November 19, 2024 • 8 mins
Texas Longhorns Women's Basketball head coach Vic Schaefer spoke at a media availability today to discuss the Horns' start to the season...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:23):
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All Right, we've heard some from a Vic Shaffer being
on the ramt and here's a good thing to bring
it all home, where Vick's talking about his basketball team
(00:45):
and how we're trying to get everyone to pay attention
to how good this Texas team is. The last part
of our of Vic Schafer's media opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Today, every kid's got a story how the game touches
them beyond the screaming kids and all that. Tomorrow some
kid may be touched. I mean, I'm sure that's not
lost on you and your staff, and probably not on
all the players. But to me, that's a pretty cool
moment for.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Kids, no doubt, And it won't be lost on my kids.
Uh they'll have a chance to maybe become somebody's role
model tomorrow. They'll have a chance to uh, you know,
maybe impact some young person's life tomorrow. Maybe it'll motivate
them to you know, do better in pe class or
maybe even to pick up a sport. But hopefully they'll
(01:33):
see how my kids respond to anything that may happen tomorrow,
whether it's adversity or success, to honor the game, to
respect the game. And so again, I think our style
of play will be fun for those kids. Hopefully we'll
play well. And so you're right, Roger, it's it's not
(01:55):
lost on me, my staff or our players.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Got some multitesking a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We are gonna chat with Layla soon. What do we
need to know about her as a person? What do
you remember in the recruiting process?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Who is she?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
First, she's a great kid and comes from a tremendous family.
Incredible competitor, bless her heart, She's she's just had some
bad luck while she's been here, but I think she's
getting healthy, uh, Jeff, And uh, you know, if she
can get healthy and get back right like she was
(02:32):
in Michigan, she's going to really impact our team. But
just a really a kid that cares wants to be great.
You know, ask her about what she said after she
was here for three weeks, you know, in that in
in in uh in just the you know, the short
(02:54):
time that she had been here, the difference between here
and and where she was. I mean, she's really she's
really a cool kid, and we've really enjoyed working with her.
Again tough, you know, Uh, she's just a really I
think she's a really an all around great kid and
(03:17):
again a product of great parents, as most of our
kids are, all of our kids are. I mean, we're
really blessed with some incredible families that have brought these
kids along and they're a product of how they were raised.
So you're gonna enjoy your time with her, and man,
I hope we can get her where she can be
(03:38):
that player that she's been, because that kid can really
impact our team in our season.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Be I kind of want to ask you how you're
going to utilize your team speed. You know, in the
open floor of Brianna has had a couple of where
she's going coast to coast real fast. How can you
how can you utilize that? You guys move forward?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, you know, Uh, we were on the bus going
back to the hotel the other night or going to
the airport the other night after the game, and I
don't know, Coach Lovado had seen something on Twitter about
somebody had given three thoughts to after the postgame, and
one of them was, we need to learn to convert
uh our our our turnovers that were causing into layups.
(04:25):
And I'm like, Okay, that guy, you know, whoever that is,
they're they're coaching, you know, they're they're they're seeing something
that probably every other coach in America would love to
to do. And and so I think that's, you know,
it's it's a legitimate, uh thought. And we do have
some great speed. Shay got out in transition the other
(04:45):
night for a breakaway lay up ran by everybody. As
we've all seen or do you know several times, you know,
uh Bree, Bree can be Rory on steroids sometimes and
you know Rory's we all know she's getting closer and
closer to her old self, but she still got a
(05:07):
little ways to go. But Preston is fast. I mean
she's really fast. You put her in Shay on the floor. Now,
that's the two fastest kids we've had, you know, we
have on the team, and so it's really hard to
deal with with with Preston in the open floor. So
you know, it's on our practice plan today, Bob, it's
(05:27):
a great question. We're gonna work really hard on converting
turnovers into transition points. And again, the biggest thing is
though we want to take really good shots, no matter
if it's off of a turnover or in the half court.
We want to really get our shot. And you have
(05:47):
to be careful on quick shots. You know, you don't
want to just shoot it quick just because you can.
You know you can. You need to make sure that, Okay,
is this a great shot. If it's a great shot, hating,
no problem, But if it's if it's a good or
a contested, decent shot, well then let's make sure we
got somebody that might be able to rebound the miss.
