October 17, 2024 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And we're back to the Craigway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts Radio app here. On Thursday afternoon,
Game number three of the American League Championship Series is underway,
Yankees batting in the top half of the first with
(00:28):
two down and to a board, and Cleveland trying to
get through that first thing. Remember, the Yankees are up
two games to none, so when today they would have
a stranglehold on the series and pretty much put it
out of reach, all but put it out of reach,
and they would have four chances to close it out
too in Cleveland and two in New York if that happened.
(00:51):
The Dodger trying to get a commanding edge on the
Mets and the National League Championship Series. It's just a
two to one series league for LA. They'll play this
evening in New York with the Mets trying to get
even at two games apiece before Game five tomorrow, and
then if the Mets win tonight or tomorrow, it would
send the series back to Los Angeles for a sixth
(01:12):
game on Friday, and then if it turns out that
they need a or the six game, excuse me, would
be on Sunday. The game five, it would be tomorrow Friday.
A sixth game would be Sunday. In a seventh game
that necessary would be Monday. Jass Chisholm strikes out to
end the top of heirs, so it is scoreless. Going
(01:34):
to the bottle off. Somebody on the text line when
we mentioned Tony Bennett retiring, So Tony Bennet retired, who's next,
Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Not that Tony Bennett.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Neither that Tony Bennett nor Frank Sinatra are with us
any longer. It's the Tony Bennett of the basketball coaching variety,
all right, speaking to the coaches, trying to hear some
more from long Orne at football coach Steve Sarkishan. As
has been chronicled, it was not a real fast start
for the long Worns last Saturday in the win against Oklahoma,
(02:07):
scoreless first quarter, first time they've been scoreless this year,
first time they trailed in a game this season. They
were down three to nothing after a turnover and two
punts in the first quarter before they really kicked it
into the high gear. But sark was asked after examining
that slow start against Oklahoma. How can his team get
(02:27):
off to a fast start this Saturday against Georgia.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'd say, first of all, looking back on it now,
I'm glad that that happened. You know, I think that
that was good for us offensively to have to have
some of that adversity early on in the game. I
learned a lot about the maturity of the offensive football
team and the leadership on of that group. And so
with all that being said, I would sure love for
(02:51):
that not to happen again.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I wouldn't want.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Three, you know, three you know, three three play drives
and thirteen yards in a quarter. So the goal is
to put together some good openers. The goal is to
make sure that our players understand the openers and know
the adjustments to those things. The goal is to put
our guys in really good positions on third down and
to feel comfortable with the stuff to extend drives and
(03:15):
then ultimately, you know, call your best stuff in the
red area that that gives you a chance to get
in the end zone. So but I think all that
goes back to confidence and belief in what we're doing.
And you know, like I said, I've got a ton
of belief in our staff and the game plan they
put together. I've got a ton of belief in our players,
and these guys have earned it, and, like I said,
looking forward to to them going out and competing and
playing at a high level Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The next came and I mentioned this earlier about Michael
Kern having the injured ankle, the punter, he's still held
on placements. But Ian Ratliffe started and punted for Texas,
and Sark was asked about his evaluation of Ratliffe as
well as the status of Kerrent.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I thought he did a heck of a job first
time out. You know, we didn't protect very good on
his first punt, but I thought he did a heck
of a job after that. I thought Michael looked really
good today. I thought both he and Ian both punted
the ball well today. So we're fortunate that Ian actually
got some experience and feel good about, you know, kind
of where where Michael's at as well.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, so if Current can't go, the Ratliff would be
ready to go. We here here's.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Another one of those terms, like like somebody had call
a text in on the text line and asked about
good on good and that's a football phraseology. Another one
is call sheet. The call sheet is what the coaches
use when they're calling out an offense or a defense
in sending, you know, putting in a play, especially on
(04:44):
the offensive side of the call sheet. And sometimes the
first ten to fifteen plays might be scripted out, and
other times fewer than that, and sometimes not at all.
