September 20, 2024 • 15 mins
Bryant Vincent joins the show and previews Saturday's game between the Longhorns and the Warhawks with Craig Way
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before we get to this interview with Bryant Vincent, there
are three D one FBS college football games tonight. First
of all, I know you said he watched Jets Patriots.
Did you see any of major Apple White South Alabama
Jaguars game where they took apart Appalachian State on the
road in Boone?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Tough for my Mountaineers. I'm hoping. I was hoping they
would be the group of five team that reached the playoffs.
Does not look like it, but hey, maybe it'll be
the Jaguars of South Alabama.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Let's go Jags.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, they've shaken off a couple of losses to start
the seasonto North Texas and Ohio. They come back to
what they scored eighty seven points against Northwestern State last
week and then they blasted Appalachian State forty fourteen last night.
So they're up to two and two now and a contender.
By the way, in case you're wondering, they play Texas
(00:53):
State the final game of the regular season. That's in
Mobile and it's on Black Friday. Is when South Alabama
will play Texas State. So keep that in mind. Now,
there are three games tonight, one in the ACC Stanford
(01:14):
and Syracuse. That's an ACC game, sure or whatever it's
called now the Dome. They're Stanford and Syracuse. That's one
UH in the Big Ten. Illinois Nebraska THO team's unbeaten UH.
And San Jose State plays at Washington State. See that
that's part of that Mountain West scheduling agreement that they
(01:38):
have with what remains of the PAC twelve, the TUPAC
with Washington State and Oregon State. So yes, if San
Jose State and Utah State going in, then it's right
to what Cameron Parker said, it's the state eight at
that point if those two get added as well. So
they're playing tonight, by the way, in case you're winning,
that's on the CW, that one the late night.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Telecast day, the same channel as Live Golf. That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
See, And you could have been up in Dallas today.
You could have been up there for the Live Golf
event up there. You could have been there for that
if you only you know, I see, I thought you
were kind of softening your stance on Live a little
bit because you liked it when Bryson to Shamba won
the Open.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You you know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You did you did you said you found yourself rooting for.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You, I did. Yeah. I mean my stance is the
same I think on live golf and PGA Tour golf
outside the majors, who cares? Who cares? Butt Craig, one
of the Saudi dudes, was at the PJ headquarters in
Frisco this past week, and there was that big ruling
this week where now live golf players are eligible for
the Ryder Cup and the President's Cup. So it seems
(02:44):
like we're making some league way on a possible merger
between the PGA Tour and the Saudi backed Live Golf Tour.
So just good for the game of golf if we
have some sort of stupid golf thing with Rory and
Scotty first Brooks and Bryson coming up somewhere down the
line whatever. But we're getting we're getting closer. At least
there's some movement, some movie going on there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, Well, that's that's good to know, all right. As
we mentioned, of course, the Long Orange take on the
Warhawks of ul Monroe. It's a team that is two
and zero. They were aff last week. They defeated Jackson
State the first game. The second game, the one against
UAB was pretty impressive. And when we had Mike Hammett,
the play by play voice of the Warhawks on yesterday,
(03:26):
he said, the guys were pretty motivated. Remember Bryant Vincent,
their head coach, was passed over for the head coaching
job at UAB when they hired Trent Dilferd and Vincent
was the interim head coach and guided them to a
seven and six record and their first ever Bowl o.
They got a bowl win in the Bahamas Bowl. They
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won that, So he did a heck of a job there,
but he got passed over for it. So when Trent
Dilver came in, Brian Vincent went to New Mexico. He's
the offensive coordinator for one year that ran the ball
really really well, and then he got the coaching job
at ULM. So he knows a thing or two about
trying to turn around the programs. That was part of
what we visited and we had the conversation. Like I said,
(04:09):
we intended to bring it to yesterday and some technical issues,
but fortunately able to salvage it. And so here it is.
