: Becky and Monty Davis and then we started to like
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  Speaker 4: hang out with them, get to know them. They were
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  Speaker 4: trying to get to know us. And the first thing
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  Speaker 4: that I saw of Davis Diamond was of course, like
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  Speaker 4: the blueprint, all the blue lines on the white paper.
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  Speaker 4: And then eventually we got to move to a VR
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  Speaker 4: headset where I stood in the middle of where Davis
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  Speaker 4: Diamond is right now, put on the headset and or
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  Speaker 4: I guess the eyeset, whatever you call it, and then
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  Speaker 4: looked around at what was going to be Davis Diamond
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  Speaker 4: and I was just so in awe And so then
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  Speaker 4: getting to see it from VR to fully standing playing
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  Speaker 4: on the field, it's been magical. And I think I
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  Speaker 4: only got six games in Davis Diamond and it was
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  Speaker 4: just the concourse and the field that was done. So
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  Speaker 4: it was no locker rooms, no training room, no anything extra,
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  Speaker 4: and we still had to walk over from Old Aggie.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be I think an incredible experience.
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  Speaker 4: To look back on. Definitely going to feel a little
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  Speaker 4: bit nostalgic because I'm going to be back for the
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  Speaker 4: first time in nine years. But also it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: for me to be comfortable in my environment and almost
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  Speaker 4: have those nostalgic moments play out the way I want
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  Speaker 4: them to play out, like getting back to that college
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  Speaker 4: tory mindset and of who I was when I competed
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  Speaker 4: here and merging that with who I am now and
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  Speaker 4: how I compete now. I'm really looking forward to Stephan
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  Speaker 4: back out on the field in front of the twelve
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  Speaker 4: man and.
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  Speaker 9: You want three games?
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  Speaker 1: You want to play half as many games this week
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  Speaker 1: as you did then, don't.
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  Speaker 4: You That's true? Yeah, three for sure, or if we
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  Speaker 4: need it. But I'd love to get three wins while
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  Speaker 4: we're here.
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  Speaker 9: Tell us about the band it's a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, the Bandits. They've got a really good quick lineup,
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  Speaker 4: play a lot of small ball, got some really goods
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  Speaker 4: that have kept a lot of the league. I want
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  Speaker 4: to say down because we've won just as many games
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  Speaker 4: as a lot of the other teams in this place.
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  Speaker 4: But we're all four and one. It's like one big
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  Speaker 4: triangle us the Talons and the Cascade have all been
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  Speaker 4: four and one against one of those opponents. So pretty
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  Speaker 4: even team, but very different put together teams. So the
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  Speaker 4: Bandits are definitely I would say the speedier of the three.
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  Speaker 1: And Mac Barber playing in the outfield, that'll be a
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  Speaker 1: change for Aggie fans to see her play in right field.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what they say, when you hit, you
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  Speaker 4: don't sit, so anywhere they can find a place for
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  Speaker 4: her bat. They'll put her anywhere they need to on
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  Speaker 4: defense to help them get a couple more runs across
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  Speaker 4: the board.
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  Speaker 9: Toy, We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be out there tomorrow night, the families coming out
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  Speaker 1: to watch.
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  Speaker 9: I know that those games.
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  Speaker 1: Are sold out for the championship game. It just speaks
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  Speaker 1: to the excitement level of professional softball. And it's wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to have you represent Texas A and M in it.
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  Speaker 4: And best of luck, thank you so much. Look forward
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  Speaker 4: to seeing you guys at the field for a Cascade win.
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  Speaker 9: All Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's Tory Vedallas as the former Aggie All American and broadcaster.
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  Speaker 1: She knows her way all around the stadium because she
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  Speaker 1: broadcasts games there all the time. But it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: great to see her back on the field. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: change gears now, and we're gonna hear the first part
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  Speaker 1: of coach Elko as he was met the media today.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear the big room here, and then we
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  Speaker 1: will also hear when he takes his question and answers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 9: We'll hear both of it.
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  Speaker 1: But first let's hear Mike Elko as he gets ready
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  Speaker 1: to meet the press here today at SEC media Days.
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 10: Excited to be back here for my third season at
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  Speaker 10: SEC media Day. It's crazy how quickly you go from
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  Speaker 10: being in your first year as the rookie to being
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  Speaker 10: in your third year as one of the more seasoned
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  Speaker 10: veterans in the conference. I guess that's the process of
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  Speaker 10: being in the SEC. I want to follow up a
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  Speaker 10: little bit on what Greg said about the family. Had
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  Speaker 10: a really big summer this summer with my family. I
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  Speaker 10: earned a lot of brownie points last year by starting
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  Speaker 10: this press conference by giving a shout out to my wife, Michelle,
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  Speaker 10: and so I'm going to do the same again this year.
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  Speaker 10: I appreciate everything that she does, all the support that
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  Speaker 10: she gives not only to me, but to our program.
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  Speaker 10: To allow us to do the things to be very successful.
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  Speaker 10: I said, last year, we had a really bad summer,
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  Speaker 10: spent the whole summer moving, and so owed her a vacation,
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  Speaker 10: and so I was actually able to deliver that for her.
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  Speaker 10: We actually did one of our first adult vacations, going
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  Speaker 10: over to Europe and touring across the Mediterranean, so that
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  Speaker 10: was really really exciting. I'm glad Greg cleaned up the
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  Speaker 10: idea that my daughter does not play football. She actually
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  Speaker 10: cheerleads for football. So I want to make sure I
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  Speaker 10: put that out there too, so that she hears that
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  Speaker 10: clearly from me. Hopefully all of that leads to some karma.
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  Speaker 10: You know, we spoke a lot about family life last
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  Speaker 10: year at this press conference, and we're able to go
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  Speaker 10: out and have a pretty good year. Want to be
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  Speaker 10: able to go do the same. We've got some big
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  Speaker 10: milestones next summer. I'll be turning fifty, we'll be celebrating
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  Speaker 10: our twenty fifth anniversary, and our last child.
