December 12, 2024 • 14 mins
Steve Sarkisian visited with Rich Eisen on The Rich Eisen Show today and was asked about facing Clemson, managing the health of key players including Quinn Ewers, and if we're going to see more Arch Manning in the CFP.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
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Texas women's basketball last night six ranked log Horns no
trouble at all as expected, beating Southern ninety seven to
thirty nine. Taylor Jones double double, nineteen points, eleven rebounds.
The log Hoorns in the game set a program record
for hitting thirty six free throws in the game. They
(02:53):
hit shot eighty and they hit thirty six out of
forty five, so they hit eighty percent from the line
for the game. And they also had ten blocks in
the game in a nice effort. In addition Taylor Jones'
twentieth career double double, Kyla Oldacre had her fifth double
digit scoring game of the season. Then Kyla had sixteen points,
eight rebounds, two block shots and it's made for really
(03:16):
good one to punch in the pivot in the middle there,
old Acre spelling Taylor Jones and vice versa after the
game that we had a chance to visit with the
transfer from Miami Ohio Kyla Oldacre. I told Kyler Oldacre,
who sat next to me at the welcome home Dienner,
I said, I'm your radio guy. We're gonna talk to
you during the course of the seat. Do you remember
(03:37):
that conversation well, and when you have a performance like this,
it merits conversation. Let me get your thoughts on just
how it's developed from you moving down here and the
transfer in and getting the customed everything, and it looks
like your game is well at hand.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well overall, I feel like I improved a lie day
by day n practice Taylor helps me get better for
those our guards. And then just moving down here so
you know, I mean it'll move more freely and I
struggling to agree, so it's just a great thing. And
then working now in the morning, went.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
To the coaches.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
It helps me improve even like by the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hour, so we love it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
What was the part of your game you wanted to
take a step forward in coming from Miami University of
Ohio down here being.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
More of a dominant post player. And I feel like
I'm achieving that. You know, it's a struggle for them
to guard me. I bury them like hostain. I can
move people, so I use that to the best of
my ability.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How important is it for you and Taylor, who both
had really good numbers tonight, to be able to keep
the other fresh while one is on the floor.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Just our momentum and our energy. You know, we come
off the bench, we feed into it. She comes back
off with the bench, she sees into it as well.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We just keep it up.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Can keep Brian to be.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Up Okay, So we've been talking about this all this traveling.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You guys have been doing it? Have you have you
been able to unpack and do laundry and things as
soon as you get back.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I do it like it'll be a sway am I
putting loaded? I'll be back up and then I'll repressure
a little bit and then change it out.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So how about your first full semester academically? Everything go
how you wanted?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh yes, honor roll.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Hey there we wait for this next final so hopefully
you know still.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
When is that Friday? And then what subject?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh? Pusiology? So sports management?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Basically you got that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, thanks Kyle, appreciate it. Thank you. She is she's
a lot of fun to visit with. You visited with it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You what you sat next her at a team dinner
on the road when you guys had the James Madison.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Trip last weekend. Yeah, Texas roadhouse, washing Texas and Georgia
in the playoff.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, Yeah, she's she could be pretty glib, and she
just gotta dropped that in and said, hey, you know,
everything go all right? And then I didn't necessarily mean
it in terms of what you did academically. I just
meant your whole first semester dealing with things, because sometimes
student athletes will say, yeah, it was kind of rough
my first fall getting customer, and she just kind of shruggling, Yeah,
(05:55):
honor roll.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, her demeanor on the court is pretty stone faced,
right it is.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
It's not high or low. She gets say and one,
it's the same reaction as when she'll lose a ball
out of bounce. She's very very even keel. Yeah, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And that was good And it's good to have her
being able to spell Taylor Jones.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It just makes the both of them all the more effective.
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Next action for the Texas women is Sunday at noon
in Richmond. They play at the Robins Center against the
Richmond Spiders. Now, Roger Wallace is going to call the
play by play on that. I'm going to have the
men's game against Mississippi Valley State. Now I have to
admit there's a little bit of oh man about that game,
(06:42):
because I wouldn't mind it calling that game. Why because
I've never called a game with a big Spider logo
on the floor Jo Spider logo at the Robin Center.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It might be the best logo in college sports.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's one of the mass I had a cousin who
played football Richmond back of the seventies. He played as
a wide receiver. Like, I'm going to buy a shirt
when I'm up there. If I go up there, Yep, Yep,
it's good. And it's a high academic school. Richmond is
I actually did look into possibly applying there, really yep,
because growing up Greensboro, that's about three hours away. And
(07:17):
I thought about it, and I had a like, I said,
a cousin who had just gone through there and played
football at Richmond. I liked the school. I'd seen it before.
