July 2, 2024 • 17 mins
Former Texas Longhorn outfield and Texas State head coach Ty Harrington joins the program to discuss the hiring of Jim Schlossnagle, what hell bring to Texas, his staff, the return of Troy Tulowitzki, and the tricky part of leaving one program for another.
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(00:05):
It's the craig Way Shop with thevoice of the Texas Longhorns and Hall of
Fame broadcast there craig Way, Coach, Now, did you end up staying
for uh mister three or five?For Pitt pull himself? My So let's
(00:25):
just say I was there from whenI saw you to all the way through
the celebration and got to see someof the coaches, got the visits,
visit with Rodney Terry for a littlebit, obviously, Jim Slapsnagel and Coach
White for a little bit, andand then I made my way down for
(00:45):
the then official announcement. And I'lltell you what everybody that got up on
stage and spoke, I was.I was ready to go put my headgear
on and and or my spikes tothe one and go play. And then
right as Pittbull came on, Iassumed from a traffic perspective, that was
(01:08):
my cue, and so I hadto head back to the Bramos Texas.
But I absolutely had a blast.I thought it was I don't you know.
Obviously it's University of Texas and particularlynow the way everything they do is
just done so first class and soexciting, and you know, I mean,
(01:32):
it just was. I was eventaken back a little bit about the
enormity of it, the excitement ofit, the just so many things surrounded
by it, and just was anincredible day. And when I use the
word celebration, it truly was acelebration. Yeah, the rollout was very
(01:55):
impressive and an incredible job done byCrystal Conte and Drew Martin and Charles Branch,
everybody, everybody that was affiliated withit, because it did feel surreal,
and Mike Cars commented on our showthat it felt almost like it was
game day out there time. That'swhat game day is gonna look like.
(02:15):
I mean, issue and plus,I mean, I think you can add
some plus to it. But Iagree with Michael and that, I I
mean it it had a game dayfeel to particularly where you were and and
where we were. iHeart was setup and and thirteen hundred was set up,
you know right there just off thestage. You know, there was
(02:36):
so much traffic coming in, meetingpeople walking in and out of there.
And and when the I thought itwas so fun. When the coaches would
come in headed to the stage,it was like they were walking to a
heavyweight, you know, boxing match. And you know, everybody had the
spotlight on them and uh and ofcourse, uh, you know, having
(02:57):
Grant sank there too, the commission, which was fun for me personally.
I've known Greg for a really longtime and we had a chance actually to
spend some time talking and visiting andgetting caught up. But it just felt
like it was a heavyweight boxing matchthat was about to take off, or
game day as Mike referred to it. Visiting with coach Ty Harrington, of
(03:20):
course, former Texas long corn outfielderand the winningest coach of all time at
Texas State where he was the headbaseball coach. A new head baseball coach
on the forty Acres Jim Sloshnenkl whoof course you know, Ty, when
I asked you last week on Tuesday, what would Texas get it they could
get Jim Sloshnankle. He talked abouthim being a hard worker and what he's
(03:43):
done so far in just a shortweek. It seems like Texas made the
best possible hire in replacing David Pearceby going out and getting Jim Sloshnegel.
Well, Jim is really good andobviously, I mean his record would tell
you that you know, he's he'sone of the top coaches in Division one
(04:03):
baseball and has been for quite sometime. If you go back and look
at the history of what he didat TCU and now what he's done short
time at at you know, TexasA and M I say short time three
years, and what he was ableto get to Omahall you know, two
out of the three years and thenplay for national title and arguably, look,
(04:24):
you could go into the conversation thatyou know, they could have possibly
won, you know, if theydon't lose Montgomery and Seday or not taking
anything away from Tennessee who you know. I just I thought for the for
the one of the first time ina long time, we had the two
best teams in Omahall playing for thenational championship. But haven't said that about
(04:44):
Jim. Jim is coach. SlashAngle is an incredible worker. I mean,
he's a very talented worker. Youknow, some people work in spurts,
some people work hard momentarily, somepeople act like they're working hard.
