October 17, 2024 • 12 mins
We're two days away from Texas and Georgia! Hear Coach Sark preview the game with comments from his Thursday media availability as he speaks on Georgia's defense, Quinn Ewers' Heisman chances, and more...
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're back. It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of
Fame broadcaster a voice of the Texas Longhards Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
On Thursday here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
Zone and continue to draw closer to this matchup between
Texas and Georgia. Last hour, we heard some of the
comments from today's earlier zoom media availability with Longwarts head
coach Steve Sarkigan. Here's some more comments from sark one.
(00:49):
Sark was asked about this feeling of camaraderie that seems
to exist. You know, we hear the players talk about
this quite often, about how much fun they have together.
Last night on Long One Weekly when we did the recording,
(01:09):
and you can hear it tonight here on the Zone
at seven o'clock, sark talked about that fun thing and
wanting to have fun, and he said the coaches also
get a great deal of enjoyment out of as well.
They have a lot of fun. So sark was asked
about this feeling of camaraderie he has with the other
coaches at Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I love it. I love all of our head coaches.
I love all of our teams and sports that we have.
I think CDC has done an incredible job of assembling
the best coaching coaching staff in the country, and you know,
we go on a head coaches retreat once a year
into I'm just somewhat in awe of, you know, the
successes that they've had in their various sports, the way
(01:48):
they motivate their teams to perform and their athletes to perform.
We do have some great camaraderie amongst the head coaches.
Vic and I have grown pretty close, you know, We've
had to go on some different speaking tours together and
different things. I really appreciate the way his teams play
and I used to bring that up to our team
and I first got here about how hard our women's
(02:09):
basketball team played and the intensity in which they played
the game. And I think that's a byproduct of who
Vick Schaefer is. And so for him to come around
and be around us at the Michigan game, I thought
was awesome. I know our coaching staff and our players
loved having him so, but that's no different than a
lot of the other coaches that we have here. I mean,
Jared's done a fantastic job. Flow has done an amazing job.
(02:31):
Angie's kicking butt. So everybody, everybody's doing great, and I
think that that's inspiring to all of us to hold
up to the standard of excellence around here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
By the way, we're going to hear from Vic Shaffer
coming up next segment, coming off SEC Women's basketball media day.
Now back to the boxing analogies we talked about that
last hour because Sark is a fan of boxing, so
he's asked again about the boxing analogies and does he
use these analogies and examples of momentum swings in fights
(03:04):
to his team with a game against Georgia coming up.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I would probably say what you're saying is correct a bowl.
You know, if a guy needs to hold onto the
ball better, then that's probably correct able. There's probably some fundamentals, yeah,
I think so. You know, we talk a lot about
you know, especially when two good teams play. You know,
we're going to make our plays, they're going to make
their plays. You know, playing the next snap is so critical,
(03:30):
critical fighting the next round, you know, finishing the round,
getting up off the mat when you do get knocked down,
and getting your getting regrouped. And so I think that's
why it's really important when adversity strikes that we stay
really tight together as a team, we stay really positive,
we fix the issues that we have collectively on the sidelines.
It's not about one person, it's about how can all
(03:51):
of us fix something that has occurred so that we
can go play better as we move forward, we can
fight better right in rounds three, four, and five, whatever
that looks like. So I do think it's there's a
lot of parallels to it. Everybody loves a great fight
and loves entertainment. Nobody likes the knockout right early on
the Mike Tyson thirty seconds and in type stuff. But
(04:12):
in reality, when when two good teams, when two good
fighters step into the ring or step on the field,
it's usually a twelve roundabout and and you know, whether
it's a decision, a split decision, you know, whatever that
looks like is generally because it was, there was a
lot of kind of you know, momentum swings throughout the fight,
and the scorecards were what they were.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now, he mentioned earlier because somebody asked him a little
bit about turnovers, So to come back to that, our
turnovers and start mentioned this again last night on the
show taping that I'm not pleased with the turnovers that
we have had. They've done a good job in getting
some turnovers as well in the in the turnover ratios
(04:52):
plus four to Texas. By the way, George is a
minus one right now, and that's because George and getting
many turnovers to offset the ones they have committed. But
even if Texas had gained one hundred turnovers, the ones
that have been committed by the offense are not to
the head coaches liking. So he was asked, are turnovers
(05:16):
in these specific instances, with this specific team, in this
specific season, are they correctable or is it just a
simple lack of execution.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I would probably say what you're saying is correctable. You know,
if a guy needs to hold onto the ball better,
then that's probably correctable. There's probably some fundamentals and techniques
that we can improve upon, I think naturally. You know,
quarterback decision making is something that we can improve upon.