Then I saw the academic requirements. I don't know if
I want to test. That's academic school. Long Warnon football
team is preparing for its match up against Clemson, and
(07:42):
that is a week from Saturday, so we're nine days
away from kickoff for Texas and Clemson in the college
football Playoff. Earlier today, Long Wort's head coach, Steve Sarkisian,
was on the Rich Eisen Show with the NFL Network
host and also the host of his own radio show
and coach On with Eisen, and one of the things
(08:03):
that the Rich Eson asked Sart was about arch manning
his role as it stands now?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is it an expanded role? How to start view all
of that?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And I know when we spoke earlier in the season,
you were saying that it's possible you and a lot
of your colleagues in college football might start resting some
guys middle of the season, towards the end of the
season because you know you have this stretch coming up.
Obviously that's what guaranteed for you until you did win
towards the end of the season. Did you actually coach
(08:33):
differently this time around knowing that you might have this
stretch coming up?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Well, I think the one thing that we that we
adjusted was definitely our practice plans and schedules, and you know,
just the length of the season, the amount of games
you have to play, you know, I think is always
is always challenging. You know, we're going to play seventeen
games hopefully, and you know that that's much different than before.
And so I think think managing your player, your player
(09:01):
workload on a week to week basis, managing you know,
your days off and when you're giving them some days
off to to get away from the facility, to to
kind of regroup and and kind of re center themselves
have been really the main things that we've adjusted. You know, Naturally,
as the season's gone on, we've had to make some
critical decisions on players that were nursing injuries of you know,
(09:24):
potentially holding them out or not or limiting their role
to try to get him as healthy as we could
for this stretch run. But but nowhere did we ever
just intentionally hold anybody out.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You know, we never went to that extreme.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The one of the managed players, is it Quinn yours?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Would you say he's one of them?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yeah, We've definitely had to manage him throughout the season.
He got he got you know, injured early in the season,
came back, had had a nurse an ankle injury here
the latter half of the season. I think he's responded
to it really well. I give him a lot of
credit of how he's managed that. But we've been dealing
with that with a handful of players. You know, we
have not been one hundred percent. You know, every year
(10:00):
it's different, you know, what happens to your team, the
injuries that may occur, and we've definitely endured some, most notably.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
On the offensive side. Of the ball.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
But I think our guys have responded to it, you know,
week in and week out really well.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And so.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How do you think yours looks now? I mean, because
that that is part of the conversation from people in
my chair, is that he has not looked certainly like
the kid that I saw against Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
How does he look to you going on?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
It's you know, when you're not one hundred percent, you
have to manage that.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
And I thought he was able to use his legs
a little bit better here the last couple of weeks.
I think we need to improve is we got to
keep trying to play better around him.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You know, we we were not you know, when.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Our running game is not going, we become somewhat of
a limited offensive football team.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And we've got to make sure that we find that
right balance.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
And we've got to make sure that we protect the
passer well, got to make sure we're catching the balls.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We've got to make sure we're disciplined in our routs.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
We got to make sure there's a coaching staff we're
putting together a good plan that that that allows him
to play that level. And then he's got to do
his part too, and So in the end, I think,
like anything, you're the quarterback at the University of Texas,
you probably get a little more credit than we deserve
when we play well, and you probably get too much
blame when when you lose a ball game and overtime
(11:15):
against the Georgia who arguably is the best defense in
the country. So all in all, that comes with the territory.
But I credit quin a Ton for how he's handled
everything and managed it and stayed focused on the task
at hand. And that's playing really good football and being
a great teammate and a great leader.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I know, in terms of managing somebody and potentially a
banged up person as well, it doesn't usually mean take
him off the field.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But what about using Arch manning more coach?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Yeah, no, there's always opportunities to do that, and I
think we found we found opportunities to do that against
A and M and against Georgia. Arch is a great
player and he's a great teammate as well, and so
we're fortunate to have both those guys in that room.
