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The Big Ten's Title Sweep, Texas Transfer Portal Outlook, Texas Baseball Takes on UIW · The Craig Way Show

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Ready to go for the National Championship of College basketball
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: on the men's side.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Will it be a Big Ten sweep Ucla won it
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: for the Big Ten yesterday.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: On the women's side, or will Yukon continue to build
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: a dynasty twinning their third in the last four years
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: to controlled by Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: We need to left to right. We're underweight. The girl
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  Speaker 2: gets baseline, goes.
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  Speaker 3: Right till left, blazing it up and cross the foul.
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  Speaker 1: Emilyott could go in the first six and a half
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: minutes has been the MVP of this game, and he
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: picks up the second on Demrie Paul loosing and screaked
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: up by Malifez. Good Spint's got a hurt. The twenty
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: two of the shot cup just gets it across. Now
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Mullet's in the right carner for three goals and around
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  Speaker 1: at home. His first main bucket comes at the end
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  Speaker 1: of a press break and it's twenty three and twenty
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  Speaker 1: one Yukon.
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  Speaker 3: On the left block.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to go to work against the freshman riable
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  Speaker 2: back of it.
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  Speaker 3: Down, spins Baseline to the rim for two and.
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  Speaker 2: That's where that terrors Reid.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Foul really hurts Reid and defended that well all night
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  Speaker 1: on to spin to Paul top of the key, four
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  Speaker 1: three off the bench, he rains down a triple and
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  Speaker 1: upon's back put in walk twenty nine to twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: The Kenny looks up with the shot, fashs in the
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  Speaker 1: free throw line.
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  Speaker 4: Step that turns it.
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  Speaker 2: From there, it's cool, but Kenny with two and it's
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  Speaker 2: forty three to thirty five Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan starting to take control a little bit forty five
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven to No.
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  Speaker 3: Three top of the key, cunning wow.
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  Speaker 1: The three Ko looks to the bench and stocks up
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  Speaker 1: the fall, the first made three of.
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  Speaker 3: The game for Michigan and a time out.
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  Speaker 1: Hick Pond forty eight thirty seven go all the leaves
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  Speaker 1: with their launchest lead read setsus great his past Tipton
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  Speaker 1: taken away. It's a turnover for Yukon. Gale moves it
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  Speaker 1: up the full gale the loops transision. How was that
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  Speaker 1: big man with a two handed hammer floating to the
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  Speaker 1: to throw it down and stretch the Michigan lead a
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  Speaker 1: seven fifty two to forty five.
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  Speaker 4: Shimble it back to them on the right hand wing.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Caravan top of the key, launches of three.
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  Speaker 1: He hits Caravan hit the triple and Yukon has knife
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  Speaker 1: down sick tree.
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  Speaker 2: It takes it away, flips it behind.
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  Speaker 1: This shot won't go under the basket and it would.
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  Speaker 3: Not fall for solo ball on a balance of the fort.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson on the run bobbles it, gets it back to
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  Speaker 1: gay o' gaal kicks it out to McInnis, which three
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  Speaker 1: of his defense launches at.
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  Speaker 2: Three and he hits, oh my, that could be but.
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: Play up the night for Michigan and a mad scramble.
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  Speaker 1: Yukon, denied on one end, turns into three on the
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  Speaker 1: other and at sixty five fifty six Michigan, with a
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  Speaker 1: time out at one forty nine, Ago ops.
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  Speaker 3: In the mullets five pass and pulls it down.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen to shoot bullets on the roof to the left, corns,
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  Speaker 1: sends it back up top the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Ball contested three.
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  Speaker 3: And elect all the time ball bank suit.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on the left wing, and they're gonna look at
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  Speaker 1: it to make sure he was bought behind New York.
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  Speaker 1: The pole is a three on the court and you
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  Speaker 1: CODs within four sixty seven sixty three on the ball
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  Speaker 1: base three.
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  Speaker 3: Fod sixty nine to sixty three, six.
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  Speaker 1: Point game, thirteen point four to play, Uton will invou
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  Speaker 1: It's Smith.
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  Speaker 2: They have no timeout, tremain.
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  Speaker 1: Smith will bringing up the four fifteen Smith on the
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  Speaker 1: drive to the rest, miss De layup rebound loose, he
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  Speaker 1: scooped up by Gaye.
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  Speaker 3: He'll throw up to the other end of the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Caravan tracks it down with two seconds, with one and
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  Speaker 1: he comes at the half court Actions nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a black space in the Michigan trucky case.
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  Speaker 1: We'll write their name Michigan the twenty twenty six men's
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  Speaker 1: basketball National champions They knock off Yukon sixty nine to
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  Speaker 1: sixty three to win the school's second men's basketball championship.
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  Speaker 5: It also ends a drought for the Big Ten in
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  Speaker 5: winning national championships, the first since two thousand, when that
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  Speaker 5: other Michigan school, Michigan State, claimed the national title.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 5: hundred The Zone.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Craig Wait. Thanks very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: We bring you the program today from UFCU Dishfaulk Field,
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  Speaker 5: where the Long Horn baseball team will be back in
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: action tonight at home Texas will be taking on the
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  Speaker 5: Cardinals of the University of Incarnate Word.
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  Speaker 4: Down in San Antonio, IW.
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  Speaker 5: Six point fifteen is the pregame start time for that
• 4:40
  Speaker 5: and six point thirty the first pitch, and you can
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  Speaker 5: hear it on our sister station one to three point
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  Speaker 5: one FM, Austin's eighty station, as well as on the
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  Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app and also on the Texas Longhorns app. The
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  Speaker 5: producer of the program move put together that fine montage
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  Speaker 5: of Michigan capturing the national title is none other than
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  Speaker 5: Jay Carman. I say find montage was if you're a
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  Speaker 5: Yukon fan, maybe it doesn't come across as fine since
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  Speaker 5: they wound up and I had to, I'm glad I
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  Speaker 5: was reminded of this in watching the highlights last night, Jake.
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  Speaker 5: First time ever Yukon Is lost in the national championship game.
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  Speaker 5: They were going for their seventh and it was the
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  Speaker 5: first time they'd ever lost in a national final. They've
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  Speaker 5: been a thousand percent to that point, so it's a
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  Speaker 5: little bit different story for the kids from.
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  Speaker 4: Stores for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I think I heard that on a different show this
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  Speaker 6: week and it kind of took me off guard. Yukon
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  Speaker 6: what they had been to the final four six times
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  Speaker 6: and won it all, cut down the nets all six times.
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  Speaker 6: So pretty incredible stat when you think about it, and
• 5:42
  Speaker 6: pretty fascinating game last night. I was not expecting Yukon
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  Speaker 6: to be able to turn it into that type of game,
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  Speaker 6: and yet it still wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, Yukon did kind of as Tracy
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  Speaker 5: Wolfson said to that Dan Hurley muck it up a
• 6:02
  Speaker 5: bit and he kind of chuckled about that, and in fact,
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  Speaker 5: I guess you probably heard it in his postgame press conference.
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  Speaker 5: He was very happy with those officials, the ones who
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: worked the game, and said if I had those for
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  Speaker 5: every game from here on that I'd be happy. I'd
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  Speaker 5: be fine with it because he liked the fact that
• 6:21
  Speaker 5: they let it go and let it be physical. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, Michigan proved to be a team for all
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  Speaker 5: seasons that they could that they could win, that they
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  Speaker 5: could win by shooting threes. They had averaged eight three
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  Speaker 5: pointers a game in NCAA tournament play coming in. They
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  Speaker 5: got two last night, and they were one for fourteen
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  Speaker 5: at one point that what was it? It wasn't until
• 6:45
  Speaker 5: was it like seven minutes to go in the game.
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  Speaker 5: Jake that they got their first shot from that wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a paint point. Everything had been in the lane and
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  Speaker 5: the paint or underneath the basket. They didn't have anything
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  Speaker 5: out on the perimeter until late in the ball game.
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  Speaker 5: But what they did prove is that they could be
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  Speaker 5: any number of ways and ultimately proved they were the
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  Speaker 5: best team in the.
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  Speaker 3: Country and improving all of this.
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  Speaker 6: Craig with Ljkson, who was their kind of sixth man,
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  Speaker 6: a very important guard in their rotation sideline for the year.
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  Speaker 6: With the torn acl and with the Axel Londeborg playing
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  Speaker 6: at less than one hundred percent last night, I thought
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  Speaker 6: he looked pretty healthy at times, others certainly not like himself.
• 7:27
  Speaker 6: That was a big topic throughout the broadcast, Jaxel london
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  Speaker 6: Borg kind of berating himself in the halftime interview. But
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  Speaker 6: that just goes to show you the depth and the
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  Speaker 6: versatility and those types of things that really paid dividends
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  Speaker 6: for Michigan in this game. You're right, they had Michigan
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  Speaker 6: went the entire first half without making a shot outside
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  Speaker 6: of the painting they were over their first seventeen and
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  Speaker 6: then Elliott Coudo in the second segment of that second
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  Speaker 6: half hit a couple of Big three's, Trey McKenny knocked
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  Speaker 6: one down from the mid range, and that lifted the
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  Speaker 6: lid for Michigan.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, I think that that they proved
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  Speaker 5: to be about as adaptable as any college basketball team
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  Speaker 5: we've seen, you know, in recent times, that they could
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  Speaker 5: adapt to the situation losing losing a.
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  Speaker 4: Player, no problem, next man up.
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  Speaker 5: We hear teams talk about that all time in a
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  Speaker 5: variety of sports, next man up. But they truly showed
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  Speaker 5: that they could do that. You're not gonna we're not
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  Speaker 5: hitting from outside. Okay, we'll find a way to muscle
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  Speaker 5: an inside. You're not going to keep us. You're going
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  Speaker 5: to prevent us from getting high percentage shots by fouling us. Fine,
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  Speaker 5: we'll make free throws. I mean twenty in a row
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  Speaker 5: at one point, missed a couple down the stretch. But
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  Speaker 5: otherwise they were really really good. And that's what I
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  Speaker 5: meant by a team for all seasons. Really they could
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  Speaker 5: they could pretty much take whatever they needed to take
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  Speaker 5: and make it work and still find a way to
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  Speaker 5: beat you. And I do give Yukon credit for hanging
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  Speaker 5: in there. And it was a ballgame, and it was
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  Speaker 5: pretty tight all the way down the the stretch.
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  Speaker 4: Even so, it was it was, it was. It was
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  Speaker 4: interesting to.
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  Speaker 5: To to see how Michigan attacked them when they had
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  Speaker 5: to go different routes because I give Dan Hurley credit,
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  Speaker 5: I give you Ukon credit for making it less comfortable
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  Speaker 5: for Michigan. You know, they got such a big jump
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  Speaker 5: on Arizona early. They got big jumps on all the
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  Speaker 5: other teams very well. I think they wound up with
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  Speaker 5: the third highest six game point total in NCAA tournament history.
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  Speaker 5: And and yet Yukon kind of, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: muddied it up in the first half when Michigan wasn't
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  Speaker 5: hitting from the perimeter. But they adjusted. And what is
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  Speaker 5: it that Sarks isn't we heard? We heard Vic Schaefer
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  Speaker 5: said the other day. You know about the dinosaurs, there
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  Speaker 5: is the reason they're not around anymore. They couldn't adapt
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  Speaker 5: and and Michigan was able to adapt.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, their.
