August 20, 2024 • 14 mins
It's Week Zero of the College Football season and Delaware State took their first loss of the season before even taking the field after missing their flight to Hawai'i! Craig Way looks back on the 1995 season opener for the Longhorns against the Rainbows.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we begin our number two of the program just
a little add on to the end of our number
one and talking about this Oklahoma State thing about having
a QR code sticker on the back of the football
players' helmets, because that's how they can help out the players,
(00:24):
you know, with NIL. Now, I read this quote from
Mike Gundy, the head coach, at the end of the
first hour. The quote was quote, this is a revolutionary
step forward to help keep Oklahoma State football ahead of
the game. It gives a chance for everyday fans across
the world to have a real impact when it comes
(00:45):
to supporting the NIL efforts for Cowboy football. I'm thrilled
about this opportunity for our players. This is one week
after he said this quote. We have to have those
conversations with the players about the haggling and distractions. Tell
your agent quit calling us and asking for more money.
It's non negotiable. Now it'll start again in December. So
(01:06):
now we're able to direct ourselves just in football, and
that part is fun.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We go.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So he said, the good news is in the next
the next five months, we can just play football.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
There's no negotiating.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Now the portal's over all the negotiation's history. Now we're
playing football. But even though we're playing football, just pay
attention to the QR code on the back of the
helmet there for that. There's another story that I found
interesting in this modern era of college football. College football staffs,
(01:51):
and I'm not just talking about coaching staffs, staffs overall
support staff have mushroomed and ballooned. It's a big part
of it is a separate wing, if you will, an
arm for NIL, you know, the Texas one Fund, the
collective therefore NIL for Texas. As part of that on
(02:12):
ut campus, they have obviously, in addition to their coaching staff,
they have volunteer assistance, a grad assistants, they have grand assistants,
they have special assistant to the head coach. They have
those special assistant positions. They have their video crew obviously,
(02:33):
and a lot of students are involved, you know, with
regard to video crew. And then obviously there are other
the rest of their crew, and that includes other staff positions.
There are player personnel positions, there are staff positions where
(02:54):
there are staffers who only only deal with the portal.
They carefully monitor the transfer portal and make notes and
notations of possible additions to say the current roster be
at Texas or anywhere else, same thing happens with others.
(03:16):
That there's positions like chief of staff and this, and
that there's also a position called general manager. Now the
general manager position, the duties are much like the position
for other general manager and dealing with personnel and things
like that. But the general manager with a college program
(03:37):
isn't the same as in the pro sports where they're
making roster decisions. The general manager handles a lot of
other operational and recruiting oriented the tails, and the general
manager position can be pretty important. Apparently it's very important
(03:58):
to Alabama. Their general manager, Courtney Morgan, has agreed to
a new contract with Alabama.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He said, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He was courted heavily by Lincoln Riley in USC, so
heavily that Alabama stepped up. And this general manager is
going to earn an average salary of eight hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars under a three year contract, a
(04:28):
deal that bolsters his place as college football's highest paid
front office figure. It'll be formally approved by the Alabama
System Board of Regents today, but they say it's been
agreed upon for some time and he was of course,
this guy, Courtney Morgan was the general manager for Kaitlin
(04:51):
de Boor at Washington and so he went with him.
He had spent the past two seasons and then with
the boy. Then he followed him to Alabama when the
Boor was replacing Nick Saban.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So he's also been on staffs.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
At Michigan, San Jose State, and Presno State, and supposedly
he has a critical role in the development of the
roster through recruiting. He had an annual based salary of
five hundred thousand dollars in his initial contract with Alabama
that was finalized in February. But then there was another
(05:31):
USC started showing interest in so Alabama the Anti.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So there you are.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There's there's something there about the the front office, if
you will, of a college football program. It's part of
the ongoing arms race. And what is you know, looked
at in terms of being a key part of all.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of that in Texas is GM. For those of you
who are wondering, Brandon Harris.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yes, Brandon Harris is the gym which is such a
GM's I still can't get used to hearing the word
GM in college football.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
In the same sentence. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, and it's in all the sports too. Chris Ogden
is the general manager of the basketball program. You know
there's that on the text line. Somebody said, you know,
in response to when I was reading the story about
Burger Fi right on the verge of bankruptcy. So they said,
you know, Subway is teetering on bankruptcy but still promises
to give you one and only one napkin.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
See, that didn't work well for me. I'm kind of messy.