And utilizes some of his strengths when those opportunities present themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So, but how do you manage that, because you know
conversations again, in worlds like this outside your building get
to be had. Certainly when he's taken snaps, and man,
he looks so physical and he's so fast, he's so big,
and you know what advantage you might have when you
employ him. I mean, he took the first snap for
you in overtime in the SEC championship game, coach, But
(12:22):
how do you manage that knowing it might cause questions
but it might also be quite helpful for you. But
it's also one of those you got to you might
have none scenario.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
I'd like to disagree with you on the last statement
we got and we're pretty good, so we're fortunate on that,
you know. I think at the end is, you know,
I try not to consume myself with what y'all think.
We focus on the task at hand, and that's doing
what's in the best interest of the team to win
ball games.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
If I read if I.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Kind of led the emotional roller coaster of what other
people think, I'd be an emotional nightmare because in one aspect,
I can read one article that says, you know, Quinn's
the greatest thing since since whomever, and then next.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Article is, why don't you play arch and this and that,
and you can go.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Back and forth all the way around and listen to
you know, talk radio and watch every show and whomever else,
or you can focus on the people in your building,
you know, keep your head down, make sure that you're
providing the right type of motivation and leadership for them
so they can follow your lead. And I think our
guys have done a great job of that. And that's
why it's no secret. You know, we're in the college
(13:30):
football Playoff. We went to the SEC championship game. We
were really the third ranked team and the CFP, but
because of the way they see the teams with automatic bids,
we go in as a as a fifth seed. And
I feel really good about our opportunity to go out
and compete for a national championship. So I'm really not
one to kind of buy into the opinions of others
(13:51):
or the criticism of others that I would never ask
for advice from.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Translation Rich Eisen ever invite me on your show again,
I'm never going to know kidding of that me. He
did say disagreem, and I think all Rich Eisen was
doing there was invoking that old, that old phrase that
goes back by the way, to the seventeen hundreds, and
you're going what Ben Franklin. Benjamin Franklin said, A man
(14:18):
with a watch always knows what time it is. A
man with two watches is never sure. And so the
quarterback deal is, if you have two quarterbacks, you have
no quarterbacks, I think was the old The old phrase.
I don't think that applies in this particular case, because
they do bring different gifts to the party. And that's
why Sark said, I'm going to disagree with you all
(14:38):
that second part. They like what they have there with
with arch Manning as well. All right, coming up next,
we have Inconceivable, by the way, what we have more
with with Sark and rich Eisen, don't we We'll do
that coming up next hour. We'll continue here with Inconceivable
and Sports Radio AAM thirteen under the Zone.
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Texas women's basketball last night six ranked log Horns no
trouble at all as expected, beating Southern ninety seven to
thirty nine. Taylor Jones double double, nineteen points, eleven rebounds.
The log Hoorns in the game set a program record
for hitting thirty six free throws in the game. They
(02:53):
hit shot eighty and they hit thirty six out of
forty five, so they hit eighty percent from the line
for the game. And they also had ten blocks in
the game in a nice effort. In addition Taylor Jones'
twentieth career double double, Kyla Oldacre had her fifth double
digit scoring game of the season. Then Kyla had sixteen points,
eight rebounds, two block shots and it's made for really
(03:16):
good one to punch in the pivot in the middle there,
old Acre spelling Taylor Jones and vice versa after the
game that we had a chance to visit with the
transfer from Miami Ohio Kyla Oldacre. I told Kyler Oldacre,
who sat next to me at the welcome home Dienner,
I said, I'm your radio guy. We're gonna talk to
you during the course of the seat. Do you remember
(03:37):
that conversation well, and when you have a performance like this,
it merits conversation. Let me get your thoughts on just
how it's developed from you moving down here and the
transfer in and getting the customed everything, and it looks
like your game is well at hand.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well overall, I feel like I improved a lie day
by day n practice Taylor helps me get better for
those our guards. And then just moving down here so
you know, I mean it'll move more freely and I
struggling to agree, so it's just a great thing. And
then working now in the morning, went.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
To the coaches.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
It helps me improve even like by the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hour, so we love it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
What was the part of your game you wanted to
take a step forward in coming from Miami University of
Ohio down here being.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
More of a dominant post player. And I feel like
I'm achieving that. You know, it's a struggle for them
to guard me. I bury them like hostain. I can
move people, so I use that to the best of
my ability.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How important is it for you and Taylor, who both
had really good numbers tonight, to be able to keep
the other fresh while one is on the floor.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Just our momentum and our energy. You know, we come
off the bench, we feed into it. She comes back
