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Texas Women's Basketball prepares for the Gulf Coast Showcase · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: You're a yacht rock on.
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  Speaker 2: That name screams yacht rock like Dan Vogelberg. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he was the yacht rock music. Did you ever listen
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  Speaker 2: to any of his other stuff?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. Very Uh.
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  Speaker 2: There's some very Christian based themes on his like leader
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  Speaker 2: of the Leader of the Band is supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: you know about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: It's supposed to be so kick in Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, so so anyway, Dan Fogelberg there, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he fits into the yacht rock realm. And you said,
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  Speaker 2: what there's the yacht rock documentary premiers tonight? Is that
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  Speaker 2: the HBO Max One. There's two of them, the HBO
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  Speaker 2: Max one, produced by Bill Simmons. Yeah, comes out the
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  Speaker 2: twenty ninth. Okay, so, but there's another one. I thought
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  Speaker 2: you supposed tonight. I thought that one was coming out
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  Speaker 2: tonight and it was Thanksgiving week. But he comes out
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty ninth. Okay, all right, all right, I'll
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  Speaker 2: watch that. I love the documentaries Bill Simmons is but
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  Speaker 2: together he is the thirty for thirty Godfathers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so, I thought to look forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk some basketball, long warn women getting ready to leave.
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  Speaker 2: They're playing leagues in a little whiles, they head for
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  Speaker 2: Southwest Florida and get some push down in that tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Starting went to Mexico State tomorn Aight, and Vic Schaefer
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  Speaker 2: was asked about. First of all, he was asked about
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  Speaker 2: the Texas, Texas A and M rivalry because Vic remember
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  Speaker 2: went to school there and he's you know, was on
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  Speaker 2: Gary Blair's staff when they won the women's national championship
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eleven, which of course was the year of
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  Speaker 2: the final game now that was played in the fall
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  Speaker 2: of twenty eleven. Vic was still there at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and he was asked if Texas A and M fans
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  Speaker 2: viewed Texas differently than now Texas fans and team players
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  Speaker 2: in personnel view A and M.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, you know, I think there's I think you could
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  Speaker 4: you could say that. You couldn't say that. I think
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  Speaker 4: each year's you know, it's different. You know, it just
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  Speaker 4: it kind of depends you and I both know. For instance,
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  Speaker 4: when I was at Mississippi State, Ole miss was supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be our rival. We beat them like six straight years,
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  Speaker 4: twice a year. Well, my kids, I couldn't even it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't even a matter of trying to get them up.
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  Speaker 4: We had a lot of other teams on our schedule
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  Speaker 4: that were got our attention a whole lot more than
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  Speaker 4: that particular game. I think with this game between these
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  Speaker 4: two schools, you know, each team has had its moment,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm just talking about the overall rivalry between the
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  Speaker 4: two schools, and I've obviously been.
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  Speaker 3: On both sides.
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  Speaker 4: I think just depending on the year and maybe the
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  Speaker 4: previous years, you know, each place maybe puts a little
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  Speaker 4: more emphasis on it than others. I think this game
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  Speaker 4: Saturday Night, you can forget the rivalry the game itself.
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  Speaker 4: It has so much riding on it, you know, with
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to play for the SEC Championship, that in
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  Speaker 4: and of itself is enough, right, I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 4: That's what the kids are going to be thinking. They
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  Speaker 4: don't have any idea what happened back in the sixties
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  Speaker 4: and seventies and probably don't care, right, what they care
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  Speaker 4: about is playing for the SEC Championship. My kids I
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  Speaker 4: have on my team when we have to go over
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  Speaker 4: there and play in January, they're going to be more
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  Speaker 4: worried about, more.
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  Speaker 3: In tune with.
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  Speaker 4: It's an SEC game and we need to win it period.
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  Speaker 4: You know they haven't.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you and I.
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  Speaker 4: Were part of the SWC, you know, the Southwest Conference.
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  Speaker 3: We know you know what all that entailed.
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  Speaker 4: We know how how dominant Texas was for so long,
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  Speaker 4: and so it's you know, in today's world, it probably
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  Speaker 4: has a little different meaning.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one way to put he was he was
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  Speaker 2: answering Kirk Bowles question about that, and he's right about
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  Speaker 2: you know, the rivalry has to had some give and
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  Speaker 2: take on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this too.
