Texas Baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle previews upcoming season and Vic Schaefer discusses win over No. 2 South Carolina

Get over the midweek hump with Craig Way and Cameron Parker! Hear from Texas Baseball head coach Jim Schlossnagle as the new skipper previews the upcoming season, potential starting lineups and the weekend rotation, and the transition to Austin from College Station. Plus, hear from Texas Women's Basketball Vic Schaefer as he talks about the Longhorns' win over No. 2 South Carolina and how to handle the confidence going forward.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name is Craig Way. Glad to have you with
us this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And us, of course includes the producer of this program,
that would be Cameron D.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Parker.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
The deal on the birth certificate stands for Dallas as
in his favorite NFL team that he hasn't been rooting
for or has been rooting for but hasn't been watching
in recent years. I have to open with this. Have
you seen Dak Prescott's comments?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Not recently?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I did see the bombshell yesterday the Cowboys are apparently
shopping Michael Parsons. Okay, Sax's comment related to that, No, it.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was related to the Philadelphia Eagles and what it did.
I'd heard about this last night when I got home
after the basketball game last night. But then because this
was comments he made yesterday, and then they played them
on Sports Center this morning, and uh, the anchors were

(01:05):
kind of laughing in the NFL because his comment. He
was asked weigh in on where the Cowboys are as
championship Contenders's. First of all, that's an unfair thing to
ask him because they're just not there. But his question,
he said he does not believe they're far away from
where the Eagles are he said, and they quote, I
feel like we've competed with the Eagles and beat them
for the most part when we played them. I don't

(01:28):
want to say, check the record when the other guy's
holding the trophy, right, So credit to them. They've earned
it and they deserve it by all means. But yeah,
we're very close. I'm okay with that. I mean, it's
it's this quarter it's the quarterback. You gotta be confident.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna speak on behalf of his team.
Now we all know that. Is it close?

Speaker 4 (01:47):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Not really.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Eagles are winning super Bowls and reaching super Bowls every
other year. The Cowboys are reaching the wild Card Yeah,
every other year at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, and be.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Trading away possibly one of the top five top ten
best players on defense in the league this offseason.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I hope that doesn't happen. My goodness, Let's say
trade him to the Rams.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like that would be a
perfect Aaron Donald's replacement. Yeah, Michael Parsons, pair him with
Jared Verse. Yeah, that'd be good. I'd be all right
with that.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
But yeah, it was used to the word very that
had people like smirking and snickering very you're very close really,
so that's that was kind of the react to that.
But again, yeah, he's gonna speak on behalf of his team.
He's gonna, you know, say the things that he believes

(02:44):
his team is capable of.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
So yeah, so there was that. A couple other headlines.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, first of all, let me tell folks we have
coming up on the program in a few minutes. We're
gonna hear from Jim Schlosnangle, the long Orange new head
baseball coach.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I mentioned yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I was at baseball media day yesterday for the University
of Texas. We got to hear from a variety of players.
Will Gasparino also uh Ruders, Luke Harrison, Jared Spencer. Uh
So we got we got to hear from a variety
of players yesterday. And I mentioned yesterday we would hear
from Jim Schlosnekle today and we're going to do that.

(03:21):
We're also going to hear from Vic Schaffer, Texas women's
head coach. Third rank Longhorns I think are in the
air right now. We're about to be on a plane
going to Kentucky. They play the eighth rank Kentucky Wildcats.
Tomorrow night in Lexington. We'll hear from VIC this afternoon.
We will also also visit with our good friend Ty Harrington.

(03:44):
Tye uh is gonna be by and large the lead
analyst on those Longhorn baseball telecasts that you'll watch on
SEC Network Plus. And uh, you know, I had several people,
including somebody yesterday on the program text in said, are
we going to be able to watch home baseball games
with no More long More network?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Nope, radio only, Uh listen to Crag and Keith all
year long. No, No, no, I don't want to. I
don't want to mislead people.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
If if they want to watch the delicates and listen
to us, I'd certainly be okay with that. But no,
there are ways. It all depends on, like your ESPN
Plus subscription and all.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
That kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's the same way that if you try and watch
Texas women's or men's basketball game that's not on ESPN
or YESPN two or SEC Network, that's correct SEC Network
Plus on ESPN Plus.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, So that's that's.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
How that's gonna Now there will be some games that
are going to be on SEC Network and.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Maybe ESPNU or ESPN two or even ESPN.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
There'll be some games on those, but for the ones
that aren't on the regular over the air linear offerings
by the ESPN family of networks, the telecasts will be
streamed through ESPN Plus and the SEC Network Plus, so
that's how you would watch those. So Tie is going
to be basically the lead analyst on those. Tie is

(05:10):
going to join us in the four o'clock hour, so
we'll talk some long worn baseball. And the Longhorns are
a little over forty eight hours away from their season
opener Friday night at Global Life Field in Arlington and
the Shriners Children's College showdown As Texas will play Louisville

(05:30):
Friday night at seven.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I do say scheduled for seven.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
It is the third game of the day, so it
is possible that it might start a little after that,
but we're hoping that it'll start pretty close to seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So that'll be Friday.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Saturday night at seven they play Ole Miss and Sunday
evening at six thirty they play Oklahoma State. And so
we're gonna hear from Jim Schlosnagel talking about it. We'll
visit with Ty Herring talking about it. So we'll do
that as well. I know you're aware of this. I
know you certainly saw the highlights. You asked me last

(06:09):
night at the Longhorn basketball game if Kevin Durant was
at the game, because it was a throwback game and
there were former players who were in.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Attendance, and I said no, I said, I think they
have a game. Yeah, they had a game.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I didn't realize he was also in the process of
scoring his thirty thousandth career point. Did it from the
foul line last night? He played really well. He had
thirty four points. But the Suns, who've had their struggles
this year, lost to the Grizzlies won nineteen to one twelve.
But Kadi becomes the eighth player all time in NBA

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history to reach the thirty thousand point plateau. He was very,
very humble and deferential about it and talk about the
guys who went ahead of him and paved the way
and things of that nature. I think he was asked
at one point about comparing himself in the modern era
to like Lebron, and he laughed, it's like, you know,

(07:02):
Lebron does his own things. Think about Lebron's at forty
one thousand points, so, but he was very he was
really good about it in talking about his place in history,
and also that it was interesting when I was watching Sports Center,

(07:23):
because I'll watch it late at night before I go
to bed, and then I'll watch it in the morning
just to you know, and make notes and things like
that of the topics of the day. And they were
asking Brian Windhorst, who is of course their bleed NBA reporter,
and they were asking him about where did he think

(07:43):
Kevin Durant's place in NBA history, And he was extremely
complimentary and talked about him being I don't want to
miss quote him, but it was something along the.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Lines of.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
The greatest e Z shooter in NBA history, but the
way he does and of course there's that what that
easy sniper?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Easy when he sniper was he's a stream handle.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, And they talked about then he said he thought
it was very very apropos and he said, you know, Kevin,
he said, really should take more shots than he does
throughout his career's average I think twenty shots a game
or something like that. He said, he really should be
around twenty six twenty seven, like many he said, But
the fact of the matter is he's an unselfish player,
so that's why he said he should really have a

(08:30):
lot more points than he has, but because of the
way he plays, in his unselfish nature, that's why he's
sitting at thirty but still eighth player all time. Only
seven others have reached the thirty thousand point Plaid said.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
They asked John Moran about it.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Because they lost to Memphis, and he talked about when
an impact Kevin had had, and he said, I hope
he keeps playing, he said. He said, you know, he
does it nice and easy, he said, but thirty k
is not that easy to come up with, he said,
So I hope he's around for a while. And when
the horse said, he still got a lot left in
the tank. So hopefully we'll continue to see Kevin play

(09:04):
for several more years.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Anyway, hopefully we can to see him play next Thursday
at Moody when the Suns come to town and play
the San Antonio Spurs as Wemby and the team makes
their trip up I thirty five, Yeah, that would be good.
What's the mascot's name, Coyote? What's yeah, coyote or he's
just he's just the Coyotes there last night. He was
he was at the game last night. The coyote.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
He's pretty tall, like he's got to be like six
or five.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I don't know. That's the athletic. Those ears stick
up a little ears help. Yeah, and uh and that
halftime entertainment. Those guys, the acrobatics that they didn't they
didn't do too well. They were missing lots. I saw
him miss a few. Yeah, but they were you know,
jumping off those trampolines and slam dunking and all of
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think I could do that. I can.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
I can go out there a halftime, miss a couple
of shots, and then dunk from a trampoline.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I think I could do that. Okay, all right, maybe
we get to get your shot at that someday.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Of course, when I tear my hamstring, then he might
have another near the second half of the game.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Uh huh uh huh yeah, yeah, probably gonna do all right.
Up next, we'll hear from Jim Schlasnegle, Texas Long Orange Baseball,
which we do have inconceivable this hour. So we've got
a lot to get to on the program today. We're
glad to have you with us. Also, the text lines open.
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(10:23):
eight one five three zero. Standard messaging and data rage
may apply. This is AM thirteen under the zone. All right,
let's hear from long Orte's head coach Jim Slasnagel talking
from Texas Baseball. Now, this was yesterday from the media
day availability. We were there, but his availability was pretty
late and the thing we were already on the air
in fact, and that's why I said we would bring

