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Austin and San Antonio's HSFB Contenders, Texas A&M and SMU's Setbacks with Greg Tepper · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: I am following the river down the highway through the
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Speaker 1: cradle of.
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Speaker 2: The Civil War.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to Graceland, Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to Graceland.
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Speaker 3: Some prefer the Paul Simon version. But it's hard to
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Speaker 3: say Willie Nelson's ever done.
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Speaker 2: A bad version of anything. including going to Graceland there.
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Speaker 3: Of course, we hear from the iconic Willie Nelson at
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Speaker 3: 3 o'clock hour every Tuesday. And on this Texan Tuesday
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Speaker 3: in the 3 o'clock hour, we visit with Greg Tepper,
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Speaker 3: the editor-in-chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, who the
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Speaker 3: impression I got from you, Tim, between over the weekend
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Speaker 3: and what we've done this week is that you are
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Speaker 3: definitely ensconced. Not only are we knee-deep into the football
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Speaker 3: season now with the NFL two weeks in and obviously
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Speaker 3: what's happened with college football and high school football, all
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Speaker 3: this stuff kind of comes at you in a tidal
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Speaker 3: wave right now, a rush with it, with everything you got,
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Speaker 3: your daily responsibilities, calling your game on Friday night, all
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Speaker 3: this kind of stuff, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes in waves, right?
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Speaker 4: One of the things that I think is fun and
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Speaker 4: also terrifying about this job is that there's almost no
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Speaker 4: opportunity to sit back and reflect on what you just saw.
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Speaker 4: Because now, that time has become truncated. Basically, by Tuesday morning,
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Speaker 4: you need to be on to the next week because
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Speaker 4: it's coming fast and furious. We got games on Thursday
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Speaker 4: and whether it's in the college ranks or the high
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Speaker 4: school ranks coming. So you've got to get all your
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Speaker 4: stuff done, get all of it out of your system
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Speaker 4: by Monday. Because then on Tuesday, it's got to be
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Speaker 4: on to the next one because it just comes fast
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Speaker 4: and furious. And especially when you're covering the state holistically
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Speaker 4: from widespread. Any opportunity to sit back and look back
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Speaker 4: too far, I think you're just like, you're losing time
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Speaker 4: because there's so much on the horizon that's coming. You
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Speaker 4: got to be moving forward even when you're looking back.
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Speaker 3: Here's where I am reminded weekly of the scope and
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Speaker 3: the expanse of the state of Texas. And I know
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Speaker 3: you would appreciate this. Because sometimes you catch part of
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Speaker 3: our broadcasts, the Texas Longhorn broadcasts. And one of the
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Speaker 3: things that, and we started this a few years ago
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Speaker 3: with our studio anchor, because here's a little bit of
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Speaker 3: inside stuff behind the curtain stuff. Our studio anchor is
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Speaker 3: not in the state of Texas. He's in the state
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Speaker 3: of North Carolina. That's where the network studios are, where
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Speaker 3: it all goes into that. So we have a new
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Speaker 3: studio anchor this year, and Jeff Marson, who's really sharp
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Speaker 3: and for years had been the studio anchor for Mississippi State.
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Speaker 3: So he knows the SEC inside out. He's very, very
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Speaker 3: good on that. But he needed a little bit of
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Speaker 3: education on some of the other colleges in the state
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Speaker 3: of Texas. And I started doing this even with the
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Speaker 3: guy we had before him, who had been the Vanderbilt
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Speaker 3: studio anchor before he was ours.
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Speaker 2: And that was to acquaint them on.
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Speaker 3: The large scale of scope of colleges and college football
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Speaker 3: programs in the state of Texas. This was an idea
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Speaker 3: I got once when I was driving from Manhattan, Kansas,
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Speaker 3: back to Kansas City after Texas had a day game
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Speaker 3: at K-State. And I'm listening to their scoreboard show. And
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Speaker 3: that dude is knee-deep in JUCO scores. Because, you know,
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Speaker 3: JUCOs are big in Kansas. Yeah, Butler County, Cloud, all
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Speaker 3: of those, Coffeyville, all those. And so I got to thinking,
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Speaker 3: I thought, you know, we don't have to go to
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Speaker 3: the JUCO level, like Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine dives
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Speaker 3: that deep into it. However, we could do at least
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Speaker 3: a Division II and Division III in addition to the
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Speaker 3: FBS and FCS scores. So what I then drew up
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Speaker 3: the following week, and we've done it ever since– is
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Speaker 3: to have like a scoreboard thing, and it's usually like
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Speaker 3: the last one he does.