(06:09):
You know, I thought the other night, the one negative
in the DePaul game, I thought we took some really
poor shots early, hotly contested fifteen footers like sixteen seventeen footers, Like,
we don't need to be doing that. Like we're gonna
get a good wife. If we'll have a little patience,
we're gonna get some really good looks. And so again,
(06:32):
I think you're right, and it'll be something we continue
to work on here, because I think we're gonna be
able to turn people over quite a bit this year.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Hey, coach, I know the focus probably right now is Tartleton,
but if you look at the schedule, you got five
away games coming up where you will say it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, And I didn't tell Kirk about the acc SEC
challenge with Notre Dame on the road either. So I
think we're good, Kirk, Just so you know, I think
we got enough to get us ready.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
As Yeah, what I'm basically just what do you? What
are your thoughts? What are you trying to get out
of those games? I know you got You're probably gonna
get West Virginia two, that's a possibility in estrel, So
what do you what are you hoping to get out
of these next five games?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I hope we win them. You know, those are all
gonna be against quality opponents ranked in the top ten twenty,
and so you know, you know, you know you're gonna
get somebody's best shot every night. And now you're gonna
get somebody's best shot, and they're one of the top
twenty teams in the country. So I think, you know,
(07:33):
for us, it's it's learning to get yourself ready for
that great group because you're fixing to get sixteen of
them in the league, and so you know, I'm hoping
to win them. I'm hoping as we go. You know,
we've spaced out these games. We're gonna play want Wednesday,
We're not gonna play the following Friday, and that's gonna
give me some good practice time, some good film time
(07:54):
with my team where hopefully we're gonna be able to
get better. And so by the time we were into
that tournament and play back to back to back, we'll
be ready to go, we'll be conditioned, and we'll be
in a good space. Because then you go from there,
you go on the road to Notre Dame, you're at
James Madison. You know you've got to go to Richmond.
(08:18):
You have South Dakota State, So it gets noticeably harder
before Christmas. So we've we've stared at these and and
so we I'm hopeful that in the next nine days
we're going to get better.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So there he is, the passion and the fury that
is Vick Schaeffer, the Texas women's basketball coach. Can and
I'll be back to a wrap up today's edition of
the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
All right, Hey, I want to remind you you have
an opportunity to win a pair of tickets to see
Sarah Silverman live at acl Live on January fifth. And
this is how you can enter to try to win
a pair of tickets. If you don't already have the
iHeartRadio app, you download it. Then you would search AM
thirteen under the zone. You pull that up. There's a
red button with a little white microphone. You tap that
(00:23):
and then leave us some message. That's our talk back feature,
and you leave us the message saying, hey, I heard
you guys talking about it and heard the keyword. The
keyword today is zone, just like this radio station. So
that's it, the keyword there. Zone. Good luck to you.
All Right, we've heard some from a Vic Shaffer being
on the ramt and here's a good thing to bring
it all home, where Vick's talking about his basketball team
(00:45):
and how we're trying to get everyone to pay attention
to how good this Texas team is. The last part
of our of Vic Schafer's media opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Today, every kid's got a story how the game touches
them beyond the screaming kids and all that. Tomorrow some
kid may be touched. I mean, I'm sure that's not
lost on you and your staff, and probably not on
all the players. But to me, that's a pretty cool
moment for.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Kids, no doubt, And it won't be lost on my kids.
Uh they'll have a chance to maybe become somebody's role
model tomorrow. They'll have a chance to uh, you know,
maybe impact some young person's life tomorrow. Maybe it'll motivate
them to you know, do better in pe class or
maybe even to pick up a sport. But hopefully they'll
(01:33):
see how my kids respond to anything that may happen tomorrow,
whether it's adversity or success, to honor the game, to
respect the game. And so again, I think our style
of play will be fun for those kids. Hopefully we'll
play well. And so you're right, Roger, it's it's not
(01:55):
lost on me, my staff or our players.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Got some multitesking a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We are gonna chat with Layla soon. What do we
need to know about her as a person? What do
you remember in the recruiting process?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Who is she?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
First, she's a great kid and comes from a tremendous family.
Incredible competitor, bless her heart, She's she's just had some
bad luck while she's been here, but I think she's
getting healthy, uh, Jeff, And uh, you know, if she
can get healthy and get back right like she was
(02:32):
in Michigan, she's going to really impact our team. But
just a really a kid that cares wants to be great.
You know, ask her about what she said after she
was here for three weeks, you know, in that in
in in uh in just the you know, the short
(02:54):
time that she had been here, the difference between here
and and where she was. I mean, she's really she's
really a cool kid, and we've really enjoyed working with her.