off with the bench, she sees into it as well.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We just keep it up.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Can keep Brian to be.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Up Okay, So we've been talking about this all this traveling.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You guys have been doing it? Have you have you
been able to unpack and do laundry and things as
soon as you get back.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I do it like it'll be a sway am I
putting loaded? I'll be back up and then I'll repressure
a little bit and then change it out.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So how about your first full semester academically? Everything go
how you wanted?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh yes, honor roll.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Hey there we wait for this next final so hopefully
you know still.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
When is that Friday? And then what subject?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh? Pusiology? So sports management?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Basically you got that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, thanks Kyle, appreciate it. Thank you. She is she's
a lot of fun to visit with. You visited with it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You what you sat next her at a team dinner
on the road when you guys had the James Madison.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Trip last weekend. Yeah, Texas roadhouse, washing Texas and Georgia
in the playoff.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, Yeah, she's she could be pretty glib, and she
just gotta dropped that in and said, hey, you know,
everything go all right? And then I didn't necessarily mean
it in terms of what you did academically. I just
meant your whole first semester dealing with things, because sometimes
student athletes will say, yeah, it was kind of rough
my first fall getting customer, and she just kind of shruggling, Yeah,
(05:55):
honor roll.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, her demeanor on the court is pretty stone faced,
right it is.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
It's not high or low. She gets say and one,
it's the same reaction as when she'll lose a ball
out of bounce. She's very very even keel. Yeah, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And that was good And it's good to have her
being able to spell Taylor Jones.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It just makes the both of them all the more effective.
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Next action for the Texas women is Sunday at noon
in Richmond. They play at the Robins Center against the
Richmond Spiders. Now, Roger Wallace is going to call the
play by play on that. I'm going to have the
men's game against Mississippi Valley State. Now I have to
admit there's a little bit of oh man about that game,
(06:42):
because I wouldn't mind it calling that game. Why because
I've never called a game with a big Spider logo
on the floor Jo Spider logo at the Robin Center.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It might be the best logo in college sports.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's one of the mass I had a cousin who
played football Richmond back of the seventies. He played as
a wide receiver. Like, I'm going to buy a shirt
when I'm up there. If I go up there, Yep, Yep,
it's good. And it's a high academic school. Richmond is
I actually did look into possibly applying there, really yep,
because growing up Greensboro, that's about three hours away. And
(07:17):
I thought about it, and I had a like, I said,
a cousin who had just gone through there and played
football at Richmond. I liked the school. I'd seen it before.
Then I saw the academic requirements. I don't know if
I want to test. That's academic school. Long Warnon football
team is preparing for its match up against Clemson, and
(07:42):
that is a week from Saturday, so we're nine days
away from kickoff for Texas and Clemson in the college
football Playoff. Earlier today, Long Wort's head coach, Steve Sarkisian,
was on the Rich Eisen Show with the NFL Network
host and also the host of his own radio show
and coach On with Eisen, and one of the things
(08:03):
that the Rich Eson asked Sart was about arch manning
his role as it stands now?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is it an expanded role? How to start view all
of that?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And I know when we spoke earlier in the season,
you were saying that it's possible you and a lot
of your colleagues in college football might start resting some
guys middle of the season, towards the end of the
season because you know you have this stretch coming up.
Obviously that's what guaranteed for you until you did win
towards the end of the season. Did you actually coach
(08:33):
differently this time around knowing that you might have this
stretch coming up?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Well, I think the one thing that we that we
adjusted was definitely our practice plans and schedules, and you know,
just the length of the season, the amount of games
you have to play, you know, I think is always
is always challenging. You know, we're going to play seventeen
games hopefully, and you know that that's much different than before.
And so I think think managing your player, your player
(09:01):
workload on a week to week basis, managing you know,
your days off and when you're giving them some days
off to to get away from the facility, to to
kind of regroup and and kind of re center themselves
have been really the main things that we've adjusted. You know, Naturally,
as the season's gone on, we've had to make some
critical decisions on players that were nursing injuries of you know,
(09:24):
potentially holding them out or not or limiting their role
to try to get him as healthy as we could
for this stretch run. But but nowhere did we ever
just intentionally hold anybody out.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You know, we never went to that extreme.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The one of the managed players, is it Quinn yours?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Would you say he's one of them?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yeah, We've definitely had to manage him throughout the season.
