July 17, 2024 • 28 mins
Hear Steve Sarkisian's press conference from the SEC Media Days as he speaks on the Longhorns' inaugural season in the SEC, renewing past rivalries against Texas A&M and Arkansas, the state of the team heading into the fall, Quinn Ewers, Arch Manning, and more.
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It's quite conceivable that we're going tobring you the news conference with Logorns head
coach Steve Sarkisian. Let's go tothe podium the introduction from the Commission of
the SEC, Greg Sache, Soi'll I'll let him explain that he's a
Los Angeles native who's also a fanof the LA Dodgers, joys watching and
playing golf when he can, whichwe know is limited from this point forward.
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Through the football season, has becomegood friends with Sergio Garcia, who's
now an Austin resident. It's sometimesforgotten that he was a quarterback in his
own right. I was here inDallas where he played his final college game.
It was offensive MVP of the CottonBowl back in nineteen ninety six.
For yu first appearance at the SECFootball Media Days for the University of Texas
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head football coach Steve Sarkisian, alrighty, the first thing I'd like to do
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is welcome the SEC media to Dallas, Texas. This is an awesome opportunity
I think for uh, for thestate of Texas, for y'all to be
here to join us, and whata stage this has been and what a
journey it's been. To get tothis point, I want to hit on
a couple of things before we getgoing. You know, when I was
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a young coach, my first jobas a graduate assistant was at USC under
Pete Carroll, and there was atight end coach there who was a young
coach as well, but named ElaineKiffen, and his father MANI took me
under his wing every time he cameto town and we talked football, and
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I learned more about Tampa two thananybody. So anybody who's playing me,
please play Tampa two because I cantell you exactly who's supposed to go,
where, how and why, becausethat's who Monti Kiffin was. He was
so detailed. He was a genuineman. He cared for all of those
that nobody cared about. And uh, it's a it's a deer loss,
not only for the sport of football, but it's a dear loss for me
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and I know for laying and mycondolences to the Kiffen family on that.
The next thing is thoughts and prayerswith those affected by Hurricane Burrell uh in
Houston in all effective areas. We'restill thinking of you, We're praying for
y'all. I know it's a It'shad a lot of impact on a lot
of people, and this time ofyear with the hurricanes, we are we're
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definitely thinking of y'all, UH,and our and our prayers are with you.
The next I want to talk brieflyabout Coach Saban. Coach, I
see you. I know everybody's beencoming up talking about you, but UH,
and I know you've impacted a lotof a lot of people who have
been up on this stage. Noone have you impacted more than me.
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I would not be standing here todaywithout you and what you've what you've meant
to my career, UH, tomy life, and I can't thank you
enough. And the impact that you'vehad on our game has been second to
none, and I just can't thankyou enough. I want to be able
to publicly do that to you,Coach, Thank you very very much.
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The next thing I want to shiftgears to is talk a little bit about
a couple of weeks ago in Austin, Texas and we had our SEC celebration
and what a celebration it was,and you could feel the excitement from Longhorn
Nation. The fact that we getto be here today this fall, playing
in the Southeastern Conference is tremendous.That was a tremendous event. I was
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shocked, quite frankly at the amountof people and the pageantry that that that
was there that day. It gaveme a little sense and a feel of
what goes on outside of dk Ron game day that I normally don't get
to be part of, and thatwouldn't happen without the leadership of President Jay
Hartzel, Chairman of our board Kevinel Type, and our athletic director Chris
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del Connie. Their vision to takethe University of Texas into the Southeastern Conference
was one that took a lot offoresight. I wish they maybe would have
informed me before I took the jobthat this is what we were going to
do, but I didn't get informedthat until afterwards. But I said,
hey, we already had to builda team that was going to have to
beat the best team in the SECif we wanted to win a national championship,
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so not much had to change theirforce on that front. And then
lastly, I'd like to thank CommissionerSanki his guidance, his leadership to be
part of this with him what he'sbeen able to do in this conference,
to put it on the forefront onthe national stage has been tremendous. And
I was just joking with him inthe back. So we flew in this
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morning, We landed, and weget off the plane, we get in
the sprinter van, and we gota police escort to media days. It
just means more. I mean,it just means more right there. The
fact that we had a sprinter vanwith a police escort to come to this
was tremendous. As far as ourtransition in the Southeastern Conference, I think
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the key word is respect. Wehave a ton of respect for this conference.
We have a ton of respect forthe teams, the coaches, the
players, and the fans. Thisis the elite conference in college football and
we're fortunate enough to be part ofit. And we won't do anything without
having a level of respect of whowe play, where we're playing them,
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the types of players that they have, the coaching that they have, and
I think on the flip side ofthat, we have to go earn their
respect. We're not going to getanything in this deal. Nothing's going to
be free, Okay. We're gonnahave to go earn the respect of our
opponents. The opposing coaches, theopposing fans, and that's going to be
our that's going to be kind ofon the forefront of what we do.
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But the beauty of this conference isreally the pageantry. You know, I've
been fortunate enough have spent three yearsin the Southeastern Conference. The pageantry of
the games, the stadiums that youget to play against, the the iconic
programs. That's the beauty of theSoutheastern Conference. And and uh, the
fact that we get to be partof it now it's finally here, UH
is pretty exciting. It's a it'sjust a great opportunity. As far as
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our team goes, I think thisteam has been really, really focused.
You know, it's been a longtime coming for Texas to get back to
the stage. Last year was atremendous run. We fell short in the
semi finals and the Sugar Bowl.Coming off of being Big twelve champions,
we set a we set a schoolrecord with eleven players drafted in the NFL
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Draft, and that that's a realcredit not only to our coaches for we're
trying to recruit good players, butI think to the development of our players
in our program, not only onthe football field, but in the weight
room, in the classroom, andin life. UH that that the NFL
sees players in our program that couldcome in UH and enhance their teams to
help them try to go win aSuper Bowl. There's an idea of obsession
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going on in our locker room rightnow. They got a taste of what
it can taste like of being aBig twelve champion playing in a college football
playoff and we fell short. Andthis idea of of session, the obsession
that our players have is one thatreally came from them. They couldn't wait
to get back to work. Theycouldn't wait to get back in the weight
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room. And when I took thejob, I don't know if I could
have said that it was almost likekind of prodden cattle to make sure that
what they were doing day in andday out to get them to that point.