He does. He works hard andand he expects everybody around him to do
the same. He's incredibly creative.He constantly is pushing the envelope of success?
(05:09):
What's next? How do I stayon the you know, the front
edge of success. He's not chasingit, he's leading it. And that's
different, you know than sometimes alot of people. He's always wanting to
see. His vision is what's next? How do we build something bigger and
better than what everybody else has?How do we stay ahead of the of
(05:30):
the crowd? And then I wouldput it to you like this too,
and this comes from knowing Jim fora long time competing against him. Also
is that, you know, allof us have a plan that we think
is gonna work. But what Jimalso has is he's got a plan and
then he has a backup plan,and meaning if something happens, he's he
(05:51):
It takes him about the snap ofa finger timing to have the next moment
ready to go to replace whatever happened. And that's the him looking into the
future and always being prepared for thewhat if factor that happens in college athletics
daily, by the way, andthere's so many things that happen, particularly
(06:12):
now Cameron with the portal, Imean it is a fluid as you can
be and fluid as you can get, you know, how many guys are
jumping into portal. And you know, I think today it was the last
day of the morrow, last dayto get in the portal. So there's
it's a fluid situation. And he'sa he's so good at staying ahead of
everybody else in his mindset and pushinghis players. And the staff does the
(06:36):
same. They working incredibly hard,and I think he does a good job
of pushing the players. Look,there's something to being when we get uncomfortable.
Sometimes we get better because we getpushed a little bit and all of
us need it. Everybody needs it, and and he's he's really good of
motivating his players to make themselves betteron a daily basis. I've heard him
(07:00):
talk about their plan of how hedoes things and how they want to do
things. He's very honest and forthrightwith his thoughts. Some people at first
have a hard time, you know, adjusting to that, and then they
get to where they embrace it andwant it and they know that it motivates
them. And he is certainly aheadof a lot of people that way.
(07:23):
And incredibly also, I should addthis, and they're incredibly creative. He
really is, And what I meanhe is on the front edge idea wise
he is and introductory press conference,he talked about giving the program back to
the players, right, including thepast players. As a head coach at
Texas State, how important is itto have had those past players around your
(07:49):
teams, around your coaches to helpusher the program along. It's incredibly important,
you can't. You know, it'shard to ask somebody to come give
their heart and soul and sweat andeverything that goes into success and then after
(08:09):
their career is done, that's it. So you want what they gave to
come back so that they can thatthe people that are there now can see
why it was so important to thatgroup ahead of them. Right. That's
called you know, having a history, that's called you know, your alumni
loved the idea of the current team, you know, going, well,
(08:31):
what did you guys do? Howdid y'all do it? What was it
like when you were here? Andthen the alumni loved to go back with
tremendous pride, tremendous love and pridefor their their programs, to go back
and be proud of their successes andto be able to share and that success.
All of us want to know thatwhat we did was important to what's
(08:54):
being done now. And that's thepart about giving it back to the former
players and alumni and how important thatis and it gives you know, the
people that have played there that sensationof hey, we are part of the
current successes that they're having. Notonly what happened in the in the in
the past, but we also getto share what's going on in the current
(09:16):
and into the future. And bringingwith him to Austin is Max Wiener the
pitching coach and no one came whodid a great job developing players at A
and M and also bringing back Troyto Lewitski after Michael Early was now as
the next successor too Slash Stingle,but sticking with Kine and Wiener. Obviously,
Texas pitching has been the talk ofthe town the last few years,
(09:39):
trying to get the most out ofthe pitching in Texas has struggled with it.
