October 25, 2024 • 10 mins
Hear from Rodney Terry during his Longhorn Weekly coaches show at Pluckers with Craig Way and they discuss the upcoming 2024-25 basketball season for the Horns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's hear from Long Worton's head coach, Rodney Terry.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Last night we had a special basketball preview edition of
Long Worn Weekly from Pluckers, and we got another one
next Thursday night, Halloween Night. Come dressed in your favorite
Halloween costume if you want, come on. It's a live
show from six to seven next Thursday night. It was
live last night, and early in the show we were
(00:24):
talking about the pieces that Rodney Terry is putting together
for this brand new group of Texas Longhorns.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A lot of work went into the off.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Season after walking off the floor in Charlotte last March,
and I know you guys went right back to work
to start getting ready with the influx the new guys
coming in, the guys you had returning, all of that
sort of stuff, And I wanted to give you a
chance just to kind of take.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Folks through it chronologically.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Once we returned from Charlotte after the NCAA tournament, how
you and the staff set about putting in the plan
for the coming twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh sure, Craig, I mean we've had our guys now
for about three months now. Uh that We've got a
chance to work with our guys. We have eight weeks
in the summer. You know, we started a little bit
of fall camp and now we're into in the season
right now.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Uh. You know, our staff did a great job.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
First of all, when we finished up, you know, our
Sweet sixteen game against Tennessee, we got back and when
you needed to try to you know, sit down with
each player and individually kind of sye who wanted to
still be here, who didn't want to be here, and
and kind of assessed what we were going to have returning, uh,
before we started embarking on putting the rash together. And
(01:34):
uh we were able to do that. And uh, you know,
we have six returners from from last season, and uh,
you know, our guys did a great job. My staff
did a great job of going out and you know,
attracting other guys that would compliment the guys that we
had returning uh this season. And uh, you know, we
have six guys from the portal. We have four four
freshmen and uh, you know, I'm excited about this group.
(01:58):
I think we got a chance to spend a lot
of time, you know, this summer trying to build chemistry
off the court. I think these guys have really good
chemistry where they already like each other.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think we have a talented group, uh, and we
have a group that has a lot of depth.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How different is the world that you that you deal
in now from say whatever, eight years ago, six years ago, whatever,
before the portal became as such an omnipresent part of
the college basketball season, when you walk off the floor
when your season ends and you start to play for
the future. And now in this day and age, with
(02:35):
the interchangeability of collegiate rosters, how does that change what
you and the staff do when you have to dive
into that figure what you got left and who's coming
back and going from there.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It was very challenging.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I mean, you know, we were able to sign you know,
some guys early, a couple of freshmen early, uh.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
In the recruiting period.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But you know, in the old ays, mid May, you'd
have your roster complete and you know what you work
with already going into the first of June and summer. Nowadays,
with the change in landscape of college athletics, in college basketball,
a lot of times you're still all the way up
until August sometimes working on completing your roster. In some programs,
you know still have scholarships available, so that's definitely changed,
(03:18):
and that's different. And you know, again when you're putting
a roster together, one that you're gonna have to try.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
To manage and max out in one year. You know
you're fighting time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
How challenging is it because of the fighting time with
your summer workouts, the individual workouts if you're still piecing
together the roster and who can work with who and
practice and do and then how that affects ultimately as
you start to team build, well, it goes into the
first for of your season.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean, we started playing this past Saturday, and you
know you can strim it, you can practice, but until
you actually get in game situations, well, guys have to
really try to build chemistry and build familiarity with one
another on the court. That takes time and a lot
of times. And you'll see this day in time in
college athletics, it may be mid season before your team
(04:07):
kind of you know, really shaped in the kind of
team that you think you're capable being for that season.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's interesting some numbers here, just looking at some of
the combined numbers from the twelve guys who have previously
played in college eight hundred and thirty two career games
with five hundred seventeen starts, six thousand and six six
nine hundred and sixty nine points, three thy, twenty eight rebounds,
nineteen one hundred and seventy six minutes played. Five players
(04:36):
have already earned undergraduate degrees Julian Larry Kayden, Shederick Colbot,
Trema Mark, and Jason Kent. So it's the kind of
thing about I know, coaches like to have what's called
an old roster, at least an advanced roster. It's just
constructed differently nowadays, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It is, Craig and a lot of times you want
to Berlin though. You know, for us, again, we've got
six returners guys in the portal and four freshmen. So
we have four freshmen, you know, probably a couple of
those guys with an opportunity to play with the veteran players.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But but you do like.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Stand oh, you do like experience, and you love having continuity.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I mean, we have six returners.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Four of those guys play play significant minutes for us,
and you know they're familia with what we're doing and
defending the culture of our program.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Does it make the learning curve, or at least a
familiarity curve a little shorter when you get these guys
in the summer workouts and you start to get ready
for your fall workouts, when you have experienced guys coming
in to help, kind of lessen and shorten the curve
a little bit for your freshmen the newbies.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It does.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I mean, you'd love to have a team full of,
you know, guys that were there previously with you the
previous year. You know, where you have that continuity already.
