November 25, 2024 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And we're back to the Craig Way Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
All right, here we go again the It's the Big
Twelve conference. This was a something that was tweeted out
by a guy who covers BYU for the desertt News,
Jay Drew and said, here's his quote, The Big said that.
(00:37):
Head coach Kalani Sataki says, the Big Twelve is quote
unquote looking into end quote everything that happened last Saturday
against Arizona State, including the video that has been leaked
from BYU's locker room in halftime. So what was in
the video? Yeah, I mean like halftime instructions maybe or something.
(01:01):
The uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now if it's leaked, like is he talking about like
an aired on ESPN, Because even if it's leaked.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Like no, no, no, like that. What I drew from this
is what he's saying is that there was video from
some halftime instructions going on in the BYU locker room
that then got passed into the Arizona State locker room.
That's gonna be a pretty quick turnaround. I know. If
that's the case, I don't know. A lot of people
are saying it's the audio from BYU locker room. Yeah, yeah,
(01:33):
a lot of people saying it's a mess. Somebody else
tweeted out and said that the Big twelve is the
spirit airlines of conferences.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So okay, so BYU camptain Tyler Batty, Yeah, gave a
speech in the locker room at halftime. That audio was
leaked on social media. So they're trying to figure out
basic they get out who leaked Okay, So all right, okay, yeah,
so it's not I guess it wasn't like he was
given the Arizona state. I mean, yeah, what's the let's
see what the really the huge deal is unless you know,
(02:06):
it's just probably some ga or something like that recording
on his phone, you know, and send it to a
buddy who of course probably runs the barstool account for
BYU and then they post it, you know. So no,
I don't see anything here. Also, it's a big total
investigating it. Yeah, who knows what you're gonna get from that?
Satacky right?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Our friend Anwir Richardson from Orange Bloods as a photo
of es Chaytan Blue. Did you see Jay when he
was holding the football during his media session, so he's
keeping it high. Head coach Steve Sarkisan tried to knock
it out a few minutes ago when Blue held on.
So there's that, and and sark was asked about that,
(02:45):
you know, so let's hear some more from the Longworts
head coach from Steve Sarkisian his his uh from the
weekly news conference and move forward on it. He was
asked about how often does he go to a high
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school football game and then see somebody else? He did,
He wasn't really intending to watch, but that guy ended
up impressing him more.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Pretty often, quite frankly, Yeah, you go to high school
games and you're there to see, like I said, a
particular player. A lot of times a player on the
opposing team or two players on the opposing team can
get your attention. For a younger player on the team
of the player that you're looking at gets your attention.
But very rarely do you go to a game just
(03:37):
to see one player. There's always I always got a
little bit of a list of targets to look at
to get an evaluation on. So but it's it's pretty
fairly common that you find more than just the one
guy that you're there to see.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
All right. He was also asked about how long did
it take him to appreciate what this rival was, given
the fact that when he came in, they weren't playing
each other, and then, of course it became obvious when
they learned that later that some of they'd be back
in the same conference. So how long did it take
him to have a better understanding of what this rivalry
has been and what it continues to be all about?
(04:11):
Not long?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Not long.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Didn't take long, you know, But you got to remember,
as a kid growing up, I watched this game on Thanksgiving.
I mean it was like, that's that's how I fell
in love with Texas from the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It was the uniforms, the helmets. And then I knew
that the rivalry was what it was, you know, because
what did you do as a kid, You watch football,
you know, and that's and that's that's what I did.