He got he got you know, injured early in the season,
came back, had had a nurse an ankle injury here
the latter half of the season. I think he's responded
to it really well. I give him a lot of
credit of how he's managed that. But we've been dealing
with that with a handful of players. You know, we
have not been one hundred percent. You know, every year
(10:00):
it's different, you know, what happens to your team, the
injuries that may occur, and we've definitely endured some, most notably.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
On the offensive side. Of the ball.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
But I think our guys have responded to it, you know,
week in and week out really well.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And so.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How do you think yours looks now? I mean, because
that that is part of the conversation from people in
my chair, is that he has not looked certainly like
the kid that I saw against Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
How does he look to you going on?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
It's you know, when you're not one hundred percent, you
have to manage that.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
And I thought he was able to use his legs
a little bit better here the last couple of weeks.
I think we need to improve is we got to
keep trying to play better around him.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You know, we we were not you know, when.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Our running game is not going, we become somewhat of
a limited offensive football team.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And we've got to make sure that we find that
right balance.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
And we've got to make sure that we protect the
passer well, got to make sure we're catching the balls.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We've got to make sure we're disciplined in our routs.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
We got to make sure there's a coaching staff we're
putting together a good plan that that that allows him
to play that level. And then he's got to do
his part too, and So in the end, I think,
like anything, you're the quarterback at the University of Texas,
you probably get a little more credit than we deserve
when we play well, and you probably get too much
blame when when you lose a ball game and overtime
(11:15):
against the Georgia who arguably is the best defense in
the country. So all in all, that comes with the territory.
But I credit quin a Ton for how he's handled
everything and managed it and stayed focused on the task
at hand. And that's playing really good football and being
a great teammate and a great leader.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I know, in terms of managing somebody and potentially a
banged up person as well, it doesn't usually mean take
him off the field.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But what about using Arch manning more coach?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Yeah, no, there's always opportunities to do that, and I
think we found we found opportunities to do that against
A and M and against Georgia. Arch is a great
player and he's a great teammate as well, and so
we're fortunate to have both those guys in that room.
And utilizes some of his strengths when those opportunities present themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So, but how do you manage that, because you know
conversations again, in worlds like this outside your building get
to be had. Certainly when he's taken snaps, and man,
he looks so physical and he's so fast, he's so big,
and you know what advantage you might have when you
employ him. I mean, he took the first snap for
you in overtime in the SEC championship game, coach, But
(12:22):
how do you manage that knowing it might cause questions
but it might also be quite helpful for you. But
it's also one of those you got to you might
have none scenario.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
I'd like to disagree with you on the last statement
we got and we're pretty good, so we're fortunate on that,
you know. I think at the end is, you know,
I try not to consume myself with what y'all think.
We focus on the task at hand, and that's doing
what's in the best interest of the team to win
ball games.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
If I read if I.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Kind of led the emotional roller coaster of what other
people think, I'd be an emotional nightmare because in one aspect,
I can read one article that says, you know, Quinn's
the greatest thing since since whomever, and then next.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Article is, why don't you play arch and this and that,
and you can go.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Back and forth all the way around and listen to
you know, talk radio and watch every show and whomever else,
or you can focus on the people in your building,
you know, keep your head down, make sure that you're
providing the right type of motivation and leadership for them
so they can follow your lead. And I think our
guys have done a great job of that. And that's
why it's no secret. You know, we're in the college
(13:30):
football Playoff. We went to the SEC championship game. We
were really the third ranked team and the CFP, but
because of the way they see the teams with automatic bids,
we go in as a as a fifth seed. And
I feel really good about our opportunity to go out
and compete for a national championship. So I'm really not
one to kind of buy into the opinions of others
(13:51):
or the criticism of others that I would never ask
for advice from.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Translation Rich Eisen ever invite me on your show again,
I'm never going to know kidding of that me. He
did say disagreem, and I think all Rich Eisen was
doing there was invoking that old, that old phrase that
goes back by the way, to the seventeen hundreds, and
you're going what Ben Franklin. Benjamin Franklin said, A man
(14:18):
with a watch always knows what time it is. A
man with two watches is never sure. And so the
quarterback deal is, if you have two quarterbacks, you have
no quarterbacks, I think was the old The old phrase.
I don't think that applies in this particular case, because
they do bring different gifts to the party. And that's
why Sark said, I'm going to disagree with you all
(14:38):
that second part. They like what they have there with
with arch Manning as well. All right, coming up next,
we have Inconceivable, by the way, what we have more
with with Sark and rich Eisen, don't we We'll do
that coming up next hour. We'll continue here with Inconceivable
and Sports Radio AAM thirteen under the Zone.
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