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  Speaker 5: Will be going off to college.
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  Speaker 10: And so success this year, while always important in college station,
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  Speaker 10: is probably more important than ever because success during the
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  Speaker 10: fall leads to a very happy offseason. It's really cool
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  Speaker 10: to be here in Tampa. This is a place that's
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  Speaker 10: really special to me over the years. I kind of
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  Speaker 10: cut my teeth back in the early two thousands recruiting
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  Speaker 10: the I four corridor from Orlando over to Tampa, and
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  Speaker 10: so it's an area I'm very familiar with.
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  Speaker 5: I have a lot of family over on the.
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  Speaker 10: East coast of Florida, stretching from Jacksonville down to Daytona Beach,
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  Speaker 10: and four years ago my mom and dad relocated over
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  Speaker 10: into the Daytona Beach area, and so I've spent a
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  Speaker 10: lot of time down in Florida.
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  Speaker 5: It's exciting to be here.
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  Speaker 10: It's a really exciting time to be part of the
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  Speaker 10: Texas A and M community, both.
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  Speaker 5: On and off the field.
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  Speaker 10: I want to start my mentioning our new president, doctor
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  Speaker 10: Susan Ballabina. Doctor Ballabino was elected president in May. Really
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  Speaker 10: excited to partner with her as we move forward into
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  Speaker 10: this next era of Texas A and M University. I
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  Speaker 10: think she'll do a phenomenal job providing leadership not only
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  Speaker 10: to our athletics department, but also to our university as
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  Speaker 10: a whole. As we continue to grow the brand of
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  Speaker 10: Texas A and M and continue to grow our reach
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  Speaker 10: across this great country. We are celebrating as a university
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  Speaker 10: our one hundred and fiftieth anniversary this year. That celebration
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  Speaker 10: kicks off this fall when the student arrives. One of
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  Speaker 10: the big events will be our home game this year
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  Speaker 10: against Arkansas, and so we're excited to partner with our
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  Speaker 10: university to help celebrate one hundred and fifty years of
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  Speaker 10: greatness at Texas A and m Our athletic department, under
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  Speaker 10: the strong leadership of Athletic Director trelv Albertz, just completed
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  Speaker 10: one of its most successful seasons in our history. Want
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  Speaker 10: to give a special shout out to our women's volleyball
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  Speaker 10: coach Jamie Morrison. Our women's volleyball team captured their first
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  Speaker 10: national championship ever this year. That was a great journey
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  Speaker 10: to follow and watch, a story of tremendous great and toughness.
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  Speaker 10: Also want to give a shout out to women's tennis
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  Speaker 10: coach Mark Weaver, whose team won their second national championship
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  Speaker 10: in the last three seasons, again going on the road
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  Speaker 10: into Athens and winning in a very hostile environment to
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  Speaker 10: bring home a national championship. I love the culture that
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  Speaker 10: we have amongst our head coaches at Texas, A and M.
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  Speaker 10: I think that's still something that makes college athletics very special,
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  Speaker 10: is the community culture that you're able to share and
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  Speaker 10: sharing the common experiences and success within your campus, and
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  Speaker 10: so exciting that they.
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  Speaker 5: Root for us, Exciting to get out and root.
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  Speaker 10: For them, Exciting anytime we get an opportunity to celebrate
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  Speaker 10: Aggie's success in the athletic scope. Also want to acknowledge
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  Speaker 10: Commissioner Greg Sank.
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  Speaker 5: I think he.
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  Speaker 10: Takes a lot of hits here as the commissioner of
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  Speaker 10: our conference. I think he has kind of become the
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  Speaker 10: forefront for college football in a lot of ways, and
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  Speaker 10: sometimes everything that's wrong with college football gets pointed at him.
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  Speaker 10: But I think he has done a phenomenal job of
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  Speaker 10: leading this conference through an era of historic change. I
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  Speaker 10: think we are going through an era where the pace
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  Speaker 10: of change is unbelievably rapid. The amount of change and
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  Speaker 10: how the game is changing is really unlike any other
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  Speaker 10: time in our history.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the.
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  Speaker 10: Leadership that he shows, the information that he's been able
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  Speaker 10: to provide us as coaches and athletic departments to stay
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  Speaker 10: on the front end of that change has really really
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  Speaker 10: been helpful and impactful as our conference continues to have
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  Speaker 10: a lot of success. As we start to turn our
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  Speaker 10: attention to football, I want to talk about the three
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  Speaker 10: players that we brought here with us today. Want to
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: start with quarterback Marcel Reid Marcel Hills from Nashville, Tennessee.
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: He returns as our starting quarterback. It's his fourth year
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: in the program at Texas A and M really excited
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: for his growth. I think what you saw last year
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: was him really start to scratch the surface of what
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: he's capable of as a starting quarterback. Been really proud
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: of how he's handled this offseason. I think he's remained
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: extremely humble. I think his work ethic has been phenomenal.
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  Speaker 10: I think he has put a lot of time in
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: to become the quarterback that he's capable of becoming. And
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  Speaker 10: I'm really excited for what he's going to do this
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  Speaker 10: fall on the field. I also think he does a
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: phenomenal job representing our university, his role in the Brian
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: College Station community, what he's done from a community service
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: effort standpoint. Just recently, he hosted a football camp for
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: youth in the Brian College Station area that had between
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: six hundred and seven hundred kids at it really excited
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: that we were able to bring him here. He was
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: our leading vote getter as a captain, and we like
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: the way he has stepped into that leadership role for
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: this team as we head into the fall. Linebacker Damian
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Sanford another one of our captains. He was our second
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: leading vote getter. Damian's a kid who I have a
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: ton of history with. Actually reminded him this on the
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  Speaker 10: plane coming over here today. He didn't remember this, but
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  Speaker 10: as a junior his team captured a Texas five A
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  Speaker 10: high school state title. They actually did it against College
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  Speaker 10: College Station High School, which is where both of my
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  Speaker 10: boys were attending at the time, and so they went
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  Speaker 10: out and they beat College Station for the state title.