But the older guys. The one thing that the older
guys do bring with them is to your point earlier,
they have a lot of experience. They've played a lot,
and they can adapt and pick up these pretty quick
for the better part of you know what your to
do office defensively, So just based on their experience. What
(06:03):
do you like about this group? The best thing you
like about this group? But I think they all like
each other. You know, we played, uh, we played this
past saturday, and we had tremendous bench energy where everybody
was pulling for guys on the floor, was extremely connected
on and off the court of this past saturday. You
didn't have anybody you know, moping or pouting about now playing.
(06:25):
They were just generally excited about about what the guys
were doing on the floor. So, you know, again, I
think that's been very positive because again we're we're you know,
we're deep at each position.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I've heard you say this, I've heard Sarks say with
the football team, say that the players don't count your minutes,
make your minutes count, that that sort of thing, and that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That helps build the chemistry.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, again, I think we have you know, guys, you know,
eight nine starters on this team. I mean, any of
our guys can start for us. I don't really get
caught up in the starting process and everything. I think
you know, when it's your opportunity and it's your time
to be on the floor, I think you you get
out and you perform at a high level and you
just pass up a ton and we don't have a
drop off. But but we do have, you know, experiencing
(07:06):
guys that again I think compliment one another very well.
But but we've got you know, ten eleven guys we
can play.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, you said that the thing you like is
that the guys like each other, and that might come
as a surprise to some folks, but not all teams
have that right and and sometimes it's just kind of
a I don't know, if there's an undercurrent of of
uneasiness sometimes with some teams about whether they get along
and who wants to ball more, and this and that
(07:33):
and and and that can.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Make it real challenging for trying for team building.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Cannon, Well, I think again, for us, we try to
work really harder in the summer when guys get to campus.
You know, we really stress how important this it is
for those guys that spend time with each other away
from the basketball court.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, again, try to have build some.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Organic chemistry without us having the force feed gas spend
in time with each other. In this group from day one,
those guys all really you know, bunning together.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
They like spending time with each other, and uh, you know,
you have to have really good chemistry off the court.
They have really good chemistry on the court.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I think I think I heard you say, uh in
a in a media session, how there'd be a couple
of guys or three guys or whatever it said, They're
all uh gonna go out to LA for a weekend
or something during the summer and and and this was
all organic stuff that they had decided, not things that
you or any of the staff had suggested to them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We had a couple of guys I think had some
birthdays I think throughout the summer, and you know, we're
gonna be in different locations and you know, you look up,
there's not one guy, there's you know, three or four guys.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
The five guys going.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Out to try to celebrate his birthday for him in
a different locations. So you know, those guys like being
around each other. They spend time on the lake this
summer a little bit and stuff as well. And you know,
you again, you don't want to force feed that. You
want guys that want to be around one another. We
have a retreat.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
We did. We did our retreat a couple.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Of weeks ago, and that was fantastic for us, another
bunning opportunity for us to really try to connect as
a team. And we also got a chance to also,
do you know, one of our you know, core values
of our program. We had some servant hoood. We had
a chance to go to Children's Hospital in San Antonio
and see some less fortunate youngsters and.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Be a blessing for them.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And get back to them and try to put a
smile on their face, hopefully for not only that day,
for a lasting effect.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So there it is.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Some conversation with Longhorns had basketball coach Roddy Terry with
a little preview of the coming season. Again next Thursday,
Halloween Night, We're gonna do another preview, will meet a
couple more long worn players we had. Jordan Pope and
Jason Kent joined us last night. Kent one of the
two Indiana State transfers along with Julian Larry Jordan Pope
(09:46):
transferring from Oregon State. I did ask Jordan Pope cam
if he knew Silas Bolden when they were both at
Oregon City. He said, across pass with him, but they
didn't really know him really well. He says, I've gotten
to know him better since I've been here, So yeah,
And I said, I'm gonna ask you the same question
(10:06):
to ask Silas. How different is Austin, Texas from Corvallis, Oregon.
