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The Craig Way Show LIVE From SEC Media Days · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: Here on a Thursday afternoon and beautiful sunny, warm, humid
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Speaker 1: as well, Tampa, Florida here on the Craigway Show from
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Speaker 1: SEC Football Media Days. Texas was the closing act. Sark
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Speaker 1: was the last head coach to speak in the news conference.
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Speaker 1: Mississippi State and Texas were the last two groups schools
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Speaker 1: that were represented with their head coaches and also with
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Speaker 1: their student athletes. They even visit with Jeff Levy for
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Speaker 1: a few moments. Standing outside waiting to my opportunity to
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Speaker 1: sit down with Arts was talking with Jeff Levy, the
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Speaker 1: head coach a Mississippi State, who I know his background
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Speaker 1: obviously from his high school days in Texas. In fact,
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Speaker 1: who his dad a long time was a longtime, very
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Speaker 1: successful high school football coach out in West Texas. But
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Speaker 1: as we mentioned, the way that it always works here
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Speaker 1: is you have an address to the general assembled media
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Speaker 1: both print and broadcast, and that includes you know, fan
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Speaker 1: sites and things like that as well from the head coach.
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Speaker 1: Then there are three student athletes and they make them
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Speaker 1: available at different points UH to different media in breakout sessions.
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Speaker 1: The UH head coach and the student athletes also UH
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Speaker 1: and they do more of this than they do anything else.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of breakout things, one on ones that
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Speaker 1: they do with national tell like ESPN and CBS. UH,
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Speaker 1: they'll they'll do those, and then national radio like sirius
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Speaker 1: XM and some of the other ones.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then and and then if they have time, uh,
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Speaker 1: they do some other individual breakout uh interviews.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Fortunately, as the flagship station of the University of Texas,
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Speaker 1: we get the opportunity to have a one on one
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Speaker 1: with ste Sarkasian, We have an opportunity to have one
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Speaker 1: on one with Arch Spanning, and we have the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to have one on one with Colin Simmons. And we'll
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Speaker 1: bring you those conversations. But again, the lead, leadoff thing
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Speaker 1: for the head coaches is the news conference, the General
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Speaker 1: Assembly news conference, if you will. So let's bring that
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Speaker 1: to you right now. Just a little while ago, the
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Speaker 1: last of the sixteen coaches here at SEC Media Days
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Speaker 1: with this press conference, coach Steve Sarkishan.
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Speaker 4: Like they say, they save the best for last. Right now,
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Speaker 4: y'all are ready to go home, So I'll make a
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Speaker 4: brief no I'm skin First of all, just some thank
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Speaker 4: you before we get going here. First of all, I'd
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Speaker 4: like to thank Commissioner Sankie. I know his job is
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Speaker 4: not easy, and I know in midst of college football
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Speaker 4: today and college athletics, there's a lot of change and
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Speaker 4: there's a lot that goes into his job. And I
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Speaker 4: can tell y'all from sitting in rooms with him and
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Speaker 4: a lot of phone calls, he's trying to do what's
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Speaker 4: best for our sport, not just for the Southeastern Conference.
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Speaker 4: He really is trying to do what's best for our sport.
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Speaker 4: I'd like to thank the leadership of the University of Texas,
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Speaker 4: you know, Chairman of the Board of Regents, Kevin el Tife,
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Speaker 4: Jim Davis, our president, and our athletic director Chris del Connie.
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Speaker 4: I know a lot of people talk about alignment, but
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Speaker 4: we are truly aligned.
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Speaker 5: And that was something that six.
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Speaker 4: Years ago when I took the job of one of
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Speaker 4: the reasons why I took the job was the alignment.
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Speaker 4: But it's shown and shown through time and time again,
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Speaker 4: and the job that Christell Connie has done at Texas
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Speaker 4: has been nothing short of remarkable, win to five of
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Speaker 4: the last six Director's Cups, and the just the absolute
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Speaker 4: strength in every sport in that entire athletic department is
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Speaker 4: something that I know he's proud of and we are
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Speaker 4: all very proud of to be part of.
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Speaker 5: I'd like to thank our staff.
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Speaker 4: Our staff is doing a tremendous job, and these guys
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Speaker 4: and as men and women are working extremely hard, not
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Speaker 4: only on the grass with our players, but in the building,
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Speaker 4: in the meeting rooms, in recruiting, being on the forefront
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Speaker 4: of doing things that have never been done before, and
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Speaker 4: just proud of the work that they do on a
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Speaker 4: daily basis. It's a demanding profession, it's a demanding job,
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Speaker 4: and their spouses, their families, the sacrifices they make for us,
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Speaker 4: for me, for the University of Texas doesn't go unnoticed.
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Speaker 4: So thank you all for what you do. And I
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Speaker 4: think our fans, the support that they give us is tremendous.
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Speaker 4: Longhorn Nation has just been phenomenal. I don't think people
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Speaker 4: know this because I think people think about home field
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Speaker 4: advantage and tough environments to play. We're twenty and one
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Speaker 4: in our last twenty one home games at DKR and
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Speaker 4: that's a direct reflection of our fans and the support
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Speaker 4: that they give us. And so thank you for your
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Speaker 4: support and all that we do know. Commissioner Sanki touched
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Speaker 4: on a few things and a few stats that I'm
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Speaker 4: really proud of our program, our organization, of what we've
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Speaker 4: been able to accomplish. And you think about, you know,
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Speaker 4: last season alone, we beat three top ten ranked teams
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Speaker 4: in a down year. The last two years, we've beaten
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Speaker 4: ten top twenty five ranked teams, which is more than
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Speaker 4: any other school in the country. I believe it's fourteen
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Speaker 4: wins over top twenty five teams over the last three years.
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Speaker 4: And so there's a lot to be proud of for
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Speaker 4: us at the University of Texas.
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Speaker 5: But I will say this.
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Speaker 4: At the University of Texas, the standard is the standard.
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Speaker 4: The standard is the standard. And I know the expectations
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Speaker 4: are high outside of our building. I know everybody wants
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Speaker 4: to say what percentage we are to make the playoffs
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Speaker 4: or what percentage it is for us to you know,
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Speaker 4: win a conference championship or make the CFP or be
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Speaker 4: a national champion. But the expectations are always high within
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Speaker 4: our organization. They're higher than you would imagine. They're higher
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Speaker 4: than they are on the outside world. And now more
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Speaker 4: than ever, external factors don't motivate us it's what we're
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Speaker 4: doing internally, and we've got a very hungry football team.
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Speaker 4: We've got a team that competed their tails off a
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Speaker 4: year ago and fell short of making the College Football
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Speaker 4: Playoff after the previous two years being in the semi
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Speaker 4: finals and knocking on the door to play for a
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Speaker 4: national title with the ball inside the ten yard line.
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Speaker 4: So those external factors, whether it's a comment or a tweet,
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Speaker 4: or a podcast or an interview by a pundit, that's
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Speaker 4: not going to motivate us. What motivates us is what
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Speaker 4: we do every single day. And I'm proud of the
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Speaker 4: leadership on our team for buying into that idea, and
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Speaker 4: I couldn't be more proud of the guys for the
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Speaker 4: way that they handle themselves that way, because we're going
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Speaker 4: to have to Our schedule's real, Okay, it's a real
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Speaker 4: football schedule, and I think the key to that is
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Speaker 4: focusing on us be enamored with what we do. That
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Speaker 4: takes great leadership, That takes great commitment, okay, and that
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Speaker 4: takes great that takes great mental and physical toughness to
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Speaker 4: make that happen. We've got three players here that I
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Speaker 4: think exude all of those three things. Obviously, we've got
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Speaker 4: Arch Manning here, We've got Colin Simmons, We've got Trevor Gooseby.
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Speaker 4: The first thing I'd like to say about those three
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Speaker 4: guys is all three of them signed with the University
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Speaker 4: of Texas out of high school. So when this era
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Speaker 4: of transfer portal, in this era of players coming from
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Speaker 4: you know, different places and building rosters and so on
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Speaker 4: and so forth, these were three guys that chose to
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Speaker 4: be part of our program when maybe our program wasn't
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Speaker 4: where it is today. You know, Arch and Trevor came
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Speaker 4: four years ago, we were an eight and five team
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Speaker 4: coming off of an Alamo Bowl loss against Washington. They
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Speaker 4: chose the University of Texas. Colin came the next year.
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Speaker 4: But I think all three of these guys exude the
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Speaker 4: leadership that is needed, the commitment to the program, the
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Speaker 4: commitment to their teammates, and the metal and physical toughness
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Speaker 4: to be a champion. And so proud to have all
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Speaker 4: three of those guys with us today. I will say this.
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Speaker 4: I know you all say it, but I'm going to
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Speaker 4: say it. We do have a talented roster. We do
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Speaker 4: have a good football team. We're balanced, you know, I think
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Speaker 4: we're good on offense, we're good on defense, we're good
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Speaker 4: on special teams. I'm not going to shy away from that.
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Speaker 4: To give you the coach speak. We do have a
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Speaker 4: talented team, but we've got to make that come to
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Speaker 4: life on every single Saturday against a challenging schedule. And
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Speaker 4: that's the challenge as their coach, is to get them
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Speaker 4: in the right mental space, the right physical space to
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Speaker 4: go out and be at their best when their best
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Speaker 4: is needed. And in our conference and in our non
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Speaker 4: conference schedule, that's every single Saturday. How did we build
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Speaker 4: this talented roster. We built it through attention, We kept
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Speaker 4: really good players on our team. We built it through
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Speaker 4: high school recruiting, all right. We signed a heck of
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Speaker 4: a high school class, which I think we're very proud
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Speaker 4: of that class. And we built it through the portal
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Speaker 4: and that's a credit to our recruiting department, all right,
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Speaker 4: of making those things come to life.
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Speaker 5: But you know, we.
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Speaker 4: Lost We lost forty scholarship players off of last year's team,
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Speaker 4: twenty four portal transfers, which was more than we ever had,
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Speaker 4: three early NFL draft picks, and thirteen seniors. With that,
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Speaker 4: we brought in forty seven new scholarship players, twenty two
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Speaker 4: through the portal, twenty five freshmen. Okay, and so a
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Speaker 4: lot of new faces. Culture is a big deal for us.
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Speaker 4: But our culture gets developed, you know, historically in the
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Speaker 4: summertime to get ready for a season. And I failed
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Speaker 4: our team a year ago by doing it that way,
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Speaker 4: and I felt like we didn't have the culture needed
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Speaker 4: early in the season to make that happen to be
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Speaker 4: the team that we were capable of being.
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Speaker 5: I learned my lesson. We started doing our culture work.
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Speaker 4: In February this year, and I think it's paid dividends.
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Speaker 4: I was just on the plane with these guys coming
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Speaker 4: over and to a man, they all said, Man, I
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Speaker 4: can't I love how summer's going. I love how close
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Speaker 4: we are as a team. I mean, these guys were
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Speaker 4: doing a scavenger hunt yesterday and calling an archer, competing
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Speaker 4: until the end. Their two teams were the one at
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Speaker 4: the end, racing.
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Speaker 2: To win it.
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Speaker 4: And then everybody's sweating bullets. It's one hundred degrees in
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Speaker 4: Austin right now, and they're having a blast together as
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Speaker 4: a team. And those are the moments that are going
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Speaker 4: to get us through the tough fourth quarters. Those are
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Speaker 4: the moments that are going to get us through some
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Speaker 4: tough road games of where we're headed this fall. So
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Speaker 4: proud of those guys for buying into what was going
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Speaker 4: to be so important to this team. We are not
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Speaker 4: a finished product. We've got plenty to improve upon from
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Speaker 4: last year. It goes without saying, we've got to become
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Speaker 4: a better run football team. We did not run the
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Speaker 4: ball to the standard and the capabilities of what it
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Speaker 4: is at the University of Texas. Now we can make
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Speaker 4: that better variety of ways. You got to get better
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Speaker 4: upfront as an offensive line group. You've got to have
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Speaker 4: capable runners that can do that. You've got to provide
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Speaker 4: weapons on the perimeter that people have to deploy to
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Speaker 4: guard against. And you've got to put schemes together that
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Speaker 4: they can operate and do at a high level. I
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Speaker 4: think we've addressed all those areas. In the run game,
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Speaker 4: We've got to create more explosive plays. When we're at
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Speaker 4: our best, we're at a very explosive offensive football team.