Now we've got a team full ofhungry players. It's a competitive,
competitive roster and I love that aboutthem because in this conference, you got
to have depth. If you don'thave depth, and everybody wants to talk
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about the O and D line,yes, that's vitally important, and I
think we've got great depth there.You got to have depth at quarterback.
You have to have depth at runningback, you have to have depth at
safety, you have to have depthacross the board. And for us to
be able to sit here and saythis is the deepest team we've had,
probably the most talented team we've hadin my four years here, I can
unequivocally say that. And we lostsome really good players a year ago,
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but we've got a very deep footballteam, one that we're excited about and
looking forward to watching them compete thisfall. Of off the team, We've
got three players here with us today. We've got Quin yours going into year
three as our quarterback, a guywho has gotten better from year one to
year two. He's really improved fromyear two to year three. He's changed
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his body, he looks great,he understands the system. But the thing
that I'm probably most proud of himabout is his leadership. This guy is
exuding confidence right now. And there'snothing better for anybody in your organization,
for anybody in your building to walkin and to say, there's our guy,
and our guy's exuding confidence. He'scarrying himself the right way, He's
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doing things the right way, notonly on the field, but off the
field. He's our leader, andwe can unequivocally say that about Quinn yours
and I'm proud to have him withus today. He's got a great belt
buckle on if you guys haven't seenit yet, in some awesome boots if
you're wondering. Kelvin Banks is alsowith us today, our left tackle who's
been a Day one starter since hewas a true freshman. If there's anybody
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in our program that I would say, hey, go emulate that guy.
The way he handles his business onthe field, off the field, the
way he works. First guy there, last guy off the field, that's
Kelvin Banks. Now, he's goingto be a high draft pick whenever that
day comes. But the way he'scarried himself has been super impressive. And
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his play shows on Saturdays, butit's who he is Sunday through Friday is
really makes up why he plays theway on Saturday. And then Johay Barn's
here with us as well, aguy who had a tough decision to come
back for his senior season came back. He's kind of the glue on the
defense for us. He's heady,he's savvy, he can play multiple positions,
he's tough. I love what hebrings to our team. I love
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the leadership that he brings to theteam, and so we're lucky to have
him. As far as our coachingstaff goes, one thing that we have
going for us is coordinator continuity.I've had the same coordinators in four years
now here at Texas with Kyle Floodon the offensive line offensive coordinator, Pete
Wakowski is our defensive coordinator, andthen Jeff Banks as our special teams coordinator.
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From an offensive perspective, if youhaven't ever seen us play, we
believe in balance. We even believein trying to make it hard on the
defense with multiple personnel groupings, formations, motion shifts. We love to run
the football, we love to playaction pass, we love to RPO.
That's not going to change. Okay, So if you're wondering how is it
going to look with the new headset, communication thing we are going to change.
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We're going to do what we do. We're just going to try to
do it better than we did ayear ago. Okay. Defensively, I
think one thing that we've really triedto evolve into, we've really tried to
commit ourselves to stop in the run, and I think that showed a year
ago. We have to be betterin pass defense. And there's two ways
to get better in pass defense.One got to cover people better, right,
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You've got to guard people better.You have to have people that can
guard them. You also have tohave the schemes to guard those people.
But you have to have a betterway to affect the quarterback. And so
we've really tried to invoke that intoour team of how do we create more
of a pass rush to affect thequarterback, which I think we've improved upon
this year and we'll see the benefitsof that. And then on special teams.
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You know, we're an aggressive specialteams unit. We try to go
block the kick. If we're notgoing to block the kick, we're going
to try to return it for atouchdown. That's just the way we operate
and Coach Banks does a great jobwith that and looking forward to another great
year. And when you have depthon your team like we have right now,
that's when your special teams can reallystart to rise up, because we
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try to play our best players onspecial teams. When you've got multiple good
players, now that depth can permeateto special teams and so we think we're
going to be even better on teamsthen we've been in the in the past
and we've been pretty good. Andin the end, for our team,
we have to be mentally and physicallytough. And that's the way we preach,
that's what we teach, that's theway we work, that's the way
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we work in the off season.That'll never change. And for any of
youse who have ever been to Austin, Texas in July and you start walking
in DKR and running in DKR atfour o'clock in the afternoon, you better
be mentally and physically tough. Andthat's what our guys are doing right now.
I'd say a couple of things inclosing, and then we get to questions.
At the University of Texas, thestandard is the standard, okay.
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Part of that standard is our culture, all right. Our culture is what
makes us who we are. Wetake a lot of pride in our culture.
We pour into our culture. Weare a very connected group. We
love one another, we work withone another, and that's not going to
change, okay. But at theUniversity of Texas, part of the standard
being the standard is competing for championshipsI'm up here talking about football, but
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it's at every sport, it's atevery level, and so it regardless of
the conference. And that's to takenothing away from the sec our goals to
come into this conference and compete fora conference championship. That is what it
is. That's why you go tothe University of Texas. So that won't
change. And I want to leaveyou with this. When I took the
job at the University of Texas andI walked into DKR, and one of
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the first signs I saw was aquote that I've put up now in my
office that I'll always and forever holdon to the pride and winning tradition at
the University of Texas shall not beentrusted to the week nor the timid And
that's not going to change now thatwe've changed conferences. We're going to go
attack this thing. Like I said, We've got a ton of respect for
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this conference and the teams in thisconference, but we're going to go attack
it. We're going to go tryto win a conference championship because that's why
we're at the University of Texas.So we're looking forward to it. We're
looking forward to renewing rivalries with TexasA and M, and with Arkansas.
We're one of the few schools withrealignment that has benefited realignment that we've gotten
some some rivalries back, and sowe're looking forward to those things as well.
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And it's gonna be a great year. We're looking forward to it.
