November 11, 2024 • 11 mins
Steve Sarkisian spoke about the threat that Arkansas QB Taylen Green posses against Texas on Saturday along with the impact of DE Trey Moore, Jerrick Gibson's strong running but fumbling issues, and more from his Monday press conference.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And we're back to the Craigway Show. Have a message
for Craig, share it by using the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Continuing here on a Monday afternoon here on Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred ZONEG Wade, joined by the producer Cameron Parker.
It is official Jaxas soccer team in the NCAA Tournament.
We knew they hey, we knew they were going to
get in anyway, and b we knew for sure they
were getting in because they got the automatic bid after
(00:46):
winning the Southeastern Conference Championship yesterday winning the SEC Tournament
final over South Carolina. Wanted nothing first Texas team to
win an SEC championship. So the law Warrens will be
at home to open NCAA tournament play like we thought
(01:07):
would be the case, and they'll be at home six
o'clock Friday night at Mike A. Myers Track at Soccer
Stadium to host the Terriers of Boston University. So they
are Texas, by the way, is the number four seed
(01:29):
in their region. Duke the number one seed, the two
seed is UCLA, the three is Iowa. The fourst Texas,
Michigan State is five, Georgetown six Virginia Tech seven and
Texas Tech, who owns a winterter Texas this season is
the number eight seed. And the way they do it
(01:52):
is just it got it split up into the four regions,
but they don't name it like you're going to a
specific site because you would go to the higher seated team.
So if the Longhorns win, then the following weekend they
would host the winner of the Michigan State Western Michigan game.
If they were to get to the sweet sixteen into
(02:12):
the quarterfinals, that would be probably at Duke if Duke
maintainance hits number one seed. So anyway, there's the scene
for Texas in the NCAA Soccer Tournament. They will play
Friday evening at six o'clock at Mike A. Meyers Stadium
(02:35):
against Boston University. So again, congratulations to the Longhorns and
coach Angela Kelly and will be on with us tomorrow
afternoon in the three o'clock hour in the program. All right,
let's bring you some more conversation with long Worns head
coach Steve Circusian from the news conference, and.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He was asked.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
About if it was a blessing that a lot of
his players are too young to remember that Texas and
Arkansas was a rivalry, a big rivalry back in the
days of the Southwest Conference. They played a few times
in non conference. When he was asked, is that a blessing?
Is that a good thing?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, I think you know, here for us especially, you know,
history and tradition is very important here, and we always
try to acknowledge our tradition. We always try to acknowledge
the history, the great teams, the great coaches, the great players,
the great rivalries, and this one has been one that
was for a long long time the rivalry, and so
the fact that we get to play it again, you know,
(03:36):
we definitely respect it and honor it that way. But
it kind of ends there for us. It wouldn't matter
who the next opponent is. If we have to prepare
better than we normally would prepare, then we probably weren't.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Preparing good enough for the other games.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And so our preparation now is back into getting anamory
with what we need to do so that we can
be the best version of ourselves Saturday. And I think,
you know, Longhorn Nation deserves that. I think Arkansas deserves
that because they didn't get the best version of us
four years ago, and we need to make sure that
we give them our best version this time around.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I think that's a really good point there.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
If you're pouring all your energies and giving a much
better maybe you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Didn't do it for some of the other games. It's
important there. Back as we continued.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
In talking about Texas being on the road, they've been
good on the road lately, going all the way back
to the Oklahoma State game on the road the last time.
And is there a particular reason that Sark can figure
out why Texas has been so good on the road.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You know, I think that I think our culture, our connectivity,
our love for one another has been a big piece
of that puzzle. You know, our guys are very connected.
When we go on the road. It's a smaller group,
it's a smaller team on the road. There's less fans obviously,
and we need each other. We have to lean into
each other, we have to pour into one another. And
(05:02):
to do that, you know, you can't just turn it
on the week of the game. And I think that
it speaks volumes to the connectivity that these guys have
in that locker room that they can really lean into
one another on the road. They can hold each other
accountable on the road of what's acceptable and what's not
and how we're going to perform and the mindset that
we need to be in. I think it takes great
(05:23):
poise and composure on the road, and I think that
we've learned and grown into that aspect of.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It as well as well.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You know, one of the worst things that can happen
on the road, especially in a rivalry games, you get emotional,
and when you start to play the game emotional, that's
when mistakes and selfless acts occur. We definitely want the emotion,
but man, we need our poise and composure on the
road and stay clear minded and focused on what we need.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
To do all right now.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Last hour we heard Sark talk about when asked about
the fumbling issue and Jared Gibson, and he said, Jerk,
we'll be carrying a football all around the forty acres today. Now,
there was a method to the madness. It's not just
punishment that you might think. Now, you fumbled, so you
got to carry the football with the area where Vince
Lombardi did it back in the day with the Packers
and stuff like that. So it's not just that there
(06:11):
is a method to the madness, and he was asked
about Yeah, I think it was our friend Jeff Jones
and k you asked him, what are the rules about
how he is to carry the football? Does he have
to have it in class with him? Have to have
it in the tank, you know, the Texas Athletic nutritions,
into the dining hall. Does he have to have it
with him? You know what? What are the rules governing this?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
What are the rules? It's all that And it's the
form of it too.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It's not just you know, carrying around like Walter Payton
used to do it, you know, like a loaf of bread.
