July 8, 2024 • 14 mins
The SEC Media Days will begin next week in Dallas and the Texas Longhorns will attend for the first time since joining the conference. Craig and Cam will be broadcasting live from the Dallas Omni Hotel each day but won't be alone! Steve Sarkisian will represent the Longhorns along with Quinn Ewers, Jahdae Barron, and Kelvin Banks. Craig runs down the other attendees.
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(00:06):
We're back. It's the Craig WayShow with Hall of Fame broadcaster and voice
of the Texas Longheards Craig Way.Happy to be with you on the Monday
afternoon back from the VAKA. So, yeah, starting the brand new week,
(00:29):
and one of the things that Ialways look forward to every year,
and I actually begin to think abouta little bit when I get on vacation,
because when you get out there,you start to First of all,
(00:53):
you relax and you know, decompressand all those kinds of things that you're
supposed to do. It's what avacation is all about, right, So
do that. But then you alsocomes a point, especially once you get
into the second week of the vacationand this year being up for the National
Sports Media Association Awards, bankut upthere too. You're sitting around talking shop,
(01:17):
so to speak, with other playby play voices. And I was
talking a lot with Chris Stewart,the new play by play voice for Alabama
and Sean Kelly, the voice ofthe Florida Gators, and we were talking
a lot about sec stuff, asyou might imagine, and so in doing
that, you start to think aboutsome of the other things that are going
(01:42):
to come when come down the pikewhen you get back. And for me,
historically, there have been two eventsthat really come to mind and has
me really it kind of puts mein the football mode. Three if you
count the shipment of Dave Campbell's TexasFootball magazines that arrive every year. Like
(02:05):
we said I mentioned before, thetop of the hour of the shipment is
in and we are going to givethem away like we've done, like I've
done for the past. I thinkit's this will be twenty seven straight years
of doing it, so we're goingto do that again. But there's two
other events that kind of come tomind for me that know that I always
(02:27):
talk of as signposts, mile markersif you will, that you're drawing closer
to the start of football season.One is coaching School for the Texas High
School Coaches Association and that is comingup. That will be at the end
at the tail end of next week, starting into the following week, and
(02:50):
that will take place in San Antonio. Now that will be preceded by SEC
Media Days, but towards the veryend of next week just start making their
way into San Antonio. Is aboutfifteen thousand of them in there. I
used to call it the largest collectionof bike shorts and heat bomb in the
(03:10):
on the planet. There at onetime. Of course, coaches are wearing
much more fashionable things and not somuch the bike shorts anymore, but all
of the other things that happen whichare really cool, the lectures and the
exhibit hall for all of the thingswhere you can walk into that exhibit hall
(03:31):
in San Antonio and see everything fromcoaching help guides and things like that,
motivational books to the latest sports drinksand nutritional supplements, to scoreboards, blocking
(03:54):
sleds, all kinds of peril.Our friends at Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine
have a booth there or display there, so that happens there. And then
then, of course, the otherthing that's really cool is the lecture stuff
in the panel discussion, and Ilook forward to doing that. Serving as
(04:16):
moderator for this panel discussion every year. That includes every Division one FBS college
football coach in the state of Texas, and they're all on one stage at
one time. Sark hasn't missed onesince he's been there. Jimbo Fisher did
(04:36):
not make last years, but consideringhow it ultimately wound up for him.
It doesn't really matter, does it. But normally every Division one FBS coach
in the state of Texas is there. GJ. Kinney of Texas State,
We'll be on that stage, SunnyDike's at TCU. I'm sure that Mike
(04:59):
Elco, the coach of Texas Aand M, will be on that stage
as well as sorry, and everyother Division one FBS coach in the state
will be up on that stage.And it's an opportunity for high school coaches
to ask these guys questions about howthey run their programs and build coaching staffs,
and how you deal with problem guysand so on and so forth that
(05:20):
sort of thing. In addition,a lot of questions have been submitted in
advance, and I have those questionswith me when I go on to the
stage, and other things that theylike to ask them about NIL and transfer
portal and things like that. Andthese coaches are very very very very open
because this is their constituency and they'retrying to make sure they maintain their good
(05:43):
relations with these coaching no matter whothey are, will be it Joey McGuire
at Texas Tech or say coach Keelerat SAM Houston because their Division one FBS.
