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Gearing Up For Texas Basketball vs Arkansas! · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: It is alive, somehow skirting the depths of certain depth death. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not quite that dramatic. It's glad to be back today.
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Speaker 1: Feeling much better. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program
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Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone. My
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Speaker 1: name is Craig Way. I am feeling much better today,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, and thanks to Cameron Parker filling in for
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Speaker 1: me yesterday. It's been a bizarre last week and some
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Speaker 1: of the details, we'd kind of give it a few
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Speaker 1: of the details when I popped on with Andrew Zimmel
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Speaker 1: last week with the travel delays and all the weird
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Speaker 1: stuff that happened, and I'll kind of do a little
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Speaker 1: recap of it without going into grand.
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Speaker 2: Detail, but.
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Speaker 1: It led to a very very busy and hectic and
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Speaker 1: unplanned for series of travel, which happens a lot in
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Speaker 1: our business in the in the sports broadcaster business, especially
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Speaker 1: guys who do play by play, and then the unexpected
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Speaker 1: but always recognized moment of illness arrives as well, and
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Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend as well. But we did
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Speaker 1: manage to get through all of that. So here's kind
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Speaker 1: of what happened, very very very very very busy week
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Speaker 1: last week, as you might imagine, and there was you know,
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Speaker 1: basketball games to be broadcast, two men's games, two women's
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Speaker 1: games for you team, and and also we were planning
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Speaker 1: to do a long worn weekly show with Rodney Terry
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Speaker 1: on Thursday night at Pluckers. So Tuesday comes, So it
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Speaker 1: was a week ago today. It's kind of interesting thing
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Speaker 1: about all this stuff happened within less than a week time.
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Speaker 2: But Tuesday fly with the team along with Cameron.
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Speaker 1: We both fly with the men's basketball team over to Oxford, Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: The game takes place on Wednesday, hard faught basketball game.
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Speaker 1: Long ones come up on the short end of that
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Speaker 1: seventy two to sixty nine contest. The Trey Johnson three
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Speaker 1: pointer to try to tie it at the buzzer rattles out,
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Speaker 1: so they lose the game on Wednesday night before we
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Speaker 1: even got back to the hotel. Because normally when you're
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Speaker 1: on the road, the way the sequence works is you
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Speaker 1: go in the day before the team has it's it's
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Speaker 1: walked through there and it's film study there in the hotel.
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Speaker 1: There might be a shooting session the night before the
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Speaker 1: game in the arena. It depends on the host to
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Speaker 1: be quite honest, and also to be quite honest, Ole
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Speaker 1: miss was not going to relinquish the arena for Texas
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Speaker 1: to sh shoot until at least eight thirty at night.
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Speaker 2: And there was a plan.
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Speaker 1: For the basketball team that there was a team dinner
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Speaker 1: planned that night, so and that was at seven thirty,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't want to disrupt all the other plans
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Speaker 1: and the way things are on the itinery, so they
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Speaker 1: didn't shoot the night before the game. So they had
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Speaker 1: a big session inside this ballroom where they have the
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Speaker 1: free throw lane taped down and that's part of what
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Speaker 1: they do when they're working through a lot of half
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Speaker 1: court sequences and things like that. So they did that
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Speaker 1: and they had dinner on Tuesday night. Wednesday morning, they
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Speaker 1: get up, they go to shoot around and they had
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Speaker 1: the shoot around and then you when you come back
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Speaker 1: if a pregame meal later and then the team goes
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Speaker 1: to the arena, and when they go to the arena,
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Speaker 1: you pack up all your bags and you're done because
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Speaker 1: they're loaded onto the bus because it's going straight from
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Speaker 1: the arena to the airport to get on the charter flight.
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Speaker 1: And this case was going to be in Tupelo, Mississippi,
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Speaker 1: forty five minutes to the or really closer to an
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Speaker 1: hour to the east of Oxford. Oxford's a very small place.
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Speaker 1: The airport is just really small camp get most charter
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Speaker 1: jets in there. So long wards play the game, lose
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Speaker 1: the game, and instead of packing up and going straight
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Speaker 1: to the airport, we were all told, no, we're going
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Speaker 1: to go back to the hotel. We're not getting out
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Speaker 1: tonight due to the fog in Austin because of that
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Speaker 1: bad weather that moved through. I know, there was a
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Speaker 1: lot of rain and there's fog. So the team goes
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Speaker 1: back to the hotel. So we were all given keys
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Speaker 1: and got back into our dirty hotel rooms, the ones
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Speaker 1: that we had that the you know, the housekeeping staff
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Speaker 1: had not made up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wait, the rooms were paid for through that second full
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Speaker 1: day anyway, second night anyway. But the decision was also
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Speaker 1: made that night that the team was going to go
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Speaker 1: on straight to Baton Rouge on Thursday, because the next
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Speaker 1: game was going to be with LSU on Saturday, and
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Speaker 1: rather than come home on Thursday just for one day
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Speaker 1: and then turn around because the guys were gonna miss
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Speaker 1: class on Thursday anyway, they could do a study hall
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Speaker 1: by staying out and then turn around and go Friday LSU.
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Speaker 1: Rather than do that, they were just going to go
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Speaker 1: Thursday to bat Rouge. Well, that wasn't gonna work for
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Speaker 1: my schedule because obviously I needed to get back to
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Speaker 1: broadcast the Texas women's game. So I got an eighty
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Speaker 1: mile uber drive up to Memphis and hopped on board
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Speaker 1: a flight to come from Memphis back to Austin. Made
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Speaker 1: it back to the game Thursday night for the Texas
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Speaker 1: women against Missouri. Friday, I fly out to Baton Rouge.
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Speaker 1: The team had gone to Baton Rouge on Thursday. I
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Speaker 1: rejoined the team in Baton Rouge on Friday. They played
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Speaker 1: the game Saturday. I woke up Saturday morning it didn't
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Speaker 1: feel well, and I thought, well, maybe this is a
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Speaker 1: cold or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what it was.
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel well, and I also and I did
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Speaker 1: not know until I got in like late Friday night,
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Speaker 1: that Rodney Terry had been sick with the flu.
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Speaker 2: He'd been down for two days.
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Speaker 1: Really was it was a tough deal, but I had
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Speaker 1: not been around him, so it wasn't like I called
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Speaker 1: anything from him, And in retrospect, I don't think it
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Speaker 1: was the flu, although I wound up having some fevers
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Speaker 1: over the course of the next few days. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: I kind of medicated up and you know, cold medicines
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Speaker 1: and all that other kind of stuff and decongestions and
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Speaker 1: things of that nature. Called the game on Saturday always
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Speaker 1: helps him. The games going well too, you know, and
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Speaker 1: the long Words won. The game obviously, did very very well,
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Speaker 1: won by thirty one points, so that goes all right.
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Speaker 1: When the game was over, I started feeling it coming
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Speaker 1: on again. On the plane flight at home. I felt bad.
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Speaker 1: I got home. I almost went straight to bed immediately after,
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Speaker 1: medicated up again and slept through the night.
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Speaker 2: Did not feel good at all.
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Speaker 1: When I woke up Sunday morning and oncen't sure I
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Speaker 1: was going to be able to get over to College
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Speaker 1: Station and do the game. But again, some heavy meds
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Speaker 1: and the fact that it was just an hour forty
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Speaker 1: five minute drive over to College station able to get
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Speaker 1: over there and do the game. Did the game, you know, again,
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Speaker 1: heavily medicated did the ball game. Everything went fine. I
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Speaker 1: got home, and I felt awful when I got home.
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Speaker 1: Part of it also was it seemed to take me
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Speaker 1: forever to get home. Now I will stand up there
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Speaker 1: with just about anybody, just about anybody on the best
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Speaker 1: ways to drive from Austin to College Station. You know,
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Speaker 1: I've been there a few times so for football, men's basketball,
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Speaker 1: women's basketball, baseball. I've been over the College Station many, many, many,
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Speaker 1: many many times, so I know how to get to
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Speaker 1: College Station. But just for the heck of it, in
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Speaker 1: this day and age of having like Apple Car Play,
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Speaker 1: I'll input the disk just so I can see the
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Speaker 1: mileages I'm going across, and also more important to me
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Speaker 1: to see the speed limit in each area, just in
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Speaker 1: case I don't want to be going way beyond the
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Speaker 1: speed limit, and it puts it up there when you
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Speaker 1: got the destination one, well, the backside of that, the
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Speaker 1: other side of it. Sometimes GPS has a mind of
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Speaker 1: its own and it'll take you a direction you're not
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Speaker 1: really planning to go. And it told me to go
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Speaker 1: this different way coming back when I got to Rockdale
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Speaker 1: turning north instead of staying on seventy nine, I think
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Speaker 1: I was going up far In to Market nine oh eight,
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Speaker 1: and then then from far In to Market nine oh eight,
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Speaker 1: flipping back around to something like six three oh six'
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Speaker 1: one and anyway, it was on these foreigner market roads
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Speaker 1: that didn't recognize and at one point I was like,
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Speaker 1: where am I. I'm out in the middle of nowhere
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Speaker 1: and I get to where this one far in the
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Speaker 1: market road is dead ending, but the GBS is telling
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Speaker 1: me to turn left. So I kind of did a
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Speaker 1: slowed down and boom and a kind of rolled on
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Speaker 1: through on to the left.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got pulled by a h I think it
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Speaker 1: was a Milam County Sheriff's deputy for rolling through the
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Speaker 1: stop sign out in the middle of nowhere with no
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Speaker 1: traffic getting about. I explained my situation to him and
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Speaker 1: he was he was pretty cool about that. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: let you go with a warning, just kind of be
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Speaker 1: mindful of that. Blah blah blah. So he let me go,
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Speaker 1: but it just seemed to take forever to get home,
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Speaker 1: and by the time I got home, I felt absolutely awful,
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Speaker 1: really awful. And then I was up throughout the night
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Speaker 1: sleeping and then waking up and medicating all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and I just felt terrible yesterday. So that's why I
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Speaker 1: wasn't able to make it in. But a day of
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Speaker 1: a lot of rest and a lot of medication and
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Speaker 1: back at it, not one hundred percent, but feeling a
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Speaker 1: lot better.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's a good thing, all right.
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Speaker 1: Coming up, So that's the explanation for the craziness of
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Speaker 1: the past several days. What's coming up the program today,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Rodney Terry, long worn men's basketball coach.
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Speaker 1: We're also here from Devon Pryor, who has started to
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Speaker 1: have his presence known a little bit more and he
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Speaker 1: is he is really affecting things also, so uh getting
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Speaker 1: more playing time. We're gonna hear from de ViOn Pryor,
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Speaker 1: but we'll hear from Rodney Terry coming up. We do
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Speaker 1: have inconceivable this hour. We've got a lot of things
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Speaker 1: to get to on the program. We're always happy to
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Speaker 1: take your input, your questions, your thoughts. All you have
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Speaker 1: that and more. We'll talk from Super Bowl as well.
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Speaker 2: NBA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the simmering still after the massive trade between the
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Speaker 1: Mavericks and the Lakers, with Luka Doncics going to la
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis coming.
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Speaker 2: Back to Dallas.
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Speaker 1: We get to all that and more when we continue
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Speaker 1: here on thirteen under the zone.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday's going all right, beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Weather outside, you know, I think it depends on your
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Speaker 1: perspective with regard to the weather. I mean, we can
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Speaker 1: all look outside and see that it's nice and sunny
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Speaker 1: and warm.
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Speaker 2: And all this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: But there are some people, some people, and they look
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Speaker 1: at this as being unseasonable to the point of being unfriendly.
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Speaker 1: I am married to one of those people. Linda likes those,
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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. She likes summertime weather and warm weather.
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Speaker 1: She just likes summertime. In the summertime. She would rather
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Speaker 1: it be, you know, more in the seasonal pattern of
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Speaker 1: being in the sixties this time of year.
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Speaker 2: Not in the low eighties.
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Speaker 1: Me I'll take hot any time of year over the
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Speaker 1: cold anytime of year. But you know, sometimes that just happens.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Long worn basketball team has won three of its last four.
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Speaker 1: Texas is now with one win way for getting back
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Speaker 1: to the five hundred market conference play. That's really important
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Speaker 1: when considering the fact that they play in the toughest
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Speaker 1: basketball conference in the country.
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Speaker 2: That's not a pinion, that's fact.
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Speaker 1: Based on the numbers, based on the net rankings, based
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Speaker 1: on any metric you choose, the Southeastern Conference has been
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Speaker 1: the top basketball conference in the nation. And if you
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Speaker 1: look at the regular poll rankings as well as the
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Speaker 1: net rankings and the computer and all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 1: all of that is revealed as such. So a win
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Speaker 1: over Arkansas on Wednesday night would be big. It would
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Speaker 1: really help out tex As to get him back to
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Speaker 1: level five hundred. It would get them to at that point,
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Speaker 1: another win in conference play, and another win overall. All
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Speaker 1: of those things important as they try to continue to
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Speaker 1: stay away from the bubble and climb further up on that.
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Speaker 1: So at his media zoom yesterday, Long Worn's head coach
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Speaker 1: Rodney Terry, because the team of late has been shooting
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Speaker 1: the ball better, defending better, are they playing their best
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Speaker 1: basketball the season right now?