But Sark was asked about his process of building a
call sheet for a game.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I love putting a call sheet to together.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think, you know, it's a it's a blank canvas
for us. And we start on Sunday and we start
going as a staff pass game run game run, game, pass,
game screens, specials, and we do the bulk of our
We do the bulk of our base game planning on
Monday and Tuesday, and that thing starts filling up, and
then we start working ourselves into third down and red
(05:22):
area and backed up in two minutes, and then we
start talking about musk calls through as practice goes, and
the stuff we really like, and then we start formulating
our openers. And then I get a chance to visit
with the quarterbacks, you know, Friday night, and then depending
on when kickoff is that sometimes I like to stay
up Saturday nights kind of Friday night's kind of late
working on it. There's other days I'll kind of pause
(05:46):
in the middle of it and get up early in
the morning and have a cup of coffee and just
start formulating my thoughts and I just keep trying to
play the game forward and what would it look like
if this situation or that situation, and ensuring certain plays
getting enough touches so that they can find their rhythm.
So all that's just kind of the I guess, the
(06:07):
playing the chess match before you actually sit down at
the table. But that's that's the fun part for me,
Like I love that aspect.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Of it all.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now, this is obviously quite the environment this week here
in Austin. You have this game number one against number
five in the country. There's the F one race going on.
You have ESPN's College Game Day here on Saturday morning.
ESPN itself will send it two crews to anchor Sports
Center throughout the weekend here in Austin, beginning tomorrow with
(06:42):
I believe it's Kevin and Gandhi and El Duncan who
are going to be anchoring on campus, and then there'll
be a crew out at CODA, including I think Nicole
Brisko will be out there one of the anchors for
Sports Center over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So there's a lot going into this.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Sark was asked by our colleague Roger Wallace about the
impact that a crowd can have and he cited UH
Tennessee breaking a record for sound and noise against Georgia
last year, and he and Roger asked that of Sark
about how big a factor would a crowd be that
(07:20):
could be that noisy this time around.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I didn't know that stat Tennessee against Georgia broke the record. Okay,
you know, I think I think for us it's a
it's a huge component. You know. I think in my
time here through four years, d k R has has
created an environment that has become intimidating, that has become loud.
Our students do a fantastic job, but I think in
(07:44):
this game especially.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
We need more than our students.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
We need everybody, uh in this ballgame, it should be
a rocket environment. We need to make it as difficult
as we can on Georgia. And I think our fans
can do that. I know, I've I've heard it really
loud before, and most notably I remember heart hearing it
really loud against Alabama in twenty twenty two. I heard
it really loud at the end of that Kansas State
(08:08):
game last year. My goal is that it's that loud
for four quarters Saturday night, and then my goal is
when I sit in my press conference after the game,
you tell me Roger that we broke that record that
Tennessee said against Georgia last year.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, be a nice That'd be a nice goal to
try to set to try to see if he could
do something off that.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
A couple more things from Sark.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
One is for the second time this season, he'll have
a player going up against his former school. Remember when
Texas played UTSA and there was alt of the conversation
about Trey Moore, who transferred it from UTSA. Same story here,
but slightly different wrinkle to it. Bill Norton, the long
worn senior defensive tackle transfer him from Arizona, actually began his.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Career at Georgia.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In fact, Kirbie Spartan had really complimentary things to say
about Bill Norton in his news conference earlier this week,
how he had really emerged as a special teams player
and was in the rotation along the defensive front. He
transferred to Arizona and then of course came along with
Johnny Nansien to Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So Sark was asked.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
About, Uh, did he have any kind of conversation with
Bill Norton by going up against his old team like
he did with Tray Moore before they played UTSA.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, I think Bill's a little bit a little bit
more of a unique situation and the fact that you know,
when he left Georgia, Uh, he went to Arizona and
then left Arizona has come here, which I think now
is becoming more of the norm, right guys kind of
going to a couple of different schools. I know, he's
got a ton of respect for that program. You know,
they recruited him. They had obviously a great defensive lineman
(09:41):
when he was there, and and he's done a really
nice job for us. You know, he's a big man inside.