Thank you, hook them. Okay, if you have a question, please
raise your hand. Grant, Edieor Kylie coach. We're going to start
over on the right hand side onthe near isle. Dennis, it's our
Chai Dennis Dott's CBS Sports. Ithink we all totally get why Arch would
come to Texas and basically face theprospect of perhaps sitting for two years.
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You know, the support system,he's got everything. But I wonder if
you could just recount with that conversation, was like that that may be the
case that you're going to get thetraining, you're going to get enough reps
and experience here to get where youwant to go. Well, I think
that's something you know historically for us, you know, part of recruiting is
your track record, and we've beenfortunate to coach some pretty good quarterbacks.
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We've been fortunate to do it forkind of some decades now, we've been
fortunate to have some pretty good quarterbackrooms, and I think the Manning family
is pretty well aware of that,and I think they trained Arch to try
to put himself in the best positionto try to play in the best conference
in America and then ultimately put himselfin the best position to you know,
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further his career playing in the NationalFootball League, and so with that,
you know, I think Arch's developmenthas been important to the family and he's
reaping the benefit of those things,and so it hasn't been very difficult at
all. I think it's been prettysimple for him. Coach, We're gonna
go straight in front of me.About four rows back, Kirk Kurt Bulls
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from the Houston Chronicle. You haven'tuse a big rotation in your receivers,
it seemed like, and with goodreason. You don't want to take Xavier
and ad off the field. Butwith so many in the portal, so
many young receivers coming in, includingWingo, might you expand your rotation and
play more of them? Or itjust makes it more competitive in practice?
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I think it's probably two fold.Kirk. We're gonna we are going to
play more receivers. I think thelength of the season, and because of
not having all of the rapport withQuinn, some of that I have to
feel out as games go. Itis a very talented room, for sure,
and we've got three great transfers,and you talk about Isaiah Bond,
Matthew Golden, Silas Bolden, threereally experienced, good football players that came
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from good programs. We had signeda very good class the year before with
John Tay Cook, DeAndre Moore,and Ryan Niblett, and then with this
incoming class, I think it's prettyfair to say Ryan Wingo is a really
good player for us, and soto think that I've got seven quality players
there. Now is it going tobe a seven man rotation that'll bear itself
out. But I do think we'llplay more players than we have in the
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past, will rotate more guys thanwe probably have in the past, and
then as we work ourselves through theseason, when you start playing this many
games, I'd love to tell youwe're not going to get injuries. Injuries
are going to occur, so we'regoing to play more players, probably earlier
in the season than we have justbecause you don't have some of that experience
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that we lost from a year ago. But this isn't a lack of talent.
This this group is very talented andby far and away our deepest receiver
corps that we've had in four years. Cotch, We're going to go to
the section to your right on theaisle. Hey, Steve, you said
your golden Austin American states Man.There's a lot of Heisman hype with Quinn
and Carson Bank. How does hisdemeanor make him ideal to deal with all
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that external noise? You know,I think Quinn's probably like the coolest guy
in the room. You know,he doesn't he doesn't get caught up in
what a heisman high bow probably ifyou asked him, would even know.
You know, he's just not caughtup in that stuff. When Queen gets
free time, he's gonna go huntor he's gonna go fish. You know.
When he's here, he's going towork, you know, and he's
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just working on his craft. He'sbeing with his teammates. And so even
in game, when you think aboutQuinn, when he shows those moments of
emotion right on a great throw,it's almost like shocking to people because even
when the bad moments occur, hestays so calm and so cool in the
moment that with the hype, Ijust don't think we have to worry too
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much about that. You know,he's more focused on trying to win a
championship, playing the best football hecan play, being the best leader,
the best teammate he can be.That's probably more important to him than what
award might be down the road,because some people are saying he might win
it. I mean, there's somuch football to go play. I don't
think he's worried about it at all. We stay in that center section on
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the right hand aisle kind of sarkaRalph Ruso from the Associated Press. I
know you probably would have loved tohave hit the ground running and won twelve
games in year one. But whatchanged over those two years building up to
year three? Why was year threeso much different? Why did it click?
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Well? I think part of itwas our culture. We had to
keep building our culture, the thingsthat were important to us right, and
that takes time. It takes timeto learn the schemes. You know,
you bring in coaches and you havean idea of what you want to run.
And that's nothing against the previous staff, but maybe they didn't recruit the
types of players that fit what wewanted to be and how we wanted to
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play. So that takes time too. There's development of players in your program.
And so, hey, I'll tellyou this much. Five and seven
in Austin, Texas sucks. Thatwas hard. That was hard on me.
That was hard on players. Thatwas hard on a lot of people.
Okay, eight and five was alittle more palatable for people, right.
But as you continue to stay committedto who you are, and you
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stay committed to your course of action, you stay committed to what you believe
in, over time you start toreap the benefits of that. With that
comes sometimes you have to people thatwere supposed to be good players when you
arrived maybe aren't playing as much.And maybe the guy that fit you a
little bit better you have to recognizeand you have to play him a little
bit more. But everybody earned theiropportunity in our program over the past three
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years, and the beauty of ithas been our players recognize that and then
now they know the process to gomake it to make it work. I
was telling somebody earlier today about astory about the leaders on our team.
You know, when we had BijonRobinson and Roshawn Johnson. Everybody raved about
their leadership ability, but we onlyhad a couple of leaders. Last year
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we raved about the leadership of aboutfive or six guys Jordan Winnington's of the
World right Byron Murphy's of the World. This year, I could probably tell
you I got twenty five leaders becausethese guys have grown up in our program.
They don't know any different than ourculture. And so now when I
don't even have to speak very longabout what we believe in because they live
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it every single day and I watchthem live it every single day. And
so that's the problems, right,You're trying to develop leadership, Well,
leadership takes time to develop. Youjust don't anoint a guy a leader if
he doesn't believe in the core valuesof the organization, which we're going to
go straight into the front of mysection. About midway back, Steve Eric
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Henry Horns twenty four to seven,kind of pickyback and off of Kirk's question.