(10:44):
in the comments today.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So here they are, starting with his opening statement.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, despite the weather, super excited, getting what three days
away from first ball game, first road trip, which is
always uh, which is always a good experience. I think
when when guys look back when you have alumni games
and and alumni events and you hear baseball players telling
stories that are usually from road trips. So hopefully we'll

(11:11):
behave ourselves and be in by curfew.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
But but yeah, it's it's exciting, uh to get to play,
to know you're going to get to play, that's that's
super important, just to know that we're gonna be able
to get the games in with the roof and the
and the and the facility there, and the Rangers do
such a great job. The Shriners being involved really adds
a lot to it. And so we're staying in Fort Worth,

(11:36):
which I'm personally super excited for. I'm going to get
to see some friends, see my children. Coach Sarlow's at
TCU has been kind enough to allow us to go
use the batting cages at TCU on on Friday morning
and get and kind of get out of the hotel
a little bit. So thankful to to coach Sarlow's there
at TCU and and wish them the best to look
in their season opener.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Uh, then the questions he was asked at this point,
and now we're, like I said, a little over forty
eight hours away from the season opening, does he have
a starting lineup set in his mind, adding order positions
on the field, things.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Like that, Oh, you know, I think we're trying to
win the games. You know, you know, I'm not into
exhibitions and just doing things to do things. But I
think on this particular team at this moment, the first
I would say, ten to twelve ish position players have
really separated themselves from everybody else. And so you know,

(12:33):
at different positions. Some of this will depend on Max
be Low's availability and what that looks like for him,
which we're learning getting good. We're getting more and more
good news every day. But we'll play some different guys,
but we're trying to win the games. I mean, this
is a huge weekend for us. If it doesn't go well,
it doesn't kill you, but certainly you can take a

(12:54):
lot of confidence from from it if you do well,
and you know, non conference RPI really matters. And again
it's not the end all either way, but it is
a great opportunity.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Then he was asked about if you're going to ask
about starting lineup, So you're going to be asked about
starting pitching and the rotation and if that is set
up ready to go for this weekend.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
I'm pretty sure I know who the first two pitchers
are going to be. We're waiting to see how some
guys feel today and tomorrow. I'm not quite ready to
announce it yet, just want to I want to get
through today, but we should be announcing something tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Okay, And you heard him, mensa Max Blue being out
of the lineup and being ill of late, So he
was asked for a little more explanation on what Blue
has been going through in terms of illness.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Yeah, he's just been off and on sick, and he
got cleared for full activity yesterday and so now it's
just you know, once he starts running and swinging about
a lot and moving around as long as he handles it, okay,
mostly flu Yeah, I think I think it's I think

(13:58):
he should be fine. He's super tough kid, and if
he tells me he's ready to go, he'll be ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Okay, all right, So that and then one other from
Jim Slawsnekle this hour, and then I'm gonna hear from
Vick Schaefer a little bit as well. So Texas has
been in the habit of playing these early season for
want of a better term, classics. Really they're not really
tournaments because it's not Winter versus Winner. There are three

(14:24):
games set up against three opponents, so that's more of
a classic or a showdown, whatever you want to tournament,
but it's not really a tournament. But he was asked
if he likes this one because Texas has been alternating
playing either at.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
What's the new name for a minute, May Park. Either
it's Dakin or Dykin. I think it's j A, I
k I N. I think he's d I think it
is OK. And uh, you know, they played there last year.
They've been alternating, that's only even number of years, and globally,
Field has been on the odd number of years. So

(15:00):
they've had the early season events because they know they
can get the games in. Like Schloss just mentioned, because
they're played under a roof, you don't have to worry about,
you know, weather delays or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
And so Schlats was asked for his thoughts.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Does he like doing his Texas has been in the
habit of doing this the past several years under David Pearson,
even prior to that under Roggy Garrito. So the question
was asked, does he like playing and having his team
playing these kinds of events.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah, So I would prefer not to do it in
the first weekend of the season. I love the tournament
and set up, I love the challenge of it. I
would prefer to do it like the third week, but
in which I believe maybe next year we're in Houston
that third week. But it is such an awesome opportunity.
You do know you're going to get to play. But

(15:47):
to answer your question, yes, it was already on the books.
Our opener next year at the University of San Diego
that was already under contract. Tell content keeping us to
a tight budget, so I tried tried.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
To pay our way out of one of them.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got a deal on the front end.
But no, I'm super thankful for everything, you know. Don't
get me in trouble with that.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
But yeah, so they are going to open at San Diego.
That's a real unique ballpark. The long Worns did that. Gosh,
let me think about this. It was either two thousand
and three or two thousand and four. I want to
say it was three, coming off the National Championship season

(16:37):
of two, and Keith Warland and I were out there
and it's had a place called Cunningham Stadium. It's on
the campus of USD and it's sunk down like into
a valley, and it's really cool and there are dorms
beyond the right field fence. And the reason why I
remember this is because Dustin Maeski hit one of those
dorms on the fly with a home run that weekend,

(17:01):
So it was something else. We also saw the Longhorns
have a tough time against the outstanding left hander who
just tragically passed away pretty recently, Brian Mattis.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
He pitched for San Diego in that weekend series.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And also because Keith Morland, being as tight as he
is with the Chicago Cubs at the time, had joined
us on the broadcast for like three innings. The one
and only Mark Pryor, who at the time was the
ace of the Cub staff and had pitched at San Diego,
and he just happened to be out there because it

(17:36):
was before pitchers and catchers reported and all that other
kind of stuff, and he was out there and he
joined us prior, of course now the pitching coach for
the Dodgers, but it was so they did open a
season out there at at.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
USD and they're going to do that again next year.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
All Right, we'll hear more next hour from from Jim Schlostangle.
Let's hear something from Vick Schaefer as his team comes
off that emotionally charged and well executed, you know, big
time win of our second rank South Carolina on Sunday
afternoon in front of a sellout crowd at Moody. And
now they go to Kentucky to play an angry eighth

(18:14):
Frank Kentucky team that comes off being surprised on the road,
lost a couple of nights ago at Old Myth. So
here's Vick Schaeffer starting off with his opening comments.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
Oh man, uh well, obviously had a really demanding and
tough week last week, and uh more, kids were so special.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Just love their toughness. I love how they're their will to.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
Win, you know, they just they were, especially Sunday. But
as I've talked to you all before about I like
our preparation, like my staff.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Is, y'all have to know.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
I mean, it takes so much to get your team
ready for these games that are back to back to
back against these quality opponents, top ten, top fifteen, great coaches,
and so my staff is just doing an incredible job,
probably the best I've ever had. And again, you can't

(19:18):
be great without great people, and that's for players as
well as coaches. And boy, my staff is just doing
an unbelievable job in preparation, being ahead of the curb,
being ahead of the game. We never look ahead. We're
always locked into the team that's in front of us.
But behind the scenes, you've got two more coaches that

(19:42):
are doing their job so that when Thursday night's over,
we're onto the next one and we're ready to go,
or when sunday's over, we're ready on Tuesday. So our
kids are just I'm so proud of them. They've really
shown some toughness and resilience. They know, especially when you're
going to play a team like South Carolina on Sunday,

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it's a non.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Negotiable, y'all.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
If you don't bring that toughness and competitive spirit, like,
you've got no chance. I mean, not only do they
have a team full of McDonald's all Americans, and they're
highly skilled and talented, but when the great equalizer, y'all,
is the toughness piece. It's the competitive spirit. Like that's
what separates those people living in the top five, top

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eight versus the rest of the country. And I like
to think that my teams over the years have had
that toughness piece as well.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
And again, it's really a non negotiable.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
As I tell my kids all the time, and I
told the other night in pregame, if people walk out
of the Moody when this game's over and they walk
out and they go, wow, Texas plays really hard to
man they're.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Tough, like I'm good, like I can live with.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Whatever happens, but not that like you've got no chance
on Sunday to win that game if you don't bring
those components to the table. So again, obviously a great
week for us, but you can't sit here and slap
yourself on the back and have everybody else walking around

(21:17):
telling you the next best thing since sliced bread. You
got to move on because we got number eight in
the country on the road Thursday night. And that's the
most important thing. I told them after the game. Enjoy
it Sunday with their families and friends. You could even
enjoy it Monday. But when Tuesday, when you walk into film,
when you walk into that weight room, it's Kentucky. And

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I sent them a note this morning, you know, and
send them a thought for the day, and then told
them in one word, I said, Kentucky exclamation point, just
want them.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
And they've been good about that, y'all.

