SMU escapes Nevada, A&M prepares for Notre Dame, and Week 1 in High School Football with Greg Tepper
August 27, 2024 • 17 mins
Greg Tepper, Managing Editor of Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine, joins the show to talk a lot of football! Craig and Tepper discuss SMU's win over Nevada in Week Zero before looking at the slate of games in the Lone Star State including Texas A&M and Notre Dame. Then, a look at the opening weekend of the Texas High School Football season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Willie Nelson, of course, native of Abbot, you know, home
of the Abbot Panthers, who have a new head football coach,
you know, with the son of Terry Crawford, the iconic
ed Gotzer. Kyle, his son who has already won a
state baseball championship, will try to pull off the double
in football. You see what I did there, So I
just got us right on in the visiting mcgreg Tepper,
(00:21):
managing editor of Day Campbell's Texas Football magazine, Tap, why
don't you tell everybody where you plan to be on
Thursday night?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So I think folks who have followed my work and
followed my career over in that last you know a
handful of years, understand that I'm a bit of a sicko.
And so allow me to tell you, Craig, that on Thursday,
I will be hopping in the old Dave Campbell's Texas
football truck.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'll be picking up.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My buddy Matt step and we are driving to scenic Hamilton, Texas, Texas,
where you're thinking, oh, you're gonna go see the Hamilton
Bulldogs play.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We will be watching the Frost Polar Bears take on
the Winter's Blizzards in what they're deeming the Ice Bowl
there in Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And you'll know I love a good bit. This is
about as good as it gets.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Winters, I will tell you, Winters and Frost we do
not have projected to play in their respective state championship games.
And yet this does feel like must see football in
Hamilton on opening night.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No doubt about it. I'm jealous of it. I wish
they could be there for that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
By the way, the Winter's most famous alumnus, the late
great Bill Little, of course that many years of sports
information director University of Texas, he was a Winter's Blizzard.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yep, he's a legend, a legend there.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And his dad was a photographer for the newspaper that
they had there at the time, and all that sort
of stuff. So and so that that's that's Quinn essential
Texas high school football. A mascot matchup made in Heaven,
Winters Blizzards and Frost Polar Bears. I might point out
that right around the corner would be not long after that,
(02:13):
the matchup between the Itaskawampus Cats and the Frost Polar Bears,
which is another fabulous, yeah matchup.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I really appreciate what Frost is doing from a scheduling perspective.
I think that they've they've really leaned into two people
want to play the Polar Bears. I think Philip Gibson
has really taken the right approach here of just saying,
what if we just play all the great other mascots.
That's just that's great work there, and an early front
runner for two A Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, and you think about Itask also has to
play they Gladiators, and so you know, it works out.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Really get them on a circuit, just all those teams.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Get them on a like, let's break them up, have
a different league, have like a super league.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Of just mascots, the mascot they can just all play
one another.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Let's have the mascot League. Before we get into some
other things. Our resident Mojo maniac texted in to Ask
and said, hey, would you ask TEP for a Permian preview?
He said, I think we're playing in jeans these days,
he said. By the way, he said, Mojo class of
(03:18):
eighty six, I still have Johnny Bailey's footprints on my chest.
For folks who don't know what that was, the nineteen
eighty five five a state championship game.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I was there for it, and it was.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Houston Yates thirty seven and Permi and nothing and Johnny
Bailey himself had a fabulous game that day at Texas Stadium.
Off of that, now on the record, we're both on
the record as being Jeff Ellison fans.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We like coach Ellison.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, I like coach Elison a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think that the I'll say the a little Southwest
conference this here, this s acustics thing.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't know that there's a world beater last year.
I mean, you had a Middland legacy who made.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It to the regional semifinal last year. But I think
that the pack has kind of condensed a little bit.
Right now we have Permian's fourth in that district. The
biggest thing for me about Permian is that I don't
think they're going to have the kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Depth that we thought they've had in the past couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They got some places piece of replaced. They lose Justice Laura,
who's so important. They do bring back their quarterback Jacob
Garcia that I know that they're very bullish on. But
you know, I will say this about them. They open
the season in again, just an a classic high school
football just if you're an old school high school football fan.
