Jim Schlossnagle previews upcoming Texas Baseball season, No. 7 Texas holds off No. 17 Tennessee, and Texas A&M Broadcaster Andrew Monaco

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, welcome to the program here on thirteen hundred the Zone.
My name is Craigway. So glad to have you with
us here on a Friday. I always say it, if
Friday is the end of your work week, if it's
the advent of the weekend for you, good on you,
good for you.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hope you enjoy the weekend. For those.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Of you for whom Friday really only means the midweek
or maybe even the start of the week, hang in there,
push forward, Hope things go well for you. Glad to
have you with us. My name is Craig Way. Glad
to have you with us. Us of course includes the
producer of this program, Cameron Dee Parker. The D on
the birth certificate stands for Dallas, who after we talked

(00:39):
at some length about Cameron's choices and non choices for
the guy to be the next head coach of the Cowboys,
you even kind of tossed up your hands and said, hey,
I'll take Pete Carroll. Sorry, he's gone now the Raiders
have him, now.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Gone, goodbye. And that was after yesterday there was a
report that Jerry Jones did talk to Pete Carroll at
some point. Now, of course I think Jerry Jones talking
to someone is a lot differently than how other franchises talked.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, that's a great point.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
You know, I don't know, I don't know what what
that would have meant it had been the case, So
I'm not sure it.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Doesn't matter now? Does it matter? Now? Tom Brady got
his head coach?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, a lot of similarities between Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll,
both over seventy both well respected head coaches, Both have
their kind of method, their programs. I think Las Vegas
this is probably the best coaching higher they've made since
I don't know, John Madden.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Had they're talking about, I mean, for all the crap
Jerry Jones gives. David's family has had some troubles with
h Yeah. I mean how many of they had? Just
let's see, you know, obviously you got Antonio, Oh Pierce
was a last head coach. You had, uh Pitt Boss,
Rich Pasaccia, John Gruden, that awful contrac who is that

(02:10):
coach before John Gruden?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Remember they had Bill Callahan.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh yeah, who's now with Tennessee or his sons with Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, Callahan who had been the coach at Nebraska and
got really mad when they played at Oklahoma and the
Roughnecks were shooting off their little blank guns and he
talked about pop guns and throwing frud at him when
they were throwing Orange Bowl because we're going to Orange Bowl.
Josh mc daniels was the head coach, Josh McDaniels, Jack
del Rio, Jack del Rio, Tony Sperano, Tony Sperano.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
That Tony Soprano they hired Sopranos. Sperano was with the Cowboys.
She was an assistant, went.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Three nine, only coach twelve games, Dennis Allen, Hugh Jackson,
Tom Cable, Lane Kiffin. By the way, none of these coaches,
only del Rio had a well. Gruden had a winning record.
Del Rio had a winning record, Art Shell, Yeah North Turner,
Bill Callahan, he went fifteen and seventeen. Gruden, who went
thirty eight and twenty six the first time Callahan at

(03:08):
least won an AFC champion.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
He was the coach when they won the AFC and
they played Gruden and Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl
and they had not changed any o their plays and
the signs and the signaling, and Gruden knew all of
that and it was the system that he had set up.
So Tampa Bay just wiped out the Raiders when they played.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
It in the next season. Yeah, Gruden realized, wait a second,
all my plays.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, and Callahan wasn't long for the NFL then, and
then he was at Nebraska and that didn't work really well,
only wound up losing his job there as well.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
So yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
The Raiders have had their issues, just as the Cowboys
have had their issues. We had a lot to get
to today on the program. Yeah, we're gonna preview the
AFC NFC championship games. We'll talk about that. We're else
gonna hear from some coaches. Uh, We're gonna hear from Vic.
With that big win for the Texas women last night

(04:03):
over Tennessee, what a gut check contest. We're gonna hear
from Taylor Jones here in just a few moments, who
talk about gut checks with a bad shoulder and everything
going back out there and just out offensive rebounding. The
entire Tennessee team was Taylor Jones last night and that
eighty to seventy six win.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
We're gonna hear from Taylor.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
We're gonna hear from Rodney Terry on the eve of
their rematch in the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown rivalry
series matchup with Texas A and M. Of course, Longhorn's
lost that first one eighty to sixty, was tied thirty
seven at the half, and then A and M grabbed
seized control of it in the second half and ended.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Up winning the game eighty to sixty.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
We're gonna hear from Roddy, not only from his media zoom,
but also some comments he had last night when we
do our usual matchup segment or talk about the opponent
on Longhorn Weekly, which we had last night at Pluckers
the West Campus location. So Artie, we'll get his thoughts
on the Aggies at that matchup and we'll hear from that.

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And we're gonna hear from Jim Schlasnakel, Longhorn's new baseball coach.
Today is the first day for full team workouts. So
I just, I mean literally walked in spilling in just
a few minutes right before we got on the air.
I was out at the media availability with Schloss and
the other assembled media there in the dugout.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
They had to get him on.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
They had to use the third base dugout camp because
the first base dugout, the regular home dugout, they were
doing some work in it. There were some work being
done on it, some refurbishing or something like that. So
a lot was gathered over on that third base side,
which a long time ago was the Texas home dugout
before they flipped dougouts, before the remodeling with UFCU Dish

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fark Field, and so no less than a sage writer
like Kirk Bowles now the Houston Chronicle for so many
decades at the Austin American station, I walked in and
looked around, goes, why are we in.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
The third base talk?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
His thought is there have been another change to slash
make this chance that they're doing work over the other one.
Oh okay, okay, So we're gonna hear from Schlass talking
about his players, his team, uh and putting it all
together and starting. So we're gonna hear from that. We
have inconceivable again. We know what inconceivable means. On Friday,
It's Friday, we go south. We were just in Florida.

(06:22):
We don't have any Florida man. Well, I guess actually
we probably have do have one Florida Baggage handler story,
but we go to the more flasks, the lower forty
eight states, reach for that low hanging for you.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Know, we're really going to make up for it.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Normally normally after in one, two at the most three,
but usually just one or two Florida Man stories along
with other content. But because we haven't done when's the
last time we did a Friday show right after Christmas?
Like the twenty seventh, we weren't here last last Friday, yeah,
or Saturday. Right the friday before that, Texas was playing

(06:56):
in the Cotton Bowl. Yeah, and the Friday before that
we were off on January third, mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I mean we're also in College Station.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, I think it might have been December twenty seventh.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
So it's been almost month. So to catch up.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
And I'm taking a page from Andrew Zimml's book, because
even though I've told Andrew when when when Zimble steps
in for me on the program, he loves Friday because
he loves Florida Man. And I told him, I said,
that's great, But Andrew, don't feel like the entire inconceivable
on Friday has to be Florida Man. You can mix
some other things in and then drop one in there

(07:31):
right like he loves to just load it up. Well,
today we're taking a page from Zimmle's book. It's all
Florida Man today because we got plenty. So so that's
we've got that coming up later this hour. And then,
like I said, we've got those other pieces and and
we're planning, I want to say, planning to visit with
Andrew Monica, play by play voice in the Aggies of

(07:53):
Texas A and M. He is leaving with the with
the Aggie basketball team to bus over, so he's anticipating
arriving just past four o'clock, and that being the case,
we should be able to pop him on in the
program in the four o'clock hour. So I just that's
why I say we're planning on it right now. So
there'll be a little bit of that. But big win

(08:16):
for the Texas women last night over Tennessee to get
to nineteen and two five and one in SEC playing
the Loghorns.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
They were in a battle.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
I mean early on they were down six at fourteen eight,
but then they fought back and they had a five
point lead and intermission could have been larger. Then Tennessee
fights back, they take the lead on a couple of occasions,
something by four, and then Texas fought back and got
up by five again, and then it was just back
and forth and nip and tuck all the way down
to the end, and a lot of the key figures

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stepped up as usual. Rory Harmon hit two crucial free throws,
Madison Booker had what third straight game over twenty points scoring,
and then we mentioned Taylor Jones, what was a twenty
one points, nineteen rebounds things, So yeah, and did a
massive job on the morts. Had to come out of
the game for a little bit. She got banged up.

(09:09):
It was I think her left shoulder and they had
to do a little work on that and retape it.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
And she went back out there and she was just grinding.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
So after the game, Roger Wallace was visiting on our
postgame show with Taylor Jones about this huge win and
her huge performance and what it meant to this basketball
team as they were able to turn it turn it
around in a game that I would say really crucial

(09:39):
because if you look around the SEC and you see
some of the eyebrow raising results have happened in conference play.
Texas A and m B Kentucky last night in College station.
Kentucky was unbeaten in conference play, you know, so now
when it comes to conference play, and there's a huge
game this afternoon, South Carolina and LSU and they're playing

(10:01):
this afternoon, I think four o'clock our time. And the
reason why they're playing at four o'clock our time this
afternoon is because ls who could not get to South
Carolina for they were going to travel on Wednesday and
then play the game last night, and that was going
to be the early game in Colombia, and then the

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Texas Tennessee game was going to be the eight o'clock game.
But because LSU was unable to travel because of the
heavy snowfall in the state of Louisiana on Wednesday, they
pushed the game from Thursday to Friday, so they couldn't
play this afternoon, and that's why they moved the Texas
came up from eight o'clock to seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
So anyway, that's the deal. All right.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
We'll hear from Taylor Jones coming up, and we'll also
hear from Rodney Terry coming up a lot on in
store today here as we take a break here on
thirteen under the Zone.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's the Craig Way Show with a voice the Texas
Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Here on a Friday.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is this designed to be part of your fire me
Up Friday selection?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Here? You know? Probably not? You know, I think fired
up as we're fired up from last night. You know,
we don't there. You don't have to have music. Very good.
I'm glad to hear that.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Well.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Toward that end, here's what we were talking about, Taylor Jones,
the big effort from her or the postgame conversation with
Roger Wallace one.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Tonight for Taylor.

Speaker 7 (11:39):
I don't know if you've seen the numbers, twenty one points,
fourteen rebounds, you offensive out rebound at Tennessee tonight. You
had more offensive rebounds than Tennessee.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
Oho.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Just take us through what a grinder this was.