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Speaker 2: Like in the case of the other night, pretty late.
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Speaker 3: In the evening, and we're still waiting to visit with Sark,
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Speaker 3: or we just finished with him, and we were done
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Speaker 3: with the player interviews.
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Speaker 2: We've got a couple more segments we've got to fill.
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Speaker 3: So what I do is I have him do all
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Speaker 3: the SEC score. Well, in the state of Texas, there's
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Speaker 3: only one other SEC team. You'll recap what happened with
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Speaker 3: A & M, which was a doozy last Saturday. Then
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Speaker 3: the other P4s, in that case, the Big 12 with TCU, Baylor,
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Speaker 3: and Tech, the ACC with SMU. Then I have him
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Speaker 3: go to the other FBS G6 schools, so the other
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Speaker 3: American conference schools.
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Speaker 2: And then beyond that, then I have him go FCS.
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Speaker 3: So he goes Southland Conference and then United Athletic Conference,
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Speaker 3: him do that. then Division II with Lone Star Conference.
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Speaker 3: And by the time he gets down to Division III
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Speaker 3: and he's doing American Southwest and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association,
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Speaker 3: some folks may be saying.
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Speaker 2: Where exactly is Schreiner?
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Speaker 3: Where exactly is Southwestern University?
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Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: But that's always a weekly reminder of the scope because
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Speaker 3: there's college football going on at all levels in this state.
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Speaker 4: What's so fascinating to me is that basically as you
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Speaker 4: were going through that, you took a tour of our magazine.
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Speaker 4: Like that is exactly, if you go and you look
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Speaker 4: at the way that our magazine is laid out, we start,
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Speaker 4: it used to be forever and ever, we started with
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Speaker 4: the Southwest Conference. Then Southwest Conference goes by the wayside.
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Speaker 4: The Big 12 became the conference of record in the state.
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Speaker 4: And now we start with the SEC. The SEC is
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Speaker 4: the biggest conference that the Texas team's playing. We do
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Speaker 4: that one, move on to the Big 12, et cetera.
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Speaker 4: You actually flow perfectly through the magazine, but you're right.
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Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. There's now, I think like one
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Speaker 1: of the things whenever.
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Speaker 4: I do like, I'll do like some public speaking. One
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Speaker 4: of the things I'll lead with is I think people
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Speaker 4: know it's like 1,500 high schools across the state. I'll
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Speaker 4: tell people there's 50 colleges, college football teams in Texas,
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Speaker 4: and that catches them almost.
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Speaker 1: More by surprise.
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Speaker 4: Because I think that they are thinking of Texas and
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Speaker 4: A & M, and maybe they're thinking of Texas State, right?
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Speaker 1: Or they're thinking of UTEP.
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Speaker 4: But they're probably not thinking of Southwestern Assemblies of God.
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Speaker 4: They're probably not thinking of UTRGV. And by the way,
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Speaker 4: that's to say that it's a pretty good year.
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Speaker 1: In the non-FPS ranks in Texas right now.
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Speaker 4: You've got two top 10 FCS teams in Tarleton and
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Speaker 4: SFA already.
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Speaker 1: Who have looked fantastic to start the year.
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Speaker 4: You go on the Division II level, you've got UT
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Speaker 4: Permian Basin and Midwestern State are off to really nice
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Speaker 4: starts as well. It's a good year in non-FBS, and
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Speaker 4: it's one of those things that in my job, you
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Speaker 4: almost get more, I think it's the same way with
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Speaker 4: high school, you get more gratification the deeper you go
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Speaker 4: because you realize, oh wait, there's good ball down here.
