September 26, 2024 • 17 mins
Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian spoke about the challenge of facing freshman QB Michael Van Buren and the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Sark also answers questions regarding Anthony Hill's SpongeBob celebration, the offensive line, and the crowd at DKR.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thursday afternoon here on Sports Radio and thirteen under the Zone.
Updating that game in Oakland. It's now in the bottle
of six. Rangers have pulled within a run of the
Athletics Oakland up three to two. Is they bat in
the bottom half of the sixth inning at the Coliseum
there in the final ever game to be played, last
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final ever Major League game to be played at the
Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Did you ever go there? I did not. I still
haven't been in California. Oh that's right, you haven't it.
But Moneyball one of my favorite books, one of my
favorite movies. Yeah, so yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I went to that ballpark one time, and it was
when I was hosting the Rangers television show, The Rangers Report.
This would have been nineteen ninety seven, and I was
host of that program magazine show there weekly it's kind
of like Ranger Insider that they do now. And we
were doing the show out there and I went out
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there and they had finished up a series, and I
was there overnight and I wasn't flying back until the
next day, and the A's had a day game against
the Tigers, and.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was everything everybody said it was. It was a sewer.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, oh really that was a nineteen ninety seven It's wow,
a dump.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And they almost twenty years later, still playing there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, that's why I said, you know, the one defensible
thing about John Fisher was his claim that the ballpark
wasn't suitable.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He's right about that, but he.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Wasn't willing to do enough to try to help out
there and wanted to throw it all on the taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And citizens of Oakland. And they're like, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And it reminds me a lot of the way Houstonians
were about Bud Adams at the end, to the extent of,
if we have another opportunity to have an NFL team
in this town, we will gladly do what we can
to do, but we're not going to do it for you,
So you can just leave. If you're going to go
ahead and leave and just leave the oiler's name, well
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he didn't do that. He owned the rights of that,
and that's why I took it, and that still chaps
a lot of Whalers fans, Houston NFL fans to this
day that they had to go with Texans instead of
being able to do the name. More like the Browns
were able to hold on to their name and franchise
and the records and the records. The Ravens had to
start like an expansion team. Didn't bother them too much.
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They want a Super Bowl or second year into it
or fourth year into it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I guess it was.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So anyway, enough about that, all right, I mentioned I
was going to mention this story. I wanted to give
enough time to it. You know, with Matt Sluca, the
quarterback for un l V leaving because he said he
wasn't paid one hundred thousand dollars has promised, it has
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sparked more conversations with more student athletes up and leaving.
I don't know if you just saw bear Alexander is
is leaving USC now. The defensive line that came down
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's always had some interesting stuff around him. So not yep, yep.
So I mean look at us that he's at Tarot
High School, the Skyline yep. Then Denton yep. Then IMG
commits to Georgia then transfers to USC. Yeah, plays three
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games this season and now is red shirting. Yeah, it's true,
and on his way out the door.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, you may have heard about earlier week with all
this stuff because Oklahoma's quarterback situation that you know, Jackson
Arnold was much ballyhooed coming in from Detgeier, and he
struggled last Saturday, and now he went Michael Hawkins went
in for him, and Hawkins is going to be the
starter this week.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So Rent Venables.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Kind of took it upon himself to try to clear
up the narrative this week. At his news conference on
why Dylan Gabriel left the program, Venables on Tuesday this
week said he met with Dylan Gabriel prior to the
Alamo Bowl Game when Oklahoma lost Arizona, in which Gabriel
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revealed the Venables he was opting out and not returning
the Norman due to then offensive coordinator Jeff Levy taking
the head coaching job at Mississippi State. So Venables thought
that Gabriel was opting out of the bowl game to
get ready for the but Gabriel told me planned on
staying in college and playing closer to Hawaii, his home state.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Vinible said, here were his quotes.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I didn't even though I had to fight this fight,
I didn't realize Gabriel was even considering coming back. He
later added, you can't make a guy stay. The guy
is trying to find the next thing, the next chapter
for him. I'm sure there was probably some disappointment that
Gabriel wasn't more highly thought of in the NFL. He
had an amazing year. He was a fantastic quarterback, but
we didn't run anybody off or things like that. So
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Dylan Gabriel was asked about it, and he was asked
about Vinible's comments. His response was quote, Honestly, it's so
far gone. I just know God's got me right where
I need to be. I've got a smile on my
face every day because I'm in Eugene, Ore, I get
around a bunch of great guys. Of course, those are
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guys that are my brothers for life and guys I
played with. Like I said, it's people I still talk
to on the team players Wise, you talk about Oklahoma.