But what do you see from apitching perspective that Max Wiener in Jim
Slashtingle will bring to the forty Acres. Well, if you go back and
you look at what A and Mdid the year before uh Wiener got there,
for Max got there and what theyyou know, they they were or
(10:00):
the bottom part of the sec andthrowing strikes, a number of strikes thrown
and walks, and all of asudden, you know, Jim makes the
change to to winner and he comesin and the very first thing that he
accomplishes is strike's own command. Andthat's so huge. You know, you'll
(10:20):
you'll hear, you know, allof us around baseball talk all the time,
Cameron about freebase and what that doesto a game and the changing of
a game because it's exact same thingas giving up a hit, obviously,
and maybe even more because it's taxingon the number of pitches. And so
they became not only strike throwers,but they became really efficient. And when
(10:41):
you hear coach Slash, they talkabout, you know, the number,
the percentage, the high percentage ofif you throw a strike on the first
pitch, the percentages of you gettingthat ball back in your glove with either
an out or a strike, youknow, being thrown on the net or
being thrown then you're that's a highpercentage of what that first strike means.
(11:03):
And the ability to command the strikezone. And I think that was first
and foremost, I'm sure, andI'm not haven't been around him enough to
understand completely the you know, whatthey do from a you know, working
on the structure of the body andwhat they do with the arm and different
things like that, but and theirwind ups and whatever that might be.
(11:26):
But the bottom line is there.The belief about throwing the ball in the
strike zone and working on it consciously, subconsciously daily is a huge part of
what their success was. And ifyou go back and look if their strike
one ratio this year was really good, walk raiow was really good this year
off the mound obviously, and Ithink that's a big part of what we're
(11:46):
gonna brings to the program into thepitching staff. Yeah, walks and hit
batters were an area of issue forTexas this past season. At the plate
was on a big issue and abig reason was Troy to Lew Whiskey,
who will remain with Texas after Atfirst it looked like Michael Early was going
to come over, and now Earlywas nabbed as the A and M successor
(12:09):
at the Jim Slasnegle. But Tulohas been around this program for about three
seasons now coach Tye and has aidedthe development of course, of Jared Thomas,
A Peyton, Powell, Max Blow, wil Gasprino. The list goes
on and on. How big wasit for Jim Slassningle to get Troy to
Whiskey back after Michael Early left forcollege station. Well, remember, I
(12:33):
guess you know, beginning of hisconversation we talked about he has a plan,
then he has a backup plan,right, and how long did it
take a snap of the fingers?You know, it all turned back around
to being able to talk to Troytotal two Whiskey to Stager and Tulo is
incredibly, incredibly intense worker. Hewas an intense player. He was a
(12:54):
self made player, obviously with talents, but drove him himself. I thought
that his ability to work with thehitters over a couple of years and their
approaches to the to the pitcher,not just along with the mechanics of the
swing, but their approach I thoughttook effect his first year that he was
(13:16):
with him. You could see fromI think it was game ten, you
could really start to see their approachhas changed, is to not just swinging
at the first thing that came upkeming. They went to really a discipline
swing approach. I think that ifyou watch the types of swings they take,
the balance in their swings is acredit to Troy and his work and
(13:39):
his work ethic. He's an animateworker. But also the part of that
that to me is also as impressive. I love the defensive abilities he has
and his teaching abilities with it aswell. I thought his ability and what
he did with Jalen Flores, withcountless others, Peyton Powell taking him from
(14:00):
a catcher to more than above averagethird basement. I mean all those guys
at the infield wise that he's youknow, he's got his fingers on.
You can see the work that he'sput in with him. They threw,
They do such a good job onthe detailed part of playing defense, from
fielding it to throwing it, topositioning to understanding situational You can see Troy's
(14:24):
intensity in there. And there's attentionpaid to details of playing defense which sometimes
aren't as fun and as sexy asa lot of teams want to pay attention
to it, and he does.Yeah, people remember tell Whiskey for how
great he was a hitter, butalso he was a two time Gold Glove
winner as a shortstop with the Rockiesas well a last question for you,
(14:45):
coach. A lot has been made, and mostly from those in College Station,
about how Schlasnegle handed his last couplehours in College Station. Of course,
he had that response to reporter followingGame three, which he has said
he apologiz for. He said onthe SEC Network broadcast on Sunday, he
wish you could do that differently.He did apologize for that, but makes
a good point about the timing andty. You know that timing and this
(15:09):
is so tough when you're trying,when your season just ended and you're being
asked about moving on, it's thelast thing probably on his mind. He's
still thinking about that game, andthen also the timing of taking this job,
because of course Crys del Conte inTexas needs an answer. So if
there's no way to handle a transitionlike this perfectly right, No, there's
(15:33):
not, And there's a handful thingyou's got understand. Number one, there
were even comments made about were theyeven paying attention to that final game?