This is the conversation we had yesterday with the head
coach of the Warhawks of the University of Louisiana Monroe
and first year. In his first year as a collegiate
head coach, Brian Vincent coach. One thing that I was
curious to get your thoughts on was this particular opportunity
(04:32):
for you as a head coach. And I was wondering
how much your time at UAB two years ago in
the interim role did that help in terms of even
the logistics and the day to day CEO types of
things of being a head coach as well as what
you have to do as a head coach on the field.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I think it definitely helped, without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Just going through the experiences that you go through and
being a head coach in high school for five years
and turning really two programs around, that was auble experience
because building a culture and getting a community to come
together for one common purpose, you know, the experience of
that is priceless. And to do it at UAB as
the interim in twenty two and really been the offensive
(05:13):
coordinator and assistant head coach under Bill Clark for those
years was valuable. But when you're in that seat and
you're making all the decisions, it was definitely valuable.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And I was able to carry that with me.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know what, the layman might look at it and say, hey,
why that particular job at uelmen Roe, Now why did
that fi? What were the things that really stood out
to you about why this would be a great opportunity
for you.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I've always had a passion and it's crazy as it sounds,
it's been God's plan for my career.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
My first head coaching job was Greenwvill High School. They
were two and eight, one and nine, we went ten
and three. Then after that year I went to Spanish
Fort in the row and seventeen and we went four
and six, eleven and two, eleven and three and thirteen
and two and won the championship in ten.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And then you go to South and you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Get to the first ball and then you go to
UAB who's never won a bowl game ever, and we
went three West championships in a row, and then we
were BO eligible what six seven years in row and
won the first bowl game ever. And Ulm they've been
down for a while and they've had hard times, but
it's here. It's the talent in this region in the state.
(06:18):
The town's hungry, and a lot of times when people
when you face tough times, you're hungry for a change,
and there's desire for change, and I feel like we
have great alignment here, you know, with our with our
president doctor Berry, to our athletic director John Hartwell, who
who was at Troy and Ole Miss and was at
Utah State, and I knew, I knew of John, and
(06:39):
I knew that, you know, he really attracted me to
this job because I knew he was one He had
the same vision and the same desires that we all
felt and talked about.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So to me, that's what this thing's about is.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Making history, changing lives, affecting communities, making positive differences at universities,
and really just showing.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
People that it can and be done, proving people wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Clearly, you have demonstrated that you are one of those
guys that can turn programs around. Is there a particular
secret or or magice to it? What's the key to
trying to turn around programs that have been down and
making them winners.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You have to invest in the people, whether it's your players,
your coaches, your administration, your faculty, the town. It's relentless.
The first year, year and a half is a relentless.
It probably puts three to five years on your life
that you have to get up early and to go
to bed late at night. And it's all about creating
(07:36):
relationships and a vision and having a plan to build
those steps that it takes, because there's steps in a
rebuilding process. The first thing is you've got to established discipline.
You've got to have vision from where you're going.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And what's your purpose.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Our purpose from day one when we got here with
thirty one kids we signed in December and then the
forty two other kids we brought in by the end
of May was look, we're down. We own who we are.
This program's been down, they've never won a bowl game.
But what we want to do is we want kids
that want to come here, that want to own this
mission and turn this program around and make history. Be
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the group that wins the first bowl game, that wins
the first outright conference championship. And you got to be
on a mission daily, a daily grind, and you just
small wins. You might have fifteen games in a day
in the offseason, Let's win as many as we can.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We only win ten, we lost five. Next, let's go
win ten more.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And you've got to have that mentality and it gets
challenged because the hardest thing to do is to turn
the mindset early.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But we're doing that. Our towns energized.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Our town is starting to see the difference, and that's
how we're.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Going to build it, grow it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Part of turning things around is being able to run
the football. You did it as the offensive coordator New Mexico.
Clearly you're doing it in the first two weeks, and
you're doing it with a freshman running back and a
Jukeco transfer, with a mad Hardy and James Jones. Has
that been a surprise prize or did you expect those
guys to be as effective and your running game to
be as effective as it's been early on.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I really didn't know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know, our philosophy has always been we're gonna run first.
You know, we had the leading rusher in the nation
at UAB in twenty two and Dwayne McBride. We've always
we were an outside zone, run the football, play action, nicked.
I mean, that's our staple on offense, and it's been
that way for years. We've won a lot of games,
championships and bowl games doing it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But you're one you just don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I think that our offensive line and coach blankion Ship
has done a really good job up front. Brady Vincent's
done a great job with the tight ends, you know,
and coach Fobb's with the running backs, and then coach Taylor.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
For you with the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But we knew of Mine had a chance to be special,
We really did, because he runs violently and he's still
just a true freshman. But we're excited about his you know,
his future and where he's at and continue to growth.