I need more than.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
One, especially Subway got the sausage trip in. Yeah, let
us all over your pants. And I'm more of a
Jimmy John's guy. Linda's a Jersey Mike's person. She really
likes Jersey Mikes, and I like all of them, I guess,
but I need more than one napkin.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I just got to tell you that. Somebody listening to
us from Calgary, Alberta today, glad to have you a board.
Glad you're doing that, and a man, CB says, speaking
of why, what do you remember about going to Hawaii
to open the nineteen ninety five season. Ricky Williams' first
game is a long horn? Well, CB, I'll tell you
what I remember about that. There have been very few
(07:23):
times in my time with the University of Texas in
working on the game broadcasts where I've actually flown with
the team. The reasons are pretty simple. Really, we have
a large crew, but more boordly, we have an hour
long postgame show Network postgame show, so we wouldn't be
(07:45):
able to execute all of the post game and then
the breakdown with our engineer Greg Klingonsmith and get everything
packed up and then get there and be able to
get to the bus in time to go on the charter.
As Cameron can tell you, we're kind of in a
little bit of an accelerated pace. We have thirty minute
postgame on basketball to make sure we're packed up and
(08:07):
not holding up the group to fly home on the
basketball charter. So that's just that's part of that. But
I have flown with the football team a few times.
I did so during the pandemic the Kansas State game.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I did do that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I did once when it was really shuttled around when
we had really bad weather flooding in storms here on
Halloween weekend when the team was going up for the
Iowa State game, and Roger Wallace and I managed to
shuttle over and get to the charter and fly with
the team on that because we were going to be
stranded back in Austin on that Friday. But the first
time I did was nineteen ninety five. Now, in those days,
(08:47):
I was still living and working in Dallas. I was
at KRLD, and the first five football seasons and men's
basketball seasons, I commuted from the Alice Fort Worth area
down to Austin for all the games and then flew
out to wherever the road games were those first five
seasons ninety two through ninety six, So that included the
(09:09):
season open in nineteen ninety five going to Hawaii and
Bill Schoening and I were going to fly out with
the team. So we go down and we flew out
with the team, and I had a middle seat in
between two gigantic offensive linemen.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Do you remember who it was?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I think one of them was Octavius Bishop. I think
I think it was big Oh, I can't remember for sure,
but there were the two big offensive linemen. I had
a middle seat. So yeah, it was the most comfortable
flight world. But anyway, we go out there, and here's
what I remember about it. The game was that old
(09:48):
Aloha Stadium, which kind of rusted over and now just
they may have even torn it down. It's not even
used anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Really. That's where they also played the Pro Bowl for
many years.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But the other thing that what struck me about it
was on game day going to the stadium, getting there,
you know whatever. For four hours ahead to kick off,
we had a hard time parking because they had a
flea market going on in the parking lot of the stadium.
And we were told all the flea markets a big deal.
It's a big deal, and it happens every Saturday. It's
like an all day thing. We're like a college football game.
(10:22):
But yeah, but we got the flea market, so it
was that. Then there was the game itself, and Texas
of course won rather handily thirty eight to seventeen, and
Ricky kind of burst on the scene. When the game
was over, Bill Shooning and myself and Jeff Ward, who
(10:47):
was our sideline reporter, we were going to go out
and grab a bike to eat because the charter wasn't
going back until the next day. So we said, let's
find a place to eat. And we were struggling to
find a place to eat, and Bill go let's go
to that place right there. I'll park the car, you
guys going to get at the table. So Jeff and
I walk in and we walked into a karaoke bar,
(11:12):
a transplanted Asian karaoke bar, and we were the only
non Asian customers in there. So naturally we got stared
at walking down these dark hallway past all of these
little rooms where families were in there singing karaoke families.
(11:33):
I heard one family going they were singing the Willie Nelson.