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  Speaker 10: We offered him at Duke shortly after I got the
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: head coaching job there. Actually convinced him to silently commit
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  Speaker 10: to us at Duke before really bursting on the scene
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: that spring of his junior year and ultimately settling on
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: an opportunity to go to Texas A and M. He
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: blossomed into one of the best linebackers that I've been
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: able to coach at Texas A and M. Extremely explosive,
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: dynamic blitzer really made an impact on games when he
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: became a full time starter for US last year, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: really really looking forward to what he can do this year.
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  Speaker 10: But I think the story that best sums up what
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: kind of kid he is is this. Many of you
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: are aware that he had a pretty bad injury during
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: the spring game. He required surgery, committed to getting back
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: as quick as he can. The game was on Saturday,
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: he had surgery on Monday. He got released from the
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: hospital on Tuesday, And when I walked into our end
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: of semester meeting Wednesday morning at ten am, he was
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: sitting in a front row seat. And that was not
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: because we asked him to be there, that was of
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  Speaker 10: his own accord.
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  Speaker 5: And so I just think he's.
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: A tremendous character kid, a tremendous leader. He will get
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: back healthy this year and really go out and blossom
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: on the field. The third player that we brought with
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: us is safety Marcus Ratcliffe Marcus Hiles from San Diego, California.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: Marcus was one of the first kids who committed to
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: US out of the transfer portal when I got hired
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: at Texas A and M and so it feels as
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: though he's kind of been with us from day one.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: He's played an integral part in helping build our culture.
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: He's a tremendous leader, he's a tremendous character kid. He's
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: really become one of the better safeties in the conference.
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  Speaker 5: We're excited to see what he's able to do out
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: here this year.
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  Speaker 10: In the fall story on him behind the scenes, he's
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: put together one of the most thoughtful charity initiatives I've
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: ever witnessed as a college football player. He created the
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: Mission three to twelve program three for his jersey number
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: twelve for the twelfth Man. It's a mission that helps
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: give money to World War Two veterans, and so his
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: organization donates three hundred and twelve dollars for every turnover
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: that we cause on defense at Texas A and M.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: May have raised over thirty thousand dollars for army vets
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: for World War Two. And so just a really, really
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: cool kid who's really done some amazing things with his
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: platform and his opportunity to represent Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 5: As we turn our chapter.
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  Speaker 10: Away towards the twenty twenty six football season, I think
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: it's important to look back on some of the highlights
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: from twenty twenty five. Greg mentioned some of these, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: just want to put him into a capsule. Eleven wins
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: on the field for the first time in a really
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: long time for our program, first playoff appearance ever, led
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: the NCAA with thirteen players represented at the end of
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: felt combine, led the SEC with ten players drafted. Those
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: are the markers of success that we want our program
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: to become known for year in and year out. We've
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: talked an awful lot about at Texas A and M
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: becoming a program that people talk about the success that
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: we have on and off the field, not what we're
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: capable of being, and I think those are the markers
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  Speaker 10: year in and year out that we need to be
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: able to compete to complete in order for us to
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  Speaker 10: continue on this journey to success. I'm also equally proud
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: of some of the things that we accomplish off the field.
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  Speaker 10: Three point oh seven yearly GPA, the highest we've had
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  Speaker 10: in Texas A and M football history. Sixty nine student athletes,
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: including fifty eight of our eighty five scholarships over a
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: three point zero in the spring, over five hundred hours.
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: Like Greg said, of community service, but that was made
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: by ninety percent of our roster participating in some type
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: of charitable work, and so we are continuing on our
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  Speaker 10: mission of developing not just elite football players, but elite
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  Speaker 10: men who are going to be ready for the world
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  Speaker 10: that comes at them.
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  Speaker 5: When football is over.
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  Speaker 10: Also want to take an opportunity to thank the twelfth
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: man for their continued support. As Greg pointed out in
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: his opening presser, the SEC averaged eighty thousand people at
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: their home games last year at Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 10: We said an attendance record, averaging one hundred and six
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: thousand people at our home games. That's one hundred and
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  Speaker 10: three percent capacity in our stadium on average.
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  Speaker 5: And so they continue to find ways.
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  Speaker 10: To come out and support this program at unbelievable levels
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  Speaker 10: and forever thankful and grateful for the support that we
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  Speaker 10: have in college station at Texas A and M. As
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: we move into this season, we're excited for year three.
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  Speaker 10: We're excited with the roster that we've put together. We're
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: excited with the competition that we're going to have. As
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: we head into fall camp, we know we've got a
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  Speaker 1: As we are listening to Mike Elko at SEC Media Days,
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  Speaker 1: we heard his opening statement in the last segment. Now
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: let's hear the Q and A from the big room
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  Speaker 1: here in Tampa at SEC Media Day's twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 18: Jerevery THIRDEO dot Com coach Mario Craver, he kind of
• 28:53
  Speaker 18: exploded on the scene.
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  Speaker 15: Was kind of his ceiling like in his offense this year.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's really high. I think he's one
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: of the more explosive, dynamic slot receivers I've been able
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  Speaker 10: to be around. I think he does a really really
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  Speaker 10: good job of creating separation. He plays bigger than his size.
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  Speaker 10: I think he's going to have a really really big
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: year for us if he can find a way to
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: stay healthy and be consistent week in and week out as.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: We go through this season.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, we'll go straight here on this other side of
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  Speaker 8: the island, just right across heyk.