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Speaker 3: I thought we played really well.
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Speaker 4: Uh at Old Miss, I thought we uh we we
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Speaker 4: did everything except win the game, you know, and uh
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Speaker 4: you know, I thought I guys played with great effort,
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Speaker 4: uh played really good deepense. I thought we shared the
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Speaker 4: ball really well, you know, it came down to you know,
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Speaker 4: you know, whether basketball goes in the basket or not. Uh,
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Speaker 4: you know, at the end of the ball game. But
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Speaker 4: you know, disappointed lost for us. You know, we come
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Speaker 4: on the heels of travel where we have to spend
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Speaker 4: the night and stay and uh. Uh we made the
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Speaker 4: decision to stay out the whole time instead of coming back.
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Speaker 4: And I said that guys that night. You know, we're
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Speaker 4: gonna find a civil lining uh in this whole situation.
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Speaker 4: We're all disappointed obviously with the outcome of what we're
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Speaker 4: transpired tonight, but we're gonna we're gonna find a positive
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Speaker 4: in this.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna stay together.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna get over and and
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Speaker 4: start our preparation for an LSU team that at home
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Speaker 4: that's played everyone really close in league play.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's not gonna be easy. Uh, we're gonna
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Speaker 4: stay on top of our academics. But but we're gonna
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Speaker 4: stay together. And I thought our guys really came together
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Speaker 4: over the course of that trip in terms of just
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Speaker 4: being around one another.
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Speaker 3: This team's playing.
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Speaker 4: A lot, a lot more selfless right now at this point.
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Speaker 4: In terms of really trusting the teammates. You know, when
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Speaker 4: anytime you have twenty plus assists in the game, you know,
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Speaker 4: guys are trusting the teammates at a high level. Did
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Speaker 4: a good job of taking care of the basketball as well.
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Speaker 4: We had six turn seven turnovers in the games, one
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Speaker 4: being mine.
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Speaker 3: At the end of the game, we had six.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 3: But uh, but but they're they are, they're they're they're.
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Speaker 4: Really kind of understanding and getting the field for what
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Speaker 4: it takes to try to win in this league. You know,
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Speaker 4: you've got to play really good defense every night. Well,
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Speaker 4: you play really hard. You don't have to play perfect,
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Speaker 4: but you got to play really hard and try to
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Speaker 4: have each other's back and uh, and then you got
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Speaker 4: to a rebound the basketball at a at a high
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Speaker 4: clip as well. And then and then share the basketball,
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Speaker 4: move the basketball, have good movement and play with good pace.
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Speaker 4: But I think that's that's what we're doing right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know you heard me telling me about,
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Speaker 1: you know whatever, my travel log and getting back and
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Speaker 1: forth and all that stuff. It wasn't easy for the
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Speaker 1: team as well, because you know, they had to stay overnight,
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Speaker 1: like I said, didn't get back. They probably did not
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Speaker 1: get back in the bed. Remember that was an eight
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Speaker 1: o'clock tip. And by the time they got back to
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Speaker 1: the hotel and they got some food in them and
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Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, it was probably close to
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Speaker 1: one o'clock in the morning before they got the bed,
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Speaker 1: and then they had to get up in the morning, repack,
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Speaker 1: go over it, then get on the bus.
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Speaker 2: And they had close to an.
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Speaker 1: Hour bus ride over to Tupelo, where the charter plane
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Speaker 1: then took them the batteries. Then they had an afternoon
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Speaker 1: study haul. They did that since they were going to
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Speaker 1: miss the academic portion of the calendar week coming back
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Speaker 1: to Austin. So they did that and and came back
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Speaker 1: and or went to Baton Rouge after that, and then
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Speaker 1: after going over to Baton Rouge, then they were able
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Speaker 1: to get the work in. And you heard Ronnie talk
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Speaker 1: about them playing very unselfishly. Normally, when that happens, it's
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Speaker 1: because the chemistry is working. And and Ronnie was asked
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Speaker 1: if there was a moment when this team chemistry is
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Speaker 1: really just clicking for this group, Well, I think.
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Speaker 4: It's always a work in progress. I mean, and you know, again,
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Speaker 4: it takes sometimes it takes teams a while last year
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Speaker 4: it took us you know, Mike Conference before we were
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Speaker 4: really playing really well officuely and defensively. And you know, again,
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Speaker 4: you know, it just takes time, especially in this new
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Speaker 4: era in terms of you know, one year rosters, you know,
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Speaker 4: and years past you probably can say if you had
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Speaker 4: retention of guys for two or three years, you probably
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Speaker 4: had a well all machine that knew what you were
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Speaker 4: trying to get done, especially in big moments of games
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Speaker 4: where you've got to really you know, now you've got to.
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Speaker 3: Really execute on offense.
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Speaker 4: You've got to really sit down and lock into the
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Speaker 4: details on defense and know exactly what you're trying to
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Speaker 4: get done from a scheme standpoint. You know, that's always
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Speaker 4: a work in progress right now with with with the
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Speaker 4: team that that comes together in one year and stuff.
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Speaker 3: So I think we'll get into a really good.
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Speaker 4: Point that I think guys will really locking in on
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Speaker 4: details right now. Knowing personnel at a high level on
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Speaker 4: the defensive side of the ball, Uh, they're they're able
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Speaker 4: to make some adjustments during games. That's one thing you
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Speaker 4: take take for granted a little bit in terms of
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Speaker 4: when you don't have connuities teams that can make adjustments.
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Speaker 4: You may go into a game thinking you can do
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Speaker 4: this or do that, and now in the game, in game.
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Speaker 3: In adjustments that you have to make.
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Speaker 4: Your team has to continue to get better as the
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Speaker 4: season goes along. How to adapt to adjusting games. Maybe
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Speaker 4: it's how the game's being officiated. Maybe it's how we
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Speaker 4: need to change our pick and roll coverage. Maybe it's
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Speaker 4: you know, it's personnel, how we're gonna go on a
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Speaker 4: guy differently. Maybe it's how we're gonna attack person Uh
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Speaker 4: their so now how we're gonna attack their their pick
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Speaker 4: and roll. But just the nuances of the game and
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Speaker 4: the adjustments within the game, you know, that's where guys
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Speaker 4: have to get familiar with each other, trust one another,
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Speaker 4: and and know that if it's on the defensive side,
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Speaker 4: guy's gonna have my back if I make a mistake.
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Speaker 4: It's on on the offensive side. Hey, if we run
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Speaker 4: a play, we don't square out of the plate. Now
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Speaker 4: we gotta flow and play out of the plate, uh
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Speaker 4: and get a good.
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Speaker 3: Shot every time down.
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Speaker 4: So hopefully that that kind of answers your question along
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Speaker 4: roundabout way that first part of it.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it doesn't.
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Speaker 5: Just a second quick follow up, J Billis said the
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Speaker 5: other day that playing in the SEC and having success
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Speaker 5: is harder than win the NCAA tournament this year.
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Speaker 6: Just crrius your thought on this concept.
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Speaker 3: You know what this leads the bear man.
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Speaker 4: It is a bear you know every league you know,
18:51
Speaker 4: in conference play, you know, are difficult games to play,
18:56
Speaker 4: no matter what league you play in. Uh, I just
18:59
Speaker 4: thinking I'll league this year. You know, we have exceptional teams,
19:04
Speaker 4: exceptional coaches, and really hard venues to play in. You know,
19:09
Speaker 4: and it's a really physical league. You know, teams are
19:14
Speaker 4: really physical, they're athletic, they don't just they don't give
19:16
Speaker 4: you any really good looks.
19:18
Speaker 3: A lot of really.
19:19
Speaker 4: Good defensive teams in this league, a lot of physical
19:22
Speaker 4: teams that rebound the basketball in this league. When you
19:25
Speaker 4: come out of a game in the SEC, you feel
19:28
Speaker 4: it as a coach, you feel it as a player.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you do.
19:35
Speaker 1: You know the impression that I've gotten from the SEC,
19:37
Speaker 1: it's a mentally tough league. There's a lot of mentally
19:40
Speaker 1: tough guys in this league, just hard nosed guys as
19:44
Speaker 1: well as how physical and what a grind it can
19:47
Speaker 1: be in this league. So that brings us to this
19:50
Speaker 1: Wednesday game with Arkansas Razorbacks were kind of bumbling and
19:54
Speaker 1: stumbling along. There were one in six in conference play,
19:58
Speaker 1: first year under John calipar and uh, you know, struggling
20:02
Speaker 1: to adapt and adjust everything, even with his Kentucky uh
20:06
Speaker 1: transfer in, you know, influx into the roster.
20:11
Speaker 2: It just didn't really seem to be clicking very well.
20:13
Speaker 1: And then came Saturday night when the Razorbacks went into Lexington,
20:18
Speaker 1: Kentucky John Caliparni's return, and they went about the business
20:23
Speaker 1: of beating Kentucky and they didn't mess around.
20:25
Speaker 2: They ended up winning it by ten, but led by
20:27
Speaker 2: more than that. Uh.
20:28
Speaker 1: It was eye opening to see that happen. And it
20:31
Speaker 1: also lets you know that this Arkansas team does have
20:35
Speaker 1: a lot of talent and they maybe they're figuring things
20:38
Speaker 1: out a little bit. And then of course there's that
20:40
Speaker 1: business with the rivalry. And Rodney Terry was asked about,
20:44
Speaker 1: you know, the rebirth of the rivalry. We heard start
20:47
Speaker 1: talk about it with football. I think it'll happen with baseball.
20:51
Speaker 1: Uh and with basketball. Isn't a good thing for Texas
20:55
Speaker 1: and college basketball to have yet another big rivalry back
20:57
Speaker 1: on the boards for Texas, this time with Arkansas.
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Speaker 4: I think the thing that I'm really trying to reiterate
21:02
Speaker 4: to our guys right now, a lot of those guys
21:05
Speaker 4: weren't born during this time right now, so they don't
21:07
Speaker 4: have a recollection of how how big a rivalry Arkansas
21:11
Speaker 4: Texas is. I mean, you go back to Southwest Conference days,
21:14
Speaker 4: and you know, for us from a basketball standpoint, you
21:17
Speaker 4: had Nolan Richardson having those great teams that he had
21:20
Speaker 4: in the early nineties, and then you talk about Tom
21:23
Speaker 4: Penders revitalizing Texas basketball. I mean, you had two of
21:26
Speaker 4: those things happening at the same time, and those were
21:30
Speaker 4: big time games. I remember watching those games and seeing
21:33
Speaker 4: those games, uh you know, on TV, and that that
21:38
Speaker 4: the rival with Arkansas is is huge, you know. And
21:42
Speaker 4: you know, again, we need a very difficult place to
21:44
Speaker 4: play in come Wednesday night. We need Moody to be
21:47
Speaker 4: rocking at another level because we know we go to
21:50
Speaker 4: Fairville and be sold out over in Fort Fairville when
21:53
Speaker 4: the Horns come to town.
21:54
Speaker 3: You know. But it's that.
21:55
Speaker 4: Big a rival it's a big deal, and it's a
21:58
Speaker 4: great rivalry in college Afteret have a our two institutions
22:02
Speaker 4: competing again at a very high level. A lot of
22:04
Speaker 4: respect for coach cal Hall of Fame coach, A lot
22:08
Speaker 4: of respect for Arkansas basketball.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is one of those three along with
22:13
Speaker 1: Texas A and M and also with Oklahoma to where
22:17
Speaker 1: there's a home and home involved with that. It isn't
22:20
Speaker 1: like that with the others, but it is in the
22:22
Speaker 1: case of Arkansas. So it's Wednesday night, Tomorrow night at
22:26
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, and our coverage begins at seven point thirty
22:29
Speaker 1: here on the Zone as well as on ninety eight
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Speaker 1: point one FM KVED, our number two of the program
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Speaker 1: here on thirteen hundred the Zone. Glad to have you
22:36
Speaker 1: with us as we continue here on this Tuesday afternoon,
22:40
Speaker 1: beautiful Tuesday afternoon.
22:41
Speaker 2: Hope you're feeling all right.
22:43
Speaker 1: I'm feeling better after being out yesterday, sick with fevers
22:49
Speaker 1: and coughing and all kinds of unhealthy things, but much better.
22:55
Speaker 1: Definitely feeling much better today. I hadn't had a chance,
23:00
Speaker 1: really to weigh in too much on that massive trade
23:05
Speaker 1: that happened late Saturday night between the Mavericks and the
23:10
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers, and it was an interesting piece written
23:15
Speaker 1: on the ESPN about how Luka Doncics was just about
23:19
Speaker 1: to fall asleep when his phone rang or buzzed, and
23:25
Speaker 1: that's when he found out that the Mavericks had traded
23:27
Speaker 1: him to the Lakers. He said at a news conference today.
23:31
Speaker 1: You can imagine how surprised I was. I had to
23:34
Speaker 1: check if it was April first. I didn't really believe it,
23:38
Speaker 1: And he says now he's kind of recovered from the shock.