(04:37):
How about how about Plano at Odessa Permian. That is beautiful,
That is that is mother's milk of Texas high school
football in a week one. That's great stuff good, I mean,
great uniform matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Everything's great about that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think right now Permian Permian is a playoff team.
I think the upside is there, but I want to
see if that defense and the depth can come along.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Old guy brain kicks in here, remembering that plan will
be Hermian sixty three in the state semifinals in seventy
seven and followed it up with a three nothing win
over Mojo in seventy eight in the final four. That
kind of that's Plano versus Permian, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I will say that. I'm going to say that
in the year twenty twenty four, I do.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Think that there will be a touchdown score.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, so that would that would make it perhaps the
highest scoring Plano Permie game in decades.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, you know, and and will be the and well
probably the game will outscore both of those other two
games combined.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's that's pretty easily said there quarter. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Greg Tapper, managing ed or Dave campbells Texas Football Magazine
with us. I want to I'll step away from high
school for a moment, then we'll come back to them.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I want to go to college.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
How about your thoughts in reviewing SMU's close shave, the
escape in from Reno and then and then Tarleton who
kind of almost handed it to McNeice or, to use
your phrase, played with their food when they were up
significantly in that contest and then had to hold on
but got their first win as a full fledged f
(06:03):
c S member there in Stephen the last Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, we'll start with Tarleton. We'll started
the good news. You know, the win is a win.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
They were taken on a mcneese's team that did go
winless last year. But at the same time, they brought
in an outstanding quarterback. You know, Tarleton tried to give
it away late. But I think that that you know,
they held on, they made some place when they needed to,
you know, and and and got had a good crowd
out there for their for their national television debut on
(06:32):
ESPN two.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You know, I think that that that's promising the thing
that that hurts them would be the injury to their quarterback.
That they lost their quarterback in the middle of that game.
That's gonna be a question kind of going forward. But
I do think that overall, you know, you put in
the left hand column and you move on. You hope
that you can clean some things up with your new quarterback.
For s m U, I think that is uh.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'll just I'll just say that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I was underwhelmed by how they played up front. I
thought they should have played bullyball against Nevada a.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Little bit better, and they weren't able to kind of win.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
At the point of attack tomorrow phrase. But the biggest
thing is I'm I'm I'm officially out on the two
quarterback things. They tried to run out both quarterbacks, both
Dallas guides actually Preston Stone and Kevin Henry Jennings, then kind.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Of alternate them, and what it ended up being is
that nobody was able to get into a rhythm.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And nobody was able to come up, you know, with
any sort of consistency there. I think they were kind
of hoping that one of these guys would gratify the rains,
and neither of them did, and so now I think
I think if you're reet lashly, you just got to
kick one. You got to commit to one and if
it doesn't work, then have a short leash. And that's fine.
But this whole alternating series type thing. I do wonder
(07:46):
if you had kind of pumped in pull truth for him,
if he thought like, oh, you know what, We're going
to kind of roll out there and dominate Nevada. You know,
a team new head coach, not very good last year.
We think we're going to dominate them. And then when
that game got Harry suddenly that play doesn't seem so
good to have two quarterbacks. So I think they got
to get some clean some things cleaned up more up front.