I think he's really grown into our style of play
and it's been you know, I think that's why our
run defenses has really started to step itself up, just
because of that middle can get difficult to run on,
and that allows guys like an name Leonga and David Benda, Uh,
(10:02):
kind of to fly around because he's taken up multiple blockers.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Okay, and then one more from Sark and this is
about getting his team ready to play a Georgia team
that played Alabama in that epic game a couple of
weeks ago, and he was asked what were his thoughts
about Georgia his takeaway about Georgia from their loss to Alabama.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, I think it was a little bit of an
anomaly early on. It was kind of an avalanche early
in the game. You know, there was a lot of
a lot of turnovers, a lot of third and long
type situations. Georgia was in that that forced, you know,
had him behind the sticks into Alabama's credit. They kind
of jumped on them, you know, and they were using
milrose legs and so on and so forth. The one
(10:48):
thing I gathered I took from the game is, you know,
Georgia's got the heart of a champion, and the way
they fought back in that second half, the way they competed.
I was super impressed, and I was impressed watching it live.
I got a chance to watch the second half of
that game. I was impressed watching the tape now and
I don't know if it was necessarily straight adjustments. I mean,
(11:08):
they obviously had to just start kind of throwing the
ball to get back into the game. But more importantly,
I just felt like it was the heart of a
champion that showed up, and that's something for us to
hold on to going into Saturday night. Regardless of how
this game goes, it's going to be a four quarter game.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So there it is the thoughts from Long Wornon's head
coach Steve Sarkeshan.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
From today's media Zoom Now.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
A reminder will bring you Long Worn Weekly with Coach
Star tonight at seven o'clock. That's the program we recorded
last night and we will We always recorded on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Nights at Pluckers, and.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We recorded at Pluckers and then on Wednesday nights from
six to seven and then it airs from seven o'clock
to eight o'clock on Thursday night. So it'll be on
tonight at seven o'clock. Yankees and Guardians are still scoreless.
Each team stranded two runners in the first inning. Yankees
had runners at first and second, Guardians had runners at
(12:09):
second and third, and both teams stranded two runners in
the first inning. So they're one in the books. In
Game three in the ALCS, Yankees lead that series two
games tone, no score going to the top of the
second there at Progressive Field. Up next, we'll hear from
long worn men's basketball coach Rodney Terry.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Will continue on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
And we're back to the Craigway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts Radio app here. On Thursday afternoon,
Game number three of the American League Championship Series is underway,
Yankees batting in the top half of the first with
(00:28):
two down and to a board, and Cleveland trying to
get through that first thing. Remember, the Yankees are up
two games to none, so when today they would have
a stranglehold on the series and pretty much put it
out of reach, all but put it out of reach,
and they would have four chances to close it out
too in Cleveland and two in New York if that happened.
(00:51):
The Dodger trying to get a commanding edge on the
Mets and the National League Championship Series. It's just a
two to one series league for LA. They'll play this
evening in New York with the Mets trying to get
even at two games apiece before Game five tomorrow, and
then if the Mets win tonight or tomorrow, it would
send the series back to Los Angeles for a sixth
(01:12):
game on Friday, and then if it turns out that
they need a or the six game, excuse me, would
be on Sunday. The game five, it would be tomorrow Friday.
A sixth game would be Sunday. In a seventh game
that necessary would be Monday. Jass Chisholm strikes out to
end the top of heirs, so it is scoreless. Going
(01:34):
to the bottle off. Somebody on the text line when
we mentioned Tony Bennett retiring, So Tony Bennet retired, who's next,
Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Not that Tony Bennett.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Neither that Tony Bennett nor Frank Sinatra are with us
any longer. It's the Tony Bennett of the basketball coaching variety,
all right, speaking to the coaches, trying to hear some
more from long Orne at football coach Steve Sarkishan. As
has been chronicled, it was not a real fast start
for the long Worns last Saturday in the win against Oklahoma,
(02:07):
scoreless first quarter, first time they've been scoreless this year,
first time they trailed in a game this season. They
were down three to nothing after a turnover and two
punts in the first quarter before they really kicked it
into the high gear. But sark was asked after examining
that slow start against Oklahoma. How can his team get
(02:27):
off to a fast start this Saturday against Georgia.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'd say, first of all, looking back on it now,
I'm glad that that happened. You know, I think that
that was good for us offensively to have to have
some of that adversity early on in the game. I
learned a lot about the maturity of the offensive football
team and the leadership on of that group. And so
with all that being said, I would sure love for
(02:51):
that not to happen again.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I wouldn't want.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Three, you know, three you know, three three play drives
and thirteen yards in a quarter. So the goal is
to put together some good openers. The goal is to
make sure that our players understand the openers and know
the adjustments to those things. The goal is to put
our guys in really good positions on third down and
to feel comfortable with the stuff to extend drives and
(03:15):
then ultimately, you know, call your best stuff in the
red area that that gives you a chance to get
in the end zone. So but I think all that
goes back to confidence and belief in what we're doing.
