September 26, 2024 • 8 mins
Craig and Cam close out Thursday's show with more comments from Steve Sarkisian about Tashard Choice, the non-conference schedule, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Well, continue here on this Thursday afternoon updating the baseball scoreboard.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Final game ever in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The A's lead the Rangers three to two, top of
the eighth innings. I am curious to see what happens
when this game ends. You know, I would imagine there's
going to be quite a bit of security in place.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let them storm the field.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, it happened in other places like that. It definitely
happened in Brooklyn, and it definitely happened in the Opolo
Grounds when the Giants and Dodger fans were tearing up
pieces of the turf, the bases.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The different things happened in for the Washington Senators too,
That's right, it did. I don't remember what happened in Montreal.
I know fans really didn't more than they are.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
No, And I don't think they knew for sure that
they that it wasn't coming back when it went from
four to five from Montreal to Washington, d C. But
some of the other places, yeah, they tore up a
lot of the things that that that happened there. You mentioned.
Washington ended up forfeiting that game because of that because
they couldn't they couldn't finish the game. Everybody said that
(01:31):
was fitting closing out for the Senators before they moved
to Arlington and became the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I would imagine there's a sufficient security detail down there
to keep that from happening.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But we'll find out. Well, we'll see off of that
all right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Some wheny yesterday got was being chased by security because
they stole a stadium seat.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm surprised anybody noticed.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Some other thoughts from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarqi
in talking about the explosivity of the offense as we
were in talking about the production of the running game
despite the injuries. As we were sark was asked about
to Shard Choice uh and how his running backs coach
has been able to still keep it all compartmentalized and
(02:19):
together in that running back room despite all the injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But I think Coach Choice has done a fantastic job.
He's an excellent coach, you know, he's Coach Choice definitely
has a worker's mentality, almost an overachiever's mentality.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
There's a there's a mindset.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To his approach of which you attack every day, and
I think that our guys really respond to that and
there's a real connectivity in that running back room that
I think pushes one another to perform and to perform
even better. And so, hey, we're not a finished product
with some of those guys. They're all evolving, they all
continue to improve.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But I love the.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Growth I've seen out of all of them, from Jayden
Blue all the way down. I mean, these guys are
all continuing to get better.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sark has asked this next question, and my memory may
be failing me on this camp, but I was thinking
it was our friend Thomas Jones from the Austin American Statesmen,
asked about the four consecutive non conference games to open
the season. Danny Davis right, newspaper wrong. Writer Danny Davis
asked him, do you prefer the four consecutive non conference games?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Would you rather play one in November? In other words,
you phemistically speaking Cupcake Week in the SEC, because that's
when they largely play FCS opponents. They usually that third
or second or third Saturday in November. This year it's
the sixteenth. The Loghorns are in Fayette on that day
to play Arkansas, And he was asked, do you prefer that?
(03:49):
And remember, so our coach in the SEC, so we coached.
He was an assistant on Nick Saban's staff when he
was there with Coach Saban, so he coached that particular
dynamic when they had that fourth non conference game come
(04:09):
up in November as opposed to four in a row
to start the season, and you could imagine which options
start prefers here.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No, I prefer this one.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And I know there's I know there's there's some rationale
to why you have that non conference game late in
the year, But I've lived that life for that non
conference late in the year. Sometimes it's like pulling teeth
with your with your players in November, and the game
is always closer than everybody wants it to be, and
everybody's kind of kicking the tires a little bit because
(04:44):
it didn't go the way they wanted. I'm more for
the mindset of play these four early. You can play
a lot of players, you can get a lot of
development done with a lot of your newcomers on your roster,
uh to get them ready for what I would call
the regular season, which is conference play. And I think
we've done that and we're going to reap the benefits
of that moving forward and The obvious ones are easy, right,
(05:07):
you know, Jared Gibson, Ryan Wingo, Colin Simmons, Jordan Johnson, Rebel.