Speaker 9 (11:53):
Coming into this game, we knew that it was going
to be really tough. I mean, this is a historic
program that we're playing against, and so we knew that
there they were to be well coached and they're number
one offensive team, and so that was a real point
of emphasis. And I think coming into this game, coach
Schaeffer and Blair. Schaeffer told us that getting on the obors,

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we could do that, and so that was kind of
a point for me, was just to try and do
what I can on the offensive boards and just sort
of play do my job, and so yeah, that's what
I tried to do.

Speaker 7 (12:24):
Great block shot, but obviously banged up the shoulder. I mean,
how tough was it to get back in there? How
you feeling?

Speaker 9 (12:32):
I mean, this isn't I've played through injuries a lot
in my life, so it's nothing new. Adrenaline is a
very very fun thing in games. So I'll definitely have
to ice it afterwards and do some rehab for sure.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
So all right, admit, if you hit nine field goals,
are you most proud of the one that was just
inside the three point line?

Speaker 9 (12:51):
Yes, I think that may have been the closest I'll
get to a three in my college career, So I'll
take it.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
And I know you obviously had the big bucket down
the stretch. But Craig went for you, guys. Craig week
for you guys. Congratulations, thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, she had a big effort twenty one points, fourteen rebounds.
She had more offensive rebounds than the entire Tennessee team
did accumulate throughout the course of the game, so it
was big for he end. Yes, she did get banged up,
but was able to come back in and really affect
the game.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
All right.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
So the Long Wars are now nineteen and two, they're
five and one in SEC play, and they got a
tough road assignment on Sunday in Oxford, Mississippi. It's interesting
the way the schedule has fallen. Both the Texas women
followed by the men will play in Oxford three days apart.
The women will play at the pavilion there on the

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Old Miss campus Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. You can
hear it at one of three point one FM, Austin's
eighty station and also on the Texas Long Wornes Appvarsity
Network app, and I think it'll be on serious X
as well are broadcast, But anyway, it'll be Sunday afternoon,
two o'clock in Oxford. Then the men will be there

(14:07):
the following Wednesday, three days after that to take on
Ole Miss. The women's team is four two. Are you
going to stay in Oxford residency? I don't think so.
I'll come home we've got We've got some work to
do before that. I don't think so, but I mean
I'll come home Sunday night and then turn around what
Tuesday we head back right, so to give me you

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knows day.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And a half listen this day and age.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
A day and a half in the office is good
to be able to get that because of all the
work that's got to be done. We've got the advent
of baseball approaching softball. Softball schedule finally got released yesterday,
so yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot to get
ready for for the coming season. So anyway, the women
will play there Sunday afternoon. The men will play there
on Wednesday. But first the men have Texas A and

(14:54):
M the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown rivalry series. By
the way, in case you're interested in the standings right now,
it's four and app points to one point Texas four
point five to one point zero for Texas A and M.
Walborne's head coach Rodney Terry. Yesterday in the media zoom
talking about this rematch with Texas A and.

Speaker 10 (15:13):
M warton Archie two questions for You'll start with the
first one. Outside of effort, what did you see from
your team in the win over Missouri that you think
is transferable to the A and M and the rest
of the season.

Speaker 11 (15:26):
Yeah, I thought again, I thought we played really hard
for forty minutes. It's one of our more complete games
on the season in terms.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Of playing that way.

Speaker 11 (15:35):
I thought on both ends of the floor, I thought,
I thought we played really hard.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
I mean, Missouri is a really hard team to play against.

Speaker 11 (15:43):
You know, they play really hard nosed defense, switching defense,
a challenging passing lanes. They make it difficult for you
to initiate your offense. They're a really difficult team to
play against. I think the thing that translates for us
from that game that will have to have carryover with

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the A and M game is competitive plays.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
You know.

Speaker 11 (16:08):
I thought we made a lot of competitive plays in
the game Tuesday night against Missouri. And when I say
competitive plays, you know, and it was the best I
think in the country at fifty to fifty balls. They
do a great job of out competing you to loose balls,

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long rebounds, the the best at extra effort plays. I thought,
we have a lot of really good extra effort competitive
plays in the game that we'll have to try to
have on Saturday against the team that I think that
does it best in the country.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
The follow up arty.

Speaker 10 (16:48):
In relation to Trey, since SEC players started, he's had
to believe all all six SEC games, he's had extended
stretches in the second half where a shot isn't falling.
I'm just curious, from your perspective, do you see that
as a byproduct of how hard he's playing defensively.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
I think they could be a little bit of it,
you know.

Speaker 11 (17:05):
I think I think it takes time a little bit
for you know, not even just young players, older players.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Last year we had Max Aspis, and it took Max.

Speaker 11 (17:16):
Middle of the conference, in the conference play to where
he exerted itself so hard on the defensive end of
the floor that he still had to have legs to
be able to make shots in big.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Moments in games. But he got to a point where he.

Speaker 11 (17:30):
Could do that and he didn't take any plays off.
He played thirty five minutes a game, which is not
easy to do. The play really hard on offense and
play really hard on defense. You know, if you were
somewhere where you could take plays off and rest on
defense to.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Be easier, They're hopefully you were asleep.

Speaker 12 (17:47):
But if not, did you catch any of the A
and then last said, and what were something takeaways over
over that crazy button?

Speaker 11 (17:54):
You know, uh, you know, and I thought that both
teams obviously well coached, uh, both of them really hard
on those defensive teams, teams that take a lot of
pride on that end of the floor, teams that take
a lot of pride and competitive plays.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
You know, I thought old.

Speaker 11 (18:12):
Miss shot the ball really well last night against those
guys that Old Miss or a better part of the game,
really control the game, you know, give or take, you know,
thirty eight minutes of the game, you know, to where
they had the game in hand to win the ball game.
And again you know A and M played the game
to the bone, you know, they played it all the
way to the end and they found a way to

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win the game, you know, down the stretch.

Speaker 12 (18:38):
And then just a quick fall from that, if I will,
you know, even going back to y'all boss watch up
with Texas, Adam, what do you need to improve on,
especially when it comes to maybe the second half struggles.

Speaker 11 (18:51):
Well, you know again, you know I think and them
again is part you know, they're the best offense rebounding
team in the country, you know, and when you play
it to you and that rebounds the ball as well
as they do, they're gonna give themselves second chance, third
chance opportunities. You may go out the first opportunity really well,

(19:12):
it's the second and the third one that puts you
in a bad position, you know. And I thought in
the second half of our game, they really, you know,
did a great job of attacking that glass really really hard.
I mean the first first game of in the first half,
they had three offensive rebounds, you know, and I think
they finished with double figure offensive rebounds in the second half,

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So you know, it really changed the game when you're
giving them second and third chance opportunities where it makes
it very difficult.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
And they're they're really good, and they they beat us
really in the in the fifty to fifty game.

Speaker 11 (19:45):
They came up with every loose ball, every loan rebound,
and and again I think, you know, they're they're all
going to be the best in the country at doing that.
So you've got to be the match match their energy
and activity with those type of plays.

Speaker 13 (20:00):
Well, real quick, I was gonna ask if there's been
any update of progress on Kendall Weaver. And then also
you kind of answered it with Ann Parker's question for
a team that likes to hit the offensive board so
much like the Aggies, coach, do you tweak your light
your rotation, do you get some of those young bigs
more amendments or how do you handle.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
That in New Weavers.

Speaker 11 (20:23):
Kenda Weaver is still a guy that's out in definitely
right now. You know. We again, we've got the best
training stamp in the country. We feel like he's at
full strength and ready to go, then we'll try to
give him an opportunity, but we're not there at the
moment uh with him and in his progress with his injury.

(20:44):
You know, I think Thomas, I think the guys we've
been playing right now have been doing a pretty good job.
When we got him the conference play, we had to
learn to really try to put our helmets on a
little bit. That's a physical league with guys crashing. You know,
our young guys that good young developmental players, but they're
not for these grown men that we're playing against right now.
You know, we're playing grown men right now, fifth year,

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six year players right now, you know, so you know,
could they get out there and mix it up a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
You know, they could.

Speaker 11 (21:14):
I'm not saying that they would be the answer, you know,
to what we're doing. I think our guys that are
out there right now fighting really hard and giving us
a great effort right now. I think kayten Cedric play
physical all year long. I think Arthur Kaluma has played
physical all year long. He's got twelve rebounds in the
last ball game against against a good Missouri team. You know,
Caden's done that, Katon had nine rebounds. You know, those

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guys that played physical all year I think Z's getting
to the point where he's playing more physical. I think again,
we have to have by committee, our guards come down
and help us rebound. Kendall Weaver when he went out
in Atlanta, there was seventy seven rebounds that went out
the lineup, you know, So you know it's not solely
on our big guys. We have to rebound, rebound by

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committee and the teams that do it really well, Maun
by committee.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
They're not all big guys that are rebounding and him.

Speaker 11 (22:04):
Wing guys are great rebounders, you know, So you know
we've got to keep those guys off the glass as well.

Speaker 13 (22:11):
Hey, coach.

Speaker 14 (22:12):
You know, Julian Larry made a big difference for you
guys last night as far as when he was on
the court versus not on the court. Obviously, he's the
guy that you know, comes from the Missouri Valley who
has been an adjustment. But at this point, I guess,
what are you seeing from him and what would you
like to see from him moving forward?

Speaker 11 (22:28):
I think Julius played his role really well for us
over the last you know, give or take five ball games.
You know, he comes in and he's a guy that
gives us energy off the bench. He's a guy that
comes in, initiates the offense, plays with really good defensive intensity. Uh.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
He's a guy that has has gotten.

Speaker 11 (22:45):
Better as the season's going along, reading pick and roll
and and uh and just really described in the basketball
and sharing the basketball. He comes in and really gets
the ball movie when he when he enters the game. So, uh,
those those are some things I think that that that
Union brings to the game when he comes in.

Speaker 15 (23:03):
Hey, coach, with so many new transfers, fighting an offensive
for rhythm tends to take time. Do you feel after
the Missouri win that that was the first steps in
which the offense was clicking more in terms of ball
movement or is that still a point of emphasis right now?