He said he didn't. It's a lot different. Of course,
Jordan's from northern California. He's from the Bay Area. And
then he was chatting about high school athletics in the
Bay Area with our own Cole Dixon, who of course
(10:26):
hails from the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Who was our engineer there last night.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
All Right, we've got some other NFL notes to get
to coming up next when we continue from Nashville on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
Let's hear from Long Worton's head coach, Rodney Terry.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Last night we had a special basketball preview edition of
Long Worn Weekly from Pluckers, and we got another one
next Thursday night, Halloween Night. Come dressed in your favorite
Halloween costume if you want, come on. It's a live
show from six to seven next Thursday night. It was
live last night, and early in the show we were
(00:24):
talking about the pieces that Rodney Terry is putting together
for this brand new group of Texas Longhorns.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A lot of work went into the off.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Season after walking off the floor in Charlotte last March,
and I know you guys went right back to work
to start getting ready with the influx the new guys
coming in, the guys you had returning, all of that
sort of stuff, And I wanted to give you a
chance just to kind of take.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Folks through it chronologically.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Once we returned from Charlotte after the NCAA tournament, how
you and the staff set about putting in the plan
for the coming twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh sure, Craig, I mean we've had our guys now
for about three months now. Uh that We've got a
chance to work with our guys. We have eight weeks
in the summer. You know, we started a little bit
of fall camp and now we're into in the season
right now.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Uh. You know, our staff did a great job.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
First of all, when we finished up, you know, our
Sweet sixteen game against Tennessee, we got back and when
you needed to try to you know, sit down with
each player and individually kind of sye who wanted to
still be here, who didn't want to be here, and
and kind of assessed what we were going to have returning, uh,
before we started embarking on putting the rash together. And
(01:34):
uh we were able to do that. And uh, you know,
we have six returners from from last season, and uh,
you know, our guys did a great job. My staff
did a great job of going out and you know,
attracting other guys that would compliment the guys that we
had returning uh this season. And uh, you know, we
have six guys from the portal. We have four four
freshmen and uh, you know, I'm excited about this group.
(01:58):
I think we got a chance to spend a lot
of time, you know, this summer trying to build chemistry
off the court. I think these guys have really good
chemistry where they already like each other.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think we have a talented group, uh, and we
have a group that has a lot of depth.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How different is the world that you that you deal
in now from say whatever, eight years ago, six years ago, whatever,
before the portal became as such an omnipresent part of
the college basketball season, when you walk off the floor
when your season ends and you start to play for
the future. And now in this day and age, with
(02:35):
the interchangeability of collegiate rosters, how does that change what
you and the staff do when you have to dive
into that figure what you got left and who's coming
back and going from there.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It was very challenging.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I mean, you know, we were able to sign you know,
some guys early, a couple of freshmen early, uh.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
In the recruiting period.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But you know, in the old ays, mid May, you'd
have your roster complete and you know what you work
with already going into the first of June and summer. Nowadays,
with the change in landscape of college athletics, in college basketball,
a lot of times you're still all the way up
until August sometimes working on completing your roster. In some programs,
you know still have scholarships available, so that's definitely changed,
(03:18):
and that's different. And you know, again when you're putting
a roster together, one that you're gonna have to try.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
To manage and max out in one year. You know
you're fighting time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
How challenging is it because of the fighting time with
your summer workouts, the individual workouts if you're still piecing
together the roster and who can work with who and
practice and do and then how that affects ultimately as
you start to team build, well, it goes into the
first for of your season.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean, we started playing this past Saturday, and you
know you can strim it, you can practice, but until
you actually get in game situations, well, guys have to
really try to build chemistry and build familiarity with one
another on the court. That takes time and a lot
of times. And you'll see this day in time in
college athletics, it may be mid season before your team
(04:07):
kind of you know, really shaped in the kind of
team that you think you're capable being for that season.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's interesting some numbers here, just looking at some of
the combined numbers from the twelve guys who have previously
played in college eight hundred and thirty two career games
with five hundred seventeen starts, six thousand and six six
nine hundred and sixty nine points, three thy, twenty eight rebounds,
nineteen one hundred and seventy six minutes played. Five players
(04:36):
have already earned undergraduate degrees Julian Larry Kayden, Shederick Colbot,
Trema Mark, and Jason Kent. So it's the kind of
thing about I know, coaches like to have what's called
an old roster, at least an advanced roster. It's just
constructed differently nowadays, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It is, Craig and a lot of times you want
to Berlin though. You know, for us, again, we've got
six returners guys in the portal and four freshmen. So
we have four freshmen, you know, probably a couple of
those guys with an opportunity to play with the veteran players.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But but you do like.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Stand oh, you do like experience, and you love having continuity.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I mean, we have six returners.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Four of those guys play play significant minutes for us,
and you know they're familia with what we're doing and
defending the culture of our program.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Does it make the learning curve, or at least a
familiarity curve a little shorter when you get these guys
in the summer workouts and you start to get ready
for your fall workouts, when you have experienced guys coming
in to help, kind of lessen and shorten the curve
a little bit for your freshmen the newbies.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It does.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I mean, you'd love to have a team full of,
you know, guys that were there previously with you the
previous year. You know, where you have that continuity already.