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  Speaker 5: Second ever national championship game and there uh and their
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  Speaker 5: first national champion ship since nineteen eighty nine when they
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  Speaker 5: had Rameil Robinson and Glenn Rice and all of those
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  Speaker 5: guys that Steve Fisher stepped in to coach after Bill
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  Speaker 5: Frieder was forced to resign there late in the season.
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  Speaker 5: He took over and they went six and one won
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  Speaker 5: the national title. So Michigan went and then the other thing,
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  Speaker 5: and we brought this up yesterday, Jake. With Michigan's victory,
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  Speaker 5: the Big Ten Conference has now won the football National Championship,
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  Speaker 5: the men's basketball National Championship, the women's basketball National Championship
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  Speaker 5: with the victory by the UCLA women in the national
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  Speaker 5: title game, and right now they got the number one
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  Speaker 5: ranked baseball team in the country. A lot of people
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  Speaker 5: will think about UCLA as much because they haven't been
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  Speaker 5: in the Big Ten that long, but they're making their mark.
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  Speaker 5: I think I also saw they want a water polo
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  Speaker 5: championship for the men UCLA. The Big Ten is striking
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  Speaker 5: all the boards right now. And even though the SEC
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: has a larger collection of teams higher rank in most
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: of those major sports throughout the course of the year,
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  Speaker 5: when the smoke is cleared, lately, it's belonged to the
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  Speaker 5: Big Ten.
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  Speaker 6: And on the basketball side of things, we've seen a
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  Speaker 6: couple of reasons for that. Number one has been the
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  Speaker 6: Big Ten's ability to get ahead of the curve on
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  Speaker 6: targeting top European talent, whether it was from the junior
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  Speaker 6: ranks or from the professional ranks, to come over and
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  Speaker 6: have success here at the college level. Some of that
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: has to do with how deep your pockets are for NIL.
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  Speaker 6: But Craig, you and I both know there are programs
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  Speaker 6: in the SEC with more expensive rosters than what Michigan
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: put together this season. So it's going to be about
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: finding the right approach and right now, Dusty May and
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  Speaker 6: Michigan certainly ahead of the game when it comes to
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  Speaker 6: their player evaluating and what their process was in the
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  Speaker 6: transfer portal to bring this roster together.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know.
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  Speaker 5: I've heard obviously, I've heard Dusty May say this and
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  Speaker 5: it really did bear out for them. But I will
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  Speaker 5: say this too, it also happened for a lot of
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  Speaker 5: other teams or didn't happen for another teams. And what
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about is his commentary and you kind of
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  Speaker 5: alluded to it there that it comes down to the
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  Speaker 5: chemistry and the makeup of those teams. It's one thing
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  Speaker 5: to just load up in the portal and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I put myself together a team. It's one thing to
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  Speaker 5: do that it's another thing to be able to get
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  Speaker 5: those pieces.
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  Speaker 4: To all congeal, to all work together.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, most of the teams, let me put
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  Speaker 5: it to you that way, most of the teams who
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  Speaker 5: did that struggled and in some cases a lot of
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  Speaker 5: cases weren't able ever to get it completely together. And
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  Speaker 5: so I think that what Michigan did is an example
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  Speaker 5: of how you can make it work in this modern
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  Speaker 5: age of the portal two.
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  Speaker 4: You know, to make it work for.
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  Speaker 5: You that to to to be a national contender and
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  Speaker 5: and to have the team really be able to gel
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  Speaker 5: because that's the biggest thing, and can you get them to, uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, perform at the level that you're anticipating or
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  Speaker 5: hoping for or envisioning when you bring these guys in.
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  Speaker 5: But by the same token, they've got to be guys
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  Speaker 5: who can do it.
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  Speaker 4: They've got to be guys who can work together.
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  Speaker 5: And you saw when they talked about how much they
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  Speaker 5: love elect Lindenborg when he was struggling and how they
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: wanted to step up for him. Elliott Cadou comes in
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  Speaker 5: from North Carolina and he was the most outstanding player
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  Speaker 5: of the tournament. He talked about his teammates. They all
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  Speaker 5: talked about that, and winning teams do that. I get that,
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  Speaker 5: but it's not the easiest thing in the Worldhake to
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  Speaker 5: be able to just bring in a collection of talent
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  Speaker 5: through the portal and expect to flip a switch and
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  Speaker 5: they all work together and they're all productive.
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  Speaker 6: It's not just the skill set fit to buy into
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  Speaker 6: a particular role. It's a personality fit. Not too dissimilar
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  Speaker 6: from what Dan Hurley does at Connecticut, where the challenge
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  Speaker 6: for him is finding guys that can play for him,
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  Speaker 6: meaning how difficult he.
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  Speaker 3: Is to play for.
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  Speaker 6: For Michigan, it was about finding guys to fill the
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  Speaker 6: right particular roles. When Elliott Cadot came in and Trey
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  Speaker 6: Donaldson transferred out of Michigan, I'm thinking, what the heck
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  Speaker 6: is going on here? Trey Donaldson is, for my eyes,
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  Speaker 6: a better point guard. Elliott Cadot I thought regressed in
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  Speaker 6: his sophomore year at North Carolina, But boy was I
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  Speaker 6: proven wrong because Dusky made was able to put him
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  Speaker 6: in the right position two succeed surrounding him with those
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  Speaker 6: talented forwards and with those scores that allowed him to
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  Speaker 6: kind of be the straw that stirred the drink. I
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  Speaker 6: hadn't been more wrong about a transfer than I was
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  Speaker 6: in a long time about Elliot Cadell.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you can probably join the party with a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people because there are a lot of people that
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  Speaker 5: envisioned the same thing that just didn't expect that much.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: They thought Cadeaux was kind of a throw in, and
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: that's because of the chemistry of what was going on
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  Speaker 5: at North Carolina. And this is not to take a
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  Speaker 5: shot at North Carolina, obviously, is just to point out
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  Speaker 5: that his role, he did not flourish in his role
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  Speaker 5: at North Carolina in the way that he did at Michigan. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that you put that all on Hubert Davis.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know that you put that any of that
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  Speaker 5: on Cadeau or the team.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it's a.
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  Speaker 5: Little bit of a lot of things, but we've seen
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  Speaker 5: it many, many times where teams make a difference with
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  Speaker 5: one piece that it did not work out at another place.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: I think about, you know, even with the long worn
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: football team, with as much as they have going on
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  Speaker 5: and as many people as they have to bring in.
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  Speaker 5: I think of a guy like Trey Moore and what
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: he did coming in from UTSA, what a major difference
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  Speaker 5: he did.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's there's you know.
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  Speaker 5: So many guys that that made a difference through the
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  Speaker 5: portal coming in.
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  Speaker 4: Matthew Golden another one.
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  Speaker 5: And that's just in football, and it's happened in other sports.
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  Speaker 5: Tremont Mark with men's basketball. Remember he'd been at two
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  Speaker 5: schools prior to the Houston thing. He was red shirting
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  Speaker 5: one to do it, but that he had played at
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  Speaker 5: Arkansas and then stepped up and had a solid fifth year,
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  Speaker 5: six year senior season and then and then really came
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  Speaker 5: to life in the NCAA Tournament in propelling the Longhorns
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  Speaker 5: into the sweet sixteenth.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a lesson.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lesson that done right, executed properly, if the
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  Speaker 5: fit is correct, that it can make a huge difference.
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  Speaker 5: And that's one of the biggest, if not the biggest
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  Speaker 5: change on the college athletic landscape, maybe even more so
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  Speaker 5: than in IL right now. It's a little more difficult
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  Speaker 5: to see that with n IL, you know, with with
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  Speaker 5: you know, with the fruits of those labors, but you
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  Speaker 5: you see an almost instant our ROI, the return on
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  Speaker 5: investment for a lot of the guys who come in
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  Speaker 5: through the portal and the difference they make.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Coming up today, more on the college basketball scene. You
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: probably won't be shocked to learn who the favorites are
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  Speaker 5: on the way too early picked for next.
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  Speaker 4: Year, but we're gonna go down it anyway. We'll do that.
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  Speaker 5: College baseball. Coming up in the four o'clock hour, Keith Morland,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: who will be working the broadcast with me tonight. We'll
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: get some thoughts from him on this long worn baseball
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  Speaker 5: team coming off of its series win at South Carolina
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: when they had to tough it out, dropped the opener
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: to a team that had only won one conference game,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: and they got blown out on Friday night, and they
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: come back on Thursday night, and they come back on
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Friday and Saturday and play two really good games, pitched
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: really well, got enough run support. They're still looking for more,
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  Speaker 5: but they did that, got the win to pick up
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  Speaker 5: whin number twenty six and thirty one tries, and they
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: host UIW tonight. But Keith will join me in the
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: four o'clock hour to talk about the long worn baseball
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: team and the SEC overall and the national scene.
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  Speaker 4: We'll do that.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: We do have Inconceivable coming up as well, so a
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: lot to get to here from UFCU, Dish fagg Field
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: here on a Tuesday afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 5: under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 4: Here on a Texan Tuesday.
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  Speaker 5: Where our producer Jay Kerman returns us from our commercial
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: breaks with the douns of iconic Texas musicians. In the
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: four o'clock hour, we hear not limited to, but inclusive
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: of the King George Strait. In the three o'clock hour,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: the iconic Willie Nelson still were performing by the way
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: in his early nineties, and in the two o'clock hour,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the immortal Stevie Rayvaughn right in that crossfire right, Jay Carmon, yep.
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  Speaker 6: And this one comes from right in our city, Austin, Texas,
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: performed at acl tapings.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny I think about iconic people as we sit here,
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: and this is, you know, in the neighborhood of four
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: hours before we have the first pitch. So the ballpark's
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: still a little bit quiet right now, but I'm watching
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: a lone solitary figure do laps, or he was jogging,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: he's walking now, but he's doing laps around the ballpark.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: None other than speaking of iconic guy, Longhorn's assistant coach
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Troy to Lwitzky, Hey.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Tulo out there just haking it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: He waved from the field, looked up at me, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: came away, like, what are you doing here?
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: So early?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Tula is a great guy, and he works and worked
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: so hard with with the players, and they just gravitate.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I saw it the first year when David Pierce brought
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: him on, the first year that he came out. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: just saw that the players would just automatically just flock
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: to him for advice and and just stories and instruction
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: and all that kind of stuff. But he works with
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: and when we hear a lot of the players in
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: our postgame interviews, many of those players will say things like, well, yeah,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: we're been working really hard with Tulow. We heard Anthony
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: pa say it the other day, and heard some of
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: the other guys, Jamee de Plantier, We've heard several of
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: the guys say working really hard with Tulo to do
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  Speaker 5: the things I need to do and to get better
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: in the field and stuff like that and at the
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: plate and more discipline and stuff like that, and uh,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: and Tula is a guy that, uh, you know, even
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: as a player. He did this when he was playing
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  Speaker 5: with the Rockies all those years, and the Yankees, uh
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: and the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 4: He just he shunned the spotlight.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there were times when he it was compulsory
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: that he had to do some interviews, obviously with the
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: career that he had, but he was he wasn't he
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: wasn't into it, and and he did what he had
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: to do and that was about it. And when he
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: became a coach, first on David Pierce's staff and now
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: on Jim Slastangle's staff, that he still kind of takes
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: that approach. He said, this is about the players, is
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: not not about me. Even though you know, people have
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: wanted to do big profiles on him doing all this
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: kind of stuff, he just kind of stayed with. I
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: think I've had Jake in since he's been on staff
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: one year he was out, so six years, five years,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: I guess it would be. I think I've had two
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: interviews with him too, because and that's the way he
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: wants it and and and is his friendly as today
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: is long, and he'll he'll sit down and visit with
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: you and talk with you and all that kind of stuff.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: He's not interested in the whole interview thing and and
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: the stuff that goes out there. You know, when we
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: were joking yesterday about the term influencer, too low would
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: shun that as well.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: He does not, even though he.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Does influence in an incredibly productive and positive way on
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: this long worn baseball team. But don't don't call him
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: an influencer because.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: He would not. He would not be up to that.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: He would not be into that, just knowing how he is,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: that that would not be his thing.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Well, he can, he can influence your swing though in
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: your season. I mean the subtle adjustments that that he's made.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Players aren't just mentioning that by accident. When when you
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: hear that, many guys talk about the impacts and the
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: small tweaks that that he's made, It really does kind
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: of speak for itself.
