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"It's not up to our standard": Longhorns DB Michael Taaffe after loss to Georgia · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Texas women's basketball welcome home tip off dinner tonight on
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  Speaker 1: the campus. So from the category of singing for my supper,
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  Speaker 1: I will you know MC the events tonight on campus,
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  Speaker 1: looking forward that looking forward to the start of the
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  Speaker 1: women's basketball season, preseason number four in the country, and
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  Speaker 1: they also have a preseason All American, none other than
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  Speaker 1: Madison Booker, who was named to the AP preseason All
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  Speaker 1: American All America list today, along with such names as
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  Speaker 1: Juju Watkins and Page Beckers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, big time names.
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  Speaker 1: So, Watkins and Beckers were unanimous choices by a thirty
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  Speaker 1: member national media panel that selects the AP Top twenty
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  Speaker 1: five each week. Third appearance on the team for Beckers,
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  Speaker 1: also a preseason choice in or sophomore year last year.
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  Speaker 1: So the other three, actually, yeah, the other three Hannah
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  Speaker 1: Hidalgo of Notre Dame, Keeky Ory Often of USC.
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  Speaker 2: Who transferred from Stanford, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she was a heck of a player in Stanford,
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  Speaker 1: and Madison Booker. Nice, that's your that's your number. That
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  Speaker 1: that's your It's funny. The USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb sad,
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  Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. Those players exceled as freshmen and their teams won.
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  Speaker 1: They did it in multiple ways. It's really exciting for
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  Speaker 1: the game and a part of it because we know
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  Speaker 1: obviously Booker really became such a major factor once Rory
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  Speaker 1: Harmon went down with the ACL injury and she had
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  Speaker 1: to go to a starting point guard thing and average
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to a half points, five rebounds, five assists. So
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  Speaker 1: you know that's that's where that was. And now they're
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  Speaker 1: both back, so that'll be that'll be cool.
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  Speaker 2: Was Roy Harmon? Was she preseason in All America? Yep?
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  Speaker 1: Last year, sure was pretty crazy preseason Big twelve Player
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  Speaker 1: of the Year or two. And she was to play
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  Speaker 1: yeah last week last week she's back and then new faces.
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be a really good team, looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. They got a real interesting schedule because Vic
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  Speaker 1: Shaeffer had a hard time getting non conference opponents on
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  Speaker 1: the schedule. Uh, very few schools actually wanted to come
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  Speaker 1: to Austin and play. He had to do home and
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  Speaker 1: homes with home and home situations with James Madison and
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  Speaker 1: Richmond just to get him on the schedule. So and
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  Speaker 1: both of those are road games this year, and they've
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  Speaker 1: got the acc SEC Challenge game at Notre Dame. They
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  Speaker 1: have to go to to Paul and play to Paul.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's gonna be it's gonna be quite
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  Speaker 1: a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Tough, tough schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is good basketball team, so we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how they do through it.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna make him better for March, I think.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, Long Words are trying to be better
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  Speaker 1: for November coming up. Michael taff is always one of
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  Speaker 1: the real interesting guys to visit.
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  Speaker 2: With the young man from Westlake.
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  Speaker 1: He gave us the phrase, was it comparison.
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  Speaker 2: Is a thief a thief of joy? That I love
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  Speaker 2: that and but a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: And he sat down with our Will Matthews to discuss
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  Speaker 1: things going on with this Long Word football team and
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  Speaker 1: him personally.
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  Speaker 3: We've all been there. Loss has happened. It is what
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  Speaker 3: it is, and we know that this team is different.
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  Speaker 3: So what's the difference now you lost one?
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 4: I think we just understand the weight of this conference, right,
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  Speaker 4: And you can preach about it, you can talk about it,
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  Speaker 4: you can understand it, you can give it its respect
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  Speaker 4: that it deserves. But until you're actually playing, until you
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  Speaker 4: actually see what's going on, and how physical and talented
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  Speaker 4: this conference is, you never really know, and so you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a good learning experience for us, and we
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  Speaker 4: fought our tails off too, And so I'm super proud
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  Speaker 4: of the guys and I'm ready to just he was next.