Last year we talked a lot aboutthe versatility of the team and helping
you win games with JB Gone andthe receivers and JT just wondering what do
you see as the next kind ofnatural evolution for the offense. Well,
I think you know without telling coachNorvell at Colorado State where we're going to
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do in week one. You know, part of it is we always try
to stay on the cutting edge.You know, I never want to get
stale offensively, And I know whatI said earlier, We're going to be
who we are. But with thatcomes all of the subtle tweaks and things
and formations and motions and personnel groupingsand how do you group people the right
way and to take advantage of it. Part of that is trying to play
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your best players, all right.Part of that is to how do we
tax the defense? And so wedo have a very versatile offensive team,
you know, the fact that youknow we've got very versatile runners, we
got versatile tight ends. The additionof a mari Nyblack has been great.
Uh Jan Davis, who I've beenso impressed with coming out of spring ball
in this summer. Gunner Helm,we found out a lot about him when
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JT went down last year. Weuse an extra tackle at tight end some
so we try to do a lotof things to people to make them prepare
for it and then in game,what are we going to call that game
that maybe they didn't practice quite asmuch, or hey, they have a
deficiency here, let's go attack thata little bit more. So, I'm
not trying to avoid the question,but sometimes it's we implement an offense and
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then we tap into different aspects ofit from week to week that we think,
you know, behoove us to besuccessful. Sure, we're going to
go into the section to your right, just midway back, Colin. Yeah,
In Buchanan, Texas coach, youhave the unique experience of having coached
in the Iron Bow and the RedRevere I'm sorry, Red River rivalry now
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last month and Destin, your athleticdirector, said the Texas Oklahoma game was
was a bigger game, a biggerevent than the Iron Bow. So what
is it about that game that makesit a bigger event than the Iron Bowl
or other SEC rivalry games. Well, I think this, and I've been
fortunate, Like I said, I'vebeen part of the Iron Bowl. I've
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been part of the Apple Cup inWashington, I've been part of SCUCLA.
I've been part of some great games. This is the most unique game,
for sure that I've ever been apart of when you pull into the State
Fair and you start smelling those corndogs and turkey legs, and there's fans
from both teams, and then youget in those locker rooms and the locker
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rooms literally are twenty feet apart,and you're staring at each team, and
one goes first and the next onegoes next, and it can get a
little tenchis in there, but that'sokay. And as we come out,
we come out of that tunnel andthat's OU's tunnel, and we're staring at
a sea of burn orange and youjust want to get there. And it's
a unique game because half of thegame is a home game. The other
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half of the game is a roadgame. And I had to learn that
the hard way. In year one, we got stuck in OU's n and
we were false start and we couldn'tdo anything right. And so you have
to play to that style of game. But it being split right down the
fifty, it's the who's who onthe sidelines. And I'll tell you this
about both teams. Both teams playas hard as they possibly can play in
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that game. And again that's totake nothing away from any other great game
that I've been part of, butthis one is uniquely special. I think
Norman's about two and a half hoursfrom Dallas. We're about three hours from
Dallas, and the fact that wekind of come upon the State Fair here
in Dallas is really special. Andso it's a game that I'm humbled and
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honored that I get to be partof. I'm getting to go coach in
my fourth one and looking forward tothe opportunity. I betch we're going to
go over to the right side onthis near Aisle Shawan. Jay Rodger from
CBS Sports Coach, you mentioned rivalrygames. Of course, since you've been
here, what have you heard aboutthe Texa and m rivalry and what kind
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of buzz is there for this gamecoming back? Well, it's a great
game. It's a grame that,like I said, divides households and one
that you know, it's interesting asour players. I listen to our players
talk sometimes and they're like, ourplayers are probably way more excited for this
game than most fans would probably thinkbecause we haven't played the game in a
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while. But the majority of theplayers on our two rosters probably went on
visits together at if not one school, both schools, and one guy chose
Texas and one guy chose A andM and so I think there's a great
deal of excitement. I know coachhas done a great job in that program
and a short time being there.It's going to be a great environment in
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Kyle Field Thanksgiving weekend. So we'redefinitely looking forward to it. Okay,
we have time for one more.We're going to go right here in front
and Jen Hey, Steve, JennyCarlson with beyond the box score. Obviously,
what you guys have done in thelast three years, building momentum,
building belief, you wanted to dothat anyway, but taking that into the
SEC on the list of intangibles,how important do you feel like that is
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for your program? Well, it'scritical. This is an elite conference.
It's going to take week in andweek out work, ethic, preparation,
innovation, toughness, mental toughness,physical toughness, perseverance, mental fortitude.
If you get knocked down to getback up, like it's going to take
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all the stuff we went through thelast three years and put it in one
year, because that's what this conferencechallenges you on. You're playing at any
elite level week in and week outand I think that's what those three years
have to roll into this year.And that's my challenge as a coach is
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to get our team in that frameof mind, but yet still enjoy the
experience. There's nothing like playing collegefootball. It's the greatest sport in the
world. And I know we're goingthrough all sorts of different changes right now,
but the popularity and the excitement aroundcollege football right now is bigger and
better than it's ever been. Okay, and so through all that all that
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stuff I just talked about, Iwant to make sure our players enjoy this.
I mean, you think about it. I talked about three rivalry games
in one season. How many schoolsget to say that, And so we're
looking forward to it. It's goingto be a great opportunity and look forward
to seeing y'all. And if youhaven't been to the Red rivalry game,
you should come. It's an amazinggame. Appreciate y'all. Hook them,
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Thank you, thank you, coach, Thank you very much. And there
it is. There's the press conference. You just turn it live right here
in Dallas from the Omni Hotel atSEC Football Media Day's long Orange Head coach
Steve Starkesian with his opening statement andfielding questions, so that will take a
break. When we come back,my cardball Hearts we'll join me as well.
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We'll talk about a little bit aboutthat. We're going to hear from
long worn players in both the threeo'clock hour and the four o'clock hour as
well as my one on one withSark. We had that just a little
while ago a visit, so you'llhear that coming up in the four o'clock
hour. We'll be back to wrapup our number one from here in Dallas
on sports Radio AM thirteen under thezone of the iHeartRadio app.