Speaker 11 (23:15):
I think on the offense for us, we tried, we've
tried to have a point five mentality all year loan,
you know, engaged to hit the open guy, make the
simple play, get the ball moving.

Speaker 6 (23:24):
You know, in the perfect world, you want to have
great space.

Speaker 11 (23:26):
And then move the ball side to side, and and
and try to do that trust your teammates, you know,
and and not try to get sped up. I think, uh,
I think for us, we really tried to hold in
on identity. You win in this league with really good
defense and rebounding and taking care of the ball, you know,
so you know, offensively, you have to figure it out

(23:48):
from gaining the game in game what's working best for
you in terms of how you're attacking the different defenses,
because the different defenses in this league are really good,
and you got older players that then again coached really well.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
So it's not easy as cordlessly, you know, so.

Speaker 11 (24:05):
You got to you gotta, you know, you gotta value
taking care of the basketball, value taking shots on your terms,
trying to have the full balance where you don't put
your deep defense in a compromising position on the other
end of the.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Four some thoughts from Rodney Terry there the longhornon said coach,
we'll hear more from our team, not only from that
media availability next hour, but also in the four o'clock hour,
we'll hear Rodney from last night's edition of Longhorn Weekly,
dialing in specifically on Texas A and M and tomorrow
afternoon's matchup with the Aggies one o'clock airtime, one thirty

(24:40):
tip off here on the Zone, Tomorrow afternoon up next
Inconceivable for A Florida, and Friday here on AM thirteen
under the Zone. Craig Way, Cameron Parker, the producer, alongside
with you here on this Friday, getting ready for the weekend,
which includes basketball for both the Texas men and women.
Longhorn Men in action tomorrow afternoon at home at Moody Center,

(25:05):
one thirty tip off against Texas A and M. Cotton
Holdings Lone Star Showdown rivalry series. Aggie's won the first
meeting at the three weeks ago tomorrow. It was January fourth,
they won in College station that opened the first part
of conference play for Texas As. They fell in their
sec opener eighty to sixty. So the rematch is tomorrow.

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We're gonna hear from Rodney Terry on that coming up
in a few minutes. Texas Women will play Sunday in Oxford, Mississippi.
Seventh ranked Longhorns defeed the number seventeen Tennessee last night.
What a ballgame, eighty seventy six. Just Hammer and Tom
back and forth between those two, and the Longhorns were
able to score the game's final four points to get
a four point victory. After the game, head coach Vick

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Schaeffer visiting with Roger Wallace about the Texas victory.

Speaker 7 (25:53):
Your reaction, you haven't had a game like this at home,
you know, a tight ballgame. Your reaction after that buzzer
sound had set it all on the sideline, You're pretty pumped.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, I mean, look y'all, this is not was not
our best night.

Speaker 16 (26:07):
We made plenty of mistakes. Proud to that kid right there,
Leam Moore playing on one leg. We just had you know,
I told him it's gonna be a game of one possession.
We had so many one possessions. We just didn't do
a good job and just really it wasn't our best night,

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and when you can win be the top fifteen team
on your not best night, I guess you're okay. Booker
made some big shots and Leah Moore made some big
shots down the stretch. Tell you we did execute down
the stretch. We executed some good stuff and then we
just found enough stops. I mean, that team is shoot
coach Arson. That looks like the old Tennessee teams with

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that length and how tall they are and the skill set.
I mean, good night, they just they're a loaded vicky.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
You guys start the fourth one for ten to close
it four for five on.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
The biggest possessions of the ball game.

Speaker 17 (27:07):
What does that say about your team?

Speaker 7 (27:08):
Well, again, I told Booker, I'm coming to you till
Gabriel blows his horn. I mean, I don't care how
many you miss, I'm coming to you. We're gonna get
some good looks.

Speaker 16 (27:17):
I did go to Amo some because I really thought
we had an advantage there. On the post up, Taylor
had a couple of big stick backs, you know, offensive boards.
Tell you we were worried about their offensive rebounding.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
We got them.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Taylor, how had more offensive rebounds than he did.

Speaker 16 (27:31):
Yeah, and so I was proud of our effort there
and what we were able to do. Of course, Rory
stepping up making two free throws makes life a whole
lot easier, you know, to finish that last three seconds.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
So I'm proud of them, y'all. It just it was
not our.

Speaker 16 (27:44):
Best night, and yet we still found a way to
compete and win and beat a really good team.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
That team's gonna win a lot of games.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
And your guards had to go ninety four feet every
time down. I mean they left the tank empty. Yeah,
I'm sure it's empty. I'm sure I'll have to do
really careful with them tomorrow.

Speaker 16 (28:01):
And you know, we got to go on the road
and play a really good Old Miss team on Sunday, so.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
You know, that's for another day. I'm proud of them.

Speaker 16 (28:09):
I'm happy for him, and again that's a that's a
good win against a really good team.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
Yeah, and a great response Monday. You guys were so good.
Made it look easy. You knew tonight wasn't good to
look easy, but your kids obviously were locked in even.

Speaker 17 (28:23):
After a thirty eight point win on Monday.

Speaker 16 (28:25):
Yeah, you know I was this morning. How we started
got down in ain't seven nothing? Seven to two, and
it happened to just the second half to we started
the same way that you know, again it's this is dealing.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
You know, this is kids, and this is competition.

Speaker 16 (28:40):
And again not our best night. I got so many
things to pick on, and yet we found a way
to win. We executed down the stretch. You know, I
told them with four whatever the media was at four
and a half, I'm like, I told him, I go.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Y'all, like I love this crap, Like.

Speaker 16 (28:58):
This is this is what I love man in the
games tide, this is what we this is what we do, man.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
And so you just gotta, you know, you gotta find
a way.

Speaker 16 (29:07):
You gotta fight. You gotta the execution when you're tired.
When they were tired, I thought was really big and
I thought we we did some ran some good stuff
late and again kids.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, I guess that was it there. It was at
the tail end of the interview.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
There about the only thing we missed with him saying
praise the Lord and hooking horns, which is how Vic
concludes his postgame conversations with us, and for that matters
pregame conversations with us when we do that.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
So obviously he was pleased.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
I was struck by the fact that he mentioned he
goes it was not our best night, And I understand
what he means by that. For folks who are going
a minute, you know, they they beat the number seventeen
team in the country, A really good teams up in
down the floor and presses you and forces you into turnovers.
And he's referring to some of that. He wants his

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team to take better care of the basketball. But I
will submit to you that they will probably not face
a team that will put more pressure on the ball
like Tennessee, and that includes South Carolina maybe LSU, But
LSU and South Carolina are constructed differently, and I saw
it firsthand with South Carolina and they play LSU today.
LSU has its big players inside, but they won't press

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in waves like Tennessee did, where they would just it
was like I heard Roger made reference to it on
the broadcast when I was driving home from Pluckers as
hockey lines, they'll swap out five and bring five more in.
It was kind of like the immortal Dean Smith used
to do in North Carolina with what he called his
Blue team and would sub in five guys so Normally

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when coach Smith did that, it was because he wasn't
really happy with what he was seeing out of his
starting five. But in Tennessee's case, they would swap out
five so they can maintain that relentless press and relentless
pressure on the basketball. So there's some thoughts on that,
all right. Coming up next, we'll shift it a little

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bit to baseball. We're gonna hear from Loggorn's head coach
Chim Schlasnigle on today's first day of full team workout
practice over at UFCU dish fald Field. That's next when
we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the
Zone here on a Friday afternoon on the program, I'm

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on thirteenth under the Zone, Craig Way alongside the producer
Cameron Parker.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
We just heard from Vic Schaffer.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
You've heard a little bit from Rodney Terry lash How
We're going to hear more from the long worn men's
basketball coach coming up a little bit later on this hour.
But we are twenty one days away, three weeks from
the start of the twenty twenty five Texas Longhorn baseball season.
Longhorn's open play at the Shriners Classic in Arlington where

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they're going to play on successive nights Louisville Ole Miss
in Oklahoma State. Now the Old Miss game. For those
who know, why are they playing a conference? Ole Miss
is not on the conference schedule this year. You don't
play everybody in baseball on your conference slate, so it
works as a non conference game because it's they do

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not have ole Miss on their conference schedule. So that'll
be Valentine's Day the fourteenth of February, then the fifteenth
and the sixteenth, and they'll start with Louisville on that
So today was the first day for Long Worn players,
especially the pitchers and catchers, just started to get acclimated
to things and to new head coach Jim Schlastangle. Of

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course they had the fall workouts, but this first time
for the season to come. Twenty twenty five practices and
the first full team practice day. So coach Slass met
with the medium, had opportunity to sit down and hear
from him. So this is the media session that we

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had just a little while ago, right before the show
started with Long Worn's brand new head baseball coach, Jim Schlastangle.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
Yeah, super excited for the day first day of practice,
got a great weather day, which is always you know,
two thirds of the battle when you're a college coach
and three weeks away from playing. So next year the
rules change where we get more practice time, and it's
always an anxiome time for a coach when you're you
haven't played an inter squad game yet and you have

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a game in three weeks.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
So, uh, we're excited to get going today.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Did you approach this first day like you've approached first
days at other places?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
Yeah, yeah. It's all about getting your pitchers ready. You know.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
Max Wiener, our pitching coach, has had them on a
twelve week build up plan to be able to you know, throw,
you know, the potential potential starters throw a couple of inches
today and then we'll gradually build them up. So it's
all everything is about having the pitching ready, trying to
figure that out. The position players, you know, those guys,
especially at this age, they need two or three weeks
of work and then they're ready to go. So I'm

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sure you know, uh, we're just getting started today, but
in two weeks, everybody would be tired of looking at
each other and we'll be ready to play somebody else.

Speaker 18 (34:47):
As you've gathered more intel this team and everybody through
the fall and everything, what's.

Speaker 19 (34:52):
Something that excites you by this kind of group's potential here.

Speaker 8 (34:55):
Yeah, the the makeup of the older players is uh
is awesome, Rylean Galvan Schustler, Max Blue, uh dre To Plantier,
Jalen Flores, Uh, and there's more.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
But these guys are They're super hungry.