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  Speaker 2: When Vick Schaffer was on Gary Blair's staff at A
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  Speaker 2: and M, Texas had a real hard time beating the Aggies.
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  Speaker 2: Gail guestingcourse was the coach then, and I think A
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  Speaker 2: and M won like that. Put it this way, they
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  Speaker 2: had every bit as much difficulty beating A and M
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  Speaker 2: as Karen Aston had trouble beating Baylor when when she
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  Speaker 2: got the job at Texas, and I ironically the last
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  Speaker 2: time that she coached Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Against Bailor, they won that game and that was in
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  Speaker 1: wake up.
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  Speaker 2: But it was hard against AEM because that was going
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  Speaker 2: really really well. Now, obviously in football it's been a
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  Speaker 2: different thing and and now.
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  Speaker 1: All it's going to be renewed.
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  Speaker 2: But about his own team, Vick Schaefer was asked how
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  Speaker 2: he assesses his team's play in games versus how hard
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  Speaker 2: they practice, considering and the players have said this, and
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  Speaker 2: Vicka said he wanted to be like this. He wants
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  Speaker 2: practice to be tougher than the opponents that they face.
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  Speaker 2: And he's asked about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great question, and it's kind of what
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  Speaker 4: I'd said leading off.
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  Speaker 3: We've we've had two really good practices.
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  Speaker 4: Our men's practice team provides an incredible challenge for us.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys are really good.
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  Speaker 4: We can have a lot of failure in that practice
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  Speaker 4: and I can come out out of there going, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we competed today. Like That's how I felt last night.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I called my staff on the way home.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, what younger practice? And you know, everybody had
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  Speaker 4: their own opinion. My opinion was, Man, I felt good
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  Speaker 4: about it. Even though we had a lot of failure,
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  Speaker 4: we really competed.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think for me, you know, I'm always
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  Speaker 4: looking for that perfect game, the complete game, the you
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  Speaker 4: know where you're up thirty at half.
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  Speaker 3: And you win by sixty, and you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: talk at all you want. It doesn't matter what sport.
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  Speaker 3: Kids are kids.
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  Speaker 4: They're up thirty at half, they're not going to have
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  Speaker 4: the same intendency in the second half. And I was
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  Speaker 4: pleased with how we played at DePaul. That was our
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  Speaker 4: first true road test. I thought we played really hard.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't necessarily play well all the time, but we played
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  Speaker 4: really hard. And you have to give to Paul a
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  Speaker 4: lot of credit. I mean, they've got an off conference
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  Speaker 4: player that was really hard for us to deal with.
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  Speaker 4: We dealt really well with another guard they have that's
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  Speaker 4: really talented. But I just think you know, there's there's
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  Speaker 4: you do have to step back and really evaluate what
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  Speaker 4: you're looking at. Because again, I wanted this week for
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  Speaker 4: us to get better. We have nine days between games
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  Speaker 4: where I really wanted us to be challenged and get better,
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  Speaker 4: and I think we have Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there's some more from Vic Schaeffer and question
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  Speaker 2: about going on the road because you got these three
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  Speaker 2: games there. Then they're gonna play Notre Dame in the
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  Speaker 2: acc SEC Challenge a week from tomorrow night in South Bend.
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's up to number three in the country
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  Speaker 2: that beat South Carolina over the weekend. They're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with that. Then they have treacherous road games
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  Speaker 2: at places like James Madison and Richmond, each of them
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  Speaker 2: were in Sea Tournament games. A Vic had to schedule
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  Speaker 2: home and home with those just to be able to
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  Speaker 2: fill out his schedule.
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  Speaker 1: So he was asked about how confident.
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  Speaker 2: Is his team heading into this difficult road stretch coming
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  Speaker 2: up for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think my team's pretty confident.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're you know, they're a veteran group, five seniors,
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  Speaker 4: they've been to the Wars, and so I think they're
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  Speaker 4: very confident.
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  Speaker 3: And now I don't.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't mean anything's gonna translate into wins, but from
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  Speaker 4: a confidence, say, if we get beat at ain't gonna
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  Speaker 4: because we're all tied up and can't function.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say that, you know, it's it's a confident group.