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  Speaker 18: You mentioned earlier how it's the first time y'all have
• 29:27
  Speaker 18: had a quarterback coach that wasn't the coordinator. What are
• 29:30
  Speaker 18: some of the advantages with that and what is Joey
• 29:33
  Speaker 18: Lynch brought so far?
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think the biggest advantage is is you have
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: a guy in that building who spends every minute of
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: every day worried about developing our quarterbacks. And that's certainly
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: no disrespect to coach Klent. Colin did a phenomenal job.
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: But when you're the offensive coordinator as well, you've got
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: a lot of other things to worry about. You got
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: practice planning, you've got scripting, you got making sure the
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: meeting's run right.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: You got to focus on the run game. When you
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: have a full.
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: Time quarterback coach like we do now with coach Lynch,
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: his sole priority every day is to create a plan
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: not only from oursell but for each of our quarterbacks
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  Speaker 10: to grow and develop every single day. And so I
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: think he's done a phenomenal job of putting a plan together.
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: And then I think each of our quarterbacks has done
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: a really good job of putting in the extra work
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: to come in and execute that plan. And so I
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: just think the dedicated time to the position enhances the
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: ability for a little bit more detailed growth in that room.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: Hey, we'll go in the section in front of me
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: about midway back.
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  Speaker 19: Tony Katalina twenty four to seven Sports coach. Obviously you
• 30:32
  Speaker 19: talked about Mario Kraver, but you guys brought in Isaiah
• 30:35
  Speaker 19: Horton from Alabama six to four.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: Guy Premium X receiver.
• 30:40
  Speaker 19: Marcel was really excited about his addition. Can you just
• 30:42
  Speaker 19: talk about what the priority was to get him on
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  Speaker 19: this program and just what he can do for this offense.
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we've been searching for that size guy really since
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: we've gotten there, and you know, when Noah Thomas left,
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: we didn't really have that replacement.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: And I think.
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: Going out and getting a guy who has the ability
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: to have a big catch radius, who can make the
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: contested catches, who is a difficult cover regardless of how
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: close you are to him, just because he can make
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: contested catches and catch himself open. Been really excited with
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: his development through this offseason. I think he's really bought
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: into what we're trying to do and become a really
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: really good route runner. And so I think when you
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: talk about the combination of Mario Isaiah along with Ashton,
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: Bethel Roman and Terry Bussey, I think we've got a
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: lot of depth in that wide receiver room to be
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: really really explosive.
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: Coach, We'll go be here on our middle aisle right
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  Speaker 8: in front.
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  Speaker 20: Hey, Coach Nickolausa from WOG and Athens, can you give
• 31:36
  Speaker 20: us some insight on the decision making to promote Holman
• 31:40
  Speaker 20: Wiggins from within to offense a coordinator than looking elsewhere.
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we did both. I think we ran
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: a national search. I think we interviewed and talked to
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: a lot of guys. But I think one of the things,
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: one of the mistakes sometimes we make is is we
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: assume different is always better, and I think, in my
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: experience is that's not always the case. And so I
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: knew who Home was. He's an extremely intelligent football coach.
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: He's got a lot of experience, not only at Texas
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: A and M, but also in this conference. I think
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: has a resume of unbelievable offensive success, has done a
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: phenomenal job of enhancing our wide receiver room, and so
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: just have a ton of confidence in who he is
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: as a football coach and what he's capable of doing
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: as he moves into that role. And so obviously he'll
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: have to take the step of calling plays, but I
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: think everything else he has already accomplished at an elite
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: level in college football, and somebody had to give him
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: an opportunity, and I didn't want it to be another program,
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: and so we decided to make the move ourselves.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: Okay, we'll stay in the center ow over here on
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: the left.
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  Speaker 21: Hey, coach court Samuels of Inside Texas, I just want
• 32:46
  Speaker 21: to see if you can comment on the differences of
• 32:49
  Speaker 21: maybe game planning and scheming from when you enter the
• 32:52
  Speaker 21: conference up to now continue to considering the games of
• 32:55
  Speaker 21: all so much.
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think probably one of the biggest things that
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: has happened is the has slowed down. I think I
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: just talked about this on Digital Row a little bit.
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: I think, you know, with the way we can talk
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: to the linebackers now, the way the coach offensive coaches
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: can talk to the quarterbacks, I think the need to
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: communicate has become more of a premium and I think
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: that has changed the game a lot in terms of
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: what people are doing at the line of scrimmage, how
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: people are operating at the line of scrimmage. I also
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: think that the transfer portal has impacted depth among rosters
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: a lot, and so you've kind of moved away a
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: little bit from these uber high paced, fast paced offenses
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: because I don't think they have the ability to sustain
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: that anymore over the course of an entire season. And
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: so I just think that there's always evolution in the game,
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: and I think it's shifted more to A at the
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: line of scrimmage, put some emphasis on the quarterback because
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: the head the offensive coordinator can talk directly to him
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: at the line of scrimmage. And then I think defenses
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: have had to be able to use the communication with
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: the linebackers to be able to holve and stay up with.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: That, We'll go over to our right hand side.
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  Speaker 20: Hey, coach Bruce Marshall from w HBQ in Memphis. I
• 34:09
  Speaker 20: apologize for wearing the Texas shirt. I got confused looking
• 34:13
  Speaker 20: at the schedule. I promised tomorrow to wear my A
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  Speaker 20: and M shirt when coach Circusian talks perfect anyway, just
• 34:19
  Speaker 20: to get that out of the way. Real quick question
• 34:20
  Speaker 20: about the NIL Just trying to wrap my head around
• 34:24
  Speaker 20: it a little bit. And maybe this is something Derek
• 34:27
  Speaker 20: Miller would be I should you ask him. But A
• 34:31
  Speaker 20: and M has quite a nice mill operation going. But
• 34:35
  Speaker 20: institutionally across all the sports, is NIL money earmarked for
• 34:40
  Speaker 20: specific sports or is it general across the whole ethletic department?