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  Speaker 3: When you're looking back at that film, what did you
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  Speaker 3: learn about your defense?
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  Speaker 2: And what did you learn about yourself?
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  Speaker 4: We fought, We fought super hard until the last snap.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't we didn't scoreboard watch. We just knew the situation.
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  Speaker 4: We knew, you know, when it was four minute offense,
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  Speaker 4: which means they want to stay in bounce so they
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  Speaker 4: can run the clock. And how we were going to
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  Speaker 4: treat that, how they were going to treat their offense,
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  Speaker 4: and and we did everything we could to try to
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  Speaker 4: keep them out of the paint. They got in the
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  Speaker 4: paint a couple of times, and you know, that's not
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  Speaker 4: up to our standard, but it showed our groom, our fought.
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  Speaker 4: We I mean, we held them i think three four
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  Speaker 4: or five plays on the one yard line, and that's
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  Speaker 4: hard to do against a team like Georgia who's got
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  Speaker 4: guys up front that are ready to be physical down there.
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  Speaker 4: So it showed just the grit and the love that
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  Speaker 4: we had.
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  Speaker 2: For one another.
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  Speaker 3: As we've seen you win one, everybody thinks you're the
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  Speaker 3: greatest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 2: You lose, wonder is like, what's going on here? But
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  Speaker 2: but help us level set?
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  Speaker 3: What what what is it looking like moving forward for
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  Speaker 3: the Texas lam Harness.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I actually was thinking about this when
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  Speaker 4: I came up here because when I when I hop
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  Speaker 4: out of my car the last six weeks, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I get a lot of smiles and a.
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  Speaker 2: Good job this morning. So I almost wanted.
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  Speaker 4: To tell some people that weren't giving me the time
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  Speaker 4: of daily. Hey, like let's go, We're still good. We're here,
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  Speaker 4: we got everything in front of us, and that's the
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  Speaker 4: message that I'm bringing into the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, guys, we're good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the amount of smiles that was going around
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  Speaker 4: in the forty acres when we were the number one
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  Speaker 4: team in the nation based off ranks was a lot
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  Speaker 4: different now that we have technically one loss, and so
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  Speaker 4: we still got the same same energy, We still got
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  Speaker 4: the same smiles because we know what we're capable of,
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  Speaker 4: and we know that one one game, one day, one
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  Speaker 4: play is not gonna kind of determine what we're going
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  Speaker 4: to do this season.
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  Speaker 3: So in finishing up here, what's the message to the
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  Speaker 3: world to long Coordination? I mean, everybody to the sec
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  Speaker 3: about about Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys okay? I mean tell us what do
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  Speaker 2: you want to say? Yeah, we're good long our nation.
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  Speaker 4: Just keep keep showing up, keep doing what y'all did
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  Speaker 4: Saturday night, because that was an environment that I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't I don't encourage water bottle throwing,
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  Speaker 4: but what I will say is I I do appreciate
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  Speaker 4: the you know, the effort that y'all gave to change
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  Speaker 4: the Yeah, that passion that y'all did to change the momentum.
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  Speaker 2: Of that game, and really really appreciate it. Just keep coming.
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  Speaker 2: Trust us that.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna work really hard. We're gonna be working really,
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  Speaker 4: really hard. Y'all don't have to doubt that. And we're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna lose our swagger and our confidence that we have,
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  Speaker 4: and it's all gonna work out. You know, good things
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  Speaker 4: happen to people that work really hard. In our patient
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna be patient. We're gonna be a hard
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  Speaker 4: working bunch there.
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  Speaker 2: It is, Uh, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Michael chaff who stopped just short of saying, as I
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  Speaker 1: took a sip out of the bottle of Dasani water.
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  Speaker 1: Dasani the official water bottle chucked by students KR the
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  Speaker 1: other day because that.
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  Speaker 2: Was that was the brand. Hey, I'm glad our students
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  Speaker 2: were hydrating, you know, they did. They out there there,
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  Speaker 2: some were camping out from like Thursdays. So I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: they were drinking water.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. Can't do that, no water bottle,
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  Speaker 1: no throwing stuff onto the field. Just cheer with all
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  Speaker 1: your might. All right, We'll be back to wrap up
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