I mean, it's it's tucked up in here as wrist
above his elbows, tied to his rib cage, he's got
he's got his claw on the ball. It's all those things.
It's just trying to get some muscle memory. And it's
also just a mindset of the value of the ball.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's the most important thing in our program, and a
lot of times him having that ball reminds everybody else
in the organization of how important that ball is to us.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So, I mean, like I said, a method to the
madness where tight to the rib cage up there and
cradled in nicely. Muscle memory is the reason for it.
Plus he wants him to you know, not fumble, hold
onto it all right. Uh, Trey Moore had a really
good game set. Probably his best game is a long wruinn.
He's played really well and he's done well throughout the season.
(07:24):
So is there something specific that Trey Moore seems to
do particularly well well?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I think one a he garners attention, you know, you know,
when any time that he's pass rushing, you know, is
there is the slide going to him as a running
back working to him. I think he does an excellent
job running our games with our interior defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I think he's a really versatile player.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You know, Tray can play off the ball, he can
play on the ball, he can play both sides into
the boundary to the field, and he has a really
high football like you and uh, the fact that now
it's two games in a row, the ball has been
on the ground and number eight is the one who's
recovered those two fumbles. It's just his awareness level And
I get it. We always want to look at the
stats of sacks and that should determine how a guy's playing.
(08:09):
I think what it tells us is he's not playing
a selfish brand of football where it's just about trying
to sack the quarterback. He's playing a brand of football
against the run and the pass. He's he's getting himself
to the football. He's playing with good effort, and he's
showing a lot of versatility. And so we're we're really
fortunate that he's that he's joined us because he's playing
good football right now.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Our friend and colie, Roger Wallaston asked Sark about Taylor Green,
the Arkansas quarterback. Big fella like six six and two
fifty and he can get around, and he was asked
about his ability his mobility and his abilities pose a problem.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
First of all, he's huge, I mean the guy that
his size that can run the way that he runs,
and sometimes you don't think he's covering as much ground
as he is. But the stride length is so long
that he's able to cover ground. And so the explosive
plays that he uses with his legs, his ability to
make all the throws down the field. Coach Petrino's, you know,
(09:05):
an elite offensive play caller and offensive schemers, so they
put him in really good positions when they're in the
zone red game, the quarterback run game. They put him
in really good positions for the shots down the field
and the drop back pass game. So you have to
defend a lot of offense, and then when you have
a guy like him running it, it can be extremely challenging.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He was also asked about the fact here's his team
with one loss in SEC play. Texas hanging him has
one loss in SEC play, Tennessee has one loss in
SEC play. Those three are sitting at the top of
the standings in terms of in the lost column.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So it's hard. Asked you like your spot being there.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I'll be sure to remind him, don't be mad at me.
Might be mad at TKR, but anyway, I don't. We
really can only control we can control, you know. And
we stubbed our tow a few weeks ago, like I said,
we have been in this position before where we feel
like we go into every Saturday and now from here
on out, like this is an SEC championship game and
(10:07):
we don't want to leave it up to anybody else
to win or lose, to to give us an opportunity
to get into that game. We can control it ourselves
right now, and that's a great place to be in.
But we have to do it one game at a time,
and we have to view Saturday against Arkansas as if
it's an SEC championship game, and because in reality it is.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
If we want to get there, we got to win Saturday.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Playing and simple, you got to keep doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He's also asked how did he treat the rivalries at
other schools. Remember's have Washington and you dub at Oregon
and Washington State for the Apple Cup USC at UCL, Like,
how did he deal with that?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And the players deal with that rivalries? It is other stops,
you know.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I haven't I haven't ever done the ex player stuff.
I feel like sometimes they get a little too emotional.
I've been in rooms where the ex players have come in.
I'm like, holy cow, I mean this is this is
really But in this day and age, I don't know
if you need bulletin board material because of you guys
and Twitter and everything else and media coverage and so
(11:09):
our guys read enough see enough to know it's a
big game.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And my job as a coach.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Is to keep them really clear minded and focused on
the task at hand, one day at a time, so
that they can put themselves in position to perform well Saturday.