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Speaker 4: We were not that a year ago compared to where
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Speaker 4: we were two years ago. The run game is a
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Speaker 4: huge component to that. But we've got to become a
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Speaker 4: more explosive foot ball team. And we've got to minimize
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Speaker 4: the penalties.
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Speaker 5: We've got to.
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Speaker 4: Fight the urge of playing behind the chains. And I
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Speaker 4: say fight the urge because I think there's an urge
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Speaker 4: to some of the penalties that we get, and so
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Speaker 4: we've got to minimize those penalties. All of that, we're
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Speaker 4: talking about consistency on the offensive side of the ball,
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Speaker 4: and so you know, to me, you put all those
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Speaker 4: things together, we have a chance to be a very
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Speaker 4: good offensive football team. But we got some areas for
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Speaker 4: improvement come the fall that need to show themselves defensively. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: we've hired Will Muschamp to be our defensive coordinator. Has
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Speaker 4: been a great addition. It was everything I thought this
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Speaker 4: higher could be. You know, Will and I philosophically are
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Speaker 4: very similar. We believe in a style of defense that
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Speaker 4: that is in your face, that is tough, that as
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Speaker 4: hard nos but yet, and we believe in coaching hard
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Speaker 4: but yet. We believe in having a relationship and rapport
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Speaker 4: with the players on the team and Will does that
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Speaker 4: and it's been great having him. Now, where do we
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Speaker 4: need to improve defensively? We've got to more havoc we
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Speaker 4: need to create more negative plays, right, and we should
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Speaker 4: have the capability and to get that done, we've got
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Speaker 4: to minimize the explosives, right, and so you know, making sure,
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Speaker 4: especially in the past defense, that that we minimize those
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Speaker 4: explosive plays. And then we've got to be even better
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Speaker 4: on third down, and most notably, we've got to be
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Speaker 4: better in the red area, especially on third down. And
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Speaker 4: so some areas of improvement for us there.
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Speaker 5: But I think this you know a lot.
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Speaker 4: I know there's been a lot of tough guys like
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Speaker 4: I've been sitting at home watching the three and a
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Speaker 4: half days of this stuff too. Okay, so I'm hearing
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Speaker 4: everybody talk about the same thing. I can't wait to
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Speaker 4: hear the same questions get asked that you were asking
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Speaker 4: Kirby three days ago.
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Speaker 5: Okay, I think this about the SEC.
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Speaker 4: We've got a nine game conference schedule, the challenges week
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Speaker 4: in and week out, making sure that our football team
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Speaker 4: is mentally and physically tough enough and prepared to play
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Speaker 4: because that's what's required in the in this conference, week
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Speaker 4: in and week out, because if you're not, you will
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Speaker 4: get beat. It's not about beating us one time, It's
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Speaker 4: about beating us the nine times. That's the challenge of
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Speaker 4: this conference and that's.
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Speaker 2: What we're prepared.
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Speaker 5: We will prepare our team to do. Looking forward to
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Speaker 5: the opportunity.
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Speaker 4: Uh, it's a heck of a schedule, you know, and
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Speaker 4: and couldn't be more excited just about this team and
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Speaker 4: about where I think this team can go. Just a
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Speaker 4: couple things of note, housekeeping things h Cole Hudson, which
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Speaker 4: you all saw the the temporary restraining order on the
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Speaker 4: five for five. You know that's still up in the air.
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Speaker 4: I don't have much more to say about it. We'll
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Speaker 4: see how that goes. And then one addition for us,
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Speaker 4: John Meredith will be an early and rollie for us.
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Speaker 4: He's reclassified. He'll be with the team this fall. Is
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Speaker 4: a great player for us at dB that we couldn't
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Speaker 4: be more excited to have on board with us.
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Speaker 5: So with that will open up the questions.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Coach Sharkisian. If you have a question, Lauren,
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Speaker 6: Peyton and Lane have microphones. We'll go ahead and come
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Speaker 6: up here and start right here on our centerile right
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Speaker 6: there to the left.
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Speaker 7: Okay, Hey, Coach John Abraham ninety seven to seven ESP
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Speaker 7: in the zone in Huntsville, Alabama. I just wanted you
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Speaker 7: to talk a little bit about the wide receiver room
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Speaker 7: Ryan Wingo as well as Cam Coleman as.
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Speaker 2: He was at it during the offseason.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're very you know, we love our wide receiver room.
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Speaker 4: I think all those guys are six two plus. All
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Speaker 4: those guys are to over two hundred pounds. They're physical,
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Speaker 4: they're fast, They've all played a lot of football, you
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Speaker 4: know when you think about their careers. Obviously, Ryan will
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Speaker 4: be in his third year with US in the program,
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Speaker 4: knows the system, knows the scheme really came on last year.
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Speaker 4: I think people forget he was a second team All
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Speaker 4: SEC receiver a year ago.
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Speaker 5: Very explosive player.
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Speaker 4: Mosley came to US last year after his freshman year
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Speaker 4: at Stanford, where he caught fifty balls, was injured the
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Speaker 4: first part of the season. Really came on the second
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Speaker 4: half of the season. He is playing at a high
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Speaker 4: level for US right now. And then the addition of
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Speaker 4: Cam Coleman's been a great addition. And you know the
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Speaker 4: thing about Cam, everybody sees the highlight plays, the playmaking ability,
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Speaker 4: you know, the physical ability that he has. What I
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Speaker 4: love is the person. You know, this guy's a great
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Speaker 4: human being. He's a guy that is a great teammate.
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Speaker 4: He's one of our hardest workers. I just think he's
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Speaker 4: been a great addition to that room, to that offense.
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Speaker 4: I know he's got good rapport with Arch. So excited
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Speaker 4: to have him.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go down in front of me.
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Speaker 8: Second row, Hey, Steve Stedrick Golden Austin, American Statesman arch Manning.
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Speaker 8: The name on the back of his jersey brings as
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Speaker 8: much notoriety as the one on the front. How did
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Speaker 8: the growing pains of last season? How would that benefit
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Speaker 8: him this year?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd like to touch on that.
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Speaker 4: You know, arch Manning a year ago wasn't on social
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Speaker 4: media or on television saying I'm going to be the
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Speaker 4: first pick of the draft. He wasn't on television saying
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna win the Heisman Trophy. All he did was
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Speaker 4: work really hard. All he did was try to be
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Speaker 4: the best teammate he can be. And then we had
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Speaker 4: some failures as a team. He didn't have He did
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Speaker 4: and played to the way of what he was capable
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Speaker 4: of playing. And then those same people that were saying
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Speaker 4: that about him wanted to criticize.
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Speaker 5: And demean him.
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Speaker 4: Almost for letting them down because he didn't live up
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Speaker 4: to what they thought he was going to be. Very
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Speaker 4: interesting concept right there, and I think the way of
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Speaker 4: what he got put through probably would have melted or
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Speaker 4: destroyed ninety nine percent of people in his shoes. All
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Speaker 4: he did was stay consistent to true to who he
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Speaker 4: was was, which continue to work hard, continue to be
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Speaker 4: a great teammate, try to get better. And he did,
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Speaker 4: and he came out and played the second half of
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Speaker 4: the season at a really high level. We go seven
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Speaker 4: and one, He's got twenty touchdowns, only two turnovers. He's
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Speaker 4: a fantastic player at the end of the year. But
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Speaker 4: he didn't go back on social media and say I
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Speaker 4: told you so. And all he's done this year is
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Speaker 4: continue to work hard again. And so there's always going
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Speaker 4: to be outside opinions of that guy, and that comes
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Speaker 4: with the territory and he understands that. But I think
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Speaker 4: he learned a lot about himself last year about dealing
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Speaker 4: with adversity and overcoming and I think he learned a
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Speaker 4: lot about his teammates and the support that they gave him,
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Speaker 4: and then recognizing the mental and physical toughness that he
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Speaker 4: has to play the position. To be their leader, and
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Speaker 4: I think that he's grown into a great leader for us,
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Speaker 4: and so I'm very proud of Arts for the way
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Speaker 4: he's carried himself, the way he represents the University of Texas.
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Speaker 4: I think right now he's a very dangerous player because
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Speaker 4: he learned a lot from last season, and he's surrounded
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Speaker 4: by some good players, and I think that he's a
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Speaker 4: guy that's poised for.
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Speaker 5: A heck of a season.
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Speaker 6: Coach will go over to our right hand side on
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Speaker 6: the aisle.
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Speaker 9: Good after you and coach at Jacob Werlin Carrio I Sports,
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Speaker 9: what does plane on time actually look like for your quarterbacks?
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Speaker 4: Well, everything that we do is a progression based offense,
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Speaker 4: and so you have a first read, a second read,
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Speaker 4: a third read, a fourth read, so on and so forth,
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Speaker 4: and those reads are basically tied to his feet right,
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Speaker 4: whether it's a quick game, an RPO, a drop back pass,
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Speaker 4: a play action pass, and so being on time is
18:01
Speaker 4: when that read is available to throw the ball to
18:04
Speaker 4: that the timing of his drop marys with where he
18:07
Speaker 4: should be. If it's a drop back pass on his
18:10
Speaker 4: fifth step is his first read open, the ball comes out.
18:12
Speaker 4: If it's not, he hitches to his second read and
18:15
Speaker 4: then hitches to his third read, so on and so forth,
18:18
Speaker 4: and so that's.
18:18
Speaker 5: What it looks like.
18:20
Speaker 4: I think the one thing that we saw real development
18:22
Speaker 4: in Arch a year ago.
18:24
Speaker 5: If you watch his pocket.
18:25
Speaker 4: Presence and the way he moves in the pocket, he
18:27
Speaker 4: moves like a pro. And he didn't have very many
18:30
Speaker 4: clean pockets last year. It was tough and we weren't
18:32
Speaker 4: great around him. But man, the guy worked at his
18:35
Speaker 4: craft in the pocket, and then the value of that
18:38
Speaker 4: was when he got some better pockets later in the year,
18:41
Speaker 4: he was able to take advantage of it.
18:43
Speaker 6: Coach, we'll go back in front of me. Second row Kirk.
18:50
Speaker 10: Kurk Balls from the Houston Chronicle. Steve, you've told us
18:53
Speaker 10: that you didn't feel like your team was rewarded for
18:56
Speaker 10: playing in that big intersectional game at Ohio State, And
19:00
Speaker 10: I was curious, where do you feel like that is
19:02
Speaker 10: as far as other schools scheduling attractive, you know, non
19:06
Speaker 10: conference games, and he's still playing on playing Notre Dame
19:09
Speaker 10: in eight and twelve.
19:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think that that's that's always a it's
19:16
Speaker 4: always a tough topic because I'm you know, I try
19:19
Speaker 4: to move on right, I'm we're in twenty twenty six,
19:22
Speaker 4: and I but I think back to twenty twenty five,
19:25
Speaker 4: like we have to learn from history, and you know,
19:29
Speaker 4: but I have to go back to to twenty twenty three. Really,
19:35
Speaker 4: we beat Alabama at Alabama, and that might have been
19:39
Speaker 4: the game that probably got us into the playoff that
19:42
Speaker 4: year in a four team playoff. We played at Ohio
19:46
Speaker 4: State last year, or excuse me, we played at Michigan
19:50
Speaker 4: the next year. I'm not saying that was the game
19:52
Speaker 4: that got us in, but it surely played a part
19:54
Speaker 4: right of getting us into the twelve team playoff, and
19:56
Speaker 4: it got us a better seed winning that game.
19:59
Speaker 5: Last year. We didn't win the game.