• 34:45
  Speaker 20: And does basketball and women's sports do they have their
• 34:49
  Speaker 20: own Derek Miller's who kind of solicit for those sports?
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: That's a deep question.
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: First, when you said Neil, I thought we were talking
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: about soccer for a second.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: I think we have tried to do and be a
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: very strategic program and athletic department in the NIL era.
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: I think as we move forward, it's not lost the
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: impact that NIL has in acquiring talent, and not that
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: you want to be in the world of being at
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: the highest end or buying people, so to speak, but
• 35:25
  Speaker 10: the value that you're able to provide your student athletes.
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: It enables you to retain and attract some of the
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: best talent, and so it's not lost the impact that
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: NIL has. And so I think we've just tried to
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: be extremely strategic, not only as a football program, but
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: as an athletic department and how to navigate that space
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: as we move forward. Related to other programs within our university,
• 35:47
  Speaker 10: I wouldn't want to comment on how they run their program. Certainly,
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: Derek Miller for US does a really really good job
• 35:54
  Speaker 10: of partnering with our athletic department to make sure that
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: we're funding things at the level.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: We need to to be able to compete and be successful.
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: As we'll go in the middle and the section right
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  Speaker 8: in front of me.
• 36:05
  Speaker 18: Hey, Mike, Alex familiar with the Brian College station Eagle.
• 36:08
  Speaker 18: You and some of your players have really mentioned the
• 36:10
  Speaker 18: need or the desire to create more turnovers this coming season.
• 36:14
  Speaker 18: I'm just curious how you go about, you know, coaching,
• 36:17
  Speaker 18: teaching your guys to tangibly do that and improve in
• 36:20
  Speaker 18: that area.
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think turnovers is a skill. I think your
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: ability to punch an attack at the football and cause
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: turnovers is a skill, just like blocking, just like tackling,
• 36:31
  Speaker 10: just like catching. And so I think we've spent some
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: time in film work trying to show and illustrate where
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: turnovers come from. Show some opportunities last year where we
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: had opportunities to create them and we didn't do it properly.
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: Then you try to go out all off season and
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: drill it to the best of you can. I also
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: think ball skills has been a major emphasis point for
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: us on defense. Obviously, we did not have a lot
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: of or enough interceptions last year, and so some of
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: that is maybe being a little bit more zone coverage
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: driven and wanting to give ourselves an opportunity to do that.
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: But another big piece of it is just having better
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: ball skills. And so I think we put a lot
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: of onus on our second third level, to get on
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: the jugs more, to catch more footballs, to make that
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: a bigger priority in our offseason drill work, just so
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: that we can enhance ball skills across our defense.
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: We're going to stay in that same section. A couple
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: of Rose.
• 37:24
  Speaker 22: Back Carter Carls on three Mike You and Marcel had
• 37:31
  Speaker 22: mentioned going into last season and in retrospect that maybe
• 37:35
  Speaker 22: the criticism around him not being a passer was a
• 37:39
  Speaker 22: bit unfair. I'm curious if you feel like maybe people
• 37:42
  Speaker 22: still doubt him and what maybe people get wrong about
• 37:45
  Speaker 22: him still.
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah, No, I think the narrative around Marcel has been
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: pretty fair. I think he's evolved into a dual threat quarterback.
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: I think a lot of people recognize that. I think
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: at his highs, he's an elite quarterback. I think he
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: knows he's got to play at that consistent level. And
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: that's not just him, that's us as an offense. That's blocking,
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: that's running, that's catching, that's everything. And I think we
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: know if we can play at his best consistently, he
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: has an opportunity to hit a really, really high ceiling.
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: And so I think last year there was a narrative
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: that he couldn't throw.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: I thought that was a little bit unjust.
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: I think this year, I think people have recognized what
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: he's capable of now, which.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: We're going to go to the back right hand side
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: of the room all the way and near the back
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: of the room.
• 38:29
  Speaker 15: High coach Jacob werlind k r Ui sports after last
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: year's playoff run, how do you keep this team from
• 38:36
  Speaker 15: becoming satisfied?
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: I show him our trophy case and it's empty, and
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: I think they're all very aware of that, and so
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: you know, I think, you know, listen, we live in
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: a lot of worlds, and so we're obviously happy with
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: the things that we accomplished. We're happy with the direction
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: of our program. But it's also not lost on us
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: that we haven't won the hardware that we're searching for.
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: And so you know, that gets us into a mindset
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: of growth and getting back to work to go finish
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: this thing a little bit better than we did last
• 39:06
  Speaker 10: year and put ourselves in a better position maybe to
• 39:09
  Speaker 10: compete for some trophies.
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: Okay, we're going to go straight in front of me.
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: Second row Kirk kurk Bolson, he's the chronicle.
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  Speaker 3: Mike I've known Texas and Oklahoma coaches that have told
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: me they prepare a little bit every week of the
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: year for any other rival. Robert Rige, do you subscribe
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: to that kind of thinking or you wait till the
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving week? And I'm curious if a day goes by
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: without you being reminded of a Texas game by Aggie fans.
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: No, I don't probably have a day go by without
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: being reminded how important that game is to me.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: But that's okay.
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: I think that's what's great about college rivalries is the
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: passion that our fan base has for that game, and
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: certainly is matched by their fan base for that game
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: as well. I think, not only because of the rivalry,
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: but also because of the status of both pro I
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: think it would be naive to not say that we
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: put a little bit of extra work into preparation for
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: that game, because you know that game inevitably is going
• 40:10
  Speaker 10: to mean an awful lot. It has for the last
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: two seasons, not just because of the proximity and the rivalry,
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: but because it seems to have playoff and SEC championship
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: implications as well. And so when you put all of
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: that into that game, it certainly makes a little bit
• 40:26
  Speaker 10: of sense.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: To give it some extra preparation.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: We're going to go down the centerisle all the way
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: towards the back of the room.