I think when you get too emotional, your mind gets
cluttered and you miss details, and we're better when we're
really detail oriented on.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
What we need to do Saturday at eleven AM.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, we're going to hear a little more from
us coming up, and a couple other notes when we
continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the iHeartRadio app.
And we're back to the Craigway Show. Have a message
for Craig, share it by using the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Continuing here on a Monday afternoon here on Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred ZONEG Wade, joined by the producer Cameron Parker.
It is official Jaxas soccer team in the NCAA Tournament.
We knew they hey, we knew they were going to
get in anyway, and b we knew for sure they
were getting in because they got the automatic bid after
(00:46):
winning the Southeastern Conference Championship yesterday winning the SEC Tournament
final over South Carolina. Wanted nothing first Texas team to
win an SEC championship. So the law Warrens will be
at home to open NCAA tournament play like we thought
(01:07):
would be the case, and they'll be at home six
o'clock Friday night at Mike A. Myers Track at Soccer
Stadium to host the Terriers of Boston University. So they
are Texas, by the way, is the number four seed
(01:29):
in their region. Duke the number one seed, the two
seed is UCLA, the three is Iowa. The fourst Texas,
Michigan State is five, Georgetown six Virginia Tech seven and
Texas Tech, who owns a winterter Texas this season is
the number eight seed. And the way they do it
(01:52):
is just it got it split up into the four regions,
but they don't name it like you're going to a
specific site because you would go to the higher seated team.
So if the Longhorns win, then the following weekend they
would host the winner of the Michigan State Western Michigan game.
If they were to get to the sweet sixteen into
(02:12):
the quarterfinals, that would be probably at Duke if Duke
maintainance hits number one seed. So anyway, there's the scene
for Texas in the NCAA Soccer Tournament. They will play
Friday evening at six o'clock at Mike A. Meyers Stadium
(02:35):
against Boston University. So again, congratulations to the Longhorns and
coach Angela Kelly and will be on with us tomorrow
afternoon in the three o'clock hour in the program. All right,
let's bring you some more conversation with long Worns head
coach Steve Circusian from the news conference, and.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He was asked.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
About if it was a blessing that a lot of
his players are too young to remember that Texas and
Arkansas was a rivalry, a big rivalry back in the
days of the Southwest Conference. They played a few times
in non conference. When he was asked, is that a blessing?
Is that a good thing?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, I think you know, here for us especially, you know,
history and tradition is very important here, and we always
try to acknowledge our tradition. We always try to acknowledge
the history, the great teams, the great coaches, the great players,
the great rivalries, and this one has been one that
was for a long long time the rivalry, and so
the fact that we get to play it again, you know,
(03:36):
we definitely respect it and honor it that way. But
it kind of ends there for us. It wouldn't matter
who the next opponent is. If we have to prepare
better than we normally would prepare, then we probably weren't.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Preparing good enough for the other games.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And so our preparation now is back into getting anamory
with what we need to do so that we can
be the best version of ourselves Saturday. And I think,
you know, Longhorn Nation deserves that. I think Arkansas deserves
that because they didn't get the best version of us
four years ago, and we need to make sure that
we give them our best version this time around.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I think that's a really good point there.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
If you're pouring all your energies and giving a much
better maybe you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Didn't do it for some of the other games. It's
important there. Back as we continued.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
In talking about Texas being on the road, they've been
good on the road lately, going all the way back
to the Oklahoma State game on the road the last time.
And is there a particular reason that Sark can figure
out why Texas has been so good on the road.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You know, I think that I think our culture, our connectivity,
our love for one another has been a big piece
of that puzzle. You know, our guys are very connected.
When we go on the road. It's a smaller group,
it's a smaller team on the road. There's less fans obviously,
and we need each other. We have to lean into
each other, we have to pour into one another. And
(05:02):
to do that, you know, you can't just turn it
on the week of the game. And I think that
it speaks volumes to the connectivity that these guys have
in that locker room that they can really lean into
one another on the road. They can hold each other
accountable on the road of what's acceptable and what's not
and how we're going to perform and the mindset that
we need to be in. I think it takes great
(05:23):
poise and composure on the road, and I think that
we've learned and grown into that aspect of.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It as well as well.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You know, one of the worst things that can happen
on the road, especially in a rivalry games, you get emotional,
and when you start to play the game emotional, that's
when mistakes and selfless acts occur. We definitely want the emotion,
but man, we need our poise and composure on the
road and stay clear minded and focused on what we need.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
To do all right now.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Last hour we heard Sark talk about when asked about
the fumbling issue and Jared Gibson, and he said, Jerk,
we'll be carrying a football all around the forty acres today. Now,
there was a method to the madness. It's not just
punishment that you might think. Now, you fumbled, so you
got to carry the football with the area where Vince
Lombardi did it back in the day with the Packers
and stuff like that. So it's not just that there
(06:11):
is a method to the madness, and he was asked
about Yeah, I think it was our friend Jeff Jones
and k you asked him, what are the rules about
how he is to carry the football? Does he have
to have it in class with him? Have to have
it in the tank, you know, the Texas Athletic nutritions,
into the dining hall. Does he have to have it
with him? You know what? What are the rules governing this?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
What are the rules? It's all that And it's the
form of it too.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It's not just you know, carrying around like Walter Payton
used to do it, you know, like a loaf of bread.