20:01
Speaker 4: At Ohio State, Okay, And so I'm torn because I
20:04
Speaker 4: have two thoughts on this. One is, if we beat
20:08
Speaker 4: Ohio State last year, surely you weren't a much better
20:11
Speaker 4: position when it comes to the playoffs. But on the
20:14
Speaker 4: other side of it is, if I don't play Ohio
20:16
Speaker 4: State and I played Jones Junior High and we're ten
20:19
Speaker 4: and two and our two losses are to Georgia and Florida,
20:24
Speaker 4: we're a playoff team. But like anything in this world,
20:28
Speaker 4: if you want to be really good at something you
20:30
Speaker 4: got to take risk. There's calculated risks involved in life
20:34
Speaker 4: that you have to take. It's no different than playing quarterback.
20:37
Speaker 4: You got to take some risks at time. There's no
20:39
Speaker 4: different than being a play call. You got to take
20:41
Speaker 4: that risk. There's no different than investing in a company
20:43
Speaker 4: or not. You're taking a risk. And so, yes, there's
20:46
Speaker 4: risk involved in playing a high level non conference schedule,
20:51
Speaker 4: but there's a lot of value in that win. There's
20:54
Speaker 4: a lot of value in that win if you can
20:56
Speaker 4: get the win, and so is the juice worth the
20:58
Speaker 4: squeeze or not. That's what we're all tasked with. And
21:00
Speaker 4: so I don't know yet about Notre Dame. We'll see
21:03
Speaker 4: because I think the committee's got to show us what
21:05
Speaker 4: happens now and what's the value that they're placing on
21:09
Speaker 4: strength of schedule and are we ever are we going
21:12
Speaker 4: to let a nine to three team in as an
21:14
Speaker 4: at large? We'll find out, and I think that this
21:16
Speaker 4: year is going to be a great test to that
21:18
Speaker 4: of what that looks like.
21:19
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go over here on our left hand side,
21:23
Speaker 2: Coach CJ. Vogel with on Texas Football.
21:25
Speaker 11: Over here, I wanted to ask you just in the
21:28
Speaker 11: sense of chasing. I know you say you don't listen
21:32
Speaker 11: to the media pugnance, and I love you guys listen
21:35
Speaker 11: to what we say and the polls. But essentially, given
21:39
Speaker 11: that Georgia's won the conference the last two years, is
21:42
Speaker 11: that the team that the conference and yourself are still
21:45
Speaker 11: chasing after as the top team currently.
21:48
Speaker 4: You know, there's a there's a lot of lot of
21:50
Speaker 4: sayings and quotes in the in the sports world in particular,
21:54
Speaker 4: but this one probably is the most fitting. If you
21:56
Speaker 4: want to be the champion, you got to beat the champion,
22:00
Speaker 4: and it's no more fitting for us. We've played Georgia
22:02
Speaker 4: three times, they've beaten us. All the credit in the
22:04
Speaker 4: world to Kirby their team. They're tough, they're good. So
22:08
Speaker 4: if we want to be a champion, I'm guessing we'll
22:10
Speaker 4: probably have to beat the champion to make that happen, which.
22:14
Speaker 2: We'll go straight down in front of us again.
22:16
Speaker 12: Third row Danny Davis Houst, American statesment on going back
22:20
Speaker 12: to the news, you just I guess broke.
22:22
Speaker 2: What does John Meredith to bring this team?
22:23
Speaker 12: And I'm not sure when he turns eighteen, but can
22:25
Speaker 12: someone that young contribute at the cornerback position right away.
22:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's already turned eighteen, turned eighteen a couple weeks ago.
22:33
Speaker 4: You know, he provides great length, great speed, tremendous man
22:38
Speaker 4: to man ability, very confident, very aggressive, all the attributes
22:42
Speaker 4: you want in a defensive back.
22:43
Speaker 5: It's not a secret, you know why.
22:45
Speaker 4: He was a top two or three player in the
22:47
Speaker 4: country in the twenty twenty seven class. So for us
22:51
Speaker 4: to get him now, we'll see how far we can
22:53
Speaker 4: take him. Like I told he, I told his mom,
22:55
Speaker 4: Coach Muschamp, coach orfe we don't have an expectation on
22:59
Speaker 4: him him of a timetable. We're going to coach him.
23:02
Speaker 4: We're going to develop him. When he's ready, I think
23:05
Speaker 4: you'll be good enough to play. How long that takes
23:08
Speaker 4: to get him ready, that's going to be the race.
23:09
Speaker 4: That's the challenge. Week one, week four, week eight. I
23:12
Speaker 4: don't know. I do know he's got the right competitive spirit.
23:16
Speaker 4: I do know he's got the skill set and the
23:17
Speaker 4: ability to be a good player for us.
23:19
Speaker 5: How long it takes we'll find out.
23:21
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll go down that center al again on the left.
23:25
Speaker 13: Coach Steve Curtis one of seven seven the franchise. You
23:28
Speaker 13: said that you began emphasizing culture work back in February
23:31
Speaker 13: because you thought there needed to be some changes from
23:33
Speaker 13: last year. But as you're entering your sixth season leading
23:36
Speaker 13: the program, a lot of people would think that cultures
23:38
Speaker 13: already well established. So what led you to think that
23:42
Speaker 13: additional culture work needed to be done and what specifically
23:45
Speaker 13: did you want to see change from last season?
23:47
Speaker 5: Well, I think this.
23:48
Speaker 4: We have forty seven new faces in our locker room,
23:52
Speaker 4: so they don't have anything established in our culture. We
23:55
Speaker 4: have to get them ingrained into our culture. And so
23:57
Speaker 4: that's why we back that up, to start that process,
24:00
Speaker 4: to get.
24:00
Speaker 5: More guys in grains sooner. We do a lot of work.
24:03
Speaker 4: We do things called culture Wednesday around our building where
24:07
Speaker 4: we tap into the person, the whole person, and we
24:11
Speaker 4: get authentic, We get transparent, We laugh, we cry, we hug,
24:16
Speaker 4: we write note cars.
24:17
Speaker 5: To one another.
24:19
Speaker 4: Because we have to become a connected football team like that.
24:23
Speaker 4: That's what gets us to where we want to go
24:25
Speaker 4: and through those hard times all the way to fast
24:28
Speaker 4: forward to yesterday. We did a scavenger hunt and we
24:31
Speaker 4: broke everybody up into teams and they did a scavenger
24:34
Speaker 4: on the forty eight scavenger hunt on the forty acres
24:37
Speaker 4: and it comes down to Arch and Collins teams sweating
24:40
Speaker 4: competing in the fifty yard line of DKR and they
24:43
Speaker 4: loved it, like, that's the stuff that we're doing now.
24:46
Speaker 4: Sooner then maybe we'd be not doing that even until
24:50
Speaker 4: the end of training camp.
24:51
Speaker 5: And so I think it's going to benefit us.
24:53
Speaker 4: I think the connectivity these guys have right now is huge.
24:56
Speaker 4: But why because we got forty seven new faces when
24:59
Speaker 4: historically have about twenty or twenty two.
25:02
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll go back down the center old onto our
25:04
Speaker 6: right hand side.
25:05
Speaker 3: Hey, coach Rob Gregson a Z Sports, you talked about
25:08
Speaker 3: a lot of the culture and the shift amongst the
25:11
Speaker 3: group that's returning. Is there a new mentality after missing
25:15
Speaker 3: the CFP last year.
25:18
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a new one. I just
25:20
Speaker 4: think there's a more committed one. I think that this
25:23
Speaker 4: group holistically is committed to the mission of being a champion,
25:28
Speaker 4: and they're not just saying it right, it's not about
25:30
Speaker 4: what we say, it's about what we do, and their
25:32
Speaker 4: actions are showing it.
25:33
Speaker 5: These guys are committed.
25:34
Speaker 4: They're helping one another, they're working with one another. They're
25:37
Speaker 4: holding each other accountable, and I'm very proud of them
25:40
Speaker 4: for that, because that's not an easy thing to do
25:42
Speaker 4: in college when people are making nil and they're eighteen
25:46
Speaker 4: to twenty two year old men. But these guys have
25:49
Speaker 4: committed to that as this as part of their journey.
25:52
Speaker 4: And that starts with Colin and Arch and Trevor, but
25:56
Speaker 4: that goes to Jolana McDonald, ty, Anthony Smith, Rashim Biles,
26:00
Speaker 4: Ryan Wingo, all.
26:01
Speaker 5: The people we've been touching on. So that's not easy.
26:05
Speaker 5: They're doing it.
26:06
Speaker 4: I'm proud of them, and I think they'll reap the
26:08
Speaker 4: benefits of it come the fall.
26:10
Speaker 6: I have time for a couple more. We'll start in
26:11
Speaker 6: the section in front of me. About midway back right
26:14
Speaker 6: in the middle had their coach, Evan Veith.
26:18
Speaker 14: Inside Texas, You've talked a lot about culture and also
26:21
Speaker 14: how many new players you've had to add, whether it
26:23
Speaker 14: be the portal or recruiting. You've already seemed to get
26:26
Speaker 14: some good returns from Reshim and dayly In. When it
26:29
Speaker 14: comes to leadership, how difficult is it in the portal
26:32
Speaker 14: process to kind of scout personality and culture fit when
26:36
Speaker 14: you only have so much time with them compared to recruiting,
26:39
Speaker 14: and how have you maybe improved at that aspect of
26:41
Speaker 14: your time at Texas.
26:42
Speaker 5: It's very difficult.
26:43
Speaker 4: You know, it's like speed dating, you know, where you
26:46
Speaker 4: think about in high school, you're recruiting a kid for
26:49
Speaker 4: two or three years. In the portal, you might be
26:51
Speaker 4: recruiting for two or three weeks if you're lucky.
26:55
Speaker 5: I feel like.
26:56
Speaker 4: Every year is different on when you bring in the
26:58
Speaker 4: portal guys of did we get it all right or not?
27:02
Speaker 4: And I know it's easy to say, hey, this year
27:05
Speaker 4: we got it right compared to other years, And honestly,
27:09
Speaker 4: I would say we did our due diligence, but we
27:11
Speaker 4: got lucky. This group is incredible that we brought in.
27:15
Speaker 4: They're bought in. They want to be a champion, they
27:18
Speaker 4: want to be part of this culture. Rashem Biles, Cam Coleman,
27:22
Speaker 4: Raleik Brown, Hollywood Smothers, Melvins and I Lawrence Seymour. I'm
27:26
Speaker 4: leaving a bunch of guys out, but like they're committed
27:28
Speaker 4: to the cause and that's hard to do to bring
27:31
Speaker 4: in all these transfers and be like that.
27:33
Speaker 2: And so.
27:35
Speaker 5: I think we got it right.
27:36
Speaker 4: I think we got a little bit lucky too that
27:38
Speaker 4: we got it right, because you know, how do you
27:40
Speaker 4: really know? Well, I'm starting to really know now as
27:43
Speaker 4: these guys are in some of the adversity that they're
27:46
Speaker 4: running in DKR at four in the afternoon. They're in
27:48
Speaker 4: the sampit at four in the afternoon in Austin, Texas
27:50
Speaker 4: in July.
27:51
Speaker 5: That's not fun.
27:52
Speaker 4: But them hanging in there with their teammates and getting
27:55
Speaker 4: through some of that adversity is exciting for us.
27:58
Speaker 2: We'll take one final question in the center out to
28:01
Speaker 2: the right.
28:01
Speaker 9: Coach Bryan Sprolet, Columbia Missourian. Last season, y'all lost a
28:04
Speaker 9: couple of early season matchups on the road against Ohio
28:08
Speaker 9: State and Florida, but it was clear that you weren't
28:10
Speaker 9: in rhythm and that the team in the second half
28:12
Speaker 9: was a much different team playing. How do you find
28:15
Speaker 9: a rhythm earlier this year? So that way, every game
28:18
Speaker 9: after Week five is in a muscling game. To get
28:20
Speaker 9: into the playoffs this year, well, you know.