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  Speaker 5: No, I agree, I completely agree with you on that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: And he does it in the field as well. He's
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: made guys much better fielders. Just to watch him work
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: is pretty impressive. Remember how I was talking about how
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: impressed I was watching Sean Miller coach the basketball team
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: and teach the game. Uh, you know, being at practice
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: and watching his his hands on approach. Yes, the assistants
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: are very very much involved, uh with that, Adam Cohen
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: and and you know, all the rest of the assistant
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: coaches your Malaghi, you know uh uh all of all
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: of the rest of the assistant coaching staff uh at
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Ryan Anderson, Ken, you Hunter, the entirety of the staff
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: all have theirs in on it and the instruction. But
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: to watch Sean work with them on the floor is
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: pretty impressive. Vic does the same thing with the women's
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: basketball team. Vick Shaffer does. And even though Blair is
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: centrally involved in Elena Lovado, the associate head coach is
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: centrally involved, and Lindsay Wisdom, Hilton Whiz is centrally involved,
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Mason Wright assistant coach on the staff. They're all involved.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: But you know, you see Vic right in the middle
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: of it. You see Sean Miller right in the middle
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: of it. It's it's kind of like that old high
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: school football coaching adage when the coach gives the speech
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: to the team and he talks about are you involved
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: or are you committed? Because you know, being involved, are
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: being committed is like ham and eggs. You see the
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: chickens involved, but the pig is committed. So you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: these people are committed, no doubt about it. The same
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: thing with Mike White and his staff for Long Worn
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Softball and and it's what's one of the great things
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: about the Texas coaching staff is that it's it's a
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: great collection of coaches. Vic Shaffer was telling this story
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: at the press conference last Thursday about he was telling
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: the story about when he first arrived on campus, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: it was it was an odd time when Vic first
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: got here because it was in the middle of the pandemic,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: so he couldn't meet with his players face to face.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Everything was done by zoom. Our first meeting was by zoom.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Everything he'd done, you know, was by was by zoom.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: He had all these meetings. He couldn't have the team
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: over to his house for for barbecue or whatever, uh,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: those kinds of things. And he he continued to talk about, uh,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: you know, the the commitment that they all had to have.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: But he said, when I went into my first coaches
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: meeting out of the pandemic, when they all got together afterwards,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: I sat in a room and he said, you know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I get into this room and with all the assistant
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: coaches and with Crystal Confee, the athletic director, and he
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: said that after his first season when they ended up
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: going to the Elite eight, and they had a great
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: cinerella ride getting to the Elite eight when they lost
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: to eventual national champion South Carolina and that was down
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: in the Alamo dum So. Then they go to their
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: first real coaching retreat and he all get together. He
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: goes and I'm in this meeting and I'm looking around,
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: and he said, there were six coaches in that room
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: who had at the very least played for a national championship,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: and in the case of I think three of them,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: three of them had won national titles. You talk about
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: swimming and diving and track and field and things like that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: He goes, here, I am an Elite eight and I'm
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: not even in the category with him yet.
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  Speaker 3: So taxes problems.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, he said, it lets you know where you stand,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: and it also lets you know what's expected of you,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: so you know. With that in mind, he went to
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: work and they had an Elite eight year the next
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: season in twenty two. Then after they went out in
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: the second round in twenty twenty three. That second round
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: of the NCAA tournament is is the shortest run the
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Texas women have had under Vic Schaeffer. It went Elite eight,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Elite eight, second round exit, Elite eight, Elite eight Final four,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Final four. So he's he's he's made his mark, even
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: though it ended in disappointment the other the other night
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: in the loss to UCLA. But get a feeling even
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: though we saw some of the portal moves yesterday with
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Justice Carlton electing to enter the portal. Also Aliah Crump
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: and some folks may have forgotten about Alah Moore. Amo
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: had played for four years for Texas, but she had
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: been plagued by knee problems, which he was healthy. Aliah
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: was could be very effective at times, but she took
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: all of last year off, this past season off to
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: have knee surgery to trying to come back. And she
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: has entered the portal as well, so that you know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: we'll see how it happens in the portal's open for
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: the man now, so we're going to see what happens
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: there all right. Up next Inconceivable here on a Tuesday
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  Speaker 5: afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in
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  Speaker 5: the IR Radio app.
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  Speaker 4: Second hour of the.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the Zone
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Craig Way alongside the producer Jay Carman, we bring you
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: the program from ufc U Dish Fakfield.
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  Speaker 4: I got thinking about something, Jake.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: This of course has been arguably I'll just say that
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: way perspectively, the we've just completed in that month of March,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: not only March Madness, but and going into the first
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: weekend in April, the busiest month of.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: My professional broadcast career.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: How about that, which is in excess of forty years now,
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: So starting back in the mid eighties when I was
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: working at KRLD in Dallas, the games, the travel, everything
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: that went on.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: You know, it was just it was just at times.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Maniacal how crazy busy the month was, but kind of
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: knew it. And that's also a tip of the cap
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: to Texas men's and women's basketball for the great NCAA
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: tournament runs that they had. The men reaching the sweet
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: sixteen when it looked like they were just going to
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: have to be content with being fortunate to having even
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: landing a spot in the NCAA Tournament, having to go
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: to Dayton, Ohio in the first four, but winning that
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: game over NC State on the tremad Mark jumper with
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: one point want to go. Then after the overnight flight
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: and all that kind of stuff and the lack of
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: sleep and getting ready there in Portland, they beat the
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: six seed byu and then beat the number three seed
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Gonzaga to get to the sweet sixteen. And it was
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: the first week sixteen in three years and a great
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: end of season run for Sean Miller's crew.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: So you have that. Then you had the.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Texas women, who of course has a number one seed,
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: were favored, expected to be able to perform, and that
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: they did. They blew out Missouri stayed at home in
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: the first round of the incident. This was coming off
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: winning the SEC Tournament, beating South Carolina in the championship game,
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: taking two or three from the game Cocks, who ultimately
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: would wind up playing in the NCAA Women's National Championship Game,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: and coming off that SEC Tournament title. Texas then proceeded
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: to dismantled Missouri State in the first round of the tournament,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Oregon in the second round of the tournament, both those
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: games at Moody Center, then going up the Fort Worth
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: and the Fort Worth Regional, blowing out Kentucky in the
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen and easily handling Michigan in the Elite Eight
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: to get back to their second consecutive Final four. It
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: ended there in the disappointing loss to the eventual national champion, UCLA.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: And I said, there might be some folks who take
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: a little bit of solace in that, saying, well, it
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: was the best team in the country. But you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Vic Shaffer said yesterday, well we aired the comments, yester.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: He said after the game that they felt like the
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: team in the locker room felt like they let one
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: get away, that they could have won that game, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: who knows, then gone on maybe and beaten South Carolina
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: to win the national title. But in any event, it
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: was still a great run. Thirty five and four for
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: the second consecutive year, reaching the Final four for the
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: second executive year. So those are good memories and things
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: to build on. And it'll it'll seem more of an
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: accomplishment when they, you know, when they get a little
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: bit closer or further away from this year's season, a
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: little bit closer the next year's season. Already, three student
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: athletes in VIX program have entered a transfer portal, one
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: of those being a Leah Crump, who had the Battle
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: of the Foot injury in this just completed season. She
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: was a starter early in the year, looked really good,
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: and then after the foot injury, just never quite got
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: back into quite the rhythm in the total element of
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: a player that she was prior to the injury.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: So she leaves.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: And then the thing with Justice Carleton we're hearing is
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: more about perhaps wanting to play close to home and
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: family and the things of that nature. We'll see how
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: that turns out. And then Aliah Moore, who did not
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: play this season. She had off season knee surgery a
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: year ago and had been in the program for four years,
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: but is going to transfer somewhere else to play or
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: has entered the portal anyway.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: So anyway, those two things have happened.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: But on the national stage, as a pointed out, Michigan
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: wins the men's national championship and UCLA takes the women's
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: national title. And it was interesting, there's a story that
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Jeff Borcello put together for ESPN, and he said it
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: goes all the way back to November. So many things
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: go back to November. You know, we were talking about
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Texas having beaten UCLA and handed UCLA it's only loss
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: of the season that was in the Players Era Championship
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: on the women's side in November. But then Michigan took
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: the floor in that men's tournament and they're playing really
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: good Gonzaga team, and Elliott Caddo at that time said,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: we're the best team ever assembled, and he was talking
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: about how the team had been put together. They went
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: on and they won by forty points, and they were
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: in many respects, the most dominant team in the country.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Although Duke in Arizona went in ahead of Michigan as
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: higher number one seeds, which is interesting you think about it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Michigan was the third number one seed. UCLA was the
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: second number one seed among the men as it turned out,
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: and they went on they were actually they were the
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: third number one seed.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: So they went in and won.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: They won the first national championship since nineteen eighty nine.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: They became the first team. Now think about this, they
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: became the first team to beat Yukon at the Sweet
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: sixteen or later portion of the tournament. In other words,
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen, Elite eight, Final four, or National championship game.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: They became the first team to beat Yukon at the
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen or later since Michigan State did it in
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: the two thousand and nine Final four. So they've done
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: all of that and now they've won their second national title.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: So what does that.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Mean for the coming twenty six twenty seven season. They're
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: not the favorite, but they're the second favorite. Duke once
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: more has emerged as the favorite to win the NCAA tournament.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: For those of you like to follow the wagering side
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: of it, of course, Jake and I, we always say
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: just the FEPO line for entertainment purposes only, right.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: That's the name of our sports book. Foss Well. Duke
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: is at a plus eight hundred on the board at
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: the odds of that. So that means, what if you
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: put a dollar down on Duke to win the national
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: time and they win, you win eight hundred bucks.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Is that how that worked?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: No?