I mean, it's it's tucked up in here as wrist
above his elbows, tied to his rib cage, he's got
he's got his claw on the ball. It's all those things.
It's just trying to get some muscle memory. And it's
also just a mindset of the value of the ball.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's the most important thing in our program, and a
lot of times him having that ball reminds everybody else
in the organization of how important that ball is to us.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So, I mean, like I said, a method to the
madness where tight to the rib cage up there and
cradled in nicely. Muscle memory is the reason for it.
Plus he wants him to you know, not fumble, hold
onto it all right. Uh, Trey Moore had a really
good game set. Probably his best game is a long wruinn.
He's played really well and he's done well throughout the season.
(07:24):
So is there something specific that Trey Moore seems to
do particularly well well?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I think one a he garners attention, you know, you know,
when any time that he's pass rushing, you know, is
there is the slide going to him as a running
back working to him. I think he does an excellent
job running our games with our interior defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I think he's a really versatile player.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You know, Tray can play off the ball, he can
play on the ball, he can play both sides into
the boundary to the field, and he has a really
high football like you and uh, the fact that now
it's two games in a row, the ball has been
on the ground and number eight is the one who's
recovered those two fumbles. It's just his awareness level And
I get it. We always want to look at the
stats of sacks and that should determine how a guy's playing.
(08:09):
I think what it tells us is he's not playing
a selfish brand of football where it's just about trying
to sack the quarterback. He's playing a brand of football
against the run and the pass. He's he's getting himself
to the football. He's playing with good effort, and he's
showing a lot of versatility. And so we're we're really
fortunate that he's that he's joined us because he's playing
good football right now.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Our friend and colie, Roger Wallaston asked Sark about Taylor Green,
the Arkansas quarterback. Big fella like six six and two
fifty and he can get around, and he was asked
about his ability his mobility and his abilities pose a problem.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
First of all, he's huge, I mean the guy that
his size that can run the way that he runs,
and sometimes you don't think he's covering as much ground
as he is. But the stride length is so long
that he's able to cover ground. And so the explosive
plays that he uses with his legs, his ability to
make all the throws down the field. Coach Petrino's, you know,
(09:05):
an elite offensive play caller and offensive schemers, so they
put him in really good positions when they're in the
zone red game, the quarterback run game. They put him
in really good positions for the shots down the field
and the drop back pass game. So you have to
defend a lot of offense, and then when you have
a guy like him running it, it can be extremely challenging.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He was also asked about the fact here's his team
with one loss in SEC play. Texas hanging him has
one loss in SEC play, Tennessee has one loss in
SEC play. Those three are sitting at the top of
the standings in terms of in the lost column.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So it's hard. Asked you like your spot being there.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I'll be sure to remind him, don't be mad at me.
Might be mad at TKR, but anyway, I don't. We
really can only control we can control, you know. And
we stubbed our tow a few weeks ago, like I said,
we have been in this position before where we feel
like we go into every Saturday and now from here
on out, like this is an SEC championship game and
(10:07):
we don't want to leave it up to anybody else
to win or lose, to to give us an opportunity
to get into that game. We can control it ourselves
right now, and that's a great place to be in.
But we have to do it one game at a time,
and we have to view Saturday against Arkansas as if
it's an SEC championship game, and because in reality it is.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
If we want to get there, we got to win Saturday.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Playing and simple, you got to keep doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He's also asked how did he treat the rivalries at
other schools. Remember's have Washington and you dub at Oregon
and Washington State for the Apple Cup USC at UCL, Like,
how did he deal with that?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And the players deal with that rivalries? It is other stops,
you know.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I haven't I haven't ever done the ex player stuff.
I feel like sometimes they get a little too emotional.
I've been in rooms where the ex players have come in.
I'm like, holy cow, I mean this is this is
really But in this day and age, I don't know
if you need bulletin board material because of you guys
and Twitter and everything else and media coverage and so
(11:09):
our guys read enough see enough to know it's a
big game.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And my job as a coach.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Is to keep them really clear minded and focused on
the task at hand, one day at a time, so
that they can put themselves in position to perform well Saturday.
I think when you get too emotional, your mind gets
cluttered and you miss details, and we're better when we're
really detail oriented on.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
What we need to do Saturday at eleven AM.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, we're going to hear a little more from
us coming up, and a couple other notes when we
continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
the iHeartRadio app.
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