You don't. That's so false,that's so far from any truth whatsoever,
meaning that Jeff la Stage and hisstaff were completely eye locked in, brain
locked in, mentally physically and emotionallyfocused on winning the national championship. Do
(15:54):
you know people don't understand just howhard that is. You don't mean being
the last team standing and getting anopportunity to play for a national championship and
some people's lifetime that's once in alifetime. And so they were completely locked
in, completely focused. I'm watchedenough baseball in my life to understand just
how locked in they were. Theywere doing everything they could win a national
(16:17):
championship for that. He's at thatpoint in time. And then what's tricky
about this is what people don't understandthis time of year, and particularly Cameron,
with the way the portals set up. If you miss a day or
two, that's a week or twoin the portal that you're missing from a
recruiting standpoint, and so timing becomesso huge and so vital and so critical
(16:38):
at this point, and so there'sthere's really never a good time, right,
So, but you gotta do whatyou gotta do when it becomes a
decision like that, and it's justtough. It truly is tough. And
every day that gets by the wasteis a day that you know other guys
are choosing where they're going to theirnext destination nowadays because of the portal and
(17:02):
the way it is and the wayit's set up. He is coach Ty
Harrington always enjoy having him on Coach. Thanks so much for the time,
and we'll talk to you soon,Cameron. I appreciate it and joined as
always, Yes, sir Ty Harringtonas always on Tuesday, stopping by enjoying
the joined the program. Some greatinsight on Jim's law single the next Texas
(17:25):
Baseball head Coach. We'll hear morefrom Slash during his time on the SEC
Network broadcast on Sunday with Crystal Conte, and went into his decision to come
from College Station to Austin as Thefinal hour of The Correct Way Show continues
here on this text and Tuesday
It's the craig Way Shop with thevoice of the Texas Longhorns and Hall of
Fame broadcast there craig Way, Coach, Now, did you end up staying
for uh mister three or five?For Pitt pull himself? My So let's
(00:25):
just say I was there from whenI saw you to all the way through
the celebration and got to see someof the coaches, got the visits,
visit with Rodney Terry for a littlebit, obviously, Jim Slapsnagel and Coach
White for a little bit, andand then I made my way down for
(00:45):
the then official announcement. And I'lltell you what everybody that got up on
stage and spoke, I was.I was ready to go put my headgear
on and and or my spikes tothe one and go play. And then
right as Pittbull came on, Iassumed from a traffic perspective, that was
(01:08):
my cue, and so I hadto head back to the Bramos Texas.
But I absolutely had a blast.I thought it was I don't you know.
Obviously it's University of Texas and particularlynow the way everything they do is
just done so first class and soexciting, and you know, I mean,
(01:32):
it just was. I was eventaken back a little bit about the
enormity of it, the excitement ofit, the just so many things surrounded
by it, and just was anincredible day. And when I use the
word celebration, it truly was acelebration. Yeah, the rollout was very
(01:55):
impressive and an incredible job done byCrystal Conte and Drew Martin and Charles Branch,
everybody, everybody that was affiliated withit, because it did feel surreal,
and Mike Cars commented on our showthat it felt almost like it was
game day out there time. That'swhat game day is gonna look like.
(02:15):
I mean, issue and plus,I mean, I think you can add
some plus to it. But Iagree with Michael and that, I I
mean it it had a game dayfeel to particularly where you were and and
where we were. iHeart was setup and and thirteen hundred was set up,
you know right there just off thestage. You know, there was
(02:36):
so much traffic coming in, meetingpeople walking in and out of there.