But the older guys. The one thing that the older
guys do bring with them is to your point earlier,
they have a lot of experience. They've played a lot,
and they can adapt and pick up these pretty quick
for the better part of you know what your to
do office defensively, So just based on their experience. What
(06:03):
do you like about this group? The best thing you
like about this group? But I think they all like
each other. You know, we played, uh, we played this
past saturday, and we had tremendous bench energy where everybody
was pulling for guys on the floor, was extremely connected
on and off the court of this past saturday. You
didn't have anybody you know, moping or pouting about now playing.
(06:25):
They were just generally excited about about what the guys
were doing on the floor. So, you know, again, I
think that's been very positive because again we're we're you know,
we're deep at each position.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I've heard you say this, I've heard Sarks say with
the football team, say that the players don't count your minutes,
make your minutes count, that that sort of thing, and that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That helps build the chemistry.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, again, I think we have you know, guys, you know,
eight nine starters on this team. I mean, any of
our guys can start for us. I don't really get
caught up in the starting process and everything. I think
you know, when it's your opportunity and it's your time
to be on the floor, I think you you get
out and you perform at a high level and you
just pass up a ton and we don't have a
drop off. But but we do have, you know, experiencing
(07:06):
guys that again I think compliment one another very well.
But but we've got you know, ten eleven guys we
can play.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, you said that the thing you like is
that the guys like each other, and that might come
as a surprise to some folks, but not all teams
have that right and and sometimes it's just kind of
a I don't know, if there's an undercurrent of of
uneasiness sometimes with some teams about whether they get along
and who wants to ball more, and this and that
(07:33):
and and and that can.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Make it real challenging for trying for team building.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Cannon, Well, I think again, for us, we try to
work really harder in the summer when guys get to campus.
You know, we really stress how important this it is
for those guys that spend time with each other away
from the basketball court.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, again, try to have build some.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Organic chemistry without us having the force feed gas spend
in time with each other. In this group from day one,
those guys all really you know, bunning together.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
They like spending time with each other, and uh, you know,
you have to have really good chemistry off the court.
They have really good chemistry on the court.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I think I think I heard you say, uh in
a in a media session, how there'd be a couple
of guys or three guys or whatever it said, They're
all uh gonna go out to LA for a weekend
or something during the summer and and and this was
all organic stuff that they had decided, not things that
you or any of the staff had suggested to them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We had a couple of guys I think had some
birthdays I think throughout the summer, and you know, we're
gonna be in different locations and you know, you look up,
there's not one guy, there's you know, three or four guys.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
The five guys going.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Out to try to celebrate his birthday for him in
a different locations. So you know, those guys like being
around each other. They spend time on the lake this
summer a little bit and stuff as well. And you know,
you again, you don't want to force feed that. You
want guys that want to be around one another. We
have a retreat.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
We did. We did our retreat a couple.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Of weeks ago, and that was fantastic for us, another
bunning opportunity for us to really try to connect as
a team. And we also got a chance to also,
do you know, one of our you know, core values
of our program. We had some servant hoood. We had
a chance to go to Children's Hospital in San Antonio
and see some less fortunate youngsters and.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Be a blessing for them.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And get back to them and try to put a
smile on their face, hopefully for not only that day,
for a lasting effect.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So there it is.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Some conversation with Longhorns had basketball coach Roddy Terry with
a little preview of the coming season. Again next Thursday,
Halloween Night, We're gonna do another preview, will meet a
couple more long worn players we had. Jordan Pope and
Jason Kent joined us last night. Kent one of the
two Indiana State transfers along with Julian Larry Jordan Pope
(09:46):
transferring from Oregon State. I did ask Jordan Pope cam
if he knew Silas Bolden when they were both at
Oregon City. He said, across pass with him, but they
didn't really know him really well. He says, I've gotten
to know him better since I've been here, So yeah,
And I said, I'm gonna ask you the same question
(10:06):
to ask Silas. How different is Austin, Texas from Corvallis, Oregon.
He said he didn't. It's a lot different. Of course,
Jordan's from northern California. He's from the Bay Area. And
then he was chatting about high school athletics in the
Bay Area with our own Cole Dixon, who of course
(10:26):
hails from the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Who was our engineer there last night.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
All Right, we've got some other NFL notes to get
to coming up next when we continue from Nashville on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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