It's quite conceivable that we're going tobring you the news conference with Logorns head
coach Steve Sarkisian. Let's go tothe podium the introduction from the Commission of
the SEC, Greg Sache, Soi'll I'll let him explain that he's a
Los Angeles native who's also a fanof the LA Dodgers, joys watching and
playing golf when he can, whichwe know is limited from this point forward.
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Through the football season, has becomegood friends with Sergio Garcia, who's
now an Austin resident. It's sometimesforgotten that he was a quarterback in his
own right. I was here inDallas where he played his final college game.
It was offensive MVP of the CottonBowl back in nineteen ninety six.
For yu first appearance at the SECFootball Media Days for the University of Texas
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head football coach Steve Sarkisian, alrighty, the first thing I'd like to do
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is welcome the SEC media to Dallas, Texas. This is an awesome opportunity
I think for uh, for thestate of Texas, for y'all to be
here to join us, and whata stage this has been and what a
journey it's been. To get tothis point, I want to hit on
a couple of things before we getgoing. You know, when I was
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a young coach, my first jobas a graduate assistant was at USC under
Pete Carroll, and there was atight end coach there who was a young
coach as well, but named ElaineKiffen, and his father MANI took me
under his wing every time he cameto town and we talked football, and
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I learned more about Tampa two thananybody. So anybody who's playing me,
please play Tampa two because I cantell you exactly who's supposed to go,
where, how and why, becausethat's who Monti Kiffin was. He was
so detailed. He was a genuineman. He cared for all of those
that nobody cared about. And uh, it's a it's a deer loss,
not only for the sport of football, but it's a dear loss for me
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and I know for laying and mycondolences to the Kiffen family on that.
The next thing is thoughts and prayerswith those affected by Hurricane Burrell uh in
Houston in all effective areas. We'restill thinking of you, We're praying for
y'all. I know it's a It'shad a lot of impact on a lot
of people, and this time ofyear with the hurricanes, we are we're
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definitely thinking of y'all, UH,and our and our prayers are with you.
The next I want to talk brieflyabout Coach Saban. Coach, I
see you. I know everybody's beencoming up talking about you, but UH,
and I know you've impacted a lotof a lot of people who have
been up on this stage. Noone have you impacted more than me.
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I would not be standing here todaywithout you and what you've what you've meant
to my career, UH, tomy life, and I can't thank you
enough. And the impact that you'vehad on our game has been second to
none, and I just can't thankyou enough. I want to be able
to publicly do that to you,Coach, Thank you very very much.
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The next thing I want to shiftgears to is talk a little bit about
a couple of weeks ago in Austin, Texas and we had our SEC celebration
and what a celebration it was,and you could feel the excitement from Longhorn
Nation. The fact that we getto be here today this fall, playing
in the Southeastern Conference is tremendous.That was a tremendous event. I was
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shocked, quite frankly at the amountof people and the pageantry that that that
was there that day. It gaveme a little sense and a feel of
what goes on outside of dk Ron game day that I normally don't get
to be part of, and thatwouldn't happen without the leadership of President Jay
Hartzel, Chairman of our board Kevinel Type, and our athletic director Chris
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del Connie. Their vision to takethe University of Texas into the Southeastern Conference
was one that took a lot offoresight. I wish they maybe would have
informed me before I took the jobthat this is what we were going to
do, but I didn't get informedthat until afterwards. But I said,
hey, we already had to builda team that was going to have to
beat the best team in the SECif we wanted to win a national championship,
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so not much had to change theirforce on that front. And then
lastly, I'd like to thank CommissionerSanki his guidance, his leadership to be
part of this with him what he'sbeen able to do in this conference,
to put it on the forefront onthe national stage has been tremendous. And
I was just joking with him inthe back. So we flew in this
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morning, We landed, and weget off the plane, we get in
the sprinter van, and we gota police escort to media days. It
just means more. I mean,it just means more right there. The
fact that we had a sprinter vanwith a police escort to come to this
was tremendous. As far as ourtransition in the Southeastern Conference, I think
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the key word is respect. Wehave a ton of respect for this conference.
We have a ton of respect forthe teams, the coaches, the
players, and the fans. Thisis the elite conference in college football and
we're fortunate enough to be part ofit. And we won't do anything without
having a level of respect of whowe play, where we're playing them,
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the types of players that they have, the coaching that they have, and
I think on the flip side ofthat, we have to go earn their
respect. We're not going to getanything in this deal. Nothing's going to
be free, Okay. We're gonnahave to go earn the respect of our
opponents. The opposing coaches, theopposing fans, and that's going to be
our that's going to be kind ofon the forefront of what we do.
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But the beauty of this conference isreally the pageantry. You know, I've
been fortunate enough have spent three yearsin the Southeastern Conference. The pageantry of
the games, the stadiums that youget to play against, the the iconic
programs. That's the beauty of theSoutheastern Conference. And and uh, the
fact that we get to be partof it now it's finally here, UH
is pretty exciting. It's a it'sjust a great opportunity. As far as
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our team goes, I think thisteam has been really, really focused.
You know, it's been a longtime coming for Texas to get back to
the stage. Last year was atremendous run. We fell short in the
semi finals and the Sugar Bowl.Coming off of being Big twelve champions,
we set a we set a schoolrecord with eleven players drafted in the NFL
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Draft, and that that's a realcredit not only to our coaches for we're
trying to recruit good players, butI think to the development of our players
in our program, not only onthe football field, but in the weight
room, in the classroom, andin life. UH that that the NFL
sees players in our program that couldcome in UH and enhance their teams to
help them try to go win aSuper Bowl. There's an idea of obsession
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going on in our locker room rightnow. They got a taste of what
it can taste like of being aBig twelve champion playing in a college football
playoff and we fell short. Andthis idea of of session, the obsession
that our players have is one thatreally came from them. They couldn't wait
to get back to work. Theycouldn't wait to get back in the weight
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room. And when I took thejob, I don't know if I could
have said that it was almost likekind of prodden cattle to make sure that
what they were doing day in andday out to get them to that point.