Speaker 8 (21:52):
Like they've really been good in their preparation and their focus.
So I really don't expect anything other than that this week.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
All Right, We're gonna here's some more from Vic Shaffer
coming up a little later on Up next inconceivable here
on a Wednesday afternoon on thirteen under the zone. Glad
to have you with us as well, on a chilly,
kind of.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Dank and cold Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
We are in February after it all, I mean, it
could be a lot worse some other places.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Was it was it two years ago where we had that?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, we had a couple of major ice storms. I
guess what twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two or
twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Maybe there was.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
The one that was really paralyzing. I think that was
twenty twenty one.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
What was the one where I had to sleep in
our old old station studio? I think that, Well, how
about twenty twenty two?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I think, yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
One of those years was the Texas women had a
Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Game at Baylor, and it.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Was Vic Schaffer's first year, so that would have been
two three, twenty four, twenty five, it would have been
twenty one, And they got stranded there in Waco because
the roads were so impassable, and I said, you know,

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I thought, I'm not sticking around Waco. It's to my house.
And I was living in Cedar Park at the time,
and so that was definitely twenty one and I thought
I can make it there.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
And it took a while, and it was. It was
a little diicy.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
It took me probably to go a little over one
hundred miles.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
It took me four hours, I think, crawling through it.
It got got home.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, that was. That was really bad. And then, like
you said, I guess it was three years ago where
we had it. That that was and that really bothered
me because that was the trip where we'd had the ice.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
And then it got a little bit less icy.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
And this maybe this was two years ago, and I
was walking out to get things that I'd left in
my truck to do the show.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh, I remember this.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
And I walked out on three separate occasions, all about
ten minutes apart. Went down, got something, when down, got something,
went down, got something.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Was the way it ended up working out. But there
was more to it than that.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Every single time I went out, no matter how carefully
I stepped or used a handrail, as soon as I
stepped away from the handrail, my feet went out from
under me and I landed, and you know, legs fly out,
land on my butt or on my back.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
All right.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
So the first two times it was no big deal.
I got up and fell a little silly or whatever.
The third time I landed on my right elbow. I
didn't think anything of it at the time except that
it swelled up like a like a grapefruit and got
all discolored and all that kind of stuff. And I
had to get on a playing to go with women's
basketball to West Virginia, and the trainer looked at it

(25:03):
and said, yeah, you you, you know, ruptured your versa
sack or whatever they're you know, right there by the
elbow and had to wrap it up and it was.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
It was a mess for about a week. So that
was a thin.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Me and Jeff Hall had a lot of fun talking
about your bursa sack for the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, I'm sure you did all its sophomore humor and
all that kind of stuff. How is your sack by
the way, now, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just fine.
I can throw fine, you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Uh yeah, I know we're gonna make a little change
on a couple of things. Ty Herrington was gonna come
on with us at four fifteen. Uh, We're gonna call
him in about ten minutes because it's gonna work out
better for his schedule, and so we'll we'll visit with
Tye here coming up in a few minutes, and uh,
and then we're gonna we're gonna continue to hear from

(25:56):
Vic Shaeffer. In fact, I'd like to hear a couple
of comments from Vick right now and then and then
we'll talk to Tie about some long winn baseball. We'll
hear more from Jim Schleisneigel coming up as well. But
with regard to Vic Shaffer, we heard his opening comments.
They also and we'll hear some comments from Brianna Preston,
the long Orange freshman guard tomorrow who's continuing to make strides.

(26:18):
And Vic was asked what Bree brings to this team
and how she's meshed with the older players.

Speaker 8 (26:25):
I agree completely she I couldn't say it better. You know,
when I was recruiting her, man, I could just look
at her. She's like my kind of player. Y'all know
you've been in the arena. She just brings an energy
and you know, I'm blessed with a two headed monster
at five, I'm blessed with fast and electric at point guard.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Like that's what we have.

Speaker 8 (26:48):
Typically, you have a point guard that's kind of your
half court speech and run your stuff. But and then
you've got one that changes gears a little bit. Well,
I got one that's already in that chain, and then
I got another one that's even in another gear.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
And so we're really blessed with that.

Speaker 8 (27:04):
But replays with such emotion, such passion. She's got all
the sayings, y'all, Like you know what the kids say,
and they're cliches.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
And all that.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
I mean, I can't keep up with all of them,
but she's got them all. You know, whether it's her
money thing or whatever it is, it's but you know,
that's what's fun. Like, that's fun for me to watch kids.
As long as they're not disrespecting our opponent or disrespecting
the game, they're having fun with it.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
They're having fun with.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Each other, Like her and Jordan, it's like an aerobics
class over there on the sideline when they're not in
the game, Like they're just having so much fun. They're
into what they're doing, they're supporting their teammates. They're great teammates.
And so she's right, she is. She plays with that
passion and that emotion and she's got a smile on

(27:54):
her face, you know, and I've got a lot of
confidence in her. You know, she played some big minutes
for us last week and those minutes will continue to grow.
And again Jordan Lee, same thing. She obviously has done
it most of the year. We got Justice in the
other night and she played a little bit for So
it's nice to have somebody that can give Rory a

(28:15):
breather because it's hard to play at this level thirty
five minutes in those highly intense competitive games, and so
we're really blessed to have breath.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
We'll hear more from vic shafor talking about Brianna Preston,
some of the other players as well as the Longhorns
get ready to take on Kentucky to travel to day
to Lexington and they'll play the Wildcats tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
And you can hear that on one of three point
one FM.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Austin Cites station five forty five air time at a
six o'clock tip off. All right, up, next, we'll shift
to college baseball. We're going to talk with Ty Harrington
and get some thoughts from him on this brand new
baseball season, not only for the Longhorns, but for the
game overall.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
When we continue on AM thirteen under the Zone, we're back.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Fame caster
in Voice of the Texas longhearts Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Back here on a Wednesday afternoon and something comes to
mind for me.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Several years ago, this was probably.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Around two thousand and five or thereabout, we on the
Longhorn Radio Network gave an opportunity to a twenty year
old young man because we liked his sound, to be
our studio anchor, and he did it for eight years
and was really really good at it. He was so

(29:39):
good at it, in fact, that he was so good
at it, in fact, that he moved on.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
As a part of.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
What we were doing and ended up going to Westwood
One and then ESPN, and he works now for ESPN
and does more Westwood One things now.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
His name is Ted Emrick.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
And Ted was able to do what he did for
us very very well, served us very very well, and
took it and ran with it and expanded his profile.
The reason why I bring this up is because our
next guest kind of followed a similar pattern. No, Ty

(30:28):
Herrington did not make his on air debut with us.
He was working Texas State telecast. He had been doing that,
but Ty got a chance. We were thrilled to have
him work with us last year on a lot of broadcasts,
a lot of our broadcast and Ty was so good
at it that now Ty Herrington is going to be
the lead analyst on those telecasts Longhorn Baseball home games

(30:53):
as produced here for SEC Network Plus. So he dropped
us like a hot rock, and he's moved on the
TV and he joins us now on the hotline.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
How you doing, Coach, Well, I'm great.

Speaker 9 (31:09):
I don't like a hot rock.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
And I've gotta be honestly, man, a lot of my
associates and friends who know me best always felt like
I had a face built for.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Radio more than TV.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
I'm not going a lot to you, So I'm stepping
out of balance from their advice, and I'm gonna be
a little bit more of the TV side of it,
as you mentioned.

Speaker 10 (31:32):
And it's certainly excited to do all the above. And
I'm sure at some point in time you and now
get a chance to work together on a couple of games,
and things evolve and changes, you know, because you've got
to handle the schedule and changing things all.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
The time as it evolves. But I'm excited for to
be involved with to do the Texas games and the
Texas State games, and.

Speaker 9 (31:59):
I'm selfishly.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
I'm excited, like college baseball is finally here.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
And you know how.

Speaker 9 (32:09):
Big a football fan I am.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
I grew up in a football family. My dad of
a high school and college football coach. I you know,
I loved football. You know, there's always I love baseball.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
But man, it's time.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
And it's it's time to start ringing the bells and
start talking about the path, the Oma Hall and and
conference championships. And uh, you've already experienced the SEC and
a couple of sports, and I franky blee. You know,
people can talk about different sports and how tough.

Speaker 9 (32:46):
They are in the SEC. I think they all are. Certainly.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
You know football comes to mind basketball now because we're
in season, But you and I had discussions before when
you know, before during last year, the last year of
the Big Twelve for the Texas baseball program, that the
baseball and the SEC is unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (33:08):
Yeah, and the facilities, the.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
Influence, the national champions the crowds. Man, it is going
to be an unreal experience for this first year for
Texas fans.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
And by the way, it was just joking on that
about the about dropping us like a hot rock. And
Ty is still going to be able to help us
on some selected radio broadcasts here, so we look forward
to that as well. But uh, and I want to
get into talking about the SEC and I and I
want to ask you about slots, and I want to
ask you about some.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Other things as well.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
That's why I wanted to have you on here two
days before the season opener. But first let me let
me circle back to you, because for folks you don't know,
you're still going to work on the Texas State telecast
with Brant Freeman as well, So that's really cool you're
getting a chance to work both. The schedules kind of
worked out that way, didn't they wear you buying large
could still work a pretty regular schedule in Texas State

(34:03):
and work the regular schedule long n home games.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Yeah, I did, And ironically this year worked better than
it's ever worked. It seemed like when Texas State was
on the road, Texas Is at home, vice versa, and
some Tuesday matchups seemed to work.