23:43
Speaker 1: He's growing increasingly excited about a new chapter with Lebron
23:46
Speaker 1: James and playing with the famous Laker team on the
23:50
Speaker 1: West Coast. And you know, his teammates, both with Dallas
23:57
Speaker 1: and the ones he's going to play with, have said
24:00
Speaker 1: it's been their impression he's never lacked motivation to be great,
24:03
Speaker 1: but now he has even more fuel after the Mavericks
24:07
Speaker 1: apparently apparently inherently questioned his talent and determination, or at
24:12
Speaker 1: least his determination and his commitment to keeping himself in
24:18
Speaker 1: better condition and things of that nature. He said, and
24:21
Speaker 1: here was the quote. It was a big shock. Dallas
24:23
Speaker 1: was home, so it was really hard moments for me.
24:25
Speaker 1: But now I'll get to play in the greatest club
24:27
Speaker 1: in the world, and I'm excited for this new journey.
24:31
Speaker 1: I would say I always take the high road I
24:34
Speaker 1: had my amazing moments in Dallas with all my teammates, coaches,
24:37
Speaker 1: and most importantly the fans. They always supported me, and
24:40
Speaker 1: it was an amazing journey. So that was the deal
24:44
Speaker 1: where they traded Anthony Davis and Max Christie in that
24:47
Speaker 1: three team deal.
24:51
Speaker 2: For Luca.
24:52
Speaker 1: And he said he was still processing all of this,
24:57
Speaker 1: said quote, Honestly, it was hard at first. First, DA
25:00
Speaker 1: really hard. Felt like these last forty eight hours was
25:02
Speaker 1: a month emotionally, he was really hard. But to day
25:05
Speaker 1: was much better. This is the Lakers, It's one of
25:07
Speaker 1: the best clubs in history. So I'm excited to be here. So,
25:11
Speaker 1: had he stayed in Dallas, he was eligible for a
25:13
Speaker 1: five year, three hundred and forty five million dollars Supermax deal.
25:17
Speaker 1: Now he's not eligible for that deal. And so when
25:20
Speaker 1: he was asked if he or his representatives and indicated
25:23
Speaker 1: to the Mavericks that he wouldn't sign a supermax extension
25:26
Speaker 1: to remain in Dallas, he said he had not said that,
25:28
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, he said. Lakers general manager Rob Polinka was
25:33
Speaker 1: pretty excited about the whole deal. He said, I think
25:35
Speaker 1: Luka Doncis joining forces with the Lakers is a seismic
25:38
Speaker 1: event in NBA history. We have a twenty five year
25:41
Speaker 1: old global superstar that's going to get on the stage
25:43
Speaker 1: of the most popular and influential basketball brand on the globe.
25:47
Speaker 2: And I think when those two.
25:48
Speaker 1: Powerful forces get together, it brings basketball joint to the
25:51
Speaker 1: world because that's how Luca plays.
25:53
Speaker 2: He plays with Joy. Okay, so there was that.
26:00
Speaker 1: The Lakers themselves say they're all excited about it. What
26:06
Speaker 1: about on the other side, Anthony Davis the unibrow now
26:13
Speaker 1: in a Mavericks uniform. Okay, I mentioned that Luca was
26:17
Speaker 1: almost asleep when his phone rang. When that happened, Anthony
26:22
Speaker 1: Davis was sitting down for a movie night with his wife.
26:24
Speaker 1: Now remember that's two hours prior, so it might be
26:29
Speaker 1: getting to the later hours of the evening on Saturday night,
26:31
Speaker 1: but still in primetime.
26:32
Speaker 2: It wasn't late night when his phone rang.
26:36
Speaker 1: And it was a group call from Rob Polinka, the
26:40
Speaker 1: GM and the coach JJ Reddick. And what he heard
26:43
Speaker 1: of that conversation, he was being traded to the Mavericks
26:46
Speaker 1: for Luka Doncic stunned him as much as it did
26:49
Speaker 1: the rest of the world.
26:50
Speaker 2: When it was announce lad he said, I was shocked.
26:53
Speaker 2: I had no idea.
26:55
Speaker 1: I just sent a team of text about congratulations on
26:57
Speaker 1: the win against the Knicks, big win, looking forward to
27:00
Speaker 1: Tuesday's game against the Clippers as far as standing purposes,
27:04
Speaker 1: and then found out like an hour later, I was
27:05
Speaker 1: no longer with a team. Was in shock. Obviously had
27:08
Speaker 1: no idea that it was happening. But I mean now
27:10
Speaker 1: I'm kind of over it. I'm just kind of getting
27:13
Speaker 1: ready to play with Dallas. He's not going to play tonight.
27:16
Speaker 1: The Mavericks do play the Sixers tonight. He still has
27:19
Speaker 1: that abdominal strain that he suffered coincidentally a week ago
27:23
Speaker 1: against the Sixers, and that would turn out to be
27:25
Speaker 1: the final game that he.
27:26
Speaker 2: Played with the Lakers.
27:27
Speaker 1: He had gone back to LA to get the injury
27:29
Speaker 1: examined entreated, and he said that he could play, possibly
27:37
Speaker 1: play either Thursday in Boston and the Celtics or at
27:40
Speaker 1: home Saturday against the Rockets. He said, I'll go through
27:42
Speaker 1: a workout today and see how I feel, and depending
27:44
Speaker 1: on that, get another one in tomorrow. Depending on that,
27:48
Speaker 1: we'll see how I feel. If not Thursday, more than
27:50
Speaker 1: likely Saturday at home. Okay, So that's from the principles
27:54
Speaker 1: involved with that. You know, if you followed what has
28:02
Speaker 1: happened with the fan reaction on social media, Laker fans
28:08
Speaker 1: by and large are pretty excited about the thing. They're
28:11
Speaker 1: not much down on the straight and Maverick fans would say, well,
28:14
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be. Maverick fans have used words as betrayal
28:20
Speaker 1: and sold out and this and that and just just
28:24
Speaker 1: absolutely furious. There was a demonstration out front of the
28:28
Speaker 1: American Airlines Center and Maverick's offices. There were a lot
28:32
Speaker 1: of people very upset about this, saying it I'm done,
28:39
Speaker 1: I'm not watching anymore. Take away the m f f
28:43
Speaker 1: L Moniker, Maverick MAVs fan for life. Those who know,
28:48
Speaker 1: you know, very upset. A lot of fans very upset
28:52
Speaker 1: about this. The simple truth on this deal is, no
28:57
Speaker 1: matter what has kind of seen through the cracks a
29:02
Speaker 1: little bit and finding out a little bit some of
29:04
Speaker 1: the details that slipped out that Maverick's front office people
29:10
Speaker 1: were disenchanted with Luca's less than one hundred percent commitment
29:23
Speaker 1: to complete workout in staying in shape in the off season.
29:29
Speaker 1: Diet had something to do with it, but mainly his
29:33
Speaker 1: his workout regimen. There were things like that. I made
29:37
Speaker 1: the joke just a little over a week ago that
29:39
Speaker 1: you know, Luca's having to deal with these calf strains.
29:42
Speaker 1: I said, because the dude has cankles. You know, he's
29:45
Speaker 1: got those calves to go right into his ankles. It's
29:47
Speaker 1: all just like one, you know, one piece a cankle. Uh,
29:53
Speaker 1: and makes it easier to get those to get those
29:57
Speaker 1: kind of calf strains on that. But Mavericks executives, apparently
30:04
Speaker 1: we're not happy with what was going to Let let's
30:06
Speaker 1: also be real about this. I just read the thing
30:09
Speaker 1: about the superback steal coming up. Had he stayed with
30:12
Speaker 1: the ball club, he would have got a three hundred
30:13
Speaker 1: and forty five million dollars superbacksteal. Now the Mavericks can
30:19
Speaker 1: divest themselves of that, they can turn right back around
30:23
Speaker 1: and say, no, we can uh better invest in the future.
30:31
Speaker 1: Not only with the deal they made with the Lakers
30:36
Speaker 1: in bringing bringing on Anthony Davis and Max Christie. Not
30:42
Speaker 1: only that, but also the fact that they could turn
30:46
Speaker 1: right around and make another deal. And reports are they
30:51
Speaker 1: made a trade today picking up Caleb Martin from the
30:56
Speaker 1: seventy six ers.
30:56
Speaker 2: And that's where they are to play tonight.
30:59
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like that baseball thing you ever heard,
31:01
Speaker 1: the deal where guys get traded from one team to
31:03
Speaker 1: another and the two teams happen to be playing each other.
31:08
Speaker 1: So the guy takes his equipment from one dugout one
31:12
Speaker 1: clubhouse across the field into the dugout and into the
31:15
Speaker 1: clubhouse of the other teams, the visiting team or whatever,
31:18
Speaker 1: or the visitor to the home team if he's been traded.
31:21
Speaker 1: It's kind of the situation today with what the Mavericks
31:25
Speaker 1: have done with the Sixers. So this actually started, it
31:31
Speaker 1: really started percolating yesterday.
31:37
Speaker 2: And then added on into it today.
31:40
Speaker 1: So multiple reports say the Mavericks get Caleb Martin from Philadelphia,
31:44
Speaker 1: their swing man, in exchange for Quinton Grimes and a
31:48
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five second round pick. So that gives the
31:52
Speaker 1: Mavericks a little more perimeter depth after the deal that
31:56
Speaker 1: set Luca to the Lakers. So Kayla Martin is going
32:01
Speaker 1: to the Mavericks. He had a four year deal with
32:04
Speaker 1: the Sixers that he signed this past summer as part
32:07
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia revamping around Joel mb Tyrese Maxie and Paul
32:12
Speaker 1: George Martin. Average eight and a half points over five
32:15
Speaker 1: seasons entering this season, and he's averaged ten points per
32:20
Speaker 1: game and shot thirty five percent from three point range.
32:26
Speaker 1: That was when he was in Miami. This year, he's
32:28
Speaker 1: averaging a little over nine points per game four and
32:31
Speaker 1: aff rebounds to assist. But of course the Sixers are
32:35
Speaker 1: ten below five hundred. So Martin is going to join
32:40
Speaker 1: a Mavericks team that includes Davis and Max Christi, along
32:43
Speaker 1: with PJ.
32:43
Speaker 2: Washington and A. G. Marshall. So there you have it.
32:49
Speaker 1: The Mavericks looking at this from a pragmatic financial perspective
32:55
Speaker 1: as well.
32:55
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's an.
32:58
Speaker 1: Emotional thing and Mavericks fans are really upset about it, understandably.
33:03
Speaker 1: So as a Rams fan, I'm getting nervous sying all
33:07
Speaker 1: this stuff on the bottom of the crawl of the
33:09
Speaker 1: screen saying that Cooper Cup is saying the Rams are
33:12
Speaker 1: trying to trade him or whatever, and they might. It's unfortunately,
33:15
Speaker 1: but it's you know, if you're a fan of a
33:18
Speaker 1: team and you invest your emotion and your fan capital
33:23
Speaker 1: sometimes your financial capitol if you're buying jerseys or whatever
33:27
Speaker 1: into a player, and then that player winds up leaving
33:32
Speaker 1: the team either through free agency or being traded. Yeah,
33:35
Speaker 1: there's going to be a feeling of, you know, forlornness,
33:39
Speaker 1: if not betrayal or whatever, depending on the circumstances of
33:43
Speaker 1: what caused the player to leave. All right, we're gonna
33:47
Speaker 1: hear more from Longhorn's head basketball coach, Rodney Terry coming
33:50
Speaker 1: up next when we continue on thirteen under the Zone
33:53
Speaker 1: rolling through on a Tuesday afternoon. Glad to have you
33:55
Speaker 1: with us here on the program on thirteen hundred the
33:59
Speaker 1: Zone here on this Tuesday afternoon. Of course, Long Worn
34:03
Speaker 1: Basketball is tomorrow. Tomorrow night, they resume with home game
34:07
Speaker 1: and they will be taking on the Arkansas Razorbacks at
34:12
Speaker 1: Moody Center. It's an eight o'clock tip and hope to
34:14
Speaker 1: see you out there at Moody for the contest and
34:20
Speaker 1: our airtime here on the Zone. And it will also
34:23
Speaker 1: be on ninety eight point one FMKVED will come your
34:26
Speaker 1: way seven point thirty the tip off at eight o'clock.
34:29
Speaker 1: All right, we heard some from Rodney Terry last hour,
34:33
Speaker 1: and I wanted to hear some more from the Long
34:35
Speaker 1: WARN's head coach as they start to get ready for
34:41
Speaker 1: this matchup. And as I mentioned, Arkansas is coming off
34:47
Speaker 1: beating Kentucky that was a huge win for the Razorbacks
34:51
Speaker 1: and trying to pick themselves up off the deck and
34:54
Speaker 1: just try to get their season turned back around. Never
34:56
Speaker 1: mind anything about postseason stuff right now because they would
34:59
Speaker 1: kind of be off the grid on that. They probably
35:01
Speaker 1: need two or three more wins just to even get
35:02
Speaker 1: seriously consideration for the nit But that was a big win,
35:07
Speaker 1: a signature win. And Rodney Terry has known coach John
35:12
Speaker 1: Calipari for a lot of years, going back to his
35:15
Speaker 1: time when when Rodney was assistant for Rick Barnes, Texas
35:19
Speaker 1: played Memphis when Memphis had Derek Rose back in the
35:22
Speaker 1: Elite eight in two thousand and eight. So they've gone
35:26
Speaker 1: back away. So the question for our t is has
35:29
Speaker 1: he crossed paths with coach call of late?