A runner in the open field, understanding that somebody might
(05:48):
be coming from behind to punch that rip that ball
out right before you score a touchdown is something that
we can improve upon. That's just being conscious of cognizant
of where you're at on the field. So opinion. All
turnovers are are to some degree, you know, we can
fix them. The goal is that we don't continue to
make some of those same mistakes.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Right that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
If the ball is loose, how do we get it tighter?
The decision making is not great, how do we make
it better? If balls are getting tipped at the line
of scrimmage, how do we get their hands down? So
all those things we try to try to apply the
things that as coaches to try to improve upon that
to get that number down.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Take it from me on something here, And that is
one thing that that Sark has a very low takes
a very dim view of. Are not fixing correctible things?
In other words, if his team or a portion of
(06:49):
his team continues to make the same mistakes over and over,
that's the thing I hear about, Like at the end
of the practice when he's got the team gathered around
on the practice field, when he talks talks about improve
let's not go back and do the same thing. We're
going to make mistakes. I saw mistakes on the practice
field today. I don't expect to see those mistakes tomorrow.
(07:10):
You improve from that so that you don't continue to
make those mistakes. That's a big thing with him is
correcting the mistakes with technique and repetition and the concentration
in all of those things. He was asked about the
injuries Trevor Goosby, backup offensive lineman, and Isaiah Bond, most
(07:31):
notably those two guys. We already know that Derek Williams
is out for the rest of the year after his injury,
and he was asked about those two guys, Trevor Gooseby
and Isaiah Bond.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, Derek's obviously out. I thought we announced that Trevor
will be out this game Goozby, and I would imagine
tonight we'll upgrade Isaiah to probable for the game.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He was listed as questionable. By the way, did you
notice you noticed that the Longers had a backup punter
out there last Saturday? And when when at first when
they trotted out to punt on that second possession, I
said Michael Kern, because Kern was no longer on the
(08:15):
injured list after he'd been the list as questionable, And
all I could see was the nine, but it was
forty nine, not thirty nine. It was Ian Ratliffe walk
On who punted, and he did pretty well. But the
reason why Kern was removed from the injured list was
he didn't get in the ball game. He still held
on field goals and extra points, he just didn't punt.
(08:39):
So his is an ankle and they're hoping that he'll
be okay to go. And if he can't go, then
Ratlift would would draw the duty again on that. Quinn
us has played in a lot of big games. We
know that, and Steve Sarkisian has coached in a lot
of big gus and they've and they've been together or
(09:00):
head coach and quarterback in some of these same games. This,
by the way, what I'm about to tell you is
the now new recurring question that's coming up for Sark.
It's about this big game thing for Quinn and big
game thing for Sark because we can think back to
the two Alabama games obviously, and the Big twelve championship
(09:24):
game and the playoff semifinal Sugar Bowl game, those kinds
of things. And with the amount this particular question was
about the relationship of quarterback and head coach, they're pretty tight,
I can tell you. So Sark was asked about with
this growing amount of big games that Quinn viewers has
(09:46):
played in with Sark as the head coach. How is
that affected the relationship and the growth in the relationship.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Quinn and I, you know, three years together with the
same quarterback, it's just you get to know one another.
You get to know a feel. I have a much
better feel today of the stuff he likes in certain
situations than I did in year one. I think he
has a better feel for me of the things that
I like to call in certain situations better than he
did in year one. I think we can we can
(10:20):
fix issues quickly. And he is understanding what I'm meaning
when I'm saying things to him now more than ever
with the headset, when I can talk to him briefly
in between plays, and so I think all those things
are beneficial for us. You know, time on task together
has been has been something that that we've been. We've
been through some fires together, some good, some not so good.
(10:41):
I think there have been some great learning experiences. But again,
have the have the utmost confidence in him that, uh,
you know, he's gonna he's gonna show up when his
numbers called here Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, all right, so there's some comments from long worn
said coach Steve Sarkisian and and we'll hear some more
from sark coming up next hour as well. Coming up
next during this hour, we turn our attention to basketball.
Next hour, we'll hear from Rodney Terry Long, warn men's coach.
But up next we're gonna hear from Vic Shaeffer, the
(11:13):
coach of the Texas women's team. The Longhorns will open
the season rank fourth in the nation. They are picked
to finish second in the SEC, behind defending national champion
in South Carolina, so we'll hear from Vic Shaeffer talking
about that. Of course, he's got a largely healthy group.
(11:34):
There are some players who are still trying to get
healthy and regular for the start of the regular season,
but his main weapons, Madison Booker and Rory Harmon will
be ready to go. They were. They accompanied coach Schaeffer
to Birmingham for the SEC Basketball Media Days, So we'll
(11:58):
hear from Vic shaf for talking about his team and
about the upcoming inaugural SEC season for Texas women's basketball.