Speaker 9 (34:18):
Out as well.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
And uh, and then obviously, you know, timing lives for
me to to be able to handle my day job,
my real job too, and so it all worked out
really good.

Speaker 9 (34:30):
Uh. And then also getting this year, I'll i'll.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Actually bet in Arlington for the opening uh for the
Texas Longhorns at the Globe Life. I'll be working for
Flow Sports and uh and doing uh the opening weekend
there and as if you are accustomed to knowing that,
regardless of what the leather is like opening weekend at
Central Sun Life.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, that's a nice that's a nice thing. Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
And uh, as Tigh Harrington joins us the Shriners Children's
College Baseball Showdown. Uh, we'll have three games a day Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. It starts off on Friday. Pretty good matchup
between a lot of a couple of teams that wear orange.
Fifteenth rank Clemson, number seventeen Oklahoma State. That's the noon game,
and then what follows at four o'clock is number twenty

(35:20):
one Arizona against Old Miss, and then of course the
night game is Texas and Louisville. Now, which which are
you doing? Two games a day? Is that how that's
working for you?

Speaker 9 (35:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (35:32):
Well, we'll do two to one two, And I gotta
go back and remember which one minor or I don't
I don't actually get the opener for Texas. I keep
them on Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 9 (35:44):
And but man, you're right, I mean, you know, it's
a it's a it's a true test.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Look.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
I mean, you're you're opening up against you know, everybody
in there is going to be ranked, and you know
and postseason pasted and pedigrees, and.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
You know, we've already had a handful of.

Speaker 6 (36:03):
Coach UH conversations in the interviews, and you know, everybody's
you know, this time here is incredibly excited about their
teams UH and their personnel, and everybody is ready to
try to go on the field and see what it
looks like. But well, you tell you it's it's a
tough tash. You're gonna find out in a hurry. A
lot of good things are going to get exposed and
some some challenges will get exposed.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
A little bit earlier, visiting with Ty Harrington here on
AM thirteen hundreds, All right, Ty, let me get your thoughts.
We talked about it after Jim Slosmigel was hired at Texas.
UH since we last conversed all their about that. Of course,
he's uh assembled his team, put it together. Our good
friend David Pearce is on uh on on the staff

(36:45):
of Stephen Trout down at Texas State, and uh that
looks like that's going to be a good fit and
all that. How about your thoughts on the you know, now,
as these two programs get set to go forward with
their seasons, Texas was Schloss and then Texas State.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Getting ready to start it season as well.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I think we lost him there, so we'll, uh, we'll
try and reach it back right when I got to
the really good.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Question there, So we'll.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
We'll get him back on line there and and we'll
ask him and again. The first matchup will be Oklahoma
State and Clemson.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Uh that's at noon.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
The second matchup is Ole Miss Arizona, and then Texas
and Louisville.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, So so.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Now UH ties back with us right when I got
to the meat and potatoes question for you, tye, and
and and it was it was the question of uh
now with uh, you know, with when we you know,
visited in the off season right after Schloss had taken
the Texas job and and got some fill in from

(37:53):
you on that, and then since then our good friend
David Pierce now on uh uh, Stephen Trout's after your
former assistant, the head coach at Texas State, and I
wanted to get your thoughts on both of these programs
as they get set to embark on somewhat new frontiers
for this coming season.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (38:12):
You know, I had a chance to see Texas State.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
In the fall play a couple of times outside competition
and had some early preseason practices or I got to
stick my head in there and watch, and they are
really talented, very physical, incredibly athletic on the infield side
and with depth as well, and I you know, the
pitching side of it was exciting and fun to watch.

Speaker 9 (38:39):
They ran some guys out there. I watched the Lost
Kids run out.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
There at ninety nine ninety eight to ninety nine miles
an hour. And so they've done a really good job
of putting together a really good, really good looking, physical,
athletic pitching depth team. And so it's going to be
exciting for coach Strout and his bo I do think
with the addition with the staff they already have in place,

(39:05):
but then also the addition of coach Bierce, who is
a longtime friend of mine, who's been in this business
a long time, and you know, was able to move
down the road thirty miles And look, I think anytime
you can get anybody with his kind of experience on
your staff and knowledge, it's a huge help. And I
think it'll be I think it'll work out great.

Speaker 9 (39:25):
For Texas State.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
I really do it, and Coach Trout to have somebody
there that to bounce different things off of and to
talk about different scenarios, and so I do. I think
that's a win win for everybody and for them at Texas.

Speaker 9 (39:39):
State, to be honest with you.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
And look, we've already you know, we've talked a little
bit about coach Slashenegle, and look, he's a really innovative,
cutting edge coach.

Speaker 9 (39:52):
I mean it's rare that he's chasing the trend.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
He's usually leading the.

Speaker 9 (39:57):
Way and pushing the envelope.

Speaker 6 (40:00):
Uh to create success, to stay on the front end
of an ever changing sport, and baseball has changed, even
though the fundamentals of it are similar and it will
always be, but the data and being able to get
to you know, the different frontiers of of of you
know how you know, spin rates, exit via all these

(40:21):
things that have come into play and being able to
communicate them and being able to make sense of it
is huge, and I think it's a tremendous strength. Uh
of course Los Angles and his staff and uh and
so that look, I think if you're a Texas fan,
you've got a lot of things to be incurdibly excited
and looking forward to, particularly going into the SEC how

(40:46):
that happened. And you know everywhere Jim has been he's one,
So that's a care I mean, he's got the formula right,
He's got something that and I know and having faced him,
you you get to see a lot of it. It's
a very detail oriented program.

Speaker 9 (41:02):
Uh, the players are very detail.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
Oriented game day wise everything and practice wise.

Speaker 9 (41:08):
And you'll see you know, last.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
Year, you and I talked about this, remember back in
middle of March last year, and we were talking about
who's the best team in the country and a lot
of you know, people, a lot of listeners of yours
and on the program or Longhorns obviously for being in
an Austin area and people that pay attention, and it
was it was hard for them, you know, people to
understand kind of what you and I were talking about

(41:31):
that you know emotionally that A and M was probably
the best team in the country at that point in time.
And I felt very strong and I think you did too,
that they were and they certainly played out that way.
Who knows what happens at Montgomery doesn't get hurt, yep,
And you know, prior to the World Series, that's their
best player.

Speaker 9 (41:48):
It's hard.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
It's hard to imagine going into a World Series, UH
without your best player and uh and then you lobby
Lette was even you know, limping down the end of
the season life year as well. So point being the
offensive side of what they did, I was really impressed with.

Speaker 9 (42:05):
The way their patients at the plate.

Speaker 6 (42:08):
Their ability to take walks, their ability to command the
strike zone offensively, and then obviously on the pitching side
of what coach Weener has been able to do on
the data side of it, and being able to engage
his players and to communicate to his pictures, the ability
to throw the ball in the strike zone. It is
so relevant, Craig, and you notice you've seen more baseball

(42:29):
games than anybody probably it's so relevant to be able
to command the strike zone offensively and pitching wise, and.

Speaker 9 (42:38):
If you can do that and you can dominate the strike.

Speaker 6 (42:40):
Zone them both sides of the baseball, you have a
chance that is a true formula for success.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
You brought up a real interesting point, and I was
going to ask you a more broad based question about
what wrinkles might we see in college baseball this year,
what might be different, But I want to circle back
to something just pointed out because this kind of fits
in the category and it's about pitching, and it's about
pitching coaches and strategies and styles. Now you know, it,

(43:12):
like so many other parts of the game, has evolved
over the years.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
But I'm curious to get your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Has it evolved even further with what you talked about
with the metrics and the things that Max Wiener does,
Because all of his pitchers who were interviewed on media
Day yesterday could not stop gushing about Coach Wiener and
what he does. So I'm wondering, are there in your mind,
from what you know and as close as you are
to several of these guys pronounced differences in styles between oh, say,

(43:43):
Max Wiener and a Skip Johnson or or some other
uh you know, outstanding pitching coaches across the country.

Speaker 9 (43:52):
Yeah, just briefly you said between.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Max and.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Yeah, he pronounced differences in styles and strategies and how
they go about it, because you talked about the metrics
and what and and they all use different formulae and
metrics and things of that nature. But uh, but for
that to be a situation where his pictures to a
man yesterday just gushed about Max Weener and what he does.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
And I'm just wondering.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
If if this is a different way of building a
mouse trap as opposed to say, a more traditional approach.

Speaker 9 (44:29):
Yeah, I thinks yes.

Speaker 11 (44:31):
So the answer your question is it goes back when
you were just talking about the game evolves and changes, right,
and but the basics of it are still formulated through
all of this, even the metrics, the data, you know,
what the what the it all shows you and and
tells you about it. If you can translate it and
understand it right, it can really be helpful.

Speaker 9 (44:54):
But you have to be able to communicate it.

Speaker 11 (44:57):
So when you I think, and this is a personal
opinion and and only been around coach, mean know.

Speaker 9 (45:02):
Just a little bit, but watch him.

Speaker 11 (45:03):
But when you do watch him, he communicates He's able
to communicate some really sophisticated, important information. He has found
a way to get it to his players where it's useful.
You're not talking over them, you're not talking around and
by them, you're talking to them, and you're.

