Sark talks about his thoughts on new coaches, getting used to the heat, and the intensity of the first practice. Craig also talks about how the heat will help build the grit of the team.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the verge of going to and Oh. They've had
a good battle with Belgium today, but they're up ten
with a minute ago fifty five seconds to be exact,
it's eighty four to seventy four, So Team USA on
the verge of going to and Oh, and that would
clinch a spot in the quarterfinals for them in the
Metal Round with one game remaining in group play for
(00:23):
the US. But again the United States up by ten
about forty seconds to go in that one, and we'll
keep you updated on that one. I had to do it.
I did a double take looking to make sure all
yeah in the United States was the designated visiting team today.
So they're in bright red uniforms with white and blue
(00:43):
trim on it. But they're on the verge of closing
out game number two. Of course, they won their first
game rather handily, and this one they've had much more
of a battle, much more of a fight from Belgium
then from other team. They were up seven at the
end of the third quarter, and the final margin then
(01:05):
this one will be thirteen, as Sabrina and Escue just
hit one from about twenty five feet just to have
the exclamation point on it. So it has gone final.
Team USA wins eighty seven seventy four. So the US
advances and moves on. Well, they're two to ozh. They've
got one one game remaining in group stage play, but
(01:26):
they're going to be headed for the Metal Round and
they'll be in the quarterfinals. Off of that, all right,
I mentioned we wanted to hear from long WRNS hit
football coach Steve Circuit, And remember there they're on the
practice field right now, their second practice after starting off
yesterday and after the game yesterday or after the practice yesterday.
(01:49):
Sart was talking about the competition that these guys have
had and what that competition means for playing time amongst
these guys.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But I want to put the best guy that gives
us a chance, you know. I'm I'm uh yeah, I
just you know, I was talking to somebody about this today.
But you know, when we were kids, and I remember
playing Little League baseball, like you had to play three
innings and get one at bat.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Here, the best guys are gonna play that give us
the best chance to win. I don't I don't get
a I don't get a bonus for everybody being happy,
you know, so you earn your opportunities to play. We
give them plenty of opportunities to earn that. I'm hopeful
that we can play a bunch of guys that they
just make it so hard on us that we have
to play a bunch of guys. And I hope that
(02:36):
we've got multiple punt returners that we feel really good
about the same is going to be when we go
to kickoff return. I think we've got a pluthor of guys.
We Matt Golden obviously had a heck of a year
last year. We felt great coming out of last season
with with Jayden Blue and DeAndre Moore. So I think
we've got a wealthy guys. But those are these are
these are?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I feel like I'm crying from a yacht right now,
you know, to some degree, like we have that's a
good problem, that we have too many good players, Like
what are we what are we saying?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And so that's the idea of you try to recruit
really well. You try to recruit really good players that
have great character, that work hard.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, that's what you want, those kinds of things. And
so h crying from a yacht. I like the I
like the the warding and the Verbiage who's there. Also.
He was asked about the competition, how it relates to
the new coaches who are part of it, and and
(03:33):
having Johnny Nance and having you know, several several guys
because there was a little bit of change within the
coaching staff, but a lot but the coordinators remain the
same and buying large the coaching staff was intact. And
what the the synergism has been like for the players
(03:55):
with the newer coaches, the ones who have to deal
with them at their specific spots, and Sark was very
very effusive about that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's been a great combination. You know, we lost two
really good defensive coaches, you know, and Jeff Cho and
Bo Davis, and for us to go get Johnny Nansen
and Kenny Baker, you know, that's a little bit of
the power of Texas and a little bit of them
seeing where we're headed and what our program has been like.
The same idea of getting a Chris Jackson last year.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, that's a big part of it as well. Being
able to add to that now, as I mentioned, this
is the first one for the first practice post practice
FAILABILITY was yesterday, so the second practice is now underway.
