October 1, 2024 • 7 mins
Hour 1 continues with audio from Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian at his Monday press conference. Sark answered questions about Jaydon Blue's benching in the second half against Mississippi State following his second blue, Blue speaking with the media afterward, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I did attend the news conference yesterday with Long Words
head coach Steve Sarkisian, and we heard some of his
comments yesterday, some of the things he was talking about,
but here's more.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
From him.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He was asked about being back in a league with
the rivalry with Texas A and M, and carrying forward
the rivalry with Oklahoma from the Big twelve end of
the SEC, and the Arkansas rivalry. In other words, rivals
and rivalries in college football and how it affects the
game these days.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm chuckling right now because my two games against the
University of Utah when I was at BYU my.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Junior year, I threw four interceptions.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I threw three in the first half and they were
booming so bad my mom left the stadium at halftime. Okay,
my second year, we played in a blizzard and I
was seven for twelve for like eighty yards and we
rushed for like three hundred and fifty yards and we won.
So no, there's no like these great moments. But I
remember both games vividly for their own, for their own
for their own reasons. But that's like the rivalries in
(01:03):
college football.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's what this is all about. You know. I mean
that it's so special and.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I I love the pageantry of college football. I
love the energy of the crowd. I love the smell
of the popcorn, all that stuff. And there's nothing like
this game. When you pull into the State Fair and
you see fans from both sides and they're intermixed, and
both teams buses pull up and we're in the same tunnel,
(01:30):
and you come out and here's all those use OU
fans and you look and there's all the sea of
burn orange and you're just like, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To get over there with my people.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I just want to get get with them and like,
but that's that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And the best way.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
To enjoy and experience a rivalry game is to prepare
really well, because I think that the people that get.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Caught up in the game on on Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday missed the preparation and then you
don't play very good and then you get your buck
kicked and then you think, man, this was a terrible experience.
And so if you want a good experience, we got
to make sure we prepare really well so that we
can enjoy the experience.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Because we're playing good football.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I think that's well put about preparing for your rival
means preparing period. You have to prepare and be ready
for that. He was asked for an update on Jayden Blue. Now, Jayden,
as we know, had the outstanding performance against U EL Monroe.
Had one hundred and twenty four rushing yards, street rushing touchdowns,
caught a pass for a touchdown. So he had this
(02:33):
really stand out performance. And then you experience the other
side of that sort of thing, and that happened with
his two fumbles in the ball game. One earlier in
the game on the second drive when it looked like
they might go in for a two score advantage. And
then on the first drive of the second half there
in the third quarter when he fumbled when he thought
(02:53):
he was down and originally was ruled down and then
replay review overturned the call. And that was all we
saw from Ja and Blue the rest of the ball game.
So he was out and Trey Wisner and Jared Gibson,
even Ryan Nibbling in there a little bit finished up afterwards.
I asked Sark after the game about Jayden Blue, and
he said, and I'm worried about him. We'll get him
(03:15):
back up and tell him, you know, we need him,
and so and so, and he was asked a very
similar thing about about Jayden and his status and what
kinds of things. He says, to a guy who experienced
what Jane Blue did on Saturday, Yeah, Ho'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You know, physical physical errors or physical errors are just that.
I think there's some things technically that we're going to
work on with him to get him back in the
right frame of mind. But hey, he's a competitor. Like
I said Saturday night, we need Jayden Blue and and
he is. He is an asset and a weapon on
(03:51):
our team. He's a good teammate. Got to get back
to work. Like I said, everybody on our team has
got stuff that we're going to try to get better at.
And like I told all the this morning, what's the
what is the what right? What am I trying to
get better at? Why do the coaches want me to
get get better at it?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And how are we going to do it?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And if we can give them those three things, then
I think every player will accept it and go to
work on those things for a few days so that
when they come back next week they're ready to roll.