Speaker 9 (45:19):
Communicating to him.

Speaker 11 (45:20):
I think he does a beautiful job of doing that,
and I think you see the results of it by
the way his pictures perform. Now to the importance of
your your question, Yes, Skip Johnson, who's known as one
of the better pitching coaches, and go down to modern time,
our time as being one of the better college pitching
coaches there is too.

Speaker 9 (45:39):
I think he Skip does the same thing.

Speaker 11 (45:41):
They've been able to capture a lot of this metrics,
a lot of information that takes a lot of study.
It takes a lot of time to get it and
to be a part of it.

Speaker 9 (45:51):
And then you make it useful, Kraig, that's the hard part.

Speaker 11 (45:55):
How do you make it important, useful and how do
you communicate it to the to the people that they
can take it to the to the practice field first,
take it to a mindset, second, and then translate it
on the field in competition motions.

Speaker 9 (46:09):
Are running hot. How do you do that?

Speaker 11 (46:11):
One of the other things I think you'll recognize this
year too about coach tw heenor when when you see
pictures of him in the dugout, those players like to
be around him, Like if you'll watch him, they're communicating
with him, they're talking to him.

Speaker 9 (46:25):
He doesn't have a grumpy look on his face.

Speaker 11 (46:28):
He's got a really fresh look on his face about hey,
here's here's what we're trying to do.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
Right.

Speaker 11 (46:32):
There's always a positivity to him that I think attracts
him his players to him as well.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Yeah, it's kind of almost like a pictures version of
what you see with those long horn players gathered around
Troy Tulowitski right the way they like to listen to
too low in the in the knowledge and wisdom, he
can impart to them.

Speaker 9 (46:54):
Very much, so very much. So look out.

Speaker 11 (46:57):
This happened during the game of Gain Alumni game. We
were talking and Daylem Flora is on during the inning
and uh, which to me was as a player out
the bet. I was so distracted anyway, it was hard
enough to stay engaged. But he was doing such an
unreal job and I asked him, I said, he goes
with with all five fingers in the glove. He doesn't
take the traditional uh index finger out and uh.

Speaker 9 (47:17):
And he started to explain why.

Speaker 11 (47:19):
How he does it and why he does it, and
it was all built and based around too Low and
how he did it, and.

Speaker 9 (47:26):
So he he likes to emulate him too.

Speaker 11 (47:28):
So that tells you that there's not only just a
physical side of what he's teaching them, there's an emotional
uh attraction to it too.

Speaker 9 (47:36):
They they want to they want to be like him.
They they're bought in.

Speaker 11 (47:40):
That means not only that they bought in by his
actions and how he does things, but they want to
be like.

Speaker 9 (47:44):
Him, So they answer you quick. Yeah, it's very much
so the same.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yeah, very good. Uh, he's ty Arrington.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Again, you'll get a chance to enjoy his work on
those Hometel and cast Longhorn games on SEC Network. Plus
he'll he'll also help us out still and we're still
going to do our weekly visit, right, we are still doing.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
That, right.

Speaker 11 (48:01):
Well, I'll tell you what this Yeah, there's gonna be
there's gonna be so much information out there this year
about SEC, about college baseball, about.

Speaker 9 (48:12):
Everything I went through.

Speaker 11 (48:15):
And I know you're a big fan of D one baseball,
and you spend time, you know, you know, digging into there.

Speaker 9 (48:20):
And if there's so much information.

Speaker 11 (48:22):
Uh from those guys as well, I started going through
and started looking at the SEC for the first time.
I mean, I've always paid attention, but now I really
got to pay attention. And there's so much in depth
information out there. And I think that I think the
true Longhorm fans are gonna be really excited about that.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I really believe that.

Speaker 11 (48:39):
I think they're gonna be excited about there's more, you know,
more information out there the people that come to Dishfalk.
And I will say this too, having visited with with
coach slish than go about this a couple of weeks ago.
He talked about all the all the programs in the
SEC since he'd been in it for the two years
at A and M, and just how the crowds were

(49:01):
and how excited he was about being at a place
where two where the crowds have always traditionally been big
at the University Texas, right, it's important college baseball here
has been important well way before.

Speaker 9 (49:12):
I got here, way before you and I got here.
It'll be important way beyond us being here.

Speaker 11 (49:18):
And he was excited about that, that building that crowd,
getting it even bigger and bigger each time through the
excitement of the SEC UH and the game day experiences
you know, has grown, has become really important and fun
there at UFC Dishfalk, and so I just think it's
just going to electrify it now with the SEC teams
coming in and you start looking at that schedule, that's impressive, right,

(49:41):
I mean, that's that's.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Pretty that's fun. Yeah, looking forward to it. Hey, I
appreciate it. I'll see you up in Arlington this weekend.
I look forward to it, all right. That's Ty Harrington,
the coach, and he joins us each week to talk
college baseball, and again he'll be working the telecast UH
there on the SEC network plus telecast of Longhorn home games,

(50:02):
and again he'll we'll work him in also as available
with our Long Run radio broadcast. Keith Morland rejoins us
as our primary analyst for Long Horn Baseball this season.
We're looking forward to that with the season opener on
Friday night, Texas against Louisville.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
We're going to hear more from.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Vic Shaeffer coming up when we continue on AM thirteen
under the Zone. I want to jump back to college
baseball for a moment before we hear more from Vic Shaeffer.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, Very Augur and Austere group.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Outstanding Guys.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
The National Collegiate Baseball Right Association have announced the Stopper
of the Year preseason watch list. And there's a bunch
of guys on the list, and I think they're nine
out of the SEC alone who are on the list.
One returning first Team All American ben a Belt of
TCU is part of that, but John Armstrong of Auburn,

(51:10):
Andrew Benke of Tennessee is part of that group.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Brian Curley of Georgia.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
These are SEC guys, Kristin Vouch of Arkansas, Simon Gregorson
of Kentucky, Miller Green of Vanderbilt, Robert Hogan of Kentucky.
So there's two Kentucky Wildcats on that list. Two Auburn Tigers.
Hayden Murphy is on that list. And let's see Nate

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Sneaed of Tennessee is on that list. I guess that's
all of the SEC other than Ruger Riojas, the UTSA transfer,
who was a long one. We heard from him yesterday
he is on this preseason Stopper of the Year watch list.
On that on the text line, somebody said, could you

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ask Hi how the Bobcat shape up this season? We did,
and he did this said he really likes but this
is somebody else stated talking about Matt Patricia taking over
his defensive coordinator, Ohio State said his New England defenses
were always effective in shutting down the likes of Steve
Van Buren and Hugh mcallaney. All Right, so I feel
compelled to ask you do you even know who's for
the Okay? Steve Van Buren was a great running back

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for the Philadelphia Eagles in the late forties into the fifties,
the forties into the fifties. In fact, his name came
up during the Super Bowl on Sunday because wasn't it
Cooper Jean the Jean's birthday?

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, and he had to pick six.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Okay, only the second man to score a touchdown in
a quote unquote World championship game on his birthday, the
other being Steve Van Buren, who did it against the
Chicago Cardinals in nineteen forty seven, a game the Eagles
lost that year, and then the next year to beat
the Cardinals in a blizzard in Philadelphia seven nothing and

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he scored I think it was late third or early
fourth quarter. He scored the only touchdown in that game.
And then he had like one hundred and sixty five
rushing yards against the Rams in a driving rainstorm in
nineteen forty nine in Los Angeles. He was from LSU.
Hugh mcalaney was like Steve Van Buren, a Hall of Famer.

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So I think Matt Patricia did a pretty good job
against some modern day running backs as well. He just
it didn't work out for him as a head coach.
I thought he was always pretty good coordinator that he
worked out there. All right, let's hear some more from
Long Orange head coach Vick Schaeffer. Now, we were hearing
him talk about Rihanna Preston and she had a buzzer

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beater against Vanderbilt, and Vick was asked if the team
tries to celebrate little things that happened within the game
that was at the end of the first half when
she had that.

Speaker 8 (53:58):
Yeah, we try to celebrate all those those things like that. Connor,
my video coordinator, he makes a highlight film after every game, y'all.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
He's really good.

Speaker 8 (54:08):
I wish we could put them on social media, but
we can't. But uh, they're really, really good and our
kids that today when we go to film, they'll be
on the edge of their seats looking forward to seeing
to seeing that one that he creates from from obviously
from from Sunday.

Speaker 4 (54:24):
But we do.