35:32
Speaker 4: You know we have And the one thing I'll say
35:35
Speaker 4: about coach call is Coach cal has always been great
35:38
Speaker 4: to me, you know, and even when I was working
35:40
Speaker 4: with coach Barnes as an assistant, he was always great
35:43
Speaker 4: to me. And we got a chance to have a
35:45
Speaker 4: four year series where we played Memphis every year. We
35:49
Speaker 4: also have a connection I coached at UNC Wilmington.
35:52
Speaker 3: He was at one time.
35:54
Speaker 4: You know, I think he played a little bit there
35:56
Speaker 4: was there, spent some time there in Wilmington. But he
35:59
Speaker 4: and my former uh a mentor of mine, uh, Coach Wainwright. Uh,
36:04
Speaker 4: those guys are really closing, you know. Coach would always
36:06
Speaker 4: go and work Cale's camps and stuff as well. But
36:09
Speaker 4: that Wilmington connection was a connection as well. And you know,
36:13
Speaker 4: I think in coaching we have a brotherhood, you know,
36:15
Speaker 4: and uh, we all look out for each other. And
36:18
Speaker 4: I know he had a lot of respect for for
36:20
Speaker 4: myself and my relationship with with you know, the people
36:24
Speaker 4: that I've had a chance to work with and uh
36:27
Speaker 4: and call my mentors.
36:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as a person who actually actually attended the
36:35
Speaker 1: University of North Carolina and Wilmington for all of one semester,
36:38
Speaker 1: my freshman fall semester before I moved out to Texas,
36:40
Speaker 1: that makes me smile.
36:41
Speaker 2: You n c w youu and see by the.
36:43
Speaker 1: Sea home of the Seahawks there, And I knew Roddy
36:46
Speaker 1: of course, had been an assistant there and coach Cayle
36:48
Speaker 1: had gone there, as he mentioned briefly, all right.
36:51
Speaker 6: Uh.
36:51
Speaker 1: He was also asked about the improvement with their offense
36:56
Speaker 1: mainly the rhythm and how the point production has gone up.
36:59
Speaker 1: There's been more flow within the offensive rhythm. What has
37:03
Speaker 1: been the reasoning for that?
37:04
Speaker 4: You know what we tried to get. You know, we
37:06
Speaker 4: talk about it all the time. You always want to
37:08
Speaker 4: try to have really good pace. You want good pace,
37:11
Speaker 4: good movement, good ball movement, player movement. You know, you
37:15
Speaker 4: don't want to be you know, you don't want guys
37:17
Speaker 4: standing around. I think our guys have really gotten to
37:19
Speaker 4: a point now where you know, let the next guy play.
37:22
Speaker 4: But we're playing a lot of really good defenses right now.
37:24
Speaker 4: We're gonna play a really good defensive team come Wednesday night.
37:27
Speaker 4: I mean they're athletic, they're in the gap, you know,
37:30
Speaker 4: and uh, they're gonna make.
37:32
Speaker 3: It really difficult for us.
37:33
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, they try to take you out of
37:35
Speaker 4: your offenses, not let you initiate your offense, run your
37:38
Speaker 4: all drible handoffs. I mean, you know, teams do a good,
37:41
Speaker 4: really good job in this league. That's one thing that
37:44
Speaker 4: people don't talk a lot about in terms of just
37:47
Speaker 4: you know, it's a physical league, but it's a really
37:49
Speaker 4: good defensive league. Almost every team we play to this
37:51
Speaker 4: point right now, no one team hasn't had a really
37:54
Speaker 4: good defense where they sit down and guart you really hard,
37:56
Speaker 4: so it's challenged us offensively. They spend a lot of
37:59
Speaker 4: time working on creating opportunities where we try to engage
38:04
Speaker 4: to and and try to find an open guy, or
38:07
Speaker 4: you know, don't over dribble.
38:08
Speaker 3: You know, we always say don't dribble. What Kobe wouldn't dribble?
38:11
Speaker 4: You know, if you're dribbling the gap there, so one's
38:13
Speaker 4: waiting that gap for you in this league, and you know,
38:16
Speaker 4: nine out of ten times they're gonna probably turn you over.
38:18
Speaker 4: So you've got to be to get that ball moving.
38:20
Speaker 4: It's really hard to play one on one basketball in
38:23
Speaker 4: this league as well, because there's good athletes, good length
38:26
Speaker 4: in this league. So you know, for us, I think
38:29
Speaker 4: we've also tried to make a conscience help to play
38:31
Speaker 4: inside out. We want that ball to get to the paint,
38:34
Speaker 4: where we've been at our best when the ball gets
38:36
Speaker 4: to the paint. I mean, we scored forty points in
38:38
Speaker 4: the paint the other day, but when we're shooting paint
38:42
Speaker 4: touch threes, we're putting the ball in the post, and
38:46
Speaker 4: Kayden Cedric is giving us a post presence he's giving
38:48
Speaker 4: us a post presence. It changes everything, you know, and
38:52
Speaker 4: so you want to be able to play inside out.
38:54
Speaker 4: It's really hard to go through this conference where you're
38:57
Speaker 4: coming down, making one pass and shooting the basket.
39:00
Speaker 3: Come on the ball that touch the paint.
39:01
Speaker 4: So we work really hard on trying to get paint
39:03
Speaker 4: touches just like everybody does.
39:06
Speaker 3: Uh and play inside out. One quick other thing.
39:11
Speaker 5: Is Shedner getting more opportunities like in transition and I
39:16
Speaker 5: like maybe setting a screen and then dashing to the basket.
39:19
Speaker 2: For a dunk, that kind of thing.
39:21
Speaker 4: I mean, we've always you know, he's in basketball in general.
39:25
Speaker 4: One of the hardest things to guard is in transition
39:27
Speaker 4: is setting ball strings. You know, your ball stream coverage
39:30
Speaker 4: in transition. You know, so transition ball stream offense for
39:35
Speaker 4: us is important. You know, we don't have an easy
39:38
Speaker 4: basket or easy lay up. You know, we want to
39:41
Speaker 4: come down and you know, maybe set a signal drag,
39:43
Speaker 4: double drag, and then we start our flow from that
39:46
Speaker 4: point and stuff.
39:46
Speaker 3: There are a lot of teams and it's rented.
39:48
Speaker 4: The way the NBA plays, there's a lot of signal drags,
39:50
Speaker 4: double drags, restream you know, step up streams, you know,
39:54
Speaker 4: so we try to do a lot of those same things,
39:57
Speaker 4: you know, as we're initiating our offense.
39:59
Speaker 2: Up to now.
40:01
Speaker 1: One other important element here to bring up, because we're
40:05
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Devin Pryor coming up at the next segment.
40:08
Speaker 1: In case you didn't know this about Devin Pryor, who
40:10
Speaker 1: is a red shirt freshman. But in case you didn't know,
40:14
Speaker 1: Devin is one of those kids who quote unquote reclassified
40:18
Speaker 1: to enter early. So in other words, he entered in
40:21
Speaker 1: what would have been his senior season of high school.
40:23
Speaker 1: He was able to reclassify. So Rodney was asked that,
40:27
Speaker 1: you know, what does go into a player reclassifying, What
40:35
Speaker 1: are some of the specifics and how does that work
40:37
Speaker 1: and how do you decide on what you're going to
40:39
Speaker 1: do in terms of your the player reclassifying into the system.
40:45
Speaker 4: DP was a young kid, I mean deep when we
40:48
Speaker 4: first got who was one of the first kids, to
40:49
Speaker 4: be honest with you, came on an unofficial visit when
40:53
Speaker 4: we first got here, you know, and uh, we kind
40:56
Speaker 4: of tracked him a little bit throughout the course of
40:58
Speaker 4: the next couple of years, and it wasn't until we
41:01
Speaker 4: actually got into the recruitment process with him that we
41:05
Speaker 4: we uh we were able to evaluate his academic situation
41:09
Speaker 4: and found out that he could he could actually come
41:11
Speaker 4: to school a lot earlier and uh and so you know,
41:14
Speaker 4: our thought process was like, hey, this is this is
41:16
Speaker 4: a kid that has an incredible upside, uh with the
41:20
Speaker 4: with the with the with the great ceiling. Let's go
41:22
Speaker 4: in and get him to the campus right now, start
41:25
Speaker 4: working on his body and start trying to get him
41:28
Speaker 4: physically ready to try to play at this level. He
41:31
Speaker 4: came in that first year and put on about twenty
41:33
Speaker 4: seven pounds, you know. Uh and uh, we thought that
41:37
Speaker 4: there would be a chance throughout the course of that
41:39
Speaker 4: season at some point that that he could actually crack
41:42
Speaker 4: the lineup and get in there and play a.
41:43
Speaker 3: Little bit and stuff. But but at it, as it.
41:45
Speaker 4: Turned out, he didn't get an opportunity that year. But
41:49
Speaker 4: he had an incredible summer. He had a great fall.
41:53
Speaker 4: Uh and then and then he and then he falls
41:55
Speaker 4: on a couple of hard times in terms of an injury,
41:57
Speaker 4: so he misses about three weeks started to season.
42:00
Speaker 3: Uh.
42:01
Speaker 4: And you know, going into the season, we envisioned DP
42:04
Speaker 4: being a guy that's in our rotation Uh, because he
42:07
Speaker 4: had made a lot of strides over the summer in
42:09
Speaker 4: the fall. But but it's its process was set back
42:13
Speaker 4: a little bit with those uh, with those injuries, and
42:15
Speaker 4: they were pretty tough injuries. They weren't easy injury to
42:18
Speaker 4: come back from, and almost to the point of where
42:21
Speaker 4: it almost took a season uh and everything, but uh,
42:25
Speaker 4: he stayed with it. Warning those guys did a great job,
42:28
Speaker 4: you know, with his rehab, and he's worked his way
42:31
Speaker 4: back in you know, and uh, he's playing terrific.
42:34
Speaker 3: For us right now.
42:35
Speaker 4: He brings a lot of energy and activity when he
42:37
Speaker 4: comes to the floor. And uh, I think the best
42:41
Speaker 4: is yet to come for for.
42:43
Speaker 3: For DP.
42:46
Speaker 1: Next and and of course DP Devon Pryor is a
42:48
Speaker 1: red shirt freshman again.
42:49
Speaker 2: We're gonna hear from him coming up in a few minutes. Uh.
42:53
Speaker 1: But then there's the freshman, Trey Johnson, true freshman, named
42:56
Speaker 1: SEC Freshman of the Week again coming off big uh
43:00
Speaker 1: week both against O Mess and against LSU. Coaches often
43:06
Speaker 1: say they learn from their players, even young players, and
43:10
Speaker 1: so Roddie has asked what he has learned from Trey
43:12
Speaker 1: Johnson in this freshman campaign and in turn, what he
43:16
Speaker 1: feels Trey has learned from him.
43:18
Speaker 4: What Tramon has done is he's really got back to
43:20
Speaker 4: getting lost playing really hard on defense. I think that's
43:23
Speaker 4: the one thing that's changed his whole game. You know,
43:26
Speaker 4: He's always been a guy that has had great length
43:28
Speaker 4: and could be a really good defender. He was a
43:30
Speaker 4: really good defender at Houston, you know, and when he
43:34
Speaker 4: went to Arkansas he was called on more to score
43:36
Speaker 4: the basketball, but still.
43:38
Speaker 3: What could be a good willing defender.
43:40
Speaker 4: I think yesterday, I mean the other day when we
43:43
Speaker 4: played LSU, he got so lost Old Gordon cam Carter.
43:45
Speaker 4: He did an unbelievable job on the leading score in
43:48
Speaker 4: the in the conference. To where when you get lost
43:52
Speaker 4: playing that hard on defense, offense comes so much easier
43:55
Speaker 4: to you. If you're trying to go out and you're
43:57
Speaker 4: trying to play really hard on all and try to
44:00
Speaker 4: have a great night, shooting your way into a great night.
44:03
Speaker 4: You know, the best guys in the world have a
44:05
Speaker 4: hard time doing that. NBA guys can't go in into
44:08
Speaker 4: a game saying I'm gonna have a great night by
44:10
Speaker 4: trying to score the basketball. I got to get out
44:12
Speaker 4: there and try to play really hard, get lathered up
44:15
Speaker 4: playing really hard nosed defense. And then when it's time
44:18
Speaker 4: for me to make a meeting for shout out, make
44:19
Speaker 4: a meeting for shot. It's tam for me to make
44:21
Speaker 4: a meaningful pass, I'll make a meaningful pass. So you know,
44:25
Speaker 4: I think he's really bought into. You know, I'm gonna
44:28
Speaker 4: I know, I'm gonna have to go out one of
44:29
Speaker 4: the better offensive players on the other team. I'm gonna
44:31
Speaker 4: have to go out really hard. But I'm also gonna
44:33
Speaker 4: be to be prepared to score that ball and move
44:36
Speaker 4: the ball whenever I need to drive it as well.