Now, Eric Morris at North Texas, you know what r at Lashly
at SMU, you know whatever coachesare on that panel when they're usually the
(06:06):
full membership is there. So that'sthirteen up on one stage. So that's
that's one of those mile posts,one of those mile mile markers, signposts
that we're drawing a little bit closerto the start of football season. But
it is the event that precedes itthat that really starts to shake me into
(06:30):
the mindset of football being just aroundthe corner, and that is now in
the past was Big twelve Football MediaDays. In fact, I've even had
to just make a mental note tostop saying Big twelve media Days. I
did it again to day. It'shard to say big twelve football media and
(06:50):
so he kind of rolls off Bigtwelve Football Media Days. Big telve football
means like it starts with a Band ns with an s. Big twelve
Football media Days. You know allthat was, well, it's not big
you have any more. For Texasobviously it's SEC, so it's SEC media
days. But and for me,for ogs like me, I mean it
(07:11):
goes back to Southwest Conference Media Days. I covered Southwest Conference when they did
it a little bit different in SouthwestConference a little bit different Up to the
last year. I think it waskind of more of a tour and you
would go down to the different citiesto do it. But so all those
years of Big Twelve Media Days andnow SEC Media Days for Texas. So
(07:33):
when all these coaches arrive, andof course the SEC has to spread it
out of for four days, andnow the Big Twelve has to since they
are going to have sixteen teams justlike the SEC, so you have to
spread it out over four days andthere'll be four head coaches every day.
Well, today Cameron got his.If you are an accredited journalist, media
(07:59):
men, or who's going to becovering it, if you've already been a
proof of your credentials, then you'reon the mailing list and you get you
get the rundown, and today wegot it. It tells all the stuff
about the registration and meeting access andparking and virtual stuff and media portal and
reporting and all this different stuff.And one thing I like about the SEC
(08:22):
already they've got to they always havea real sense of their history about them.
They've been doing it since nineteen eightyfive, and from nineteen eighty five
to twenty seventeen they were completely andtotally in the Birmingham area. You know
(08:46):
where the SEC offices have been,so like nineteen eighty five, they actually
show that. In nineteen eighty fivethey were at the Holiday Inn Medical Center,
and in eighty six and eighty seventhey were at the Birmingham Hilton,
eighty eight through ninety one at theWinfree Hotel. I stopped to get gas
right by that Winfrey Hotel on Saturdayon the drive back from North Carolina,
(09:09):
and I pointed it out to Linda, and I said, that's where they've
had SEC Media Day more than anyother venue. They went to the Medical
Forum Birmingham Sheraton from ninety two totwo thousand. Then for seventeen straight years
it was back at the Winfrey whichis now a Hyatt. This is where
(09:30):
Texas stayed, by the way,the night before the Alabama game last September.
So there for seventeen straight years.One year they went back to they
went to Atlanta where the College FootballHall of Fame OMNI was. They went
back again in twenty nineteen to Winfrey. There was not one in twenty twenty
obviously through the pandemic, but therewas in twenty twenty one. They did
(09:52):
go to Atlanta in twenty twenty two, in Nashville in twenty twenty three.
So and it's always like at thetail end or toward the middle of July.
So they list all of that stuffas kind of the history of what
they've done. But the other thing, and this is something that all media
members who take part in this lookforward to, is the list of attendees
(10:20):
at They have that listed, Theyhave the attendee So here these are the
student athletes who will definitely be atSEC football kickoff media Days, as they
call it. From Alabama, youhave Jaylen Milroe, the quarterback. In
(10:41):
Native Texas, you have Tyler Bookeroffensive lineman, and Malakay Moore grad student
dB Arkansas, Andrew Armstrong wide receiver, quarterback Taylor Green and a junior and
senior defensive Inland and Jackson from Auburnsenior quarterback Peyton Forn, senior linebacker Eugena
Sance, and defensive end Keldrick Falkfrom Florida senior quarterback Graham Mertz, junior
(11:09):
inside linebacker Shamar James and senior runningback Montreal Johnson from Georgia. Senior quarterback
Carson Beck, junior defensive lineman,Michael Williams, Junior safety Malachi Starks from
Kentucky. Marcus Cox senior offensive lineman, senior linebacker, Derek Jackson, junior
(11:30):
d lineman Dion Walker from LSU juniorquarterback. You're at nuss Meyer tight end
id n junior Mason Taylor and juniorlinebacker Harold Perkinson, Texas high school product
from Ole, miss Senior quarterback JacksonDart, senior wide receiver, Trey Harris,
senior defensive end Jared Ivy from MississippiState. Senior quarterback Blake Shapin.
(11:52):
That's right, the former Baylor Bearjunior offensive lineman Albert Reese. The fourth,
junior linebacker John Lewis from Missouri.Junior wide receiver Luther bird In the
third, Senior quarterback Brady Cook,Senior defensive lineman, Kristen Williams Oklahoma sophomore
quarterback Jackson Arnold, senior linebacker,Danny Stutzman senior defensive back. Billy Bowman.