And then getting here and knowing the rivalry and what
it was about it getting presented and some of the
really cool recruiting battles we've been in with them, and
you win some, you lose some, and so we know
(04:45):
a lot of their players pretty well. They know a
lot of our players pretty well that you quickly find
out households are divided and the states divided.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And but that's the fun part.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's what that's what this last game of the regular
season is supposed to feel like.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And I've been a part.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Of some great ones, and I'm just I'm really grateful
and thankful that this one is revived and humbled and
honored that I get to be part of it. Really,
I've been I've been watching this game since since I
was this big, you know, so it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All right. Then he was asked about his players being
obsessed with the details of winning and how they get
one another involved in that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
You know, the one thing that I feel like our
players an example of it would be we do a
situational Masters meeting every Friday morning for twenty minutes, and
it's it's really living examples of a lot of the
things that we worked on in training camp and in
the summer of small details, two minute drills on side kicks,
(05:42):
hail Mary's, you know, all the little stuff that sometimes
players can take for granted.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Of you know, why don't We're gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Work on this again. You know, why is the running
back have to run and fall down before he scores
a touchdown?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Like? Why do we call that?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
No? Moss?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Like what?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And then as the season goes, I start showing exams
samples of why it's supportant why it's support, and why
it's important. What I love what I see now is
our players are talking about that stuff and they'll they'll
come to me, coach, did you see that playing the
game last night? We got to show that in Situational
Masters meeting. So the buy into raising the football IQ
(06:18):
and the little things that matter to winning and losing,
to me is where I notice it. You know, things
have definitely come up in game, and off the top
of my head, I can't I can't think of all
of those those those little things. But what I do
know is we're talking about football, and we're talking about
not just the guy making the one hand and catch
last night, but hey, did you see them you know,
(06:40):
screw the clock up at the end of the game
and they didn't get the field goal off and what
could they have done different? So that's the conversations that
I like hearing. That tell me we've got a team
that's thinking about winning and they're trying to figure out
the best ways to put themselves in position to win.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
All right. Next, I was asked about Jane Blue about
the thing about the fumble, and uh, you know, and
that's and and uh we were just talking about them.
He was holding the football out in that And then
you'll hear uh Sark asked about this. You know, how
(07:16):
do you deal with the physical side of the running
style of Jayden Blue versus the mental side with the fumbles.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, I think it's there's muscle memory and repetition there,
and I think it's okay, why did the fumbles occur?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What what happened?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
From a technical standpoint, How can we fix that? And
then how do we emphasize that moving forward throughout the
week and work on a few things and then through success. Right,
It's like anything anybody who's struggling a batter in baseball,
a pitcher in baseball, a three point shooter.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We've talked all about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
It's the physical ability is there, the confidence to execute
it is what our jobs as coaches is to make
sure that they're in the right frame of mind to
get that done. And so but that's why they calls
coach right, and that that's our job to get that done.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Now. Somebody when I was tweeting out these quotes and
I tweeted out that quote a Twitter guy, guy on
the next name is his Twitter handle? Is that spilled whiskey?
But he says, good answer from Sart, But at some
point it is what it is. I love the vision
and hard running a blue, but he can't be trusted
(08:27):
any longer in critical situations. The ball is too precious
to keep letting it go as he does. I hear
what you're saying, Cuter. I appreciate your appreciate your perspective,
but you don't make that call. The coach does, and
the coach thinks he's going to be okay. So I
guess we're all just, you know, we're going to listen
to what the coach says of it. He's he believes
and Jade and Blue has done an awful lot for
(08:47):
this football team. But he has lost some fumbles. And
I agree with you, Couter, I understand where you are
in terms of the dangerous nature of what can happen.
Sart appreciates it every bit as much all of us,
if not more so. But he believes in Blue and
he believes that Jay and Blue can get it done
without fumbling. We'll see, you know, But that's that's going
(09:09):
to be his decision to make those kind of calls
on that. Another thing, what does it mean to be
in the same company of dk R mac Brown's Our
friend Brian Davis asked this question back to back ten
win seasons. Mac had nine consecutive seasons of ten and
more wins, ten straight of nine or more wins, and
nine straight of ten and more wins. They included eight
(09:30):
and nine. The only other coach to do it, Dearrel Royal,
had the back to back ten win seasons in sixty
nine and seventy, and he was asked if he knew
that and what the importance of that is.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
In my opening press conference, I said, hey, I want
to I came to the University of Texas to win
ten games, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We came here to win championships, you know, And that's that's.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Been our goal. That's been the standard, and that's what
we keep striving for. And that's the end result, right
and so we always put that the end and then
are we doing championship work every day?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Are we championship coaches? Do we have championship schemes? Do
we have a championship weight program? Do we have a
championship nutrition program? Do we have a championship study hall?
Do we have a championship work ethic? Do we have
a championship culture? Do we have a championship locker room?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Right? That's like, yes, that's what we're.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Striving for and we're chasing that every day, but we
got to make sure the way we're chasing it every
day is at a championship level.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, all right? Next, and by the way, when he
started off that answer, they said about DKR winning ten rodigoes.
I didn't think they even played ten games back then.
They actually were. This is really weird. In nineteen sixty
nine they played, if I remember correctly, they played ten
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games in the regular season and then won the Cotton Bowl.