And and when the I thought itwas so fun. When the coaches would
come in headed to the stage,it was like they were walking to a
heavyweight, you know, boxing match. And you know, everybody had the
spotlight on them and uh and ofcourse, uh, you know, having
(02:57):
Grant sank there too, the commission, which was fun for me personally.
I've known Greg for a really longtime and we had a chance actually to
spend some time talking and visiting andgetting caught up. But it just felt
like it was a heavyweight boxing matchthat was about to take off, or
game day as Mike referred to it. Visiting with coach Ty Harrington, of
(03:20):
course, former Texas long corn outfielderand the winningest coach of all time at
Texas State where he was the headbaseball coach. A new head baseball coach
on the forty Acres Jim Sloshnenkl whoof course you know, Ty, when
I asked you last week on Tuesday, what would Texas get it they could
get Jim Sloshnankle. He talked abouthim being a hard worker and what he's
(03:43):
done so far in just a shortweek. It seems like Texas made the
best possible hire in replacing David Pearceby going out and getting Jim Sloshnegel.
Well, Jim is really good andobviously, I mean his record would tell
you that you know, he's he'sone of the top coaches in Division one
(04:03):
baseball and has been for quite sometime. If you go back and look
at the history of what he didat TCU and now what he's done short
time at at you know, TexasA and M I say short time three
years, and what he was ableto get to Omahall you know, two
out of the three years and thenplay for national title and arguably, look,
(04:24):
you could go into the conversation thatyou know, they could have possibly
won, you know, if theydon't lose Montgomery and Seday or not taking
anything away from Tennessee who you know. I just I thought for the for
the one of the first time ina long time, we had the two
best teams in Omahall playing for thenational championship. But haven't said that about
(04:44):
Jim. Jim is coach. SlashAngle is an incredible worker. I mean,
he's a very talented worker. Youknow, some people work in spurts,
some people work hard momentarily, somepeople act like they're working hard.
He does. He works hard andand he expects everybody around him to do
the same. He's incredibly creative.He constantly is pushing the envelope of success?
(05:09):
What's next? How do I stayon the you know, the front
edge of success. He's not chasingit, he's leading it. And that's
different, you know than sometimes alot of people. He's always wanting to
see. His vision is what's next? How do we build something bigger and
better than what everybody else has?How do we stay ahead of the of
(05:30):
the crowd? And then I wouldput it to you like this too,
and this comes from knowing Jim fora long time competing against him. Also
is that, you know, allof us have a plan that we think
is gonna work. But what Jimalso has is he's got a plan and
then he has a backup plan,and meaning if something happens, he's he
(05:51):
It takes him about the snap ofa finger timing to have the next moment
ready to go to replace whatever happened. And that's the him looking into the
future and always being prepared for thewhat if factor that happens in college athletics
daily, by the way, andthere's so many things that happen, particularly
(06:12):
now Cameron with the portal, Imean it is a fluid as you can
be and fluid as you can get, you know, how many guys are
jumping into portal. And you know, I think today it was the last
day of the morrow, last dayto get in the portal. So there's
it's a fluid situation. And he'sa he's so good at staying ahead of
everybody else in his mindset and pushinghis players. And the staff does the
(06:36):
same. They working incredibly hard,and I think he does a good job
of pushing the players. Look,there's something to being when we get uncomfortable.
Sometimes we get better because we getpushed a little bit and all of
us need it. Everybody needs it, and and he's he's really good of
motivating his players to make themselves betteron a daily basis. I've heard him
(07:00):
talk about their plan of how hedoes things and how they want to do
things. He's very honest and forthrightwith his thoughts. Some people at first
have a hard time, you know, adjusting to that, and then they
get to where they embrace it andwant it and they know that it motivates
them. And he is certainly aheadof a lot of people that way.