(04:50):
So they're going again, and as we pointed out, this
is in the heat of the day. So as a
result of that, it's in the mid to upper nineties
and it's going to be very, very hot, and Sark
has said he knows that it will certainly take its toll,
(05:13):
that it can be very difficult on a football team
to have to deal with that. By the same token
as well, he would tell you that And this was
something I remember on back from covering Cowboys training camps
at Austin back in the day. It was really really
(05:34):
hot when they were at Saint Ed's and Jimmy Johnson
used to talk about he said, all it's going to
do is make guys better for those really really hot
days and hot games that they're going to have coming
on down the line. So in terms of the practice plan,
Sark had the ready response, We're.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Going to go hard for the first two and a
half weeks, you know that, because I think that that's
a mindset. You know, we believe in in the toughness
in our program, and we have to push them to
the places where maybe they couldn't go, think they could go,
and then excel in those places and then kind of
in that week three, the week before the first game,
we'll start tapering a little bit and getting their bodies
(06:11):
back right, so they'll get two weeks of that and
be ready to go for the first ball game.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So there it is, getting ready to go for that
first ball game. And that first ball game, as we know,
is thirty days from now, and they'll get ready for
Colorado State. But the practice is to get the practice
plan sarxist is to go really hard these first couple
of weeks. Go hard and really get yourself into proper
(06:41):
football condition. I thought it was really interesting the other
thing he said, and we heard it last hour when
he was talking about when he said that they wanted
the heat. I want to see if I can remember
the phraseology they wanted to make the heat their friend
and embrace it. We have to embrace these conditions. We
(07:05):
have to embrace the heat, make it our friend. In
other words, for them to be a lot more acclimated
to the heat than the opponent will be. Clearly, Colorado
State in Fort Collins, Colorado will be and is practicing
(07:30):
at altitude. It's gonna be a little cooler, one would
imagine up there in Fort Collins. And then of course
there's they go to ann Arbor after that, and then
they have the two home games against UTSA and U
EL Monroe, and by the time you get to the
SEC opener on September twenty eighth against Mississippi State, there's
(07:55):
a decent chance the temperature will have eased off quite
a bit by then, and especially once we get on
into October. But he wants these guys in good football shape,
in good football condition, and of course they've been going
through their offseason workout and conditioning workouts as well. However,
(08:15):
practicing in this heat, he feels can can help with
the endurance. But he did say, you notice at the
end of the first couple of weeks, then they probably
will throttle back a little bit taper is the word,
and use a little more of that. That they probably
will do a little more of that, just to make
sure they balance out the conditioning and that they are
(08:36):
fully ready and ready to go for the season opener.
All right, we have more coming up. We'll continue right
here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the iHeartRadio app.
On the verge of going to and Oh. They've had
a good battle with Belgium today, but they're up ten
with a minute ago fifty five seconds to be exact,
it's eighty four to seventy four, So Team USA on
the verge of going to and Oh, and that would
clinch a spot in the quarterfinals for them in the
Metal Round with one game remaining in group play for
(00:23):
the US. But again the United States up by ten
about forty seconds to go in that one, and we'll
keep you updated on that one. I had to do it.
I did a double take looking to make sure all
yeah in the United States was the designated visiting team today.
So they're in bright red uniforms with white and blue
(00:43):
trim on it. But they're on the verge of closing
out game number two. Of course, they won their first
game rather handily, and this one they've had much more
of a battle, much more of a fight from Belgium
then from other team. They were up seven at the
end of the third quarter, and the final margin then
(01:05):
this one will be thirteen, as Sabrina and Escue just
hit one from about twenty five feet just to have
the exclamation point on it. So it has gone final.
Team USA wins eighty seven seventy four. So the US
advances and moves on. Well, they're two to ozh. They've
got one one game remaining in group stage play, but
(01:26):
they're going to be headed for the Metal Round and
they'll be in the quarterfinals. Off of that, all right,
I mentioned we wanted to hear from long WRNS hit
football coach Steve Circuit, And remember there they're on the
practice field right now, their second practice after starting off
yesterday and after the game yesterday or after the practice yesterday.
(01:49):
Sart was talking about the competition that these guys have
had and what that competition means for playing time amongst
these guys.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But I want to put the best guy that gives
us a chance, you know. I'm I'm uh yeah, I
just you know, I was talking to somebody about this today.
But you know, when we were kids, and I remember
playing Little League baseball, like you had to play three
innings and get one at bat.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Here, the best guys are gonna play that give us
the best chance to win. I don't I don't get
a I don't get a bonus for everybody being happy,
you know, so you earn your opportunities to play. We
give them plenty of opportunities to earn that. I'm hopeful
that we can play a bunch of guys that they
just make it so hard on us that we have
to play a bunch of guys. And I hope that
(02:36):
we've got multiple punt returners that we feel really good
about the same is going to be when we go
to kickoff return. I think we've got a pluthor of guys.