(08:06):
But more importantly, I think they just got to pick
a signal caller and roll with it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is it safe to say that the for the colleges
in the state of Texas easily, uh the most anticipated
game for you this Saturday is Texas A and M
Notre Dame unless you take out Park View, Arkansas against Melissa,
But that's a high school game, so uh so so
(08:33):
or the the six Man uh uh you know, big
big sware they always have.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
On the opening weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But with regard with safe to say from the college
perspective of the schools in the state of Texas, that's
the game you're kind of zeroing in on.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, I don't think there's really any doubt. I mean,
a college game is going to be there. That that's
one thing. It's also just a really interesting kind of
first look at Mike.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Elco's noted amite or rather he did coaching our Dame
one one A and M team, and and just kind
of see where they're at, you know. There we have
a lot of questions about this A and M team,
specifically out wide. They got to have some receivers step up,
specifically the running back spot, especially now that Rubin Owns
is out.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And in the trenches. You know.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Strangely, one of the questions we have is in kind
of like the you know, the the front seven, you know,
and that's one of the questions that we have. There's
talent there, and they bring in a guy like Nick
Gordon from from Purdue, but but I need to see
exactly what it looks like taking on another name team
that's really capable of coming in and winning a you know,
winning a big game.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
This is a real helmet game.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right, you look at it, you see the Golden Domers,
and you see the A and M.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You get excited.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
The other thing about it is that overall across the
state of Texas is just kind of an underwhelming Week
one from a schedule perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
There's no real big ones. I mean that there's an
argument to be made that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The second most compelling game in the state is Sam
Houston and Rights, which.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You know is interesting. We'll find out a lot about
both of them, and I think for both.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Of them if they want to, if they have dreams
and ideas of getting to a bowl game, this is
kind of game you got to put in the left
hand column. But overall, we're kind of easy in the
college football season as far as the big name matchups
are concerned.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But A and M and Notre Dame is certainly that exception.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You and I got a text today from Joey McGuire,
the head coach of and he was kind of he
was kind of just giving you some grief about hoping
that the that football Friday score app was going to
be working properly and that sort of thing. But he
opened up with the school two and a half hours
(10:34):
down the road, Abilene Christian all of that. But it's
safe to say not that Joey's in any kind of
hot water or trouble or hot seat or anything like that.
But it's important for them to get off to a
good start in this new and and some would say improved.
Some would say certainly reborn Big twelve Conference.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, go win that game, right, you know, go go
out there, win that game.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Make sure you go out there you look good. And
I would say get a lot of the young, get
a lot of the exciting players involved. Get Toash Brooks involved.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
This is the guy we think is the best running
back at least to start the year in the state
of Texas.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You know, a guy who's who's so.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Good for them, Getting like a Hudson involved, that's your
five star wide receivers, throws in the ball, you know,
get an opportunity to get get your fans excited about that.
But yeah, I think the Texas Tech the big year.
I think the big year for Dy McGuire. Obviously he
was gangbusters in his first year there in Lubbock and
then kind of fell back to earth in the second season.
You know, still pretty good, but you know, overall, not
(11:30):
to the standard that he hopes to be. I think
this is the kind of year that you kind of
we're going to see which one was the.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Exception, which one was the rule? You know is is
six and six going to be more likely?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Or are going to be closer to eight and four,
especially in a new LOK Big twelve. I think their
schedule sets up very well for them. They don't play
Kansas State, they don't play Utah. Their schedule sets up
relatively well. But yeah, get off on the good foot
in this one and establish a couple of playmakers.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Put some tape out there that people are going to
be sweating over.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Okay, tell you this because I was going to ask
you which high school game in this state are you
most eagerly anticipating this weekend? Now, I preface this by
telling you that our producer and Texan Live veteran broadcaster,
Cameron Parker turned down turned down Columbus Squero. He turned
(12:25):
it down, Now he had he had really good logistical
reasons for it, but he turned that down to and
Flugervilla and Leander instead. But did he turn down the
best matchup in the state of Texas in week number one, which,
by the way, is going to be called by our
broadcast VOYE for long run softball. Andrew Haynes is going
(12:46):
to be calling that game now. So did he turn down?