Speaker 8 (35:10):
They want to you know, whenever they leave Texas, they
want to leave it, whether it be graduation, in the draft,
you know, they want to leave it on a high note.
They understand what the standard is. And so just an
awesome core group. That's Coach Pierce did an awesome job
having those guys ready and having them here is very
similar to my first team or a first team at
a M very very similar.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
Some kids that you know, they hadn't had a great
year of the year before, but you know, kind of
that new coach honeymoon period, super hungry and uh, you
know that team turned out pretty pretty solid year, so
you know, uh, praying for that.

Speaker 18 (35:46):
Just to pick back off of Craig's question, what's the
thought process over the next four weeks as he kind
of tried and set the rotation and.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
Take a look at the gut stat I'm a firm
believer that player that players right the lineup.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
You know, I've never written a lineup.

Speaker 8 (35:59):
The player right the line up by how they practice,
how they perform in the practice, how they perform in
the games.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Certainly, you know, guys who have track record.

Speaker 8 (36:08):
You're going to give them the benefit of the doubt,
Guys like Flores and Max, you know, Kimball Ryland. I
just need those guys to be ready, right the best
ability is availability. I need those guys to be healthy
and ready to go. And then there's other guys that
are trying to win jobs.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
So it's getting the pitching ready.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
And then there's some team things, you know, team defensive
type stuff that we have to get put in. But
for the most part, you know, we had a good fall.
The guys know how we want to play, and we
just need to get repetition, need to get at bats.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
You know, we don't get spring training games.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
So between the intersquad games and then next week's alumni game,
that's our preparation.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Then we got to go. You mentioned pitching a couple
of times.

Speaker 12 (36:47):
Now, who has started to kind of catch your eyes,
especially as you're looking to form that starting rotation.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
Yeah, I think Jared Spencer, you know, he's certainly going
to be a part of it.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
I would have to think. He's ultra talented guy.

Speaker 8 (36:59):
Transfer has been a kind of I think he's only
had nine starts in his career, so it's a big
jump to go from him and we're having nine starts
in your career to potentially, you know, pitching on the
weekends in the SEC. But he's capable of that. I
think Luke Harrison is, he's a strike thrower. Max has
done some really good things with him. I gotta think
he would be a part of that. After that, I

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don't know. There's there's some really good competition going on
and we just have to see we we don't stretch
guys out in the fall to throw more than two innings,
and so nobody has on this campus since since we've
been here, has thrown more than two innings. So we
got to see who can handle that, you know, up
to like sixty seventy pitches. We have a group of
probably six or seven that will stretch out like that,

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and the rest of them relievers.

Speaker 20 (37:43):
They're as excited as you are to finally get this
going right, what do you You can't You can't win
the national championship on day one, right, So do you
have to slow things down, like, hey, we cannot cut corners,
just make sure we're doing all the right steps.

Speaker 17 (37:58):
Do you have to tell the guys that.

Speaker 8 (38:01):
I mean, I mean that you're what you're talking about
the culture you know? And then and I and I
think you are. You are making you are playing for
a national title. You're playing for it every day by
the decisions you make, and that your decisions and your
choices are gonna dictate your behavior, and behavior is gonna
really likely to dictate the results. And you can't control
the results, but you can't control your behavior. So you know,

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that's that's one thing I'm really confident in with this group.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Now.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
The thing that changes that is the first time I
post a lineup, right, and the first time I post
a travel squad. And so how what defines a team
besides the health of the team is how does the
team handle adversity, whether it be the adversity within the team.
Right when I post the lineup today, everybody gets to play,
you know, it's like Little League. But then when we
only only nine nine ten guys get to play the

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first game.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
So how does everybody handle that?

Speaker 8 (38:51):
You know, the ups and downs of the season, the winning, losing,
the tough, tough losses, tough tough streak. I'd like to
think we're gonna win them all, but probably not gonna happen.
So that's what that's what's going to define every good team.

Speaker 17 (39:04):
Jim Worg is max for them with the pitching. And
where's a sad as he kind of comes back from
when he.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Was doing mush Yeah, aces of ways off.

Speaker 8 (39:14):
Yeah, he's got a lot of things to work through
health wise to to be able to help us. Uh
so he he'll be down. We're still getting trying to
get some answers on him. He had a tough surgery.
Uh the surgery didn't happen until later in the summer, sure,
which it could have happened a lot earlier. So you know,
he'll be he'll be a part of that's just not
sure what it's gonna look like at the moment. But

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talking about Max Wiener, Grubs, Max Grubs, Okay, yeah, Grubs,
Grubs is doing pretty well. You know, he had some
shoulder issues. He had to get through and he's coming
out of it pretty well. He's thrown a lot of strikes,
but this week gonna be the first time I've seen
him pitch, you know, on this field, because he didn't
he didn't pitch at all during the fall, so, uh,

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you know, he's such competitor. He throws strikes, which obviously
any coach values, so I would imagine he'll be a
part of it, but he's he's behind the other guys
you brought up.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
When does your staff, in your staff in the places
you've been also need ramp up time, just like you
as coach is just getting used to getting used to
your guys everything and obviously the way you do things
and they know how you do things, But how it relates.

Speaker 8 (40:18):
To here, Yeah, I think I think Max, Nolan, Chuck
and I think the four of us you know that
came over here together. You know, we're solid, Troy Garrett,
Garrett Moziello, who's part of us, Chuck Box. I mean
that those guys know. It's more of been myself and
Troy honestly, just and it's been awesome, you know, him

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getting an idea of how we like to do things,
and I think it's really in tune with who he
is and his discipline, his competitiveness, how what he believes
in terms of offensive baseball, and so I'm super excited
about it. He's a big believer in the mental game,
which I am. Like Coach Gurrito, it's a It's a
huge part of what we do. And frankly, I've never

(41:03):
had a hitting coach. I've had some good ones, but
I've never had one that is as bought into the
mental game as Troy is. And that aligns well with me.
So we're speaking the same language all the time. I'm
really excited about our staff.

Speaker 19 (41:15):
So, coach, would you say that as your key ingredients,
I mean, you have a history of winning, you have
a history of being in omah is the mental game.

Speaker 17 (41:22):
The difference is that your secret sauce and taking games there?

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Yeah, I mean good players and bounce to the ball. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (41:30):
I heard coach Savans say I'm never in his podcast
here they never never coached a bad player and being
a good player.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
So that's the first thing.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
But yeah, I'm just a big believer that it all
starts with that. You can't be in control of your
performance and tune your control of yourself and so that
is mental skills are like physical skills. Those can be
practiced every single day. They can be practiced every day,
so that when we get to those moments, right, whether
it be Friday night, first SEC Series at Mississippi State,

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if it's good weather, there's going to be fifteen, sixteen,
eighteen thousand people there, you just go have it at
that and you and you trust those skills, and so
when you have those moments, you just do what you
do and then that's all you can control anyway. So
and at bat here in the today, and at bat
at Mississippi State and at bat in Omaha, it's just
an at bat. But sometimes players make it more than

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what it is. And so if you train for that,
I do believe it's a difference maker.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Otherwise I wouldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
That's the first part of the media conversation with Jim Schlosnakel,
the long Ones Head coach, and you heard him talking
about ramping everybody up and getting pitching up. You heard him,
unfortunately mention it, you know, with Ace Whitehead with regard
to his surgery and the timetable in definite right now
when he might be back, but he likes a lot

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of a lot of the guys. One one guy that
I'm glad to hear uh is completely healed and thrown
wells Luke Harrison, because when he's healthy he shows some
really good things. But obviously he has battled injuries each
of his first couple of seasons, so it's good to
hear that he's playing. And Schloss quite impressed with the
long worn veterans like Max Belou and Jalen Flores, you know,

(43:10):
a couple of real veterans afterwards. So anyway, it was,
you know, all of that was was good stuff from
coach Lass. All right, coming up, we're gonna hear more
from Rodney Terry and in and just down the road
a little bit. We'll hear also from Jordan Pope, the

(43:33):
long orange point guard as well as they get ready
for this matchup with Texas A and really important because
if the Longhorns're able to, you know, get a victory there,
get it to three and FOURIGN conference play, you start
then stacking wins of a ranked opponents, which is really
good for NCAA tournament profile to make sure you land

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in the field of sixty eight. So we'll hear more
from RT coming up from Jordan Pope in a little
lot more from Jim Schloasnagel we'll do that, and Andrew
Monica play by play Voice of the Texas A and
m Aggie's that's all still to come here, you might say,
second half of the program, since we're right out about
halfway through our three hour tour each weekday afternoon Monday

(44:18):
through Friday. Right here on thirteen hunder the Zone.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
We're back.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
It's The craig Way Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
in Voice of the Texas Longhards Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Friday afternoon.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Here on the program, Greig Way and the producer Cameron
Parker getting ready for this weekend. Before we get to
her into Rodney Taylor, let's get it on the record
from you your predictions here on this because we have
three vampire predictions yet again, because both of us had

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the Lions going to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I remember I've changed the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Remember we did this before the playoffs and I said
Eagles and Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Did you really did? I didn't remember that. I remembered
you saying Lions.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
And Chiefs and then asked can I change it? And
you said you obliged. Yeah, Chiefs, Eagles, I'll go back
and find find it, Craig, you want, Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
I believe you. I believe you. So now you're going
to stick with Eagles and Chiefs? Yes, yeah, I have to.
I have to.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah. Unfortunately, well on the Eagle side. Unfortunately for the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
But judging based off some of the texts we've gotten
on our text line and comments on our stream, people
people don't like Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, there's and and I'm really kind of.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I don't know, fascinated is the right word, but I'm
intrigued by the level of the disdain that a lot
of folks have for Patrick Mahomes. Some in these parts
is because a memory played a Texas tag, some think,
and I think this is a large measure. A lot

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of folks feel that he is given the benefit of
every doubt on every call by the officials, to the
extent that it's been unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
And some will tell you unfair. They think it's unfair
that they.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Haven't they haven't gotten uh uh you know that that
their opponents have have not been given the benefit of
the doubt on that and that and that. You know,
we've all seen the memes about, you know, the the
officials wearing red uniforms and Roger Goodell and all that

(46:56):
sort of stuff. We've seen that. So yeah, there's a lot.
Like somebody said, if you're going if you aren't going
to acknowledge this was this morning. Somebody said this to
Hardball hard and Mark Henry, if you aren't going to
acknowledge how many times my homes is handed a new
set of downs for BS calls, you aren't having a
serious conversation. So somebody that's, like you said, is not happening.