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: Coach Raymond parks with ESPN one oh three seven Lafayette.
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: You bring back a ton of skill position guys. You
• 40:39
  Speaker 13: bring back a ton of guys on the back end
• 40:41
  Speaker 13: as well. On your defense the line of scrimmage. You're
• 40:45
  Speaker 13: having to break in a lot of new guys on
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: both sides of the football. My question to you is
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: how much confidence do you have that you and your
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: staff are going to get them ready for such a
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: tough schedule.
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: I gotta have confidence because the schedule's coming and we
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: got to be ready.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: We don't have much of a choice. No. I think
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: two things.
• 41:02
  Speaker 10: I think one, we've had more We've had more defensive
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: lineman drafted than any program in the country since I
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: got to Texas A and M in twenty eighteen, and
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: so we have gotten into a rhythm of replacing d
• 41:14
  Speaker 10: linemen that have been drafted. I think last year at
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: this time, there was a very similar conversation. We had
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: just had three draft picks, one first rounder, two second rounders.
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: We were talking about how we were going to be
• 41:25
  Speaker 10: able to replace that talent, and we did it with,
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: you know, a second rounder and two third rounders, and
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: so I think we were able to replace it at
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: a really high level. We've got to be able to
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: go do it again. Now we can't just talk about it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: We got to go do it. And so we've got
• 41:40
  Speaker 10: to elevate the players that we have in the program
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: and get them into a position where they can go
• 41:45
  Speaker 10: out and they can compete at the level that has
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: become the standard of our defensive line on the other
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: side of the ball. I think we've done everything that
• 41:52
  Speaker 10: we possibly can to create an environment.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: For us to be successful.
• 41:55
  Speaker 10: You know, we went out and we added four transfer
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: portal guys who had starting experience in the SEC. We've
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: recruited at a really high level. We have some extremely
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: talented young players who are chomping at the bit for
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: their opportunity, and so what that has created is a
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: ton of competition for those spots, and so I think
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: competition always elevates, and so our goal is to make
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: sure coming out of fall camp we have an offensive
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: line that is ready to cohesively function together and play
• 42:25
  Speaker 10: at the level we need them to play. To go
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: be successful and you know, whether we get that done
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: week one, two, three, that's got to happen as quick
• 42:32
  Speaker 10: as it possibly can.
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: We'll take one final question about midway back on our right.
• 42:38
  Speaker 23: In CINERA coach rynch prior Columbia Missourian. In your time
• 42:42
  Speaker 23: at Texas A and M, you've had a lot of
• 42:44
  Speaker 23: success on the road. What do you credit to your
• 42:47
  Speaker 23: success on the road, especially in a conference like the
• 42:50
  Speaker 23: SEC We're winning on the road is such a big deal.
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it was such a big emphasis point
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: for me when we took over because we had had
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: such struggles. I think I took over had been since
• 43:01
  Speaker 10: twenty twenty one. Actually at Columbia Missouri was the last
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: road game we had won in the conference, and so
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: we knew in order to take the next step and
• 43:09
  Speaker 10: the next hurdle that we wanted to take, winning on
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: the road was going to be a big part of it.
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: As you looked at our schedule last year, some of
• 43:16
  Speaker 10: the daunting road trips that we had on the schedule,
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: winning on the road was going to be a big
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: part of it.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: And I just think when you play in this conference.
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: You have to dedicate a lot of time to playing
• 43:26
  Speaker 10: in environments that are going to be really, really uncomfortable,
• 43:29
  Speaker 10: because that's where success is going to get defined. And
• 43:32
  Speaker 10: certainly this year is no different. We've got some daunting
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: road trips again that we're going to have to take
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: this year, and so it's just something we spent.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: A lot of time on.
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: We start installing our cadences in springball. It's become part
• 43:45
  Speaker 10: of our base operation, how we're going to function in
• 43:48
  Speaker 10: those environments. We start really drilling down on in fall camp,
• 43:52
  Speaker 10: and I just think it's as big a part of
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: how you play offense nowadays is anything you do because
• 43:58
  Speaker 10: you know success is going to be such a big
• 44:00
  Speaker 10: part of what happens in those games.
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: All right, that's Aggie coach Mike Oco.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: And how about that hadn't won anything yet. He understands
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: this is not just about getting to the playoffs. He
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: wants to win the whole thing. And I think that's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that's a great attitude to have because he has this
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: program moving up now. You got to replace a lot
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: of NFL guys. But I think that looking at the
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: all SEC teams that have come out. The official one
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: isn't out yet for the league, but you know at
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of Aggie's getting overlooked.
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: I'll just say it like that.
• 44:37
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  Speaker 9: And John was up at Conference.
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  Speaker 1: USA Media Days yesterday, got to talk to the same
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  Speaker 1: Houston State folks. So what were your impressions of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the bear Cats up there and how they were received?
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  Speaker 1: As are they the third or fourth most senior team
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  Speaker 1: in Conference USA?
• 48:14
  Speaker 28: Now, it depends on how you look because they're still
• 48:17
  Speaker 28: pretty young. They had a lot of guys transfer out
• 48:21
  Speaker 28: a few years ago. They had fifty six guys into
• 48:23
  Speaker 28: the portal going into last season. And you know, the
• 48:28
  Speaker 28: thing that coach Longo really talked about was the normalacy
• 48:32
  Speaker 28: that this team is starting to find in year two.