Did Cameron turn down the best game in the state.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Look, I don't want to tell Cameron to run his career,
but you know it's the choices were made.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Obviously, that's fine. You know what, I'm the most important
just to go from the fine.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But you can't turned down an opportunity to have that,
you know, I think a certified eater right out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Of the gates. I mean, you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
A Quero team that I think is flying a little
bit under the radar. Some pieces to replaced, but they
start the year number twelve in for a Division two
and especially in Quero in DeWitt County, they are difficult
to beat. And they are going to be in front
of a green mob of people who are have been
hungry for Gobbler football for about.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Nine months now. And now, you know, going up against.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Columbus, which is dripping with intrigue, a team that we
think is a certified state championship contender with a TCU
committed quarterback, a TCU commit. I believe that linebacker and
John Show Well, playmakers all over the place, and oh yeah,
the debut, the eleven man debut of Grayson and Rigdon,
the three times six man player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Now going to be out there.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So that is a game, especially on the road against
a team that has a ton of speed in Quero,
that is going to be absolutely fat, fascinating. I'm really
excited about it. Cameron obviously not that excited about it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's okay, you know, everyone a different, different game, tep.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
It's not the excitement, it's the fact that we have
a radio show until five pm on Friday. Is the
game for It's a seven and Quail's what two and
a half hours away, not counting Friday rush hour traffic.
I wish I could be there, but fortunately the field's
a little bit closer.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'm just saying that Craig has taught me that speed
limits early suggestions.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He told me that, you know directly, So.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Final thing, if if not that game, what's the best
game in the state this weekend?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Okay, it's a loaded weeks there. I tweeted that there's
seven hundred and fifty games this week. That is the
most that we've ever had in a single week. It's
the biggest weekend of high school football in American history,
played in simple seven hundred and fifty games across the state,
and it is a massive, massive slate.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I think, oh man, you can go with a team
to a.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Game like North Shore and South o'cliffe. That's a big,
heavy hitting matchup. You could go with a game like
Kilgore and Carthage, which I think is gonna be gangbusters
out there in East Texas. That game is gonna be great.
I'm really excited about west Lake and prosper But if
you're asking me to pick one, I'm gonna pick Belleville
in Solina Friday Night in Hewitt in Midway because either
(15:26):
two teams that I think have an opportunity to elevate
themselves to be upper crust. We know how well Salona
is gonna be. And if you're just looking for a matchup, right,
Solina is gonna be excellent up front, really really good upfront.
H And they've got two great running backs, and Harrison
Williams and Logan Goudiere.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
They're gonna they're gonna run the dang ball. As a
great man once said, well, what do you do when
you're running the ball?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
At three hundred pound defensive lineman, DJ Sanders the A
and M covent.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Plus they've got D de Murray ran the slot Sea.
I think this game is staggered.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think there's actually like it's just two like elite
teams playing on a neutral site. I think this is
like a real playoff feel, and this will be a
real feather in the cap of whoever gets to win.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So I'm gonna go at Belleville and Salia.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He's Gret Temper managing gent Or Dig Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
Ian I will be on the high School Scoreboard Live
along with Aaron Hartigan on Friday Night. Now you have
newer and different duties in the earlier part of the evening.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Correct, Yes, Dave Campbell's Texas Football Tonight, it'll be basically
high school football red Zone from our friends at Texan.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Live, the afore mentioned Texan Life. We will be dipping
into the biggest games across the state.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
As the action is happening, including Colombus and Quero, including
Alito and De Geyer. We've got a massive slate of
games that we be dropping into.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It'll be myself, Ashley.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Pickle and Ishmael Johnson live for free everywhere on techanlive
dot com, in on our YouTube page.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Are you dropping in on our game, the Lovejoy Love
a Cougar game.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't think that that is within our rights. I
think that that. I think that why might get a
letter from legal if you were to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But you'll you'll have a pretty darn good call you
get Todd Dodge. Yeah, this way, this is just, this
is a small thing, and certainly please watch Texas Football tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
My bosses want me to tell you that, but I
will say that if you are going to watch the
ball again. I think love that Cooper's got a real shot.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I know you've been digging into the game, but I
think this Cooper.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Team is legit.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And the more more I look into him, the more
I think this team is dangerous.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Front seven of Cooper versus offensive front of Lovejoy.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I think it comes down to that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, a great matchup too.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yep, really is Hey, I appreciate it. I'll see you
on Friday.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Look all right, all right, that's Greg Temper, managing editor
of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine. More coming up when
we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen ounds of the
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Willie Nelson, of course, native of Abbot, you know, home
of the Abbot Panthers, who have a new head football coach,
you know, with the son of Terry Crawford, the iconic
ed Gotzer. Kyle, his son who has already won a
state baseball championship, will try to pull off the double
in football. You see what I did there, So I
just got us right on in the visiting mcgreg Tepper,
(00:21):
managing editor of Day Campbell's Texas Football magazine, Tap, why
don't you tell everybody where you plan to be on
Thursday night?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So I think folks who have followed my work and
followed my career over in that last you know a
handful of years, understand that I'm a bit of a sicko.