They finished eleven to zero. In nineteen seventy they won
ten straight. See, that wouldn't make that wouldn't make it. Right,
there won twenty in a row. I know with James
Street is starting quarterback. So anyway, the point is there
was back to back ten win seasons before they lost
(11:14):
to Notre Dame in the seventy win Cotton Bowl after
they'd already been crowned UPI National champions. On that that
was the back to back national titles and that was
the coaches fault. Okay, ze friend ed Clements asked his question.
He named off a bunch of historical facts about Texas
and Texas A and M. He talked about the Aggie's
(11:35):
eating Bevo by the way, that story, which is true,
but it wasn't them eating Bevo by themselves. Viva was
served as the main course of a dinner between the
two sides. It's like nineteen thirteen, I believe it is.
It wasn't the actual Bevo, right, it was. Yeah, he
was the first one. They just bought him. Well, they'd
(11:57):
had him and they served Yeah he was, he was.
They had a they had a really big cookout afterwards.
It was kind of a team dinner for both sides
to get together. It was the early twentieth century. They
did stuff like that back then. Yeah. Now you do
that and you have pita up your ey. Well, well,
not only that, think about this, think about the sanitation
(12:19):
element of it. I mean, this is right around the
time that Upton Sinclair wrote his you know, his incredible
book The Jungle right about the meat packing industry there.
So yeah, but he mentioned that, and then that also
mentioned things like the Aggi's watering down the field in
sixty three and it was a quagmire. And then there's
(12:40):
the long runs have captured kidnapped reavily before Vivo was
kidnapped again in sixty three, and then they swapped out
and so on and so forth. So he had all
of these things, and on top of it, it was only
ninety ninety five miles away. So how is start planning
to deal with all of that? With the logistics, We'll be.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
D I'm gonna leave it at that. We'll be ready. Yeah, no, No,
pretty standard for us. You know, I'm not a big
get out of routine guy. So our normal routine will
be our routine will get in there Friday and we'll
be ready to play Saturday.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah. So there it is all right. And in case
you're wondering, yes, they are busting over. They are staying
at a hotel in College Station, which I don't think
a long team Quarrant team has done since nineteen ninety nine.
That was another thing that Ed pointed out was that
there was no breakfast for them when they got up
the next morning. That was that weird year. That's you know,
the tragedy of the bonfire and all that kind of stuff.
It all happened. Phone calls went to the player's rooms
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all night long at the at the fashionable Ramada Inn
on Texas Avenue. I think. But anyway, yeah, they'll be
over there on Friday night and they'll go in. I'll
play on Saturday. He was also asked about having played
in a couple of those Holy Wars BYU against Utah.
One of them was in a blizzard, and how do
you prepare for a game Saturday where the temperatures are
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going to be much more palatable.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was talking to somebody about that this morning, that
second one, oddly enough, and I remember that game vividly,
and we talk about Rogers question about we not me
and playing for the next guy.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
In that game, it was a blizzard.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I mean it was as white as you could see
any in any direction. And I was thrown for a
lot of yards that year, and in that game, I
was seven for twelve I think for like eighty yards
and we won thirty something to ten, and I was
probably more happy than anybody because the year before I'd
thrown four interceptions in the Holy Warm and we lost.
And so you know, again, you get in games like this,
(14:39):
what do I need to do to help the team win?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And I think when.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You go in with that mentality, you go in as
a as a group really together, composed and helping one
another and picking each other up, you put yourself in
the best position to perform of whatever task is asked
of you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, okay. And then finally he was asked by Marcel
read the Texas A and M quarterback, how he can
cause problems?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Legitimate dual threat quarterback.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You know, they they do a nice job schematically, you know,
call and Cline coming from Kansas State going there now
the very detailed, you know, offensive system. They've got all
the normal run game, They've got all the zone read
run game that we've seen in years past quarterback runs,
they've got the passing game. But this guy is electric
quickness and speed and a real weapon.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I think that's why their red.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Zone numbers are so good, is because when they get
down there, you have to defend him running the ball
as well as throwing the ball. And I think they've
tailored an offense around him to his skill set that
make them and make him in particular, difficult to defend.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay, all right, so there you are with that. By
the way, on the x LI and C pal's talking
about Miami, he thinks they're gonna lose again, says their
defense is suspect to be polite. That may be true,
but their offense with cam Ward, one of the best
quarterbacks in the country, is incredibly explosive, and that they
have who I think is the best receiver in the country,
Xavier Estrepo. I think he's the best. So you're gonna
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have to outscore him really to beat him. And it
could be done. And we'll see what SMU has for
them if they played him in the ACC Championship. More
coming up here in Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.