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Speaker 4: If you're a 6A fan, Go watch some 3A ball
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Speaker 4: and you'll be like, man, some really good football teams. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: there's not as many guys on the sideline, but there's
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Speaker 4: some really good football teams. That, I think, is probably
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Speaker 4: the magic and probably just what doesn't happen in any
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Speaker 4: other state and probably why our state is so singular.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 3: And while the magazine probably does a little deeper dive,
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Speaker 3: for example, you probably.
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Speaker 2: won't hear.
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Speaker 3: Our studio anchor give too many Texas college scores, not
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Speaker 3: too much NAIA stuff. And by the way, there's a
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Speaker 3: new name, isn't it, for the old Southwestern Assemblies of
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Speaker 3: God College?
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Speaker 2: It's a one-person name.
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Speaker 4: Oh, did they change their name to Texas Wesleyan?
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Speaker 2: No, there's another one. It's a person's name.
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Speaker 1: Nelson.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Nelson. Thank you. That's right.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Kind of update my memory.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: Located right there in the heart of Ellis County. But
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Speaker 3: from other levels, obviously, we strive to do that. Same
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Speaker 3: thing that you guys do. And that is inclusive of
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Speaker 3: your Texas Power Poll, that college football power poll that
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Speaker 3: you and the staff and Mike Craven all put together
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Speaker 3: each week and do this. And I noticed the drop
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Speaker 3: of Texas A & M down there to the number
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Speaker 3: four slot. How about your thoughts on the Aggies last week?
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Speaker 4: I did one of my least favorite things on Saturday
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Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter of that game against Kentucky, which
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Speaker 4: is that I texted Mike Craven and said, you were
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Speaker 4: absolutely right. Because, and he took it with the amount
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Speaker 4: of stride that you think Mike Craven took it with.
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Speaker 4: Because even if you go back and you read what
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Speaker 4: he wrote after their.
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Speaker 1: Win over Arizona State, he.
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Speaker 4: And even though they won comfortably, won by like three
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Speaker 4: touchdowns in that game, he pointed out, he goes there,
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Speaker 4: he's like, something's rotten here. Like there's something going on.
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Speaker 4: And he kind of targeted the offense and specifically Marcel Reed.
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Speaker 4: And just said, right now he's not carrying his weight.
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Speaker 4: They're getting away with it because the defense is forced
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Speaker 4: some turnovers. They're getting away with it because they're making
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Speaker 4: some plays in special teams and winning field position battles
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Speaker 4: and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And you can win like that.
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Speaker 4: He goes, but basically, he kind of says, time's going
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Speaker 4: to run out if he doesn't kind of take that step.
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Speaker 1: And time ran out last week. And basically, Kentucky... Didn't
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Speaker 1: turn the ball over.
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Speaker 4: Kentucky was the aggressor on defense, and Kentucky put them
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Speaker 4: in a position where they made Marcel Reed put the
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Speaker 4: ball up. And he was just inaccurate, plain and simple.
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Speaker 4: And that's kind of been the knock on him. He
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Speaker 4: can't make the throws consistently. He makes some dazzling plays.
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Speaker 4: but he can't make those throws consistently. I think that
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Speaker 4: was all of A & M' s worst fears kind of
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Speaker 4: come to fruition there. I thought the defense played okay.
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Speaker 4: I thought they were put in some tough spots because
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Speaker 4: of some turnovers as well as because of some field
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Speaker 4: position issues. But I thought the defense played okay. But
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Speaker 4: the offense is in a tough way right now. It's
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Speaker 4: a bad way. And by the way, it's not like
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Speaker 4: the schedule gets any easier. considering they go this weekend
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Speaker 4: to what has to be a frippy, upset LSU team.
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Speaker 4: on the road to that valley like there's at least
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Speaker 4: six teams on their schedule that are as good or
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Speaker 4: better than kentucky and if they're not beating kentucky at
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Speaker 4: home as what 18 point favorites then it could be
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Speaker 4: a long season for the aggies.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it's an angry lsu team uh as we visit
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Speaker 3: with greg tepper of uh Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
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Speaker 2: And the other one, I wanted to get your thoughts
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Speaker 2: on SMU. I mean, it's been said about, you know.