Now we've got a team full ofhungry players. It's a competitive,
competitive roster and I love that aboutthem because in this conference, you got
to have depth. If you don'thave depth, and everybody wants to talk
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about the O and D line,yes, that's vitally important, and I
think we've got great depth there.You got to have depth at quarterback.
You have to have depth at runningback, you have to have depth at
safety, you have to have depthacross the board. And for us to
be able to sit here and saythis is the deepest team we've had,
probably the most talented team we've hadin my four years here, I can
unequivocally say that. And we lostsome really good players a year ago,
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but we've got a very deep footballteam, one that we're excited about and
looking forward to watching them compete thisfall. Of off the team, We've
got three players here with us today. We've got Quin yours going into year
three as our quarterback, a guywho has gotten better from year one to
year two. He's really improved fromyear two to year three. He's changed
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his body, he looks great,he understands the system. But the thing
that I'm probably most proud of himabout is his leadership. This guy is
exuding confidence right now. And there'snothing better for anybody in your organization,
for anybody in your building to walkin and to say, there's our guy,
and our guy's exuding confidence. He'scarrying himself the right way, He's
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doing things the right way, notonly on the field, but off the
field. He's our leader, andwe can unequivocally say that about Quinn yours
and I'm proud to have him withus today. He's got a great belt
buckle on if you guys haven't seenit yet, in some awesome boots if
you're wondering. Kelvin Banks is alsowith us today, our left tackle who's
been a Day one starter since hewas a true freshman. If there's anybody
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in our program that I would say, hey, go emulate that guy.
The way he handles his business onthe field, off the field, the
way he works. First guy there, last guy off the field, that's
Kelvin Banks. Now, he's goingto be a high draft pick whenever that
day comes. But the way he'scarried himself has been super impressive. And
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his play shows on Saturdays, butit's who he is Sunday through Friday is
really makes up why he plays theway on Saturday. And then Johay Barn's
here with us as well, aguy who had a tough decision to come
back for his senior season came back. He's kind of the glue on the
defense for us. He's heady,he's savvy, he can play multiple positions,
he's tough. I love what hebrings to our team. I love
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the leadership that he brings to theteam, and so we're lucky to have
him. As far as our coachingstaff goes, one thing that we have
going for us is coordinator continuity.I've had the same coordinators in four years
now here at Texas with Kyle Floodon the offensive line offensive coordinator, Pete
Wakowski is our defensive coordinator, andthen Jeff Banks as our special teams coordinator.
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From an offensive perspective, if youhaven't ever seen us play, we
believe in balance. We even believein trying to make it hard on the
defense with multiple personnel groupings, formations, motion shifts. We love to run
the football, we love to playaction pass, we love to RPO.
That's not going to change. Okay, So if you're wondering how is it
going to look with the new headset, communication thing we are going to change.
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We're going to do what we do. We're just going to try to
do it better than we did ayear ago. Okay. Defensively, I
think one thing that we've really triedto evolve into, we've really tried to
commit ourselves to stop in the run, and I think that showed a year
ago. We have to be betterin pass defense. And there's two ways
to get better in pass defense.One got to cover people better, right,
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You've got to guard people better.You have to have people that can
guard them. You also have tohave the schemes to guard those people.
But you have to have a betterway to affect the quarterback. And so
we've really tried to invoke that intoour team of how do we create more
of a pass rush to affect thequarterback, which I think we've improved upon
this year and we'll see the benefitsof that. And then on special teams.
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You know, we're an aggressive specialteams unit. We try to go
block the kick. If we're notgoing to block the kick, we're going
to try to return it for atouchdown. That's just the way we operate
and Coach Banks does a great jobwith that and looking forward to another great
year. And when you have depthon your team like we have right now,
that's when your special teams can reallystart to rise up, because we
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try to play our best players onspecial teams. When you've got multiple good
players, now that depth can permeateto special teams and so we think we're
going to be even better on teamsthen we've been in the in the past
and we've been pretty good. Andin the end, for our team,
we have to be mentally and physicallytough. And that's the way we preach,
that's what we teach, that's theway we work, that's the way
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we work in the off season.That'll never change. And for any of
youse who have ever been to Austin, Texas in July and you start walking
in DKR and running in DKR atfour o'clock in the afternoon, you better
be mentally and physically tough. Andthat's what our guys are doing right now.
I'd say a couple of things inclosing, and then we get to questions.
At the University of Texas, thestandard is the standard, okay.
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Part of that standard is our culture, all right. Our culture is what
makes us who we are. Wetake a lot of pride in our culture.
We pour into our culture. Weare a very connected group. We
love one another, we work withone another, and that's not going to
change, okay. But at theUniversity of Texas, part of the standard
being the standard is competing for championshipsI'm up here talking about football, but
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it's at every sport, it's atevery level, and so it regardless of
the conference. And that's to takenothing away from the sec our goals to
come into this conference and compete fora conference championship. That is what it
is. That's why you go tothe University of Texas. So that won't
change. And I want to leaveyou with this. When I took the
job at the University of Texas andI walked into DKR, and one of
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the first signs I saw was aquote that I've put up now in my
office that I'll always and forever holdon to the pride and winning tradition at
the University of Texas shall not beentrusted to the week nor the timid And
that's not going to change now thatwe've changed conferences. We're going to go
attack this thing. Like I said, We've got a ton of respect for
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this conference and the teams in thisconference, but we're going to go attack
it. We're going to go tryto win a conference championship because that's why
we're at the University of Texas.So we're looking forward to it. We're
looking forward to renewing rivalries with TexasA and M, and with Arkansas.
We're one of the few schools withrealignment that has benefited realignment that we've gotten
some some rivalries back, and sowe're looking forward to those things as well.
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And it's gonna be a great year. We're looking forward to it.