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Somebody else asked about the number, saying the number one
album they had when they were born was nineteen eighty
two John Cougar's American Fool, a number one album when
I graduated high school? What's our MANCB? May twenty seven,
two thousand, in sync?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
No streams? I kind of filling. CB's a big in
sync fan. Yeah, I wonder about that.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
He also said, speaking of the Mavericks and the Thunders,
and I did well.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I saw this on Twitter this morning.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Did you see the clown do the horns down after
hitting the half court shot to win money? Dude won
twenty thousand dollars. He had a half court shot, and
then he turned around and with horns down after.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
It's funny, this happens at okay See. Every year someone
hits a half court shot. It happens. It's been happening
since the Katie Russ era.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Really, and like someone on Twitter, Nate Jones, who's kind
of an NBA Twitter account, was like, we need Pablo
Tory from ESPN to do an investigation on this because
it does feel like every single year, at least once
or twice, an okay See thunder fan hits a half
court shot during the game to win.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
I think he went twenty thousand last night.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
The other thing, you know, how, like when you're like
just a kid, because it was just like a teenager, right,
maybe like a younger male, right. You know how like
when you take pictures and stuff you don't want to
do with your hands, so a lot of times it's
like maybe like a thumbs up or something stupid. I
think that's horns down for a lot of stupid kids.
Like if they're like on video or taking a picture
or something, what do you do with your hands?

Speaker 2 (48:53):
They don't know? Horns down? Okay, what comes? But Hey,
rent free, Yeah, rent free, there you go. We like
keep doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
A friend of mine up in the Dallas for where
their ty walker's worked in sports radio a long time,
had I guess he. I don't know if he retweeted this,
but the title is what would happen if each of
the four remaining teams wins the Super Bowl? It's got
their logo and then a slugline. For example, for Kansas City,
it's got the chiefs arrowhead, and then it says Patrick
Mahomes enters serious goat debates. For Buffalo, it says Josh

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Allen officially as sends Lamar in Burrow. For Washington, it
says Jane Daniels immortalized for best rookie season ever. And
then for the Eagles, it says, we'd all probably quickly
move on with our lives. Sounds like a frustrated Cowboys fan.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
I think that it would be the same reaction with
like Ohio State winning the championship.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Yeah, I think a lot.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
But they and it had what they said, really poor ratings,
twenty two million, which is down.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
It was twenty five for Michigan, Washington was down. Do
you think college football needs to move up the national Championship.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Well, the only way they can do that, and the
only way they can do a lot of things differently,
they're gonna have to get rid of the conference championship games,
and the conferences don't want to do that because of
the revenue on that. So there's it's gonna have to
be a lot more discussed about that.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Look, because if they expend the playoff Craig, then it's
back at least another week, which means the National Championship
would be this Monday. Maybe gets to a point where
you play it during the Pro Bowl weekend.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Well, the only weekend they have that they can do
that is the weekend of Army Navy, and they'd have
to move Army Navy into the Conference championship weekend, which
if Army or Navy qualifies for the Conference champions like
Army did, it wouldn't work.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
So then you got to push it back a week.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Yeah, or play summer suggesting play Army Navy either at
the start of the year or in the middle of
the year, I like Texas OU or whatever.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
I don't know. I don't know what the answer to
that is.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Let's hear some more from long Warren men's basketball coach
Rodney Terry as he gets his team ready for tomorrow's
matchup with Texas A and.

Speaker 21 (50:54):
Him, Hey ARTSI so Kaden Sederick he had in the
second happy at that moment where you know, he's on
the receiving the end of a big dunk, but then
he responds by diving on a loose ball that was
really important into a bunch of free throws, had that
one basket in the lane. Can you just talk about,
you know, his toughness and you know what that sequence

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can kind of mean for him moving forward, about you know,
establishing you know, culture for this team, especially on a
team where you don't have a ton of returners and
he is one of the only returners. Can you just
talk about that sequence and you know what that shows
about him?

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Well?

Speaker 11 (51:29):
Sure, is that, no question about it. I think Cain
has been one of our more consistent players. You know
a lot of times he doesn't get a lot of
conversation because people are equating a good game with how
many points you score and things of that nature.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
But if you look at what.

Speaker 11 (51:43):
Caden does with all the intangibles and how he impacts
winning and whether or not your team successful a lot
of times it does show up in the statue. He's
a cerebral player who knows his calend report inside out.
He knows the personnel, he knows the schemes we're trying
to do offensively defensively. At times I challenge him to
try to be more offensively minded because he is a

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guy that can't score the basketball and have some good
twos to work with offensively.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
Sometimes he doesn't see himself being that kind of guy.

Speaker 11 (52:14):
But when he is and he's putting pressure on the
other team in the paint, it makes our team so
much better. He runs the floor, He's very agile. He
could be a guy that protects the rim. He's rebound
the ball well for us. He doesn't mind, you know,
giving his body up fifty to fifty balls.

Speaker 6 (52:32):
He's shooting free throws right now at a high level.

Speaker 11 (52:35):
You know, and I think again he's playing with a
lot of toughness. I think Cayden Cedric has posted in
every game this year in a very very positive lightboars
on both ends of the floor.

Speaker 7 (52:46):
Artie the idea of not making it bigger than it is,
but a big resume opportunity home game. You know, these
are so important. How do you kind of strike that balance.

Speaker 11 (53:00):
Well again and him well coached team Buzz has done
an incredible job with this program. There, you know, one
of the top teams in the country. They've got a
lot of continuity.

Speaker 6 (53:11):
From last year, a lot of experience.

Speaker 11 (53:15):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
They play physical, they show the basketball.

Speaker 11 (53:20):
They have an older leader and Wade Taylor, who's one
of the best players in the country. You know, pain
has come in and really given them the inside presence.
Officially again, I think they're the best offensive rebounding team
in the country and then the best you know, fifty
to fifty team in the country.

Speaker 22 (53:38):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (53:39):
And and they put a lot of pressure on the basket,
you know, attacking the basket. So you know, again you're
you're excited about an opportunity gets one of the top
teams in the country. We know we have our work
cutout for us in terms of how hard we have
to play and you know, the execution, we have to
try to have them both ends of the floor.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
But a lot of respect for or Texas A and
M in that program.

Speaker 14 (54:02):
It kind of following up on the resume component after
that Missouri win, like, has was there any discussion about
what that does to boost you guys, and that you know,
really your goals are all potentially ahead of you as
far as tournament edplications and stuff like that.

Speaker 11 (54:16):
You know what, I think, there's h I think in
this league you only have the game for one night.

Speaker 6 (54:24):
You win, you lose.

Speaker 11 (54:27):
You got it for one night, and it's on to
the next challenge, because every every game in this league
is a challenge. There's not one bad team in this league. Uh,
there's not one team in this league it's not well coached.
So it's on to the next one. And always tell
our guests control what you can control and live where
your feet are.

Speaker 6 (54:46):
And for us, it's.

Speaker 11 (54:47):
A and M right now, and we're all in on
this this one game.

Speaker 14 (54:53):
And then last one for me obviously a bunch of
you guys. You know, you go into College Station and
you lose, you feel I feel like your guys understand
like the rivalry here and kind of what this would
do for you know, fans and that component of this game.

Speaker 11 (55:08):
Oh, they felt the robbery of it of the game.
The minute we walked in that building. You know, they
had a great crowd, great atmosphere and a great home
court that day.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
I'm hoping that we.

Speaker 11 (55:21):
Have a great home court ourselves in terms of Long
Order Nation and our student uh you know group last
ball game, the Corral and our students just in general.
Last game came out and it showed out. I mean,
you know, we don't probably win that game if we
don't have the energy in that building from our student body.
You know, they they are a difference maker. They will

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our teams and they have willed out our teams in
the past in the Movie Center two wins, and so
it does make a difference in terms of the atmosphere.
You have, every atmosphere we going into in this league
has been sold out. We haven't gone to building that
hasn't been sold out. Student section has been full, and

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so it makes a difference when.

Speaker 6 (56:06):
You play in those kind of environments.

Speaker 11 (56:08):
And you know, I think for us, you know, our
guys get excited about it.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
They know how big a robberies.

Speaker 11 (56:16):
And it's a great robbery for the state of Texas
and and for college athletics for us.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
To be playing again.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
It's a long worn's head coach Rodney Terry. So we're
gonna have some more from RT from last night's edition
Longhorn Weekly. Some specifics about Texas, A and M coming up.
We've got some NFL notes up next here on AM
thirteen under the Zone. We hope we're adequately preparing you
for the weekend of sporting activities NFC AFC Championship. You're

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picking Kansas City. You think it'll be a close game
like they've had some of the past.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Think so, I think so. I think it'll be a
very close game. There's going to be a past interference call.
There's going to be a rough, laid hit out there,
like a disconcerting signals type call, something.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Ridiculous side aid.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Yeah, something like that that's going to aid the Chiefs
and just anger people all over again.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
That's it's gonna be funny about that.

Speaker 6 (57:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
If the Chiefs, like and I'm not expecting this, I'm
expecting a close game like you are. But if the
Chiefs wallop the Lions that they are Lions, the Bills,
if they beat them decisively, you know, people will be
as disgusted as they would be if they want a

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tight game, they just won't have as much to grumble
about if it's lopsided on it. But I do think
it'll be a close game as well. What about the NFC.
You think it's going to Eagles will handle I think so.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I thought Philly was going to have their way with
Los Angeles because of their ability to run the ball,
and it came down to the fourth downstock right. So
Washington has played Philadelphia pretty tough the last two years.
They beat him last season, they beat him this season
in a game where I think they had five turnovers
the Commanders did and they still weren't. Of course, Hurts

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got injured in that game, but they play him tough,
and I do think Washington has some sort of bravado
confidence within the team and the coaching step.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
They're like, we're not scared of the We're.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Not at the number two and number three rushing teams
in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
What I do worry about, though, is Washington's defensive line,
which was was pretty average this season. But what's the
weather going to be?