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Speaker 3: SMU that had a shot to get in the playoff,
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Speaker 3: and maybe they still do.
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Speaker 2: They still have to deal with Miami.
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Speaker 3: They've still got some other big games, but it definitely
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Speaker 3: was a sting. It definitely hurt them taking a step
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Speaker 3: back with that loss at Louisville.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, it's one of those things where
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Speaker 4: on the road against a good nationally ranked Louisville team.
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Speaker 1: If you guys didn't know, Louisville's pretty good.
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Speaker 4: They went toe-to-toe with them, and they went play-for-play with them.
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Speaker 4: But in the end, what ended up costing them is
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Speaker 4: that they just turned the ball over too much.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: You can't be like that on the road and do that.
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Speaker 1: They were minus three in turnover margin. You can't be
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Speaker 1: like that.
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Speaker 4: And there are a couple of throws that Kevin Jennings
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Speaker 4: is going to want back.
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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what turned the game. I'm not
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Speaker 1: here to bury SMU.
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Speaker 4: I think that they went on the road and played
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Speaker 4: a tough team and they came up short. Um, there,
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Speaker 4: there were a couple of things that, that they need
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Speaker 4: to do a little bit better. I think they need
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Speaker 4: to run the ball a little bit better, uh, more
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Speaker 4: consistently if they're going to get where they want to go. Uh, look,
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Speaker 4: this is a, you know, although I thought that Kendrick
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Speaker 4: Raphael had a nice game, they, they just need to
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Speaker 4: shake it off and not let this one of those
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Speaker 4: things where don't let one game beat you twice. That's
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Speaker 4: one of the things that I keep coming back to.
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Speaker 4: If they are able to, you know, with the way
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Speaker 4: that college football is now, you can take a loss
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Speaker 4: and you can still be in the mix, especially a
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Speaker 4: ranked loss on the road in a competitive game. SMU's
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Speaker 4: still in it. But their margin just got smaller. Their
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Speaker 4: margin just shrunk and they can't afford one more of those.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing.
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Speaker 4: And you'd rather that you lose your margin in week
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Speaker 4: 10 as opposed to week three. But such as the
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Speaker 4: breaks there on the hilltop, they've got to come home
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Speaker 4: and regroup and make sure they don't let something.
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Speaker 2: Like that happen again.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's move to the high school ranks. Here's
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Speaker 3: the well-worn out question. Is DeSoto back?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, here's the thing about DeSoto, and I'm
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Speaker 4: going to sound like a broken record here about the Eagles,
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Speaker 4: because they go and they get a win over a
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Speaker 4: previously unbeaten Burleson Centennial team. I think they are better
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Speaker 4: than Burleson Centennial. That's not necessarily surprising. Their defense was really,
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Speaker 4: really good in this game. They were able to bottle
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Speaker 4: up Burleson Centennial and especially reduce them to essentially not
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Speaker 4: being able to run the ball.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: They, the issues for me and where I like, again,
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Speaker 4: I hold DeSoto to an extremely high standard.
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Speaker 1: They've won three titles in the last four years.
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Speaker 4: So when we talk about is DeSoto back, the question
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Speaker 4: is not, are they going to make the playoffs? Yes,
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Speaker 4: they're going to make the playoffs. Are they, my question is,
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Speaker 4: can they win a state championship? And my concerns for
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Speaker 4: them continue to be that offensively.
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Speaker 1: They're really one dimensional.
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Speaker 4: They cannot throw the ball consistently. I mean, their leading
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Speaker 4: passer in this game was Sir Rod Baker. He threw
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Speaker 4: the ball. He went eight for 10.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good passer. Turns out having.
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Speaker 4: One of the best players in Texas high school football
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Speaker 4: is great. The problem is he's playing out of position.
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Speaker 4: And that's not a long-term solution, in my opinion. And
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Speaker 4: that's not something that they can do. They need to
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Speaker 4: find a way to get the ball out on the
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Speaker 4: edge and make it so that they're not stacking the box.