And that that happens to be his What right, I
got to take care of the ball better? Why because
we can't fumble. Here's how we're going to do it,
and that that's kind of his process.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So then he was asked to follow up question or
at least for his thoughts on the thing that Jayden Blue, then,
after fumbling twice and being taken out of the game,
did appear in the postgame media availability after being in
the locker room and coming out, and he you know,
(04:50):
stood up to it, answered questions about how he expects
more of himself and the team expects more of him,
and he's got to be better and all that sort
of stuff. It's surprized, it certainly impressed. It might have
surprised a few members of the media that Jane Blue
actually appeared and didn't have to, but Sark said, that's
(05:11):
all part of the process of being a long worn
and growing up.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, hopefully all of our guys would do that, you know,
but I think it just shows this real sense of maturity.
You know, he's grown a lot in his time with us,
and again I credit him for that and his willingness.
I credit all those other running backs that he had
in that room, and he was a youngster. From Bejon
to Roshan to Keelan Robinson, Jonathan Brooks, I think they
(05:37):
were great mentors for him.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think any one of those four.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Guys, if they would have fumbled twice, would have came
and sat with the media.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I vividly remembered Bejon fumbling at Texas Tech in overtime,
and he came and talked to y'all. And because that's
what we do right as as men, you know, we
have to take accountability for our actions, right, That's that
is what it is. And I think that, you know,
we try to still that in our players, and Jaden
understood that he and he went and spoke to the
(06:05):
media and I think answered the questions, you know, real frankly,
and then moved on.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So they'll move on from that through the rest of
this open date.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
On the schedule.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Sart Gids say yesterday in some of the comments that
we played that today Tuesday would be treated like a Monday,
and what that means is on Monday they go through
some lighter things and normally their big hay in the
barn days for practice, the heavy days are Tuesday and Wednesday.
(06:41):
This week it would be Wednesday and Thursday, and then
he said they were going to give him the rest
of the weekend off.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I wanted to get off their feet relax.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's why that question came up from Central Golden yesterday
about do you encourage your guys to watch other games
when you have a buy on your schedule on Open
Day and he said, yeah, we want him to see
that and see guys in those positions and things of
that nature. So they'll want them to be off their
feet after that. But they have two pretty heavy days
(07:12):
of practice coming up tomorrow and Thursday, and we'll hear
more about that and some other things from Start coming
up as well. Up next Inconceivable for a Tuesday afternoon
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the iHeart Radio Am
I did attend the news conference yesterday with Long Words
head coach Steve Sarkisian, and we heard some of his
comments yesterday, some of the things he was talking about,
but here's more.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
From him.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He was asked about being back in a league with
the rivalry with Texas A and M, and carrying forward
the rivalry with Oklahoma from the Big twelve end of
the SEC, and the Arkansas rivalry. In other words, rivals
and rivalries in college football and how it affects the
game these days.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm chuckling right now because my two games against the
University of Utah when I was at BYU my.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Junior year, I threw four interceptions.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I threw three in the first half and they were
booming so bad my mom left the stadium at halftime. Okay,
my second year, we played in a blizzard and I
was seven for twelve for like eighty yards and we
rushed for like three hundred and fifty yards and we won.
So no, there's no like these great moments. But I
remember both games vividly for their own, for their own
for their own reasons. But that's like the rivalries in
(01:03):
college football.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's what this is all about. You know. I mean
that it's so special and.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I I love the pageantry of college football. I
love the energy of the crowd. I love the smell
of the popcorn, all that stuff. And there's nothing like
this game. When you pull into the State Fair and
you see fans from both sides and they're intermixed, and
both teams buses pull up and we're in the same tunnel,
(01:30):
and you come out and here's all those use OU
fans and you look and there's all the sea of
burn orange and you're just like, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To get over there with my people.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I just want to get get with them and like,
but that's that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And the best way.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
To enjoy and experience a rivalry game is to prepare
really well, because I think that the people that get.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Caught up in the game on on Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday missed the preparation and then you
don't play very good and then you get your buck
kicked and then you think, man, this was a terrible experience.
And so if you want a good experience, we got
to make sure we prepare really well so that we
can enjoy the experience.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Because we're playing good football.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I think that's well put about preparing for your rival
means preparing period. You have to prepare and be ready
for that. He was asked for an update on Jayden Blue. Now, Jayden,
as we know, had the outstanding performance against U EL Monroe.