We Matt Golden obviously had a heck of a year
last year. We felt great coming out of last season
with with Jayden Blue and DeAndre Moore. So I think
we've got a wealthy guys. But those are these are
these are?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I feel like I'm crying from a yacht right now,
you know, to some degree, like we have that's a
good problem, that we have too many good players, Like
what are we what are we saying?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And so that's the idea of you try to recruit
really well. You try to recruit really good players that
have great character, that work hard.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, that's what you want, those kinds of things. And
so h crying from a yacht. I like the I
like the the warding and the Verbiage who's there. Also.
He was asked about the competition, how it relates to
the new coaches who are part of it, and and
(03:33):
having Johnny Nance and having you know, several several guys
because there was a little bit of change within the
coaching staff, but a lot but the coordinators remain the
same and buying large the coaching staff was intact. And
what the the synergism has been like for the players
(03:55):
with the newer coaches, the ones who have to deal
with them at their specific spots, and Sark was very
very effusive about that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's been a great combination. You know, we lost two
really good defensive coaches, you know, and Jeff Cho and
Bo Davis, and for us to go get Johnny Nansen
and Kenny Baker, you know, that's a little bit of
the power of Texas and a little bit of them
seeing where we're headed and what our program has been like.
The same idea of getting a Chris Jackson last year.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, that's a big part of it as well. Being
able to add to that now, as I mentioned, this
is the first one for the first practice post practice
FAILABILITY was yesterday, so the second practice is now underway.
(04:50):
So they're going again, and as we pointed out, this
is in the heat of the day. So as a
result of that, it's in the mid to upper nineties
and it's going to be very, very hot, and Sark
has said he knows that it will certainly take its toll,
(05:13):
that it can be very difficult on a football team
to have to deal with that. By the same token
as well, he would tell you that And this was
something I remember on back from covering Cowboys training camps
at Austin back in the day. It was really really
(05:34):
hot when they were at Saint Ed's and Jimmy Johnson
used to talk about he said, all it's going to
do is make guys better for those really really hot
days and hot games that they're going to have coming
on down the line. So in terms of the practice plan,
Sark had the ready response, We're.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Going to go hard for the first two and a
half weeks, you know that, because I think that that's
a mindset. You know, we believe in in the toughness
in our program, and we have to push them to
the places where maybe they couldn't go, think they could go,
and then excel in those places and then kind of
in that week three, the week before the first game,
we'll start tapering a little bit and getting their bodies
(06:11):
back right, so they'll get two weeks of that and
be ready to go for the first ball game.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So there it is, getting ready to go for that
first ball game. And that first ball game, as we know,
is thirty days from now, and they'll get ready for
Colorado State. But the practice is to get the practice
plan sarxist is to go really hard these first couple
of weeks. Go hard and really get yourself into proper
(06:41):
football condition. I thought it was really interesting the other
thing he said, and we heard it last hour when
he was talking about when he said that they wanted
the heat. I want to see if I can remember
the phraseology they wanted to make the heat their friend
and embrace it. We have to embrace these conditions. We
(07:05):
have to embrace the heat, make it our friend. In
other words, for them to be a lot more acclimated
to the heat than the opponent will be. Clearly, Colorado
State in Fort Collins, Colorado will be and is practicing
(07:30):
at altitude. It's gonna be a little cooler, one would
imagine up there in Fort Collins. And then of course
there's they go to ann Arbor after that, and then
they have the two home games against UTSA and U
EL Monroe, and by the time you get to the
SEC opener on September twenty eighth against Mississippi State, there's
(07:55):
a decent chance the temperature will have eased off quite
a bit by then, and especially once we get on
into October. But he wants these guys in good football shape,
in good football condition, and of course they've been going
through their offseason workout and conditioning workouts as well. However,
(08:15):
practicing in this heat, he feels can can help with
the endurance. But he did say, you notice at the
end of the first couple of weeks, then they probably
will throttle back a little bit taper is the word,
and use a little more of that. That they probably
will do a little more of that, just to make
sure they balance out the conditioning and that they are
(08:36):
fully ready and ready to go for the season opener.
All right, we have more coming up. We'll continue right
here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the iHeartRadio app.
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