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  Speaker 28: That you know, they had ninety three guys in spring
• 48:39
  Speaker 28: ball was the most he's had in his three plus
• 48:41
  Speaker 28: decades of coaching college football. They have forty six forty
• 48:47
  Speaker 28: seven guys that returned from last year's team. So maybe
• 48:51
  Speaker 28: they're not senior Leyden in that sense, but they may
• 48:55
  Speaker 28: be the most it increased experienced team. Because he talked
• 49:01
  Speaker 28: about in his press conference last year, we were coaching
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  Speaker 28: a whole new roster of how that they wanted to
• 49:07
  Speaker 28: do things, and he was having to coach new coaches
• 49:09
  Speaker 28: on how that he wanted to do things as a
• 49:12
  Speaker 28: first year head coach. Second year, they bring back almost
• 49:15
  Speaker 28: the entire staff. The only guy that's new is their
• 49:18
  Speaker 28: offensive line coach Jack Bickle Junior, who has coached with
• 49:21
  Speaker 28: Longo at North Carolina and Ole Miss and Wisconsin, and
• 49:26
  Speaker 28: everybody else's back. So he's really preaching that, you know,
• 49:29
  Speaker 28: even if we still have younger guys, we have more
• 49:32
  Speaker 28: experience going into year two.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: And that's normally how it is the case. I mean
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: you the antithesis of that would probably be Mike Elko
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: coming back to Texas A and m in such a
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: short time. People that were here that were still on
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the team walked in and he looks out and he sees,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: you know, half the people that are in the in
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the in the seats in front of him are people
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: that he recruited. That's a little bit different story and
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: not what you normally see, and that's what coach Longo had.
• 49:59
  Speaker 28: To go absolutely. You know, he talked about in the
• 50:03
  Speaker 28: roster building last season that they had recruits on campus
• 50:08
  Speaker 28: every single weekend until the first weekend of August. Once
• 50:11
  Speaker 28: Nancaa says, you have to have your roster set. And
• 50:14
  Speaker 28: this year, having those ninety three guys on campus, getting
• 50:18
  Speaker 28: to run through spring drills, having an established quarterback in
• 50:22
  Speaker 28: Land and Locke who's going to enter the season as
• 50:24
  Speaker 28: the starter for the first time after starting the last
• 50:27
  Speaker 28: three games last year, all that has allowed them to
• 50:31
  Speaker 28: have more normalcy. That's the word that he loves to use,
• 50:34
  Speaker 28: is that he has guys now that are able to
• 50:37
  Speaker 28: turn around in line and talk to the new transfers
• 50:40
  Speaker 28: and talk to the new recruits and say, hey, this
• 50:43
  Speaker 28: is how we do things here, and this is why
• 50:45
  Speaker 28: we do things here. And they didn't have that at
• 50:48
  Speaker 28: all last year.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Another thing they didn't have last year was a home
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: stadium to play. And it sounded great that you were
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: going to go down to Houston and play. Pretty quickly
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: it showed that that was going to lead to a
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: very difficult season. Tell us about the stadium on campus
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: when it's going to be ready, and how excited this
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: football team is to get out there on that field
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: in front of their own fans and their own students.
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  Speaker 9: That are you.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Know, like they said, yes, I guess hey, you're five
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: minute walk from coming to watch a football game.
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  Speaker 28: Now absolutely, you know, the athletic director Bobby Williams and
• 51:25
  Speaker 28: the university president, doctor Alisha White, went around, looked at
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  Speaker 28: all the different press boxes across the state of Texas,
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  Speaker 28: across Conference USA, and it looks beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 28: You drive up and it's on the top of the
• 51:40
  Speaker 28: hill over by where all the athletic fields are on campus,
• 51:44
  Speaker 28: and it's a real crown jewel on that part of campus.
• 51:48
  Speaker 28: But the guys are very excited. We had linebacker Dean Ford,
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  Speaker 28: who's a red shirt sophomore this year, who actually got
• 51:54
  Speaker 28: to experience games at Bauer Stadium on that twenty twenty
• 51:58
  Speaker 28: four team when he was rehabing an injury. He got
• 52:00
  Speaker 28: his senior year and he talked about the difference last
• 52:03
  Speaker 28: year versus that first year was immense.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 28: Coach Longo talked about he didn't really realize how big
• 52:12
  Speaker 28: it would be to not have fans. He calls it
• 52:15
  Speaker 28: the twelve Roade Games of twenty twenty five, that they
• 52:18
  Speaker 28: were having to get on a bus and drive two
• 52:20
  Speaker 28: hours down to downtown Houston to play, and then when
• 52:23
  Speaker 28: they got down there, nobody was cheering every time they
• 52:27
  Speaker 28: got a touchdown. There was no energy every time they
• 52:30
  Speaker 28: you know, would score or get a turnover or something
• 52:32
  Speaker 28: like that. Those momentum swings that you're used to in
• 52:35
  Speaker 28: college football, the crowd erupting and everybody getting excited wasn't present.
• 52:40
  Speaker 28: And so when land In Locke talked to me, he
• 52:43
  Speaker 28: expressed that he was excited to finally get to play
• 52:45
  Speaker 28: at Bowers that some of these older guys that stuck
• 52:48
  Speaker 28: through the coaching change that are like, hey, it's different.
• 52:52
  Speaker 28: Whenever you have your fans there. You know, you get
• 52:55
  Speaker 28: everybody that's able to tailgate before the game and the
• 52:59
  Speaker 28: buzz around town and then absolutely right the students a
• 53:02
  Speaker 28: five minute walk up the hill from the dormitories and
• 53:05
  Speaker 28: from the campus buildings that are just able to go
• 53:08
  Speaker 28: and experience college football is what It's truly like. It's
• 53:11
  Speaker 28: going to be really special. It opens up to the
• 53:14
  Speaker 28: media on Thursday, July thirtieth, so that's gonna be really
• 53:18
  Speaker 28: exciting to get to go in there see that see
• 53:20
  Speaker 28: what's been improved for really the first stadium improvement in
• 53:25
  Speaker 28: over forty years since they built Bauer Stadium in Huntsville.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Landon Locke, the quarterback I guess because what you just
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: told me a little bit of tidbit about the Locke family,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: and I guess he would have been there sitting on
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the couch when something pretty special happened to his brother.