And so allow me to tell you, Craig, that on Thursday,
I will be hopping in the old Dave Campbell's Texas
football truck.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'll be picking up.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My buddy Matt step and we are driving to scenic Hamilton, Texas, Texas,
where you're thinking, oh, you're gonna go see the Hamilton
Bulldogs play.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We will be watching the Frost Polar Bears take on
the Winter's Blizzards in what they're deeming the Ice Bowl
there in Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And you'll know I love a good bit. This is
about as good as it gets.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Winters, I will tell you, Winters and Frost we do
not have projected to play in their respective state championship games.
And yet this does feel like must see football in
Hamilton on opening night.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No doubt about it. I'm jealous of it. I wish
they could be there for that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
By the way, the Winter's most famous alumnus, the late
great Bill Little, of course that many years of sports
information director University of Texas, he was a Winter's Blizzard.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yep, he's a legend, a legend there.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And his dad was a photographer for the newspaper that
they had there at the time, and all that sort
of stuff. So and so that that's that's Quinn essential
Texas high school football. A mascot matchup made in Heaven,
Winters Blizzards and Frost Polar Bears. I might point out
that right around the corner would be not long after that,
(02:13):
the matchup between the Itaskawampus Cats and the Frost Polar Bears,
which is another fabulous, yeah matchup.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I really appreciate what Frost is doing from a scheduling perspective.
I think that they've they've really leaned into two people
want to play the Polar Bears. I think Philip Gibson
has really taken the right approach here of just saying,
what if we just play all the great other mascots.
That's just that's great work there, and an early front
runner for two A Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, and you think about Itask also has to
play they Gladiators, and so you know, it works out.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Really get them on a circuit, just all those teams.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Get them on a like, let's break them up, have
a different league, have like a super league.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Of just mascots, the mascot they can just all play
one another.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Let's have the mascot League. Before we get into some
other things. Our resident Mojo maniac texted in to Ask
and said, hey, would you ask TEP for a Permian preview?
He said, I think we're playing in jeans these days,
he said. By the way, he said, Mojo class of
(03:18):
eighty six, I still have Johnny Bailey's footprints on my chest.
For folks who don't know what that was, the nineteen
eighty five five a state championship game.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I was there for it, and it was.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Houston Yates thirty seven and Permi and nothing and Johnny
Bailey himself had a fabulous game that day at Texas Stadium.
Off of that, now on the record, we're both on
the record as being Jeff Ellison fans.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We like coach Ellison.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, I like coach Elison a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think that the I'll say the a little Southwest
conference this here, this s acustics thing.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't know that there's a world beater last year.
I mean, you had a Middland legacy who made.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It to the regional semifinal last year. But I think
that the pack has kind of condensed a little bit.
Right now we have Permian's fourth in that district. The
biggest thing for me about Permian is that I don't
think they're going to have the kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Depth that we thought they've had in the past couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They got some places piece of replaced. They lose Justice Laura,
who's so important. They do bring back their quarterback Jacob
Garcia that I know that they're very bullish on. But
you know, I will say this about them. They open
the season in again, just an a classic high school
football just if you're an old school high school football fan.