I think, what Juliogleasi's class to all the girls I've
loved before that one. They were in there singing that.
So we go in there and we sit down and
Bill's like, order me a screwdriver. So he had said
that we went to park the cars. I ordered the screwdriver.
(11:53):
Now this is nineteen ninety five screwdriver. That'll be eleven dollars,
which is kind of expense. Bill over since down and
we're just looking at it, and Texas seventy because well
it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I said, well it better be for eleven bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So those are some of the things the flashes that
I remember about that season opener against Hawaii in nineteen
ninety five, final year of the Southwest Conference. Texas won
that last Southwest Conference Todle, it's some interesting road trips,
went to South Bend, lost the Notre Dame and of
course closed it out in College Station, beating Texas A
(12:27):
and M sixteen to six. And Ricky Williams had a
huge day that day, James Brown playing on a really
sore ankle, and they won that that final Southwest Conference title.
That was a very interesting year, that nineteen ninety five season.
All right, real, real quick, c Craig ESPN two broadcast.
That was when ESPN was trying to rebrand ESPN two
(12:49):
as like cool and lowercase graft, the lower case graphics,
silent reporter Kirk curb Street.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
How about that.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Here's the weather, eighty four degree in sixteen mile an
hour per wins. Sounds like a perfect day. And how
could you not love those Hawaii rainbow uniforms. I mean,
look at their their head coach Bob Wagner has what
is it the lay He's got two lays on and
they got the old school rainbow warrior logo.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Man, can Texas schedule?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I know we're going there for basketball and Maui in
twenty twenty five, can we go there for football.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Finally play in that game. They don't even play in
that stadium anymore. They play in a very small stadium
near campus now, so it's beautiful campus. I've been there
and done basketball there the Rainbow Classic, both men's and
women's have done there. Uh yeah, it's it's a long trip.
It's fun. Malwai's a lot of fun and hopefully they've recovered.
They're gonna have the first ever, the first Maui Invitational
(13:50):
after all the horrific fires that they've had that so
they're going to have it back.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There this year. So they'll look forward to that. All right,
up next.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
This is a strange story, but it's a baseball story
and it's current and it's something you need to know about,
I think so. Anyway, here on sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
So we begin our number two of the program just
a little add on to the end of our number
one and talking about this Oklahoma State thing about having
a QR code sticker on the back of the football
players' helmets, because that's how they can help out the players,
(00:24):
you know, with NIL. Now, I read this quote from
Mike Gundy, the head coach, at the end of the
first hour. The quote was quote, this is a revolutionary
step forward to help keep Oklahoma State football ahead of
the game. It gives a chance for everyday fans across
the world to have a real impact when it comes
(00:45):
to supporting the NIL efforts for Cowboy football. I'm thrilled
about this opportunity for our players. This is one week
after he said this quote. We have to have those
conversations with the players about the haggling and distractions. Tell
your agent quit calling us and asking for more money.
It's non negotiable. Now it'll start again in December. So
(01:06):
now we're able to direct ourselves just in football, and
that part is fun.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We go.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So he said, the good news is in the next
the next five months, we can just play football.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
There's no negotiating.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Now the portal's over all the negotiation's history. Now we're
playing football. But even though we're playing football, just pay
attention to the QR code on the back of the
helmet there for that. There's another story that I found
interesting in this modern era of college football. College football staffs,
(01:51):
and I'm not just talking about coaching staffs, staffs overall
support staff have mushroomed and ballooned. It's a big part
of it is a separate wing, if you will, an
arm for NIL, you know, the Texas one Fund, the
collective therefore NIL for Texas. As part of that on
(02:12):
ut campus, they have obviously, in addition to their coaching staff,
they have volunteer assistance, a grad assistants, they have grand assistants,
they have special assistant to the head coach. They have
those special assistant positions. They have their video crew obviously,
(02:33):
and a lot of students are involved, you know, with
regard to video crew. And then obviously there are other
the rest of their crew, and that includes other staff positions.
There are player personnel positions, there are staff positions where
(02:54):
there are staffers who only only deal with the portal.