Thank you, hook them. Okay, if you have a question, please
raise your hand. Grant, Edieor Kylie coach. We're going to start
over on the right hand side onthe near isle. Dennis, it's our
Chai Dennis Dott's CBS Sports. Ithink we all totally get why Arch would
come to Texas and basically face theprospect of perhaps sitting for two years.
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You know, the support system,he's got everything. But I wonder if
you could just recount with that conversation, was like that that may be the
case that you're going to get thetraining, you're going to get enough reps
and experience here to get where youwant to go. Well, I think
that's something you know historically for us, you know, part of recruiting is
your track record, and we've beenfortunate to coach some pretty good quarterbacks.
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We've been fortunate to do it forkind of some decades now, we've been
fortunate to have some pretty good quarterbackrooms, and I think the Manning family
is pretty well aware of that,and I think they trained Arch to try
to put himself in the best positionto try to play in the best conference
in America and then ultimately put himselfin the best position to you know,
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further his career playing in the NationalFootball League, and so with that,
you know, I think Arch's developmenthas been important to the family and he's
reaping the benefit of those things,and so it hasn't been very difficult at
all. I think it's been prettysimple for him. Coach, We're gonna
go straight in front of me.About four rows back, Kirk Kurt Bulls
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from the Houston Chronicle. You haven'tuse a big rotation in your receivers,
it seemed like, and with goodreason. You don't want to take Xavier
and ad off the field. Butwith so many in the portal, so
many young receivers coming in, includingWingo, might you expand your rotation and
play more of them? Or itjust makes it more competitive in practice?
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I think it's probably two fold.Kirk. We're gonna we are going to
play more receivers. I think thelength of the season, and because of
not having all of the rapport withQuinn, some of that I have to
feel out as games go. Itis a very talented room, for sure,
and we've got three great transfers,and you talk about Isaiah Bond,
Matthew Golden, Silas Bolden, threereally experienced, good football players that came
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from good programs. We had signeda very good class the year before with
John Tay Cook, DeAndre Moore,and Ryan Niblett, and then with this
incoming class, I think it's prettyfair to say Ryan Wingo is a really
good player for us, and soto think that I've got seven quality players
there. Now is it going tobe a seven man rotation that'll bear itself
out. But I do think we'llplay more players than we have in the
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past, will rotate more guys thanwe probably have in the past, and
then as we work ourselves through theseason, when you start playing this many
games, I'd love to tell youwe're not going to get injuries. Injuries
are going to occur, so we'regoing to play more players, probably earlier
in the season than we have justbecause you don't have some of that experience
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that we lost from a year ago. But this isn't a lack of talent.
This this group is very talented andby far and away our deepest receiver
corps that we've had in four years. Cotch, We're going to go to
the section to your right on theaisle. Hey, Steve, you said
your golden Austin American states Man.There's a lot of Heisman hype with Quinn
and Carson Bank. How does hisdemeanor make him ideal to deal with all
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that external noise? You know,I think Quinn's probably like the coolest guy
in the room. You know,he doesn't he doesn't get caught up in
what a heisman high bow probably ifyou asked him, would even know.
You know, he's just not caughtup in that stuff. When Queen gets
free time, he's gonna go huntor he's gonna go fish. You know.
When he's here, he's going towork, you know, and he's
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just working on his craft. He'sbeing with his teammates. And so even
in game, when you think aboutQuinn, when he shows those moments of
emotion right on a great throw,it's almost like shocking to people because even
when the bad moments occur, hestays so calm and so cool in the
moment that with the hype, Ijust don't think we have to worry too
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much about that. You know,he's more focused on trying to win a
championship, playing the best football hecan play, being the best leader,
the best teammate he can be.That's probably more important to him than what
award might be down the road,because some people are saying he might win
it. I mean, there's somuch football to go play. I don't
think he's worried about it at all. We stay in that center section on
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the right hand aisle kind of sarkaRalph Ruso from the Associated Press. I
know you probably would have loved tohave hit the ground running and won twelve
games in year one. But whatchanged over those two years building up to
year three? Why was year threeso much different? Why did it click?
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Well? I think part of itwas our culture. We had to
keep building our culture, the thingsthat were important to us right, and
that takes time. It takes timeto learn the schemes. You know,
you bring in coaches and you havean idea of what you want to run.
And that's nothing against the previous staff, but maybe they didn't recruit the
types of players that fit what wewanted to be and how we wanted to
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play. So that takes time too. There's development of players in your program.
And so, hey, I'll tellyou this much. Five and seven
in Austin, Texas sucks. Thatwas hard. That was hard on me.
That was hard on players. Thatwas hard on a lot of people.
Okay, eight and five was alittle more palatable for people, right.
But as you continue to stay committedto who you are, and you
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stay committed to your course of action, you stay committed to what you believe
in, over time you start toreap the benefits of that. With that
comes sometimes you have to people thatwere supposed to be good players when you
arrived maybe aren't playing as much.And maybe the guy that fit you a
little bit better you have to recognizeand you have to play him a little
bit more. But everybody earned theiropportunity in our program over the past three
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years, and the beauty of ithas been our players recognize that and then
now they know the process to gomake it to make it work. I
was telling somebody earlier today about astory about the leaders on our team.
You know, when we had BijonRobinson and Roshawn Johnson. Everybody raved about
their leadership ability, but we onlyhad a couple of leaders. Last year
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we raved about the leadership of aboutfive or six guys Jordan Winnington's of the
World right Byron Murphy's of the World. This year, I could probably tell
you I got twenty five leaders becausethese guys have grown up in our program.
They don't know any different than ourculture. And so now when I
don't even have to speak very longabout what we believe in because they live
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it every single day and I watchthem live it every single day. And
so that's the problems, right,You're trying to develop leadership, Well,
leadership takes time to develop. Youjust don't anoint a guy a leader if
he doesn't believe in the core valuesof the organization, which we're going to
go straight into the front of mysection. About midway back, Steve Eric
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Henry Horns twenty four to seven,kind of pickyback and off of Kirk's question.
