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Chris Landry discusses Texas and Arkansas Rivalry · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry talking SEC football and of course National College Football. Tuesday edition of
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  the program as we started day late this week due to the holiday Landry Football
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  dot com, Landry Football on X. All Right, Steve sarkisian nothing but
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  high praise about joining the SEC, and I'm paraphrasing here talking about realignment,
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  also talking about gaining. He doesn't say one rival, Chris, he says
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  too. He says, hey, we get Texas A and M, but
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  we also get Arkansas. For those that are not old enough to remember,
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  Chris, that Texas Arkansas rivalry way back when was pretty big. We it
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  it was. I mean, you go through the greatest games in history,
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  and man, they were there many and over my years, and you know,
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  you can relate to this somewhat. I'm still hold of him. But
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  there's been a lot of games over the past thirty years that have become big
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  and big. But you know, nineteen sixty nine Texas Arkansas, you know,
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  for people don't know, the President flew in and watch it. Now
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  you know President Nixon was a big football fan. But yeah, that was
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  as big as can be. I don't know that I could put anything,
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  you know, in the past twenty years that. I mean, that was
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  huge. It was they changed the date of the game for TV because it
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  was just that huge. Oh yeah, and Arkansas was the sore thumb in
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  the Southwest Conference. All the schools in the Southwest Conference were in Texas,
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  exeph Arkansas and you know you had darl Row and Frank Barrels and big So
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  yeah, it's but even in when they've played it in recent times, it's
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  had a special tone to it. And that is a lot about that's a
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  little bit of a dig for Texas too. They like to talk about how
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  all right, you know, kind of like Alabama talks about Tennessee and Bear
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  Bryant always said Tennessee was the biggest rival, not Auburn, because he wouldn't,
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  he would have given off for enough. Respective there was the biggest rival.
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  This is Texis virgin Is saying, yeah, a little brother there,
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  A and m is big. But you know, Arkansas is pretty big too.
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  I think that's the way of saying that without saying it. I'm laughing
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  because that isn't that the way we do this though, Chris. I mean,
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  if you asked now, I don't know that you're going to get that
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  out of you know, Lane Kiffin and Jeff Levy, but I mean there
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  was a day where you know, Dan Mullen wouldn't reference ole Miss is is
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  oll Miss. I mean we've seen this with across rivalryes. Coaches tend to
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  do that, don't they They do they do, I mean the whole you
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  know that the school up north and you know, and all that stuff is.
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  You know, it is comical and it is funny, you know.
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  We they they become, you know, like fans, you know, in
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  that sense. They tend to talk and react like fans too. I think
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  it is comical.