(12:15):
Billy Bowman, junior South Carolina seniordefensive tackle Alex Huntley, senior athlete
Luke Dodie and senior linebacker Deebo Williamsfrom Tennessee. Senior center Cooper Mays,
senior linebacker Keenan Peely, and seniordefensive lineman oh Mariy Thomas from Texas,
(12:37):
Junior quarterback Win Yours, junior offensivelineman Calvin Banks, sixt year senior defensive
back Shade barn from Texas A andM. Senior defensive lineman Chamar Turner,
sophomore linebacker Tory in York, junioroffensive lineman Trey Zuhn, and from Vanderbilt
senior offensive lineman Gunner Hansen, juniorlinebacker Langston Patterson, and senior safety CJ.
(13:01):
Taylor. So those are the studentathletes in Texas in the past.
I don't know if this will bethe case with the SEC, but definitely
with the Big Twelve. They usedto bring some other players who did a
lot of social media posting and thingslike that, so there would be five
or six there, and that mightbe the case since it's in Dallas.
In addition to those three, anythingstriking about those selections about who was there
(13:24):
or who was not there? Yeah, I was curious to see who Texas
would represent. Obviously, you knewhe was gonna be Quin Yours and Shoddy
Barron was a good choice because hehas a great personality. He'll be great
on radio row, he'll be greatduring the interviews, and Kelvin Banks too.
A good spot for Kelvin Banks getssome Obviously he's been a part of
the media for the local side forthe last couple of years. But he's
(13:46):
going to be a first round draftpick this next season, so more opportunities
for him to get in front ofa microphone, get more experience because he's
a great athlete and a great kid. So excited for that. Excited to
be up in Dallas for the secyou know, with the celebration, it
kind of felt like, you know, finally it's here. But I think
seeing the Texas staff walk around withpeople wearing the Georgia logos and the Vanderbilt
(14:09):
logos in Tennessee and Georgia, it'sgonna be like, okay, okay,
because I've been in the Big twelvemany days the last three four years,
so it's gonna be weird not seeingIowa State, Texas Tech and the TCU
and all of their mascots, seeingthe dude from West Virginia, the Coon
mus this musket, and the OklahomaState Cowboy Pistol Pete walking in there and
(14:33):
wondering like, is that comfortable theplastic, big heavy head that he's wearing
on that. Yeah, it's apart of that as well. I've got
a couple other notes and thoughts aboutthat, and some other college football notes
that we'll get to when we continuehere on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app.
We're back. It's the Craig WayShow with Hall of Fame broadcaster and voice
of the Texas Longheards Craig Way.Happy to be with you on the Monday
afternoon back from the VAKA. So, yeah, starting the brand new week,
(00:29):
and one of the things that Ialways look forward to every year,
and I actually begin to think abouta little bit when I get on vacation,
because when you get out there,you start to First of all,
(00:53):
you relax and you know, decompressand all those kinds of things that you're
supposed to do. It's what avacation is all about, right, So
do that. But then you alsocomes a point, especially once you get
into the second week of the vacationand this year being up for the National
Sports Media Association Awards, bankut upthere too. You're sitting around talking shop,
(01:17):
so to speak, with other playby play voices. And I was
talking a lot with Chris Stewart,the new play by play voice for Alabama
and Sean Kelly, the voice ofthe Florida Gators, and we were talking
a lot about sec stuff, asyou might imagine, and so in doing
that, you start to think aboutsome of the other things that are going
(01:42):
to come when come down the pikewhen you get back. And for me,
historically, there have been two eventsthat really come to mind and has
me really it kind of puts mein the football mode. Three if you
count the shipment of Dave Campbell's TexasFootball magazines that arrive every year. Like
(02:05):
we said I mentioned before, thetop of the hour of the shipment is
in and we are going to givethem away like we've done, like I've
done for the past. I thinkit's this will be twenty seven straight years
of doing it, so we're goingto do that again. But there's two
other events that kind of come tomind for me that know that I always
(02:27):
talk of as signposts, mile markersif you will, that you're drawing closer
to the start of football season.One is coaching School for the Texas High
School Coaches Association and that is comingup. That will be at the end
at the tail end of next week, starting into the following week, and
(02:50):
that will take place in San Antonio. Now that will be preceded by SEC
Media Days, but towards the veryend of next week just start making their
way into San Antonio. Is aboutfifteen thousand of them in there. I
used to call it the largest collectionof bike shorts and heat bomb in the
(03:10):
on the planet. There at onetime. Of course, coaches are wearing
much more fashionable things and not somuch the bike shorts anymore, but all
of the other things that happen whichare really cool, the lectures and the
exhibit hall for all of the thingswhere you can walk into that exhibit hall
(03:31):
in San Antonio and see everything fromcoaching help guides and things like that,
motivational books to the latest sports drinksand nutritional supplements, to scoreboards, blocking
(03:54):
sleds, all kinds of peril.Our friends at Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine
have a booth there or display there, so that happens there. And then
then, of course, the otherthing that's really cool is the lecture stuff
in the panel discussion, and Ilook forward to doing that. Serving as
(04:16):
moderator for this panel discussion every year. That includes every Division one FBS college
football coach in the state of Texas, and they're all on one stage at
one time. Sark hasn't missed onesince he's been there. Jimbo Fisher did
(04:36):
not make last years, but consideringhow it ultimately wound up for him.