28:23
Speaker 4: I think we've got to keep practice as competitive as possible.
28:26
Speaker 4: You know, iron sharpens iron, and you know, calling going
28:29
Speaker 4: against Trevor every day, that's a good thing, right Arch
28:32
Speaker 4: working against muss Champs defense. That's a good thing, you know,
28:35
Speaker 4: Jolana McDonald guarding Emmitt Moseley.
28:37
Speaker 5: That's a good thing.
28:38
Speaker 4: So the good on good stuff, we got to continue
28:40
Speaker 4: to elevate that. I think secondly is trusting the process
28:45
Speaker 4: and trusting who we are as a team when we
28:48
Speaker 4: get to those games. And so, you know, we're fortunate, Hey,
28:51
Speaker 4: our first game's not out Ohio State. Our first game
28:53
Speaker 4: is back at dk R. You know, so with a
28:55
Speaker 4: young team that was that was a tough task. I
28:58
Speaker 4: think anybody who's been to the Swamp at Floria to
29:00
Speaker 4: tell you that's a tough place to play. We needed
29:02
Speaker 4: to be better in those moments than we were. But
29:05
Speaker 4: there's a lot of teams that went to those two
29:07
Speaker 4: stadiums over the last few years and probably didn't come
29:09
Speaker 4: out on top. And so but we've got a relish
29:12
Speaker 4: in our ability to play on the road because we
29:14
Speaker 4: are we are playing at Kyle Field, we are playing
29:16
Speaker 4: at Death Valley, we are we are going to Tennessee,
29:19
Speaker 4: we are going to Missouri. Like those are tough places
29:22
Speaker 4: to play, and in our conference, there are no easy
29:24
Speaker 4: places on the road, and so we've got to be
29:26
Speaker 4: better in those hostile environments of execution, of minimizing the
29:31
Speaker 4: self inflicted wounds, and then having the ability to finish
29:34
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter.
29:35
Speaker 6: Courch Serkisian, thank you for your time this afternon rid
29:38
Speaker 6: y'all hook them.
29:38
Speaker 1: Thanks long wrns, said coach Steve Sarkisian. With the news
29:43
Speaker 1: conference here now again, coming up next hour my sit
29:46
Speaker 1: down conversation with sark we get into a couple of
29:48
Speaker 1: different things as well. Also next hour you'll hear my
29:52
Speaker 1: conversation with Archpanning.
29:53
Speaker 2: Up next, we're gonna hear from.
29:54
Speaker 1: Colin Simmons when we continue from SEC Football Media Days.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Colin Simmons, Longhorns edge rusher going into
30:45
Speaker 1: his junior campaign now a freshman year was just crazy
30:51
Speaker 1: at Matt after getting after the quarterbacks modified the game
30:54
Speaker 1: a bit more as a something we've heard start talking
30:56
Speaker 1: about it as as working against the run was a
31:00
Speaker 1: part parcel of the conversation that I had with the
31:03
Speaker 1: junior from Duncingville. Colin, do you you start to feel
31:07
Speaker 1: like being a little bit of an old veteran now?
31:09
Speaker 1: I mean here, You've you've gotten through uh you know,
31:12
Speaker 1: uh the build up the freshman season last year and
31:15
Speaker 1: now being a veteran, how how much of a leader
31:18
Speaker 1: and a veteran do you feel like that?
31:19
Speaker 16: You know, it hasn't really, it really hasn't hit me
31:22
Speaker 16: until the younger guys came in there calling me unk.
31:26
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm nowhere near unk. I'm still you. I
31:29
Speaker 2: really status. I barely have ten here to be called
31:32
Speaker 2: a yunk.
31:32
Speaker 16: So just being called unk made me realize that Okay,
31:36
Speaker 16: Now I'm one of the older guys. Now, you know,
31:39
Speaker 16: I'm a leader. People looking up, people look up to me.
31:41
Speaker 16: I got to carry myself a certain type of way.
31:43
Speaker 16: You know, the things that I say, you know, how
31:45
Speaker 16: I handle my business on and off the field.
31:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I remember, uh when I did a
31:53
Speaker 1: couple of your state championship games for television, and I remember, uh,
31:57
Speaker 1: I remember church samples and then some of your teammates
31:59
Speaker 1: talking how you were a leader.
32:01
Speaker 2: Then does that.
32:03
Speaker 1: Help prepare you for the time even though two more
32:06
Speaker 1: years passed by before you would drop back into that
32:09
Speaker 1: leadership role again.
32:10
Speaker 16: Well, like I've been saying, like I feel like I've
32:12
Speaker 16: my Grandma always told me that I've been a natural
32:15
Speaker 16: born leader. Like I've always been a leader since I
32:18
Speaker 16: was a little kid, a little young And you know,
32:20
Speaker 16: people want people gravitating towards me, people looking up towards me,
32:24
Speaker 16: you know, looking at what I do. You know how
32:26
Speaker 16: I move, how I talk and walk, And you know,
32:29
Speaker 16: I think it just carried on as the years going by.
32:32
Speaker 1: You, according to the coach, Sark made really huge tries
32:36
Speaker 1: against the run a year ago. With that into your
32:41
Speaker 1: skills and skill set as a pass rusher as well.
32:44
Speaker 1: Do you feel like this is where the game takes
32:46
Speaker 1: another step forward for you, not only the pass and
32:49
Speaker 1: the run and the leadership, but the total defensive player.
32:52
Speaker 16: Yeah, of course. But you know there's always things to
32:54
Speaker 16: work on. You know, there's always things to improve, There's
32:57
Speaker 16: always things to work on. You know, I'm not a
32:58
Speaker 16: complete player right now. You know, just because I learned
33:02
Speaker 16: how to play the run doesn't.
33:03
Speaker 2: Make me complete.
33:04
Speaker 16: You know, I still got to learn the aspect of
33:06
Speaker 16: the game itself. You know, got to learn what the
33:09
Speaker 16: offenses is in. You know what they're running, you know
33:12
Speaker 16: what's their tennessees. You know, just understanding the game of
33:14
Speaker 16: football itself. That will make once I get that downpack
33:18
Speaker 16: and you know, once I complete that part of my game,
33:22
Speaker 16: then I'll be completed.
33:24
Speaker 2: Uh.
33:24
Speaker 1: You've been described as coach mush Champs type of player.
33:28
Speaker 1: What's the relationship been like working with coach musch Champ.
33:32
Speaker 16: I love musch Shamp. You know what he brings to
33:34
Speaker 16: the team, what he brings to the defense. I feel like, shoot,
33:38
Speaker 16: he brings the right energy that he brings the energy
33:41
Speaker 16: that we needed, not only that the defense needed, but
33:43
Speaker 16: the team and you know, it's been good.
33:45
Speaker 2: It's been fun working under him.
33:47
Speaker 1: And yeah, all right, I got arches side of the
33:50
Speaker 1: story about the scavenger hunt. I want to hear your
33:52
Speaker 1: side of the story about that. He says, you guys
33:54
Speaker 1: should that that they cheated? Did they wait?
33:57
Speaker 16: First of all, yes, Arch did cheat, but we're not
34:01
Speaker 16: gonna put that against him. We're not gonna put that
34:03
Speaker 16: against him. We're just gonna say we got a tie.
34:05
Speaker 16: We had a tie. We both got to the we
34:08
Speaker 16: both got to the middle of the field of that
34:10
Speaker 16: logo at the same time. And so did they cheap
34:14
Speaker 16: cheap by using the lime scooter? Was that thing?
34:16
Speaker 2: No?
34:16
Speaker 16: No, no, no, no no, that's what he said about us.
34:19
Speaker 2: Hey, all right, oh that's not cheating. Okay.
34:22
Speaker 16: Our coach said you can't drive a car. Didn't say
34:25
Speaker 16: anything about a line. Hey, just say nothing about no
34:27
Speaker 16: line scooter. He said you can't drive no cars? Okay,
34:30
Speaker 16: all right, how's your younger brother. He's doing good.
34:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody got a chance to know him and everything
34:37
Speaker 1: you've done for him as well. So life goes on
34:39
Speaker 1: and the process goes on, doesn't it. In helping him
34:42
Speaker 1: and everything and everything that goes on elevating his life exactly. Hey,
34:47
Speaker 1: it's great to see you. I appreciate your stopping about
34:49
Speaker 1: you so much. All right, that's Colin Simmons. Uh, it's
34:52
Speaker 1: great to hear from Colin Simmons. And what in a
34:55
Speaker 1: great example he's been also for his younger brother, a
34:58
Speaker 1: special needs young man. He it'd been tremendous and we
35:01
Speaker 1: always enjoy visiting with Colin. We'll be back to wrap
35:04
Speaker 1: up this hour here from Tampa, Florida on Sports Radio
35:07
Speaker 1: AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app. And
35:13
Speaker 1: then the bonus hour began. We welcome you back to
35:18
Speaker 1: the program here. Yeah, a five o'clock hour edition of
35:22
Speaker 1: The Craigway Show coming away from SEC Football Media days.
35:26
Speaker 1: Here in Tampa, Florida. You'll get a one hour edition
35:30
Speaker 1: of Bucking BK coming up at six o'clock. My cardball
35:33
Speaker 1: Hard has been here since the sun was barely in
35:36
Speaker 1: the sky this morning. Let's separate it from Texas for
35:42
Speaker 1: a moment and just tell me what's been your biggest
35:45
Speaker 1: takeaway from here today.
35:47
Speaker 15: Well, I think a lot of it has to do
35:49
Speaker 15: with the coaches and the confidence. You know, we got
35:51
Speaker 15: a chance to see Jeff Levy and hear him talk
35:54
Speaker 15: about his squad. I think he's in a different place
35:56
Speaker 15: than where he was a couple of years ago.
35:59
Speaker 1: It kind of trend and some would say that's kind
36:01
Speaker 1: of an important thing for him.
36:03
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely.
36:04
Speaker 15: Then you get, you know, Silverfield, a new coach over
36:08
Speaker 15: at Arkansas, talking about his aura and how he's pretty hip.
36:12
Speaker 1: And and trying to change a negative culture, which I
36:15
Speaker 1: wouldn't think would be you know, Arkansas, it's that one
36:19
Speaker 1: big you know, Division one FBS Institution of State. I mean,
36:22
Speaker 1: I know Arkansas State is there, but obviously so much
36:25
Speaker 1: is centered on the Razorbacks.
36:26
Speaker 2: But he was saying today how he's having to.
36:29
Speaker 1: Try to change minds and and and thought process. And
36:33
Speaker 1: you know, if anybody saw the the the motion picture
36:38
Speaker 1: Kelly's Heroes that Donald Southern said always with the negative waves, moriority,
36:42
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to get rid of the negativity
36:46
Speaker 1: in the culture there in that state.
36:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's trying to change that.
36:49
Speaker 15: And then of course, you know, start talking about the
36:52
Speaker 15: Red River rivalry and the expectations and art and his growth.
36:57
Speaker 15: But Lane Kiffin, Lane Kiffin is someone that continues to
37:02
Speaker 15: as Kirby says, troll people or Kelby was educated on
37:06
Speaker 15: the word troll. But he continues to push the buttons and.
37:12
Speaker 2: Trying to stir up this SEC. He's a pot stirrer.
37:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, he can be that way, for sure, sometimes to
37:20
Speaker 1: his absolute delight and sometimes to his absolute detrimental. Absolutely,
37:24
Speaker 1: he was asked, here's a piece of sound where where
37:29
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin was asked about that Vanity Fair article that
37:32
Speaker 1: came out on him not too long ago.
37:36
Speaker 17: Hey, coach Michael Bradden from that SEC podcast. When you
37:40
Speaker 17: were at Ole Miss you led them to the third
37:42
Speaker 17: most wins in the conference since twenty two. You had
37:45
Speaker 17: ten players drafted or signed his free agents in the
37:48
Speaker 17: twenty five draft, eight players drafted or signed his free
37:51
Speaker 17: agents in the twenty sixth class. He had a top
37:54
Speaker 17: four portal class each of the last three portal cycles.