And James Jones got here in June. You know, he's
still he's a guy that has tremendous upsidey. He's growing
and developing daily. And then Tavin Curry and you know
(10:03):
from Oz Smith.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
In terms of looking at the Loghorns, what are the
things that really strike you about when you look at
Texas on tape?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, I look at Texas on tape.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
They remind me when I first turned on Georgia in
twenty one and we were going to play Georgia. I
was like, oh boy, so you turn it on and
the thing you see, yeah, you see great athletes all
over the field. But the thing that really struck me
is how Detaild and how finally coached these guys are
they've all got the first read step.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
They've all got the first I mean, these guys are.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Coached extremely well, and that's what you expected Texas, you know,
But I've seen it on the other side too, where
it necessarily wasn't as clean. And these guys are coached
to the t. They're sound fundamentally, they have great effort,
and they played the game the right ways. What I see,
they're a high class, high character.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You know lent teams. What I see coach.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
One other thing I wanted to ask you, other than
the obvious that look for your team to come through
and get a big win, what are the other things
the elements that you want to see out of your
team in a non conference game, in game number three
of the season.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I want to see a star fast.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I want to see a and this is easier said
than done, I want to see a start fast. I
don't want the size of the crowd or the speed
and size of the ponent to dictate us. We want
to go in there with the right mentality, star fast.
We want to protect the football, we want to move
the chains, and we want to execute critical situational football.
So we haven't turned it over in two games. You know,
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knock on wood, if there's every game we don't need
to turn it over, and it's this one because they
don't need extra possessions. They're too good already. So let's
just go out there and let's execute. From the first
snap to last nap. There's going to be momentum swings.
We understand that they're going to make big plays because
they're that talented, but it's next snap mentality, it's next
drive mentality, and just starting and finishing the same way
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we started.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So there's our conversation with the head coach of the
ULM Warhawks, Brian Bens. It was pretty impressed by what
he said. He he's got a plan. He named those
other programs where he'd gone in and kind of flipped
the script there. And yes, the vast majority of those
were high school programs like Spanish for it, and some
of those other ones as well. But he did a
(12:17):
good job as the interim head coach at UAB and
got him the win two years ago and in the
Bowl victory as well. So I can see where maybe,
as Mike ham at their play by play guy told us,
they could have been pretty motivated for that game two
weeks ago when they played UAB at home and they
just kind of ran right through them. Now, having said that, Cam,
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even though their plan is to run the football, and
Sart pointed that out as we heard last hour in
the segment from Longhorn Weekly which aired last night, they
planned to run the football. Running the football against UAB
is one thing. Trying to run the football against Texas
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might be another matter.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And it's kind of similar to what we saw in
Texas Michigan right where we knew Michigan wanted to run
the ball. They didn't have a stellar passing attack. I
would argue that maybe the Warhawks passing attack is a
little bit better than what Michigan had. And Michigan only
ran the ball for eighty yards and they threw they
ran it twenty three times. So kind of the same thing, Craig,
when we see this Texas defense, they know your one
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strength that's running the football. They took it away from Michigan.
You know, p K and Sark are going to do
the same thing against the Warhawks tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well. And one thing that Mike Hammick pointed out was
that they really haven't asked much of General Booty in
terms of throwing the football. And this is a guy who,
of course has had kind of the star crossed career.
He played at four different high schools, finished at Allen
High School, Kyler Murray's alma mater, finished there, and then
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after that started off at junior college, and then after juco,
you know, went to Oklahoma, basically sat for a couple
of years, and then after springball transferred in. But he's
only attempted thirty passes through two ballgames for one hundred
and ninety one yards in a touchdown, has not thrown
an interception, and he's carroted himself nine times for twenty
four yards. So they haven't asked much of him in
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terms of the passing game. And obviously they're going to
try to run the ball, but they may try to
do some some additional different types of things against that
Texas defense. And you heard Brian Vince say right there
at the end of the interview what he wants to
see his team do is start fast. He said, got
to start fast. That'd be an important thing. All right,
(14:36):
coming up, we've got some more on this matchup and
some other college football matchups as well. We'll continue here
on this Friday afternoon trying to guide you in to
the weekend, so we'll continue to do that, and also
your final opportunity to get in the conversation to try
to win pair of tickets to see Brooks and done
(14:56):
when we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app.