It doesn't really matter, does it. But normally every Division one FBS coach
in the state of Texas is there. GJ. Kinney of Texas State,
We'll be on that stage, SunnyDike's at TCU. I'm sure that Mike
(04:59):
Elco, the coach of Texas Aand M, will be on that stage
as well as sorry, and everyother Division one FBS coach in the state
will be up on that stage.And it's an opportunity for high school coaches
to ask these guys questions about howthey run their programs and build coaching staffs,
and how you deal with problem guysand so on and so forth that
(05:20):
sort of thing. In addition,a lot of questions have been submitted in
advance, and I have those questionswith me when I go on to the
stage, and other things that theylike to ask them about NIL and transfer
portal and things like that. Andthese coaches are very very very very open
because this is their constituency and they'retrying to make sure they maintain their good
(05:43):
relations with these coaching no matter whothey are, will be it Joey McGuire
at Texas Tech or say coach Keelerat SAM Houston because their Division one FBS.
Now, Eric Morris at North Texas, you know what r at Lashly
at SMU, you know whatever coachesare on that panel when they're usually the
(06:06):
full membership is there. So that'sthirteen up on one stage. So that's
that's one of those mile posts,one of those mile mile markers, signposts
that we're drawing a little bit closerto the start of football season. But
it is the event that precedes itthat that really starts to shake me into
(06:30):
the mindset of football being just aroundthe corner, and that is now in
the past was Big twelve Football MediaDays. In fact, I've even had
to just make a mental note tostop saying Big twelve media Days. I
did it again to day. It'shard to say big twelve football media and
(06:50):
so he kind of rolls off Bigtwelve Football Media Days. Big telve football
means like it starts with a Band ns with an s. Big twelve
Football media Days. You know allthat was, well, it's not big
you have any more. For Texasobviously it's SEC, so it's SEC media
days. But and for me,for ogs like me, I mean it
(07:11):
goes back to Southwest Conference Media Days. I covered Southwest Conference when they did
it a little bit different in SouthwestConference a little bit different Up to the
last year. I think it waskind of more of a tour and you
would go down to the different citiesto do it. But so all those
years of Big Twelve Media Days andnow SEC Media Days for Texas. So
(07:33):
when all these coaches arrive, andof course the SEC has to spread it
out of for four days, andnow the Big Twelve has to since they
are going to have sixteen teams justlike the SEC, so you have to
spread it out over four days andthere'll be four head coaches every day.
Well, today Cameron got his.If you are an accredited journalist, media
(07:59):
men, or who's going to becovering it, if you've already been a
proof of your credentials, then you'reon the mailing list and you get you
get the rundown, and today wegot it. It tells all the stuff
about the registration and meeting access andparking and virtual stuff and media portal and
reporting and all this different stuff.And one thing I like about the SEC
(08:22):
already they've got to they always havea real sense of their history about them.
They've been doing it since nineteen eightyfive, and from nineteen eighty five
to twenty seventeen they were completely andtotally in the Birmingham area. You know
(08:46):
where the SEC offices have been,so like nineteen eighty five, they actually
show that. In nineteen eighty fivethey were at the Holiday Inn Medical Center,
and in eighty six and eighty seventhey were at the Birmingham Hilton,
eighty eight through ninety one at theWinfree Hotel. I stopped to get gas
right by that Winfrey Hotel on Saturdayon the drive back from North Carolina,
(09:09):
and I pointed it out to Linda, and I said, that's where they've
had SEC Media Day more than anyother venue. They went to the Medical
Forum Birmingham Sheraton from ninety two totwo thousand. Then for seventeen straight years
it was back at the Winfrey whichis now a Hyatt. This is where
(09:30):
Texas stayed, by the way,the night before the Alabama game last September.