37:58
Speaker 17: You were there, Jackson art first round pick. Yet in
38:01
Speaker 17: a Vanity Fair article you said Oxford diversity hurt you
38:06
Speaker 17: in talent acquisition. So what is it your belief that
38:10
Speaker 17: if there was a little bit more diversity, all those
38:12
Speaker 17: numbers I cided could have been even better.
38:16
Speaker 2: I had a feeling that was going somewhere. You were
38:18
Speaker 2: doing like really.
38:19
Speaker 18: Positive stuff the whole way through.
38:21
Speaker 19: I'm like, man, this guy's good. It sounds like it's
38:23
Speaker 19: gould work for Jimmy Sexton. Man, you're like going a
38:25
Speaker 19: good direction there. You know, I made a challenging decision
38:32
Speaker 19: and change, and I think as I look back to that,
38:37
Speaker 19: I thought I could find a way for everybody to understand.
38:40
Speaker 19: And now as I look back later on, that was
38:42
Speaker 19: never going to happen. And I made a decision that
38:46
Speaker 19: I changed jobs. And as I get older and I
38:48
Speaker 19: go through things and losing both parents, I was actually
38:53
Speaker 19: talking to Ross Dollinger and I kind of said something
38:55
Speaker 19: that might sound kind of funny to you, but you know,
38:58
Speaker 19: I watched the Hulk Hogan spot and I realized and
39:02
Speaker 19: I was like, we're all going to die, and so
39:07
Speaker 19: some of the things that we put importance on we
39:09
Speaker 19: worry about, and what this person says.
39:11
Speaker 2: In that like really aren't going to matter.
39:13
Speaker 19: And when I lost my dad, I started thinking that,
39:15
Speaker 19: and I really started thinking when I grew up, there
39:17
Speaker 19: were two people that I thought just wouldn't die, my
39:21
Speaker 19: Dad and Hulk Hogan. And then I watched that special
39:24
Speaker 19: and really, like, Hulk Hogan died too. There's no way
39:27
Speaker 19: Hulk Hogan was ever going to not wrestle and die,
39:29
Speaker 19: and he did. And so it just made me reflect
39:32
Speaker 19: really on, like I can't be so concerned about little
39:36
Speaker 19: things and what people say in this and you got
39:38
Speaker 19: to make decisions. You got to go with them and
39:41
Speaker 19: you do things, and you make really good decisions and
39:43
Speaker 19: you make poor decisions. And that was a poor usage
39:47
Speaker 19: of a term that I believe, just like many coaches
39:50
Speaker 19: that have been therefore, was factual, but over the course
39:53
Speaker 19: of the long interview, was bad timing and bad.
39:56
Speaker 2: Usage of the words. So it is what it is.
40:00
Speaker 2: Apologize when I said it, and moving on.
40:06
Speaker 1: It's an interesting Uh, it's an interesting take on thing.
40:09
Speaker 1: We're all gonna die. I mean it was a similar
40:11
Speaker 1: thing if Scottie Scheffler said some kind of similar things
40:14
Speaker 1: about that to all of this stuff about mortality.
40:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna happen to all of us.
40:19
Speaker 15: I think the thing is is when he starts talking,
40:24
Speaker 15: I think he's now gotten to a place where the
40:28
Speaker 15: serenity of everything, you know, he's gotten to a spot
40:33
Speaker 15: to where people are gonna always talk about you. People
40:35
Speaker 15: are always gonna criticize you. You may not do things
40:39
Speaker 15: the way other people would do it, but yet it's
40:42
Speaker 15: you got to live your life and do the things
40:45
Speaker 15: that's best for you in that particular moment. And I
40:48
Speaker 15: think that's the moment of clarity. When he leaves and
40:52
Speaker 15: everything's done. People aren't gonna talk about him leaving the school.
40:56
Speaker 15: People aren't going to talk about him changing the the
41:01
Speaker 15: area code in which he is now getting his phone
41:04
Speaker 15: ringing at.
41:05
Speaker 2: I think he's at that point where he's that piece.
41:07
Speaker 15: At who he is and he's going to continue to
41:09
Speaker 15: do what he wants to do at his own pace.
41:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, and no doubt about it.
41:13
Speaker 1: He's he's a guy who can go and strike people differently.
41:21
Speaker 1: One guy who always strikes people positively is long words
41:24
Speaker 1: outstanding left tackle Trevor Goosby and Harge and I had
41:28
Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with him just a little
41:29
Speaker 1: while ago and visit with Trevor to talk about how
41:33
Speaker 1: far he's coming, what's still to happen. Certainly please to
41:36
Speaker 1: be joined by Trevor Gooseby. Getting ready for the run
41:39
Speaker 1: up to the season this year for you personally feel
41:45
Speaker 1: different than the past, being a veteran. Now the fact
41:49
Speaker 1: everybody knows this is a good football team and all
41:51
Speaker 1: that other stuff.
41:52
Speaker 2: Is there a different feel for you? I think absolutely.
41:54
Speaker 16: You know, just as you you know, progress through the seasons,
41:59
Speaker 16: you know, your old high changes sometimes. So I went
42:01
Speaker 16: from being kind of a more of a bench player
42:02
Speaker 16: to being a you know, possibly could start the game,
42:06
Speaker 16: you know, like if if something happens, you can put
42:07
Speaker 16: him into you know, being a starter, and now hopefully
42:10
Speaker 16: you know, you know, being a leader on the team.
42:13
Speaker 16: And so that's kind of where it feels different for
42:14
Speaker 16: me because you know, just kind of my responsibility to
42:17
Speaker 16: this team is a little bit different now.
42:19
Speaker 15: So I wanted to ask you because that's a great
42:21
Speaker 15: point and great thought process with it all. But as
42:24
Speaker 15: you started to look and see where you were as
42:27
Speaker 15: a young player, the work that you had to put in,
42:30
Speaker 15: the thought process, the amount of time of study, is
42:35
Speaker 15: that something that you have gotten You've obviously gotten better
42:38
Speaker 15: at it, but is that something that you've passed on
42:40
Speaker 15: to some of the younger players about Hey, when I
42:43
Speaker 15: came in, I was at the same status as you.
42:45
Speaker 2: But what I learned throughout this time is it the more.
42:48
Speaker 15: You get ahead of stuff, the easier the position's going
42:52
Speaker 15: to be.
42:53
Speaker 10: No.
42:53
Speaker 16: Yeah, absolutely, I'm always trying to hop out our young guy.
42:55
Speaker 16: You know, whether it's John Turntime, you know, John Tay
42:57
Speaker 16: Newman who he just got, you know, whether it's you know,
43:00
Speaker 16: Jordan Coleman, Devin Coleman, those kind of guys. You know,
43:02
Speaker 16: I'm always trying to give them little little tidbits of
43:04
Speaker 16: stuff that I learned from you know, Kevin Banks and
43:06
Speaker 16: Jake Majors and you know, you know older guys. I'm
43:09
Speaker 16: always just trying to be like, hey, you know, this
43:11
Speaker 16: is kind of what I did, you know, coming in
43:13
Speaker 16: as a three star coming in because me personally, I
43:15
Speaker 16: don't think I was that good in high school, to
43:17
Speaker 16: be honest.
43:19
Speaker 1: You know, so you were looked at us a future Trevor,
43:21
Speaker 1: you know, definitely a working product, unfinished product.
43:26
Speaker 16: But you know I always try and you know, you know,
43:28
Speaker 16: share my knowledge with those guys.
43:30
Speaker 1: So what's the most important thing you could A bit
43:33
Speaker 1: of advice you could give a young offensive lineman starting out.
43:36
Speaker 16: I think I think what I would say is like this,
43:38
Speaker 16: the game is a race of maturity, you know, just
43:40
Speaker 16: trying to become a more mature player and take things
43:44
Speaker 16: seriously and you know, having a routine and you know,
43:46
Speaker 16: just things like that, so just kind of trying to
43:48
Speaker 16: become a more mature player and take things like seriously,
43:52
Speaker 16: and also just the you know, the value of hard work,
43:55
Speaker 16: you know, putting in the work, and you know, watching
43:57
Speaker 16: the older guys and seeing like, hey, Like for me,
43:59
Speaker 16: I was like, hey, Kelvin is doing this and he's
44:02
Speaker 16: about to be a first round picks. You know, I
44:03
Speaker 16: might as well do that too, you know, just kind
44:06
Speaker 16: of those are the biggest things.
44:07
Speaker 15: I would say, what were some of the biggest improvements
44:10
Speaker 15: that you wanted to make for yourself every year? Because
44:13
Speaker 15: obviously foot work, you were an athlete, you played basketball.
44:16
Speaker 15: Your brothers now at the University of Texas as a
44:18
Speaker 15: basketball player, so you've already had that working through. But
44:22
Speaker 15: then each step of the way there's certain techniques and
44:25
Speaker 15: things that you had to.
44:26
Speaker 2: Get better at.
44:27
Speaker 15: What was this year's major focus for you coming into
44:30
Speaker 15: the season.
44:31
Speaker 16: I think just strength overall, you know, just trying to
44:33
Speaker 16: get stronger, you know, lower body, upper body, just kind
44:36
Speaker 16: of all around being able to you know, anchor down
44:38
Speaker 16: on bull rushes or remove guys off the ball. And
44:41
Speaker 16: that's kind of what my biggest you know aspect, I
44:44
Speaker 16: think I was working on this offseason. You know, despite
44:45
Speaker 16: the shoulder ender injury, you know, I'm still working hard
44:48
Speaker 16: to gain that strength and also just continue to gain
44:50
Speaker 16: my flexibility and just be able to bend even more
44:53
Speaker 16: because you know, I'm already a tall guy, so I
44:55
Speaker 16: got to get down.
44:56
Speaker 1: So how would you describe what it's been like the
45:00
Speaker 1: I spent the chemistry with the new guys coming in,
45:02
Speaker 1: even the latest of additions, and with the chemistry is
45:05
Speaker 1: like Ben on the old line in the off season.
45:08
Speaker 2: It's been phenomenal.
45:09
Speaker 16: I was telling Connor our center the other day, like,
45:11
Speaker 16: I think this is one of the closest groups we've
45:13
Speaker 16: ever had, despite all the you know, the transfers, and
45:15
Speaker 16: you know, Melvin and Lawrence and John Say and those guys,
45:18
Speaker 16: they make it super easy. You know, They're super inviting,
45:20
Speaker 16: and you know, you know, Lawrence isn't more of a
45:22
Speaker 16: quieter guy, so you know, we had to we had
45:24
Speaker 16: to bring him along. And you know Melvin, he's a
45:27
Speaker 16: super talkative guy, you know, and we just kind of
45:30
Speaker 16: really bonded, you know, on and off the field.
45:32
Speaker 15: So we're talking to Trevor go and Goosby. You know,
45:36
Speaker 15: I just mentioned your brother Austin now being on the
45:38
Speaker 15: forty acres. Obviously, being with your family is something that
45:43
Speaker 15: everybody has talked about at the University of Texas. But
45:46
Speaker 15: how important has that been for you to be away
45:50
Speaker 15: from football but have family members there just to share
45:53
Speaker 15: things with.
45:54
Speaker 16: It's been amazing. It's been great because you know, Austin's
45:56
Speaker 16: seen me since I was a little kid, back when
45:58
Speaker 16: I was chasing them around with trying to throw chairs
46:01
Speaker 16: at him and stuff, when he would annoy the crap
46:03
Speaker 16: out of me, you know, and uh, you know, he's
46:05
Speaker 16: seen me from that point, and you know, I've seen
46:07
Speaker 16: him grow up and you know, turn to the man
46:09
Speaker 16: that he is today. And so it's just I'm grateful
46:11
Speaker 16: to have somebody that I'm able to just talk to him,
46:13
Speaker 16: be like, you know, I know what, You're gonna be
46:15
Speaker 16: there for me all the time.