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Speaker 4: Having Theroux Baker is fantastic. They are going to need
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Speaker 4: to find another element to that offense to get where
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Speaker 4: they want to go.
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Speaker 1: Because, by the way, I know we've.
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Speaker 4: All talked about them dropping down and, oh, wow, look
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Speaker 4: how good they are.
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Speaker 1: I will just tell you this.
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Speaker 4: Take a look at 5A Division I and look at
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Speaker 4: the other teams in that classification. Smithson Valley has looked spectacular.
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Speaker 4: Richmond Randall, 3-0. Frisco Lone Star, really strong. Port Arthur Memorial. Angleton,
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Speaker 4: I think, is flying under the radar. I think this idea,
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Speaker 4: I will say this, I'm ready to now say four
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Speaker 4: games in that, yes, I think DeSoto is certainly on
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Speaker 4: that short list of teams that can win a state championship.
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Speaker 4: But any thought that they were a prohibitive favorite in
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Speaker 4: 5A Division I, I think has gone out the window.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I look at Smithson Valley, and you know me,
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Speaker 3: I'm a Dodger fan. I kind of look at them
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Speaker 3: like I did the Dodgers in June, a two-time defending
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Speaker 3: champ who looks every bit the part. Now, the Dodgers
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Speaker 3: had a horrible August, and they're kind of recovering themselves.
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Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens with Smithson going forward. But
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Speaker 3: Larry Hill's got it rolling, and there's no reason to
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Speaker 3: think they won't be a contender and maybe coming out
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Speaker 3: of Region IV, be in that championship game yet again.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we take them for granted just because
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Speaker 4: they're not flashy. It's a very Larry Hill coach ball club.
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Speaker 4: They're not flashy. Now, they are flashier than they have been.
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Speaker 4: Ty Knutson, their quarterback, the Texas commit, is a star,
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Speaker 4: I think. They have a legit blue chipper at the
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Speaker 4: quarterback spot. Hunter Haug, their Texas Tech commit, in the
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Speaker 4: first half last week, had a 40-yard touchdown catch and
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Speaker 4: three defensive touchdowns in.
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Speaker 1: The first half against Porter Maynard. Yeah. They're legit.
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Speaker 4: And I think that that Smithson Valley, maybe it's just
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Speaker 4: because they're in the San Antonio area and San Antonio
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Speaker 4: has been been relatively down the past decade or so
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Speaker 4: kind of from a statewide perspective. But man, like, like,
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Speaker 4: take the scales off your eyes as far as Smithson
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Speaker 4: Valley is concerned, because they are. and if you've forgotten
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Speaker 4: about them, they're the guys with the 5A Division I crown.
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Speaker 4: Just because there's another team there that has a 6A
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Speaker 4: crown doesn't mean that they got the one.
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Speaker 2: The Smiths and Valleys got.
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Speaker 3: Let me also say this, and it may not be
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Speaker 3: a popular opinion in these parts, and I want to
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Speaker 3: make sure I'm clear in saying this. I'm not saying
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Speaker 3: there's a quote-unquote changing of the guard in 6A in
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Speaker 3: the greater Austin area.
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Speaker 2: I will say this.
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Speaker 3: Um you know west lake does not look as dominant
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Speaker 3: as they have been in the past lake travis comes
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Speaker 3: off losing to cornerstone uh and i just last friday
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Speaker 3: night it was a marvelous ball game at six lead
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Speaker 3: changes but round rock did emerge with the win at
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Speaker 3: vandegrift i'm not saying round rock's better on them and
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Speaker 3: by the way round rock will get a chance to
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Speaker 3: prove itself because they're now in the same district with
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Speaker 3: west lake and lake travis but um Maybe between that
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Speaker 3: and an unbeaten Cedar Ridge, maybe we're starting to see
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Speaker 3: a little more.
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Speaker 2: Balance out in 6A in these parts.
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Speaker 1: I like to think about gaps, right?
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Speaker 4: Okay, and so for a long time, we talked about
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Speaker 4: the gap between Austin and San Antonio, that Austin's just
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Speaker 4: had San Antonio's number, plain and simple.
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Speaker 1: I think that gap is closing.
