Sark Addresses Rumors, CFP Rankings Reactions, Texas WBB Back in Action

Craig Way and Jake Herman react to the latest CFP rankings, Coach Sarkisian comments on rumors about his future at Texas, and Vic Schaefer and the Texas Women's team prepare for a non-conference matchup with James Madison.

Plus, updated bowl projections and comments from Interim CFP Chairman Hunter Yurachek.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome Wednesday, a yacht rock Wednesday humpday, hoping to get
you past all of that and on the downhill run
to the weekend. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to the program
here on Sports Media AM thirteen under the Zone. My
name is Craig Way. I do thank you very much
for joining us. We're with you each and every weekday afternoon,

(00:22):
Monday through Friday from two to five pm.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
And glad of it, glad to have you with it.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I always say, you know, on Wednesday, if it is
indeed your hump day, we hope to get you over
the hump and hit it on that downhill run to
the weekend. For some of you, Wednesday is like Friday
to the tradition, laiden of us means the end of
your work week. Good on you, good for you, and
hope you enjoy the next couple of days after today.
And for those of you, yes there are some out

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there whose work week actually begins on Wednesday, well we
hope to get your work week off to a good start.
We of course include the user of the program, Jake Herman,
who is when I walked in to the radio station
today was a little bit you correct me, if I'm

(01:11):
wrong exercised over the college football playoff rankings, the latest
release that happened last.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Night, Craig. First of all, good afternoon. Two Yeah, good afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Second of all, these rankings are one thing, and it's okay.
You can disagree about these teams. We have an incomplete
data set for the season, and all these checkpoints along
the way are just a drum up hubbub for people
like us.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, good points, good points all.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
But the explanations for the rankings are what's kind of
given me a pit in my stomach underneath because they're
not good, Craig.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
They're not good.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
So you're like, you can throw something at me that
I'm gonna look at with a side eye and wonder.
But okay, but then when you try to explain why
you did it, that's what's griping me.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
There are yes, exactly, I'm listening to new committee and
not great.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's a relief pitcher hunter. You're a check having to
go out Yeah, he's interim interim dude.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
On short notice, having to go out there and face
face the media in place of Mac Rhodes.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
But we'll get into it as the show goes along.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm a little bit miffed by the comments mac Rhoades.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I give him credit for this. He had the most
reasonably sounding, concise answered, well maybe not that necessarily concise,
but definitely the most reasonably sounding, fought out responses on
why the committee ranked the teams the way they did
the first two weeks. I give him credit for that

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because you go him back to some past committee members
and it was a lot of soft shoe, and I
think a lot of people got the impression yourself included
that this was a lot of soft shoe this time
that they were I you know, I had it on
my iPad, but obviously the sound off we were in
the pregame of the long worn men's basketball game against

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Ryder Texas one ninety nine sixty five, and we'll hear
from Sean Miller a little bit later on in the program,
so I could see it, and so I was surprised.
My eyebrows went up, like a lot of folks did
about wow, Notre Dame ahead of Alabama? But that and
so are you saying that when you first saw it,

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that your initials response might have been wow, Notre Dame
ahead of Alabama? And then when you heard the reason, why,
then it made you mad?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Right because I think there is an argument for Notre
Dame to be ahead of Alabama. Do I find it
more compelling? No, but there is an argument that's there.
And then we hear what they have to say about it,
and I'm like, wait a second, what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
You sound like the U the geography teacher who said, yeah,
you got the right answer, but you didn't show me
your work.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, in this case, they did show their work, and
the work is illb fi.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, okay, let's hear it. The first of all,
for those of you who don't know, here, here are
the rankings. Ohio states number one, Indiana number two, Texas
A and m number three. They held their spots. Georgia
moved up to the spot to four, Texas Tech moved up
to spot to five.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Then it's Ole.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Miss six, Oregon seven, Oklahoma jumping from eleven to eight,
Notre Dame moving into the ninth spot, Alabama dropping all
the way from four to ten with the loss, and
it's BYU eleven you saw twelve, Miami is thirteen, Vanderbilt fourteen,
USC fifteen, Georgia techa sixteen. He said, where's Texas seventeen?
They dropped seven spots with the loss to Georgia. The

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rest of the top twenty is Michigan, Virginia, and Tennessee.
And then the final five in the CFP rankings Illinois, Missouri, Houston,
Tulane is the G six and or G five, whatever
you want to say it, and Arizona State at twenty five.
All right, So there it is, and it does create

