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Steve Sarkisian on the development of Cam Williams · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craig Way Show. Have a
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  Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundreds. Right away,
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Parker talking about good times in radio. Over the years,
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  Speaker 2: I've often heard this described as the best job in
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  Speaker 2: the worst industry.
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  Speaker 3: In the country.
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  Speaker 4: Can be that way, but fortunately we're comfortably ensconced with
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  Speaker 4: our iHeart family. We're talking about in the past some
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  Speaker 4: other things from Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkasian. Okay, the
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  Speaker 4: College Football Playoff, Frankie, Now, nobody, to my utter amazement,
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  Speaker 4: yesterday on the SEC teleconference asked sark and again, we're
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  Speaker 4: talking about like fourteen hours after the first unveiling, the
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  Speaker 4: first release of the College Football Playoff or the first reveal,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it, from the CFP committee,
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  Speaker 4: where Texas is number five. But if the regular season
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  Speaker 4: ended today with those exact same rankings, that actually slided
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  Speaker 4: into the sixth position, because you would have to have
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  Speaker 4: the BYU rising up from nine to four to be
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  Speaker 4: in to draw first round by so nobody asked sark
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  Speaker 4: about it on the SEC teleconference totally flummengst me. And
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  Speaker 4: so I was going to ask Sark about it on
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  Speaker 4: Longhorn Weekly, which we recorded last night.
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  Speaker 2: Again it comes up a couple hours from now at
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  Speaker 2: seven o'clock. Well, it didn't even get to me. Having
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  Speaker 2: asked Gene, one of the big the biggest of big
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  Speaker 2: Longhorn fans, who's there, miss Gene, I asked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on the question cards that get sent out, what are
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  Speaker 2: your impressions of the first CFP rankings? And I brought
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  Speaker 2: up the fact that nobody asked him about and telegovery.
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  Speaker 2: He laughed about that, and he said, you have to
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  Speaker 2: ask me about like injuries and like, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna release an injury report tonight.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I waste a question on that.
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  Speaker 2: But then he did address it, and he addressed it
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  Speaker 2: in a very similar fashion when he was asked about
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  Speaker 2: it this morning in his media zoom.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna answer that,
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  Speaker 5: but I think this is important. You know, what was
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  Speaker 5: that Tuesday night they did that the CFP rankings came
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  Speaker 5: out and we were actually having dinner as a staff
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  Speaker 5: at that time. We can always get together, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Monday and Tuesday nights, just to kind of get out
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  Speaker 5: of the monotony of looking at film, and.
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  Speaker 1: We watched it.
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  Speaker 5: It just happened to be when we were eating and
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  Speaker 5: the show was kind of on and you could hear
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  Speaker 5: and I was kind of watching even our staff talk
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  Speaker 5: about this team, that team, and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 5: And what it hit me with is the popularity of
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  Speaker 5: college football right now is at an all time high.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is.
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  Speaker 5: Incredible that we're talking about a twelve team playoff ranking
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  Speaker 5: system that with brackets in November, at the start of November.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I was thinking myself, so, are they gonna
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  Speaker 5: do brackets like they do for March Madness? Is that
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  Speaker 5: what's gonna happen now? Are people gonna be doing this
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  Speaker 5: in college football? And you know, whether it happens or not,
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  Speaker 5: but to think, like, so, we're gonna play Alabama in
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  Speaker 5: the first round of the playoffs and dk R, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like how exciting that is? And I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: that's how it's gonna play out. Probably not, there's so
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  Speaker 5: much football to be played. But on the flip side,
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  Speaker 5: that next morning, I came in to talk to the
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  Speaker 5: team and I kind of said, give me a show
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  Speaker 5: of hands.
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  Speaker 1: Who watched the CFP show last night.
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  Speaker 5: And it was a spattering of like maybe the room
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  Speaker 5: if that like, because I think so many of our
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  Speaker 5: veteran players know, I don't even know where we were
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  Speaker 5: ranked last year in the first CFP rankings, and then
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  Speaker 5: the result was we ended up being ranked third and
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  Speaker 5: we made a fourteen playoff, And so I just think
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  Speaker 5: so many of our older players know this is way
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  Speaker 5: too early to worry about where our ranking is.
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  Speaker 1: What we need to worry.
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  Speaker 5: About is what we do, and we need to focus
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  Speaker 5: on our preparation. We need to focus on the way
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  Speaker 5: we play. And that is the value of having John
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  Speaker 5: Day and Jake and Kelvin and gunner Helm and so
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  Speaker 5: many of these guys that have been through it now
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  Speaker 5: to think, like, guys don't worry about what they're saying.
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  Speaker 5: We need to be worried about what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So Sark was then asked about the athletic department at
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  Speaker 2: the University of Texas and fact that so many teams
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  Speaker 2: are experiencing success.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Botherball's a two time national champion and.
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  Speaker 2: They're ranked soccer will play Arkansas tonight in the SEC
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  Speaker 2: Women's Soccer Tournament semifinal round. Texas is the number three
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  Speaker 2: seed there. We know about all the other teams that
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  Speaker 2: have had so much success, you know, going back over
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  Speaker 2: the past year, and he was asked what it's like
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  Speaker 2: to have his program and to think of the fight
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  Speaker 2: as part of a thriving athletic department in the role
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  Speaker 2: that Chrystal Conti, CDC, the athletic director, has had in
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  Speaker 2: all of this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been incredible.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've been speaking on this since the day
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  Speaker 5: I got here four years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Of just.