Speaker 23 (58:22):
Like?

Speaker 2 (58:22):
That's another factor. Well, it's Philly in January, so that's
I think.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
I think it'll be tough. I think both games will
be tight. I think both will be real fun football games.
And I'm excited for this weekend. All Right, it was
a good day for baseball workouts. However, in the UFCU
dishfallk Field, first day for the team workouts there for
the in advance of the brand new season which begins
three weeks from the day at Global Life Field and

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Arlington against the Washington No No against the Louisville Cardinals
on the Friday night. That'll be the season opener for
Texas there as they play Global Life Field. A little
while ago, had a chance to pop over to UFCU
Dish Farfield with other media for media session with Long
Warren's head coach Chim Schlostegel.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Here's the second part of that conversation with the coach.

Speaker 18 (59:11):
How important was he to bring in new arms to
help ulster a pretty depleted squad, but also bring.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
In some sec experience arms like McCreery and Sonya.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Yeah, I think I think all that's important.

Speaker 8 (59:23):
Grayson has been in the league, McCreary's been in the league.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
I think that helps some.

Speaker 8 (59:29):
It's more about bringing in the best arms we can find,
you know, getting the job June twenty fifth or twenty six,
whatever it was, and then you have four or five
days left in the transfer portal. We were on the
tail end of all that stuff. So yeah, but it's important.
I think anybody, you can't teach birthdays, you can't teach experience,
and so having those experience guys and even Spencer, who

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didn't pitch the SEC but he's pitching the super Regionals and.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
At a really high level of Indiana State.

Speaker 18 (59:56):
Coach, can you talk about some of the freshmen classic
came in this past semester as well as some of
the guys that followed you, and you know, how's Adrian
coming along in terms of his development.

Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
Specifically, Yeah, start with Adrian. Adrian's done really well. He's
We've asked him, you know, we've had a massive, massive well.
I said, really a lot of stuff on the weight room,
Like I'm a big believer in the weight room, and
Adrian's gotten nineteen pounds heavier, he's running faster, he's a

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switch hitter, but he's he's really young and it's hard
to be competitive. It's hard to be great in our
league as a freshman. You can do it, but when
you do it, you're awesome. And so he's got a
chance to do that. Really excited about some pitching Jason Flores,
Drew Rerick, Bryce Navarre, and Dylan Valantis, especially Valantis Valantis

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is super talent and he's He's a guy that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
We got late in the summer, was got drafted.

Speaker 8 (01:00:54):
Was was that USC got out of that situation and
we were able to get him right. He was the
last player we took very very end of the summer
as a high school player, and I'm really excited about him.

Speaker 23 (01:01:05):
What do you do with a guy like Jonah Williams,
you know, size of him as a baseball player, and
you know you and Sark are both big on your
guys being dialed into your team's How do you, you know,
talk about the Jonah Williams experience.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
I guess yeah, so far, it's been amazing. Jonah.

Speaker 8 (01:01:23):
Got to give him a lot of credit for how
he's handled himself coming in as a high school senior
basically and coming into a team, how he's handled himself
in the clubhouse.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
He speaks up, he's not afraid to be assertive.

Speaker 8 (01:01:36):
But he's also a lot of he's really funny and
our guys love him.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
But he's he hasn't healed yet.

Speaker 8 (01:01:41):
You know, he had that broken collarbone I think the
sixth or seventh game of his high school season, and
so that bone is not fully healed yet, so I
haven't got to see him do anything but run.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
He can really do that. Uh, you know, he's been
in the weight room a little bit, but I have
no you know, is he a pitcher? Is he a
position player?

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:01:59):
I don't know, but yeah, Sark and I, you know,
we're on the same page, and I certainly wanted to
have a great experience on the baseball side.

Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
So he's ready to go help the football team.

Speaker 17 (01:02:07):
Coach, you talked about the guys being hungry.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
How hungry are you?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Yeah? Really hungry. Yeah, I mean I'm I'm just like
anybody else.

Speaker 8 (01:02:14):
I get giddy about Opening Day, I get giddy about
the baseball season. I'm excited to be a part of everything,
all things Texas. And but I feel that way every season,
and whether it's been at UNLV at thirty years old
or whether it be at Texas at fifty four.

Speaker 12 (01:02:31):
Go back to the Luke Harrison for a second and
just talk about his recovery and what you expect from him.

Speaker 8 (01:02:36):
Yeah, I mean, he's knock on wood, he's fully recovered.
He's he's he's he's gotten a lot bigger. I think
our weight room emphasis that's the word I was looking for.
Emphasis in the weight room has really helped him. He
definitely looks a lot better in the uniform. I don't
like little players unless unless you can really run or
you're left handed. So I like big, strong, fast players,

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and so does everybody, I guess. But Luke's Luke's really
done a good job and just throws a lot of strikes.
And I don't think I've ever heard a baseball coach
go home and say, Godly, my pitching staff throws way
too many strikes. Right, So we'll just we're gonna the
guys who pitch the best pitch the most. The guys
who throws the most strikes are the ones that are
gonna pitch.

Speaker 19 (01:03:16):
Coach talk about being giddy and being in the new program.
Is there anything about Texas that you experienced that you
haven't experienced before that you know only you have that perspective?

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
Well, another question, Uh, I don't think so, not yet.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
No, I mean, I don't think so that. The support
has been amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
Obviously, my relationship with with Chris Delcante that helps out
a lot because I know how he operates the people
that help him. Sarah Baumgardner, you know Drew Martin Drew
I work with at TCU, so a lot of familiar
faces here, but also a lot of familiar faces like
Craig and other people that are around the program makes

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it a lot, you know, super comfortable, at least in
the moment, So I'm sure it'll be uncomfortable once we
get going. But that's okay, you know, I mean, that's
that's part of it. You know, I'm excited for this.
I've I've worked my entire life for, you know, play
for opportunities like I had at A and M and
like I had here where you're coaching at the absolute
highest level of your profession against the best teams.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:04:20):
I love my time at TCU and and we did
an awesome job there. But when you're in this league,
wait till you guys see it like it's it's the
big leagues of college baseball, and it's every single day,
which will drive you crazy, but it's it's so fun
and so challenging. So that personal challenge to do try
and try and win here at this great place in

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that league is what excites me a lot.

Speaker 23 (01:04:45):
What what do you think something your players have already
noticed that's different now with Jim Flasnagel as coach.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
What would what would you think they're.

Speaker 8 (01:04:56):
Uh, you probably I'd be interested once you asked them
when they come up here. But uh, I mean I
think they Well, I'd like for them to see how
invested I am.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Like, I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:05:05):
I don't play golf. I don't have that. I'm pretty
boring guy. I don't have hobbies.

Speaker 13 (01:05:09):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:05:09):
I like to be here and I'm at the point
in my life with my children grown where I can
be here all the time and and be around and
help them and encourage them and hold them accountable too.
And so I'm I'm active in practice, and I love baseball,
and you know, and I like the lifestyle of coaching.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
It's not a profession to me. So I would hope
they feel that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Said omahall is mandatory.

Speaker 17 (01:05:33):
It's true.

Speaker 8 (01:05:34):
Yeah, Kirk, you say that too. We are the same church.
So so I'll pray for you appreciate. Yeah, Yeah, I
get it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
Yeah, I get it. I know thirty eight trips.

Speaker 8 (01:05:52):
I sit that I sit in an office that coach Dish,
coach falk Uh, coach Gus and Augie. Their pictures on
the wall, and I it stares at me every single day,
so but I'm not afraid of that. And every game
is not gonna be perfect, Every season is not going
to be perfect. I would love but you know, I'm
excited for as long as you have high support.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
I'm totally cool with the high expectation.

Speaker 12 (01:06:16):
There's a lot of kids from Texas on this roster.

Speaker 14 (01:06:19):
How much did your connections around the state help in
building this roster, as you mentioned, was kind of a short,
short time period.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Well, I mean, i'd have to go back and look,
there's a lot of them already here, you know that
are from the state.

Speaker 8 (01:06:30):
Certainly, a lot of great players, great high school coaches,
great summer summer teams in the state of Texas. We
want the best players in Texas easily, obviously, but that
in today's travel baseball, kids play all over the country,
so they're they're used to being away from homes and
sometimes you see a guy. We recruited a kid from
Houston this fall who's going to Florida, and ten years

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ago you would have never seen something like that. And
now because they play all over the country, you know
kids are going to leave the state. But at the
same time, we have commitments from best left a pitcher
in the northeast. We have the best centerfielder in North
Carolina community here like so I think we want the
best player. And if he's in Texas, great, If he's not,
then that that's finds him to here.

Speaker 20 (01:07:11):
To hear your excitement from your voice when you talk
about those guys, Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:07:16):
You know you're not inheriting this broken down julyn. You know,
you're you're hearing a pretty good, pretty machine.

Speaker 20 (01:07:20):
And I wonder when you look out there, do you
see that's an that's what that's what an SEC team
is supposed to look like.

Speaker 17 (01:07:26):
And now you just got to get them.

Speaker 8 (01:07:27):
Yeah, yeah, I think I think we I think the
the front end of our team is that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
I think that what we have to build up over.

Speaker 8 (01:07:36):
Time is you know, like last year, you know, at
A and M we get we get a guy go
down and you plug somebody in and he, you know,
Kayden Kent becomes the hero of the College World Series.
He's SEC players sit on your bench. You know that
just couldn't happen to get in that line up. And
so that's what we have to build up here. So yeah,
I'm super excited, very thankful to Coach Pierce and his

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staff for the guy, the guys that are here, we
just need those topic players. We got to keep him
healthy and they need to do well. Not that the
other guys can't do that, they're just not They're not
ready yet.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
And there will come a day.