Speaker 8 (54:25):
We try to celebrate and show all those things. And
I you know, I'm I always want my camera opposite
my bench because I want to watch and see what
my bench is doing. If they're over there sitting on
their hands, I'm gonna I'm on Gridham. You know, whether
you're a starter or you're coming off the bench, whatever
your role is, when you're over there on that bench,

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I want to see you into your teammates because I
know what they're doing. Especially those kids that start over there,
they're into the starters. When you're a starter and you
come over there, I need you to be into whoever's
in on the on the floor at that time too.
It's it's only fair, and that's what being a good
teammate's all about.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
So there is there's a lot of good things that
we like to show.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
And again we've had a lot of good things to
show here lately.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Okay, we'll hear more from Vick Shaeffer coming up. What
be We will be back to wrap up our number
two here on thirteen under the Zone. But here was
a question that was asked of him about how does
he balance because he talks about how proud he is
of his team, and he takes his team is really
really good, but by the same talk and he talks
about how they're still work in progress and trying to

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get better and all those kinds of things. So he
was asked, how do you balance believing having your team
believe they're the best in the country while also preparing
for what's ahead.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Yeah, you know, that's my job. It's a it's a
it's a balancing act, you know.

Speaker 8 (55:47):
I got to try to keep them grounded and focus
one day at a time. That's that's what I tell
him every day. Let's just focus on today, Let's try
to get incrementally better one percent day, and just again,
when you start thinking ahead two three four days, two
three four games, that's when when you're stepping and we're

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trying to climb them ountain right and get to that
ultimate level, that ultimate championship. That's when you miss a
step and you follow the way down and so.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Keeping them confident. You know, I have to tell them all.

Speaker 8 (56:21):
The time, guys, you have no idea how good you
can be. But at the same time, man, it's it's work,
like there's there's no easy way. Winning is really hard.
Y'all heard me say that a million times, Like it's hard.
It's supposed to be hard. There are supposed to be
struggles when you're a freshman, a sophtoboard. There are that's

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part of the journey. And so and I tell them
each year when we're at this point, we're always it
seems like we're always at this point where we're having.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
A great year.

Speaker 8 (56:55):
You don't take it for granted. Nothing is guaranteed for
us standing here. Tomorrow ain't guaranteed. So embrace and live
the moment right now today, because you don't know what
tomorrow brings, what next year brings, what the next team brings.

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So embrace it right now. I know Shay Holly, she's
living every day. She's embracing every day, every moment, And
so that's what you want your kids to do. I
think Taylor Jones, she knows this is it, this is
the last ride. So We've got to get everybody to
really embrace that.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
And live it.

Speaker 8 (57:40):
I want them to live the success that we're having,
live it, but own it and realize humble and hungry.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
That's it again.

Speaker 8 (57:50):
Sunday's over hope they enjoyed it, But today it's Kentucky
and that has to be your mindset. And I told
them Sunday, we're gonna find out what are maturity levels
like next week. This week, we're gonna find out by
how they come in on Tuesday, their approach, their focus,
how hard they play, because that's what it's gonna take.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
It's gonna take a mature group.

Speaker 8 (58:16):
And again we're always talking about consistency. I think we've
got some kids that I feel good about. If they
know where the bus is loading and what time we're loading,
as long as they're on the bus, I feel good.
But now I'm trying to develop some consistency with the
next group, the next part of the team. When you
get that consistency with all fourteen of them, now we

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got a chance.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
And there's so many plays.

Speaker 8 (58:41):
I'm so tempted to show film today and show them
here's one play we didn't make.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
This one could have cost us a game.

Speaker 8 (58:50):
I could probably show them double digits, you know, one blockout,
one layup, missed, one turnover, one bad pass to a
post player. It's wide open, like I could do that.
I'm not going to, but I want them to understand.
That's how fragile, that's how perfect you almost have to

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play in those moments to win those games. And I
thought our execution down the stretch was perfect. Got the
ball in, got it the right people's hands, we met
our free throws, got a great stop.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
It's perfect.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
That's what it takes to win those games.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
It's always maniacal this time of year. It's about to
get what I call overlap number two crazy because the
baseball season starting on Friday. So like tomorrow night, Roger
Wallace will be with the Texas Women they play at
Kentucky tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
I'll be here.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
We'll have Long Run Weekly with Rodney Terry tomorrow night,
and then I'm going to go right after the show.
I'm driving straight to Arlington Tomorrow night, Friday Long One
baseball season opener against Louisville ge Life Field in Arlington,
and then I'll come back and Saturday night, the Long

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Horn Men play Kentucky and then Sunday the Texas women
play LSU. Roger Wallace will kind of tag team and
he'll go up by thirty five and work Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Long Horn Baseball will keep Morland that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
And then and then we come back and there's a
home opener against Houston and then a home series against Dartmouth.
But we go to South Carolina and then it comes
back and anyway, it goes on and on and on,
and then it gets real crazy once we get to March.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
But those of us who those of you who have.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Listened to the program, you know that you listen to
us and hear us a just on the fly and
do all the things that we do, and it's a
lot of fun. Obviously, we we have a take a
great deal of enjoyment and a great deal of we
put a lot of ourselves into it because we're really

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invested into it and we really enjoy it. Otherwise we
wouldn't do all the games and the things that we
do and the travel and all that other kind of stuff.
It's it's it's a great reward and we uh and
we you know, have to work at it pretty uh,
pretty diligently.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
And stay up on things. But it's an awful lot
of fun we really enjoy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
I wanted to jump very briefly to Major League Baseball.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
You know, pitchers and catchers for a couple of teams
have already reported, except for Anthony Rendome. He will not
be reported. Yeah he could be out for a point
of the Angels are They're really in a bad way
right now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
And but that team across town from him is doing
pretty good. The Dodgers are in uh. Uh, pitchers and
catchers reporting they are. Uh and because they play the
Cubs in Japan before anybody else does, like when they
played the Padres in Korea last year. So uh, they

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do that and then ESPN just put this out today,
the off season winners and losers. As you would imagine,
they were gonna rate Dodgers very highly, and they did.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
But they say, yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
I won't spend too much time here, but they have
to be mentioned first. After starting the off season with
a roster fresh off of World Series title, the Dodgers
added Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott to the bullpen, Blake
Snell and Roki Sasaki to the rotation. By the way,
they're looking at starting probably Yamamoto and Sasaki for the
games in Japan, which I think is a really cool

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gesture if they did that. Yeah, and adding Michael confordo
he signed Kim to the lineup. They lost only Walker
Bueller and Jack Flaherty and free agency and Gavin Lux
via trade, with all three of those players replaced by
one of their free agents signings. They also just resigned
Clayton Kershaw, that did that yesterday. You'll get a kick
out of this. Maybe I've told you about this. Karl

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Ravitch was doing the Longhorned Men's basketball game for ESPN
last night. Rab As so many know, his main Baileywick
really is baseball baseball tonight baseball guy does baseball, but
he does some basketball, and his son is a basketball
play by play guy. Uh and so I was chatting
with him last night and I said, Hey, I'm a

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big Dodger fan.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Heaes, yeah, I know, so he did.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
I said, I said, you think Kershaw is going to
pass that physical? And he goes, oh, yeah, he goes.
But you know he's like your ninth pitcher. He said,
I wouldn't worry too much about that. So but they
did resign Kershaw. They also resigned to Oscar Hernandez Key
k Hernandez Blake Trining. They also extended Tommy edmund and,
while not a free agent deal, this winner. They also

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will be getting the pitcher version of Shoe a Otani
this season. Keep an eye, it says on top one
hundred prospect Alex Freeland as a potential edition this summer.
Right to clear the Dodgers from from the Ledger. Because
everybody knows what they had. Here's the other teams. They
like what they did the Mets. They brought back Sean Manyah.
They lost Luis Severina in a multi year deal, but

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they signed Pete Alonzo, Frankie Montas and Clay Holmes. They
like the Tigers. Glaber Torrez landed him and they resigned
Jack Flaherty as well. They added Alex Cobb to the
rotation and Tommy Kingley to the bullpen Losers. If you
Dodger Fanny love this Padres. It's pretty widely known that

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Padres had a number of penning free agents and not
a lot of flexible payroll flexibility, so they weren't expected
to have a loud winner. That said, they've done almost
nothing merely resigning elast Dies and adding Jason Hayward and
Connor Joe on one year deals to platoon in left field.
At the same time, they lost Tanner, Scott Jerks and
Profar Kyle Higgey, Shioka, Donovan Solano, Martine Perez, and Hayesan

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Kim to Rivals via free agency. They're projected to be
a couple of million over the lowest luxury tax threshold,
and that might well be the target, so I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Expect much in the way of editions the rest of
the winter.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
They also identify the Cardinals and Braves as losers, and
they said the Mariners also haven't done too much.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Rockies have no direction right now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
The Pirates, they say, they're not that far away from
being competitive, of course, led by Paul Skeins as well,
so there's some there's something to be said about that.
They did not mention the Rangers either as winners or
losers on that so is that a plus?

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
I honestly do not know what to think, because we
were so banged up this past season.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
I got to get people healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
Yeah, obviously, I'm totally fine letting go of scherz Er.
I really think he is on the tapped out. Yeah,
but can de Gram stay healthy? That's a huge key, Like,
can can we get a healthy season from the Gram?
And not only a healthy season Craig, Can we get
a good season from him? I think will be a
huge plus. And also offensive. You know, the injuries were

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one thing, but the offense cratered as opposed to the
World Series championship year. So I think this team will
end up being a buyer at the trade deadline. But
we'll see. I don't think there are winners are losers
yet as of right now.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
How do you feel about Jack Peterson in a Ranger uniform?
Like that move a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I think he's he's going to be obviously in a
hitters ballpark at Home Depot slash Globe Life Park Field
where they call it now much needed addition obviously.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
I mean, you know him very well off what he
did for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Yeah, he always looks on and he actually won the
World Series with the Dodgers in the in the COVID
year in the COVID you were there, yep, twenty twenty
he was there. Did he win the World Series with
the Braves the next year twenty twenty one? He might
have two World Series rings. He's been with the Giants,
he's been with the Cubs and now with the Rangers.