You focus on what you can control, and that's right
where I'm at. Like I said, I'm happy. I know
God put me right where I needed to be, And
I think that's all that needs to be said, honestly.
You know, he's a native of Hawaii, had his best
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college season with the Sooners last year. And remember he
was at UCF first, then Oregon, I mean Oklahoma, now Oregon.
So this year he's seventy nine to ninety four for
nine and fourteen yards and six touchdowns. He has over
fifteen thousand career passing yards right now, currently ranking seventh
all time in NCAA history. So I'm imagining really that
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rent Venables felt I'm not gonna say pressured, but he
probably felt the responsibility to say something about this, given
that he had a quarterback who did not perform well
and had to make a quarterback change. And then they
asked Gabriel about and he's like, look, I'm I'm past that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I'm moved on. We're on to a different thing. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We move on now to more cuts from Longhorns head
coach Steve Sarkishan. Did anybody see did you happen to see?
I mean you were spotting for me, so I don't
know if you saw. I did not see it because
it happened on the wide side, the far side of
the field from up across the field Anthony Hill's celebration
of sorts after the what was a pick six? And
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then because of an illegal block it was not a
pick six, but it was an interception. Supposedly it was
a SpongeBob square pants type of thing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Did you see it? I think I was too basic
for making sure that I got the player identified correctly,
and I appreciate that and the Trey Moore stuff to
figure out that was a block in the back or not.
I didn't see it live. I watched the replay of it.
I didn't. I honestly could not have told you it
was a SpongeBob that was a relation. Did not what SpongeBob?
Grow up? Have not watched SpongeBob okay, but hey, pick six,
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do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, he did have a little bit and and Sark
was asked about the SpongeBob thing and the and the
celebration of Anthony Hill's celebration.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I kind of teased a couple of people about that,
and most notably his coach and him about you know,
I was anticipating our like middle linebacker, who's this fearsome player,
maybe do a fist pump or some something like that,
and not the SpongeBob dance. But with all that being said,
I do think there's something to be said for our
players playing with a lot of confidence, uh, playing in
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a in a relaxed state of mind to where they're
clear minded so that they can they can fluctuate between
the intensity that they need to play with, but yet
the joy of playing the game. And so I do
I do appreciate a lot of that, And I actually,
quite frankly, I appreciate college football relaxing, being become a
little bit more relaxed on that stuff. This is a
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game and our players should be should be having fun
playing the game. Again, we never do anything to try
to you know, you know, down demean our opponents. This
is it should be us celebrating with one another. And
so the fact that they've relaxed on some of that
stuff I think is good for the game.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And and Sark will tell you that first and foremost,
he is a rules follower and wants his guys not
to get penalized for a celebration or anything like that.
He was afraid it was going to happen on the
Ethan Burke pick six that there was going to be
a celebration penalty. There was not, But he is a
stickler for the rules. I asked him, by the way,
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and you'll hear it tonight if you're listening to Longhorn Weekly.
I wanted some clarification on the penalty that was called
on John A. Baron for the disconcerting signals, the hand
clapping thing, and I said, just clapping the hands. He go, yes,
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and here's why he said. He goes he did break
the rule on it. And I said, I didn't you know.