(07:23):
And incredibly also, I should addthis, and they're incredibly creative. He
really is, And what I meanhe is on the front edge idea wise
he is and introductory press conference,he talked about giving the program back to
the players, right, including thepast players. As a head coach at
Texas State, how important is itto have had those past players around your
(07:49):
teams, around your coaches to helpusher the program along. It's incredibly important,
you can't. You know, it'shard to ask somebody to come give
their heart and soul and sweat andeverything that goes into success and then after
(08:09):
their career is done, that's it. So you want what they gave to
come back so that they can thatthe people that are there now can see
why it was so important to thatgroup ahead of them. Right. That's
called you know, having a history, that's called you know, your alumni
loved the idea of the current team, you know, going, well,
(08:31):
what did you guys do? Howdid y'all do it? What was it
like when you were here? Andthen the alumni loved to go back with
tremendous pride, tremendous love and pridefor their their programs, to go back
and be proud of their successes andto be able to share and that success.
All of us want to know thatwhat we did was important to what's
(08:54):
being done now. And that's thepart about giving it back to the former
players and alumni and how important thatis and it gives you know, the
people that have played there that sensationof hey, we are part of the
current successes that they're having. Notonly what happened in the in the in
the past, but we also getto share what's going on in the current
(09:16):
and into the future. And bringingwith him to Austin is Max Wiener the
pitching coach and no one came whodid a great job developing players at A
and M and also bringing back Troyto Lewitski after Michael Early was now as
the next successor too Slash Stingle,but sticking with Kine and Wiener. Obviously,
Texas pitching has been the talk ofthe town the last few years,
(09:39):
trying to get the most out ofthe pitching in Texas has struggled with it.
But what do you see from apitching perspective that Max Wiener in Jim
Slashtingle will bring to the forty Acres. Well, if you go back and
you look at what A and Mdid the year before uh Wiener got there,
for Max got there and what theyyou know, they they were or
(10:00):
the bottom part of the sec andthrowing strikes, a number of strikes thrown
and walks, and all of asudden, you know, Jim makes the
change to to winner and he comesin and the very first thing that he
accomplishes is strike's own command. Andthat's so huge. You know, you'll
(10:20):
you'll hear, you know, allof us around baseball talk all the time,
Cameron about freebase and what that doesto a game and the changing of
a game because it's exact same thingas giving up a hit, obviously,
and maybe even more because it's taxingon the number of pitches. And so
they became not only strike throwers,but they became really efficient. And when
(10:41):
you hear coach Slash, they talkabout, you know, the number,
the percentage, the high percentage ofif you throw a strike on the first
pitch, the percentages of you gettingthat ball back in your glove with either
an out or a strike, youknow, being thrown on the net or
being thrown then you're that's a highpercentage of what that first strike means.
(11:03):
And the ability to command the strikezone. And I think that was first
and foremost, I'm sure, andI'm not haven't been around him enough to
understand completely the you know, whatthey do from a you know, working
on the structure of the body andwhat they do with the arm and different
things like that, but and theirwind ups and whatever that might be.
(11:26):
But the bottom line is there.The belief about throwing the ball in the
strike zone and working on it consciously, subconsciously daily is a huge part of
what their success was. And ifyou go back and look if their strike
one ratio this year was really good, walk raiow was really good this year
off the mound obviously, and Ithink that's a big part of what we're
(11:46):
gonna brings to the program into thepitching staff. Yeah, walks and hit
batters were an area of issue forTexas this past season. At the plate
was on a big issue and abig reason was Troy to Lew Whiskey,
who will remain with Texas after Atfirst it looked like Michael Early was going
to come over, and now Earlywas nabbed as the A and M successor
(12:09):
at the Jim Slasnegle. But Tulohas been around this program for about three
seasons now coach Tye and has aidedthe development of course, of Jared Thomas,
A Peyton, Powell, Max Blow, wil Gasprino. The list goes
on and on. How big wasit for Jim Slassningle to get Troy to
Whiskey back after Michael Early left forcollege station. Well, remember, I
(12:33):
guess you know, beginning of hisconversation we talked about he has a plan,
then he has a backup plan,right, and how long did it
take a snap of the fingers?You know, it all turned back around
to being able to talk to Troytotal two Whiskey to Stager and Tulo is
incredibly, incredibly intense worker. Hewas an intense player. He was a
(12:54):
self made player, obviously with talents, but drove him himself. I thought
that his ability to work with thehitters over a couple of years and their
approaches to the to the pitcher,not just along with the mechanics of the
swing, but their approach I thoughttook effect his first year that he was
(13:16):
with him. You could see fromI think it was game ten, you
could really start to see their approachhas changed, is to not just swinging
at the first thing that came upkeming. They went to really a discipline
swing approach. I think that ifyou watch the types of swings they take,
the balance in their swings is acredit to Troy and his work and
(13:39):
his work ethic. He's an animateworker. But also the part of that
that to me is also as impressive. I love the defensive abilities he has
and his teaching abilities with it aswell. I thought his ability and what
he did with Jalen Flores, withcountless others, Peyton Powell taking him from
(14:00):
a catcher to more than above averagethird basement. I mean all those guys
at the infield wise that he's youknow, he's got his fingers on.