(04:37):
How about how about Plano at Odessa Permian. That is beautiful,
That is that is mother's milk of Texas high school
football in a week one. That's great stuff good, I mean,
great uniform matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Everything's great about that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think right now Permian Permian is a playoff team.
I think the upside is there, but I want to
see if that defense and the depth can come along.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Old guy brain kicks in here, remembering that plan will
be Hermian sixty three in the state semifinals in seventy
seven and followed it up with a three nothing win
over Mojo in seventy eight in the final four. That
kind of that's Plano versus Permian, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I will say that. I'm going to say that
in the year twenty twenty four, I do.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Think that there will be a touchdown score.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, so that would that would make it perhaps the
highest scoring Plano Permie game in decades.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, you know, and and will be the and well
probably the game will outscore both of those other two
games combined.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's that's pretty easily said there quarter. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Greg Tapper, managing ed or Dave campbells Texas Football Magazine
with us. I want to I'll step away from high
school for a moment, then we'll come back to them.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I want to go to college.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
How about your thoughts in reviewing SMU's close shave, the
escape in from Reno and then and then Tarleton who
kind of almost handed it to McNeice or, to use
your phrase, played with their food when they were up
significantly in that contest and then had to hold on
but got their first win as a full fledged f
(06:03):
c S member there in Stephen the last Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, we'll start with Tarleton. We'll started
the good news. You know, the win is a win.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
They were taken on a mcneese's team that did go
winless last year. But at the same time, they brought
in an outstanding quarterback. You know, Tarleton tried to give
it away late. But I think that that you know,
they held on, they made some place when they needed to,
you know, and and and got had a good crowd
out there for their for their national television debut on
(06:32):
ESPN two.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You know, I think that that that's promising the thing
that that hurts them would be the injury to their quarterback.
That they lost their quarterback in the middle of that game.
That's gonna be a question kind of going forward. But
I do think that overall, you know, you put in
the left hand column and you move on. You hope
that you can clean some things up with your new quarterback.
For s m U, I think that is uh.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'll just I'll just say that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I was underwhelmed by how they played up front. I
thought they should have played bullyball against Nevada a.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Little bit better, and they weren't able to kind of win.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
At the point of attack tomorrow phrase. But the biggest
thing is I'm I'm I'm officially out on the two
quarterback things. They tried to run out both quarterbacks, both
Dallas guides actually Preston Stone and Kevin Henry Jennings, then kind.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Of alternate them, and what it ended up being is
that nobody was able to get into a rhythm.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And nobody was able to come up, you know, with
any sort of consistency there. I think they were kind
of hoping that one of these guys would gratify the rains,
and neither of them did, and so now I think
I think if you're reet lashly, you just got to
kick one. You got to commit to one and if
it doesn't work, then have a short leash. And that's fine.
But this whole alternating series type thing. I do wonder
(07:46):
if you had kind of pumped in pull truth for him,
if he thought like, oh, you know what, We're going
to kind of roll out there and dominate Nevada. You know,
a team new head coach, not very good last year.
We think we're going to dominate them. And then when
that game got Harry suddenly that play doesn't seem so
good to have two quarterbacks. So I think they got
to get some clean some things cleaned up more up front.