I didn't know that about hand clapping. He says, it
isn't about specific hand clapping. Sorry, and you'll again, you'll
hear it tonight on Long Worn Weekly if you're tuned
in at seven o'clock, he said. I asked the he
goes every game. Before the game, we meet with the
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officials about ninety minutes out and we go over different
things and you know, whatever formationally things to watch out for.
But we also uh exchange the information on what teams
use for their signal calling, whether it's hand clapping or
whether it's something formationally or things like that. And once
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it's established, you can't violate the rule. Well, We were
told before the game that Euel Monroe uses hand clapping
for its signaling instead of whatever silent count or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
If there's a noise issue.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And on the defense, you can't do that because then
it would be construed as disconcerting signals. Now, in the
specific case, what was going on was ty Anthony Smith
was in at linebacker and was not in the right
spot formationally where they wanted to be. He was out
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of position, and Jahday Baron was trying to get his
attention and he was yelling out to him from the
far boundary out toward the middle, but ty Anthony didn't
hear him. So he was doing that to get his attention,
not as a way of sending a disconcerting signal. But
it just happened to be. Happened right when Misispa David
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was starting to call a play.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So, yes, he was guilty of it. It was a
five yard penalty.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And Sarks said, and Jadday was trying to complete his case,
and Sark says, I'm yelling at him from across the
field going no, no, and kind of given the throat
slash or like going no, no, no, you were in
the wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's a penalty. Let it go.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Let it go, and he said, he explained to me
afterwards what he was trying to do, and I understood that,
he said, but they've got to be clear on all
of that ahead of.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Time about what about what that situation is? All right?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Some more from Sart. Offensive line has been playing great.
Any specific thing he gives credit for the success to.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I think they're a very cohesive group.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know, we've got we've got some guys that have
played a lot of football on that offensive line. I
mean it starts with your center. I mean Jake Majors
has played a ton of football, and with him kind
of leading the charge and making the calls and the
importance for him to come back for his senior year
and why this season is so important and what he's
pouring into it, I think then kind of permeates throughout
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the rest of the offensive line, whether it's you know, Hayden, Kelvin,
DJ or Cole and Cam. Those guys are working really
well as a unit. You can feel there can activity,
and I think anytime your offensive line is like you're
driving force and they're connected similar to your defensive line,
you're you're in really good hands. You know, because they're
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on the front line. And you know, all the plays
like we can draw up on a whiteboard or or
design or a call sheet and openers, none of those
things matter. None of those plays are worth a darn
if if we can't block people and or move people,
or create running lanes or protect the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And it all starts with them.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And so the fact that they're kind of on the
front line for us, and they and they kind of
carry that flag, they enjoy that, I think totally bodes
well for us.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And next was.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The crowd of DKR is start very happily reported on
the post game and then mentioned it the news conference,
and you mentioned it a long run weekly one hundred
two thousand plus, fifth largest crowd ever.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And it was against you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, Monroe, So who's asked about the impact that a big, noisy,
crowded DKR can have on the game.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well, I mean, I think anytime your crowd is loud
enough where you can create some hesitation and the offensive
football team, the opponent's offense meaning snap count, could be
people jumping off sides, It could be people laid off
the ball. It could be poor communication on a motion
or shift, which could cause a delay, a game penalty.