And you know, like I said, I've got a ton
of belief in our staff and the game plan they
put together. I've got a ton of belief in our players,
and these guys have earned it, and, like I said,
looking forward to to them going out and competing and
playing at a high level Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The next came and I mentioned this earlier about Michael
Kern having the injured ankle, the punter, he's still held
on placements. But Ian Ratliffe started and punted for Texas,
and Sark was asked about his evaluation of Ratliffe as
well as the status of Kerrent.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I thought he did a heck of a job first
time out. You know, we didn't protect very good on
his first punt, but I thought he did a heck
of a job after that. I thought Michael looked really
good today. I thought both he and Ian both punted
the ball well today. So we're fortunate that Ian actually
got some experience and feel good about, you know, kind
of where where Michael's at as well.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, so if Current can't go, the Ratliff would be
ready to go. We here here's.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Another one of those terms, like like somebody had call
a text in on the text line and asked about
good on good and that's a football phraseology. Another one
is call sheet. The call sheet is what the coaches
use when they're calling out an offense or a defense
in sending, you know, putting in a play, especially on
(04:44):
the offensive side of the call sheet. And sometimes the
first ten to fifteen plays might be scripted out, and
other times fewer than that, and sometimes not at all.
But Sark was asked about his process of building a
call sheet for a game.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I love putting a call sheet to together.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think, you know, it's a it's a blank canvas
for us. And we start on Sunday and we start
going as a staff pass game run game run, game, pass,
game screens, specials, and we do the bulk of our
We do the bulk of our base game planning on
Monday and Tuesday, and that thing starts filling up, and
then we start working ourselves into third down and red
(05:22):
area and backed up in two minutes, and then we
start talking about musk calls through as practice goes, and
the stuff we really like, and then we start formulating
our openers. And then I get a chance to visit
with the quarterbacks, you know, Friday night, and then depending
on when kickoff is that sometimes I like to stay
up Saturday nights kind of Friday night's kind of late
working on it. There's other days I'll kind of pause
(05:46):
in the middle of it and get up early in
the morning and have a cup of coffee and just
start formulating my thoughts and I just keep trying to
play the game forward and what would it look like
if this situation or that situation, and ensuring certain plays
getting enough touches so that they can find their rhythm.
So all that's just kind of the I guess, the
(06:07):
playing the chess match before you actually sit down at
the table. But that's that's the fun part for me,
Like I love that aspect.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Of it all.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now, this is obviously quite the environment this week here
in Austin. You have this game number one against number
five in the country. There's the F one race going on.
You have ESPN's College Game Day here on Saturday morning.
ESPN itself will send it two crews to anchor Sports
Center throughout the weekend here in Austin, beginning tomorrow with
(06:42):
I believe it's Kevin and Gandhi and El Duncan who
are going to be anchoring on campus, and then there'll
be a crew out at CODA, including I think Nicole
Brisko will be out there one of the anchors for
Sports Center over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So there's a lot going into this.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Sark was asked by our colleague Roger Wallace about the
impact that a crowd can have and he cited UH
Tennessee breaking a record for sound and noise against Georgia
last year, and he and Roger asked that of Sark
about how big a factor would a crowd be that
(07:20):
could be that noisy this time around.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I didn't know that stat Tennessee against Georgia broke the record. Okay,
you know, I think I think for us it's a
it's a huge component. You know. I think in my
time here through four years, d k R has has
created an environment that has become intimidating, that has become loud.