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  Speaker 4: And again I'm I'm proud of them because I feel
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  Speaker 4: like we've worked really hard in the last couple of
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  Speaker 4: days and got better. Uh, we had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: failure in pro just but we still got better. And
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  Speaker 4: that's how you grow. You've got to fail. Failure is
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  Speaker 4: part of success. Failure is part of growth, and if
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  Speaker 4: all we were having is Kumbaya and everybody's you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's like I told my team the other day,
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  Speaker 4: I can get We've got an unbelievable practice team. I said, naw,
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  Speaker 4: you want me to go, I'll go down to the
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  Speaker 4: old folks home and see if I can get some
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  Speaker 4: you know, older folks come down here and scrimmage us.
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  Speaker 4: And that afternoon, Booker sends me a picture of some
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  Speaker 4: people sitting out on the porch.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: She said, hey, coach, I found us some practice players.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, I'm like, no, it's but that that's where
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  Speaker 4: we're at. Like we've gotten better and you know, so
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  Speaker 4: I feel good.
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  Speaker 3: About where we're at.
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  Speaker 4: I think our team feels good about it, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll we'll keep working in in uh in practice. But
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  Speaker 4: I feel really good about where my team is right now.
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  Speaker 4: Now again, it's real world's coming and we're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to be able to handle it and function. But the
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  Speaker 4: script's been to a lot of wars, many they've had
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  Speaker 4: a lot of success in their career, and my young
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  Speaker 4: kids are very very confident. Those three freshmen are unique.
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  Speaker 4: They're special. You know, we all know Booker special Rory.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you start, You've got a team that starts
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  Speaker 4: with Rory Harmon and Madison Booker at guard. That's a
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  Speaker 4: good place to start. But I feel like lead Moore's
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  Speaker 4: getting healthy. Man a bit different team when you've got
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  Speaker 4: a Lion Moore that's healthy. And then Taylor's had a
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  Speaker 4: really good summer and a good fall, and Kyle has
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  Speaker 4: come in and done a great job at five as well.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, well, well we should be okay. I'm
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  Speaker 4: very pleased with where we.
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  Speaker 3: Are right now.
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  Speaker 2: And one more from Vic Shavor asking about these next
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  Speaker 2: three games down on Soide with Florida. How important are
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  Speaker 2: those four continuing to build the team chemistry that he
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  Speaker 2: always wants to have from his group.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Lila's looked good the last couple of days, so
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  Speaker 4: I would have assumed she's going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: ready to go on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: And again, love our depth at guard.
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  Speaker 4: We've just not had it and we finally have it,
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  Speaker 4: and so really really love our depth at guard, and
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  Speaker 4: so I'm I'm you know, I think we're going to
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  Speaker 4: be in good shape there and and it has been hard.
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  Speaker 3: To that's kind of been part of our issue.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're up thirty at half uh and then
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  Speaker 4: you you kind of start messing with some combinations in
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  Speaker 4: the second half and they're just not good combinations.
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  Speaker 3: They just they don't.
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  Speaker 4: Quite have the chemistry yet that some of your veterans
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  Speaker 4: have together and so but that's why you play those
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  Speaker 4: games early to try to develop it. So I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: fine with it. We've got to continue to work at it.
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  Speaker 4: We have in practice. I've had that some different groups
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  Speaker 4: playing together the last couple of days to see if
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  Speaker 4: we can develop that. And they'll be lifting off here
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  Speaker 4: in about a half an hour to fly down to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from Vig Shaeffer coming up next hour.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, we'll hear from a couple of the men's players,
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  Speaker 2: Kenda Weaver and Arthur Kaluma, and we'll check in with
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  Speaker 2: some of your texts as well. I asked, what's your
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  Speaker 2: most poignant Cowboys Thanksgiving Day?
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  Speaker 3: Memory?
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  Speaker 2: Can be a win, it can be a loss, could
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  Speaker 2: be whatever. It might be family sitting there watching a
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  Speaker 2: certain game or whatever. What's your family or your most
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  Speaker 2: poignant Cowboys Thanksgiving memory. We'll get some of more of
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  Speaker 2: those coming up when we continue on Sports radio AM
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  Speaker 2: thirteen under the zone.