44:39
Speaker 4: So I think that's really giving him an opportunity to
44:42
Speaker 4: play the way he's playing right now.
44:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was talking about Tremon Mark and his evolution
44:47
Speaker 1: this season. Now we'll hear more from Rodney Terry talking
44:50
Speaker 1: about Trey Johnson coming up. But up next we'll hear
44:54
Speaker 1: from Devine Pryor the reclassified redshirt freshman and his recent contributions.
44:58
Speaker 2: We'll do that when we continue thirteen Under the Zone.
45:01
Speaker 2: On a Tuesday afternoon, one day.
45:04
Speaker 1: Away from Texas, Arkansas at Moody Center tomorrow night at
45:08
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, you heard Ridding Terry talking about the Vin
45:11
Speaker 1: pryor he has stepped up his game of late has
45:14
Speaker 1: gotten back into the rotation. It was a big factor
45:19
Speaker 1: in the win over LSU on Saturday.
45:22
Speaker 2: So let's hear from the city.
45:24
Speaker 1: He is a unique story and a really cool dude
45:27
Speaker 1: and reclassified into becoming a freshman one year or early
45:32
Speaker 1: and as a redshirt freshman right now. So the vine
45:37
Speaker 1: was asked or dp is somebody liked to call him
45:40
Speaker 1: on what it takes and what he has learned about
45:45
Speaker 1: what it takes to stay on the floor.
45:48
Speaker 2: What makes a difference for him.
45:49
Speaker 5: I think for me, the biggest thing was this understanding
45:52
Speaker 5: like where I best fit into our program and so
45:54
Speaker 5: our system and where I could benefit other guys that
45:57
Speaker 5: are you know, maybe need more scoring, or maybe I
45:59
Speaker 5: can make up some of the defensive HLP on you know,
46:01
Speaker 5: the backside of things, and you just just understanding my role.
46:04
Speaker 6: And I really appreciate Arts for that.
46:07
Speaker 2: He was in his real quick follow up.
46:08
Speaker 5: I know you guys didn't get a chance to head
46:09
Speaker 5: home to Austin until after the LSU trip. What was
46:12
Speaker 5: that time like, just being away from awesome with the
46:15
Speaker 5: guys for you know, three four or five days?
46:17
Speaker 6: Uh No, it was it was Honestly, it was great.
46:19
Speaker 5: You know, besides you know, other situation and other factors,
46:22
Speaker 5: but you know, team chemistry really played a big part,
46:24
Speaker 5: and the guys definitely got closer throughout that trip.
46:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, they spent that They all said that they felt
46:29
Speaker 1: like they had been away for like a week.
46:31
Speaker 2: It was closed, it was five days.
46:33
Speaker 1: But but it certainly didn't hurt in terms of the
46:36
Speaker 1: team chemistry.
46:37
Speaker 2: Okay, So here was a.
46:39
Speaker 1: Question about his role and about it changing, and the
46:45
Speaker 1: true measure of the fact that the reason Devon Pryor's
46:48
Speaker 1: role changed with the team is something plain and simple.
46:52
Speaker 2: He got healthy.
46:53
Speaker 1: He's he's been banged up, bad ankle situation about other things.
46:57
Speaker 1: That's why they couldn't get him in to the mix.
47:00
Speaker 1: You might have heard Rodney Terry in the prior segment
47:03
Speaker 1: talking about how he was planning to have prior in
47:08
Speaker 1: the rotation. He would have been in the mix. He'd
47:10
Speaker 1: been playing that well in the offseason work. They really
47:14
Speaker 1: planned on using him, and then he had a series
47:16
Speaker 1: of injuries that.
47:17
Speaker 2: Kind of took him down. There was a knee thing
47:19
Speaker 2: and ankle injury for sure.
47:21
Speaker 1: So both of those were things that really studied his growth,
47:24
Speaker 1: but he was asked about what has helped change for
47:28
Speaker 1: him to an ends his role.
47:31
Speaker 6: I think everything started in practice.
47:32
Speaker 5: You know, I just just have to play hard and
47:36
Speaker 5: play defense and you know, rebounding. So I try to
47:39
Speaker 5: hone in on those particular aspects of the game. So
47:42
Speaker 5: I could, you know, find my way eventually on the court,
47:44
Speaker 5: and you know, it opens up a bigger role as
47:46
Speaker 5: I progress through. And yeah, I'm starting to understand that.
47:50
Speaker 3: And how much confidence is this team playing with right now?
47:54
Speaker 5: We're playing with the most confidence right now. We all
47:57
Speaker 5: believe in each other and we all understand what we
47:59
Speaker 5: got to do to move or.
48:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, which means to try to keep winning.
48:03
Speaker 1: Next question for Devin Pryor was about that reclassification thing
48:09
Speaker 1: and reclassifying and the thought process of everything that went
48:14
Speaker 1: in to that decision to reclassify.
48:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, most definitely, I did understand the situation I came
48:21
Speaker 5: into with the older team that we had and you know,
48:23
Speaker 5: the guys that were before me, So coming in I
48:26
Speaker 5: didn't have no expectation to really play, but I just
48:28
Speaker 5: wanted to get a jump start on like the physicality
48:30
Speaker 5: and the understanding and just you know, pick up the pace.
48:33
Speaker 6: So I think that decision is starting to pay off
48:35
Speaker 6: a lot.
48:37
Speaker 1: So next, since he made that decision, was there any
48:42
Speaker 1: kind of regret about missing his final year of high
48:45
Speaker 1: school to reclassify?
48:47
Speaker 5: Like I said, I came into understanding what my position was,
48:50
Speaker 5: so I immediately already had the mindset of I'm here
48:52
Speaker 5: to get better physically, you know, just understand under the
48:55
Speaker 5: guys that were before me.
48:56
Speaker 1: And yeah, it makes a big difference if you have
49:02
Speaker 1: the knowledge of that. So with that in mind, what's
49:05
Speaker 1: the feeling like knowing that all of his hard work
49:07
Speaker 1: is starting to pay some dividends.
49:09
Speaker 6: Oh, there's no feeling like it.
49:11
Speaker 5: You know, as a basketball player, as you said before,
49:12
Speaker 5: you just want to get out there and play. So
49:14
Speaker 5: being able to get on the court and help my
49:15
Speaker 5: team win, you know, that's a big deal to me.
49:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.
49:18
Speaker 1: Then he was asked about what this off season was
49:22
Speaker 1: like for him and what was going through his mind
49:25
Speaker 1: as the team and the coaching staff were bringing in
49:29
Speaker 1: more transfers.
49:30
Speaker 2: What was that feeling like.
49:31
Speaker 5: Really, like the guys that they brought in, I know them,
49:35
Speaker 5: they know me. I understand what they do and what
49:38
Speaker 5: they bring in, and I know my position as well,
49:40
Speaker 5: and just talking with the coaches. I trust their plan
49:42
Speaker 5: and I stayed with the plan, and I stayed the course,
49:44
Speaker 5: and you know it's paying off.
49:46
Speaker 6: Like before.
49:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's made a big difference on him now
49:50
Speaker 1: in terms of the current time for him and what
49:55
Speaker 1: he's trying to do and what he's trying to learn.
49:58
Speaker 1: Devine was asked what he has learned working with and
50:04
Speaker 1: playing with Trey Johnson, a true freshman, and how the
50:07
Speaker 1: two have kind of helped one another.
50:09
Speaker 5: You know, chose one of the guys that we try
50:11
Speaker 5: to get going early, you know, and my job for
50:15
Speaker 5: me at least, I just try to make everything easier
50:17
Speaker 5: on the defensive side for him and you know, just
50:19
Speaker 5: try to provide the extra help that he needs on
50:21
Speaker 5: the court. And you know, as far as trading under McGrady,
50:25
Speaker 5: my whole basketball awareness and IQ just went up exponentially.
50:29
Speaker 1: What that was a reference to was he did have
50:33
Speaker 1: some off season training under Tracy McGrady, the former NBA
50:36
Speaker 1: stand out. All Right, you know, even when you're not playing,
50:42
Speaker 1: you can contribute to the team, mainly by having the
50:46
Speaker 1: energy and as the players and coaches like to say,
50:49
Speaker 1: the juice coming from the bench. A guy like Kenda Weaver,
50:52
Speaker 1: who right now is out because of that hip flexer
50:56
Speaker 1: situation and we don't know how much longer he'll be out,
50:59
Speaker 1: as he tried to get back on that. But Devon
51:02
Speaker 1: Pryor was asked, did RT Rodney Terry? Did Coach Terry
51:08
Speaker 1: talk to him about bringing that juice, that energy much
51:11
Speaker 1: like what they've seen from Kenda Weaver.
51:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely talked about the similarities. And you know, with
51:16
Speaker 5: my abilities, what can I bring to the court, And
51:18
Speaker 5: I feel like I could bring just that and you
51:20
Speaker 5: know that's that's what's helping me stay on in the court.
51:22
Speaker 6: So I'm just trying to keep it.
51:23
Speaker 1: Up, okay, which brings us to his gifts, his tools
51:28
Speaker 1: that he brings to the parties.
51:29
Speaker 2: Well, what would do Von Pryor say? His upside is the.
51:32
Speaker 6: Coach staff knows what I can do. I know my ability.
51:35
Speaker 5: I feel like my scoring ability can definitely be showcased
51:38
Speaker 5: later on the future as I get decided, you know,
51:40
Speaker 5: get better and things of that nature. But as far
51:43
Speaker 5: as the game, I'm just trying to keep it as
51:45
Speaker 5: simple as possible, and you know, it's trying.
51:46
Speaker 1: To win, okay, So in its simplest terms, then what
51:51
Speaker 1: would he say is his specific role. If he has
51:55
Speaker 1: a specific role with this.
51:56
Speaker 5: Team, it's definitely being defensive, being disruptive on the court,
52:00
Speaker 5: trying to get rebounds, you know, just make big plays
52:02
Speaker 5: and winning plays.
52:03
Speaker 1: Okay, that's on the defensive side. But we know guys
52:06
Speaker 1: like to make shots too. Does he have a favorite
52:08
Speaker 1: shot that he likes.
52:10
Speaker 5: I'm starting to my three point game is starting six spand,
52:12
Speaker 5: but my favorite side is the pull up midi.
52:14
Speaker 1: Okay, the pull up midi. That's good because you don't
52:19
Speaker 1: often hear players talk about the pull up jumper being
52:24
Speaker 1: being their favorite or one of their best. So there's
52:25
Speaker 1: some thoughts from divine priort. All right, We've got some
52:28
Speaker 1: other football notes that we'll get to coming up as
52:31
Speaker 1: we continue on a Tuesday afternoon right here on AM
52:34
Speaker 1: thirteen hunder the Zone, a third and final hour in
52:37
Speaker 1: the program here on thirteen under the Zone, Tuesday afternoon here, Craig,
52:43
Speaker 1: wait with you, glad that you today hopefully is going okay,
52:48
Speaker 1: and it's nice weather outside going on, so hopefully that
52:52
Speaker 1: helps as well. And you know, forgive me while a
52:59
Speaker 1: call a little bit there. I'm still, like I said,
53:01
Speaker 1: still trying to shake off the effects of the malady
53:05
Speaker 1: of the weekend, but feeling much better now. The this week,
53:10
Speaker 1: of course, is super Bowl Week, and you know a
53:13
Speaker 1: lot of stuff happens on super Bowl Week.
53:15
Speaker 2: If you ever go to.
53:18
Speaker 1: A super Bowl venue city host city, in this case
53:24
Speaker 1: at be New Orleans this week, if you ever go
53:27
Speaker 1: through that, you will undoubtedly see all of the trappings
53:34
Speaker 1: of the super Bowl and all that other kind of
53:35
Speaker 1: stuff too, But just the carnival atmosphere that permeates everything
53:43
Speaker 1: that has to do with the Super Bowl is sometimes
53:46
Speaker 1: not to be believed. I've been to one, I've attended,
53:52
Speaker 1: actually sat at two super Bowl games and covered three.
53:57
Speaker 1: The one that I didn't stay was the first of
54:01
Speaker 1: the back to back Cowboys super Bowl victories under Jimmy Johnson.
54:04
Speaker 1: Was out there in LA the entire week doing talk shows,
54:07
Speaker 1: going to all the press conferences. But I flew back
54:10
Speaker 1: on Saturday, the day before the game because I had
54:13
Speaker 1: a Texas basketball game that next day, or I flew
54:19
Speaker 1: back on Friday evening as I had a basketball game
54:21
Speaker 1: on Saturday Southwest Conference. That's how long ago. That was
54:25
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety two January of ninety three. That year
54:29
Speaker 1: in ninety two. Additionally, the next year when the Cowboys
54:35
Speaker 1: went back to repeat, I did stay for the whole
54:37
Speaker 1: thing and cover the game itself. I did Jimmy Johnson's
54:40
Speaker 1: radio show and Jerry Jones radio show those two years,
54:42
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget in doing Jimmy's show the second
54:48
Speaker 1: year in Atlanta, when the Cowboys played the Bills again,
54:53
Speaker 1: Jimmy had told us he was always very professional to
54:56
Speaker 1: work with, very good, but he did tell us I'm
54:59
Speaker 1: not going to to be able to give you guys
55:01
Speaker 1: a full hour to do a call in on Super
55:04
Speaker 1: Bowl Week. And we understood that, and we said, how
55:06
Speaker 1: about if we just do about twenty minutes.