Last year we talked a lot aboutthe versatility of the team and helping
you win games with JB Gone andthe receivers and JT just wondering what do
you see as the next kind ofnatural evolution for the offense. Well,
I think you know without telling coachNorvell at Colorado State where we're going to
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do in week one. You know, part of it is we always try
to stay on the cutting edge.You know, I never want to get
stale offensively, And I know whatI said earlier, We're going to be
who we are. But with thatcomes all of the subtle tweaks and things
and formations and motions and personnel groupingsand how do you group people the right
way and to take advantage of it. Part of that is trying to play
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your best players, all right.Part of that is to how do we
tax the defense? And so wedo have a very versatile offensive team,
you know, the fact that youknow we've got very versatile runners, we
got versatile tight ends. The additionof a mari Nyblack has been great.
Uh Jan Davis, who I've beenso impressed with coming out of spring ball
in this summer. Gunner Helm,we found out a lot about him when
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JT went down last year. Weuse an extra tackle at tight end some
so we try to do a lotof things to people to make them prepare
for it and then in game,what are we going to call that game
that maybe they didn't practice quite asmuch, or hey, they have a
deficiency here, let's go attack thata little bit more. So, I'm
not trying to avoid the question,but sometimes it's we implement an offense and
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then we tap into different aspects ofit from week to week that we think,
you know, behoove us to besuccessful. Sure, we're going to
go into the section to your right, just midway back, Colin. Yeah,
In Buchanan, Texas coach, youhave the unique experience of having coached
in the Iron Bow and the RedRevere I'm sorry, Red River rivalry now
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last month and Destin, your athleticdirector, said the Texas Oklahoma game was
was a bigger game, a biggerevent than the Iron Bow. So what
is it about that game that makesit a bigger event than the Iron Bowl
or other SEC rivalry games. Well, I think this, and I've been
fortunate, Like I said, I'vebeen part of the Iron Bowl. I've
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been part of the Apple Cup inWashington, I've been part of SCUCLA.
I've been part of some great games. This is the most unique game,
for sure that I've ever been apart of when you pull into the State
Fair and you start smelling those corndogs and turkey legs, and there's fans
from both teams, and then youget in those locker rooms and the locker
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rooms literally are twenty feet apart,and you're staring at each team, and
one goes first and the next onegoes next, and it can get a
little tenchis in there, but that'sokay. And as we come out,
we come out of that tunnel andthat's OU's tunnel, and we're staring at
a sea of burn orange and youjust want to get there. And it's
a unique game because half of thegame is a home game. The other
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half of the game is a roadgame. And I had to learn that
the hard way. In year one, we got stuck in OU's n and
we were false start and we couldn'tdo anything right. And so you have
to play to that style of game. But it being split right down the
fifty, it's the who's who onthe sidelines. And I'll tell you this
about both teams. Both teams playas hard as they possibly can play in
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that game. And again that's totake nothing away from any other great game
that I've been part of, butthis one is uniquely special. I think
Norman's about two and a half hoursfrom Dallas. We're about three hours from
Dallas, and the fact that wekind of come upon the State Fair here
in Dallas is really special. Andso it's a game that I'm humbled and
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honored that I get to be partof. I'm getting to go coach in
my fourth one and looking forward tothe opportunity. I betch we're going to
go over to the right side onthis near Aisle Shawan. Jay Rodger from
CBS Sports Coach, you mentioned rivalrygames. Of course, since you've been
here, what have you heard aboutthe Texa and m rivalry and what kind
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of buzz is there for this gamecoming back? Well, it's a great
game. It's a grame that,like I said, divides households and one
that you know, it's interesting asour players. I listen to our players
talk sometimes and they're like, ourplayers are probably way more excited for this
game than most fans would probably thinkbecause we haven't played the game in a
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while. But the majority of theplayers on our two rosters probably went on
visits together at if not one school, both schools, and one guy chose
Texas and one guy chose A andM and so I think there's a great
deal of excitement. I know coachhas done a great job in that program
and a short time being there.It's going to be a great environment in
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Kyle Field Thanksgiving weekend. So we'redefinitely looking forward to it. Okay,
we have time for one more.We're going to go right here in front
and Jen Hey, Steve, JennyCarlson with beyond the box score. Obviously,
what you guys have done in thelast three years, building momentum,
building belief, you wanted to dothat anyway, but taking that into the
SEC on the list of intangibles,how important do you feel like that is
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for your program? Well, it'scritical. This is an elite conference.
It's going to take week in andweek out work, ethic, preparation,
innovation, toughness, mental toughness,physical toughness, perseverance, mental fortitude.
If you get knocked down to getback up, like it's going to take
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all the stuff we went through thelast three years and put it in one
year, because that's what this conferencechallenges you on. You're playing at any
elite level week in and week outand I think that's what those three years
have to roll into this year.And that's my challenge as a coach is
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to get our team in that frameof mind, but yet still enjoy the
experience. There's nothing like playing collegefootball. It's the greatest sport in the
world. And I know we're goingthrough all sorts of different changes right now,
but the popularity and the excitement aroundcollege football right now is bigger and
better than it's ever been. Okay, and so through all that all that
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stuff I just talked about, Iwant to make sure our players enjoy this.
I mean, you think about it. I talked about three rivalry games
in one season. How many schoolsget to say that, And so we're
looking forward to it. It's goingto be a great opportunity and look forward
to seeing y'all. And if youhaven't been to the Red rivalry game,
you should come. It's an amazinggame. Appreciate y'all. Hook them,
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Thank you, thank you, coach, Thank you very much. And there
it is. There's the press conference. You just turn it live right here
in Dallas from the Omni Hotel atSEC Football Media Day's long Orange Head coach
Steve Starkesian with his opening statement andfielding questions, so that will take a
break. When we come back,my cardball Hearts we'll join me as well.
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We'll talk about a little bit aboutthat. We're going to hear from
long worn players in both the threeo'clock hour and the four o'clock hour as
well as my one on one withSark. We had that just a little
while ago a visit, so you'llhear that coming up in the four o'clock
hour. We'll be back to wrapup our number one from here in Dallas
on sports Radio AM thirteen under thezone of the iHeartRadio app.
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