They carefully monitor the transfer portal and make notes and
notations of possible additions to say the current roster be
at Texas or anywhere else, same thing happens with others.
(03:16):
That there's positions like chief of staff and this, and
that there's also a position called general manager. Now the
general manager position, the duties are much like the position
for other general manager and dealing with personnel and things
like that. But the general manager with a college program
(03:37):
isn't the same as in the pro sports where they're
making roster decisions. The general manager handles a lot of
other operational and recruiting oriented the tails, and the general
manager position can be pretty important. Apparently it's very important
(03:58):
to Alabama. Their general manager, Courtney Morgan, has agreed to
a new contract with Alabama.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He said, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He was courted heavily by Lincoln Riley in USC, so
heavily that Alabama stepped up. And this general manager is
going to earn an average salary of eight hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars under a three year contract, a
(04:28):
deal that bolsters his place as college football's highest paid
front office figure. It'll be formally approved by the Alabama
System Board of Regents today, but they say it's been
agreed upon for some time and he was of course,
this guy, Courtney Morgan was the general manager for Kaitlin
(04:51):
de Boor at Washington and so he went with him.
He had spent the past two seasons and then with
the boy. Then he followed him to Alabama when the
Boor was replacing Nick Saban.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So he's also been on staffs.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
At Michigan, San Jose State, and Presno State, and supposedly
he has a critical role in the development of the
roster through recruiting. He had an annual based salary of
five hundred thousand dollars in his initial contract with Alabama
that was finalized in February. But then there was another
(05:31):
USC started showing interest in so Alabama the Anti.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So there you are.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There's there's something there about the the front office, if
you will, of a college football program. It's part of
the ongoing arms race. And what is you know, looked
at in terms of being a key part of all.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of that in Texas is GM. For those of you
who are wondering, Brandon Harris.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yes, Brandon Harris is the gym which is such a
GM's I still can't get used to hearing the word
GM in college football.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
In the same sentence. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, and it's in all the sports too. Chris Ogden
is the general manager of the basketball program. You know
there's that on the text line. Somebody said, you know,
in response to when I was reading the story about
Burger Fi right on the verge of bankruptcy. So they said,
you know, Subway is teetering on bankruptcy but still promises
to give you one and only one napkin.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
See, that didn't work well for me. I'm kind of messy.
I need more than.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
One, especially Subway got the sausage trip in. Yeah, let
us all over your pants. And I'm more of a
Jimmy John's guy. Linda's a Jersey Mike's person. She really
likes Jersey Mikes, and I like all of them, I guess,
but I need more than one napkin.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I just got to tell you that. Somebody listening to
us from Calgary, Alberta today, glad to have you a board.
Glad you're doing that, and a man, CB says, speaking
of why, what do you remember about going to Hawaii
to open the nineteen ninety five season. Ricky Williams' first
game is a long horn? Well, CB, I'll tell you
what I remember about that. There have been very few
(07:23):
times in my time with the University of Texas in
working on the game broadcasts where I've actually flown with
the team. The reasons are pretty simple. Really, we have
a large crew, but more boordly, we have an hour
long postgame show Network postgame show, so we wouldn't be
(07:45):
able to execute all of the post game and then
the breakdown with our engineer Greg Klingonsmith and get everything
packed up and then get there and be able to
get to the bus in time to go on the charter.
As Cameron can tell you, we're kind of in a
little bit of an accelerated pace. We have thirty minute
postgame on basketball to make sure we're packed up and
(08:07):
not holding up the group to fly home on the
basketball charter. So that's just that's part of that. But
I have flown with the football team a few times.