Speaker 8 (01:08:10):
Here where if a guy goes down, we feel really
good about the next one.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Jim. I know a last question for COO Jim.

Speaker 18 (01:08:16):
I know it's early, just your initial impressions on Jalen
Flora's now now so you faced him, but I told
to him on the side.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Yeah, Jalen's great.

Speaker 8 (01:08:22):
He's got a really awesome mentality, prepares baseball means a
lot to him.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Texas means a lot to him.

Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
He had chance to sign you know, seven figures potential
bonus as a draft eligible sophomore and came back. That
says a lot about how he feels about this place.
And I think the weight room has really helped him
as well. He was a guy he was. He was
already a big frame, but I don't know how strong
pure strength he had, but that's greatly improved, and so
we need him certainly to stay healthy all year.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
Can you give us thoughts on the A and M
vim number one.

Speaker 8 (01:08:53):
I mean they have a great teams and there's there's
there's no question they have a great club. They have
Omaha experience, Michael do a great job with him certainly,
have you know most of the team backs of the
character in chemistry of that club is uh is awesome
and uh, you know, we'll see what happens when we
get to play.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Yeah, And it was a pretty interesting question because Kirk
Bowles will drop that in there on occasions. And what
you think of A and M being number one in
the preseason Paul and he's, well, they're really good and
Michael easily, he'll do a great job with him, and
you know the character and the talent of that ball club.
And we said thanks coach, And then when we all

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turned off to our machines, I think it was Ann
Parker Coleman from from kV who said, well, you helped
build that to that point. He said, I'll let you
report that. We got to laugh it the earlier big
laugh you heard in case you missed it was uh,
Kirk Bowles asking him about you know, because schlaw Us

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had referred to Augi Gurito a couple of times, and
he said you know, Aggie used to say Omaha's mandatory.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
He said, yeah, I'm well.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Aware where that you would say that he goes and
we go to the same church, so I'll pray for you.

Speaker 22 (01:10:21):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
He said, he's well aware of the expectations, but he's
not ducking them or running from them or hiding from
them or any of that kind of stuff. Hey, that
huge women's basketball game they got postponed because of the
snow in Louisiana where the LSU women were unable to
leave on Wednesday, so they couldn't play Thursday at six

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at number two South Carolina and LSU number five, and
so because of that, that necessitated moving up the Texas
game from eight o'clock to seven o'clock. Well, they're playing
the game right now in Columbia, and right now number

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five LSU is leading number two South Carolina twenty two
to seventeen hundred two minutes remaining in the first quarter
in that one. All right, we got more to come.
More preview of Texas and Texas A and M who
play tomorrow here on thirteen under the Zone.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
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Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Coming up in a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
We'll visit with Andrew Monico play by play Voice of
the Texas A and M Maggie's I think he's just
got the town. They'll have their workout inside a Moody
Center tonight. The way the reciprocal reciprocal deal. You know
they won't be inside a mood isn't w W E
raw or raw?

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:12:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Ra okay, So yeah, you keep up with that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
I do not keep up with that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
I just noticed that when checking the Moody schedule because
we have to tear down our equipment. Yes, we had
to right right. And then then I see Mark Henry.
I will give him a handshake and say thank you
for all you've done.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
But yeah, well, uh so, I think they'll they'll probably
shoot inside of the Texas Practice Gym this evening.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Probably do that. You're not going to Austin High.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
I don't think they'll go over to Burger Center or
Austin High. I don't think it's some shots. I think
they'll great gym. The floors are warped.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Yeah, doubt that will happen. It'll probably be in the
in the other the other.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Uh the that that big matchup we told you about
on the women's side, Uh, number two South Carolina snack down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
By the way, my car's corrected me, So you were right.
I was wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Okay, so you keep up with it more than me.
And then well I thought I'd seen somewhere that it
was going to be SmackDown.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
So there it is. It's SmackDown tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
That big matchup between number two and defending national champions
South Carolina, number five LSU, the who is unbeaten at
twenty to zero. They're starting the second quarter in Columbia,
LSU with a twenty two to twenty one lead.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
That thing is probably going to go to the wire.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Might go to the wire tomorrow between Texas and Texas
A and M. This is from last night's edition of
Logorn Weekly with head coach Rodney Terry out at Pluckers
at the West Campus location. Riddey and I talking about
this matchup between Texas and Texas A and M tomorrow night.
Here's the first team that you will be seeing for

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a second time this season. I always ask you about
this when you get to the second half of the season,
of the conference season, and really, Truther, you're not even
at the second half. Yeah, you're getting closer to it.
That How much can you take from the first game?
It was three weeks ago, So how much can you
take from the first game against Texas? He and them

(01:14:01):
the game over in college station as you get your
guys prepared for this one.

Speaker 11 (01:14:05):
WUR team's grown tremendously from our first league game to
where we are right now. Uh, in just understanding how
competitive you have to be in this league, how physical
you have to be in this league, how you have
the value taking care of the basketball, how important it
is with.

Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
Player movement, ball movement. You know, we've we've learned a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:14:23):
You've got to be able to put consecutive stuff together
throughout the course of the games. Uh, in this league,
you know, and it was a team again that's well coached,
they're older, you know, they've got a lot of experience.
Wayne Taylor one of the best guards in the league.
You know Phelps is playing, is one of the best
guards in the league. How about a bask hitting the

(01:14:47):
winning another experienced player that played really well in postseason
play last year.

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
I mean toward the latim Porter last season.

Speaker 11 (01:14:54):
You know, he's a guy who scored sixteen points a
game almost down the stretch for him, so he's a
capable score great body gets downhill.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
They're bigs, are physical, they come.

Speaker 11 (01:15:04):
To rebound, they're extra effort players and you know, I
think again they're the best in the country and rebound
in the basketball and fifty to fifty game in the game.

Speaker 6 (01:15:13):
Within the game.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
In the first meeting in College Station, you had a
couple of six point leagues in first half, you were
tied at the half at thirty seven. They hit the
big explosion out of the gate. I think a fifteen
to two run at the start of the second half
and sometimes at the sides games and sometimes a dozen't
I know, your team was fighting to try to get
back in it, and that's kind of tough when they
come out of the gates.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
That tough in the second half.

Speaker 6 (01:15:34):
Well, they're a physical team. I thought we did.

Speaker 11 (01:15:36):
We did a really good job in the first half
over there, keeping them off the glass and second chance opportunities.
You know, I think they have three offensive rebounds in
the first half over there, and second half, you know,
they really stepped their game up in terms of getting
second chance opportunities and really just kind of wores down.
Their defense is really good as well. They changed their
defenses up there. They're switching defense. They played some men,

(01:16:00):
you know, they play some zone defense as well. And
then their pressure up the floor a little bit, you know,
in terms of trying.

Speaker 6 (01:16:06):
To slow you up and take time off the clock.

Speaker 11 (01:16:08):
And you got to do a great job of value
taking care of the basketball, scrolling with the basketball.

Speaker 6 (01:16:13):
This is a is a grown man's game.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Yeah. And it's a deep team, isn't there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
They've got guys who can give them some valuable minutes.
You brought up way Taylor who most folks feel that way.
Taylor Forth is probably the best player on the roster, but.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
He was injured for a while, came back.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
He has had a couple of games where he wasn't
in his full throttle self that we're used to seeing.
But even in those moments, Zurick phelps or a basket here,
some of the other guys picked up the slide well.

Speaker 11 (01:16:37):
His leadership and his experience even when he's not on
the floor for their team, it's a big deal for them.
I mean, he's almost a two thousand points scorer over there.
I think he's a second leading leading school over there,
close to climbing up to trying to be the number
one all time leader in points over there.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
So when you have a guy that's won at a
high level, he's.

Speaker 11 (01:16:56):
Put it in the books at a high level, you know,
he commands the respect of his team and he's a
great leader for his team.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Yeah, all right, So there are the thoughts from Rodney
Terry about this matchup with Texas A and M and
some of the parts, the guys off the bench, the
guys who aren't like number one and number two mentioned
Waye Taylor has been banged up and trying to get
back in the groove and the rhythm of all of that.
So we're about to find out a little more about

(01:17:25):
that coming up here in a few minutes. We're going
to visit with Andrew Monica Theyaggies played by playvoice to
talk a little bit about that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
So we'll do that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
That women's game is nearing the midway mark of the
second quarter in South Carolina leading LSU twenty five to
twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Heck of a ballgame. That'll I'm sure go. Like I said,
the distance in that one.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Are up next more on this matchup between Texas and
Texas A and M. Will visit with the play by
play voice of the Aggies at Texas A and M,
Andrew Monica. When we continue on A thirteen Under the Zone.

Speaker 5 (01:18:00):
And we're back to the Craig Way Show. Have a
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Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
App here on Friday afternoon here on IM thirteen Under
the Zone, and you've heard from Rodney Terry talking about

(01:18:29):
her from Jordan Pope as well. Texas against Texas A
and M tomorrow afternoon. Let's hear from the other side
as well, and always enjoy busy with our good friend
Andrew Monico, the play by play voice of the Aggies
of Texas A and M, who had once again the
shining example of one of the stark differences between Austin,

(01:18:50):
Texas and the Brasses Valley is the traffic of rolling
in Towston.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Am I right, Andrew, It's.

Speaker 17 (01:18:57):
The absolute truth.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
Craig.

Speaker 17 (01:18:59):
How are you my friend? Thank you for having me?

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's I'm glad you're still able to
visit with us, because that could be a harrowing experience.
You know that drive over twenty one and two ninety.
You know, once you get on into town, that could
be a big yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:19:13):
And then you get on thirty five and you can
see where you want to be. Right there, that's where
we want to be, and it just takes a little
bit longer.

Speaker 17 (01:19:21):
Yeah, you're right. Six wasn't nearly as crowded.

Speaker 6 (01:19:24):
Twenty one.