Our students do a fantastic job, but I think in
(07:44):
this game especially.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
We need more than our students.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
We need everybody, uh in this ballgame, it should be
a rocket environment. We need to make it as difficult
as we can on Georgia. And I think our fans
can do that. I know, I've I've heard it really
loud before, and most notably I remember heart hearing it
really loud against Alabama in twenty twenty two. I heard
it really loud at the end of that Kansas State
(08:08):
game last year. My goal is that it's that loud
for four quarters Saturday night, and then my goal is
when I sit in my press conference after the game,
you tell me Roger that we broke that record that
Tennessee said against Georgia last year.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, be a nice That'd be a nice goal to
try to set to try to see if he could
do something off that.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
A couple more things from Sark.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
One is for the second time this season, he'll have
a player going up against his former school. Remember when
Texas played UTSA and there was alt of the conversation
about Trey Moore, who transferred it from UTSA. Same story here,
but slightly different wrinkle to it. Bill Norton, the long
worn senior defensive tackle transfer him from Arizona, actually began his.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Career at Georgia.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In fact, Kirbie Spartan had really complimentary things to say
about Bill Norton in his news conference earlier this week,
how he had really emerged as a special teams player
and was in the rotation along the defensive front. He
transferred to Arizona and then of course came along with
Johnny Nansien to Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So Sark was asked.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
About, Uh, did he have any kind of conversation with
Bill Norton by going up against his old team like
he did with Tray Moore before they played UTSA.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, I think Bill's a little bit a little bit
more of a unique situation and the fact that you know,
when he left Georgia, Uh, he went to Arizona and
then left Arizona has come here, which I think now
is becoming more of the norm, right guys kind of
going to a couple of different schools. I know, he's
got a ton of respect for that program. You know,
they recruited him. They had obviously a great defensive lineman
(09:41):
when he was there, and and he's done a really
nice job for us. You know, he's a big man inside.
I think he's really grown into our style of play
and it's been you know, I think that's why our
run defenses has really started to step itself up, just
because of that middle can get difficult to run on,
and that allows guys like an name Leonga and David Benda, Uh,
(10:02):
kind of to fly around because he's taken up multiple blockers.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Okay, and then one more from Sark and this is
about getting his team ready to play a Georgia team
that played Alabama in that epic game a couple of
weeks ago, and he was asked what were his thoughts
about Georgia his takeaway about Georgia from their loss to Alabama.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, I think it was a little bit of an
anomaly early on. It was kind of an avalanche early
in the game. You know, there was a lot of
a lot of turnovers, a lot of third and long
type situations. Georgia was in that that forced, you know,
had him behind the sticks into Alabama's credit. They kind
of jumped on them, you know, and they were using
milrose legs and so on and so forth. The one
(10:48):
thing I gathered I took from the game is, you know,
Georgia's got the heart of a champion, and the way
they fought back in that second half, the way they competed.
I was super impressed, and I was impressed watching it live.
I got a chance to watch the second half of
that game. I was impressed watching the tape now and
I don't know if it was necessarily straight adjustments. I mean,
(11:08):
they obviously had to just start kind of throwing the
ball to get back into the game. But more importantly,
I just felt like it was the heart of a
champion that showed up, and that's something for us to
hold on to going into Saturday night. Regardless of how
this game goes, it's going to be a four quarter game.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So there it is the thoughts from Long Wornon's head
coach Steve Sarkeshan.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
From today's media Zoom Now.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
A reminder will bring you Long Worn Weekly with Coach
Star tonight at seven o'clock. That's the program we recorded
last night and we will We always recorded on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Nights at Pluckers, and.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We recorded at Pluckers and then on Wednesday nights from
six to seven and then it airs from seven o'clock
to eight o'clock on Thursday night. So it'll be on
tonight at seven o'clock. Yankees and Guardians are still scoreless.
Each team stranded two runners in the first inning. Yankees
had runners at first and second, Guardians had runners at
(12:09):
second and third, and both teams stranded two runners in
the first inning. So they're one in the books. In
Game three in the ALCS, Yankees lead that series two
games tone, no score going to the top of the
second there at Progressive Field. Up next, we'll hear from
long worn men's basketball coach Rodney Terry.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Will continue on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
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