But there's a lot of younger players that are really
starting to contribute on special teams as well. And though
that is going to be huge for us as we
start to try to navigate our way through the SEC
and then hopefully into a college football playoff er.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay, right, and then finally one other thing from Sark.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
This was something that came up yesterday on the SEC teleconference.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He didn't have too much to say about.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I had a little more expansion of his thought on this,
and it's the red shirt decision making that goes in
when you get into a week five, week six, when
you finally get to that point about the siding whether
you're going to try to red shirt a player or
let him play through or extrapolated out a little bit more.
Remember a player can play up to four games being
(05:58):
that four week window and still take a red shirt.
And incidentally, it was something that Jeff Levy said in
talking about Blake Shapin. Somebody asked him in his news
conference about Shapin, would he be going for the medical
hardship or whatever, and he said, yeah, we're within the
four game window, and he was talking about him red
(06:19):
shirting and Shapin coming back next year. But Sark was
asked about the decision making process with a longer schedule,
A tougher schedule could go as long as sixteen, maybe
even seventeen weeks if it went all the way through. Now,
if you get a bye in the first round, if
you win your league and you wind up getting a bye,
(06:42):
then you're than you are probably only looking at playing
a max of sixteen games, So that's that would be
the deal. But Sark was asked about this about the
decision making. Does it become a little more of a
challenge now with the season being extrapolated out further.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, probably good point. I'm gonna play it by field,
you know. I feel like I've got a responsibility to
field the best football team that I can week in
and week out, to give us the best chance to
be successful. And I think, you know, we're one of
I don't know, let's call it fifteen or so teams
roughly maybe twenty that probably have a legitimate opportunity to
try to go, you know, win a win a championship
(07:24):
and I think sometimes the mindset and demeanor is a
little bit different on those teams that are that are
shooting for that than maybe some teams that have a
loss or two or three already at this point in
the season, and you've got players thinking about red shirting
or coaches thinking about.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Next year already to preserve a red shirt.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But I think we're of the mindset right now that
we're we're trying to go chase greatness and and that
we're going to need everybody on our team at some
point to contribute. And a lot of guys have played
all four games, some guys have not. But we're going
to monitor each situation kind of individually and definitely as
they come.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, so there is long Orange coach Steve Sarcasian from
that final UH media availability of the week
Well, continue here on this Thursday afternoon updating the baseball scoreboard.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Final game ever in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The A's lead the Rangers three to two, top of
the eighth innings. I am curious to see what happens
when this game ends. You know, I would imagine there's
going to be quite a bit of security in place.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let them storm the field.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, it happened in other places like that. It definitely
happened in Brooklyn, and it definitely happened in the Opolo
Grounds when the Giants and Dodger fans were tearing up
pieces of the turf, the bases.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The different things happened in for the Washington Senators too,
That's right, it did. I don't remember what happened in Montreal.
I know fans really didn't more than they are.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
No, And I don't think they knew for sure that
they that it wasn't coming back when it went from
four to five from Montreal to Washington, d C. But
some of the other places, yeah, they tore up a
lot of the things that that that happened there. You mentioned.
Washington ended up forfeiting that game because of that because
they couldn't they couldn't finish the game. Everybody said that
(01:31):
was fitting closing out for the Senators before they moved
to Arlington and became the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I would imagine there's a sufficient security detail down there
to keep that from happening.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But we'll find out. Well, we'll see off of that
all right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Some wheny yesterday got was being chased by security because
they stole a stadium seat.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm surprised anybody noticed.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Some other thoughts from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarqi
in talking about the explosivity of the offense as we
were in talking about the production of the running game
despite the injuries. As we were sark was asked about
to Shard Choice uh and how his running backs coach
has been able to still keep it all compartmentalized and
(02:19):
together in that running back room despite all the injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But I think Coach Choice has done a fantastic job.