Had one hundred and twenty four rushing yards, street rushing touchdowns,
caught a pass for a touchdown. So he had this
(02:33):
really stand out performance. And then you experience the other
side of that sort of thing, and that happened with
his two fumbles in the ball game. One earlier in
the game on the second drive when it looked like
they might go in for a two score advantage. And
then on the first drive of the second half there
in the third quarter when he fumbled when he thought
(02:53):
he was down and originally was ruled down and then
replay review overturned the call. And that was all we
saw from Ja and Blue the rest of the ball game.
So he was out and Trey Wisner and Jared Gibson,
even Ryan Nibbling in there a little bit finished up afterwards.
I asked Sark after the game about Jayden Blue, and
he said, and I'm worried about him. We'll get him
(03:15):
back up and tell him, you know, we need him,
and so and so, and he was asked a very
similar thing about about Jayden and his status and what
kinds of things. He says, to a guy who experienced
what Jane Blue did on Saturday, Yeah, Ho'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You know, physical physical errors or physical errors are just that.
I think there's some things technically that we're going to
work on with him to get him back in the
right frame of mind. But hey, he's a competitor. Like
I said Saturday night, we need Jayden Blue and and
he is. He is an asset and a weapon on
(03:51):
our team. He's a good teammate. Got to get back
to work. Like I said, everybody on our team has
got stuff that we're going to try to get better at.
And like I told all the this morning, what's the
what is the what right? What am I trying to
get better at? Why do the coaches want me to
get get better at it?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And how are we going to do it?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And if we can give them those three things, then
I think every player will accept it and go to
work on those things for a few days so that
when they come back next week they're ready to roll.
And that that happens to be his What right, I
got to take care of the ball better? Why because
we can't fumble. Here's how we're going to do it,
and that that's kind of his process.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So then he was asked to follow up question or
at least for his thoughts on the thing that Jayden Blue, then,
after fumbling twice and being taken out of the game,
did appear in the postgame media availability after being in
the locker room and coming out, and he you know,
(04:50):
stood up to it, answered questions about how he expects
more of himself and the team expects more of him,
and he's got to be better and all that sort
of stuff. It's surprized, it certainly impressed. It might have
surprised a few members of the media that Jane Blue
actually appeared and didn't have to, but Sark said, that's
(05:11):
all part of the process of being a long worn
and growing up.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, hopefully all of our guys would do that, you know,
but I think it just shows this real sense of maturity.
You know, he's grown a lot in his time with us,
and again I credit him for that and his willingness.
I credit all those other running backs that he had
in that room, and he was a youngster. From Bejon
to Roshan to Keelan Robinson, Jonathan Brooks, I think they
(05:37):
were great mentors for him.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think any one of those four.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Guys, if they would have fumbled twice, would have came
and sat with the media.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I vividly remembered Bejon fumbling at Texas Tech in overtime,
and he came and talked to y'all. And because that's
what we do right as as men, you know, we
have to take accountability for our actions, right, That's that
is what it is. And I think that, you know,
we try to still that in our players, and Jaden
understood that he and he went and spoke to the
(06:05):
media and I think answered the questions, you know, real frankly,
and then moved on.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So they'll move on from that through the rest of
this open date.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
On the schedule.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Sart Gids say yesterday in some of the comments that
we played that today Tuesday would be treated like a Monday,
and what that means is on Monday they go through
some lighter things and normally their big hay in the
barn days for practice, the heavy days are Tuesday and Wednesday.
(06:41):
This week it would be Wednesday and Thursday, and then
he said they were going to give him the rest
of the weekend off.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I wanted to get off their feet relax.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's why that question came up from Central Golden yesterday
about do you encourage your guys to watch other games
when you have a buy on your schedule on Open
Day and he said, yeah, we want him to see
that and see guys in those positions and things of
that nature. So they'll want them to be off their
feet after that. But they have two pretty heavy days
(07:12):
of practice coming up tomorrow and Thursday, and we'll hear
more about that and some other things from Start coming
up as well. Up next Inconceivable for a Tuesday afternoon
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the iHeart Radio Am
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