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some interesting things that will get to in a moment.
But I did want to get to Hunter Yurchek's explanation
and comparison of Notre Dame in Alabama.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I will tell you that we probably spent more time
in our committee room comparing two or three teams that
band with Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Alabama. And you're asking
specific about the Notre Dame in Alabama easily to compare
because you had the head to head metric from last
week for Alabama and Oklahoma.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Of Alabama had that string.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Where they had four really strong wins against at Georgia,
against Vanderbilt, Missouri, and Tennessee, and then you look at
Notre Dame. They've got to win against Southern cal and
dominate win last week against a pit team that was
ranked in our top twenty five.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Really where you break these teams.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Down in the comparison Notre Dame in Alabama, Notre Dame
has losses the two teams that are within the top
thirteen three point loss against Miami to start the season
and then a one point loss.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Versus Texas A and M.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Alabama obviously has a two point loss at home last
week to Oklahoma, but they had that loss at the
beginning of the season thirty one to seventeen at Florida State,
a team that's now five and five. Florida State was
up in that game twenty four to seven. They held
Alabama to less than one hundred yards rushing in that game,
and that really was a sign of some of the

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struggles Alabama.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Who's going to have rushing the ball.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
You go back and look at Alabama's game against South
Carolina where they scored two touchdowns late to win that game,
and then the next game against LSU where they won
both of those but didn't rush the ball four one
hundred yards, and then against Oklahoma was not able to
move the ball on the ground.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
So you think, you look at the games.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
That Alabama has struggled in starting this season against Florida State,
where they struggled the ball, and that's really different. The
two really could eight and two teams.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
But I think you look at.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
The losses of Notre Dame versus the losses of Alabama,
and that was really one of the defining metrics that
we used.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
So there you are.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
There's the shall we say, explanation for it, which did
not satisfy you.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Not at all, Craig, not at all, not at all.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Okay, all right, I mean, first of all, they said
it explicitly. They're judging it on losses rather than wins
right at the end.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
And if we're being completely honest, when it comes down
to this late point in the season, that's what it's
boiling down to. Almost every year, who did you lose
to and when did you lose to them? And the
whole thing about Notre Dame drop its first two games.
But they're supposedly steamrolling now and they kind of are.
Jeremiah Love is having a great season. They're running the

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ball or running over opponents, that sort of thing. But
Alabama had that very bad opening loss then really kind
of gathered on minim They had some close calls along
the way, and then the close loss to a surging
Oklahoma team. So that's what I think is really having
a lot of people, yourself include scratching their head over

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this kind of thing and that you're really punishing them
that much for a two point loss to a team
that was eleventh last week.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
But apparently Alabama's being punished for struggling to run the
ball in the first game of the season and how
that was a sign of rushing struggles to come against
SEC teams.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, that's where the explanation thing isn't holding water, and
that's where people are getting kind of upset about it. Again,
if they said and maybe there's an aversion to this,
maybe they don't want to say it in these terms.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't know why, but.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
If you wanted to say, look, Notre Dame lost its
first two games, incredible game against the team that's undefeated
in the top three in A and M and lost
that heartbreaker in Miami.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Those were their two losses, and they had defensive starters
out right.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
And they've steamrolled opponents. Since they're doing well, They've they've
got all the momentum they deserve.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
To be in the top ten. I think some people.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Might again turn a sideways glance at it a little bit,
but I think most of everybody could accept that.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Okay, that's what I expected to hear.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, and that Alabama shouldn't have lost last week at home,
even if Oklahoma was number eleven and they had turnovers
and so they looked sloppy and ty Simpson damaged his
Heisman chances, and they're not going to say that, but
but all of those if they just want to say
they didn't play well late in the season at home
in a conference game, if they just said that, then

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I think more people would be okay with the movement.
Now let me ask let me add this. I don't
know that it's going to matter a great deal in
the long run. And here's why. Notre Dame has Syracusan

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Stanford left. They're going to truck those two teams, so
they're going to finish ten and two. They of course
aren't playing in a conference championship game, so they don't
have that extra data point. Alabama's not going to play
in the conference. Well, they still have a shot, obviously,
they might yeah, yeah, yeah, they still they still have
a decent shot. It's going to depend on tiebreakers, and

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they do hold a tie breaker on Georgia, but all
missfactors into it as well, and.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Then all of a sudden, here's Oklahoma. You know, you know, on.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Put this way, Alabama better not lose to Auburn. No,
if they do, they're completely out of any discussion, and
I won't feel bad for them. Right, It's going to
get interesting in terms of the playoff thing if Georgia
loses to Georgia Tech. Not that Georgia would drop all
the way out, but the placement. Now we're talking about
seeds five through eight who would host first round playoff games.