So there for seventeen straight years.One year they went back to they
went to Atlanta where the College FootballHall of Fame OMNI was. They went
back again in twenty nineteen to Winfrey. There was not one in twenty twenty
obviously through the pandemic, but therewas in twenty twenty one. They did
(09:52):
go to Atlanta in twenty twenty two, in Nashville in twenty twenty three.
So and it's always like at thetail end or toward the middle of July.
So they list all of that stuffas kind of the history of what
they've done. But the other thing, and this is something that all media
members who take part in this lookforward to, is the list of attendees
(10:20):
at They have that listed, Theyhave the attendee So here these are the
student athletes who will definitely be atSEC football kickoff media Days, as they
call it. From Alabama, youhave Jaylen Milroe, the quarterback. In
(10:41):
Native Texas, you have Tyler Bookeroffensive lineman, and Malakay Moore grad student
dB Arkansas, Andrew Armstrong wide receiver, quarterback Taylor Green and a junior and
senior defensive Inland and Jackson from Auburnsenior quarterback Peyton Forn, senior linebacker Eugena
Sance, and defensive end Keldrick Falkfrom Florida senior quarterback Graham Mertz, junior
(11:09):
inside linebacker Shamar James and senior runningback Montreal Johnson from Georgia. Senior quarterback
Carson Beck, junior defensive lineman,Michael Williams, Junior safety Malachi Starks from
Kentucky. Marcus Cox senior offensive lineman, senior linebacker, Derek Jackson, junior
(11:30):
d lineman Dion Walker from LSU juniorquarterback. You're at nuss Meyer tight end
id n junior Mason Taylor and juniorlinebacker Harold Perkinson, Texas high school product
from Ole, miss Senior quarterback JacksonDart, senior wide receiver, Trey Harris,
senior defensive end Jared Ivy from MississippiState. Senior quarterback Blake Shapin.
(11:52):
That's right, the former Baylor Bearjunior offensive lineman Albert Reese. The fourth,
junior linebacker John Lewis from Missouri.Junior wide receiver Luther bird In the
third, Senior quarterback Brady Cook,Senior defensive lineman, Kristen Williams Oklahoma sophomore
quarterback Jackson Arnold, senior linebacker,Danny Stutzman senior defensive back. Billy Bowman.
(12:15):
Billy Bowman, junior South Carolina seniordefensive tackle Alex Huntley, senior athlete
Luke Dodie and senior linebacker Deebo Williamsfrom Tennessee. Senior center Cooper Mays,
senior linebacker Keenan Peely, and seniordefensive lineman oh Mariy Thomas from Texas,
(12:37):
Junior quarterback Win Yours, junior offensivelineman Calvin Banks, sixt year senior defensive
back Shade barn from Texas A andM. Senior defensive lineman Chamar Turner,
sophomore linebacker Tory in York, junioroffensive lineman Trey Zuhn, and from Vanderbilt
senior offensive lineman Gunner Hansen, juniorlinebacker Langston Patterson, and senior safety CJ.
(13:01):
Taylor. So those are the studentathletes in Texas in the past.
I don't know if this will bethe case with the SEC, but definitely
with the Big Twelve. They usedto bring some other players who did a
lot of social media posting and thingslike that, so there would be five
or six there, and that mightbe the case since it's in Dallas.
In addition to those three, anythingstriking about those selections about who was there
(13:24):
or who was not there? Yeah, I was curious to see who Texas
would represent. Obviously, you knewhe was gonna be Quin Yours and Shoddy
Barron was a good choice because hehas a great personality. He'll be great
on radio row, he'll be greatduring the interviews, and Kelvin Banks too.
A good spot for Kelvin Banks getssome Obviously he's been a part of
the media for the local side forthe last couple of years. But he's
(13:46):
going to be a first round draftpick this next season, so more opportunities
for him to get in front ofa microphone, get more experience because he's
a great athlete and a great kid. So excited for that. Excited to
be up in Dallas for the secyou know, with the celebration, it
kind of felt like, you know, finally it's here. But I think
seeing the Texas staff walk around withpeople wearing the Georgia logos and the Vanderbilt
(14:09):
logos in Tennessee and Georgia, it'sgonna be like, okay, okay,
because I've been in the Big twelvemany days the last three four years,
so it's gonna be weird not seeingIowa State, Texas Tech and the TCU
and all of their mascots, seeingthe dude from West Virginia, the Coon
mus this musket, and the OklahomaState Cowboy Pistol Pete walking in there and
(14:33):
wondering like, is that comfortable theplastic, big heavy head that he's wearing
on that. Yeah, it's apart of that as well. I've got
a couple other notes and thoughts aboutthat, and some other college football notes
that we'll get to when we continuehere on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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