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Anytime you can do that, I think that fuels the crowd,
which then in turn fuels our defense. So that is
a huge kind of momentum builder in my opinion, right
that the impact they have on our opponents as much
as the impact they have on us. But I think
the impact on our opponents is equally important.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
This next question was when I asked Sark about and
long worn weekly and again, if you're listening to the
program tonight you'll hear it. But also on Fridays, we
bring you a segment from the program, and it's always
the segment about the opponent. In this case, in specific,
within the context of that segment, it's about the true
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freshman quarterback, Michael Van Buren, Junior, who's going to start
at quarterback. But also at his Zoom media availability today,
Sark was asked for his impressions what he sees in
Van Buren.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
That's the biggest challenge right there. You know, you hit
the nail on the head. You know, it's again it's
a small sample size. You know, they've had a week
down to prepare a game plan for the things that
he does well. And that's what we're going to have
to kind of sort through and figure out. But knowing
Jeff Levy is a really good offensive mind, you know
that he's going to put him in a good position
to have some success.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They're going to do the things that he does well.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
They're going to utilize other aspects of their offense to
to kind of get some easy completions, the jet sweeps,
the different things, and I'm sure we'll see some wildcat
to alleviate some of the pressure there as well. So
all those things add up to you know, he's going
to be in a good position to perform well. Our
job is to try to get him uncomfortable and we'll
see how effective we are.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He was also asked about his offense's ability to create
more explosive plays in spite of the fact that they've
had not only running backs injured, but obviously could be
one out of the lineup, and receivers and tight ends
injured as well, and so he was asked about that,
how pleased is he to see the explosive play capability.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
As offense continues to demonstrate.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I think we went into the season saying we need
to be a more explosive offensive team. You know, the
same reason we said we needed to be a better
red zone offense, the same reason we came into it
saying we need to be a better third down offense.
We felt like we needed to be a more explosive offense,
and so trying to trying to create plays that could
create some explosives for our guys to great space in
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the open field has been has been something that we've
stressed and worked on as a staff, and I think,
why is that happening?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I think we we've we earned.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
A lot of trust from the players that hey, this
stuff is good and let's pour into it, and then
the players earned out or trust by executing it. And
I've been saying since training camp, it's hard to tell
the difference between our ones and our twos. Like you
sometimes it's like, is there what is the difference more
one A, one B. And so when you have when
you have some injuries at different spots or a guy
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has to come out for a player or two, there's
just not that drop off. And I think a lot
of our players are playing with extreme confidence. And you
can see that the receiver group of hout in the
numerous players with explosive plays and catches and touchdowns and things.
But again there's a credit to the frontline guys for
pushing the guys behind them to go hard, whether that's
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at quarterback, receiver, running back, whatever that looks like.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So all right, and we'll hear a little more from
Sark coming up here in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
We'll do that.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thursday afternoon here on Sports Radio and thirteen under the Zone.
Updating that game in Oakland. It's now in the bottle
of six. Rangers have pulled within a run of the
Athletics Oakland up three to two. Is they bat in
the bottom half of the sixth inning at the Coliseum
there in the final ever game to be played, last
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final ever Major League game to be played at the
Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Did you ever go there? I did not. I still
haven't been in California. Oh that's right, you haven't it.
But Moneyball one of my favorite books, one of my
favorite movies. Yeah, so yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I went to that ballpark one time, and it was
when I was hosting the Rangers television show, The Rangers Report.
This would have been nineteen ninety seven, and I was
host of that program magazine show there weekly it's kind
of like Ranger Insider that they do now. And we
were doing the show out there and I went out
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there and they had finished up a series, and I
was there overnight and I wasn't flying back until the
next day, and the A's had a day game against
the Tigers, and.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was everything everybody said it was. It was a sewer.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, oh really that was a nineteen ninety seven It's wow,
a dump.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And they almost twenty years later, still playing there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, that's why I said, you know, the one defensible
thing about John Fisher was his claim that the ballpark
wasn't suitable.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He's right about that, but he.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Wasn't willing to do enough to try to help out
there and wanted to throw it all on the taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And citizens of Oakland. And they're like, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And it reminds me a lot of the way Houstonians
were about Bud Adams at the end, to the extent of,
if we have another opportunity to have an NFL team
in this town, we will gladly do what we can
to do, but we're not going to do it for you,
So you can just leave. If you're going to go
ahead and leave and just leave the oiler's name, well
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he didn't do that. He owned the rights of that,
and that's why I took it, and that still chaps
a lot of Whalers fans, Houston NFL fans to this
day that they had to go with Texans instead of
being able to do the name. More like the Browns
were able to hold on to their name and franchise
and the records and the records. The Ravens had to
start like an expansion team. Didn't bother them too much.