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And again, what's galling some folks is the thought that
Notre Dame could actually wind up a two loss team
hosting an eight nine game hosting an eight nine game.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
So the first team to host a playoff game without
beating a playoff team, unless USC finds a way to
make it in.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Right, right, that would be ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, in my opinion. Yeah,
so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I think time, I think a lot of this sorts
itself out. Now, we will always, always, always have discussion
on who should have been in and who was left
out when we get to the first Sunday in December.
That discussion will always be there because it is an
invitation situation. I started to compare it, and there's only

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a very light thread of comparison, but I started to
compare it with the Texas high school football payoffs about
four teams getting in from each district and a lot.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Of people that's ridiculous, bah blah blah blah blah, and
what do we have?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Five four seeds beat one seeds last week? I think
it was in the play. I think five teams that
finished in fourth place beat first place.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Teams in by district last week.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
There were a couple of shockers, and then there were
some that was kind of you know, so.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Wasn't much higher than that? Didn't didn't temper tell us
it was twenty two fourth place teams that got the victory.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
I didn't. I didn't realize it was that many. I
think it's I think it's a high number.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Maybe I'm thinking about ones that were significant favorites that
got beat because and you just proved my point. A
lot of this stuff sorts itself out. The fourth place
finishers who knock off one seeds quite often, and it
is twenty two it's twenty two, okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
That further proves the point.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
The four seeds that knock off one seeds in the
Texas high school football payoffs quite often are teams that
are good teams from incredibly tough and competitive districts kind
of like the SEC, and they prove their metal once
to get outside of their own district and do it,
which I think whether it's four teams five teams, however

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many get in from the SEC will prove when we
get to the playoff. The point is now is the
jockey for position for home games. But a lot of
this stuff sorts itself out'na, We're gonna find out over time.
But there will still be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
There will still be fist pounding on the door and
pitchforks and torches and all that kind of stuff for

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the playoff committee when it comes out and say.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
A ninety three Texas gets left out.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Although there aren't a great many arguments in favor of
the long ones right now coming off the Georgia Laws,
they've got to win the last two games that they
beat A and M. It's gonna it has everyone's attention again.
But even then that's not gonna be enough to get
in there to need help. They're going to need failure.
They're going to need slip ups from those other spots

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down the way. Some of it will cannibalize itself. There'll
be some of it, but they have to have some
long shots step up too.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
As a Longhorn fan, I'm not even gonna start making
a rooting guide yet. Just think mass chaos and once
a couple of dominoes fall, then we can start to
talk about, well, now they need this and that.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, all right, So there's some opening thoughts
on the college football playoff rankings. Texas women have a
basketball game tonight. It's their final game before they have
a huge test out in Las Vegas next week.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
We're gonna hear from head coach Vick Schaeffer.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Later this hour, we have inconceivable, we're gonna hear from
Sean Miller, and also we are going to hear from
start from the SEC teleconference that will be in the
four o'clock hour of the program.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
So we'll have that as well.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
So we got a lot on board as we continue
here on a Wednesday on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
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Speaker 6 (15:00):
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Speaker 1 (15:27):
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Speaker 6 (15:31):
Not that long ago.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
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Speaker 1 (15:37):
You know a lot of folks to say, what what
you won't do for a college football playoff?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Berth.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
But we'll have more on that as we continue. We've
heard from Hunter Yorchak, the committee interim committee chairman there,
and we'll hear some more from him going out through
the course that they will hear from Sart a little
bit later on. Today we'll hear from Sean Miller, but
right now Sean Miller, of course. The Texas men's basketball
head coach Longhorne won last night ninety nine sixty five Overrider. Clearly,

(16:08):
Coach Miller and the staff felt much better about things.
They felt a lot better about things after the game
than they did after Saturday's went over Kansas City. More
in that a little bit later on. But the Texas
women play tonight they're fourth ranked in the country. They
will be taking on the dukes of James Madison. This
was the byproduct of a weird deal last year. Vick

(16:31):
Schaeffer had a really difficult time scheduling non conference upons.
Couldn't get a in the I'd come to Austin, wouldn't
do it, and he finally had to work. I think
it was three different home and home deals to get
teams to come in. You couldn't get those by games
buy where you know, you pay a school a fee,