He's an excellent coach, you know, he's Coach Choice definitely
has a worker's mentality, almost an overachiever's mentality.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
There's a there's a mindset.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To his approach of which you attack every day, and
I think that our guys really respond to that and
there's a real connectivity in that running back room that
I think pushes one another to perform and to perform
even better. And so, hey, we're not a finished product
with some of those guys. They're all evolving, they all
continue to improve.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But I love the.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Growth I've seen out of all of them, from Jayden
Blue all the way down. I mean, these guys are
all continuing to get better.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sark has asked this next question, and my memory may
be failing me on this camp, but I was thinking
it was our friend Thomas Jones from the Austin American Statesmen,
asked about the four consecutive non conference games to open
the season. Danny Davis right, newspaper wrong. Writer Danny Davis
asked him, do you prefer the four consecutive non conference games?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Would you rather play one in November? In other words,
you phemistically speaking Cupcake Week in the SEC, because that's
when they largely play FCS opponents. They usually that third
or second or third Saturday in November. This year it's
the sixteenth. The Loghorns are in Fayette on that day
to play Arkansas, And he was asked, do you prefer that?
(03:49):
And remember, so our coach in the SEC, so we coached.
He was an assistant on Nick Saban's staff when he
was there with Coach Saban, so he coached that particular
dynamic when they had that fourth non conference game come
(04:09):
up in November as opposed to four in a row
to start the season, and you could imagine which options
start prefers here.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No, I prefer this one.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And I know there's I know there's there's some rationale
to why you have that non conference game late in
the year, But I've lived that life for that non
conference late in the year. Sometimes it's like pulling teeth
with your with your players in November, and the game
is always closer than everybody wants it to be, and
everybody's kind of kicking the tires a little bit because
(04:44):
it didn't go the way they wanted. I'm more for
the mindset of play these four early. You can play
a lot of players, you can get a lot of
development done with a lot of your newcomers on your roster,
uh to get them ready for what I would call
the regular season, which is conference play. And I think
we've done that and we're going to reap the benefits
of that moving forward and The obvious ones are easy, right,
(05:07):
you know, Jared Gibson, Ryan Wingo, Colin Simmons, Jordan Johnson, Rebel.
But there's a lot of younger players that are really
starting to contribute on special teams as well. And though
that is going to be huge for us as we
start to try to navigate our way through the SEC
and then hopefully into a college football playoff er.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay, right, and then finally one other thing from Sark.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
This was something that came up yesterday on the SEC teleconference.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He didn't have too much to say about.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I had a little more expansion of his thought on this,
and it's the red shirt decision making that goes in
when you get into a week five, week six, when
you finally get to that point about the siding whether
you're going to try to red shirt a player or
let him play through or extrapolated out a little bit more.
Remember a player can play up to four games being
(05:58):
that four week window and still take a red shirt.
And incidentally, it was something that Jeff Levy said in
talking about Blake Shapin. Somebody asked him in his news
conference about Shapin, would he be going for the medical
hardship or whatever, and he said, yeah, we're within the
four game window, and he was talking about him red
(06:19):
shirting and Shapin coming back next year. But Sark was
asked about the decision making process with a longer schedule,
A tougher schedule could go as long as sixteen, maybe
even seventeen weeks if it went all the way through. Now,
if you get a bye in the first round, if
you win your league and you wind up getting a bye,
(06:42):
then you're than you are probably only looking at playing
a max of sixteen games, So that's that would be
the deal. But Sark was asked about this about the
decision making. Does it become a little more of a
challenge now with the season being extrapolated out further.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, probably good point. I'm gonna play it by field,
you know. I feel like I've got a responsibility to
field the best football team that I can week in
and week out, to give us the best chance to
be successful. And I think, you know, we're one of
I don't know, let's call it fifteen or so teams
roughly maybe twenty that probably have a legitimate opportunity to
try to go, you know, win a win a championship
(07:24):
and I think sometimes the mindset and demeanor is a
little bit different on those teams that are that are
shooting for that than maybe some teams that have a
loss or two or three already at this point in
the season, and you've got players thinking about red shirting
or coaches thinking about.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Next year already to preserve a red shirt.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But I think we're of the mindset right now that
we're we're trying to go chase greatness and and that
we're going to need everybody on our team at some
point to contribute. And a lot of guys have played
all four games, some guys have not. But we're going
to monitor each situation kind of individually and definitely as
they come.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, so there is long Orange coach Steve Sarcasian from
that final UH media availability of the week
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