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They want a Super Bowl or second year into it
or fourth year into it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I guess it was.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So anyway, enough about that, all right, I mentioned I
was going to mention this story. I wanted to give
enough time to it. You know, with Matt Sluca, the
quarterback for un l V leaving because he said he
wasn't paid one hundred thousand dollars has promised, it has
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sparked more conversations with more student athletes up and leaving.
I don't know if you just saw bear Alexander is
is leaving USC now. The defensive line that came down
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's always had some interesting stuff around him. So not yep, yep.
So I mean look at us that he's at Tarot
High School, the Skyline yep. Then Denton yep. Then IMG
commits to Georgia then transfers to USC. Yeah, plays three
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games this season and now is red shirting. Yeah, it's true,
and on his way out the door.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, you may have heard about earlier week with all
this stuff because Oklahoma's quarterback situation that you know, Jackson
Arnold was much ballyhooed coming in from Detgeier, and he
struggled last Saturday, and now he went Michael Hawkins went
in for him, and Hawkins is going to be the
starter this week.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So Rent Venables.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Kind of took it upon himself to try to clear
up the narrative this week. At his news conference on
why Dylan Gabriel left the program, Venables on Tuesday this
week said he met with Dylan Gabriel prior to the
Alamo Bowl Game when Oklahoma lost Arizona, in which Gabriel
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revealed the Venables he was opting out and not returning
the Norman due to then offensive coordinator Jeff Levy taking
the head coaching job at Mississippi State. So Venables thought
that Gabriel was opting out of the bowl game to
get ready for the but Gabriel told me planned on
staying in college and playing closer to Hawaii, his home state.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Vinible said, here were his quotes.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I didn't even though I had to fight this fight,
I didn't realize Gabriel was even considering coming back. He
later added, you can't make a guy stay. The guy
is trying to find the next thing, the next chapter
for him. I'm sure there was probably some disappointment that
Gabriel wasn't more highly thought of in the NFL. He
had an amazing year. He was a fantastic quarterback, but
we didn't run anybody off or things like that. So
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Dylan Gabriel was asked about it, and he was asked
about Vinible's comments. His response was quote, Honestly, it's so
far gone. I just know God's got me right where
I need to be. I've got a smile on my
face every day because I'm in Eugene, Ore, I get
around a bunch of great guys. Of course, those are
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guys that are my brothers for life and guys I
played with. Like I said, it's people I still talk
to on the team players Wise, you talk about Oklahoma.
You focus on what you can control, and that's right
where I'm at. Like I said, I'm happy. I know
God put me right where I needed to be, And
I think that's all that needs to be said, honestly.
You know, he's a native of Hawaii, had his best
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college season with the Sooners last year. And remember he
was at UCF first, then Oregon, I mean Oklahoma, now Oregon.
So this year he's seventy nine to ninety four for
nine and fourteen yards and six touchdowns. He has over
fifteen thousand career passing yards right now, currently ranking seventh
all time in NCAA history. So I'm imagining really that
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rent Venables felt I'm not gonna say pressured, but he
probably felt the responsibility to say something about this, given
that he had a quarterback who did not perform well
and had to make a quarterback change. And then they
asked Gabriel about and he's like, look, I'm I'm past that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I'm moved on. We're on to a different thing. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We move on now to more cuts from Longhorns head
coach Steve Sarkishan. Did anybody see did you happen to see?
I mean you were spotting for me, so I don't
know if you saw. I did not see it because
it happened on the wide side, the far side of
the field from up across the field Anthony Hill's celebration
of sorts after the what was a pick six? And
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then because of an illegal block it was not a
pick six, but it was an interception. Supposedly it was
a SpongeBob square pants type of thing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Did you see it? I think I was too basic
for making sure that I got the player identified correctly,
and I appreciate that and the Trey Moore stuff to
figure out that was a block in the back or not.
I didn't see it live. I watched the replay of it.
I didn't. I honestly could not have told you it
was a SpongeBob that was a relation. Did not what SpongeBob?