Speaker 22 (01:19:25):
Its clear sailing, seven, clear sailing, and then thirty five.
But you know, I do it from the lower end
for so many years in San Antonio. If you want
to get someplace fast, don't take thirty five.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Yeah, there you go, There you go. That's sage advice. Okay.
I wanted to visit with you a not only to
preview this matchup, and it's a unique thing, as I
mentioned Rodney Terry last time, because you know, mathematically, mathematically,
neither side has reached the midway mark of the conference season.
Yet here it is a second game between the two

(01:19:58):
teams already the as as our good friend brad Mark Quard,
who handles the media relations for Aggie Basketball, puts it,
the mirror matchup with the long win. So it's it's
the back side of that and it's it's come on,
it's just three weeks later. But before we even get
into talking about that, I got to get you to

(01:20:19):
take us through what was going through your mind in
the final two minutes and one minute of the game
in Oxford, where I mean, I said at home, I
was spellbound as many were watching, how the Aggies scrambled
back to win that game.

Speaker 22 (01:20:33):
Yeah, Craig, I didn't think there was a way. I
thought they were just going to run out of time
the Bobby Lane line, right, We didn't lose. We ran
out of time.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
And you're just.

Speaker 22 (01:20:40):
Thinking back to like, what's the running the running joke
that coaches, what's the most important possession in a one
possession game, any of them, no matter what sport you're playing,
And you're thinking of whether it was a miss free
throw or this opportunity or an unpredictable shot. But then
he saw down the end, Craig I thought, in a
way Old Miss got out of there, Andy and out
of their style a little bit, where they were playing

(01:21:02):
so well for the first thirty six minutes and then
they go to a different style where the Aggies just
continued to do There's no panic on that sideline. There's
no panic on the on the court as long as
they kept giving them the chance. But in the back
of my mind, I'm like, great, the Aggie's gotten to
the bonus early. Then I look up they have three
team fouls. I'm like, oh, no, is Ole Miss just
going to play keep away. We're never going to get

(01:21:24):
them to the line for the one and one, And
the clock kept dripping and dripping. Unfortunately for them, they
had enough enough time left. It reminded me, Craig of
this that Ole Miss. All our players said before that
it's a team with good chemistry and they do have experience.
Maybe the problem with Old Miss, though, was when things
were going wrong. Craig, I'm not sure they played with

(01:21:45):
that chemistry. I thought they were hunting shots and I
thought Layton shot clocks. They had the ball in players
who the Aggies wanted to have the ball in their hands.
It wasn't the scorers, and there were some scorers who
weren't touching the ball. So yes, they had that experience,
but maybe not a ton of experience together. This year
they've got seven thousand points scores and it's really a

(01:22:08):
good team, please don't get me wrong. And the Aggies
are lucky to win that I'd said it. They stole
one there, but sometimes it matters. Can you be forced
through some fire that the Aggies kind of went through
this had Oklahoma earlier, that they've had games like this
that they've lost earlier.

Speaker 17 (01:22:24):
They had a little more experience than their new not
to Paddock.

Speaker 22 (01:22:27):
But my thought was, honestly, Craig boy, there's just not
going to be enough time in this game. When forty
minutes come out, there would be a valiant comeback, but
they may come just short.

Speaker 17 (01:22:37):
But they found a way to win.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
And one of the ways, obviously at the tail end,
was Mandy Obassek hitting the three.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
Here's a guy who averages seven points a game. But
watching him play, and I might add watching how he
played against Texas the first time, he's one of I'm
sure a roster full of them there for the Aggis.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
But the guy who plays fearlessly, yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:23:01):
He really does.

Speaker 22 (01:23:02):
We jokingly call him march Manny when he plays like that,
that's march Manny because that's what he did. At the
end of the end of the conference season and then
into the SEC Tournament and the postseason.

Speaker 17 (01:23:12):
Some of his best games.

Speaker 22 (01:23:13):
When he is playing measured Craig, he's dangerous when he's
out of control and forcing going downhill. He's a turnverwaiting
to happen, and I hate saying that about him. But
Manny is also a product of playing with Boots Radford
last year, playing with Dexter Dennis before then playing with
Quinton Jackson before that. He's learned and to me, those

(01:23:37):
are the legacies of those players. Is players like Manny,
and then you hope some of the younger players rub
off on Manny. He's really adapted his game. Same thing
like this is what impressed me most. One he ran
to his spot so we could get that pass from
Zurich Phelps, but there was no celebration. He knew I
had to get back on defense, and you know some
players get caught up in the moments. It's his first

(01:23:59):
game winner, but he knew, Hey, the priority now is defense.
Have to get the stop then we can get the win.
So yeah, the bench I think is vital for Texas
A and M they go ten deep, buzz, we'll use
all ten and many is important because if Wade and
Zurich are not in the game, Many Obasiki is the
one who has.

Speaker 17 (01:24:17):
To initiate this offense.

Speaker 22 (01:24:19):
And Craig, I think anytime that you have to run
the show a little bit, I think that helps you
off the ball, because I think you have more of
an understanding of the offense.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
Visiting with Andrew Monicoho play by play Voice of the
Texas A and Maggie's here on a thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
Under the zone and we lost him Hotel WiFi.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Okay, all right, we'll take a break here up against it.
If we can get him back on there for a
couple of final words.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
We'll do that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
When we continue here on thirteen under the Zone, we
pay homage to Alexander Graham Bell for hooking us up
regular phone wise. So when last we left you, Andrew,
you were just starting to answer the question when he
lost it when we were talking about Wade Taylor the
fourth and one, what he means to that Aggie ball

(01:25:03):
club even when he's not one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Yeah, he becomes a coach.

Speaker 22 (01:25:07):
I just want to say, there's an Aggie joke in
here somewhere is there about not being.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
I wasn't going there. I wasn't going there.

Speaker 22 (01:25:14):
So I will, Craig, he's the heart and soul.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Craig, he really is, and you know it's it's so fun.

Speaker 22 (01:25:23):
You know this probably better than anyone when you watch
a player from their first season to their last season
and how much they grow and mature. Though he was
a bench guy his first year, now he's the leader.
And Craig, you also know, when you moved to the
top of that scouting report, and he's been there for
the last three years, you got to do something different
with your game, and that's what he's done. But even

(01:25:43):
when he was on the bench, he knows this offense
and this defense, and he knows his teammates so well
that he is he's another coach and players. Talking to
players is different from coaches talking to players. And when
the players had some questions whether we're playing Oklahoma or
Alabama or at Kentucky, that way was there to answer
those questions. And now on the floor, he's a he's

(01:26:04):
a calming presence.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
At home, he can he can lift a he can.

Speaker 22 (01:26:07):
Lift the twelfth men out of their seats. And on
the road, I love something my partner, doctor John Thornton, says,
he can get he can get fans to sit down.
He's a sit down type of player, it means an
awful lot. The moment is never too big for him.
Craig home road neutral. He always seems to respond.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
The one glaring thing more than anything else that came
out of the first meeting, at least from the Texas
side of thing, is how they were outmuscled and out
rebounded and what the Aggies did on the on the
glass in the second half from that thirty seven to
thirty seven tie and get it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
I think it was a fifteen to two run to
start in the second half.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
The rebounding is just and looking at the numbers Andrew
looks like it's just been a exercise of ferocity on
the part of the Aggies on what they do in
the glass.

Speaker 22 (01:26:52):
Yeah, and it did not that Alabama out rebounded Texas
A and M at home at rit Arena. Alabama got
win despite the fear As comeback. Same thing with Kentucky.
It's part of the identity they have to rebound and
Craig Buzz Williams has said it like this, the moment
that that shot leaves and opponent's hand, that is a
live ball. That's how the Aggies you know, treated as

(01:27:14):
a live ball. The moment that it's in the air.
You don't wait for the shot to hit the rim.
That's too late. And this is also an offense that
is constructed on predictable shots.

Speaker 17 (01:27:24):
Are you going to take the shot from your spot?

Speaker 22 (01:27:27):
Because they have guys who will crash the glass in there,
guys who will get back on defense. And when you
take that unpredictable shot, then that becomes a broken floor
and usually a fast breakpoint because you have, you know,
guys who aren't in position. But no rebounding has been
part of the identity. Look, if you're only going to
shoot forty three percent, you'd better get the mint or

(01:27:47):
or you're going to be in a in a tough time.

Speaker 17 (01:27:49):
So get getting getting that rebound.

Speaker 22 (01:27:52):
Offensive rebound is big for them as well, and.

Speaker 17 (01:27:55):
Guard rebounds are also of important emp just the bigs,
the guard have to.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Rebound as well.

Speaker 22 (01:28:01):
And in that win over Ole Miss on Tuesday, excuse me,
on Wednesday, there were fourteen guard rebounds buzz likes. Anything
between twelve and fifteen is usually a good sign for
Texas A and m.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Wow, uh, you haven't been inside of Moody Center, yet,
have you correct?

Speaker 22 (01:28:18):
I have not, So we were going to shoot around
tonight that's now been moved. Tomorrow will be my first
time in this gorgeous new facility. Yes, now, my family
has been here for concerts. Okay, I'm the last one
to come over here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Okay, yeah, which concerts? Andrew, that's an important question to
me and Craig.

Speaker 17 (01:28:37):
It was it was it was it was my daughter.
So it was Harry Styles.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
Oh oh was that? There you go?

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Sark always tells the story about how he's looking outside
of his window and seeing the line wrapped around the
building for Harry Styles. And that was at five thirty
in the morning to get tickets morning. Yeah, at five amazing. Yeah, yeah,
you're going. Well, it's fortunately or unfortunately, whether you're a

(01:29:03):
fan of w W SmackDown takes President tonight apparently at
Moody will look forward to seeing you over in the
building tomorrow. I look forward to seeing you as always,
and I really appreciate you taking the time to join
us today.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Craig, thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:29:18):
Hey, can I congratulate your partner Sportscaster of the Year.
Well deserves you know, it's well deserved when your peers
are thankful. Congratulations to Roger, no.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
Doubt about it. He's richly deserving of the honor. You're
exactly right. Hey, thanks Andrew, I'll look forward to seeing
you tomorrow.

Speaker 22 (01:29:34):
Same to you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Thank you, Creig. You bet.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
That's Andrew Monica, play by play voice the Aggies of Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
He and M.

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