(16:53):
you know whatever, forty fifty thousand, whatever it is, expenses
and stuff, and then they come in and they play
the game.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Couldn't find those. This is how Cam ended up in Harrisonburg. Huh,
this is exactly how.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes, that's exactly how Cam Parker wound up in Harrisonburg,
and how Roger Wallace stepped in for me to go
to Richmond last year because of these and I had
football and men's basketball conflicts. I think, if I remember correctly,
the football conflict was the SEC championship game deal.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
So uh.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
In any event, Uh, they they wound up doing three
home and home deals with teams where two of the
games were actually played on the road last year and
one was at home. One was at home with South
Dakota State. Well, they got to return it and go
to Brookings in December to play South Dakota State.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's lovely this time of year, yes, it is. What
will it be like in December. Yeah, so they got
to do that.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
They've already had Richmond the return game here and beat
them a couple of weeks ago, and so James Madison,
they had to agree to go to Harrisonburg. Virginia went
up there and went handily, and they'll have James Madison
coming in to this one. So Vic Schaffer his thoughts
on how his team is progressing to this point as
they get ready for another game tonight.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Practice number thirty nine.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
We just finished it on Tuesdays and Thursdays we go
in the mornings and we just finished number thirty nine.
Then getting ready to play a very good James Madison team,
well coached in the history and analys of women's college basketball,
James Madison's one of the all time winningest and most

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tradition rich women's basketball programs in the country, and the
coach does a great job. We had to go there
last year and we played really well. I could remember
being very worried about that game. I think broke down
on the way to the gym and maybe for shoot around,

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so we didn't get quite all of our shoot around in.
But we played really well last year. I think Rory
was eight for eleven, Booker was ten for thirteen, and
Jordan Lee was six for six from three point range,
and so we played really good.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
So we'll have to do that again tomorrow. I have
to play well again.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
They got player of the Year in their conference on
their team, and you know, a couple other kids that
are really really good players, and so we're we'll be uh,
we'll be challenged for sure. Run some really good stuff
offensively that'll make us think defensively. So we've had a

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couple of really good days of practice though, had good
focus on some things that we've been really lax in,
and so we'll see if we can take it to
the floor.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
One of the players who has really been a nice
addition to the team is Taya Sidbury and she's the
Boston College transfer. Is Taya, and she reached a thousand
career points. It was kind of here's another one of
those weird dynamics and This happened in the game last
week that she hit one thousand points for her career

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and then they they saluted her for it in the
game before the game Sunday gave her basketball one thousand points.
And I think sixteen of them have come as a
Texas long corner. All the other ones came as a
Boston College Eagle. And I asked her about it on
the postgame show the other day and she goes, Hey,

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this is where I want to be. I'm glad I'm
here at thousand points. Was great, this is where I
want to be.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
They don't ask you how, Craig, they ask you how
many and how you got there? You know.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
But she's one of you know, some transfers, Bray Huntingham
coming in from Area's zone. Of course, Kylo Oldacre stepped
in a last year coming in from Miami. Then, as
I mentioned Taya Sidbury, they're hoping to get Ashton jud
back at some point she hit the knee injury the
Missouri transfer U. So you've got these these transfers, and

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Sidbury was one of those and had a nice game
the other night and had eighteen points the other night,
And so Vick was asked how do you test players
like Taya Sidbury before they even get on campus to
make sure they fit into your culture.

Speaker 8 (21:33):
I'm always somebody that calls the coach where they're coming from,
and may even go all the way back to high
school and AAU coaches. You know, I haven't lost too
many kids, but coaches just.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Don't do their homework anymore.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
And you know, I'm always gonna gonna do my research,
just like I would if I was hiring another coach,
and you know, I'm going to really vet and do
my background work and make sure they do fit. And
of course, when you have people like Taya and Ashton

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and Bray on a visit, you see right away.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
What kind of kids they.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Are and.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
You know that they do fit in.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
Booker had played with Brea, so she was very familiar
with her, and then I had recruited Brea and we
lost her to Arizona, so I was really familiar with
her and her family as well. But with Taya and
Ashton is a little different. And so again, two great kids.

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I think I've told you all before. You know, we
needed at least one four player out of the portal,
and we end up getting two.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
But with each one.

Speaker 8 (22:57):
You know, we had them both in like back to back,
and you know, one called to commit, and.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
You know we had to tell them that's great.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
We had to call the other one and say, hey,
we got a commitment from one, but we still like you, well, coach,
I'd like to come too, which that speaks a lot,
that speaks to the character of both those kids, Ashton
and Taya. Well, then you got to call the other
one back that committed and let them know, hey, I
know you committed, but the other one wants to come too.

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Because they're both seniors, they're both veterans, they've both been
to the Wars, they both you, and they both want
to play. But they also, like you said, they want
to be a part of, you know, something special.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
And so.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
Both those kids are really really special. And tayas you know,
she's she's smiling. I call her smiley. She's constantly smiling.
She's she's such a great kid. I've got to really
pride her a little bit and get her to be
a little tougher and meaner because she's just a great kid.
And so she's really as I've sold y'all, she's the

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all time leading scorer in the history of Utah High
School basketball and I think she scored like twenty five
hundred points.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well, I need that kid. We need that kid that's.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Aggressive, that's hunting baskets because I think she's really good
and so.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
That's the kid we really need to help our team.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well, since we're talking about this transfer portal stuff, because
it continues to be fascinating no matter what sport you
talked about, I can cite you really weird, unique, and
in some cases unfortunate examples of how the transfer portal
works or doesn't work, depending on the student athlete, depending

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on the program, depending on the sport, and how that
all works. I can give you examples in football, men's basketball,
women's basketball, baseball, where it's some it's worked out just swimmingly,
it's been great, and other times leaves you scratching your
head a little bit. So with that in mind, VIC
was asked, how does this whole research process work with

(25:22):
the portal and do coaches actually pick up the phone
once a student athlete is in the portal? Head coaches,
did they pick up the phone and actually call these kids?