55:10
Speaker 2: We'll go into this.
55:11
Speaker 1: It was basically a glorified broom closet that was given
55:15
Speaker 1: to us as a quote unquote studio at the team hotel.
55:19
Speaker 1: Why don't you just come in and just sit down.
55:20
Speaker 1: We'll do just twenty minutes Q and a back and forth.
55:23
Speaker 1: He said, that's fine, and that's what we did that year.
55:28
Speaker 1: The one other Super Bowl that I went to was
55:30
Speaker 1: when I was a college student, and people know I
55:33
Speaker 1: was selling T shirts at concerts and things like that. Well,
55:36
Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to go down and work Super
55:38
Speaker 1: Bowl fifteen. That's how long I know. This was there
55:43
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, between the Eagles and the Raiders. This
55:47
Speaker 1: would have been January of eighty one. I was in college.
55:49
Speaker 1: It was the week that the hostages were released from
55:51
Speaker 1: Iran for those of you OG's who would remember those things.
55:58
Speaker 1: And I went down there, me and my best friend Alex,
56:02
Speaker 1: to work at But what we found out when we
56:04
Speaker 1: got down there was well, you can't go. Even though
56:07
Speaker 1: we had some official NFL licensed apparel with us, we
56:13
Speaker 1: did not have a license. We were told by the
56:15
Speaker 1: people that we were working for, who'd always been really
56:18
Speaker 1: professional upfront to work with, but when we got down there,
56:20
Speaker 1: they said, yeah, you can't sell these on the streets.
56:23
Speaker 2: Of New Orleans.
56:24
Speaker 1: What are you talking about, Well, because you don't, you're
56:27
Speaker 1: not licensed as a vendor to work.
56:29
Speaker 2: And you wait until we get all the way down
56:31
Speaker 2: here to tell us that. Now, well we.
56:33
Speaker 1: Didn't know until we got down blah blah blah, and
56:35
Speaker 1: you know, so what are we supposed to do? Well,
56:37
Speaker 1: maybe you can set up in account in a hotel
56:40
Speaker 1: or something. So Alex and I were sitting in our
56:43
Speaker 1: hotel room. This was on a Thursday night before the game,
56:47
Speaker 1: looking at all this product in our hotel room, like,
56:49
Speaker 1: what are we going to do? And then the local
56:51
Speaker 1: news comes on and the news anchor says, well, you know,
56:54
Speaker 1: this Super Bowl week here in New Orleans and all
56:56
Speaker 1: the hotels are booked up and fans are stabbing to
56:59
Speaker 1: stay as far away as an hour away in Baton Rouge.
57:03
Speaker 2: We looked at each other and said ah.
57:06
Speaker 1: We hopped in a rental car where he drove to
57:07
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, set up three accounts at a Hilton, a
57:10
Speaker 1: Holiday Inn, and a Marriotte, and then just shuttled product
57:13
Speaker 1: to them back and forth throughout the course of the weekend.
57:15
Speaker 1: When the whole weekend was done, we paid for our
57:18
Speaker 1: travel down there, our hotel room.
57:21
Speaker 2: And got two tickets to the game.
57:25
Speaker 1: We just bought two tickets to the game one hour
57:29
Speaker 1: before kickoff.
57:29
Speaker 2: We weren't even.
57:30
Speaker 1: Planning to go to the game, but the guy asked
57:33
Speaker 1: us in the elevator when we were staying in the
57:34
Speaker 1: French Quarter, you guys going to the game? Well, we
57:36
Speaker 1: thought we might check out the prices. He said, Hey,
57:40
Speaker 1: I got two here you can have on the mezzanine
57:42
Speaker 1: level of face value.
57:43
Speaker 2: Really yeah, we.
57:44
Speaker 1: Bought them forty bucks apiece, forty dollars backed them for
57:47
Speaker 1: a super Bowl ticket, and we went to the game.
57:49
Speaker 1: Not only did we do that, we took some of
57:51
Speaker 1: our product and we took like these over the shoulder
57:54
Speaker 1: almost like duffhold bag type things and slung owners. That
57:56
Speaker 1: was in the day when you could take a big
57:57
Speaker 1: old bag like that into a And we went in
58:01
Speaker 1: there and sold everyone we had, including the ones off
58:04
Speaker 1: our back, and walked back to half mile back to
58:06
Speaker 1: the hotel bare chest that after the game.
58:09
Speaker 2: It was about sixty degrees. It wasn't too bad. So
58:12
Speaker 2: we did that and.
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Speaker 1: Then went home with about six hundred dollars profit after
58:16
Speaker 1: the whole weekend. So it was a very profitable week
58:18
Speaker 1: profitable weekend. But there's all kinds of goofy stuff that
58:21
Speaker 1: happens with regard to the super Bowl and the carnival
58:24
Speaker 1: environment that goes on around the super Bowl as well.
58:29
Speaker 1: But I always have some super Bowl memories because of
58:31
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Okay, bracketological prognostications in college basketball, as
58:39
Speaker 1: we know, there's really two main sets. There's really three
58:42
Speaker 1: or four sets now of you know, bracket predictions. I
58:50
Speaker 1: always give credit Joe Lonardi. You know Joey Brackett's as
58:54
Speaker 1: I liked him. He's the one who invented the term bracketology.
58:57
Speaker 1: Now other outlets, media outlets have co opted that term.
59:04
Speaker 1: It hasn't been the trademark by Lenardi, although he wrote
59:07
Speaker 1: a book on bracketology. But he's the one who really
59:10
Speaker 1: invented the science of it. So there's his And then
59:14
Speaker 1: Jerry Palm does an excellent job with CBS Sports and
59:16
Speaker 1: we've had him on the program as well, and he
59:20
Speaker 1: does a good job. And there's a couple other outlets
59:22
Speaker 1: to do it, but those are the two main ones,
59:24
Speaker 1: the ESPN and CBS Sports. Okay, So on Joe Lenardi's Bracketology,
59:32
Speaker 1: that was his latest updated one that was released about
59:35
Speaker 1: nine thirty our time this morning. This is what he
59:38
Speaker 1: has right now on his bracket watch top overall c Auburn.
59:42
Speaker 2: I was surprised there. First team out.
59:46
Speaker 1: U se f boy, if they've been able to hold
59:49
Speaker 1: on and beat Kansas the other night, really would have
59:51
Speaker 1: helped him. Last team in right now, he has his
59:54
Speaker 1: Nebraska teams on the bubble the last four byes. That
59:58
Speaker 1: means the teams that don't have to play in Dayton,
1:00:02
Speaker 1: he has Utah State, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, whom the Long
1:00:05
Speaker 1: Horns play in Nashville this weekend, and Georgia.
1:00:09
Speaker 2: Last four in those.
1:00:10
Speaker 1: Are teams that would be playing in Dayton, Ohio, San
1:00:14
Speaker 1: Diego State BYU Pittsburgh. Pitt really hurt themselves with a
1:00:19
Speaker 1: sixteen point home loss last night to a below five
1:00:26
Speaker 1: hundred Virginia team, so at San Diego BYU pitt and Nebraska.
1:00:30
Speaker 1: Last four in first four al I mentioned UCF and
1:00:33
Speaker 1: then also Xavior, Arizona State and USC in the next
1:00:36
Speaker 1: four hour would be Wake Forest, SMU, North Carolina and Arkansas.
1:00:42
Speaker 1: They climbed into the next four out with their win
1:00:45
Speaker 1: over Kentucky. They would look to take another big step
1:00:48
Speaker 1: forward on that if they could win here in Austin
1:00:50
Speaker 1: tomorrow night against Texas. So the way that Joe Lenardi
1:00:54
Speaker 1: has his bracket set out in his sixty eighteen bracket,
1:00:59
Speaker 1: the eight teams who would be playing in Dayton, He's
1:01:05
Speaker 1: got in a matchup of sixteen seeds Omaha and Morehead
1:01:10
Speaker 1: State and marist An American, then two eleven seed matchups
1:01:16
Speaker 1: San Diego State and Nebraska, b YU and Pittsburgh. The
1:01:18
Speaker 1: four number one seeds. Auburn would be in the South
1:01:23
Speaker 1: region which brackets through to Atlanta, but they would open
1:01:26
Speaker 1: in Lexing, Kentucky, and Alabama. In the Midwest in Indianapolis,
1:01:32
Speaker 1: it would ultimately feed there, but they would start in
1:01:35
Speaker 1: Lexington as well. Number one seed in the West. He
1:01:38
Speaker 1: has Tennessee opening in Raleigh and eventually pushing out of
1:01:45
Speaker 1: San Francisco and in the East, which ultimately arrives in Newark.
1:01:49
Speaker 1: Duke is the number one seed in Raleigh. Three SEC
1:01:53
Speaker 1: teams and one ACC team. Those are the four number ones,
1:01:59
Speaker 1: the four number two Houston in the South, Purdue in
1:02:03
Speaker 1: the midwest, Iowa State although the arrow pointing down after
1:02:07
Speaker 1: their loss last night to Kansas, that in San Francisco,
1:02:10
Speaker 1: out West and Florida, number two seed in Newark, and
1:02:17
Speaker 1: then the three seeds he has Kentucky in the South
1:02:22
Speaker 1: have an opening, Providence can't play on their home floor
1:02:24
Speaker 1: in Lexington. He has Marquette in the Midwest in Indianapolis.
1:02:28
Speaker 1: Even though the Eagles are coming off, the loss of
1:02:30
Speaker 1: the arrow pointing down right now turns a momentum are
1:02:34
Speaker 1: trending down if you will. Texas A and m a
1:02:36
Speaker 1: three seed on the rise, in the West to ultimately
1:02:42
Speaker 1: feed to San Francisco and Kansas, the three in the
1:02:45
Speaker 1: East opening. So Texas, you ask Joe Lonardi, who two
1:02:51
Speaker 1: weeks ago had Texas not even in the field, now
1:02:55
Speaker 1: has the Loghorns as a number nine seed in.
1:03:02
Speaker 2: The East bracket that would ultimately go to Newark.
1:03:06
Speaker 1: He has Texas opening in Raleigh against wait for it,
1:03:09
Speaker 1: the eight seed Baylor. How about that. It's a Baylor
1:03:14
Speaker 1: Texas eight nine matchup there first, and then the winner
1:03:18
Speaker 1: would in all probability get Duke in the second round.
1:03:20
Speaker 1: But that's that's where he has Texas right now. Now
1:03:22
Speaker 1: that's where Lenardi has them. Jerry Palm right now has
1:03:28
Speaker 1: Texas as a ten seed.
1:03:30
Speaker 2: He does have him in the field.
1:03:31
Speaker 1: He doesn't have him as a play in or a
1:03:33
Speaker 1: last four in or anything like that, but he does
1:03:35
Speaker 1: have him as a ten seed. And he has them
1:03:38
Speaker 1: opening in Cleveland. Although he has them in the South region.
1:03:41
Speaker 1: He has them opening in Cleveland against Louisville, a seven seed,
1:03:46
Speaker 1: and then could play a two versus fifteen matchup. And
1:03:49
Speaker 1: I get this, the two versus fifteen matchup is Marquette
1:03:52
Speaker 1: against unc Asheville. I know you're saying Oh wow, Texas
1:03:55
Speaker 1: could go up against Shaka. Remember they did that last year,
1:03:57
Speaker 1: played him in played him in Milwaukee.
1:04:00
Speaker 2: I do that.
1:04:00
Speaker 1: The fifteen seed that they have there listed unc Asheville
1:04:04
Speaker 1: was coached by Mike Morell, who was on Shaka staff
1:04:07
Speaker 1: when they coached here in Texas. So there's even more
1:04:10
Speaker 1: wrinkles there. All right, there's We'll share some more bracketology
1:04:14
Speaker 1: information as we go forward, But up next, we're gonna
1:04:16
Speaker 1: hear more from Logorn's head coach, Rodney Terry, getting his
1:04:19
Speaker 1: team ready for this matchup tomorrow night against Arkansas when
1:04:22
Speaker 1: we continue on AM thirteen.
1:04:24
Speaker 3: Under the Zone.
1:04:25
Speaker 1: Back here on the Zone as we continue on this
1:04:29
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon and getting you ready for this matchup with
1:04:34
Speaker 1: Texas and Arkansas. You heard me mention the latest bracketology predictions.
1:04:40
Speaker 1: And for those who said, what do you you know?
