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Steve Sarkisian previews showdown against Georgia · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Somebody said, I believe Texas has won five out of
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  six games against Georgia. I believe it's four out of five.
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  I could be wrong about that. I was thinking they were, well,
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  you know, I got it up.
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  Speaker 2: In the team notes here. We both probably have it up. Yeah,
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  you're right, four out of five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. I started saying, I got my broadcast heart
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  right here, you have four out of five they won.
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  Here's an interesting note they won. The first time they
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  played was nineteen fifty seven, Daryl k. Royle's first game
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  as head coach, and they played that at Grant Field
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  in Atlanta, which is the home of Georgia Tech. That's
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  where they played that game. That was coach Royal's first
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  game as the Lawgorns head coach in nineteen fifty seven.
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  They won that game there back in Austin in nineteen
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  fifty eight. This is the first time Georgia has been
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  to Austin since nineteen fifty eight, and the Logorns were
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  actually down eight six in that ball game and ended
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  up winning at thirteen eight in that one. Then, of course,
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  the one time Georgia did win, it's the biggest of
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  them all, was that Cotton Bowl in nineteen eighty three
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  January of eighty four one, the Long Rune would have
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  won the national championship. They won, They lost ten nine.
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  There was the Craig Curry fumble punt set it up
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  Georgia's winning touchdown. They won ten nine, and it set
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  the states for Miami to win the national championship by
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  beating Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: It also played in the Orange Bowl in nineteen forty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, yes, and that one is notable for
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  the star of that game. His name was Tom Landry.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Landry was played. He had come back from military
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  service and it had played at Texas but hadn't really
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  stood out. Of course, he was behind Bobby Lane as
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  an athlete. But Tom Landry, he was from Mission Texas,
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  had all kinds of skills in the secondary and was
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  a two way player. But he played quarterback and he
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  ran for I think one hundred and seven yards and
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  scored one or two touchdowns. Texas beat a favored Georgia
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  team forty one to twenty eight to win that one.
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  So they did that was the Orange Bowl. Texas won
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  that one then of course lost to them the Cotton
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  Bowl to the Bulldogs. And as I mentioned January of
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  eighty fourth the eighty three season, and then defeated Georgia
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  the last meeting in the Sugar Bowl. So they've played
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  them in the Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl, in the
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  Sugar Bowl, and now they're going to play him here.
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  Speaker 3: So next year when Texas goes to Georgia, it'll be
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  the first time they've actually played in between the hedges.
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  Speaker 1: Then since nineteen fifty eight when coach Royle was coaching.
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  Speaker 2: So did they play at Bulldog Stadium?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, you're right. In fifty seven
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  they played them in Atlanta. That's right. Fifty eight was
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  at home, so it will be the first time to
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  ever play in Athens. You're exactly right. What are the
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  keys to beating Georgia? Let's hear from Longhorn's head coach,
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  Teve Sarkisian. This is from our segment last night on
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  Long Worn Weekly out of Pluckers going over the Georgia Bulldogs.
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  And I'd done a broadcast chart preliminarily and then finding
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  out later that some guys are bay the ones have
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  it on chart, there's a couple who aren't there, and
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  then find out from visiting Wiscott Howard their play by
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  play voice of course Branson Robinson out they'd lost the
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  other Robinson earlier. He said, so we're down two running backs,
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  and I'm like, well, that sounds familiar being down two
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  running backs early on. But they still have weapons. They
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  still have Trevor Etn and of course they have Carson Beck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. This is a very dynamic offense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you have a veteran quarterback like Carson Beck,
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  he can make all the throws and so they really
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  tax you because this is a really good offensive line.
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  They've got a really good tight end and Oscar dept.
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  But then they have elite speed on the perimeter with
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  Arion Smith Dylan Bell, a kid who's really grown into
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  kind of his role on the team. But then they
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  believe in running the football too, and Dominic love it
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  in the slot.
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  Speaker 2: So they kind of tax you in a way similar
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  do we do.
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  Speaker 3: They can run it, they can hit you with the
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  short intermediate RPOs, but yet they can throw.