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Do others? Haven't you know?

Speaker 8 (25:38):
I can tell you any any and I haven't had
many as you know, but the ones that I have had,
I don't get a phone call. You know, these coaches
just don't do their homework, and I can't imagine. I
can't imagine doing it that way.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
I just can't. And so at the end.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
Of the day, everybody's got their own way doing things.
But for the most part, I would say I've called
on every kid I've ever taken high school or out
of the portal.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
I'm always wanting to make sure you know, and then
going up what you said earlier, you know how I guess.

Speaker 9 (26:22):
Cool is it that you kind of have a program
Mike James Madison like Texas who both like top five
all time and wins, getting to you know, play a
game in November, like y'all are going to do tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (26:33):
Yeah, it's again for somebody like me that knows the
history of our game, you know, it's it's really cool
and special. I know CP and Coach Conrad know the
history of our game, and they know how unique it
is to have to have a Texas and James Madison

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playing too very storied in historical programs, So to a
lot of people, they might you know that that might
not be something everybody knows, but I certainly am aware
of it. And again, this is a good team. They're
well coached, they have good players. We're gonna be tested
in some areas which would be good for us, and
you know, we're gonna need to play well.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
But we've practiced well the last couple of days.

Speaker 8 (27:20):
I've been very encouraged at how we've come off of
I thought we played harder and played better on Sunday,
and then we backed it up with two really good practices.
And again, what's hard, y'all is this Tuesday Thursday practice
schedule that I have where I'm having to go in

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the mornings, you know, after a late afternoon practice to
to you know, a two o'clock practice on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. So on Tuesday and Thursday, I'm backing that
up if we didn't play the night before, I'm backing
it up with an early practice.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
So that can be a little bit challenge at times.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
Weekends are different because we don't have class and kids
like to get in and out on the weekend so
they can have the rest of the day. But here
they've got class in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Mentioned Ashton Judd the transfer from Missouri when Missouri played
Texas and Austin.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Last year.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Missouri let in half and Ashton Judd was the major
reason why she transferred in but she suffered a kneecap
injury before the start of the season. So Vic was asked,
how Ashton Judd is progressing.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
Yeah, so Ashton's coming.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
She's probably looking at a you know, a few more weeks,
but she's coming.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
She's doing well and.

Speaker 8 (28:42):
Getting around on her own, walking and all that good stuff.
So she's doing really good. She's signing my door right now.
She heard me talking about her. But yeah, she's doing
really good. And I always say she looks to me
like she's ahead of schedule.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
So yeah, hope, you hope that's the case, because she
can add another outside shooting presence to this basketball team
as well. I would say, based on what I was
told with regard to her kneecap injury, it's probably going
to be in the mid to late December time, hopefully
back certainly in time for SEC play. All Right, we'll

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hear more from Vick Schaeffer throughout the course of the program,
But up next inconceivable here on a Wednesday afternoon on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.

(29:43):
Second hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone A yacht Rock Wednesday afternoon. Hope
it's going all right for you, Craig Way alongside the
producer Jay Carmon, a Reminder's and I Texas Women's basketballs
log worns Brank fourth in the country, Host James Madison
forty five pre game start time, seven o'clock tip off.
Kathy Arsenal joining for the call of that one Texas

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against jam You. We're gonna hear more from Vick Schaeffer
coming up in the next segment about that. Also a
little bit later on, we'll hear from Sean Miller coming
off the Texas win last night. And additionally we'll hear
from long Orne hit football card Steve Sarkeisan. That's coming
up next hour from today's SEC teleconference, the second of

(30:26):
his three weekly media availability. Speaking of availabilities, Hunter you're
a check is the athletic director at Arkansas. He'll be
here on Saturday, at least I think he will be.
Now he might not be now that he's the interim
committee chairman. He may have to be sequestered there at
the Gay Lord. They're in Grapevine. Oh yeah, now by

(30:48):
THEFW Airport. Now, now that I think about it, I
think that's where he'll be. Where they can order in
the ice cream Sundays and all that other kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know, that's they can do that.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I wonder if they have game for you know, Oh,
we've got to order another round of caviar if Alabama
doesn't get over one hundred rushing yards.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Again, somebody's a little salty today about the uh the
uh not assault that buffet over there. Bring it on in.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh uh okay, since you brought it up. Elephant in
the room again.