46:16
Speaker 1: Do you think he is grateful to have you to
46:20
Speaker 1: lean on, especially as he makes this transition into being
46:23
Speaker 1: a Texas long worned, into being a college student, into
46:25
Speaker 1: being a freshman all.
46:26
Speaker 16: Of that stuff, I would think, So he'll never say it,
46:29
Speaker 16: but but you know, I think he does lean on
46:33
Speaker 16: me a good amount, you know, and just I'm always
46:35
Speaker 16: trying to give him like you said, with the with
46:37
Speaker 16: the young guys in the room. You know, I'm just
46:38
Speaker 16: trying to give him two bits of you know, because
46:40
Speaker 16: because he wants to do the business school just like
46:42
Speaker 16: I am. And I'm like, hey, it's gonna be tough.
46:44
Speaker 16: You know, I've been through it, and you know I'm
46:46
Speaker 16: here to help you out, you know. And you know,
46:48
Speaker 16: being a college athlete, bouncing out with the academics here
46:51
Speaker 16: at the University of Texas is a hard thing to do.
46:53
Speaker 16: I've done it the past four years. So I'm able
46:55
Speaker 16: to help you out with this and give you this advice.
46:57
Speaker 1: Was it possible for Arch to be even more competitive
47:01
Speaker 1: than he's beneva? Because all I hear is about stuff
47:03
Speaker 1: in the summer when you guys had the scavenger hunt
47:05
Speaker 1: all that stuff. How competitive a guy he is? How
47:09
Speaker 1: would you see how he has evolved as well as
47:13
Speaker 1: a competitor as an individual as well as obviously as
47:16
Speaker 1: a quarterback.
47:16
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, as a competitor.
47:18
Speaker 16: And we kind of saw this, you know, started to
47:20
Speaker 16: begin last year of you know, him just kind of
47:22
Speaker 16: wanting it more, and you know it showed through his play.
47:25
Speaker 2: You know.
47:26
Speaker 16: I just I was just talking about the Florida game
47:28
Speaker 16: and how he was just getting hammered and then killed
47:32
Speaker 16: and six sacks and you know, however many hits he had,
47:35
Speaker 16: you know, and that was our fault, that was the
47:37
Speaker 16: old line's fault. And you know he came back the
47:38
Speaker 16: next week and you know, didn't bat night at the
47:40
Speaker 16: old line and just took every rep and then we
47:42
Speaker 16: went to the Ou game and you know we beat them.
47:45
Speaker 16: So that for me was you know, that's top tier
47:48
Speaker 16: competitor level right there. That's that's what cycle called unique competitor.
47:52
Speaker 15: We love to talk about iron sharpening iron and obviously
47:56
Speaker 15: mentioned Arch being here, and of course Colin Simmons. Colin
48:00
Speaker 15: Simmons is somebody that I know you've talked about him
48:03
Speaker 15: a bit about how hard he works and what this
48:06
Speaker 15: is all about. But when you going against each other
48:09
Speaker 15: every single day, does he coach you and say, hey,
48:12
Speaker 15: this is what I saw when you're set up that
48:14
Speaker 15: made me think I could do this, and you doing
48:16
Speaker 15: the same thing for him vice versa.
48:18
Speaker 16: Yeah, we talk every every time we practice. I'm like,
48:21
Speaker 16: all right, console, so what were you trying to do
48:23
Speaker 16: here with this movie? He'll come up to me and
48:24
Speaker 16: be like all right, So what are you trying to
48:25
Speaker 16: do with your hands here, And so you know, we're
48:28
Speaker 16: just kind of giving each other more information, you know,
48:30
Speaker 16: about the other positions. So when it does come time
48:32
Speaker 16: to play the game, you know, we're both prepped and
48:34
Speaker 16: we're both you know, experienced and what the other guy
48:37
Speaker 16: is going to do, Like you said, iron sharpening and
48:39
Speaker 16: iron like Colin Simmons is, you know, one of the
48:41
Speaker 16: best defensive players in the country, and so being able
48:44
Speaker 16: to go against him and you know, you know, Lance
48:46
Speaker 16: Jackson and Xena and Moslo and those kind of guys
48:48
Speaker 16: at the edge position. You know, I'm going against the
48:51
Speaker 16: best of the best every day and so that don't
48:53
Speaker 16: really prepare me for preparing me for every game that
48:55
Speaker 16: you know is coming up.
48:56
Speaker 1: So final thing here, what are you looking forward to
49:02
Speaker 1: for this twenty to twenty six college football season?
49:04
Speaker 16: I think just playing with the guys, you know, just
49:06
Speaker 16: playing with this team, and you know, not not for
49:09
Speaker 16: the you know, on paper we're a really good team,
49:11
Speaker 16: but just playing with the caliber of guys that we have,
49:13
Speaker 16: in the caliber of men that we have, you know,
49:15
Speaker 16: just kind of all over the board offense, defense, even
49:18
Speaker 16: you know, the coaches, you know, they're really bringing that
49:20
Speaker 16: energy and you know, they bring that culture together and
49:23
Speaker 16: just being able to play with those guys and you know,
49:25
Speaker 16: I guess lay my life on the line for those guys.
49:27
Speaker 2: It means a lot to me. It means everything. Before
49:29
Speaker 2: we let you go, we wanted to ask you.
49:31
Speaker 15: Obviously you weren't a pendant today and it says every
49:34
Speaker 15: fifteen minutes. You obviously just had your football camp about
49:39
Speaker 15: when as a kid you had open heart surgery, and
49:41
Speaker 15: that's something that a lot of people have no idea about.
49:45
Speaker 15: Coach Sark obviously had the same thing. You and him
49:48
Speaker 15: have had a chance to bond over that. But what
49:51
Speaker 15: is it about that that really stands out to you
49:54
Speaker 15: that can help somebody else.
49:56
Speaker 16: I think for me, just the experience and how much
49:58
Speaker 16: that that had, you know, took a to on me,
50:00
Speaker 16: and just kind of I don't feel I feel like it's
50:02
Speaker 16: not talked about enough. You know, congenital heart disease isn't
50:05
Speaker 16: you know, it isn't one of the top talked about,
50:08
Speaker 16: you know, awareness programs in the country, And so I
50:11
Speaker 16: just want to, you know, be a platform to kids
50:13
Speaker 16: that you know are going through that, and you know
50:15
Speaker 16: that they asked somebody to look, you know, up to
50:17
Speaker 16: and look look towards to to find that confidence and
50:20
Speaker 16: to find you know that I guess that, uh, that
50:22
Speaker 16: guidance to.
50:23
Speaker 2: Get through it.
50:24
Speaker 1: So we appreciate the time. We know it's a busy
50:26
Speaker 1: time for you. Looking forward to seeing you on the
50:28
Speaker 1: practice field and seeing you in the games. Thanks Trevor,
50:29
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. I appreciate hook them.
50:31
Speaker 2: Hook them. That's Trevor Gooseby.
50:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, great conversation with him as well, and certainly the
50:37
Speaker 1: leader of that offensive front. Up next, we're going to
50:41
Speaker 1: visit with Arch Manning. We'll have that coming just around
50:45
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Speaker 1: Special five o'clock hour edition of the program from SEC
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Speaker 1: Football Media Days here in Tampa. Part I mentioned that
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Speaker 1: my cardball hards have been here from the start, So
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Speaker 1: too has been Cameron Parker who has cobbled everything together
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Speaker 1: and also very definitely and quickly transitioned us into an
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Speaker 2: Is that the best way to describe that.
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Speaker 30: Yeah, I think they're telling us like, hey, it's time
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Speaker 30: to go home now.
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Speaker 1: And we know you guys just came in yesterday and
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Speaker 1: are doing today the last day. But you know most
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Speaker 1: of the other people that got here on Monday or
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Speaker 1: Sunday or whatever and been there, Yeah, you guys need
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Speaker 1: to leave or something like that. But you know what
56:48
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I have been to a
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Speaker 1: football media days every year except one. I think it
56:57
Speaker 1: was nineteen ninety eight eat Uh no, it was ninety
57:01
Speaker 1: nine when my when my youngest was born, and uh
57:07
Speaker 1: and other than that, going all the way back to
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Speaker 1: Southwest Conference Days, I was usually involved with an afternoon show,
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Speaker 1: either hosting or co hosting or whatever. And so going
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Speaker 1: from the mid nineties all the year, I can tell
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Speaker 1: you every single year when he gets to this time
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Speaker 1: of the day, what you're seeing is the deal there's
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Speaker 1: always a tear down. There's always there, guy's pulling up
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Speaker 1: tape a few minutes ago to pull up ethernet lines.
57:31
Speaker 2: There's there's always that.
57:32
Speaker 1: It's always that gentle nudge like, hey, can you guys
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Speaker 1: wrap it up and get the hell out of here.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 30: It's like the Villagio casino floor at four am, when
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Speaker 30: they're vacuuming underneath the blackjack table. It's like, Okay, maybe
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Speaker 30: maybe it's you know, it's time, it's time to go.
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Speaker 1: So you sat at the blackjack table at the.
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Speaker 2: I've just heard about it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I heard about Okay, you know a lot of
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Speaker 1: the guys in after we after we air this interview,
58:04
Speaker 1: I'll get your follow up comments on this. But a
58:06
Speaker 1: lot of the guys who come here, the student athletes,
58:10
Speaker 1: some of them are wide eyed, and some of them
58:12
Speaker 1: have been there, don't really know. And then the other
58:14
Speaker 1: ones just would rather not even be here. One thing
58:19
Speaker 1: that was kind of fun, and you'll hear this in
58:21
Speaker 1: this conversation with Arch Manning is he quickly adjusted to
58:29
Speaker 1: having fun here. And he'll tell you why. But when
58:32
Speaker 1: we walked up and we had a certain amount of
58:35
Speaker 1: time that that John Biaco and his staff set aside
58:38
Speaker 1: for us to be able to come in and have
58:39
Speaker 1: a conversation, and I had one with him, and so
58:41
Speaker 1: did so did Harge. So that'll be coming on the
58:45
Speaker 1: on the morning kickoff around the corner. But when we
58:49
Speaker 1: appeared on the scene in the room, there were I
58:56
Speaker 1: think four young ladies who were doing TikTok things of
59:00
Speaker 1: the sec and all we could see was art making
59:05
Speaker 1: these really bizarre facial expressions, stuff you probably would not
59:11
Speaker 1: normally see out of the long Arts quarterback. So that
59:14
Speaker 1: was that's gonna be the leadoff question. When I sat
59:16
Speaker 1: down just a little while ago it visited with long
59:19
Speaker 1: Warts quarterback arts Manny, the first thing I have to
59:22
Speaker 1: ask is we walk up and there's four young ladies
59:25
Speaker 1: having you make all kinds of weird faces.
59:27
Speaker 2: What was that all about?
59:29
Speaker 18: They were showing me pictures of either me paying Eli
59:32
Speaker 18: and having me recreate the pictures. I hope that never
59:34
Speaker 18: gets posted. It's pretty embarrassing, but that was what we
59:38
Speaker 18: were doing.
59:38
Speaker 2: It was a TikTok. Is it difficult? Okay? All right?
59:40
Speaker 1: So is it is it difficult to create an emotional
59:43
Speaker 1: of facial expression on the spur of the moment?
59:46
Speaker 18: Really coming on the spot there. It was a little
59:48
Speaker 18: bit that was probably the most challenging thing I've done
59:49
Speaker 18: all day.
59:51
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, with all of this
59:52
Speaker 1: stuff going on, how much or is there much of
59:56
Speaker 1: it that you actually even enjoyed.
59:59
Speaker 2: I was kind of I'm not gonna lie. I was
1:00:00
Speaker 2: kind of dreading coming to this.