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And he's always a good left handed bat. But he's
gonna strike out a lot too. I mean, you know,
that's just that's the way it is. But with the
way that right field porch is situated a globe life,
it might be pretty conducive to a wing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
He always looks like he's about to make love to
his baseball bat as he steps to the plate. He
just gazed as lovingly at his bat as he steps
to the plate. Lindon and I get always a chuckle
out of that. Watch him, and it's part of his routine,
just like you know, no Mar you know, doing all
the gloves and all the stuff he did.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Part of his routine is just he stares at his
bad and then he then he digs in.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
Is it barely does that? Or like from Major League
where what's his name was, you know, had a foodoo shrine.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
No, it's not quite like Pedro Serrano. Yeah, it's not
not quite like Pedro Serrano, you know. Uh, but uh,
I always like Jock and I think I think he'll
be good for the Rangers. All right, coming up, we're
gonna hear more from Texas Longhorns baseball coach Jim schlagles
Long Orange prepare to head north to Arlington to open

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their season on Friday night at Globe Lie Field as
they'll take on the Louisville Cardinals.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
That's next. When we continue on thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Out of the Zone, let's hear more from Long Horns
head baseball coach Jim Schlasnagel getting ready for the season.
Earlier in the program, we heard Schloss talking about when
he was asked about Texas continued to take part in
these early season whatever tournament's classics, things like that, and
he likes the fact that they'll play in Houston at the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
What is it again? Renamed Ballpark for a minute, made
kateon what is it? Kate? What is it? Dacon davidon Field.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
There formerly known as ben at May Park. Next year,
like on the third weekend, they're going to open at
Globe Life. He said he'd rather not open with an
event like that, but he does like it and will
continue to alternate. He was also asked he mentioned that
they would be opening the season at the University of
San Diego next year. So he was asked, does he
know that foreign advance what the opponent's going to be like, say,

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for next year's non conference schedule.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
No, they tell you a couple of years out. I
think Coach Pierce probably agreed. It's weird that we're playing
in an SEC school in a non conference game. I
think Coach Pierce probably agreed to it because we don't
play Ole Miss this year in the regular season, so
that's that makes total sense. But yeah, you know, in
the future, I mean, I think you're at the University

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of Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
You know we should if we.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
Only get four non conference weekends Texas, you know, the
home opener should be here, I mean the opener to me.
To me, it should be at Dishfalk and then we'll
go on the road the second or third weekend, play
at home right before conference play begins, and then go
hit that gauntlet.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Yew uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
So here he is about to begin his first season
as head coach at Texas and of course he started
his head coaching or at UNLV and then he arked
on what he did at TCU and then from there
at Texas A and M. So is the setup for
him this first season at Texas similar to what he
encountered when he began his first season at TCU and

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then Texas A and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
M oh Man.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
I mean, two completely different programs at different stages, you know,
when I got to A and M. When I got
to TCU actually very very similar. When I got to TCU,
they had won thirty six games a year before and
had a lot of older players returning, and that first
year we set a school record of thirty nine wins.

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Can you believe that thirty nine wins was the school
record that year in two thousand and four, and we
won a conference tournament. And then get to A and M,
and you know, they had a rough year the year
before the year before that was COVID and then had
an awesome group of older players very similar to this
core group of players here at Texas who totally bought in.

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We had a lot of things go right that season,
and we had our best players had great seasons, and
we ended up you know, I think we were preseason
picked thirteenth out of fourteen the SEC and won the
SEC West, finished third and Omaha. So could I see
something like that happening with this team?

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
For sure? But that team also.

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
Started out ten and eight and getting ready to play
the SEC play, and I felt like we were going
to lose twenty five games in SEC plays. A matter
of fact, no one came told me that. He told
me you're about to go. You just know you're about
to go five and twenty five in the SEC That's
what we felt like on that night after we lost
to Houston. But we went down there at the baton

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Rouge one, two out of three guys got confident, felt
good about themselves. And I don't ever underestimate young people.
So I have a lot of belief in the core,
the core group of players that we inherited here, like
the gal Vans and the Shustlers and Balloo and Flores
and do Plantier, will Mercer like, I mean, there's more

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than that, but just awesome humans. And but we're going
to be challenged, like really, like this program has never
been challenged before.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Schwatz talked about confidence and how important confidence is for
a young baseball team, so he was asked, how does
he go about doing this?

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
How does he get the team to be confident from
day one?

Speaker 5 (01:12:17):
I mean, I think it just confidence comes from doing it,
and you have to go out and do it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
You know, it's the chicken or the egg deal. Does
the confidence?

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
Are you confident before you play the game or are
you only confident when you have success? And so the
challenge I think is, you know, we call it opening
day mentality. How does every you know, I'm sure there's
some teams in the major leagues that start off knowing
they're going to lose one hundred games these days, But
in college baseball, on opening Day or like, no one's
going over four, no one's, no one's has a bad era,

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you're super confident. And the challenge of baseball is can
you bring opening day mentality to every day? And why
why does yesterday's over four have to affect today's? And
that's easier said than done. But I think that's the
challengeallenge in all of baseball. But it's really the challenge
in the SEC because if you lose the first two games,

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godly man, just try to grab one on a Sunday.
And because if you can come through this thing at
or near or above or maybe in the ballpark of
a five hundred record, I mean, you're setting yourself up.
And then if you talk to every SEC coach at
the end of the season, they're like, we're prepared for everything.
There's no pitcher, there's no atmosphere, and that's why you

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see so many teams do so well. I mean, the
SEC has a lot of the best players, but they
also they're so battle tested. And so I think my
challenge as the coach, even for myself because I'm super
competitive too, but at least having been through it for
three years, it's just, hey man, it's a new day.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Because if you've.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
Done really well for one day, you better watch out
because you'll get your doors blown in the next day.
And so it's just really trying to keep them in
the moment and keep them present because it can snow
ball on you super fast.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
One of the interesting stories with this Longhorn baseball team
is Kimball Schuschler. Schusler started his collegiate curre at A
and M and then transferred to Texas UH and the
worst some hard feelings. He transferred in he had that
eye injury that basically took him completely out of two

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seasons ago, and then came back and was so reliable
and dependable as the backup behind the plate and UH
and could come up with a clutch hit like in
the regional and college station. And he kind of pointed
to Schlasnagel in the Yaggie dugout when he ran to
the bases and all that sort of stuff. Well, Kimball
now is in the transitioning one from catcher to first base,

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and Schlast was asked, would have much difference in his game?

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Does would his game elevate?

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
How?

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Would he see you know, significant difference in his game
transitioning from behind the plate to first base?

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Not necessarily. I mean, I think Kimball. Kim's a really
good catcher. Obviously, when you move out of that spot,
then there's less to think about. It's kind of like
a lot of times you'll take an infielder and move
them the outfield and he starts swinging the bad a
little bit better because there's less to think about. When
you're playing the outfield, you got to pay attention. It
can get boring out there. But no, Kimball, Kimball just

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loves It's important for Kimball to be around the baseball.
I mean, and I judge a first basement's defense by
the lack of throwing errors of the other infielders. Right,
if a first baseman can field a ground ball. I mean,
we want him to field a ground ball, but all
you got to really do is tackle it and flip
it to the pitcher. Most of the time, the key
is how do you play around the base and when
that ball gets thrown on a short hop, that's an error.

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Can you pick it and keep it from being an error?
And so he's worked really, really hard. He's had a
history of arm issues, so we need to protect him.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Will he catch some this year?

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
I'm sure he will at times, But that's why the
development of Chamberlain the service is super important. But Kimball
was kim has been through a lot in his career.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Uh you know.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
I was a part of recruiting him at TCU. We
tried to get him to come to TCU, and then
I get the A and M and and we didn't
have a spot for him at A and M.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
And that was a tough conversation.

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
And and then we played him last year in the
regional and he hit a homer and he rounded third
base and had a few awesome words to me, which
I love. I actually love that. I love Kimball. He's
an ultimate competitor. He never takes off a pitch, and
so we just have to keep He's an example. We
have to keep those guys healthy because those for us

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to have success, our best players have to be on
the field. Uh yeah, no, I can't. My mother would
be pretty disappointed if. Yeah. So, And they're glad they're
back on the same side.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
The mental part of the game always important, always so
so important, and Schloss asked how this group has responded
mentally in his first off season with them.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Yeah, it's been awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
I think you know they've Mental skills are things that
can be practiced. And if you've been around this program
with coach Gurrito and you know that. And we've spent
more time, effort, and money in developing mental skills than
anybody else in the country since two thousand and six
at TCU A and M and now here. And I

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believe that you can't be in control of your performance
unless you're in control of yourself. That's why this upcoming
tournament is such a I mean, you talk about stepping
into deep water, and you're going to play in a
big league park against great teams on TV, great crowds,
and so the challenge, I mean, somebody asked me Yeshually,
what do you want to see out of the weekend
besides three wins or wins? And it would be just

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how our players handle adrenaline and adversity which you face
in every baseball game. And you're really going to see
it this weekend. And so you know, we've practiced those things,
we talk about them, we show them videos like we've
waited every day. It's the first thing we work on
in the fall, along before swings or pitches or anything else.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
And so it's that important to us. And they've bought in.