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: No, you need you need to put one hundred dollars
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: down to win eight eight hundred.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: That's it, all right, You put one hundred down, you
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: win eight hundred, Okay. Michigan is second on the board
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: at twelve to one. That's according to DraftKings for those
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: who follow those things. Florida a one seed this year,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Arizona a one seed this year. They're at fourteen to
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: one and fifteen to one, and they were the Wolverines were.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Even as.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Recent as this passed Sunday, Michigan was sixteen to one
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: for next season, but the win obviously helped, and Duke
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: also improved slightly from ten to one to the current
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: number over that time period. Also, Arkansas is eighteen to one.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: By you at thirty to one, you said, what about Yukon,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: They're twenty to one on the board for next year,
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: So that those were the those are the odds that
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: are coming down.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Where's Illinois on there, Craig, let.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Me see if I if they list eighteen to one
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: came as Arkansas and Houston eighteen to one, Kansas, Michigan
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: state both sixteen to one. So there's the uh, the
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: the betting odds and the landscape there for that.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just mentioned Illinois because they've got they've had
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: a lot coming back.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: They do, they absolutely do, so you know there'll be, uh.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: That's going to be a lot of fun to watch
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: to see how they progress. And also, as as we
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: pointed out, Jake, what happened with the portal? You know,
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: does Brad Underwood add more pieces coming in to Illinois?
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: I know a lot of folks are interested to see
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: what Sean Miller does with Texas. You know, he's definitely
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: in the market for a point guard, and they'll continue
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: that search. I think, I think, I know a lot
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: of folks have asked the question about will he get
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: the material resources and support that he needs to build
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: a program, And everything I've been told is that he will.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: So we'll see how it is going forward for the
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Long Worn men's basketball program and for the women. Like
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: I said, they three have entered the portal. Doesn't mean
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: they'll be the only ones, but it also doesn't mean
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: that Vic won't be bringing pieces him because I'm sure
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: he will on that. In addition to the three McDonald's
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: all Americans, he has coming in in the signing class,
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: the number one signing class in the country, and to
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: keep that in mind, Sean Miller also has three big
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: names coming in, including Austin Gooseby, the younger brother of
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: the Long Horns offensive lineman Trevor Gooseby. So we'll keep
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: an eye on all of that. Long Horn football continues
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: to go through its spring practice.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Yesterday.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: We told you when the university announced it that there
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: will be a fan day coming up on Saturday, the eighteenth,
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: and it'll be an opportunity for fans to get autographs.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: It'll be posters that the players would autograph for you.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: They'll be on field photo opportunities with Steve Sarkishan and
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: in addition to Sark, I think Texas Cheer and Band
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: or Texas Cheer in Texas Pom will be out there
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: as well for that for photo opportunities. And there will
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: be an open practice, be a scrimmage. Of course they
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: didn't have a scrimmage at all last year, but it
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: it will be an open practice, the final open practice
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: of the spring drills that are going on, so the
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: twenty nine practices that they're allowed to have during that
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: time that this will be the last one of that,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: and that's coming up on Saturday, and the gates open,
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: I believe as early as nine thirty in the morning.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: They have the fire sale as they call it at
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: the shop and a chance for you to pick up
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: long one gear. We'll visit with Tree Martin about this
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: and more detail. We always do this every year, and
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: we'll visit with him in a little more detail about
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: what's to come for the totality of the fanfare and
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: everything that they can enjoy on that fan day.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: But again it's.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: Saturday the eighteenth, and as I mentioned, you can do
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: that all the way. The final spring practice will start
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: at eleven the morning inside the stadium, and they want
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: everybody to sit on the east side of the stadium
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: because there's construction going on behind the west side, not
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: only on the main stadium portion, but also you've probably
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: noticed it if you've been over there. The brand new
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: football practice facility continues to go up in is under construction,
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: so that whole west side they're keeping shut down and
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: they want people to be over on the east side.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: I think it's between sections twelve and thirty two.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: First come, first serve.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: It's all free, and we'll have more details on that
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: as we get a little closer to it, which is
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: week after next this weekend for Long Horn Baseball, they'll
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: be in College Station and take on Texas A and M.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: We'll have more on that coming up. We're going to
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: visit with Keep Moreland next hour, who will call tonight's
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: game with me here between Texas and Incarnate Word, and
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: that game can be heard on our sister station one
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: O three point one FM. Austin's eight station as well
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: as on the iHeartRadio app and also on the Texas
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: Longhorns app. So we'll have the game for you tonight,
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: but we'll talk more in depth about the Long Worn
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: baseball team and additionally about the upcoming conference series with
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Texas A and M, which is on the road, and
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: then they'll be back at home to play a suddenly
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: hot Alabama team that is eight and four in the league,
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: that one game back of Texas for second place in
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: the league. The Long wrne is one game out of first.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Georgia is ten and two in the league, and Texas
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: is nine and three in Alabama's at eight and four
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: in conference play. Alabama will be here weekend after next
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: and that is the weekend that also includes the fan
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: day fest going on across the freeway. They're at derri
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Kay Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. All right, coming up, we've
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: got some other topics to get to, some NFL draft topics,
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: and when we continue here from UFCHU, Dish font Field
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: and Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: M memory Blue Wise Crime.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: In the Ring. This is one of the Willie Nelson classics.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: Blue eyes crying in the rain. This so it's a
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: live recording, this particular one, right, Jake.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: Yep still at Austin City Limits from nineteen seventy six.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: That's great.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Well, you know ACL recently celebrated their fiftieth anniversary, and.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: Hats off to them. They've had some of the greatest
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: acts of all time.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Love going over to the ACL Moody Theater to watch
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: performers there as well, say, absolutely fabulous music venue. A
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: lot of folks are expecting a fabulous NFL draft coming up,
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: and yesterday we went down what the Athletic had listed
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: as the top one hundred NFL prospects. It would pretty
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: much take you through three rounds of the draft, so
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: the top one hundred, and they had him rated from
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: one hundred all the way down the one. I think
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: the highest ranked log one was Anthony Hill, who might
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: have been what was it nineteenth, I think or No.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: Twenty forty ninth I thought may be right, but I
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: thought was a little lower than some other outlets had him.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let's compare.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: Peter Schrager has done one and I'm still trying to
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: figure out Peter Schrager's deal.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Help him in what sense. Well, he's.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: You know, we say, we got so used to watching
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: him on NFL network, And isn't he still on NFL network.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: No, I think he's with ESPN now.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: I know he's on contributor, right, I know he's I
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: know he's on ESPN regular. He's a regular contributor. Like
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: he said, he's on Get Up and he does that.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: But I thought I saw him pretty recent. Maybe I'm
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: just thinking that Kyle Brant, but I was thinking that
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Peter Schager had also been on them.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Maybe he's just full time ESPN now.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: But Good Morning Football is his old show.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: Right, and you and I'm sure you're aware of the
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: fact that that show has a bit of a branch
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: off of its own. It's Good Morning Football goes on
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: in the morning, obviously on the NFL network, and then
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: they have a show called Good Morning Football or GMF
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: over Todd and that one is syndicated and you can
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: watch that here in the market on KBBO on channel
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: fifty one every morning Monday through Friday at ten am.
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: And that's where we see, uh, my friend who has
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: has worked with me quite a bit, Isaiah Standback on
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: the high school football scene and is also the analyst
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: on Cowboys preseason telecast. In fact, he was supposed to
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: join us right before the playoffs and sometime when haywire
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: with our phones that day, we couldn't get him on
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: the Yeah, but you know what, we're gonna get him
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: on before the draft. We'll get him on, uh before
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: the draft, and because he and I have chatted since then,
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: and we'll get him back on. But he he works
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: on that Good Morning Football overtime show which has a
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: lot of the same cast of characters, but they do
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: roll in some different ones like man Ty was on
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: it sometimes Jamie Irdahl is on both shows I think
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: a lot of times, so they have different ones that
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: rotate in, and that includes Isaiah standback. So we'll get
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: say on to have him talk about some things with
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: to the Cowboys and the upcoming NFL Draft, because he's
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: really plugged in closely as we know to the Cowboys.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: As I mentioned, he works in a lot of the
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: Dallas Cowboys programming on the SilverStar Network and also he
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: works on their preseason telecast. But anyway, we'll get his thoughts.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: Which so this is the time of year where we
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: kind of just you know, compare a lot of the
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: mock draft stuff, and yesterday was the top one hundred
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: selections according to the Athletic who they're expected for ESPN.
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: Peter Schrager did one now he did a just a
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: first round all thirty two dicks, and in a comparison contrast,
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: his first three picks involved the same individuals. But I
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: think only one is on the same line, and that's
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: the overall number one pick for Nanda Mendoza, the Indiana
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: quarterback that they're expecting the Raiders to take. By the way,
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: I think you've probably noticed this, Jake, the Raiders are
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: getting quite a bit of, I don't know, praise, may
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: be too a little too effusive, but they're getting a
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: lot of compliments for what they're doing. Via Kirk Cousins
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: setting the stage for Fernando Mendoza with the thinking that
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: how many times, how many times have we seen an
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: NFL team draft some one with the number one pick
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: or very high in the first round a quarterback and
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: say we're gonna take We're gonna slow play it, We're
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: going to have him ready, but it's going to take
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: a while. We're not going to rush him in anything.
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: And then sure enough, either a training camp, injury comes up,
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: or they just decide by the season opener now not
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: he's ready, and then they throw him into the fire
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: and then this high draft choice either struggles or gets injured.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: And the Raiders have said that if and of course
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: they're playing at CHOI saying if they draft Nanda Mendoza,
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: and everybody under the sun is expecting him to take Mendoza,
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: but if they draft him, they're going to slow play
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: it with him. And I know a lot of people
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: would roll their eyes and say, yeah, man, sure, But
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: then when they go out and go after Kirk Cousins,
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: then it has you thinking, Okay, well, maybe they've got
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: a plan in place for this well.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: And both John Spytech and Clint Kubiak have been pretty
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: upfront about this. They think in an ideal world for
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: an end of Mendoza doesn't come in and start day
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: one and he gets to learn behind Kirk Cousins, who
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: for all of the faults at age thirty seven, now
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: the lack of mobility, posts Achilles injury, maybe the arm
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: strength not what it was, He's still a pros pro
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: and he knows how to come in and run an offense,
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: run an organization, and run a huddle, and when you're
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: gonna have a young and somewhat unproven offensive line like
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: the Raiders have. I know they went out and signed
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: what they signed the Baltimore Center to try and turn
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: things around there. But it's it's a bit of an
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: occupational hazard that Raiders offensive line at the moment. So
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: you want somebody as a veteran to come in and
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: navigate that and allow Mendoza to get up to speed,
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: because this is more than a one year project for
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: Vegas to turn it around.
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's why I said they're kind of getting
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: a few flowers thrown their way from making this move
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: with cousins to try to help ramp up Mendoza so
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: that they don't have to throw him immediately into the fire,
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: because the Raiders are as guilty as anybody of doing
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: that over the years. I mean, JaMarcus Russell, I think
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: is probably the biggest flop in NFL draft history. When
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: you say, if you had to, if if you had
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: to pick, which number one pick was the biggest flop?
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: And I know folks could look at Ryan Leaf and they.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: Could some could look at Johnny Manzil, some you know,
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: look at differ number one picks and say it's the
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: biggest flop ever. Whatever it is, they want to make
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: sure they avoid it and give Mendoza every opportunity to succeed.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: Is that a number one overall pick only or high
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: draft pick?