1:00:02
Speaker 18: But I talked to my dad, and I talked to
1:00:05
Speaker 18: one of our strength coaches actually, and they're like, make
1:00:07
Speaker 18: the most out of it, have some fun. And you know,
1:00:09
Speaker 18: you only get to do this.
1:00:10
Speaker 2: This is your second time.
1:00:11
Speaker 18: You're very fortunate enough to do this, and I've made
1:00:13
Speaker 18: the most of it, and I had some fun today.
1:00:15
Speaker 1: Do you In the past, You've been asked quite a
1:00:18
Speaker 1: bit about how much you rely on visiting with your dad,
1:00:21
Speaker 1: visiting with your granddad, your uncle's about going through what
1:00:25
Speaker 1: you go through as a quarterback. But does that also
1:00:29
Speaker 1: it sounds like encompass the other things that surround it,
1:00:32
Speaker 1: not just what you have to.
1:00:33
Speaker 2: Do on the practice field and in the game.
1:00:35
Speaker 18: Yeah, I'd say more so, I rely mostly on my
1:00:37
Speaker 18: coaches and teammates and support staff in Texas to focus
1:00:43
Speaker 18: on football. I think more so, I'm talking to my
1:00:45
Speaker 18: dad and grandfather and uncles on stuff outside of football
1:00:47
Speaker 18: and handling, you know, different situations.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: So many people are talking about you, quote unquote being tough,
1:00:54
Speaker 1: for getting tough, for all that other kind of stuff.
1:00:56
Speaker 18: You feel tougher. I mean, you got to be tough
1:01:00
Speaker 18: to be a quarterback. And I think every quarterback, especially
1:01:03
Speaker 18: in this conference, is tough and you got to prove
1:01:05
Speaker 18: that every week.
1:01:06
Speaker 2: Do you be's saying I'm tough? Right? Do you do?
1:01:10
Speaker 1: You do you feel like even physically in addition to
1:01:14
Speaker 1: the mental toughness that you've made strides as well.
1:01:17
Speaker 18: I would say you got to grow up quick, especially
1:01:20
Speaker 18: in the SEC and not playing well and having to
1:01:23
Speaker 18: you knowwithstand that you got to grow up quick, and
1:01:26
Speaker 18: you know, grow some scars. And I think I'm gonna
1:01:30
Speaker 18: take those scars with me and go on to next
1:01:32
Speaker 18: year and hopefully we have a good year.
1:01:33
Speaker 2: Where did you grow the most?
1:01:35
Speaker 1: And that everybody points to the second half of the
1:01:37
Speaker 1: season with the way everything went for you. Did you
1:01:40
Speaker 1: did you feel the mental and emotional as well as
1:01:42
Speaker 1: the physical growth down the stretch?
1:01:44
Speaker 18: Yeah, I'd say so. I don't know if there was
1:01:45
Speaker 18: a specific time, but I think looking back, I definitely
1:01:48
Speaker 18: grew up there and you know, played a little more
1:01:51
Speaker 18: free and let the game come to me.
1:01:52
Speaker 2: How excited are you and how good is it?
1:01:55
Speaker 1: Men? Working with the newer players as well as the
1:01:59
Speaker 1: returning player there, your receivers, you're receiving targets, your offensive line,
1:02:03
Speaker 1: your two new running backs, all of that.
1:02:05
Speaker 18: It's been really exciting. Those guys that came in from
1:02:08
Speaker 18: the portal or even the freshman it's been a smooth
1:02:11
Speaker 18: transition for them. The guys returning from last year have
1:02:14
Speaker 18: all grown up into leadership roles. So we're excited about
1:02:17
Speaker 18: this group. We just got to take a day by
1:02:19
Speaker 18: day and I'm excited.
1:02:22
Speaker 2: Tell everybody about this scavenger hunt that Sark was talking about.
1:02:25
Speaker 18: We did a scavenger hunt yesterday.
1:02:28
Speaker 2: It was fun.
1:02:29
Speaker 18: I think the winners they haven't announced it yet, or
1:02:31
Speaker 18: maybe they did when.
1:02:32
Speaker 2: We were here.
1:02:32
Speaker 1: I heard it was a debate between you and the
1:02:34
Speaker 1: debate between our two teams.
1:02:37
Speaker 18: Allegedly they said our team cheated. But we went around
1:02:39
Speaker 18: campus and went around campus and different spots, which is
1:02:44
Speaker 18: unique because some of the guys hadn't even seen campus yet.
1:02:46
Speaker 18: They're new or online school, so all around campus and
1:02:51
Speaker 18: you had to race the longhorn and take a picture
1:02:53
Speaker 18: of your group towards the end, and we were both
1:02:54
Speaker 18: racing and apparently we sent the picture at the same time.
1:02:58
Speaker 18: So I don't know how they're gonna choose a winner.
1:02:59
Speaker 18: Do you cheat free dinner?
1:03:01
Speaker 16: Though?
1:03:01
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, so how do you cheat on a
1:03:03
Speaker 1: scavenger hunt?
1:03:04
Speaker 18: Because they said, so everyone has to be at each
1:03:08
Speaker 18: you know, you get clues and you get to go
1:03:09
Speaker 18: to each place, and everyone has to take a picture
1:03:12
Speaker 18: of everyone in your group.
1:03:13
Speaker 2: And we had two.
1:03:14
Speaker 18: Guys in our group, Lance Jackson and Eric Garza. Not
1:03:18
Speaker 18: to call them out, they went on a Lime scooter
1:03:21
Speaker 18: for the first one, which didn't matter at all because
1:03:23
Speaker 18: we all still had to walk there. So we didn't cheat.
1:03:26
Speaker 18: We just, you know, we're had a competitive advantage.
1:03:29
Speaker 1: Someone say, is this also examples of how the team
1:03:33
Speaker 1: grows closer together before we actually even get on the
1:03:36
Speaker 1: practice field for fall camp workout hundred percent.
1:03:38
Speaker 18: We're also all going to hang out tomorrow night, so
1:03:40
Speaker 18: we're trying to build, especially with having a bunch of
1:03:43
Speaker 18: new guys. I feel like we've done a good job
1:03:45
Speaker 18: of building that camaraderie and culture.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: What are you looking for to most once you get
1:03:50
Speaker 1: into practice and headed toward the start of the season.
1:03:53
Speaker 18: Yeah, I like game planning each week and practicing for opponents.
1:03:57
Speaker 18: Right now, we're just going against our defense, so once
1:03:58
Speaker 18: we get into opponent plays, we're going to attack that.
1:04:01
Speaker 18: And you know, obviously you get excited for Saturdays.
1:04:04
Speaker 2: Got to ask you about the TV commercial or the
1:04:07
Speaker 2: commercial with your dad. How much fun was that to do?
1:04:09
Speaker 18: Yeah, I've done a lot with him this offseason. He
1:04:13
Speaker 18: makes it easy. I don't like doing those things and
1:04:15
Speaker 18: he makes it easy, and so I'm glad I get
1:04:17
Speaker 18: to do.
1:04:17
Speaker 2: It with him.
1:04:18
Speaker 18: He's a piece of work, So we had some fun.
1:04:20
Speaker 2: He looks very natural at it.
1:04:22
Speaker 1: I mean, is it Does it feel like it's something
1:04:24
Speaker 1: that he tries to help you discover?
1:04:25
Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably so.
1:04:26
Speaker 18: I'm not really big in that field, but he's pretty
1:04:29
Speaker 18: good at it.
1:04:30
Speaker 2: Thanks appreciate it. Thank you. In case you haven't seen it,
1:04:34
Speaker 2: and Cam you've seen it.
1:04:35
Speaker 1: Those are the commercials he's done with his dad, raising
1:04:39
Speaker 1: Kanes is won. The one one they're on the golf
1:04:41
Speaker 1: course was the one I was referring to. Is that
1:04:43
Speaker 1: the one with the sunglasses or the eyebor Parker orb
1:04:47
Speaker 1: Park with a Warbig Parker. Those are hilarious that he's
1:04:52
Speaker 1: done with his dad, but he said he's spent a
1:04:54
Speaker 1: lot of summer with him about that. But I think
1:04:57
Speaker 1: the general layer, not just from that conversation but observing
1:05:00
Speaker 1: him and the other media realms that he had to
1:05:04
Speaker 1: enter today, is a more confident, relaxed, focused.
1:05:11
Speaker 2: You know, just generally.
1:05:15
Speaker 1: More comfortable quarterback than he was a year ago when
1:05:18
Speaker 1: he was here.
1:05:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, he seemed more at ease today.
1:05:21
Speaker 30: And I remember last season, Craig, when we were in
1:05:24
Speaker 30: Atlanta for the twenty twenty five SEC media days and
1:05:28
Speaker 30: we sat down with him in my card. Even just
1:05:31
Speaker 30: him walking in, you know, it was you know, like
1:05:33
Speaker 30: the first day of school. You're looking around and like,
1:05:35
Speaker 30: look at all these people here. You could kind of
1:05:36
Speaker 30: tell he was not used to it. You know, I
1:05:39
Speaker 30: think the college football world in the sports world was
1:05:43
Speaker 30: ready for Arch Manning, but I don't think Arch was
1:05:46
Speaker 30: ready for that just yet.
1:05:48
Speaker 2: And it's taken.
1:05:49
Speaker 30: Him probably about you know, two three years in Austin
1:05:53
Speaker 30: getting used to being how popular he is. The exposure
1:05:56
Speaker 30: that he's gotten from you know, nil deals in commercial
1:06:00
Speaker 30: in just the outside media, and you know, you have
1:06:02
Speaker 30: Jordan Rodgers and steven A Smith talking about you when
1:06:06
Speaker 30: steven A probably doesn't know the name of Oklahoma's quarterback,
1:06:08
Speaker 30: but he knows arch Manning's name. Right, Everyone knows arch
1:06:11
Speaker 30: Manning's name, And I think it's taken him some time
1:06:13
Speaker 30: to get.
1:06:13
Speaker 2: Used to that, Craig.
1:06:14
Speaker 30: And you know, I wonder maybe if that maybe bled
1:06:17
Speaker 30: into his football at first too, because he didn't seem
1:06:21
Speaker 30: very comfortable on the football field or outside of it.
1:06:23
Speaker 30: But then you know, over the course of the season,
1:06:26
Speaker 30: he became more and more of a good quarterback, and
1:06:29
Speaker 30: you know, you saw him grow up in the football field,
1:06:31
Speaker 30: and what we saw against Michigan and the Citrus Bowl,
1:06:33
Speaker 30: I think gave a lot of Texas fans a lot
1:06:35
Speaker 30: of confidence going into this season. And I think today
1:06:38
Speaker 30: Craig he looked like a confident quarterback, A confident he's.
1:06:43
Speaker 2: Not a kid anymore. You look like he's a grown Yeah.
1:06:45
Speaker 5: A team later who was here, and you.
1:06:47
Speaker 30: Know he said at the beginning of the interview where like,
1:06:49
Speaker 30: you know, he was kind of dreading it, and then
1:06:50
Speaker 30: his dad and some of the coaching staff told him, like, hey,
1:06:54
Speaker 30: just enjoy it. And I think we saw that out
1:06:56
Speaker 30: of him today.
1:06:57
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
1:06:59
Speaker 1: Coming up next my conversation with the head coach, the
1:07:01
Speaker 1: one on one with sark when we continue from SEC
1:07:04
Speaker 1: media days on thirteen under the Zone, continuing here on
1:07:16
Speaker 1: this Thursday afternoon here in Tampa, Florida. Last hour we
1:07:22
Speaker 1: brought to the press conference with Long Orange head coach
1:07:25
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian that was earlier today, and we've had the
1:07:29
Speaker 1: one on one conversations just aired with Arch Manning, also
1:07:34
Speaker 1: Mike Hardball, Hearts and I are visiting whichever gooseby my
1:07:37
Speaker 1: one on one with Colin Simmons, and now sit down
1:07:41
Speaker 1: with Long Orts head coach Steve Sarkishan. Given that you've
1:07:44
Speaker 1: been in this long enough to where very little, if
1:07:46
Speaker 1: anything surprises you anymore, is it nevertheless intriguing that a
1:07:51
Speaker 1: year ago everybody's asking you about Arch getting ready to
1:07:54
Speaker 1: be the starter and coming off playing in the conference
1:07:56
Speaker 1: championship to this year first question out of the box
1:07:59
Speaker 1: is about an offensive lineman trying to go through the
1:08:02
Speaker 1: legal system.