Grow up? Have not watched SpongeBob okay, but hey, pick six,
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do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, he did have a little bit and and Sark
was asked about the SpongeBob thing and the and the
celebration of Anthony Hill's celebration.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I kind of teased a couple of people about that,
and most notably his coach and him about you know,
I was anticipating our like middle linebacker, who's this fearsome player,
maybe do a fist pump or some something like that,
and not the SpongeBob dance. But with all that being said,
I do think there's something to be said for our
players playing with a lot of confidence, uh, playing in
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a in a relaxed state of mind to where they're
clear minded so that they can they can fluctuate between
the intensity that they need to play with, but yet
the joy of playing the game. And so I do
I do appreciate a lot of that, And I actually,
quite frankly, I appreciate college football relaxing, being become a
little bit more relaxed on that stuff. This is a
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game and our players should be should be having fun
playing the game. Again, we never do anything to try
to you know, you know, down demean our opponents. This
is it should be us celebrating with one another. And
so the fact that they've relaxed on some of that
stuff I think is good for the game.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And and Sark will tell you that first and foremost,
he is a rules follower and wants his guys not
to get penalized for a celebration or anything like that.
He was afraid it was going to happen on the
Ethan Burke pick six that there was going to be
a celebration penalty. There was not, But he is a
stickler for the rules. I asked him, by the way,
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and you'll hear it tonight if you're listening to Longhorn Weekly.
I wanted some clarification on the penalty that was called
on John A. Baron for the disconcerting signals, the hand
clapping thing, and I said, just clapping the hands. He go, yes,
(10:01):
and here's why he said. He goes he did break
the rule on it. And I said, I didn't you know.
I didn't know that about hand clapping. He says, it
isn't about specific hand clapping. Sorry, and you'll again, you'll
hear it tonight on Long Worn Weekly if you're tuned
in at seven o'clock, he said. I asked the he
goes every game. Before the game, we meet with the
(10:21):
officials about ninety minutes out and we go over different
things and you know, whatever formationally things to watch out for.
But we also uh exchange the information on what teams
use for their signal calling, whether it's hand clapping or
whether it's something formationally or things like that. And once
(10:45):
it's established, you can't violate the rule. Well, We were
told before the game that Euel Monroe uses hand clapping
for its signaling instead of whatever silent count or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
If there's a noise issue.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And on the defense, you can't do that because then
it would be construed as disconcerting signals. Now, in the
specific case, what was going on was ty Anthony Smith
was in at linebacker and was not in the right
spot formationally where they wanted to be. He was out
(11:23):
of position, and Jahday Baron was trying to get his
attention and he was yelling out to him from the
far boundary out toward the middle, but ty Anthony didn't
hear him. So he was doing that to get his attention,
not as a way of sending a disconcerting signal. But
it just happened to be. Happened right when Misispa David
(11:45):
was starting to call a play.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So, yes, he was guilty of it. It was a
five yard penalty.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And Sarks said, and Jadday was trying to complete his case,
and Sark says, I'm yelling at him from across the
field going no, no, and kind of given the throat
slash or like going no, no, no, you were in
the wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's a penalty. Let it go.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Let it go, and he said, he explained to me
afterwards what he was trying to do, and I understood that,
he said, but they've got to be clear on all
of that ahead of.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Time about what about what that situation is? All right?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Some more from Sart. Offensive line has been playing great.