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Notre Dame ranked ahead of Alabama. We talked about it.
We heard from Hunter your check, the athletic director of Arkansas.
Like I said, Thoughty Beer, and he probably would have
been if he's not now the interim committee.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Chairman, the chairman of the Saltines. Yes, so he's he'll
be up there, I'm sure in Great Boune.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
But anyway, Uh, Notre Dame of course ranked ahead of
Alabama and uh and he explained we heard it last
hour of the comparison between the two. He was also asked, uh,
you know, there was the head to head game when
Notre Dame lost to Miami to start off the season,
But he was asked, what about what other factors are

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involved here with those two schools other than the head
to head.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well, I think there's some other factors, Blake, where you
have Utah BYU and Alabama in between Notre Dame and Miami,
and as we set up the pools to do our
selection process, Miami and Notre Dame have not been grouped
in the same pools to have that direct head to
head comparison where you would really use that metric to

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separate one team from the next. And so I think
it's the separation that you have between those teams similar
to a separation you have right now between a Vanderbilt
and Texas where you have a head to head metric
as well.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Okay, all right, it's okay for me to get a
little salty here.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
By all means, Craig, I'm just kind of playing.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Tulane is the highest G five team, so again in
at number twenty four, Tulane out of the American Conference. Tulane,
who if the regular season ended today, would be in
the American Conference championship game, but they'd be on the road.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
They would be at.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
North Texas, who is nine in one with games remaining
at Rise, and then home against Temple. So Tulane's ranked
not North Texas, even though right now North Texas would
kind of have the tiebreaker and host. So Hunter Yourchek
was asked what made tou Lane the highest G five
and that was really really with an eye towards James Madison,

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not towards North Texas, but what really made to Lane
the highest G five?

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Well, first and foremost, the American is a really good
conference this year, I think, a really top heavy conference.
And then you look at Tulane's schedule, the fact that
they went outside of their conference and played three Power
four schools in Northwestern, Duke and Old Miss, winning two
of those three games, and then a very impressive win

(33:46):
at Memphis, and then a win versus East Carolina, which
is really coming on late. So that's really what the
committee saw in regards to Tulane as that team that
checked in at twenty four this week.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Okay, all right, all of that is fair, by the way,
but there will be some evidence or at least some
projection that might refute that coming up here in a
moment as well. And then he was asked about how
you evaluate the two come from behind wins by two
of the top three Indiana with the last second rally

(34:21):
to beat Penn State and Texas A and M down
thirty to three and a half and rolling back to
beat South Carolina thirty one to thirty.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
The committee, and evaluating the first half of A and
M's game versus South kinda didn't look very much like
a number three team, following behind thirty to three and
having four turnovers in that game. But then in the
second half they looked everything like a number three team
in the country, dominating the second half with outscoring South
Carolina twenty eight to nothing, out gaining them three hundred

(34:49):
and seventy one yards to seventy six yards, holding South
Carolina to eleven yards of total offense in the fourth quarter.
I mean what the committee saw in both Indiana and
Texas A and M.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Good teams find ways.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
To win games when they don't play their best, and
that's what Indiana and Texas.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
A and M both did.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Indiana on the road at Penn State and Texas A
and M at home This past weekend against South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm sorry, Craig. Good teams can win where they don't
play their best. Yeah, that's what he said, meaning when
they don't run the ball for as many yards as
you would love.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, So then he was asked, could that first half
for AE and M, the thirty to three halftime deficit,
could that haunt the Aggies or did they just kind
of neutralize that by you, you know, coming back to
win thirty one thirty by what they did in the
second half.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
And from a committee standpoint, I think the second half
definitively neutralized the way they played in the first half,
especially when you find a way to win a game
like that when you were not very good and you're
not your typical self in that first half. But then
how they dominated, I mean literally dominated the second half again,
three hundred and seventy plus tody yards to seventy six,

(36:00):
allowing eleven till the yards in the fourth quarter, I mean,
really coming back with those twenty eight points and taking control.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
Of that game.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
They looked like a top three team in the second
half of that game, and so I think it really
just balances itself out and of course the win helps him.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
It keeps him undefeated at ten and zero.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Okay, all right, so there you are. You know, they
balanced it out. They come from behind, wind showed who
they were, right.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, but great wins don't balance out what the committee
sees as a bad loss, but a great half can
balance out what the committee sees as a bad half.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Make it make sense, be consistent.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Well, he just said, it's kind of almost Orwellian in sense.
It's kind of almost animal farm, you know, where they
say all animals are created equal, but some animals are
more equal than others. All animals are equal, but some
animals are more equal to All halfs of football are equal,
but some halves are more equal than others. You know,

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down by twenty seven, outscore them by twenty eight in
the second half.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's why that one's more equal.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
How about this, All schedules are equal, but some schedules
are more equal than others.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Well, well there's that too. Okay, here's what I meant
by this deal. Each week we kind of just let
you know what the updated college football playoff rankings and
bowl projections are and how it all plays in with
the two guys who really really cover that part of
it really really closely. Mark Slayball and Kyle Bonagura from ESPN.