1:08:03
Speaker 2: To get a fifth year.
1:08:04
Speaker 5: You know, it's funny.
1:08:05
Speaker 4: I think that that's just fitting in the state of
1:08:09
Speaker 4: college athletics and college football right now. The fact that
1:08:13
Speaker 4: my first question out of the box is about a
1:08:17
Speaker 4: temporary restraining order for Cole Hudson to try to get
1:08:21
Speaker 4: a fifth year to play for US one more season.
1:08:25
Speaker 4: But that's where we're at. That's where we're at today,
1:08:27
Speaker 4: and so was it surprising yes, But in the same
1:08:31
Speaker 4: breath no, because that's just where we're at. Like I,
1:08:34
Speaker 4: you know, as I'm prepping for today, you know, obviously
1:08:38
Speaker 4: make a lot of notes, and you want to talk
1:08:41
Speaker 4: about our team and the season and our staff and
1:08:43
Speaker 4: the support we have and all the great things. And
1:08:46
Speaker 4: in my mind, I'm thinking, I'm checking with John Bionco.
1:08:49
Speaker 4: I'm like, Hey, I need answers to this new bill.
1:08:53
Speaker 4: I need answers to Commissioner Sinkie talking about the potential breakaway.
1:08:57
Speaker 4: I need answers to Cole Hudson and this lawsuit. Like,
1:09:01
Speaker 4: think about that. You know, we're going into a season.
1:09:03
Speaker 4: We're forty four days away from our opener, and I'm
1:09:05
Speaker 4: worried about lawsuits and a bill at Congress and all
1:09:10
Speaker 4: sorts of stuff that really doesn't matter to what we're.
1:09:12
Speaker 5: Going to do this fall.
1:09:13
Speaker 1: Does it make it any more challenging for you and
1:09:17
Speaker 1: the staff to keep everybody on task and all that,
1:09:20
Speaker 1: given that there's all this other outside stuff. There's outside
1:09:23
Speaker 1: stuff every year, but there seems to be more and
1:09:24
Speaker 1: more every year.
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Speaker 4: It's I don't think so, you know, I think that
1:09:28
Speaker 4: starts with me, Like like any organization, you know, I
1:09:31
Speaker 4: think when the leader has an approach and a mindset
1:09:34
Speaker 4: to the way they go about their business, I think
1:09:36
Speaker 4: it's still easier for everybody else to follow suit. I
1:09:39
Speaker 4: am not a big complainer. I'm not a big worrier
1:09:42
Speaker 4: about things that are out of my control. I control
1:09:44
Speaker 4: what I can control. I try to be where my
1:09:46
Speaker 4: feed are, and I try to focus on our people
1:09:49
Speaker 4: and our building, whether it's staff, players, coaching staff, whatever
1:09:52
Speaker 4: that looks like. And so you know, this is as
1:09:56
Speaker 4: they you know, coach Spurrier said, this is talking season
1:09:59
Speaker 4: and and this is the time for all that stuff.
1:10:03
Speaker 4: I think when we when we fast forward here about
1:10:05
Speaker 4: a week and a half two weeks, when training camp begins,
1:10:08
Speaker 4: I think a lot of.
1:10:08
Speaker 5: The focus is going to shift back to football.
1:10:11
Speaker 4: And but you know, this is the time, it's talking season,
1:10:14
Speaker 4: and and everybody's writing their articles and doing their podcasts
1:10:17
Speaker 4: and their radio shows and their TV shows, and and
1:10:20
Speaker 4: they're looking for content right, and so that's understandable, but
1:10:24
Speaker 4: it's it's not as difficult for me.
1:10:26
Speaker 5: Like I like being with our players. I like talking
1:10:29
Speaker 5: to our players.
1:10:29
Speaker 4: I like find out their interests, what they're doing with,
1:10:32
Speaker 4: what they got going on, and and and understanding Kevin
1:10:35
Speaker 4: el type, he's a really good chairman of the board.
1:10:38
Speaker 4: He's an attorney. He's gonna he's gonna know what he's doing.
1:10:41
Speaker 4: Jim Davis new new president, he's an attorney, knows what
1:10:44
Speaker 4: he's doing.
1:10:45
Speaker 2: CDC.
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Speaker 4: One of the smarter people I've ever been around, might
1:10:49
Speaker 4: be an attorney in the kangaroo court, you know.
1:10:51
Speaker 5: I I don't know somewhere in there.
1:10:53
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, like we've got
1:10:55
Speaker 4: great leaders that are gonna worry about that stuff.
1:10:57
Speaker 5: When the time comes they want my opinion, they'll ask.
1:11:00
Speaker 2: What has impressed you most about what you've.
1:11:05
Speaker 1: Learned and seen from your guys in the offseason, in
1:11:07
Speaker 1: the run up to building up right before the start
1:11:09
Speaker 1: of fall camp.
1:11:10
Speaker 4: The biggest thing is their ability to come together as
1:11:15
Speaker 4: a team with so many new faces. You know that
1:11:18
Speaker 4: that this idea with the amount of freshmen and transfers
1:11:21
Speaker 4: bigger than we've ever had. I've been so impressed this
1:11:26
Speaker 4: This team is closer than than than you know, it's
1:11:30
Speaker 4: as closer, closer than any team we've had. And that's
1:11:33
Speaker 4: a credit to Arch and Colin and Trevor and Jelanni
1:11:36
Speaker 4: and Hero and uh Brandon Baker and Ryan Wingo and
1:11:40
Speaker 4: all these guys Ty Anthony Smith who have been in
1:11:42
Speaker 4: the program out of high school. But it's also a
1:11:45
Speaker 4: credit to Raschien Biles, Bau Mascow, Cam Coleman, Raleik Brown,
1:11:51
Speaker 4: Hollywood Smothers, Michael Wasson, Is Melvins, and I their ability
1:11:55
Speaker 4: to come in and say, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna
1:11:59
Speaker 4: adjust to you and to that program because this is
1:12:03
Speaker 4: what I chose to come and do. And those guys
1:12:06
Speaker 4: and I'm know I'm leaving a few out, but those
1:12:08
Speaker 4: guys have done a great job of believing in the
1:12:11
Speaker 4: program and allowing those leaders to lead. And then a
1:12:15
Speaker 4: credit to the freshman class. You know, I think you
1:12:17
Speaker 4: know d bel Jermaine Bishop, those guys been great leaders
1:12:20
Speaker 4: to say, hey, these guys know what they're doing, We're
1:12:22
Speaker 4: gonna go follow suit. And so it's it's created a
1:12:25
Speaker 4: locker room and a team that's very close right now
1:12:27
Speaker 4: we were just talking about on the plane, you know,
1:12:30
Speaker 4: the player, you know, Arch was talking about it. I mean,
1:12:32
Speaker 4: we did a scavenger hunt yesterday, a competitive scavenger hunting.
1:12:35
Speaker 4: He's like, man, that was awesome, but it's so much
1:12:37
Speaker 4: fun and calling He and Collins teams were the ones
1:12:39
Speaker 4: at the end fighting over who won and who like
1:12:43
Speaker 4: we we'ven't.
1:12:44
Speaker 5: Done that before, you know.
1:12:45
Speaker 4: Then, and on a Wednesday and it's one hundred degrees
1:12:48
Speaker 4: in Austin and they're running around the forty acres and
1:12:50
Speaker 4: doing activities together. So it's that's what excites me about
1:12:54
Speaker 4: this team, and that's what makes this team really cool
1:12:56
Speaker 4: to me.
1:12:57
Speaker 1: Is that also a byproduct of what you've spoken about
1:13:00
Speaker 1: in the past about moving forward the culture building earlier
1:13:05
Speaker 1: then getting on well into the summer.
1:13:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think to your point. You know, we started
1:13:08
Speaker 4: doing our culture building stuff in February this year, when
1:13:11
Speaker 4: you know traditionally we don't start that until June. By
1:13:15
Speaker 4: doing that, I think that that did speed up the
1:13:18
Speaker 4: process where we could do activities like this and the
1:13:21
Speaker 4: players feel comfortable with one another to do it. They
1:13:23
Speaker 4: weren't still learning and figuring each other out. They've already
1:13:26
Speaker 4: gotten to know one another really well and on a
1:13:28
Speaker 4: very intimate setting. And so I've been pleased with all
1:13:32
Speaker 4: of that. You know, you know I always say I
1:13:35
Speaker 4: got asked this question earlier, Like, you know, is this
1:13:37
Speaker 4: your most talented roster? Arguably? Right, we'll find out. But
1:13:41
Speaker 4: talent only gets you so far. You know, your ability
1:13:44
Speaker 4: to play as a team, your ability to be your
1:13:46
Speaker 4: best when your best is needed, how we respond to adversity,
1:13:49
Speaker 4: the type of grit we have as a team, our
1:13:51
Speaker 4: ability to respond when injuries occur. All those things are
1:13:54
Speaker 4: what ultimately is going to define our season. Talent gets
1:13:57
Speaker 4: us so far, but things like this, the culture, that
1:14:00
Speaker 4: connectivity that our guys have.
1:14:01
Speaker 5: Uh, that's a great sign for us.
1:14:03
Speaker 1: Final thing here, what will you look for as you
1:14:06
Speaker 1: get into fall camp, right out of the gate? The
1:14:08
Speaker 1: questions that might roll through your mind before everything gets
1:14:12
Speaker 1: into the full meat and potatoes.
1:14:14
Speaker 4: Well I think this, you know, I'm always the first
1:14:16
Speaker 4: couple of days. I'm always looking at, you know, the
1:14:19
Speaker 4: cramping of our players.
1:14:20
Speaker 5: If truthfully like.
1:14:22
Speaker 4: It's hot, as we know, we have to we have
1:14:25
Speaker 4: to put our guys through the grinder, uh, to get
1:14:28
Speaker 4: ready for a season. But being mindful of our health
1:14:31
Speaker 4: and the cramping. We've gotten better every year, and I'm
1:14:34
Speaker 4: always trying to find more ways to expose them to
1:14:38
Speaker 4: the heat, but come out of those days even healthier
1:14:41
Speaker 4: than than we did in the previous year. So that's
1:14:43
Speaker 4: always something that I look at, you know, I look
1:14:46
Speaker 4: at communication, you know, and and and do I hear
1:14:49
Speaker 4: us at practice?
1:14:50
Speaker 5: Do I hear the communication in the back end? We
1:14:52
Speaker 5: got a new defense, you.
1:14:53
Speaker 4: Know, how's Jalani and Grayson and Derek Williams and everybody
1:14:56
Speaker 4: talking with one another.
1:14:59
Speaker 5: Our ability to a just on the move like it
1:15:02
Speaker 5: would be in game.
1:15:03
Speaker 4: You know, if we're not handling a certain stump by
1:15:05
Speaker 4: the defense, can the offensive line make the adjustment mid practice?
1:15:09
Speaker 4: Because that's a great sign for what the season could
1:15:11
Speaker 4: look forward to, you know, because we're going to see
1:15:13
Speaker 4: a bunch of things in season that we didn't prepare for,
1:15:16
Speaker 4: and our ability to adjust to those things is really important.
1:15:18
Speaker 2: Always great to see you down here. Appreciate it. Thanks Greg.
1:15:21
Speaker 1: Welcome at his LONGRNES Head coach Steve Sarkishan our annuals
1:15:25
Speaker 1: sit down at media Days. We'll be back to wrap
1:15:28
Speaker 1: up the program from here in Tampa. I'm thirteen under
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Speaker 1: the zone