Texas Longhorns AD Chris Del Conte jokes about moving Lone Star Showdown to a neutral site

It would be sacrilegious to move to the Lone Star Showdown to a neutral site....CDC poked fun at those on Twitter who have spewed rumours about something like that happening.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
And went back to the Craig Way Show. Have a
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on the Ihearts radio app. You know, we run that
media availability there with christ Delcanzi, and I thought it
was kind of interesting. Not only in talking about this

(00:29):
Lone Star Showdown rivalry restoration of the series with Texas
A and M and that was the announcement that was
made this morning, he also played deadpanned it really really
well when he got up to speak. This was during
the press conference before the actual media session itself, the

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actual media availability that happened afterwards. But when he got
up to speak and he was talking about how great
he was, then all of a sudden, he just deadpanned,
we're going to be and uh then we're gonna move
this to a neutral site. And everybody just absolutely just
flipped out. First, you could just see that their eyes

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got real big at first, and then he was like,
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, and went on and
that's why you heard that what we just played a
few minutes ago in the in the media availability, folks
were asking him about that. He was like, oh, it
was because he goes the Twitter was just on fire

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with all that stuff. Who comes up with that stuff?
So Craig I had the audio too, if you want
me to play it, Oh you do you do that that?
Let's let's let's hear that part. Secondly, I think I
had the douliful knowledge to tell you that it is
going to be a neutral site game. We're going to
move the game to Dallas one year, and the next
year we are going to move to Just joking, how

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ridiculous is that? Coach hold like, how we're not doing that?
Everyone just puckered up with just a little bit. He
gotta be kicked out of it. He the fact that
he held the dead pan for so long and said
it was gonna be in Dallas and then we're gonna

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waiting to hear. When I was talking to John Biaco,
of course who uh handles the Meaedia relationships for Texas,
asked him, I said, did you know he's gonna Dodd?
He said, well, he kind of hinted Eddy Mighty Goes.
I was actually hoping he was gonna say we're gonna
move it to a neutral site, We're just gonna play
in college station regularly, which would have been something else

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as well, so, uh, he had a good time at it.
Trev Alberts had a good time at it. Let me
just say this, I you know, I've been around the
rivalry if you count even my studio anchor days. Nineteen

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eighty eight through ninety one, I was the studio anchor
for you know, the old Southwest Conference radio network and
then several other radio networks that all came in by
satellite into Dallas and Texas. Was the only one Houston
did for one year, but by and large, Houston, Texas
was the only one that stayed with back then host

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communications and out of the Southwest Conference school, so they
brought in a lot of their other properties in by satellite.
So I was also the studio anchor for Army, Navy
Pit Florida State and Alabama and occasionally auburt and Tennessee
as well. But all of those would come in and

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I would be the studio anchor for all of those
game broadcasts all day long, starting from its ten in
the morning, when you'd have an early eleven am kickoff
for Navy against Lafayette or something, or Navy against even
Notre Dame or Boston College or something, and it would

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go into late night sometimes in the old Southwest Conference
States when Houston with that run and shoot was playing
well into the night, and it'd be long, long days
back then, but you got a chance to hear a
lot of different calls and stuff. But the rivalry between
Texas and Texas A and M was very real and
very visceral back then, even when it was in the studio.

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My first game in the booth, I think I've told
this story before. I can't remember, but I was, like
I said, the studio anchor eighty nine, ninety ninety one.
But the last game of the ninety one season, Bill Schoning,
who had been the analyst working with Jerry Trupiano, who
was going to be leaving at the end of the year,

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and Tribiana went to went up to Boston was part
of the Red Sox broadcast team when they finally broke
through and ended the curse and won the World Series
in two thousand and four. But Bill was going up
to New York to do the preseason n IT Basketball tournament,
and so they asked me if I wanted to sub
for Bill as the analyst working with Jerry Trupiano. So

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the first game that I did in the booth was
A and M. That was my first game working in
the broadcast booth was Texas, Texas A and M in
nineteen ninety one at Kyle Field. That was the very
first one. And I could have you could have knock
me over with a feather if you told me then
in nineteen ninety one that twenty years later in twenty eleven,

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would be the last time they would play as conference
members for thirteen years. So it means an off lot,
and you got that real vibe from all of those
who were involved about that the rivalry being restored means
an awful lot. We'll be back to wrap up today's
edition of the program from Houston here on Sports Radio
AM thirteen under the Zone.