That's next when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone and the iHeart Radio app.
We're back. It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of
Fame broadcaster a voice of the Texas Longhards Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
On Thursday here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
Zone and continue to draw closer to this matchup between
Texas and Georgia. Last hour, we heard some of the
comments from today's earlier zoom media availability with Longwarts head
coach Steve Sarkigan. Here's some more comments from sark one.
(00:49):
Sark was asked about this feeling of camaraderie that seems
to exist. You know, we hear the players talk about
this quite often, about how much fun they have together.
Last night on Long One Weekly when we did the recording,
(01:09):
and you can hear it tonight here on the Zone
at seven o'clock, sark talked about that fun thing and
wanting to have fun, and he said the coaches also
get a great deal of enjoyment out of as well.
They have a lot of fun. So sark was asked
about this feeling of camaraderie he has with the other
coaches at Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I love it. I love all of our head coaches.
I love all of our teams and sports that we have.
I think CDC has done an incredible job of assembling
the best coaching coaching staff in the country, and you know,
we go on a head coaches retreat once a year
into I'm just somewhat in awe of, you know, the
successes that they've had in their various sports, the way
(01:48):
they motivate their teams to perform and their athletes to perform.
We do have some great camaraderie amongst the head coaches.
Vic and I have grown pretty close, you know, We've
had to go on some different speaking tours together and
different things. I really appreciate the way his teams play
and I used to bring that up to our team
and I first got here about how hard our women's
(02:09):
basketball team played and the intensity in which they played
the game. And I think that's a byproduct of who
Vick Schaefer is. And so for him to come around
and be around us at the Michigan game, I thought
was awesome. I know our coaching staff and our players
loved having him so, but that's no different than a
lot of the other coaches that we have here. I mean,
Jared's done a fantastic job. Flow has done an amazing job.
(02:31):
Angie's kicking butt. So everybody, everybody's doing great, and I
think that that's inspiring to all of us to hold
up to the standard of excellence around here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
By the way, we're going to hear from Vic Shaffer
coming up next segment, coming off SEC Women's basketball media day.
Now back to the boxing analogies we talked about that
last hour because Sark is a fan of boxing, so
he's asked again about the boxing analogies and does he
use these analogies and examples of momentum swings in fights
(03:04):
to his team with a game against Georgia coming up.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I would probably say what you're saying is correct a bowl.
You know, if a guy needs to hold onto the
ball better, then that's probably correct able. There's probably some fundamentals, yeah,
I think so. You know, we talk a lot about
you know, especially when two good teams play. You know,
we're going to make our plays, they're going to make
their plays. You know, playing the next snap is so critical,
(03:30):
critical fighting the next round, you know, finishing the round,
getting up off the mat when you do get knocked down,
and getting your getting regrouped. And so I think that's
why it's really important when adversity strikes that we stay
really tight together as a team, we stay really positive,
we fix the issues that we have collectively on the sidelines.
It's not about one person, it's about how can all
(03:51):
of us fix something that has occurred so that we
can go play better as we move forward, we can
fight better right in rounds three, four, and five, whatever
that looks like. So I do think it's there's a
lot of parallels to it. Everybody loves a great fight
and loves entertainment. Nobody likes the knockout right early on
the Mike Tyson thirty seconds and in type stuff. But
(04:12):
in reality, when when two good teams, when two good
fighters step into the ring or step on the field,
it's usually a twelve roundabout and and you know, whether
it's a decision, a split decision, you know, whatever that
looks like is generally because it was, there was a
lot of kind of you know, momentum swings throughout the fight,
and the scorecards were what they were.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now, he mentioned earlier because somebody asked him a little
bit about turnovers, So to come back to that, our
turnovers and start mentioned this again last night on the
show taping that I'm not pleased with the turnovers that
we have had. They've done a good job in getting
some turnovers as well in the in the turnover ratios
(04:52):
plus four to Texas. By the way, George is a
minus one right now, and that's because George and getting
many turnovers to offset the ones they have committed. But
even if Texas had gained one hundred turnovers, the ones
that have been committed by the offense are not to
the head coaches liking. So he was asked, are turnovers
(05:16):
in these specific instances, with this specific team, in this
specific season, are they correctable or is it just a
simple lack of execution.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I would probably say what you're saying is correctable. You know,
if a guy needs to hold onto the ball better,
then that's probably correctable. There's probably some fundamentals and techniques
that we can improve upon, I think naturally. You know,
quarterback decision making is something that we can improve upon.