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: First round quarterbacks? That's what I would say high draft pick.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: I mean they might be two separate categories. Though, now
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: let you bring it up.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: It's either it's again, it's it's JaMarcus Russell. Pretty much,
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: it was a complete zero when he got to the league.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: That was in that sense, he has a good case
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: for number one. You can argue, Trey Lance considering what
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: the forty nine ers gave up. It wasn't just using
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: that one draft pick. It was the massive haul that
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: the Miami Dolphins got back in that trade that Dolphins explained.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: He's still in the league.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: At least he's still in the league right trying to
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: make a career out of it. I mean, Russell was
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: completely out before what three years I guess it was.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: It happened quickly, and I was I was young.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: I couldn't understand as what an eight year old's boards fan,
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: how the guy that had just run circles around the
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: sec could could flop so badly in the NFL.
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: Being rushed in the service had something to do with it,
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: I would think. But in any event, Mendoza is pretty
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: much you would say consensus will be the number one
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: overall pick by all of those who do these things. Now,
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: the other two guys, if I'm remembering correctly, what we
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: saw from the athletic yesterday, is that they had Rvel
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: Reeese from Ohio State maybe at number two, and David
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: Bailey from Texas Tech at number three, I think, and
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: Schrager's got it the other way around.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: He has.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: Bailey to the Jets at to Reese to the Cardinals
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: at number three. Jeremiah Love who you said, your team,
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: the Commanders, you want him to avoid like the plague.
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: I would go that far. I think he's gonna have
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: a good career. I just I don't think it's what
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: the Commanders need to do well.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: According to Schrager, the Titans are going to take it
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: at number four overall. Then he's got Francis Malgola, the
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: offensive tackle from Miami, going to the Giants at five.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: That makes sense. The way that John Harball likes to
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: build his teams. He's called his offensive line of work
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: in progress of late Spencer Pano, the offensive tackle from
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: Utah to Cleveland. At six, your commanders to go for
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: Ohio state linebacker Sunny Styles. How would you feel about that?
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: Well, linebackers are for half the teams in the league
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: need a linebacker right now, right and so if you
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: can get a premier player at that position, you are
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: going to come out as a big winner in the draft.
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: The thing is, the last time the Commanders took a
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: first round linebacker it was Jamon Davis from Kentucky and
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: that didn't work out well at all. So again, it's
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: a different front office in there, different philosophy. But the
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: Commanders right now can't pressure a quarterback and can't stop
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: the run. So if anyone's going to be picked on
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: the front seven, I will likely give the picks some flowers.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right?
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: He has the Saints today taking Reuben Bain Junior from
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: Miamidia dresser, Jordan Tyson, the Arizona state wide receiver to
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: go to the Chiefs at nine, Mansord Delany, the quarterback
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: from LSU to the Bengals at ten. Carnel Tate, the
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: Ohio state wide receiver and number eleven, Caleb Downs, the
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: Ohio State safety to the Cowboys at number twelve. I
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: think Cowboy fans would be happy with that choice. The
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: Rams in the pick they got from the Falcons, according
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: to Trigger, are going to take Mikayelem and the wide
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: receiver from USC. I'm kind of like, eh, I know,
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: DeVante Adams is entering the final year of his deal.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: He turns thirty four in December, but you know they've
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: got they've got wide receivers now. Obviously, I think everybody's
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: going to see what's going on with Pukinakua since he's.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: In rehab right now. How that all works out.
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: The Ravens at fourteen, according to Peter Schreger, going to
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: go for Oregon tight end Kenyon Sadik Jermald McCoy the
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: corner from Tennessee to go to the Bucks at fifteen,
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: Omar Cooper Junior the Indiana wide receiver to the Jets
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: and the pick they got from the Colts at sixteen,
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: the Lions to go for the penn State guard olive
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: A vega Ione at eighteen Emmanuel McNeil Warren the Toledo
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: safety to the Vikings Panthers to select Georgia offensive tackle
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: Monroe Freeling at nineteen. The Cowboys in the pick they
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: got from Green Bay would, according to Schrager, go for
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: a Key mesidor the Miami edge rusher. And again I
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: think Cowboy fans would largely like that TJ. Parker, the
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: edge rusher from Clemson to the Steelers at twenty one.
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: Chargers to take Clemson offensive tackle Blake Miller at twenty two,
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: Denzel Boston, the wide receiver from the University of Washington
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: and go to the Eagles at twenty three. The Browns
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: in the pick they picked up from Jacksonville would take,
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: according to Casey conception on the A and M wide
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: receiver Bears to go for Alabama's huge offensive tackle Caten
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: Proctor at twenty five, Kate McDonald, the defensive tackle of
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: Ohio State to Buffalo at twenty six, Catle Bloomooth, the
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: offensive tackle from Utah to San Francisco twenty seven. The
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: Texans to take the Arizona State offensive tackle Max i
• 56:19
  Speaker 5: in Encore at twenty nine, Colton Hood the Tennessee corner
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: to go to the Chiefs. That was a pick they
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: got from the Rams at thirty Dylan Penam in the
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: safety from Oregon and go to the Dolphins a pick
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: they got from the Broncos. Kenyon Rutledge, the offensive lineman
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: from Georgia, check to the Patriots at thirty one, and
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: at thirty two Jedarian Price.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame running back to go to the Seahawks. There.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: So we'll keep tabs on all of these mock drafts
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: as he draw closer to it. And a reminder, the
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: big NFL Draft show here on the zone will come
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: on Draft Night from two to six thirty outs at
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  Speaker 5: Raleigh Cowboy in Round Rock from two to six, and
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  Speaker 5: the crew will be out there for that.
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  Speaker 4: All right, weren't coming up?
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  Speaker 5: As we continue on Sports Made going m thirteen under
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  Speaker 5: the zone of the iHeartRadio app, some of you would.
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  Speaker 2: Live through me Mill Grew and King.
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  Speaker 5: Who are you entertaining us with on this return cup?
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  Speaker 5: Which native Texan is getting the flowers here?
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: Well, we're going with little Steve Earl, feel all right?
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: He was He was born in Virginia but moved to
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  Speaker 6: Texas as an infant called San Antonio home.
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  Speaker 4: That makes sense, and Steve Earl is legend in the state.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: You know what was it?
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  Speaker 5: You know the old saying about people who moved to
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: Texas that weren't born here, that they got here as
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: quickly as they could, that sort of thing. I used
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: to tell people that I grew up in North Carolina
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: my first eighteen years, but I've lived most of my
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: life in the state of Texas. Mack Brown used to say,
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: I wasn't born in Texas. He's born in Tennessee, he said.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: But I've been dipped and vaccinated, he said. Coach Royle
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: gave him that acknowledgment once and said, You've been dipped
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  Speaker 5: and vaccinated.
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  Speaker 4: So I like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Another one who Spurs fans are happy to say has
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  Speaker 5: been dipped and vaccinated, so to speak, and is naturalized
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: with them is Victor wembin Yama. Now, Wemby got hurt
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  Speaker 5: last night was held out of the second half of
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: their win at home over the seventy six ers last night.
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: It was called a left rib contusion. Mitch Johnson said
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  Speaker 5: after the game he'd heard nothing yet about the severity
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: of the injury. Here's the interesting thing. Victor wembin Yama
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  Speaker 5: is an overwhelming favorite to win NBA Defensive Player of
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  Speaker 5: the Year.
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  Speaker 4: Would you not agree with.
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  Speaker 6: That he should be the favorite for MVP. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: clearly the defensive Player of the Year.
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  Speaker 5: And definitely a contender for MVP. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 5: any doubt about that. But here's the thing. You don't
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  Speaker 5: know how severe the injury is now. Women Yama played
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  Speaker 5: fifteen minutes and forty seconds last night. That does count
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  Speaker 5: toward eligibility for postseason awards. Players are granted two exceptions
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: to the requirement of playing twenty minutes in a game,
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: as long as they play at least fifteen minutes. He
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: played fifteen minutes and forty seconds, and he finished with
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  Speaker 5: seventeen points, five rebounds in three blocks. But the way
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: this thing works is the Spurs have three games remaining.
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  Speaker 5: He has to play at least twenty minutes in one
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  Speaker 5: of those three games to maintain eligibility for postseason awards.
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: You know, this came up last week when Luka Dancic
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: hurt the hamstring last Thursday in the Lakers game, and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: there were I think at the time five games remaining,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: and he was one game shy of the necessary participation
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  Speaker 5: requirement in order to qualify for postseason awards.
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  Speaker 4: And I think most.
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  Speaker 5: Of the Lakers have been kind of quiet about it,
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  Speaker 5: but I think most of that they're going to say
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  Speaker 5: that he's they'd said it looks like he'd be out
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  Speaker 5: for the rest of the regular season, so that would
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  Speaker 5: take him out of consideration for those awards. But it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be interesting to see now, depending on the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: extent of that rib injury, if Wimby's able to play.
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  Speaker 5: He was coming off a string of three straight games
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  Speaker 5: where he scored at least thirty points and had at
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: least fifteen rebounds and at least three blocks. Believe it
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: or not, that number thirty points, fifteen rebounds, three blocks.
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  Speaker 4: Ties for the second longest.
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  Speaker 5: Streak of that three straight games of that since blocks
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  Speaker 5: started being tracked in the seventy three seventy four season. Wow,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: And that ties per second behind Shaquille O'Neal's four game
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: run in ninety nine. So here's a guy who's averaging
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  Speaker 5: twenty five points a game, nearly twelve rebounds, over three
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  Speaker 5: blocks per game, but he's going.
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  Speaker 4: To have to play.
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  Speaker 5: If he's going to be eligible, he is going to
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  Speaker 5: have to play. I think he had the two exceptions
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  Speaker 5: to the deal, but he needs to play at least
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  Speaker 5: twenty minutes in one of the three remaining regular season
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  Speaker 5: games to maintain eligibility for the postseason awards.
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  Speaker 6: Unintended consequence Craig of this kind of mandate that the
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  Speaker 6: NBA has put in to limit the load management that's
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  Speaker 6: been happening.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's how the NBA, I will
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  Speaker 5: give him credit for this, because they've you know, what
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: Adam Silver has tried to do in his staff is
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: they've tried to be proactive in addressing things like load
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: management and tanking. So they're already, you know, talking about
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: what they're going to do with new tanking rules, and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: now here's the load management rules. And and Victor rembin
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: Yama is not the poster child for load management. However,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: Greg Popovich is the all time leader in load management
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: when he was coaching. Be interested interesting to see how
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: Mitch Johnson handles this now. But when pop was coaching, oh,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: load management, I mean he invented load management. Remember, he
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: used to put stuff like when when Tim Duncan was playing,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: and it would stay on the stat sheet DNP dash
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: dash old. It didn't say coaches this and it just
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: said old, and so they would have stuff like that,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: but on there.
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  Speaker 6: So anyway, Well, the interesting part of this, Craig and
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  Speaker 6: I talked to Carl Shoning about it a little last week.
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  Speaker 6: Wenby cares about this stuff, right, He's all about the
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  Speaker 6: team number one, but he out of kind of respect
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  Speaker 6: for the game and knowledge of how he'll be looked
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: back on as a player, is very cognizant of these things,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: and he, you know, it'll be interesting to see whether
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  Speaker 6: or not the push comes from him to get out
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: there and play to be eligible for these wollwe absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: I remember he was stating his case last week when
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: somebody asked him to state his case for why.
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  Speaker 4: He should be the MVP.