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  Speaker 5: I'm inspired every day by the other sports and the
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  Speaker 5: other teams that we have on the forty acres. We
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  Speaker 5: go on a head coach's retreat once a year, and
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  Speaker 5: to think I'm sitting in the room with some of
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  Speaker 5: the greatest coaches in the sports history that they coach,
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  Speaker 5: never mind current time, and so to be able to
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  Speaker 5: pick the brains of them, to be able to watch
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  Speaker 5: and support our teams has been something I'd love to
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  Speaker 5: do in my time here and will continue to do.
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  Speaker 5: We've We've got We've got a couple of new faces
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  Speaker 5: now on staff and looking forward to watching them and
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  Speaker 5: compete with their teams. But it's a great challenge because
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  Speaker 5: we also know at the University of Texas we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get everybody's best shot every time that we take the
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  Speaker 5: court or the field, and so I think learning and
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  Speaker 5: being inspired from one another has been huge for us.
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  Speaker 5: So again, wishing everybody the best of luck on their
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  Speaker 5: journey here this season. You know, some of us are
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  Speaker 5: already in the middle of it, some of us are
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  Speaker 5: just getting started, some of us won't start until spring.
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  Speaker 5: But we've got a great athletic department that CDC has
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  Speaker 5: done a fantastic job of assembling, and he's assembled the
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  Speaker 5: best coaching staff in the country in my opinion. You know,
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  Speaker 5: from top to bottom twenty one Sports and those coaches
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  Speaker 5: then have assembled some of the bag the best teams
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  Speaker 5: in the country and the best staffs in the country.
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  Speaker 5: So but it starts at the top, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 5: with with Chairman l Type and President Hartzell.
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  Speaker 1: But you know they've they've handed the.
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  Speaker 5: Keys to to Christo and he's done an amazing job
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  Speaker 5: and we couldn't be more fortunate.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally one other question for Sark, and it
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  Speaker 2: was about the fact that this Saturday, there's a couple
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  Speaker 2: of things being recognized. First and foremost, it is Military
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  Speaker 2: Appreciation Day, and again Nate Boyer is our special guest tonight,
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  Speaker 2: so if you join us for that, you'll hear more
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  Speaker 2: on that. That's one thing. And Sark was in his
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  Speaker 2: in his Camo Longhorn hoodie last night for the program.
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  Speaker 3: So that's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: And then the other thing is this Saturday, they're celebrating
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  Speaker 2: the one hundredth anniversary of Daryl K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's really close. It's not exactly one hundred years to
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  Speaker 2: the day. I think that was Thanksgiving of nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 2: four against Baylor. I think was the first game with it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's one hundred years. It's been around. It's all
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  Speaker 2: most to the day, one hundred years. And Sark was
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  Speaker 2: asked for his thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's an amazing arena, amazing building. You know, when
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  Speaker 5: you when you have a programs like ours University of Texas,
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  Speaker 5: and you think about the great teams, the great players,
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  Speaker 5: the great coaches that have that have you know, competed
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of that field, that have walked those sidelines.
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of what I do every Saturday when I
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  Speaker 5: show up to games. I don't know if you all know,
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  Speaker 5: but I go for a walk and it's just to
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  Speaker 5: kind of get get myself to be where my feet are,
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  Speaker 5: and I have moments of reminiscing and like to think
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  Speaker 5: about Darryl k Royle on this sidelines, or A or
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  Speaker 5: A mac Brown or or v Y or you know whomever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I could go on and on and on, but the
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  Speaker 5: point is like, how fortunate we are to be part
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  Speaker 5: of this this team, to be part of this university,
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  Speaker 5: to be part of this program knowing the greatness that
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  Speaker 5: was here before. I mean, I think about what was
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  Speaker 5: it like. I didn't get to see, you know, Earl
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  Speaker 5: Campbell run. I didn't get it. I didn't get to
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  Speaker 5: see Ricky Williams run. But what was it like? And
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  Speaker 5: how electric was the stadium for some of those moments.
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  Speaker 5: And so we try to create a great atmosphere for
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  Speaker 5: our fans. We try to play football the right way
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  Speaker 5: to where they're proud of the way that we play
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  Speaker 5: the game. We're not gonna win them all every week,
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  Speaker 5: but we try to play in a way that our
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  Speaker 5: fans and those that are in attendance, are proud of
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  Speaker 5: the way we play and that we're representing Longhorn Nation.
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  Speaker 1: The right way.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and by the way, I did.
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  Speaker 2: Do some research on this and it looked at it
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  Speaker 2: and it was against Baylor, and it is almost one
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  Speaker 2: hundred years to the day. It was November eighth of
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  Speaker 2: nineteen twenty four, which the one hundredth year anniversary would
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  Speaker 2: be tomorrow, so it's certainly close enough. As it was
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  Speaker 2: November eighth, nineteen twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: It was a Saturday, and they and.
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  Speaker 2: They lost that day to Baylor, their first ever game
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  Speaker 2: in the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: They lost twenty eight ten.
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  Speaker 2: They got the first win, but if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get your first win a m on Thanksgiving on November
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventh of nineteen twenty four, they went five to
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  Speaker 2: three and one that year, and yeah, but that was it.
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  Speaker 3: The one hundredth anniversary of that first ever game at
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  Speaker 3: dk R Texas Memorial Stadium was that day.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
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  Speaker 2: program on AM thirteen under the Zone