I did so during the pandemic the Kansas State game.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I did do that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I did once when it was really shuttled around when
we had really bad weather flooding in storms here on
Halloween weekend when the team was going up for the
Iowa State game, and Roger Wallace and I managed to
shuttle over and get to the charter and fly with
the team on that because we were going to be
stranded back in Austin on that Friday. But the first
time I did was nineteen ninety five. Now, in those days,
(08:47):
I was still living and working in Dallas. I was
at KRLD, and the first five football seasons and men's
basketball seasons, I commuted from the Alice Fort Worth area
down to Austin for all the games and then flew
out to wherever the road games were those first five
seasons ninety two through ninety six, So that included the
(09:09):
season open in nineteen ninety five going to Hawaii and
Bill Schoening and I were going to fly out with
the team. So we go down and we flew out
with the team, and I had a middle seat in
between two gigantic offensive linemen.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Do you remember who it was?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I think one of them was Octavius Bishop. I think
I think it was big Oh, I can't remember for sure,
but there were the two big offensive linemen. I had
a middle seat. So yeah, it was the most comfortable
flight world. But anyway, we go out there, and here's
what I remember about it. The game was that old
(09:48):
Aloha Stadium, which kind of rusted over and now just
they may have even torn it down. It's not even
used anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Really. That's where they also played the Pro Bowl for
many years.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But the other thing that what struck me about it
was on game day going to the stadium, getting there,
you know whatever. For four hours ahead to kick off,
we had a hard time parking because they had a
flea market going on in the parking lot of the stadium.
And we were told all the flea markets a big deal.
It's a big deal, and it happens every Saturday. It's
like an all day thing. We're like a college football game.
(10:22):
But yeah, but we got the flea market, so it
was that. Then there was the game itself, and Texas
of course won rather handily thirty eight to seventeen, and
Ricky kind of burst on the scene. When the game
was over, Bill Shooning and myself and Jeff Ward, who
(10:47):
was our sideline reporter, we were going to go out
and grab a bike to eat because the charter wasn't
going back until the next day. So we said, let's
find a place to eat. And we were struggling to
find a place to eat, and Bill go let's go
to that place right there. I'll park the car, you
guys going to get at the table. So Jeff and
I walk in and we walked into a karaoke bar,
(11:12):
a transplanted Asian karaoke bar, and we were the only
non Asian customers in there. So naturally we got stared
at walking down these dark hallway past all of these
little rooms where families were in there singing karaoke families.
(11:33):
I heard one family going they were singing the Willie Nelson.
I think, what Juliogleasi's class to all the girls I've
loved before that one. They were in there singing that.
So we go in there and we sit down and
Bill's like, order me a screwdriver. So he had said
that we went to park the cars. I ordered the screwdriver.
(11:53):
Now this is nineteen ninety five screwdriver. That'll be eleven dollars,
which is kind of expense. Bill over since down and
we're just looking at it, and Texas seventy because well
it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I said, well it better be for eleven bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So those are some of the things the flashes that
I remember about that season opener against Hawaii in nineteen
ninety five, final year of the Southwest Conference. Texas won
that last Southwest Conference Todle, it's some interesting road trips,
went to South Bend, lost the Notre Dame and of
course closed it out in College Station, beating Texas A
(12:27):
and M sixteen to six. And Ricky Williams had a
huge day that day, James Brown playing on a really
sore ankle, and they won that that final Southwest Conference title.
That was a very interesting year, that nineteen ninety five season.
All right, real, real quick, c Craig ESPN two broadcast.
That was when ESPN was trying to rebrand ESPN two
(12:49):
as like cool and lowercase graft, the lower case graphics,
silent reporter Kirk curb Street.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
How about that.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Here's the weather, eighty four degree in sixteen mile an
hour per wins. Sounds like a perfect day. And how
could you not love those Hawaii rainbow uniforms. I mean,
look at their their head coach Bob Wagner has what
is it the lay He's got two lays on and
they got the old school rainbow warrior logo.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Man, can Texas schedule?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I know we're going there for basketball and Maui in
twenty twenty five, can we go there for football.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Finally play in that game. They don't even play in
that stadium anymore. They play in a very small stadium
near campus now, so it's beautiful campus. I've been there
and done basketball there the Rainbow Classic, both men's and
women's have done there. Uh yeah, it's it's a long trip.
It's fun. Malwai's a lot of fun and hopefully they've recovered.
They're gonna have the first ever, the first Maui Invitational
(13:50):
after all the horrific fires that they've had that so
they're going to have it back.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There this year. So they'll look forward to that. All right,
up next.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
This is a strange story, but it's a baseball story
and it's current and it's something you need to know about,
I think so. Anyway, here on sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
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