(08:06):
But more importantly, I think they just got to pick
a signal caller and roll with it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is it safe to say that the for the colleges
in the state of Texas easily, uh the most anticipated
game for you this Saturday is Texas A and M
Notre Dame unless you take out Park View, Arkansas against Melissa,
But that's a high school game, so uh so so
(08:33):
or the the six Man uh uh you know, big
big sware they always have.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
On the opening weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But with regard with safe to say from the college
perspective of the schools in the state of Texas, that's
the game you're kind of zeroing in on.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, I don't think there's really any doubt. I mean,
a college game is going to be there. That that's
one thing. It's also just a really interesting kind of
first look at Mike.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Elco's noted amite or rather he did coaching our Dame
one one A and M team, and and just kind
of see where they're at, you know. There we have
a lot of questions about this A and M team,
specifically out wide. They got to have some receivers step up,
specifically the running back spot, especially now that Rubin Owns
is out.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And in the trenches. You know.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Strangely, one of the questions we have is in kind
of like the you know, the the front seven, you know,
and that's one of the questions that we have. There's
talent there, and they bring in a guy like Nick
Gordon from from Purdue, but but I need to see
exactly what it looks like taking on another name team
that's really capable of coming in and winning a you know,
winning a big game.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
This is a real helmet game.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right, you look at it, you see the Golden Domers,
and you see the A and M.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You get excited.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
The other thing about it is that overall across the
state of Texas is just kind of an underwhelming Week
one from a schedule perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
There's no real big ones. I mean that there's an
argument to be made that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The second most compelling game in the state is Sam
Houston and Rights, which.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You know is interesting. We'll find out a lot about
both of them, and I think for both.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Of them if they want to, if they have dreams
and ideas of getting to a bowl game, this is
kind of game you got to put in the left
hand column. But overall, we're kind of easy in the
college football season as far as the big name matchups
are concerned.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But A and M and Notre Dame is certainly that exception.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You and I got a text today from Joey McGuire,
the head coach of and he was kind of he
was kind of just giving you some grief about hoping
that the that football Friday score app was going to
be working properly and that sort of thing. But he
opened up with the school two and a half hours
(10:34):
down the road, Abilene Christian all of that. But it's
safe to say not that Joey's in any kind of
hot water or trouble or hot seat or anything like that.
But it's important for them to get off to a
good start in this new and and some would say improved.
Some would say certainly reborn Big twelve Conference.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, go win that game, right, you know, go go
out there, win that game.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Make sure you go out there you look good. And
I would say get a lot of the young, get
a lot of the exciting players involved. Get Toash Brooks involved.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
This is the guy we think is the best running
back at least to start the year in the state
of Texas.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You know, a guy who's who's so.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Good for them, Getting like a Hudson involved, that's your
five star wide receivers, throws in the ball, you know,
get an opportunity to get get your fans excited about that.
But yeah, I think the Texas Tech the big year.
I think the big year for Dy McGuire. Obviously he
was gangbusters in his first year there in Lubbock and
then kind of fell back to earth in the second season.
You know, still pretty good, but you know, overall, not
(11:30):
to the standard that he hopes to be. I think
this is the kind of year that you kind of
we're going to see which one was the.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Exception, which one was the rule? You know is is
six and six going to be more likely?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Or are going to be closer to eight and four,
especially in a new LOK Big twelve. I think their
schedule sets up very well for them. They don't play
Kansas State, they don't play Utah. Their schedule sets up
relatively well. But yeah, get off on the good foot
in this one and establish a couple of playmakers.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Put some tape out there that people are going to
be sweating over.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Okay, tell you this because I was going to ask
you which high school game in this state are you
most eagerly anticipating this weekend? Now, I preface this by
telling you that our producer and Texan Live veteran broadcaster,
Cameron Parker turned down turned down Columbus Squero. He turned
(12:25):
it down, Now he had he had really good logistical
reasons for it, but he turned that down to and
Flugervilla and Leander instead. But did he turn down the
best matchup in the state of Texas in week number one, which,
by the way, is going to be called by our
broadcast VOYE for long run softball. Andrew Haynes is going
(12:46):
to be calling that game now. So did he turn down?