(37:32):
Here's where I'm going with this, based on the current
college football playoff rankings or the way they think it'll
shake down on this, this is what they have first
round games. The eight nine game is Notre Dame, Oklahoma,
by the way. Bonagara thinks it'll be in South Bend.

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Slayball thinks it'll be in Norman. The seven to ten
game both think it'll be Alabama and Oregon. Bonnagura has
it in Eugene. Actually, slay Ball has it Alabama at
Ole Miss, so they both still have Alabama in the field.
The eleven versus six matchup, Bonegura has Georgia Tech at

(38:13):
Ole Miss the eleven versus the sixth, and slay Ball
has Virginia winning the ACC playing at Oregon. And then
here's your number twelve versus five matchup. Texas Tech is
the number five ranked team, they're the number five seed.
All that stuff right now, and Bontagoora and slave I
both agree that the Red Raiders will be the five
seed and we'll host a playoff game, but they both

(38:34):
agree that the twelve seed will not be Tulane, It'll
be North Texas.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
So Tulane was ranked North texass.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
But as I pointed out, this sorts itself out, especially
in the American You're gonna win out and win the
conference to get it. If East Carolina with one conference
losses on the outside of the conference championship, they're not
getting into the playoff. And if Toulane in North Texas
meet in Denton and North Texas wins, Tulane's not getting

(39:04):
in the playoff. Whoever loses that game is out, and
even the winner is not guaranteed to be in because
of James Madison. But all the trends seemed to point
toward the American conference champion and not the Sun Belt
champion getting in to the playoff.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Right, And there would have been a potential maybe at
large case for Tulane if they came in ran the
table in the American and you know, their only loss.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
They have a bad loss in San Antonio, exactly yesa
and the Alamoji that's a bad lass.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
That eliminates them from the at large contention was the
only other loss with an old.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Mess right right exactly so now, and like he said,
they had played Northwestern in Duke and they owned two
wins over two programs from Power five conferences. That didn't matter.
Now the loss to UTSA wiped that off of that.
They've got to run the table and win the American
same thing with North Texas. East Carolina's got a hope
one of those two loses so they can find a

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way into that American Conference championship. Because the Pirates also
only have the one loss. They had a great come
from behind went at home against Memphis last weekend. So anyway,
that's that's where that is if you're wondering about the Bulls.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Well.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
First of all, in the college football playoff quarterfinals the
Cotton Bowl, they both have the seven versus the two seed,
the two seed being Indiana. Boneguara has it as Oregon
Indiana Slave Boss is its whole miss against Indiana. The
Capitol One Orange Bowl, they both have Texas Tech beating
More Texas in that first round, advancing to the Rose

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to the Orange Bowl to play the four seed Georgia
in the five to four matchup. The quarterfinal with the
Rose Bowl, both have Notre Dame oldbeit Boneguara is an
eight seed and sleigh balls a nine seed because they
both have them beating Oklahoma in the first round and
they have Notre Dame against Ohio State rematch in the
national championship game that would be in the Rose Bowl
and then the Sugar Bowl. Well, Bonegura has is a

(40:59):
sec ole miss Texas A and M. They didn't play
each other this year in the regular season. Shlay Ball
says it's Oregon against Texas A and M in New
Orleans in the Sugar Bowl. So that's it. And then
in the semifinals Bontagara is Texas Tech advancing past Georgia
to play Ohio State. Slave Ball says it'll be Georgia