Before we get to this interview with Bryant Vincent, there
are three D one FBS college football games tonight. First
of all, I know you said he watched Jets Patriots.
Did you see any of major Apple White South Alabama
Jaguars game where they took apart Appalachian State on the
road in Boone?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Tough for my Mountaineers. I'm hoping. I was hoping they
would be the group of five team that reached the playoffs.
Does not look like it, but hey, maybe it'll be
the Jaguars of South Alabama.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Let's go Jags.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, they've shaken off a couple of losses to start
the seasonto North Texas and Ohio. They come back to
what they scored eighty seven points against Northwestern State last
week and then they blasted Appalachian State forty fourteen last night.
So they're up to two and two now and a contender.
By the way, in case you're wondering, they play Texas
(00:53):
State the final game of the regular season. That's in
Mobile and it's on Black Friday. Is when South Alabama
will play Texas State. So keep that in mind. Now,
there are three games tonight, one in the ACC Stanford
(01:14):
and Syracuse. That's an ACC game, sure or whatever it's
called now the Dome. They're Stanford and Syracuse. That's one
UH in the Big Ten. Illinois Nebraska THO team's unbeaten UH.
And San Jose State plays at Washington State. See that
that's part of that Mountain West scheduling agreement that they
(01:38):
have with what remains of the PAC twelve, the TUPAC
with Washington State and Oregon State. So yes, if San
Jose State and Utah State going in, then it's right
to what Cameron Parker said, it's the state eight at
that point if those two get added as well. So
they're playing tonight, by the way, in case you're winning,
that's on the CW, that one the late night.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Telecast day, the same channel as Live Golf. That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
See, And you could have been up in Dallas today.
You could have been up there for the Live Golf
event up there. You could have been there for that
if you only you know, I see, I thought you
were kind of softening your stance on Live a little
bit because you liked it when Bryson to Shamba won
the Open.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You you know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You did you did you said you found yourself rooting for.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You, I did. Yeah. I mean my stance is the
same I think on live golf and PGA Tour golf
outside the majors, who cares? Who cares? Butt Craig, one
of the Saudi dudes, was at the PJ headquarters in
Frisco this past week, and there was that big ruling
this week where now live golf players are eligible for
the Ryder Cup and the President's Cup. So it seems
(02:44):
like we're making some league way on a possible merger
between the PGA Tour and the Saudi backed Live Golf Tour.
So just good for the game of golf if we
have some sort of stupid golf thing with Rory and
Scotty first Brooks and Bryson coming up somewhere down the
line whatever. But we're getting we're getting closer. At least
there's some movement, some movie going on there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, Well, that's that's good to know, all right. As
we mentioned, of course, the Long Orange take on the
Warhawks of ul Monroe. It's a team that is two
and zero. They were aff last week. They defeated Jackson
State the first game. The second game, the one against
UAB was pretty impressive. And when we had Mike Hammett,
the play by play voice of the Warhawks on yesterday,
(03:26):
he said, the guys were pretty motivated. Remember Bryant Vincent,
their head coach, was passed over for the head coaching
job at UAB when they hired Trent Dilferd and Vincent
was the interim head coach and guided them to a
seven and six record and their first ever Bowl o.
They got a bowl win in the Bahamas Bowl. They
(03:48):
won that, So he did a heck of a job there,
but he got passed over for it. So when Trent
Dilver came in, Brian Vincent went to New Mexico. He's
the offensive coordinator for one year that ran the ball
really really well, and then he got the coaching job
at ULM. So he knows a thing or two about
trying to turn around the programs. That was part of
what we visited and we had the conversation. Like I said,
(04:09):
we intended to bring it to yesterday and some technical issues,
but fortunately able to salvage it. And so here it is.