Did Cameron turn down the best game in the state.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Look, I don't want to tell Cameron to run his career,
but you know it's the choices were made.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Obviously, that's fine. You know what, I'm the most important
just to go from the fine.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But you can't turned down an opportunity to have that,
you know, I think a certified eater right out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Of the gates. I mean, you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
A Quero team that I think is flying a little
bit under the radar. Some pieces to replaced, but they
start the year number twelve in for a Division two
and especially in Quero in DeWitt County, they are difficult
to beat. And they are going to be in front
of a green mob of people who are have been
hungry for Gobbler football for about.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Nine months now. And now, you know, going up against.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Columbus, which is dripping with intrigue, a team that we
think is a certified state championship contender with a TCU
committed quarterback, a TCU commit. I believe that linebacker and
John Show Well, playmakers all over the place, and oh yeah,
the debut, the eleven man debut of Grayson and Rigdon,
the three times six man player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Now going to be out there.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So that is a game, especially on the road against
a team that has a ton of speed in Quero,
that is going to be absolutely fat, fascinating. I'm really
excited about it. Cameron obviously not that excited about it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's okay, you know, everyone a different, different game, tep.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
It's not the excitement, it's the fact that we have
a radio show until five pm on Friday. Is the
game for It's a seven and Quail's what two and
a half hours away, not counting Friday rush hour traffic.
I wish I could be there, but fortunately the field's
a little bit closer.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'm just saying that Craig has taught me that speed
limits early suggestions.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He told me that, you know directly, So.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Final thing, if if not that game, what's the best
game in the state this weekend?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Okay, it's a loaded weeks there. I tweeted that there's
seven hundred and fifty games this week. That is the
most that we've ever had in a single week. It's
the biggest weekend of high school football in American history,
played in simple seven hundred and fifty games across the state,
and it is a massive, massive slate.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I think, oh man, you can go with a team
to a.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Game like North Shore and South o'cliffe. That's a big,
heavy hitting matchup. You could go with a game like
Kilgore and Carthage, which I think is gonna be gangbusters
out there in East Texas. That game is gonna be great.
I'm really excited about west Lake and prosper But if
you're asking me to pick one, I'm gonna pick Belleville
in Solina Friday Night in Hewitt in Midway because either
(15:26):
two teams that I think have an opportunity to elevate
themselves to be upper crust. We know how well Salona
is gonna be. And if you're just looking for a matchup, right,
Solina is gonna be excellent up front, really really good upfront.
H And they've got two great running backs, and Harrison
Williams and Logan Goudiere.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
They're gonna they're gonna run the dang ball. As a
great man once said, well, what do you do when
you're running the ball?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
At three hundred pound defensive lineman, DJ Sanders the A
and M covent.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Plus they've got D de Murray ran the slot Sea.
I think this game is staggered.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think there's actually like it's just two like elite
teams playing on a neutral site. I think this is
like a real playoff feel, and this will be a
real feather in the cap of whoever gets to win.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So I'm gonna go at Belleville and Salia.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He's Gret Temper managing gent Or Dig Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
Ian I will be on the high School Scoreboard Live
along with Aaron Hartigan on Friday Night. Now you have
newer and different duties in the earlier part of the evening.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Correct, Yes, Dave Campbell's Texas Football Tonight, it'll be basically
high school football red Zone from our friends at Texan.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Live, the afore mentioned Texan Life. We will be dipping
into the biggest games across the state.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
As the action is happening, including Colombus and Quero, including
Alito and De Geyer. We've got a massive slate of
games that we be dropping into.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It'll be myself, Ashley.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Pickle and Ishmael Johnson live for free everywhere on techanlive
dot com, in on our YouTube page.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Are you dropping in on our game, the Lovejoy Love
a Cougar game.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't think that that is within our rights. I
think that that. I think that why might get a
letter from legal if you were to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But you'll you'll have a pretty darn good call you
get Todd Dodge. Yeah, this way, this is just, this
is a small thing, and certainly please watch Texas Football tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
My bosses want me to tell you that, but I
will say that if you are going to watch the
ball again. I think love that Cooper's got a real shot.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I know you've been digging into the game, but I
think this Cooper.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Team is legit.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And the more more I look into him, the more
I think this team is dangerous.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Front seven of Cooper versus offensive front of Lovejoy.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I think it comes down to that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, a great matchup too.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yep, really is Hey, I appreciate it. I'll see you
on Friday.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Look all right, all right, that's Greg Temper, managing editor
of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine. More coming up when
we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen ounds of the
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