Again tough, you know, Uh, she's just a really I
think she's a really an all around great kid and
(03:17):
again a product of great parents, as most of our
kids are, all of our kids are. I mean, we're
really blessed with some incredible families that have brought these
kids along and they're a product of how they were raised.
So you're gonna enjoy your time with her, and man,
I hope we can get her where she can be
(03:38):
that player that she's been, because that kid can really
impact our team in our season.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Be I kind of want to ask you how you're
going to utilize your team speed. You know, in the
open floor of Brianna has had a couple of where
she's going coast to coast real fast. How can you
how can you utilize that? You guys move forward?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, you know, Uh, we were on the bus going
back to the hotel the other night or going to
the airport the other night after the game, and I
don't know, Coach Lovado had seen something on Twitter about
somebody had given three thoughts to after the postgame, and
one of them was, we need to learn to convert
uh our our our turnovers that were causing into layups.
(04:25):
And I'm like, Okay, that guy, you know, whoever that is,
they're they're coaching, you know, they're they're they're seeing something
that probably every other coach in America would love to
to do. And and so I think that's, you know,
it's it's a legitimate, uh thought. And we do have
some great speed. Shay got out in transition the other
(04:45):
night for a breakaway lay up ran by everybody. As
we've all seen or do you know several times, you know,
uh Bree, Bree can be Rory on steroids sometimes and
you know Rory's we all know she's getting closer and
closer to her old self, but she still got a
(05:07):
little ways to go. But Preston is fast. I mean
she's really fast. You put her in Shay on the floor. Now,
that's the two fastest kids we've had, you know, we
have on the team, and so it's really hard to
deal with with with Preston in the open floor. So
you know, it's on our practice plan today, Bob, it's
(05:27):
a great question. We're gonna work really hard on converting
turnovers into transition points. And again, the biggest thing is
though we want to take really good shots, no matter
if it's off of a turnover or in the half court.
We want to really get our shot. And you have
(05:47):
to be careful on quick shots. You know, you don't
want to just shoot it quick just because you can.
You know you can. You need to make sure that, Okay,
is this a great shot. If it's a great shot, hating,
no problem, But if it's if it's a good or
a contested, decent shot, well then let's make sure we
got somebody that might be able to rebound the miss.
(06:09):
You know, I thought the other night, the one negative
in the DePaul game, I thought we took some really
poor shots early, hotly contested fifteen footers like sixteen seventeen footers, Like,
we don't need to be doing that. Like we're gonna
get a good wife. If we'll have a little patience,
we're gonna get some really good looks. And so again,
(06:32):
I think you're right, and it'll be something we continue
to work on here, because I think we're gonna be
able to turn people over quite a bit this year.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Hey, coach, I know the focus probably right now is Tartleton,
but if you look at the schedule, you got five
away games coming up where you will say it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, And I didn't tell Kirk about the acc SEC
challenge with Notre Dame on the road either. So I
think we're good, Kirk, Just so you know, I think
we got enough to get us ready.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
As Yeah, what I'm basically just what do you? What
are your thoughts? What are you trying to get out
of those games? I know you got You're probably gonna
get West Virginia two, that's a possibility in estrel, So
what do you what are you hoping to get out
of these next five games?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I hope we win them. You know, those are all
gonna be against quality opponents ranked in the top ten twenty,
and so you know, you know, you know you're gonna
get somebody's best shot every night. And now you're gonna
get somebody's best shot, and they're one of the top
twenty teams in the country. So I think, you know,
(07:33):
for us, it's it's learning to get yourself ready for
that great group because you're fixing to get sixteen of
them in the league, and so you know, I'm hoping
to win them. I'm hoping as we go. You know,
we've spaced out these games. We're gonna play want Wednesday,
We're not gonna play the following Friday, and that's gonna
give me some good practice time, some good film time
(07:54):
with my team where hopefully we're gonna be able to
get better. And so by the time we were into
that tournament and play back to back to back, we'll
be ready to go, we'll be conditioned, and we'll be
in a good space. Because then you go from there,
you go on the road to Notre Dame, you're at
James Madison. You know you've got to go to Richmond.
(08:18):
You have South Dakota State, So it gets noticeably harder
before Christmas. So we've we've stared at these and and
so we I'm hopeful that in the next nine days
we're going to get better.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So there he is, the passion and the fury that
is Vick Schaeffer, the Texas women's basketball coach. Can and
I'll be back to a wrap up today's edition of
the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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