And we're back to the Craig Way Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts Radio. WHA.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
All right, here we go again the It's the Big
Twelve conference. This was a something that was tweeted out
by a guy who covers BYU for the desertt News,
Jay Drew and said, here's his quote, The Big said that.
(00:37):
Head coach Kalani Sataki says, the Big Twelve is quote
unquote looking into end quote everything that happened last Saturday
against Arizona State, including the video that has been leaked
from BYU's locker room in halftime. So what was in
the video? Yeah, I mean like halftime instructions maybe or something.
(01:01):
The uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now if it's leaked, like is he talking about like
an aired on ESPN, Because even if it's leaked.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Like no, no, no, like that. What I drew from this
is what he's saying is that there was video from
some halftime instructions going on in the BYU locker room
that then got passed into the Arizona State locker room.
That's gonna be a pretty quick turnaround. I know. If
that's the case, I don't know. A lot of people
are saying it's the audio from BYU locker room. Yeah, yeah,
(01:33):
a lot of people saying it's a mess. Somebody else
tweeted out and said that the Big twelve is the
spirit airlines of conferences.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So okay, so BYU camptain Tyler Batty, Yeah, gave a
speech in the locker room at halftime. That audio was
leaked on social media. So they're trying to figure out
basic they get out who leaked Okay, So all right, okay, yeah,
so it's not I guess it wasn't like he was
given the Arizona state. I mean, yeah, what's the let's
see what the really the huge deal is unless you know,
(02:06):
it's just probably some ga or something like that recording
on his phone, you know, and send it to a
buddy who of course probably runs the barstool account for
BYU and then they post it, you know. So no,
I don't see anything here. Also, it's a big total
investigating it. Yeah, who knows what you're gonna get from that?
Satacky right?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Our friend Anwir Richardson from Orange Bloods as a photo
of es Chaytan Blue. Did you see Jay when he
was holding the football during his media session, so he's
keeping it high. Head coach Steve Sarkisan tried to knock
it out a few minutes ago when Blue held on.
So there's that, and and sark was asked about that,
(02:45):
you know, so let's hear some more from the Longworts
head coach from Steve Sarkisian his his uh from the
weekly news conference and move forward on it. He was
asked about how often does he go to a high
(03:07):
school football game and then see somebody else? He did,
He wasn't really intending to watch, but that guy ended
up impressing him more.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Pretty often, quite frankly, Yeah, you go to high school
games and you're there to see, like I said, a
particular player. A lot of times a player on the
opposing team or two players on the opposing team can
get your attention. For a younger player on the team
of the player that you're looking at gets your attention.
But very rarely do you go to a game just
(03:37):
to see one player. There's always I always got a
little bit of a list of targets to look at
to get an evaluation on. So but it's it's pretty
fairly common that you find more than just the one
guy that you're there to see.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
All right. He was also asked about how long did
it take him to appreciate what this rival was, given
the fact that when he came in, they weren't playing
each other, and then, of course it became obvious when
they learned that later that some of they'd be back
in the same conference. So how long did it take
him to have a better understanding of what this rivalry
has been and what it continues to be all about?
(04:11):
Not long?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Not long.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Didn't take long, you know, But you got to remember,
as a kid growing up, I watched this game on Thanksgiving.
I mean it was like, that's that's how I fell
in love with Texas from the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It was the uniforms, the helmets. And then I knew
that the rivalry was what it was, you know, because
what did you do as a kid, You watch football,
you know, and that's and that's that's what I did.