You can see the work that he'sput in with him. They threw,
They do such a good job onthe detailed part of playing defense, from
fielding it to throwing it, topositioning to understanding situational You can see Troy's
(14:24):
intensity in there. And there's attentionpaid to details of playing defense which sometimes
aren't as fun and as sexy asa lot of teams want to pay attention
to it, and he does.Yeah, people remember tell Whiskey for how
great he was a hitter, butalso he was a two time Gold Glove
winner as a shortstop with the Rockiesas well a last question for you,
(14:45):
coach. A lot has been made, and mostly from those in College Station,
about how Schlasnegle handed his last couplehours in College Station. Of course,
he had that response to reporter followingGame three, which he has said
he apologiz for. He said onthe SEC Network broadcast on Sunday, he
wish you could do that differently.He did apologize for that, but makes
a good point about the timing andty. You know that timing and this
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is so tough when you're trying,when your season just ended and you're being
asked about moving on, it's thelast thing probably on his mind. He's
still thinking about that game, andthen also the timing of taking this job,
because of course Crys del Conte inTexas needs an answer. So if
there's no way to handle a transitionlike this perfectly right, No, there's
(15:33):
not, And there's a handful thingyou's got understand. Number one, there
were even comments made about were theyeven paying attention to that final game?
You don't. That's so false,that's so far from any truth whatsoever,
meaning that Jeff la Stage and hisstaff were completely eye locked in, brain
locked in, mentally physically and emotionallyfocused on winning the national championship. Do
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you know people don't understand just howhard that is. You don't mean being
the last team standing and getting anopportunity to play for a national championship and
some people's lifetime that's once in alifetime. And so they were completely locked
in, completely focused. I'm watchedenough baseball in my life to understand just
how locked in they were. Theywere doing everything they could win a national
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championship for that. He's at thatpoint in time. And then what's tricky
about this is what people don't understandthis time of year, and particularly Cameron,
with the way the portals set up. If you miss a day or
two, that's a week or twoin the portal that you're missing from a
recruiting standpoint, and so timing becomesso huge and so vital and so critical
(16:38):
at this point, and so there'sthere's really never a good time, right,
So, but you gotta do whatyou gotta do when it becomes a
decision like that, and it's justtough. It truly is tough. And
every day that gets by the wasteis a day that you know other guys
are choosing where they're going to theirnext destination nowadays because of the portal and
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the way it is and the wayit's set up. He is coach Ty
Harrington always enjoy having him on Coach. Thanks so much for the time,
and we'll talk to you soon,Cameron. I appreciate it and joined as
always, Yes, sir Ty Harringtonas always on Tuesday, stopping by enjoying
the joined the program. Some greatinsight on Jim's law single the next Texas
(17:25):
Baseball head Coach. We'll hear morefrom Slash during his time on the SEC
Network broadcast on Sunday with Crystal Conte, and went into his decision to come
from College Station to Austin as Thefinal hour of The Correct Way Show continues
here on this text and Tuesday
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