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Speaker 4: I think part of it is that Austin's maybe falling
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Speaker 4: back to the pack and San Antonio is on the rise.
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Speaker 4: Teams like Johnson have been really, really good, a team
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Speaker 4: that I think is a legit state championship contender. The
16:53
Speaker 4: other thing is that I think that that gap between
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Speaker 4: that upper, upper, upper crust, the Lake Travis, the West Lake,
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Speaker 4: the Vandegrift, I think that gap has narrowed because I
17:04
Speaker 4: think that this, what you would call probably, again, I
17:07
Speaker 4: don't mean this disrespectfully, but the middle class of high
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Speaker 4: school football in Austin is rising up. Round Rock, you
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Speaker 4: mentioned that. Cedar Ridge has been fantastic. There's a lot
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Speaker 4: of good football teams in the Austin area that that
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Speaker 4: if you are only paying attention to the big brand names,
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Speaker 4: then you might end up being shocked on a Friday
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Speaker 4: night whenever Round Rock goes and beats Vandergrift. Those are
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Speaker 4: the types of things that I'm looking at, and I
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Speaker 4: think that gap between the Tier 1 and Tier 2,
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Speaker 4: I think that gap has closed, which should make for
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Speaker 4: a real dynamite district season and some real fun playoff
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Speaker 4: chases as we get into.
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Speaker 1: when it hopefully starts cooling down.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: On to the meanest thing we do each week.
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Speaker 3: I give you three games and, uh, it'll be different.
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Speaker 3: Now you've got a Corker this week. You've got North
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Speaker 3: Shore and Tascosita. So that's removed from the equation here,
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Speaker 3: but I've, I've got three others and, and you give
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Speaker 3: me your choice. If you couldn't be there for a
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Speaker 3: North Shore and Tascosita, which of these three, where do
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Speaker 3: you teleport to? Uh, How about down there at Freedom
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Speaker 3: Field for Angleton, Iowa Colony? I have, this one I
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Speaker 3: think could be really a lot of fun, Bernie at
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Speaker 3: Alamo Heights. And then the other one, my old pal
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Speaker 3: Rodney Vinson doing it up with Shallow Water, and they're unbeaten,
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Speaker 3: and they've got Ida.
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Speaker 2: Lou this week. Which of these do you like?
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Speaker 4: Man, that's really what I wish you hadn't put in, Idaloo-Shallowater,
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Speaker 4: because that game's going to be great. First of all,
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Speaker 4: I think Shallowater's really strong. Idaloo might be a team
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Speaker 4: you need to upgrade your priors on. I think Idaloo's really,
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Speaker 4: really good. And the games in Shallowater should be a
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Speaker 4: fantastic ballgame out there. Fascinated by the Angleton game, because Angleton, again,
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Speaker 4: kind of doing the Angleton thing very quietly, off to
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Speaker 4: a 4-0 start. They played District 11 5A D1 play.
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Speaker 4: Richmond Randall will loom for both of these teams. But
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Speaker 4: I'm going to keep my powder dry for that one
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Speaker 4: because I want to keep– when Randall and Angleton rolls around,
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Speaker 4: I'm really interested in that one. I'm going to go
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Speaker 4: with Bernie and Alamo Heights. It's a District 13 5A
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Speaker 4: Division II opener between two state-ranked unbeaten teams. Bernie beat
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Speaker 4: Alamo Heights twice last year, and there is a chance–
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Speaker 4: I think the winner of this game is the district–
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Speaker 4: and therefore will be at least on the very short
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Speaker 4: list of being regional champion. And again, one of these
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Speaker 4: games where it wouldn't be a surprise if we saw
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Speaker 4: it twice. I love Grant Sweeney at the quarterback spot
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Speaker 4: for Bernie. Can he put it up against a really
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Speaker 4: good defense there from Alamo Heights? I think that's my
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Speaker 4: game of the week is.
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Speaker 1: Bernie and Alamo Heights.
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Speaker 2: That's a good call.
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Speaker 3: of fun this week, even as busy as it all is.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot, but it's a good kind of a lot.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's better than digging ditches.
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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Thanks, Tepper.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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