Speaker 5 (01:18:09):
Now they have to go put it to practice in
the most you know, competitive environment, at least what they
we'll see now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
You're going to hear a word used a few times
in this next piece of sound with Jim Schlasnagel, and
it applies to the run up to this season, everything
that happened from last June when Texas A and M
season ended in Omaham, and we know what happened next,

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and we know with you know, Schloss meeting up with
Crystal Kanti over and Snook Cemetery and the deal got
done and it comes over and there's.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
All kinds of.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Uh manic things and conversations that happened. That wasn't the word.
There's a different word, and you'll hear it when he
was asked when the things began to feel normal for
him after a and here's that word, chaotic arrival.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
They started to feel normal when I got to Once
I'm on the field with the players, then it's awesome.
You know, everything outside of that is just it's slowed
down some, but it's just been super chaotic. And you know,
the one word, you know, I guess my one word
for twenty twenty four looking back would be, you know,
chaos or drama or whatever. And there was just so

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much of it, you know, from the middle of June
on and that's you know, I mean, it's a decision
I made too, So it's not like, you know, someone
held a gun to my head. It was a choice
I made, but or we made as a group, Nolan, myself,
Max and Mike for a couple of days and and
and Chuck. So but once you get on the field

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with the players, that's the best. That's the best part
of my day. The worst part of my days leaving here.
The best part of my day is coming to the ballpark.
And so once you're on the field. It has always
felt no on the field, it's away from the field
that it's it's not quite there yet.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Yeah, chaotic, you might say, but it'll probably settle in
once the season gets going. Schloss also has how he
wants his older guys, the returning veterans of this team,
to lead this team in the clubhouse and on the field.

Speaker 5 (01:20:19):
Yeah, just helping him through those tough times. And they've
already done that. They've the first thing they've done is
they've established an unbelievable blue collar work ethic at an
incredibly white collar school, you know. And what I mean
by that is it's Texas. Like you know, everybody thinks
Texas has the most and the grandest of all things

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in college athletics, which we have a lot. We do
have a lot of cool stuff here, but it's I
call it white collar appearance and a blue collar approach.
And we have this awesome facility on a day like
this where we can still go get work in and
like I said a couple days ago, like on a
day off, I actually I literally have to take the
balls out of the batting cage because these guys want

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to be here and want to spend time here and
want to be in those cages all the time. And
so I think those older players have taught those young
players this is what it looks like to work at Texas.
This is our standard of how we work. And then
now it's going to be this is our standard on
how we act on a road trip. This is going
to be our standard of how we act in a dugout.
Some of that iowall influence, but it's also going to

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be when a Rod or Chamberlain or whomever has their
first really rough day. You know, hearing it from your
coach is one thing, but hearing it from your peer
it has a lot more weight.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
And so those guys will do a great job with that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
And so to follow up on that, why was it
important to establish that team culture?

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
I think you know when you go through I mean
went to original last year, so it wasn't a horrible season,
you know, I mean, I take the four seat in
Anchorage right now, but but you know, I just think, seriously,
I take it. Wouldn't you take can't get domb Hall
unless you're an O regional. So as of now, I'd

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take four season Anchorage and take it from there. But Uh,
but no, I mean, you know, I think you know.
We all learn as we get older, and and you
got it. The one thing I've learned is you've got
to have empathy for the players. And I fail at
that too. I'm super competitive. And the game sure is
easy from the dugout. It's sure is easy from section
one oh seven or two o eight or whatever the
old saying. The further you are away from the field,

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the more you know. And and with the player, man,
it's it's hard, like you know the man. They're the
ones in the arena, and I want them to feel supported.
I have to hold it. I have to hold them
accountable to help to their attitude and their effort, but
in terms of support and just knowing like you're gonna
get punched in the mouth. And that's why we create

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these mental skills, to give them something, a process and
something tangible to go to so they can get better.

Speaker 9 (01:22:55):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
And one final thing from Jim Schlashnagel again rolling back
to this whole thing about the chaos and in moving
to Texas and it's shock waves across college baseball and
the college baseball landscape.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Schloss is that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
A good thing is is it good because of the
attention the game and the institutions garnered as a result.
It is it a good thing for college baseball that
his moved to Texas created waves?

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
You know, I think, yes, I wish it wasn't as
I don't know what word would you use, polarizing, poisonous
in some ways, toxic, you know, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
It was fun for you guys, I'm sure.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
But I didn't make the decision because I was looking
to stick it to anybody. I loved it there, I
loved it. I loved the twelfth Man. They were so
good to me. A portion of fan is short for fanatic,
that's short, you know, And it's okay. But you know,
I wasn't trying to like make some statement or do

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anything like that. Just made a career decision that was
based on relationships and based on alignment. And it's you know,
I don't believe in better or worse. I just believe
in different. Going to TCU, going from TCU to A and.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
M wasn't better or worse.

Speaker 5 (01:24:16):
If anything, TCU was in a way better position than Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
A and M at the time.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
It's just different, and so so yeah, it's it'll probably
always be a part of it, but there was no
I don't I don't have any animosity whatsoever towards Texas
A and M, especially General Welsh's. He's one of my
favorite people I've ever been around.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
All Right there, it is from Jim slasnakem and the
season opener just a little over forty eight hours. Just
a tiny bit over fifty hours from that. It's fifty
and a half hours from now for the scheduled season
opener for Longhorn Baseball on Friday night in Arlington against Louisville.
We're gonna remove from Vick Schaeffer coming up when we
continue on AM thirteen under the Zone. Let's hear some

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more from Texas women's head coach Vick Schaeffer. He was
asked about Georgia Amore, who averages nineteen points per game,
the long Orange Face.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
Another outstanding guard.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
They've seen great guards all season long, and they're going
to see another one.

Speaker 8 (01:25:17):
Georgia Moores obviously one of the best guards in the country.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
She's playing at such a high level.

Speaker 8 (01:25:22):
She's a veteran, she's been with coach Brooks all her career,
and you know, you got to really love and appreciate
a kid like her that's loyal to him, and she knows,
he knows how they both know each other, she knows
how he wants her to play, what their style of
play is, you know, and so you know, she's really

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good and player that can do it at all three levels.
Just a really special player. So that they got size,
I mean, they got length. You know, they're a complete team,
got almost five players in double figures.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
And so it's there's a reason why.

Speaker 8 (01:26:01):
They're who they are, where they are, why they're ranked
where they're ranked. And so we're gonna have to go
on the road and and you know, obviously execute have
great focus concentration, and again we'll be now in an
environment that probably hadn't hollered for us.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
So how do we handle that?

Speaker 8 (01:26:20):
You know, we handled it fairly good at times throughout
the course of the season, but in some venues it's
way worse than others. And this is gonna be one worst,
probably gonna be way worse, and there's probably not gonna
be a lot of long ones in the building.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
A couple of questions about focus and being grounded coming
off that big win over South Carolina at first, he
was asked, how did this he keep his team on
target for Kentucky tomorrow night and LSU on Saturday coming
off to Winever, South Carolina.

Speaker 8 (01:26:52):
Just just what I've said. I you know, winning is hard.
Winning that game is hard. Being in the position that
we're in right now is hard. Look, I want them
to enjoy it. It's one game, and I said that
going into the game Sunday, y'all, this is one game,
win or lose. It's one game. It's not going to
make or break our season. We have so much after

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that and so much left to play for. And so
that's my message to our kids. You know, the only
thing that success affords you is the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
To work hard again, to go get more. That's it.

Speaker 8 (01:27:28):
And so for us, that's where we're at. And so
again I want them to enjoy it. But at the
same time, I'm always a guy that tries to keep
people grounded, keeps you focus focused, and.

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
You know, it's just who I am.

Speaker 8 (01:27:47):
It's hard for me to sometimes enjoy it as much
as I should because I'm always worried about the next one,
you know, because I've been down this road so much
and so often in my career. So it's really nothing
new for me, and I know what it takes, not
in night out, day and day out.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
I know what the preparation is like.

Speaker 8 (01:28:06):
I know that if you look past anybody, that's when
you can get popped. So it's really easy for me.
What's hard is and you see it all the time.
I'm watching other games, and to me, I see it
with other teams. You just take things for granted, you
take teams for granted, you take your opponent for granted,

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you don't respect them, and the next thing you know,
you're in a dogfight, you know. And so I just
think for me, it's really easy, and that's my job
is to convey it to our players. Okay, that one's over.
I gave you the two days, and that's time for
the next one. If we don't get ready for this
next one, everything we've worked for up until February tenth,