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  Speaker 2: It over your head.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I watched a clip today of Carson Beck
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  hitting Aaron Smith and the ball traveled sixty four yards
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  in there. So our dbs have got to be on
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  point in defending that deep ball, but you still have
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  to control the line of scrimmagee. They got a lot
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  of weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I started to say, it does make it a
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  challenge for your defensive accident when they can run the
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  ball as well they in or hit people over the top,
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  which is similar to what folks say about your guys.
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  Speaker 3: Very similar systematically offensively, it'll look kind of similar.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they do some things different than we do.
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  And you know, we were joking today.
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  Speaker 3: As a staff, it's like, I think it's every play
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  we motion, we're going to try to figure out does
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  anybody motion more than we do, or ship or do something.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a very good offensive football team.
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  Speaker 1: How about your thoughts on this Georgia defense. I know
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  they don't have Smile moundon this week, but Raylan Wilson's
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  played a lot there stepping in a linebacker, and they've
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  got other really good players.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the first thing about Georgia defense is
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  the schematically and the brain trust that they have in
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  that building.
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  Speaker 2: Every day you talk about Kirby Smart and how regarded
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  he as a defensive coach.
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  Speaker 3: They have Will must Champ on staff, and they have
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  Glenn Schuman as their defensive coordinator probably be a head
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  coach next year. So that's a that's a pretty powerful
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  brain trust that they have. Then to go with that,
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  they've got some really good players, okay, and and any
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  really good defense, especially in the SEC, starts up front.
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  They've got a lot of veteran players on that defensive front.
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  Mikel Williamsy back and the Nazir Stackhouse is back. And
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  then from the back, I mean from the front, then
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  you get to the back and Malachi Starks is an
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  All American player at safety.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of runs things for him.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, this is a heck of a challenge for
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  us as a football team, you know, like I said,
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  And then we haven't even talked about special teams. Right,
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  they've probably got it, you know, a draft pick, NFL punter.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so they've.
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  Speaker 3: Got all the things that you would think of Georgia
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  football team would have. I mean, name the last time
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  they didn't finish number one or number two in recruiting
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  in the last decade. Right, and then they've they've won,
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  and they've been in I think six of seven SEC
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  championship games. They went to three consecutive National Championship games,
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  and so they're used to the They're used to the
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  stage or used to the environment. They've recruit players that
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  want to play on this stage, and so it's gonna
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  be a tech foot ball game. And if you can
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  get you can get to be one of the one
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  hundred and five thousand in there.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be in store for a great one.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody asked you today on the SEC teleconference if
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  you in building your program kind of modeled after what
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  Georgia was doing when you first came in, because Georgia
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  was on top of the football world at the time,
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  And you said, I wasn't so completely dialed into what
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  Georgia had, but obviously what they do is a good
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  model for college football.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if you just look at Kirby's history
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  in my history, you know, Kirby spent a lot of
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  years with Nick Saban, and he was you know, all
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  the way through their time at Alabama through that twenty
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  fifteen season. Naturally, I spent three of five years with
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  Nick Saban, And just looking at the roster, right, they've
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  got big humans up front, they've got elite speed on
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  the perimeter. They value quarterback play, they value running the football.
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  They value stopping the run, special teams, matters, they call
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  games aggressively, they'll fake punts, they'll do all those things,
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  and then they found success in doing it, and then.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of continues and continues and continue.
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  Speaker 3: So we're probably a few years behind where they were
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  at the just they've Kirby's been there longer than I've
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  been here. But I like our trajectory looking at where
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  they were as a program too. So that's why I say,
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  I think this is one of those games that's going
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  to be really fun for a fan to watch because
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  you're going to see a ton of NFL players playing
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  in an amazing stage at DKR, but also with schemes
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  that are high level schemes. You know, this is an
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  NFL driven offense and defense, just as we are, and
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  when you do it at that high of a level
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  with really talented players, it's a really cool thing to watch.
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  Speaker 1: At SAR from last night's edition of Loghorn Weekly. Of course,
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  we record the program on Wednesday evenings at Pluckers the
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  West Campus location they're at twenty two twenty two Reo Grad.
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  We recorded on Wednesdays from six to seven at Airs.
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  Thursday nights at seven, we'll be back for some final
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  words for today's program and for the week here on
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  sports Radio AM thirteen Hunderd The Zone