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  Speaker 5: It's refreshing, Yeah, to listen, this is why I think
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: I should be the MVP, and he listed those things down,
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  Speaker 5: so you're right, it does mean something. That's why I said,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be interesting to watch and see how
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  Speaker 5: Mitch Johnson handles this.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll be back to wrap up our number
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  Speaker 4: two here on thirteen hundred The Zone.
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  Speaker 5: Well, congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines winning another national championship.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: The broadcast you heard here on thirteen hundred Zone last
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  Speaker 5: night from Westwood one and my old pale Kevin Coogler
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  Speaker 5: on the call there and the Michigan Wolverines winning their
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  Speaker 5: second national title, Kevin pointing out that there'd been that
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  Speaker 5: blank ary in the trophy case. One thing that I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: did find I guess refreshing is the right way to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: put it. It was surprised me a little bit. You had
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: a couple of members of the Fab five tweeting last night,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: Jalen Rose. I expected it from Chris Weber. If you've
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: ever seen the Fab five treatment documentary on ESPN, Chris
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: Weber comes away, You come away with it, looking at
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: it feeling that. Chris Webber is a very much an
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: embittered person about this. So it was good to see
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: him being able to tweet his.
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  Speaker 4: Excitement about that.
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  Speaker 5: Because the Fab five never won a national championship on
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: the floor, they got to the national championship game in
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: back to back heres in ninety two and ninety three,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: lost to Duke ninety two, lost in North Carolina ninety three,
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  Speaker 5: but Michigan stated it's claim and clearly was the best
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: team in all of college basketball by the time it smoke.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: The smoke had cleared, they played really, really well. So
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: the Wolverines win a men's basketball National Championship.
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  Speaker 4: The women got to.
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  Speaker 5: The Elite eight, and they have the number one ranked
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  Speaker 5: or not number one. UCLA is the number one ranked
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: college baseball team, but the Big Ten has the number
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: one ranked college baseball team in UCLA. They have a
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: national champion in football in Indiana, a national champion in
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: men's basketball in Michigan, and a national champion in women's
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: basketball UCLA, and a couple other titles in the more
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: Olympic sports. So the Big Ten stating its case as well.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: Third hour of the program here Craig Way alongside the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: producer Jay Carman. Coming up in a few minutes, we'll
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: have a conversation with Keith Morlan, my broadcast partner for
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: Long Worn Baseball. We bring you the program today from
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: ufc U Diish falk Field. Longhorn's going through their warm
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: ups on the field early on and getting ready for
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: this matchup with the Cardinals of Incarnate Word. Texas still
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: number two in the country in the latest college baseball polls,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: but of course huge series coming up with Texas A
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: and M this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Bluebelt Park
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  Speaker 5: in College Station. In fact, the Aggies have a good
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: little RPI contest that's set up for them coming up
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: tonight in San Marcos road game. Texas State is thirty eight,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: I think, number thirty eight in the RPI. Texas A
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  Speaker 5: and M is eighteen in the RPI, and Texas I
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: think in the RPI is actually number three in the
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: RPI and number two Nashley ranked. But Texas A and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: M plays at Texas State tonight and that's a big
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 5: game for both of those teams.
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned.
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  Speaker 5: Texas State is thirty eight in the RPI right now,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: but they're significantly behind the leader. They're tied for second,
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  Speaker 5: but the four games behind Coastal Carolina, who currently has
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  Speaker 5: ranked thirteenth in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Coastal a very good program.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 5: When the Log Warns faced them at Dykin Park in
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 5: Houston in that early season classic the three games in
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: three days, Coastal Carolina was down two pitchers, two of
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: their starters. They've got those guys back now, or one
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: of the guys, and they expect to get the second back,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 5: and they're going to be tough to beat as the
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 5: season progresses. Remember, Coaschtal got two the National Championship Series
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: before falling to LSU. The run in the big in
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: the SEC is going to be fascinating to watch because
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: of the close nature of things. Georgia's number one in
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: the league on top of the league standings at ten
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: and two, Texas is nine and three, Alabama's eight and four,
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  Speaker 5: and he got several other teams very close by, even
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: teams that are a little further back in the pack
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: like Lshu's four games back.
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  Speaker 4: They're six and six.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're a good ball club, and they just
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: come off taking two or three from Tennessee. Oklahoma dropped
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: two out of three at home in Alabama. Who will
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: be here next weekend. Bama's at eight and four in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: the league, but you know, Oklahoma's a good program as well.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: They won a non conference game last night over Dallas Baptist,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: a Monday night non conference game, and that's because they
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: have a Thursday through Saturday weekend series in Nashville against Vanderbilt.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: So that's why they played the non conference game last night.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: And they, in addition to playing the non conference game
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: last night, opened their conference series on Thursday night in
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 5: Nashville taking on Vanderbilt. All Right, we're gonna visit with
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: Keith Moreland about all of this also coming up a
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: little later on this hour, we're gonna hear from Longhorn's
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: head coach Steve Sarkeesian from his media availability that he did.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: Today following the practice.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: We were going to play it out of the gate,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: but but we're up against him right now to a break,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: and then we've got Keith Morland, so we're gonna play
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: that for you his opening thoughts about how his team
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: is progressing in the spring workouts, which of course culminate
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: on the eighteenth with that Saturday open practice day for
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 5: Long Worn fans to come out. That'll be part of
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: that fan fest where they can take part in interactive
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: games and activities and avail themselves of the fire sale
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: of the team shop whether I have all kinds of
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: Longhorn gear, both team apparel type and actually game worn
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: jerseys and things like that available. Also, there'll be an
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: autograph session where fans can get an autograph poster, and
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: in addition to that, Sark will be on the field
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: to take some photographs with fans. It'll all be on
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: the first come first or basis. All of that begins
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: at nine point thirty and then the Long Worn Football
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: team will have its final practice of the spring drills
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: at eleven o'clock, so it will be an open practice
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: for the fans, not a full scrimmage, but an open practice,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: and they'll have that on the field at DKR Texas
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: Memorial Stadium. That's all coming up on Saturday eighteenth, which
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: is the same day as game number two of what
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: is shaping up to be a huge weekend series for
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: long worn baseball that we can at home against Alabama,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: So you could go over for all of the football activities,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 5: then come over for the baseball game on Saturday after day,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 5: all right, speaking to college baseball. Up next, we visited
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: Keith Morland, my broadcast partner in Longhorn Baseball, to talk
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: about this Texas team, the SEC race, and the national scene.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 5: It's all coming up here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: under the Zone any iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: We're back.
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  Speaker 7: It's the craig Way Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: and voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig Way.
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  Speaker 5: It is the game day here at uf HU dish
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: Fog Field, Game day tonight for the Longhorns taking on
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: the Cardinals of Incarnate Word, and we'll talk a little
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: bit about that in a moment, but my broadcast partner,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: Keith Morland joins me for it.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to give a little bit of retrospective of
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: the weekend. I talked yesterday with Ty Harrington on the program.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: We kind of went to general overview on a lot
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: of things, but I wanted to get into some specifics
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: with regard to the weekend because there were some curious
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 5: themes I thought that came out of the weekend, and
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: I was curious to get your thoughts on, first and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: foremost a question that you put to Jim slowst Angle
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: after the game, and I was thinking about it. I
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: just landed with women's basketball team coming back from Phoenix.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: I was in the truck. I was driving home and
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: I heard the eighth, the ninth innings, and then the post.
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  Speaker 5: Came and you brought up finding a way to win
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: a series, and the casual fan, especially, there's no such
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: thing as a casual long work fan.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: But anyway, they would.
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  Speaker 5: Look at it and say, Okay, they got blown out
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: by the last place team in the league, came back
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: and they had to gut out two wins to win
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: the series. And you know how it is with a
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: fan base sometimes they're like, it's it's it's not that
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: you won, it's like, well, how impressive were you when
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: you won? You know that kind of thing, and uh
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: and Jim mentioned the same thing. I think you find
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 5: a way to win, especially on the road in conference play.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: Just ask Kentucky. Missouri had one conference win going into
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: the weekend, and they took two out of three in
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 5: Lexington over over Kentucky over the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: So it's this league. I guess it has a lot
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, and you want to win serious, I mean,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: that's an important thing first and foremost. I really felt
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: and listening to Gym's answer and sort of analyzing it
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: on the flight home on Sunday night, I felt like
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: that this was an offensive team that did not play
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: well offensively pretty much all last week, and so they
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: got away from some of the things that they've done well.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: A running game did not appear. They weren't able to
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: put pressure on a South Carolina team that struggled in
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: that department, you know, slowing the running game down. So
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: they didn't get into the running game. And we saw
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: awful lot of right handed hitters pulling off balls and
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: you've heard me talk about this before, about standing through
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: the ball and the things you need to do. It
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: just was not a good offensive series. This is a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: good time to play South Carolina in that sense. Now
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: that being said, Greg Olsen's a good friend teammate of mind.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: He did the Friday night game on national television and
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: he said the same thing to me. He said, this
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  Speaker 2: is a lot different South Carolina team after they let
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: go of their head coach, because they've installed three physical
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: guys in their lineup. Now they're young kids. Bo Hollins,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: son of a major leaguer. He struggled a little bit,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: but you see him in the box. He' six two
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty pounds and watched them take VP. This
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: is a different looking team for South Carolina than it
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: was a month ago. So that being said, I don't
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: know how many more games they are gonna win. But
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Friday night was a good crowd. It was one of
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: those crowds where it was late arriving and they were
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: rooting for South Carolina basketball. But then as soon as
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: basketball you can see everybody starting to come in. The
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: women's won their game, and then all of a sudden,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: the crowd showed up on Friday night, and it was
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: it was sort of weird in that perspective, but this
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: is an offensive team that's got to get back to
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: the basic things that they were doing. The one guy
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: that probably stayed through and I just saw where he
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: was a Coke Freshman of the Week and the SEC
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: is Anthony Pat Junior. He's really done a good job
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: using the whole field. So they've got to get back
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: to doing those things. Mendoza's got to get back to
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: using old field. Robbins who's been hitting balls out of
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: the ballpark, I'm not going to say that. And then
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: the last thing is you see Carson Tenty start to
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: get hot. Boy, that's going to be a really plus
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: for this team down the stretch.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 5: No question. Okay, a couple of questions. First of all,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 5: and this was something I brought up with Tye because
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: as a long time a head coach, he saw it
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: a lot and and it goes across all levels of sports.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: And that's the quote unquote freshman wall that happens. We
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: haven't seen that from Anthony Pat, have not, have not.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's at one hundred and ten, one
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: hundred and twelve at bats.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: Usually that wall for college baseball, you and I have
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: done it for so long. We know, always look at
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fiftyeth bats and one hundred and fiftieth
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: bats from that point on is a push through because
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: you know, kids in high school and even in their
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: summer leagues don't really add those together and get more
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: than one hundred and fifty at bats. So, but in
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: college baseball, you play four days a week. If you
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: get it, you're you're in the lineup every day. That
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: means for at bats a day. So you just look
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: at it sixteen times, sixteen times the weeks, it's going
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: to be two hundred, two hundred and twenty five at bats,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: So how do you finish at that point? He's just
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: done a really nice job. I interviewed him after the game,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: and he sounds like the same young man that we
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: had earlier in the year. When we had him in
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: the postseason. You can see him growing up, starting to understand.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: He says, I don't look at it. I'm a four
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: hole hitter. I'd love that answer. When I asked him
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: that question in the post game, he said, I'm just
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: in the line to do my job and get and
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: get on base and help this team win. I just
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: love that answer.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: Your thoughts on what Schloss has had to do with
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 5: his infield with a Rod still out, He kind of
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 5: did some switching back and forth, had Temo at short
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 5: and then at third, and then Borbit third and then
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: at first and back at third and all that sort
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 5: of stuff. Gumbo, who had a solid weekend, was over
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 5: at second base. How about your your thoughts on the
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: moving and shaking that was necessitated by the injury to
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: ay to Ian Rodriguez and what and what gem has
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: had to do well.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Timo has done his job, let's start with that. And
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: I think the biggest surprise has not been bored of
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: being able to play third base. He played exceptionally well
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: over the weekend and they were hitting shots at him.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: He had a bunch of plays. I think Levingston at