1:04:43
Speaker 1: Is that really that big of deal? The only reason
1:04:45
Speaker 1: why I even go into those and mention that is
1:04:47
Speaker 1: because Joe Lonardi's success rate. Because I know a lot
1:04:54
Speaker 1: of people saying, you know a lot of the gambling
1:04:56
Speaker 1: sites and stuff, they are only about sixty sixty five
1:04:58
Speaker 1: percent KRAG something like that. Joe Lonardi has a ninety
1:05:04
Speaker 1: seven percent accuracy rate on his projections ninety seven percent,
1:05:12
Speaker 1: and he's had years where he's gotten all but maybe
1:05:18
Speaker 1: one correct, like ninety nine percent, and then he's had
1:05:20
Speaker 1: like the seedings and where they're playing in high measure
1:05:25
Speaker 1: as well. Now that's really hard to be able to project,
1:05:29
Speaker 1: but that's what he asks. He's been really good at it.
1:05:33
Speaker 1: So that's why it's only really meant as a guideline
1:05:36
Speaker 1: to let you know where Texas may be fought of
1:05:40
Speaker 1: right now in the eyes of the committee. Because Joe
1:05:42
Speaker 1: didn't sit on the committee, but he knows how the
1:05:44
Speaker 1: committee works with the criteria that they use, and he
1:05:49
Speaker 1: visits with a lot of them from time to time,
1:05:51
Speaker 1: so he has a pretty good handle on that, and
1:05:53
Speaker 1: so does Jerry Palm, and that's why I mentioned both
1:05:55
Speaker 1: of those guys. So that's to let you know where
1:05:58
Speaker 1: Texas is right now in his eyes. Lenardes, Texas is
1:06:01
Speaker 1: a nine seed. Jerry Palm theer a tent. In other words,
1:06:04
Speaker 1: there's work to do regardless, and starting with tomorrow night,
1:06:07
Speaker 1: if they find a way to get past Arkansas, then
1:06:11
Speaker 1: it pulls them to level five hundred in Conference play
1:06:15
Speaker 1: five and five in the top rated conference in the
1:06:17
Speaker 1: country and then would have them at seventeen and seven,
1:06:22
Speaker 1: so they would have an opportunity to continue to build
1:06:25
Speaker 1: on that. So anyway, let's hear more from Longhorn's head coach,
1:06:29
Speaker 1: Rodney Terry. And so Rodney's got and this is a
1:06:36
Speaker 1: question I asked him. I'm trying to remember who it
1:06:40
Speaker 1: was I asked him about, but about when a player
1:06:44
Speaker 1: goes up Oh, I know what. It was something to
1:06:46
Speaker 1: asked with Vick Schaeffer about a player going up against
1:06:51
Speaker 1: his former school. And I asked Vick about that about
1:06:53
Speaker 1: one of his players for the Texas women's team. Of course,
1:06:56
Speaker 1: Tremon Mark is from Dickinson down in the Greater Houston
1:07:00
Speaker 1: area and actually began his collegiate career at U of
1:07:03
Speaker 1: H at Houston. Then after playing there, he transferred to
1:07:09
Speaker 1: Arkansas played for Arkansas last year. Now he's a long
1:07:12
Speaker 1: worn and here he is about to go up against
1:07:14
Speaker 1: his former school, the Arkansas Razorbacks. And so the question
1:07:18
Speaker 1: for Rodnie was how does he handle it as a
1:07:21
Speaker 1: head coach when he knows he has a player going
1:07:23
Speaker 1: up against his former school.
1:07:25
Speaker 3: You know what, I.
1:07:25
Speaker 4: Don't really think it matters to these guys right now.
1:07:28
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the next opponent for us. It's an
1:07:31
Speaker 4: opponent that we respect at a great at a high level,
1:07:35
Speaker 4: and I think it's again just the next challenge in
1:07:39
Speaker 4: front of us. So I don't think it really has
1:07:40
Speaker 4: any bearing in terms of in terms of who we
1:07:44
Speaker 4: who were playing with with the with Treymont, I mean,
1:07:47
Speaker 4: I can't speak for him, but but I would think
1:07:49
Speaker 4: that it's just it's the next opponent.
1:07:52
Speaker 2: Now.
1:07:53
Speaker 1: Arkansas got the big win at Kentucky. As we know,
1:07:58
Speaker 1: that's been easily easy, their brightest spot in an otherwise
1:08:02
Speaker 1: difficult season. They were one in six and SEC play
1:08:05
Speaker 1: going into that game before they found a way to win.
1:08:08
Speaker 1: So Roddy was asked why did he feel Arkansas have
1:08:11
Speaker 1: been struggling UH to that point and what are some
1:08:15
Speaker 1: of the key benchmarks what he expects from a John
1:08:20
Speaker 1: Calipari coach team.
1:08:22
Speaker 3: I don't know about struggling.
1:08:24
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, Joey Caliberry has always gotten players.
1:08:27
Speaker 4: He's a Hall of Fame coach for for a reason.
1:08:30
Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's been one of the one of
1:08:33
Speaker 4: the all time great recruiters.
1:08:34
Speaker 3: Of all time.
1:08:35
Speaker 4: But he's also been a guy that's that's you know,
1:08:38
Speaker 4: I think managed players really well over the years as well.
1:08:42
Speaker 4: I mean you probably you can't find a player that's
1:08:44
Speaker 4: played for coach Kal that doesn't love him like a father,
1:08:47
Speaker 4: you know, and they all come back and they rally
1:08:50
Speaker 4: around him, you know, and so you know, I think
1:08:53
Speaker 4: his impact again, you know, goes further than just basketball
1:08:56
Speaker 4: with with his with his players. But uh, his his
1:09:00
Speaker 4: teams are always played fast. His team, you know here
1:09:02
Speaker 4: right now is an athletic team. He's got, you know,
1:09:05
Speaker 4: a talented roster. He's always gonna have a talented roster.
1:09:08
Speaker 4: You know, from top to bottom. His top eight guys
1:09:11
Speaker 4: or are extremely talented players. They're athletic, they play really
1:09:14
Speaker 4: fast in transition. Uh, they crashed the glass. They put
1:09:18
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure on the paint. They've always put
1:09:21
Speaker 4: pressure on the paint. They you know, he was big
1:09:23
Speaker 4: with the dribble drive for a while there and.
1:09:26
Speaker 3: Things of that nature there.
1:09:27
Speaker 4: But but they're a team that constantly puts pressure on
1:09:29
Speaker 4: you in transition and in the half court, attacking the basket. Defensively,
1:09:34
Speaker 4: you know, they're playing probably as well as anyone.
1:09:36
Speaker 3: In the league. You know, They've got a lot of
1:09:38
Speaker 3: really good ball pressure.
1:09:40
Speaker 4: They're trying to take you out of your initial offensive
1:09:43
Speaker 4: execution and what you're trying to get done. They're they're
1:09:46
Speaker 4: they're pretty good defensively right now. They played they played
1:09:49
Speaker 4: exceptional the other night against Kentucky, uh, defensively, and so
1:09:54
Speaker 4: you know, again Cal's got his guys playing pretty good
1:09:57
Speaker 4: right now at.
1:09:57
Speaker 3: The right time of the year.
1:09:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just on the face taxes the first of
1:10:01
Speaker 1: two meetings, by the way, within a span of let
1:10:06
Speaker 1: me see if I remember this right, almost three weeks,
1:10:09
Speaker 1: twenty days, I guess, because they'll play in Fayettell I
1:10:12
Speaker 1: believe on the twenty fourth or twenty fifth. Anyway, back
1:10:16
Speaker 1: to the divine prior thing about reclassifying.
1:10:20
Speaker 2: From his senior year in high school.
1:10:23
Speaker 1: Artie was asked us it had to be a real
1:10:25
Speaker 1: special player in his mind in order for him to
1:10:29
Speaker 1: decide to go ahead and have that conversation about whether
1:10:32
Speaker 1: that player reclassifies.
1:10:34
Speaker 3: You know what, I think, I think.
1:10:36
Speaker 4: It's probably an individual type situation. I don't think it's
1:10:39
Speaker 4: for everybody, you know. I think I think for kids
1:10:43
Speaker 4: that have a chance or have a ceiling, like a
1:10:48
Speaker 4: guy like DP has, you know, they's a chance that
1:10:51
Speaker 4: he may not be in school four years, you know
1:10:54
Speaker 4: what I mean. So you know, you just kind of
1:10:57
Speaker 4: fast forward in his product process a lot quicker, you
1:11:01
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
1:11:02
Speaker 3: I mean, Dp's a guy. You know, we have NBA
1:11:06
Speaker 3: guys come in here.
1:11:06
Speaker 4: He's probably one of my most athletic guys on this team,
1:11:11
Speaker 4: you know, and stuff, and you know, his selling again
1:11:14
Speaker 4: of where he could be in the future moving forward.
1:11:16
Speaker 3: I mean it's he's not even stretching it just yet,
1:11:19
Speaker 3: you know, and things.
1:11:20
Speaker 4: But but uh, you take a guy like that with
1:11:23
Speaker 4: young talent, you want to bring him in and start
1:11:25
Speaker 4: trying to get his body to to to to reach
1:11:29
Speaker 4: the potential that he has from a from a basketball standpoint,
1:11:33
Speaker 4: because he's gonna need that, and start teaching him what's
1:11:35
Speaker 4: gonna take to be successful at this level.
1:11:38
Speaker 3: And uh, smart kid.
1:11:40
Speaker 4: Particulate, you know, could come in and handle the academic
1:11:43
Speaker 4: side of it, would be no problems. Well, so all those,
1:11:46
Speaker 4: all those factors are important to it. With the intangibles
1:11:48
Speaker 4: to bring a kid early to school uh as well.
1:11:52
Speaker 4: So I would say that you know, would be the
1:11:54
Speaker 4: case for us. I mean, a kid that has an
1:11:56
Speaker 4: upside like that, you want to go ahead and get
1:11:58
Speaker 4: him in your program, get him acclimate it up already,
1:12:00
Speaker 4: and with the thought process is that he may not
1:12:04
Speaker 4: be with you that long anyway, you may have a.
1:12:06
Speaker 3: Short time with him.
1:12:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's almost kind of like the football
1:12:13
Speaker 1: thing about early and relies. By the way, in case
1:12:18
Speaker 1: you hadn't noticed, tomorrow is National Signing Day. That used
1:12:27
Speaker 1: to ring an awful lot when the first Wednesday in
1:12:31
Speaker 1: February was so huge National Signing Day for college football.
1:12:36
Speaker 1: Now it's a secondary date because of the early signing period,
1:12:40
Speaker 1: so it doesn't carry with it the pizazz, the cachet
1:12:44
Speaker 1: that the that that the original signing date did for
1:12:50
Speaker 1: a long long time. I'll have some thoughts on that
1:12:55
Speaker 1: coming up in the next segment. But anyway, some more
1:12:56
Speaker 1: from Rodney Terry. Now, this is a question that I
1:13:03
Speaker 1: understand why it was asked. It was asked by reporter
1:13:08
Speaker 1: trying to gain a little more insight into what the
1:13:13
Speaker 1: life of players can be like outside of the game
1:13:17
Speaker 1: of basketball. So Rodney Terry was asked about this. Does
1:13:22
Speaker 1: he talk to the team a lot about life outside
1:13:25
Speaker 1: of basketball?
1:13:26
Speaker 2: You better believe he does.
1:13:28
Speaker 3: Well.
1:13:28
Speaker 4: We try to shed Terry is a great point you know,
1:13:30
Speaker 4: and again we're blessed every day with everything that's going on.
1:13:33
Speaker 4: You know, I just said to our guys today, how
1:13:36
Speaker 4: precious life is, you know, And you know, we had
1:13:39
Speaker 4: a tragic couple of tragic situations here late, you know,
1:13:42
Speaker 4: and we've lost some really you know, young people, you know,
1:13:46
Speaker 4: young figure skaters, you know that have promising careers, you know,
1:13:50
Speaker 4: and you just have to every single day count your
1:13:53
Speaker 4: blessings and have a lot of gratitude for being here
1:13:55
Speaker 4: every day. But I let a lot of times our
1:13:58
Speaker 4: formal players speak to our guys. I found a great
1:14:02
Speaker 4: clip on Tristan Thompson talking about.
1:14:06
Speaker 3: The importance of of.
1:14:09
Speaker 4: Being an incredible teammate every day to try to help
1:14:13
Speaker 4: his team that he's currently on right now win a
1:14:15
Speaker 4: world championship and what that consisted of if he needed
1:14:18
Speaker 4: to come in and be the best scout team guy,
1:14:22
Speaker 4: you know, defensively, whatever he needed to do in terms
1:14:25
Speaker 4: of helping a guy you know, offensively to try to
1:14:28
Speaker 4: be the best version of himself, but just being a
1:14:30
Speaker 4: guy that's a giver and at that levels one through fifteen,
1:14:36
Speaker 4: understanding even if you're number fifteen or number fourteen or
1:14:39
Speaker 4: thirteen on that roster. Your importance to the to the
1:14:44
Speaker 4: team and trying to help win a championship is very valuable.
1:14:48
Speaker 3: And that's that's really important. And you know, Tristan has.
1:14:52
Speaker 4: Been one of those guys his whole career, you know,
1:14:54
Speaker 4: and he's made a great career out of it. He's
1:14:56
Speaker 4: made a lot of money to your point being that
1:14:59
Speaker 4: kind of but I think you're trying to give guys
1:15:03
Speaker 4: life lessons.
1:15:04
Speaker 3: You know all the time. You know, you got to
1:15:07
Speaker 3: earn everything you get in life.