This is the conversation we had yesterday with the head
coach of the Warhawks of the University of Louisiana Monroe
and first year. In his first year as a collegiate
head coach, Brian Vincent coach. One thing that I was
curious to get your thoughts on was this particular opportunity
(04:32):
for you as a head coach. And I was wondering
how much your time at UAB two years ago in
the interim role did that help in terms of even
the logistics and the day to day CEO types of
things of being a head coach as well as what
you have to do as a head coach on the field.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I think it definitely helped, without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Just going through the experiences that you go through and
being a head coach in high school for five years
and turning really two programs around, that was auble experience
because building a culture and getting a community to come
together for one common purpose, you know, the experience of
that is priceless. And to do it at UAB as
the interim in twenty two and really been the offensive
(05:13):
coordinator and assistant head coach under Bill Clark for those
years was valuable. But when you're in that seat and
you're making all the decisions, it was definitely valuable.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And I was able to carry that with me.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know what, the layman might look at it and say, hey,
why that particular job at uelmen Roe, Now why did
that fi? What were the things that really stood out
to you about why this would be a great opportunity
for you.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I've always had a passion and it's crazy as it sounds,
it's been God's plan for my career.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
My first head coaching job was Greenwvill High School. They
were two and eight, one and nine, we went ten
and three. Then after that year I went to Spanish
Fort in the row and seventeen and we went four
and six, eleven and two, eleven and three and thirteen
and two and won the championship in ten.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And then you go to South and you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Get to the first ball and then you go to
UAB who's never won a bowl game ever, and we
went three West championships in a row, and then we
were BO eligible what six seven years in row and
won the first bowl game ever. And Ulm they've been
down for a while and they've had hard times, but
it's here. It's the talent in this region in the state.
(06:18):
The town's hungry, and a lot of times when people
when you face tough times, you're hungry for a change,
and there's desire for change, and I feel like we
have great alignment here, you know, with our with our
president doctor Berry, to our athletic director John Hartwell, who
who was at Troy and Ole Miss and was at
Utah State, and I knew, I knew of John, and
(06:39):
I knew that, you know, he really attracted me to
this job because I knew he was one He had
the same vision and the same desires that we all
felt and talked about.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So to me, that's what this thing's about is.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Making history, changing lives, affecting communities, making positive differences at universities,
and really just showing.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
People that it can and be done, proving people wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Clearly, you have demonstrated that you are one of those
guys that can turn programs around. Is there a particular
secret or or magice to it? What's the key to
trying to turn around programs that have been down and
making them winners.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You have to invest in the people, whether it's your players,
your coaches, your administration, your faculty, the town. It's relentless.
The first year, year and a half is a relentless.
It probably puts three to five years on your life
that you have to get up early and to go
to bed late at night. And it's all about creating
(07:36):
relationships and a vision and having a plan to build
those steps that it takes, because there's steps in a
rebuilding process. The first thing is you've got to established discipline.
You've got to have vision from where you're going.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And what's your purpose.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Our purpose from day one when we got here with
thirty one kids we signed in December and then the
forty two other kids we brought in by the end
of May was look, we're down. We own who we are.
This program's been down, they've never won a bowl game.
But what we want to do is we want kids
that want to come here, that want to own this
mission and turn this program around and make history. Be
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the group that wins the first bowl game, that wins
the first outright conference championship. And you got to be
on a mission daily, a daily grind, and you just
small wins. You might have fifteen games in a day
in the offseason, Let's win as many as we can.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We only win ten, we lost five. Next, let's go
win ten more.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And you've got to have that mentality and it gets
challenged because the hardest thing to do is to turn
the mindset early.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But we're doing that. Our towns energized.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Our town is starting to see the difference, and that's
how we're.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Going to build it, grow it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Part of turning things around is being able to run
the football. You did it as the offensive coordator New Mexico.
Clearly you're doing it in the first two weeks, and
you're doing it with a freshman running back and a
Jukeco transfer, with a mad Hardy and James Jones. Has
that been a surprise prize or did you expect those
guys to be as effective and your running game to
be as effective as it's been early on.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I really didn't know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know, our philosophy has always been we're gonna run first.
You know, we had the leading rusher in the nation
at UAB in twenty two and Dwayne McBride. We've always
we were an outside zone, run the football, play action, nicked.
I mean, that's our staple on offense, and it's been
that way for years. We've won a lot of games,
championships and bowl games doing it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But you're one you just don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I think that our offensive line and coach blankion Ship
has done a really good job up front. Brady Vincent's
done a great job with the tight ends, you know,
and coach Fobb's with the running backs, and then coach Taylor.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
For you with the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But we knew of Mine had a chance to be special,
We really did, because he runs violently and he's still
just a true freshman. But we're excited about his you know,
his future and where he's at and continue to growth.