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: first base has been a real surprise. He's picked three
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: or four balls in the dirt. He's done a nice
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: job of securing that position. So I think it's set
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: now until we get a Rod back into the lineup,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: it's going to be Timo Casey at third and Josh
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: at first. And you do that that allows Gumbo to
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: get back into the rotation in the outfield, because I mean,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: this team's down two really good offensive players. I mean,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: when you look at Josh Out and you look at
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: at a rod Out, both of them are really good players.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: They can do so many different things. They set positions
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: and allow you to move your lineup around as a
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: head coach to the way you want a position against
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: the left or right handed pitcher. Well, there's very few
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: choices here. I mean, in reality, there are four extra players.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: And when I looked at you know, you see him
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: out stretching before the game. You know you got eight
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: everyday starters, and then there's only four other guys with him,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: and you look down there and you think, wow, there's
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: only twelve players, twelve offensive players because there's not many
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: two way players on this club. So the next few
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: weeks they got to stay healthy, try to get everybody
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: back out on the field, and if they can, if
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: they can do that, I like what they're sitting up.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Timo was a prof I hate to use that term.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: I use it all the time, and it makes me cringely.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: He's a professional player with nil time. It's almost prefersit.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: I just got through last night watching Oklahoma play in
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 5: the in the Crown the Back College Basketball Crown Championship
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 5: game against West Virginia. West Virginia won the game in overtime,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 5: and all gust Jobs and kept talking about was three
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars on the line. You know that it
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: was going into ni L. So it kind of made
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: me kind.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Of stringy, you know. So that's what I'm saying. But uh, I,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: I really think that he is such a great commodity
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: for a club. What he does offensively, he can move
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: over to short. He's very adequate. He's not going to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: make spectacular plays, but he's going to make the routine
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: plays and that's all you can ask of a player
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: to do. And in case, he he's been a third
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: basement so that's not a huge switch for him. Albeit
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: he went to dirt on the road and had I'm
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: pretty sure in one game he had seven putouts. I
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: mean that's you know, assist where he's catching the ball
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: and going across the diamond and they were not hit
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: easily at him. So I think this team's going to
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: be all right. Of course, this is an interesting week
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: we got coming up. I mean, we go into tonight,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: you try to win the game tonight, and then you know,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: everybody knows what Friday Star in the Sun's gonna be like.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Jim had mentioned that he was far more
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 5: concerned about the field turf to dirt and grass adjustment.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 5: Did you feel they handled all of that really well
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: since they're gonna have to deal with it in College
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 5: Station this week? And as we know, you tell me
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 5: if I'm wrong. I think that that that grass surface,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: the grass and dirt surface in College Station is as
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: good as you'll find in college baseball.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: I know you said auburns was great. Auburn's great all
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: the dirt field, dirt and grass fields. The one we
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: just played in Founders Park was very too as well,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: because we had to walk through every day across it
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: to get in and out from the parking for a
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: media parking, so it's a nice ball park. There is
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: no question that the speed of the game speeds up.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: And it sounds crazy that when you play on dirt
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: and grass, because dirt to dirt hops do not react
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: the same way on turf to turf hops, and so
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: turf to turf hops seem to stay down a little more.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: You don't know what the ball is going to do
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: dirt to dirt. It could stay down or it could
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: come straight up and get over your shoulder. So I
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: think I'm an old school guy. I'd love to see
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: everybody playing on grass and dirt. But that's just you know,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: that's where I come from. Understand it. Now, I understand
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: you want to get games in, and the weather conditions
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: and the expenses of you of keeping your grass field. Everybody,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: every fan walks by. I said, I wish we'd turn
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: the grass. I said, it's very expensive, and people don't realize.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: He said, well, turf is more expensive to put in. Yeah,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: but you put it in, you have you have very little.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: It's a set cost. It's a set cost where when
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: you put dirt and grass and you've got to have
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: somebody taking care of it all the time.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 5: Especially to me, look like the ones we've seen in
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: the SEC maintenance. Yes, it's a big part. Okay, Pitching.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 5: I listened to even as I was setting up to
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: call that semi final game on Friday night, I was
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: listening to you and Roger Lot and you were talking
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: about Ruga rio Haas and you said, doesn't have command
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 5: of the breaking ball. And I, even as I watched
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: as I was calling the game. I pulled up the
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 5: baseball game, had all my laptop while I'm calling the
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 5: basketball game. I'd do that routinely anyway with things. But
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 5: it did look like he was struggling with the breaking ball.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: Was it as simple as something that like that? That
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: led easily his worst outing of the season.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, South Carolina went hunting fastballs, so
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: they were very aggressive in the game. Of the first
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: seven bats. I think we got it on the air
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: because I was sort of writing them down. Is you know,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: I'm over there doing the same thing when you're broadcasting.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: I'm listening righting and seeing what's going on. I think
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: seven of the first nine hitters swung at either pitch
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: one or pitch two. So they were hunting fastballs. And
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: then when he tried understood that and then Max and
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: they start all right, we got to change what we're doing.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: In the beginning here, he just couldn't get his breaking
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: ball down. Everything it was it had break to it,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: but it was breaking in the middle of the plate
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: and up, and that's not a good combination for a
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: breaking ball. So they were chasing fastballs, and no question
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: they were ready to hit, and because they looked at
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: the strike walk ratuer, you got sixty strikeouts and six walks.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: As a hitter, I'm going, well, this guy's not gonna
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: walk me. He's going to come after me. So you
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: got to go hitting. And they went hitting early and
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: did a good job against him. I expect to bounce
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: back from him. I don't think there's a question. I
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: think even though it's going to be on the road,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: and even though it's not his home mound, I expect
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: him to come back and pitch well against the Aggies
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: and then we'll step it forward to Saturday. And I'm
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: going to tell you what one of the MVPs of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: this club is, Luke Harrison. What he has done on
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Saturdays has been remarkable.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: And I've totally been over the last like three starts,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: right because he had some struggles early on getting through
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: the fourth inning, But his last three starts, we've.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: Got to well in conference, You've lost the opening game
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: on Friday night and he's had to take the ball
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: to keep you in the series, and Texas hasn't lost
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: the series. So what does that mean. He's like twenty
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: two and three and his starts twenty two and three,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: not his record, but the team's record is twenty two
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: and three. When he starts a game. He's just been magnificent.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: He's been a bulldog and it's so good. He's such
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: a great young man when you talk to him and
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: seem he doesn't take it in as a you know
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: that this falls on my shoulders, but he's willing to
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: take the ball and go okay.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: And then with regard to bridging it and closing it out,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 5: is it safe to say that right now, right now,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 5: Jim and Maxweener might be comfortable with Burns and maybe
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: Crosslin setting it up with Cozart finishing, or is there
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: still some movement around in that I can't.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: Get in their head.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: No, no, but you want me to ask what I
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: was doing it gets to the sixth and seventh, I'm
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: gonna use I'm going to use Crossland and Burns to
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: get me to the eighth and then I'm gonna have
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: Hayden the floor and the and the eighth, and I'm
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: going to close it with Zach Cozart if that's the
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: way I had to do against So now that's my opinion.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: I don't make those decisions, but right but those guys
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: have been those four guys. Matt would mack talking with
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: Max just for a second, is he said, he started
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: to mention it, and then Jim started mention it that
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: they thought Burns was getting closer and that was the
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: best Burns we saw on Sunday that we've seen. It's
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: still high leveraged situation. It's just not outs in twenty five,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: twenty six, at twenty seven.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: And you think le few Is is more than just
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: a situational one batter.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: Left handed guy has.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: Got such a good breaking ball that right handed hitters
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: are not going to get great swings on him. It's
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: about strikes for him. If he gets strike one on you,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: you've got real trouble as a hitter because he can
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: go to his heart breaking ball. Are he still got
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: ninety three ninety four with the heater? So I really
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: like him in that scenario. Now, it may be that
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: the seventh you have three left handed hitters in a row,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: and you know, let's say that crustling gets you through
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: the seventh and then you got three left tended hits
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: the road, you decide you want to go to the pen.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: You go get him, and then in the eighth there's
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: three right hand hitters. You might go get Burnsy and
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: and and Zach. The other thing about Zach, he's a
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: young freshman, and you know at this point of the
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: year they're not freshman anymore. But he is a guy
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: because he started and whatever, he's probably can give you
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: a five out, say, better than the other three guys
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: we were talking about. You could probably extend him a
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: little bit because of the fact that he's taking the
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: ball and throwing eighty pitches a couple of times.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, with regard to the rest of this league,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 5: and I was watching a lot of SEC coverage and stuff,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: and they say, right now, George is the best ball
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 5: club in the league. They're just absolutely just crushing the ball,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: you know from personal experience, and they made some reference
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 5: to it fully fills a bit of a bandbox, it is,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: so you're going to get more home run that's going
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: out of that deal. But they are ten and two
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: in the league. And then and then Alabama who comes
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 5: into here week after next. They're eight and four in
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 5: the league and took two out of three and Norman
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 5: over the weekend. Looks like they've improved quite Yeah. I
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: think I think the two teams that I probably am
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 5: stunned about. One is on the upside is Alabama, and
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 5: one is on the downside of Arkansas. Yeah, I just
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 5: I'm having a real tough time looking at because I
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: looked at that roster at the beginning of the season
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: and I thought, this is going to be a really
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 5: good ball club, but it just hasn't worked out that well.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: Georgia has also done really good job out of the bullpen.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: When you start looking at bullpen numbers, their starting pitchers
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: have been just okay, but they've had three or four.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: Guys out of the bullpen and pitched really well. And
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: in their home ballpark, they're hard to be because they're
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: built to hit the ball. The ballpark it is a
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: great hitters park.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: They go on the road, you know, I was really
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: interested to see what happened in Starkville this weekend. And
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: they go on the road and take care of business,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: which was just amazed me. And Alabama's been able to
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: play good at home and on the road. Yeah, So
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: that's the other things that surprised me a little bit
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: about Alabama. So it's going to be We've got an
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: interesting you know, when we looked at the schedule. I
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: don't know about you. I looked at the schedule out though, Well,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: South Carolina has been struggling. You got the Aggi's on
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: the road, and then you're gonna get Alabama at home
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: before you go to play a really good Vanderbilt team. Well,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: the two teams out of this that are not playing
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: as well, one of them is Vandy and one of
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: them is the Aggies.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 5: But the Baggies played better this weekend to two out
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: of three, one both games with a doubleheader against vander Yea.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: And so you know, I looked at that, and it
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: is going to be an incredible environment. It is going
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: to be a very tough time. First time coach Slash
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: has been back. So there's there's so many things that
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: are in this that, uh, there are going to be
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: fifteen thousand people around that ballparking ready to go Friday.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: Night, get no doubt.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 5: And then and then the other two teams are kind
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 5: of surprised. I guess you can even put LSU into
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: this category. And they just got to six and six
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: by scoring ten in the twelfth to win yesterday's watching
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: that game against Tennessee, Tennessee's four and eight in the league.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 5: And the easy response folks will say is they haven't
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 5: adjusted with Vitello and Frank Handerson, and having gone to
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 5: the majors, they haven't. They just haven't adjusted. And the
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  Speaker 5: other's Florida. They dropped two or three at home to
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  Speaker 5: Ole Miss, and they had supposedly the best closer in
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  Speaker 5: the league and they just light him up in the
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  Speaker 5: ninth inning for an Old Miss team that was coming
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  Speaker 5: off being swept by Mississippi State, who just got swept
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  Speaker 5: by Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a tough league. Listen, a heavyweight fight
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  Speaker 2: every time out. But we have had Doctor Jeckyll mister
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  Speaker 2: have in this league. I mean, Florida goes sweeps on
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  Speaker 2: the road, gets you beat it home, just like you said, Arkansas,
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  Speaker 2: I can't quite figure out Tennessee. You know, they get
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  Speaker 2: back and start playing pretty good ball, and then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden Lsu, who's been Stralian comes in and
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  Speaker 2: beats him to ou of three. So I gotta tell you, I,
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  Speaker 2: each and every week until we get to May, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you who's gonna win this league.