Any specific thing he gives credit for the success to.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I think they're a very cohesive group.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know, we've got we've got some guys that have
played a lot of football on that offensive line. I
mean it starts with your center. I mean Jake Majors
has played a ton of football, and with him kind
of leading the charge and making the calls and the
importance for him to come back for his senior year
and why this season is so important and what he's
pouring into it, I think then kind of permeates throughout
(12:50):
the rest of the offensive line, whether it's you know, Hayden, Kelvin,
DJ or Cole and Cam. Those guys are working really
well as a unit. You can feel there can activity,
and I think anytime your offensive line is like you're
driving force and they're connected similar to your defensive line,
you're you're in really good hands. You know, because they're
(13:10):
on the front line. And you know, all the plays
like we can draw up on a whiteboard or or
design or a call sheet and openers, none of those
things matter. None of those plays are worth a darn
if if we can't block people and or move people,
or create running lanes or protect the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And it all starts with them.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And so the fact that they're kind of on the
front line for us, and they and they kind of
carry that flag, they enjoy that, I think totally bodes
well for us.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And next was.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The crowd of DKR is start very happily reported on
the post game and then mentioned it the news conference,
and you mentioned it a long run weekly one hundred
two thousand plus, fifth largest crowd ever.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And it was against you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, Monroe, So who's asked about the impact that a big, noisy,
crowded DKR can have on the game.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well, I mean, I think anytime your crowd is loud
enough where you can create some hesitation and the offensive
football team, the opponent's offense meaning snap count, could be
people jumping off sides, It could be people laid off
the ball. It could be poor communication on a motion
or shift, which could cause a delay, a game penalty.
(14:22):
Anytime you can do that, I think that fuels the crowd,
which then in turn fuels our defense. So that is
a huge kind of momentum builder in my opinion, right
that the impact they have on our opponents as much
as the impact they have on us. But I think
the impact on our opponents is equally important.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
This next question was when I asked Sark about and
long worn weekly and again, if you're listening to the
program tonight you'll hear it. But also on Fridays, we
bring you a segment from the program, and it's always
the segment about the opponent. In this case, in specific,
within the context of that segment, it's about the true
(15:01):
freshman quarterback, Michael Van Buren, Junior, who's going to start
at quarterback. But also at his Zoom media availability today,
Sark was asked for his impressions what he sees in
Van Buren.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
That's the biggest challenge right there. You know, you hit
the nail on the head. You know, it's again it's
a small sample size. You know, they've had a week
down to prepare a game plan for the things that
he does well. And that's what we're going to have
to kind of sort through and figure out. But knowing
Jeff Levy is a really good offensive mind, you know
that he's going to put him in a good position
to have some success.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They're going to do the things that he does well.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
They're going to utilize other aspects of their offense to
to kind of get some easy completions, the jet sweeps,
the different things, and I'm sure we'll see some wildcat
to alleviate some of the pressure there as well. So
all those things add up to you know, he's going
to be in a good position to perform well. Our
job is to try to get him uncomfortable and we'll
see how effective we are.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He was also asked about his offense's ability to create
more explosive plays in spite of the fact that they've
had not only running backs injured, but obviously could be
one out of the lineup, and receivers and tight ends
injured as well, and so he was asked about that,
how pleased is he to see the explosive play capability.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
As offense continues to demonstrate.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I think we went into the season saying we need
to be a more explosive offensive team. You know, the
same reason we said we needed to be a better
red zone offense, the same reason we came into it
saying we need to be a better third down offense.
We felt like we needed to be a more explosive offense,
and so trying to trying to create plays that could
create some explosives for our guys to great space in
(16:47):
the open field has been has been something that we've
stressed and worked on as a staff, and I think,
why is that happening?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I think we we've we earned.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
A lot of trust from the players that hey, this
stuff is good and let's pour into it, and then
the players earned out or trust by executing it. And
I've been saying since training camp, it's hard to tell
the difference between our ones and our twos. Like you
sometimes it's like, is there what is the difference more
one A, one B. And so when you have when
you have some injuries at different spots or a guy
(17:19):
has to come out for a player or two, there's
just not that drop off. And I think a lot
of our players are playing with extreme confidence. And you
can see that the receiver group of hout in the
numerous players with explosive plays and catches and touchdowns and things.
But again there's a credit to the frontline guys for
pushing the guys behind them to go hard, whether that's
(17:41):
at quarterback, receiver, running back, whatever that looks like.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So all right, and we'll hear a little more from
Sark coming up here in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
We'll do that.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We'll get you updated on the baseball scoreboard and more
here on sports radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
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