1:15:09
Speaker 4: No one's gonna give you anything in life, you know,
1:15:12
Speaker 4: and but you learn to appreciate the work at that
1:15:15
Speaker 4: that goes into how hard you have to work to
1:15:17
Speaker 4: get where you want to get to. No one can
1:15:20
Speaker 4: ever take that away from you. So you you know,
1:15:22
Speaker 4: you try to teach those guys those valuable lessons in
1:15:24
Speaker 4: the game of life, paring them for the game of
1:15:26
Speaker 4: life in terms of being able to be a great provider,
1:15:31
Speaker 4: be a great husband, and those those are the kind
1:15:35
Speaker 4: of things.
1:15:35
Speaker 3: You try to instill in guys.
1:15:37
Speaker 1: I need some sage words there from Rodney Terry. I
1:15:39
Speaker 1: have a little more from RT coming up, and then
1:15:41
Speaker 1: those thoughts on National Signing Day when we continue here,
1:15:44
Speaker 1: I'm thirteen under the zone.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting listening to that.
1:15:47
Speaker 1: iHeart Sports Update on this day in history because when
1:15:50
Speaker 1: you get into January and then on in the February, yeah,
1:15:55
Speaker 1: especially January, but also in the February, you start getting
1:15:58
Speaker 1: all those anniversaries of Super Bowl And of course the
1:16:01
Speaker 1: super Bowls didn't start being played in February until right
1:16:07
Speaker 1: around the turn of the century, I think it was, but.
1:16:11
Speaker 2: It was, you know, January.
1:16:13
Speaker 1: Like for example, wherever I am, whenever I think about
1:16:20
Speaker 1: it on January twelfth, on the twelfth, I always think
1:16:24
Speaker 1: about Super Bowl three and the Big Jets upset of
1:16:29
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Colts in super Bowl three. That was January twelfth,
1:16:32
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. I think about January eleventh. One of
1:16:39
Speaker 1: the earliest super Bowls played was Kansas City beating Minnesota
1:16:43
Speaker 1: the next.
1:16:44
Speaker 2: Year an underdog in super Bowl four.
1:16:46
Speaker 1: And just so you'll know, the earliest super Bowl ever
1:16:48
Speaker 1: played was January ninth, nineteen seventy seven, of Super Bowl eleven,
1:16:54
Speaker 1: the Raiders beating the Vikings. Is the way the calendar
1:16:56
Speaker 1: fell that year, and it was January ninth. But now
1:16:59
Speaker 1: they're you know here, it is more than a month
1:17:01
Speaker 1: later that they'll be playing Super Bowl fifty nine this
1:17:05
Speaker 1: week in New Orleans. A couple other things to hear
1:17:09
Speaker 1: from from Rodney Terry previewing this Texas Arkansas basketball game.
1:17:14
Speaker 2: I pointed this out earlier that you know, it's one.
1:17:16
Speaker 1: Of those deals where you have a player who used
1:17:18
Speaker 1: to play for one side now playing for Texas going
1:17:20
Speaker 1: up against his former school. And he said he didn't
1:17:22
Speaker 1: really say that much to him about it, but he
1:17:24
Speaker 1: was asked with regard to Tremon Mark going up against
1:17:27
Speaker 1: his former team, does he really point, you know, back
1:17:32
Speaker 1: and forth, does he really want his team to really
1:17:36
Speaker 1: go on the attack. And what he's looking for was
1:17:38
Speaker 1: does he tell Tremon Mark to really go attack Arkansas
1:17:44
Speaker 1: much like he did on Saturday and then win at LSU.
1:17:46
Speaker 4: But I think it's really hard because they've only got
1:17:48
Speaker 4: one player back from that team. Brazil is the only
1:17:51
Speaker 4: only player that's back from that team last year, you know,
1:17:54
Speaker 4: and so it's a whole new team. And you know,
1:17:58
Speaker 4: even when we had tyres here that they and I
1:18:00
Speaker 4: tried to add coach to ty Reech was just you know,
1:18:03
Speaker 4: get lost in in your team, don't get lost in
1:18:06
Speaker 4: the environment, don't worry about what people are saying. Block
1:18:09
Speaker 4: out the noise, you know, and just just you know, again,
1:18:13
Speaker 4: be the best version of yourself. And uh, you know,
1:18:16
Speaker 4: you control what you can control. And uh, I think,
1:18:20
Speaker 4: you know, the same thing with Treymont, you know. I
1:18:22
Speaker 4: think for for him, I think his focus with our team,
1:18:25
Speaker 4: it's about us continue to try to get better both
1:18:28
Speaker 4: on and off the court as.
1:18:29
Speaker 3: A season, uh continues.
1:18:31
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, a big game obviously because it's
1:18:35
Speaker 4: the next game and an opponent that we respect, and uh,
1:18:39
Speaker 4: you know, I don't think it will have as much
1:18:41
Speaker 4: effect here probably as it will maybe when we go
1:18:44
Speaker 4: over there that that he will have to possibly deal
1:18:47
Speaker 4: with that a little bit of stuff.
1:18:48
Speaker 3: But you know, just kind of the landscape of college
1:18:50
Speaker 3: athletics right now. Kids are are gonna have those opportunities.
1:18:53
Speaker 4: You're in and you're out, and you have to be
1:18:55
Speaker 4: able to just thank them for the services that they
1:18:57
Speaker 4: give you for the year.
1:18:58
Speaker 3: They're with you.
1:19:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyreek Hunter was the guy was trying to think
1:19:03
Speaker 1: of going against his former team when he played for
1:19:05
Speaker 1: Texas last year and they played against Iowa State. For
1:19:07
Speaker 1: heaven's sakes, if the Long Word should wind up facing
1:19:11
Speaker 1: Memphis in the NCAA tournament, they'd see Tyree's hunter again
1:19:14
Speaker 1: since he now plays for the Memphis Tigers, and they're
1:19:18
Speaker 1: having a pretty good season, all right. And then one
1:19:20
Speaker 1: other thing about Tremon mark again, his defense has been
1:19:26
Speaker 1: really good, And Rodney was asked if examples of what
1:19:32
Speaker 1: Tremon has done and improving his defensive game helps a
1:19:36
Speaker 1: freshman like Trey Johnson who has gotten better defensively, is
1:19:40
Speaker 1: the year has gone along?
1:19:41
Speaker 3: Well?
1:19:42
Speaker 4: I got a chance to point to them all right
1:19:43
Speaker 4: about it. Trust me, it was a little bit bored
1:19:46
Speaker 4: and borning. No, those two guys in particular, But no,
1:19:50
Speaker 4: I'm you know what, I'll give both of those guys
1:19:52
Speaker 4: credit though. When I did challenge those guys, those two
1:19:55
Speaker 4: guys would challenge really hard in the film session, really
1:19:58
Speaker 4: really hard in front of the whole team.
1:20:00
Speaker 6: Uh.
1:20:01
Speaker 3: And and I'll give those guys credit. They've really have
1:20:04
Speaker 3: answered the bell in terms of being guys that really
1:20:08
Speaker 3: work hard on that side of the ball.
1:20:10
Speaker 4: They I mean, they're trying and playing harder they can defensively,
1:20:14
Speaker 4: and uh uh it's helped change our team, you know.
1:20:18
Speaker 4: And uh, prior to that, not that they weren't playing
1:20:22
Speaker 4: playing great, They just weren't playing at the level they
1:20:24
Speaker 4: need to play, and they need to play really hard
1:20:26
Speaker 4: on defense, and you gotta be a two way player
1:20:28
Speaker 4: and uh so. So no, they've had a chance to
1:20:31
Speaker 4: to to have been called out in front of the
1:20:33
Speaker 4: team and uh uh and they have responded. I will,
1:20:38
Speaker 4: I will give them credit for that. Trades responded. You
1:20:41
Speaker 4: see him playing, trying to play really hard on defense.
1:20:44
Speaker 4: He's wanted to try to guard, you know, the opposing
1:20:47
Speaker 4: team's best offensive player.
1:20:49
Speaker 3: You know, so he's taking on that challenge. And that's
1:20:51
Speaker 3: what you wanted to see.
1:20:52
Speaker 4: You want to see if if guys were gonna be competitive, Okay,
1:20:55
Speaker 4: if they were gonna take the coach.
1:20:57
Speaker 3: In the right way in that regards.
1:20:58
Speaker 4: And and I'll I'll say it without in the reservation,
1:21:01
Speaker 4: I'll say it in front of our team. I think
1:21:03
Speaker 4: they've they've responded in a in a very positive light
1:21:05
Speaker 4: in that regards. But they had they had some really
1:21:09
Speaker 4: tough come to Jesus talks about that.
1:21:12
Speaker 1: Yeah it can, it might be that way, and trying
1:21:16
Speaker 1: to get Trey Johnson's defensive game up, and it has
1:21:20
Speaker 1: gotten better, it has improved. They all did a really
1:21:22
Speaker 1: good job. And I understand things are relative. All things
1:21:27
Speaker 1: are relative based on the type of team they were
1:21:29
Speaker 1: facing an LSU but still to play the way they
1:21:32
Speaker 1: did on the road unless you played Auburn tough the
1:21:35
Speaker 1: prior Wednesday at home, and the long words just dismantled
1:21:39
Speaker 1: the Tigers. So that was impressive to see there. All Right,
1:21:43
Speaker 1: I was I was going to bring this up, and
1:21:48
Speaker 1: tomorrow is a national signing day, uh for college football.
1:21:55
Speaker 1: But it's not like it was like it used to be.
1:21:58
Speaker 1: It used to be the big thing in February. On
1:22:01
Speaker 1: that first Wednesday in February, you kind of, depending on
1:22:09
Speaker 1: your level of excitement and enthusiasm and interest in the
1:22:12
Speaker 1: whole recruiting landscape, could wait breathlessly or perhaps maybe not breathlessly,
1:22:17
Speaker 1: but waited eagerly anticipating.
1:22:21
Speaker 2: The names that would come down on the list.
1:22:25
Speaker 1: And when I was working up in Dallas at KRLD,
1:22:30
Speaker 1: Brad Sham was doing the talk show when I was
1:22:31
Speaker 1: Brad's producer, and a big part of what we did
1:22:36
Speaker 1: was on National Signing Day, Brad would get a recruiting
1:22:41
Speaker 1: analyst on, or he would get somebody else on, or
1:22:45
Speaker 1: you know, a coach from one of the Southwest Conference
1:22:49
Speaker 1: schools or whatever on with him. My job was to
1:22:54
Speaker 1: compile the information, the list of all of the sinees,
1:23:01
Speaker 1: and it would come off the ap wire machine. Now
1:23:04
Speaker 1: this is this is old school, I get it. You know,
1:23:07
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people would say what because in
1:23:09
Speaker 1: the pre internet days on that you the news would
1:23:14
Speaker 1: come over the ap ap wire machine, you know, like
1:23:18
Speaker 1: a teletype thing. It would come across like that and
1:23:19
Speaker 1: you would tear it off and you'd have all this
1:23:22
Speaker 1: copied and support. It'd be just like if you were
1:23:24
Speaker 1: reading something coming down like on your laptop from one
1:23:28
Speaker 1: of the wire services news services, CNN dot com or
1:23:32
Speaker 1: or something like that. But they also had their sports
1:23:35
Speaker 1: division and they would have all of the signing list
1:23:40
Speaker 1: and it would come out and it would and would
1:23:42
Speaker 1: and it'd be like this long, long roll of paper
1:23:46
Speaker 1: rolling off of a spool because they had to. It
1:23:49
Speaker 1: would list each player individually for each of the back
1:23:53
Speaker 1: then nine schools in the Southwest Conference Arkansas, Texas, Texas
1:23:59
Speaker 1: A and m Byler Rice, TCU, SMU Houston, Uh, you know,
1:24:05
Speaker 1: all of the all of the Southwest Conference schools and
1:24:09
Speaker 1: he had to play. And then you would also have
1:24:11
Speaker 1: North Texas in there, and even while he was telling
1:24:14
Speaker 1: Football ut Arlington before they dropped the program after the
1:24:16
Speaker 1: eighty five season, And they have all of these signees listed,
1:24:20
Speaker 1: so I had to gather up this big spool with
1:24:23
Speaker 1: all the side of the and then Brad would read
1:24:26
Speaker 1: those on the air, or I would read them, or
1:24:28
Speaker 1: both of us would or whatever.
1:24:29
Speaker 2: And and that's how it was back then.
1:24:32
Speaker 1: You waited for those names to magically appear there through
1:24:36
Speaker 1: the ap wire machine, and you just ran down the
1:24:40
Speaker 1: list and you went for it, and that's how you
1:24:42
Speaker 1: found out about them for sure that they had actually
1:24:44
Speaker 1: signed that day. This is, of course, pre social media,
1:24:47
Speaker 1: so you're not going to find out instantaneously that somebody signed.
1:24:51
Speaker 1: Not only that now it's all changed because of the
1:24:53
Speaker 1: early signing day in December, which I think is a
1:24:56
Speaker 1: good thing for that and but but they still have
1:25:00
Speaker 1: the secondary date for those who haven't made their decisions