And James Jones got here in June. You know, he's
still he's a guy that has tremendous upsidey. He's growing
and developing daily. And then Tavin Curry and you know
(10:03):
from Oz Smith.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
In terms of looking at the Loghorns, what are the
things that really strike you about when you look at
Texas on tape?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, I look at Texas on tape.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
They remind me when I first turned on Georgia in
twenty one and we were going to play Georgia. I
was like, oh boy, so you turn it on and
the thing you see, yeah, you see great athletes all
over the field. But the thing that really struck me
is how Detaild and how finally coached these guys are
they've all got the first read step.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
They've all got the first I mean, these guys are.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Coached extremely well, and that's what you expected Texas, you know,
But I've seen it on the other side too, where
it necessarily wasn't as clean. And these guys are coached
to the t. They're sound fundamentally, they have great effort,
and they played the game the right ways. What I see,
they're a high class, high character.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You know lent teams. What I see coach.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
One other thing I wanted to ask you, other than
the obvious that look for your team to come through
and get a big win, what are the other things
the elements that you want to see out of your
team in a non conference game, in game number three
of the season.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I want to see a star fast.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I want to see a and this is easier said
than done, I want to see a start fast. I
don't want the size of the crowd or the speed
and size of the ponent to dictate us. We want
to go in there with the right mentality, star fast.
We want to protect the football, we want to move
the chains, and we want to execute critical situational football.
So we haven't turned it over in two games. You know,
(11:31):
knock on wood, if there's every game we don't need
to turn it over, and it's this one because they
don't need extra possessions. They're too good already. So let's
just go out there and let's execute. From the first
snap to last nap. There's going to be momentum swings.
We understand that they're going to make big plays because
they're that talented, but it's next snap mentality, it's next
drive mentality, and just starting and finishing the same way
(11:54):
we started.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So there's our conversation with the head coach of the
ULM Warhawks, Brian Bens. It was pretty impressed by what
he said. He he's got a plan. He named those
other programs where he'd gone in and kind of flipped
the script there. And yes, the vast majority of those
were high school programs like Spanish for it, and some
of those other ones as well. But he did a
(12:17):
good job as the interim head coach at UAB and
got him the win two years ago and in the
Bowl victory as well. So I can see where maybe,
as Mike ham at their play by play guy told us,
they could have been pretty motivated for that game two
weeks ago when they played UAB at home and they
just kind of ran right through them. Now, having said that, Cam,
(12:38):
even though their plan is to run the football, and
Sart pointed that out as we heard last hour in
the segment from Longhorn Weekly which aired last night, they
planned to run the football. Running the football against UAB
is one thing. Trying to run the football against Texas
(12:58):
might be another matter.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And it's kind of similar to what we saw in
Texas Michigan right where we knew Michigan wanted to run
the ball. They didn't have a stellar passing attack. I
would argue that maybe the Warhawks passing attack is a
little bit better than what Michigan had. And Michigan only
ran the ball for eighty yards and they threw they
ran it twenty three times. So kind of the same thing, Craig,
when we see this Texas defense, they know your one
(13:22):
strength that's running the football. They took it away from Michigan.
You know, p K and Sark are going to do
the same thing against the Warhawks tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well. And one thing that Mike Hammick pointed out was
that they really haven't asked much of General Booty in
terms of throwing the football. And this is a guy who,
of course has had kind of the star crossed career.
He played at four different high schools, finished at Allen
High School, Kyler Murray's alma mater, finished there, and then
(13:52):
after that started off at junior college, and then after juco,
you know, went to Oklahoma, basically sat for a couple
of years, and then after springball transferred in. But he's
only attempted thirty passes through two ballgames for one hundred
and ninety one yards in a touchdown, has not thrown
an interception, and he's carroted himself nine times for twenty
four yards. So they haven't asked much of him in
(14:16):
terms of the passing game. And obviously they're going to
try to run the ball, but they may try to
do some some additional different types of things against that
Texas defense. And you heard Brian Vince say right there
at the end of the interview what he wants to
see his team do is start fast. He said, got
to start fast. That'd be an important thing. All right,
(14:36):
coming up, we've got some more on this matchup and
some other college football matchups as well. We'll continue here
on this Friday afternoon trying to guide you in to
the weekend, so we'll continue to do that, and also
your final opportunity to get in the conversation to try
to win pair of tickets to see Brooks and done
(14:56):
when we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
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