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  Speaker 5: I was thinking Kentucky's pretty good, and they just dropped
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  Speaker 5: two of three at home at home to a Missouri
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  Speaker 5: team that likes South Carolina went into the weekend having
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  Speaker 5: won only one conference game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Missouri is much improved team, much better team
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  Speaker 2: they were last year. I mean, just across the league
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  Speaker 2: with you just look at them when they play their
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  Speaker 2: non conference schedules. I guess teams like Kansas. Oh, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, he's playing really well in the Big Twelve.
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  Speaker 2: You know when you start seeing some of the things
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  Speaker 2: they're doing on Tuesday night, Missouri has gotten better. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to get better to compete in this league.
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  Speaker 2: And South Carolina will get better in this league. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just too good a ballparking, too good a history
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  Speaker 2: of a school in college baseball. But I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you, every weekend, you look I already looked at
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  Speaker 2: this weekend scheduled to see what's going on and going Man,
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  Speaker 2: that's a good series. Man, that's a good series, every
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  Speaker 2: one of them. You just look at it. Just something
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  Speaker 2: that great to go around and just see the best
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  Speaker 2: game every day during the.
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  Speaker 5: Week on the national scene, simply because of the way
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 5: the SEC cannibalizes one another. Is that UCLA and then
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  Speaker 5: there's a big drop to the rest of the group.
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  Speaker 2: I think UCLA is far and away the best team
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  Speaker 2: right now in the country, without a doubt. They do
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  Speaker 2: not play in a weekend, week out league that's going
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  Speaker 2: to really test them, so we're we're really not going
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  Speaker 2: to know a lot about them. I don't think until
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  Speaker 2: probably a super regional. Yeah, but you know when you
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  Speaker 2: put together some of the guys that they put together
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  Speaker 2: there that that is a physical They can get the
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  Speaker 2: ball the ballpark. They got one of the best, if
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  Speaker 2: not the best player in the country playing shortstop, and
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: they're good on the mound. I don't don't out West
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  Speaker 2: is probably better than it has been. I think Oregon
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  Speaker 2: State is still good again. I think USC is better.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think USC has been really tested yet when
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  Speaker 2: you see what they're scheduling, where they've gone. They've gone
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  Speaker 2: to play some people that have not been good. But
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  Speaker 2: I know that USC and UCLA down the stretch have
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  Speaker 2: got much tougher schedule. I think both of them have
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  Speaker 2: to make trips to Washington and both of them have
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  Speaker 2: to make trips to Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, one of the weird things I think I
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 5: ever saw was over the weekend Oregon State playing a
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  Speaker 5: weekend series in April in Beaumont and lamar.
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  Speaker 2: At lamar At Lamar. Well, they they're independent right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to find a league. I mean obviously next
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  Speaker 2: next year that it'll be in Sam Marcus when they're
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  Speaker 2: on the Bobcats, because that's gonna be in the Pac twelve.
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  Speaker 2: You know, football may not get back to the Pac twelve,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: but Pack twelve baseball. Gonzaga is good, Oregon State is good,
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  Speaker 2: Texas State's good, Dallas Baptist is good. Yeah, so you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have teams in the pack that are gonna be legitimate,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: you know, legitimate super regional hosts.
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  Speaker 5: That's true, Very good. Uh, I appreciate you doing this.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get ready to call a ball game in a
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 5: little while. Wow, let's get after it all right. That's
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  Speaker 5: Keith Mortloill joined up for the call six point fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: far Field here on thirteen under the.
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  Speaker 1: Zone, Michigan bothering the inbound flip and read here comes Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Ten seconds left. Smith's Name's inside flavor old no rebound,
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  Speaker 3: loose bit to the deck, picked up.
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  Speaker 2: By Dale, he plays into the other side. Game fucking three?
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  Speaker 3: Care about catch?
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  Speaker 2: Just look that.
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  Speaker 8: Michigan wins sexty nine, sexty three, The Laders at Best
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  Speaker 8: reached college basketball spinnacle for the second time.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan wins the national.
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  Speaker 8: Championship sixty nine sixty three over the Huskies of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 8: And Terry Mills you in that nineteen eighty nineteen finally
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  Speaker 8: have company.
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  Speaker 2: And we're back to the Craig Way Show.
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  Speaker 5: That's Brian Bush, who I've gotten a chance to get
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: to know him over the years. He was a studio
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  Speaker 5: producer for lear Field for while and subbed in as
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 5: a studio anchor for US and then became Michigan's basketball
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  Speaker 5: play by playboys a couple of years ago. It's good
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  Speaker 5: for him for Brian mintioned Terry Mills, I mentioned the
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  Speaker 5: Glenn Rice I had mentioned Ramel Robbinson, Terry Mills, another
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  Speaker 5: member of that nineteen eighty nine national championship team for
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 5: the Michigan Wolverines, and now they have a second basketball
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 5: national championship. Of course, Steve Sarkisian is working to build
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 5: a long worn football national championship team, just as Jim
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 5: Schlosnigles trying to build a baseball national title. Are thanks
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 5: again to keep Moreland joining us there on the program
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 5: to talk about this Texas team and what's in front
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 5: of them and what's ahead in the SEC race and
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: what's theyhead on the national scene as well. And Sark
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: has a few spring football practices left. But here's Sark's
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: thoughts coming off this morning's spring practice when he met
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: with the media shortly afterwards.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, two weeks ago. And that's a part of
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  Speaker 9: it is exciting. Part of it gives you a little
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 9: bit of you know, kind of like we gotta keep pushing,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 9: We got to keep going. And that was kind of
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 9: the message to the team today. It's like, you know,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 9: we had a really good scrimmage Friday night. We had
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 9: six practices to go. Now we have five after today,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 9: and we're gonna keep pushing to get better and we
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 9: can't settle and and I think that that was some
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 9: of that was conveyed to the players today.
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  Speaker 2: It was I was probab of their work.
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  Speaker 9: But I think we can be a little better than
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  Speaker 9: we were today, just from an intentional standpoint of what
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 9: we're trying to get accomplished. But proud of our guys
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 9: are working hard. Everybody's doing their thing the way we
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 9: want them to do it. But I want more and
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 9: I think that's the that's the part of being a
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 9: coaches is demanding more and pushing for more, and you know,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 9: getting the guys to respond to that.
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  Speaker 5: Sark and the Logorns will continue their work at on
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 5: Denius Fields and obviously in the bubble as well and
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 5: inside of the stadium as well. Bill Connley, who covers
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 5: college football very well for ESPN, wrote a piece about
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: the best or his favorite put it that way, transfer
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 5: portal classes, and.
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  Speaker 4: He rates Oklahoma State at number one.
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  Speaker 5: Oklahoma State, of course, got Drew Messamaker, the North Texas quarterback,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 5: and Caleb Hawkins, who had eighteen hundred plus yards from
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 5: scrimmage as a freshman the running back, and Wyat Young
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 5: mess to Maker's favorite receiving target. They picked up three
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 5: North Texas mean green players who you know, part of
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 5: that team that reached the American Conference Championship game. Because
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 5: of course, with Eric Morris taking the head coaching job
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: at Oklahoma State, so he stepped in the portal number two.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 5: How about Indiana, the defending national champions lose Fernando Mendoza,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 5: pick up Josh Hoover, the TCU quarterback. Pick up Turbo Rashard,
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  Speaker 5: the Boston College running back picked up almost one thousand
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 5: yards from scrimmage number two, Colorado number three, including that
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: really good playmaking receiver we saw him for San Jose State,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 5: Danny Scaudero, and he had almost thirteen hundred receiving yards
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 5: and ten touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: Four through six.
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  Speaker 5: It said you could take your choice Texas Tech LSU
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 5: and Miami UCLA seven, Kansas State eight, West Virginia nine,
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  Speaker 5: Florida Atlantic number ten, Houston eleven, Washington State twelve, Kentucky thirteen,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: Cal fourteen, the Loghorns at number fifteen. And what Conley said,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 5: based on raw upside, I could have easily ranked this
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 5: class in the batch with Texas Tech, LSU and Miami
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 5: and above. But it felt a bit like Sarcasian was
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 5: fighting the last War. He needed Skill Corps in offensive
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 5: line upgrades last season, and he shoved ten Skill Corps
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 5: guys and five O linemen out the door to make
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 5: this year's upgrades. That means depth might still end up
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 5: being an issue and the last year's development efforts were
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 5: awfully waste. That won't matter if, obviously Cam Coleman starts
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 5: living up to his potential and Hollywood Brown excuse me,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 5: Hollywood Smothers and Relief Brown both stay healthy as running backs.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 5: But Sark's offseason was more reactive than proactive to me.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: That's according to Bill Conley. The rest of his top twenty,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 5: he had Virginia sixteen, Virginia Tech seventeen, Auburn eighteen, Tulsa nineteen,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 5: and Iowa twenty. So that was a look at the
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 5: transfer portal there. Sark has also said this on several occasions.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 5: The portal to him is not the means to the end.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 5: The portal is supplemental.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 4: He said.
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  Speaker 5: The biggest issue and the biggest thing we want to
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 5: have is developing the class that we have, the signing class,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 5: the high school class.
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  Speaker 4: And remember what this was rated was just portal alone.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 4: Portal alone.
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  Speaker 5: So, according to Bill Conley, fifteenth in the transfer portal.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 5: But the collection of 'all with that top five signing
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 5: class and then the other players should still have plenty
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 5: of newcomers, be it whether by the portal or by
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: the incoming freshmen, as guys who may be able to
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 5: contribute right away. And that's one thing Sark has talked about,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: is having some of those young guys, even though they're
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 5: drinking from a fire hose, a chance for them to
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 5: contribute once they get more comfortable with the season. All right,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: we'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
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  Speaker 5: program here from UFCU Dish falk Field on sports Radio
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