A runner in the open field, understanding that somebody might
(05:48):
be coming from behind to punch that rip that ball
out right before you score a touchdown is something that
we can improve upon. That's just being conscious of cognizant
of where you're at on the field. So opinion. All
turnovers are are to some degree, you know, we can
fix them. The goal is that we don't continue to
make some of those same mistakes.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Right that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
If the ball is loose, how do we get it tighter?
The decision making is not great, how do we make
it better? If balls are getting tipped at the line
of scrimmage, how do we get their hands down? So
all those things we try to try to apply the
things that as coaches to try to improve upon that
to get that number down.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Take it from me on something here, And that is
one thing that that Sark has a very low takes
a very dim view of. Are not fixing correctible things?
In other words, if his team or a portion of
(06:49):
his team continues to make the same mistakes over and over,
that's the thing I hear about, Like at the end
of the practice when he's got the team gathered around
on the practice field, when he talks talks about improve
let's not go back and do the same thing. We're
going to make mistakes. I saw mistakes on the practice
field today. I don't expect to see those mistakes tomorrow.
(07:10):
You improve from that so that you don't continue to
make those mistakes. That's a big thing with him is
correcting the mistakes with technique and repetition and the concentration
in all of those things. He was asked about the
injuries Trevor Goosby, backup offensive lineman, and Isaiah Bond, most
(07:31):
notably those two guys. We already know that Derek Williams
is out for the rest of the year after his injury,
and he was asked about those two guys, Trevor Gooseby
and Isaiah Bond.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, Derek's obviously out. I thought we announced that Trevor
will be out this game Goozby, and I would imagine
tonight we'll upgrade Isaiah to probable for the game.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He was listed as questionable. By the way, did you
notice you noticed that the Longers had a backup punter
out there last Saturday? And when when at first when
they trotted out to punt on that second possession, I
said Michael Kern, because Kern was no longer on the
(08:15):
injured list after he'd been the list as questionable, And
all I could see was the nine, but it was
forty nine, not thirty nine. It was Ian Ratliffe walk
On who punted, and he did pretty well. But the
reason why Kern was removed from the injured list was
he didn't get in the ball game. He still held
on field goals and extra points, he just didn't punt.
(08:39):
So his is an ankle and they're hoping that he'll
be okay to go. And if he can't go, then
Ratlift would would draw the duty again on that. Quinn
us has played in a lot of big games. We
know that, and Steve Sarkisian has coached in a lot
of big gus and they've and they've been together or
(09:00):
head coach and quarterback in some of these same games. This,
by the way, what I'm about to tell you is
the now new recurring question that's coming up for Sark.
It's about this big game thing for Quinn and big
game thing for Sark because we can think back to
the two Alabama games obviously, and the Big twelve championship
(09:24):
game and the playoff semifinal Sugar Bowl game, those kinds
of things. And with the amount this particular question was
about the relationship of quarterback and head coach, they're pretty tight,
I can tell you. So Sark was asked about with
this growing amount of big games that Quinn viewers has
(09:46):
played in with Sark as the head coach. How is
that affected the relationship and the growth in the relationship.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Quinn and I, you know, three years together with the
same quarterback, it's just you get to know one another.
You get to know a feel. I have a much
better feel today of the stuff he likes in certain
situations than I did in year one. I think he
has a better feel for me of the things that
I like to call in certain situations better than he
did in year one. I think we can we can
(10:20):
fix issues quickly. And he is understanding what I'm meaning
when I'm saying things to him now more than ever
with the headset, when I can talk to him briefly
in between plays, and so I think all those things
are beneficial for us. You know, time on task together
has been has been something that that we've been. We've
been through some fires together, some good, some not so good.
(10:41):
I think there have been some great learning experiences. But again,
have the have the utmost confidence in him that, uh,
you know, he's gonna he's gonna show up when his
numbers called here Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, all right, so there's some comments from long worn
said coach Steve Sarkisian and and we'll hear some more
from sark coming up next hour as well. Coming up
next during this hour, we turn our attention to basketball.
Next hour, we'll hear from Rodney Terry Long, warn men's coach.
But up next we're gonna hear from Vic Shaeffer, the
(11:13):
coach of the Texas women's team. The Longhorns will open
the season rank fourth in the nation. They are picked
to finish second in the SEC, behind defending national champion
in South Carolina, so we'll hear from Vic Shaeffer talking
about that. Of course, he's got a largely healthy group.
(11:34):
There are some players who are still trying to get
healthy and regular for the start of the regular season,
but his main weapons, Madison Booker and Rory Harmon will
be ready to go. They were. They accompanied coach Schaeffer
to Birmingham for the SEC Basketball Media Days, So we'll
(11:58):
hear from Vic shaf for talking about his team and
about the upcoming inaugural SEC season for Texas women's basketball.
That's next when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone and the iHeart Radio app.
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