And then getting here and knowing the rivalry and what
it was about it getting presented and some of the
really cool recruiting battles we've been in with them, and
you win some, you lose some, and so we know
(04:45):
a lot of their players pretty well. They know a
lot of our players pretty well that you quickly find
out households are divided and the states divided.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And but that's the fun part.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's what that's what this last game of the regular
season is supposed to feel like.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And I've been a part.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Of some great ones, and I'm just I'm really grateful
and thankful that this one is revived and humbled and
honored that I get to be part of it. Really,
I've been I've been watching this game since since I
was this big, you know, so it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All right. Then he was asked about his players being
obsessed with the details of winning and how they get
one another involved in that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
You know, the one thing that I feel like our
players an example of it would be we do a
situational Masters meeting every Friday morning for twenty minutes, and
it's it's really living examples of a lot of the
things that we worked on in training camp and in
the summer of small details, two minute drills on side kicks,
(05:42):
hail Mary's, you know, all the little stuff that sometimes
players can take for granted.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Of you know, why don't We're gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Work on this again. You know, why is the running
back have to run and fall down before he scores
a touchdown?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Like? Why do we call that?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
No? Moss?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Like what?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And then as the season goes, I start showing exams
samples of why it's supportant why it's support, and why
it's important. What I love what I see now is
our players are talking about that stuff and they'll they'll
come to me, coach, did you see that playing the
game last night? We got to show that in Situational
Masters meeting. So the buy into raising the football IQ
(06:18):
and the little things that matter to winning and losing,
to me is where I notice it. You know, things
have definitely come up in game, and off the top
of my head, I can't I can't think of all
of those those those little things. But what I do
know is we're talking about football, and we're talking about
not just the guy making the one hand and catch
last night, but hey, did you see them you know,
(06:40):
screw the clock up at the end of the game
and they didn't get the field goal off and what
could they have done different? So that's the conversations that
I like hearing. That tell me we've got a team
that's thinking about winning and they're trying to figure out
the best ways to put themselves in position to win.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
All right. Next, I was asked about Jane Blue about
the thing about the fumble, and uh, you know, and
that's and and uh we were just talking about them.
He was holding the football out in that And then
you'll hear uh Sark asked about this. You know, how
(07:16):
do you deal with the physical side of the running
style of Jayden Blue versus the mental side with the fumbles.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, I think it's there's muscle memory and repetition there,
and I think it's okay, why did the fumbles occur?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What what happened?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
From a technical standpoint, How can we fix that? And
then how do we emphasize that moving forward throughout the
week and work on a few things and then through success. Right,
It's like anything anybody who's struggling a batter in baseball,
a pitcher in baseball, a three point shooter.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We've talked all about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
It's the physical ability is there, the confidence to execute
it is what our jobs as coaches is to make
sure that they're in the right frame of mind to
get that done. And so but that's why they calls
coach right, and that that's our job to get that done.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Now. Somebody when I was tweeting out these quotes and
I tweeted out that quote a Twitter guy, guy on
the next name is his Twitter handle? Is that spilled whiskey?
But he says, good answer from Sart, But at some
point it is what it is. I love the vision
and hard running a blue, but he can't be trusted
(08:27):
any longer in critical situations. The ball is too precious
to keep letting it go as he does. I hear
what you're saying, Cuter. I appreciate your appreciate your perspective,
but you don't make that call. The coach does, and
the coach thinks he's going to be okay. So I
guess we're all just, you know, we're going to listen
to what the coach says of it. He's he believes
and Jade and Blue has done an awful lot for
(08:47):
this football team. But he has lost some fumbles. And
I agree with you, Couter, I understand where you are
in terms of the dangerous nature of what can happen.
Sart appreciates it every bit as much all of us,
if not more so. But he believes in Blue and
he believes that Jay and Blue can get it done
without fumbling. We'll see, you know, But that's that's going
(09:09):
to be his decision to make those kind of calls
on that. Another thing, what does it mean to be
in the same company of dk R mac Brown's Our
friend Brian Davis asked this question back to back ten
win seasons. Mac had nine consecutive seasons of ten and
more wins, ten straight of nine or more wins, and
nine straight of ten and more wins. They included eight
(09:30):
and nine. The only other coach to do it, Dearrel Royal,
had the back to back ten win seasons in sixty
nine and seventy, and he was asked if he knew
that and what the importance of that is.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
In my opening press conference, I said, hey, I want
to I came to the University of Texas to win
ten games, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We came here to win championships, you know, And that's that's.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Been our goal. That's been the standard, and that's what
we keep striving for. And that's the end result, right
and so we always put that the end and then
are we doing championship work every day?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Are we championship coaches? Do we have championship schemes? Do
we have a championship weight program? Do we have a
championship nutrition program? Do we have a championship study hall?
Do we have a championship work ethic? Do we have
a championship culture? Do we have a championship locker room?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Right? That's like, yes, that's what we're.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Striving for and we're chasing that every day, but we
got to make sure the way we're chasing it every
day is at a championship level.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, all right? Next, and by the way, when he
started off that answer, they said about DKR winning ten rodigoes.
I didn't think they even played ten games back then.
They actually were. This is really weird. In nineteen sixty
nine they played, if I remember correctly, they played ten
(10:53):
games in the regular season and then won the Cotton Bowl.