• 53:42
  Speaker 28: Yeah, he's the younger brother of Brandon Locke, who's now
• 53:45
  Speaker 28: at Charlton State, but was originally recruited by Mike Leach
• 53:49
  Speaker 28: to go play at Mississippi State. It's you know, Coach
• 53:53
  Speaker 28: Longo talked about his connection with Mike Leach and the
• 53:56
  Speaker 28: fingerprints that are on this program from coach Leach and
• 53:59
  Speaker 28: the air raid and what they want to do. But
• 54:01
  Speaker 28: just really cool to know that connection of Brandon Locke
• 54:05
  Speaker 28: was the last quarterback recruited to Mississippi State that actually
• 54:09
  Speaker 28: put on the uniform before Mike Leach, you know, unfortunately
• 54:13
  Speaker 28: passed away. And he's been a little bit of a journeyman.
• 54:16
  Speaker 28: He played for Phil Longo, he transferred up there after
• 54:19
  Speaker 28: coach Leach passed away, and Windon played at Wisconsin, started
• 54:22
  Speaker 28: some games there and now he's at Tarleton. But Landon,
• 54:26
  Speaker 28: you know, was recruited to Wisconsin and then when coach
• 54:29
  Speaker 28: Longo got the job at Sam Houston, decided to come
• 54:32
  Speaker 28: back and he told me, you know, he had never
• 54:33
  Speaker 28: been to Huntsville. He had been committed to coach Longo
• 54:36
  Speaker 28: for so long that he never took any visits elsewhere,
• 54:40
  Speaker 28: and then as soon as he came to Huntsville, he
• 54:42
  Speaker 28: you know, was just how close it is to home.
• 54:45
  Speaker 28: The atmosphere, you know, getting to come off of ten
• 54:49
  Speaker 28: and three season where they won the New Orleans Bowl
• 54:52
  Speaker 28: and seeing what's capable at Sam Houston really is what
• 54:54
  Speaker 28: sold him to come with coach Longo. And he's really
• 54:57
  Speaker 28: excited having an offseason entrenched as the starting quarterback and
• 55:01
  Speaker 28: getting to take those next steps in his development.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: On the Players to Watch list that was put out
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: by Conference USA, give us a couple of the other
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: names of who the league thinks could be stars for
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Sam Houston.
• 55:15
  Speaker 28: Yeah, the first one I think that sticks out the
• 55:17
  Speaker 28: most is Ultimatecaskell. They run an air raid offense, but
• 55:21
  Speaker 28: coach Longo also wants to run the football. He joked
• 55:24
  Speaker 28: in his press conference. You know, Mike would talk to
• 55:26
  Speaker 28: him weekly and ask him for some kind of wrinkle
• 55:29
  Speaker 28: and then he would never hear back from him until
• 55:31
  Speaker 28: the next week because he would send him a run
• 55:32
  Speaker 28: play and so Ulti mccaskell he was at the University
• 55:37
  Speaker 28: of Houston two years ago. Before that was playing high
• 55:40
  Speaker 28: power for college football, and I believe Arizona started off
• 55:46
  Speaker 28: started off the season with the bang and then got
• 55:50
  Speaker 28: hurt and struggled through some injuries, but still ended up
• 55:53
  Speaker 28: being the cats leading rusher and then also on the
• 55:56
  Speaker 28: offensive line. Tim Burns Junior. They have him listed as
• 55:59
  Speaker 28: a kick returner to Walt, but expecting him to take
• 56:02
  Speaker 28: the next step forward as a receiver. Had over two
• 56:04
  Speaker 28: hundred receiving yards last year and probably had the biggest
• 56:07
  Speaker 28: play of the season, had a kick return for a
• 56:10
  Speaker 28: touchdown against Oregon State, which started a second half comeback
• 56:13
  Speaker 28: that saw Land and Locke actually enter the game in
• 56:17
  Speaker 28: that comeback and lead SAM Houston to their first win
• 56:20
  Speaker 28: of the year when they were at zero to eight
• 56:22
  Speaker 28: and sitting on top of the bottom ten on the
• 56:24
  Speaker 28: ESPN rankings that week. But he's going to be a
• 56:27
  Speaker 28: guy that they're looking to get more out of. He's
• 56:29
  Speaker 28: an explosive athlete.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, John, we appreciate it, Thanks so much.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: That's a look at SAM Houston State as down the
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: road to hospital. Next week, they opened up the new
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Bauer Stadium and a lot of Sam Houston fans were
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: looking forward to that.
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: We'll be right back. Here's Chip to tell you about Burdette.
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, not Burdett and Sons. Is it okay?
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, Burdett and Son has been part of
• 56:53
  Speaker 11: our community for a long time. Barry and Sarah carrying
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: on the family tradition outdoors, whether it's gunsmithing, and you know,
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: this is the time of year, not August or September,
• 57:07
  Speaker 11: when you realize, hey, it needs work, it needs cleaning,
• 57:11
  Speaker 11: and needs sighting. They do that every day, reloading equipment, clothing,
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: camo rifles, pistols, shotguns, ammunition. They have guns on consignment
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: as well. They carry black Rifle coffee. The folks there
• 57:33
  Speaker 11: live outdoors. You're going to get people that are knowledgeable
• 57:38
  Speaker 11: and that's very important and local and that's very important.
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: You can follow them on social media Burnett and Son.
• 57:47
  Speaker 11: Go see them. Ten fifty five Texas Avenue, next to
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: Chili's