They finished eleven to zero. In nineteen seventy they won
ten straight. See, that wouldn't make that wouldn't make it. Right,
there won twenty in a row. I know with James
Street is starting quarterback. So anyway, the point is there
was back to back ten win seasons before they lost
(11:14):
to Notre Dame in the seventy win Cotton Bowl after
they'd already been crowned UPI National champions. On that that
was the back to back national titles and that was
the coaches fault. Okay, ze friend ed Clements asked his question.
He named off a bunch of historical facts about Texas
and Texas A and M. He talked about the Aggie's
(11:35):
eating Bevo by the way, that story, which is true,
but it wasn't them eating Bevo by themselves. Viva was
served as the main course of a dinner between the
two sides. It's like nineteen thirteen, I believe it is.
It wasn't the actual Bevo, right, it was. Yeah, he
was the first one. They just bought him. Well, they'd
(11:57):
had him and they served Yeah he was, he was.
They had a they had a really big cookout afterwards.
It was kind of a team dinner for both sides
to get together. It was the early twentieth century. They
did stuff like that back then. Yeah. Now you do
that and you have pita up your ey. Well, well,
not only that, think about this, think about the sanitation
(12:19):
element of it. I mean, this is right around the
time that Upton Sinclair wrote his you know, his incredible
book The Jungle right about the meat packing industry there.
So yeah, but he mentioned that, and then that also
mentioned things like the Aggi's watering down the field in
sixty three and it was a quagmire. And then there's
(12:40):
the long runs have captured kidnapped reavily before Vivo was
kidnapped again in sixty three, and then they swapped out
and so on and so forth. So he had all
of these things, and on top of it, it was only
ninety ninety five miles away. So how is start planning
to deal with all of that? With the logistics, We'll be.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
D I'm gonna leave it at that. We'll be ready. Yeah, no, No,
pretty standard for us. You know, I'm not a big
get out of routine guy. So our normal routine will
be our routine will get in there Friday and we'll
be ready to play Saturday.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah. So there it is all right. And in case
you're wondering, yes, they are busting over. They are staying
at a hotel in College Station, which I don't think
a long team Quarrant team has done since nineteen ninety nine.
That was another thing that Ed pointed out was that
there was no breakfast for them when they got up
the next morning. That was that weird year. That's you know,
the tragedy of the bonfire and all that kind of stuff.
It all happened. Phone calls went to the player's rooms
(13:36):
all night long at the at the fashionable Ramada Inn
on Texas Avenue. I think. But anyway, yeah, they'll be
over there on Friday night and they'll go in. I'll
play on Saturday. He was also asked about having played
in a couple of those Holy Wars BYU against Utah.
One of them was in a blizzard, and how do
you prepare for a game Saturday where the temperatures are
(13:59):
going to be much more palatable.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was talking to somebody about that this morning, that
second one, oddly enough, and I remember that game vividly,
and we talk about Rogers question about we not me
and playing for the next guy.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
In that game, it was a blizzard.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I mean it was as white as you could see
any in any direction. And I was thrown for a
lot of yards that year, and in that game, I
was seven for twelve I think for like eighty yards
and we won thirty something to ten, and I was
probably more happy than anybody because the year before I'd
thrown four interceptions in the Holy Warm and we lost.
And so you know, again, you get in games like this,
(14:39):
what do I need to do to help the team win?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And I think when.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You go in with that mentality, you go in as
a as a group really together, composed and helping one
another and picking each other up, you put yourself in
the best position to perform of whatever task is asked
of you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, okay. And then finally he was asked by Marcel
read the Texas A and M quarterback, how he can
cause problems?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Legitimate dual threat quarterback.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You know, they they do a nice job schematically, you know,
call and Cline coming from Kansas State going there now
the very detailed, you know, offensive system. They've got all
the normal run game, They've got all the zone read
run game that we've seen in years past quarterback runs,
they've got the passing game. But this guy is electric
quickness and speed and a real weapon.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I think that's why their red.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Zone numbers are so good, is because when they get
down there, you have to defend him running the ball
as well as throwing the ball. And I think they've
tailored an offense around him to his skill set that
make them and make him in particular, difficult to defend.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay, all right, so there you are with that. By
the way, on the x LI and C pal's talking
about Miami, he thinks they're gonna lose again, says their
defense is suspect to be polite. That may be true,
but their offense with cam Ward, one of the best
quarterbacks in the country, is incredibly explosive, and that they
have who I think is the best receiver in the country,
Xavier Estrepo. I think he's the best. So you're gonna
(16:08):
have to outscore him really to beat him. And it
could be done. And we'll see what SMU has for
them if they played him in the ACC Championship. More
coming up here in Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.
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