(41:19):
Ohio State. The other semifinal, they both have A and
M against the two seed Indiana, and the national championship
is the Big Ten Invitational. They're in Miami, number one
Ohio State number two Indiana. That will not happen. Well,
first of all, they're.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Going to meet.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
They would meet in the Big Ten championship game. So yeah,
we'll see what happens there if it goes on, and that.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Could impact I mean if if like this said, the
conference championship game is another data point.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
It's not supposed to hurt you in any way.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
But if one team beats the other by twenty plus points,
you could see a change in seating that could shake
this whole thing up.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah. So anyway, that's we've seen what marg and victory
can do to a team's ranking. Look at Texas, they
dropped seven spots with that twenty one point fourth quarter
by Georgia.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
If they'd lost.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Fourteen ten or maybe even twenty one to ten, maybe
they don't.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Drop all the way to seventeen. But it's in material.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Now, Okay, the rest of the bowl schedule to let
you know, Cricket Celebration Bowl in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
They both have Jackson State in it.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Bonnegura says it's against South Carolina State Slave Bosses, Delaware
State the LA Bowl, and so far. Bn of Gara
says it's Arizona, San Diego State. Slay Ball says it's Washington,
San Diego State, the ISS for a Salute to Veterans
Bowl that used to be known as the what was
that they wasn't called the Magnolia.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
What was the name of that Bowie.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
It's in Montgomery, Alabama, Camellia Bowl, that's what they used
to call it. And it's Bunnagara says it's Western Michigan
and East Carolina. Slay Ball says it's Jacksonville State against
Troy Staffedy in a Cure Bowl in Orlando. Bonnagora says
it's Central Michigan. Arkansas State slay Ball says it's Buffalo

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against Old Dominion sixty eight Ventures Bowl in Mobile. Both
have Coastal Carolina in it. Banagara says it'll be against Buffalo.
Slave Ball says the Chanticleers will play Central Michigan Myrtle
Beach Bowl on December nineteenth. Bnagara says it's Marshall and Troy.
Slay Ball says it's Marshall and East Carolina the Union
Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa. Ban of Gara says

(43:27):
it's Tulane against Ences State. Slay Ball says it's Yukon
against Florida State famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Both have unl
V in it. Bonnagora says it'll be against Toledo. Slay
Ball says Ohio you Boca Ratone Bowl two days before Christmas.
Bannagara says it's Southern Missi against Louisiana Tech. Slay Ball
says it's Arkansas State against Miami of Ohio New Orleans

(43:47):
Bowl that day. Banna Goera says it's Western Kentucky against
Old Dominion. Slave Boll says Kinnesau State in the first
ever bowl game, will play Southern Myss the Scooter's Coffee
Frisco Bowl. Both have uta say rallying to become Bowl
eligible when all is said and done. Bonn of Goara
says it's against Hawaii. Slave Ball says it's against Louisiana

(44:08):
Tech on Christmas Eve the Sheridan Hawaii Bowl. Banna Goera
says it's Boise State against cal Slave Boll says it's
Hawaii against Cal Uh day after Christmas the Game Above
Sports Bowl. That's a shame that they changed the name
of that. It used to be the the the Quick
Lane Bowl, oh in Detroit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's in

(44:28):
Detroit anyway. Bunnegara says it's Rutgers against Ohio. Slave bossays
Rutgers against Western Michigan The Rate Bowl in Phoenix. Banna
Garris's TC Northwestern Slave Boss is Baylor Northwestern First Responder Bowl.
Bunna Garriss Texas State will win its last two games
and become Bowl eligible and the play UTAs State in
Dallas at gerald Ford State in third year in a row.
It would be for the Bobcats there in the first responder,

(44:51):
slave Ball says it'll be two lane Boise State, the
Go Bowling Military Bowl that's in Annapolis. Bunna Goerra says
it's Duke South Florida. Shley Ball says it's Wake Forest
and Navy Bad Boy Mower's Pin Strike Bowl in the
Yankee Stadium. Bannigorasa's Watchford to be pitt in Minnesota. Slave
Ball says Louisville, Illinois well Sabi Fenway Bowl both have

(45:12):
Clemson playing in the Fenway Bow. Who would have thought
that at the start of the year. Bannaga says it's
against Army. Slay Ball thinks it'll be South Florida Pop
Tarts Bowl where they're going to eat a live mascot
or something like that or six of them, yeah, or
six of them whatever. Bonna Goora says it'll be Miami
and Houston. Slay Ball says Georgia Tech and BYU the
Snoop dogg Arizona Bowl. Bonna Goora says Miami of Ohio
against Presno State. Slay ball says Toledo against Presno State.

(45:36):
The Isleta New Mexico Bowl. Both field New Mexico will
play in the Isleta New Mexico Bowl. Bnagora says it'll
be against Washington State. Sleay ball says Georgia Southern tax
Layer Gator Bowl Monna Goarri says Virginia LSU. Slay Ball
Miami Texas as the long Worns in the tax Layer
Gator Bowl the Kinders Texas Bowl both have Cincinnati against Kentucky.

(46:00):
The Birmingham Bull the j LAB Birmingham Bowl. Bannagera say
is Florida State against James Madison. Slay Ball says NC
State against James Madison. The Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Montagara
has Baylor in it against Kennesaw State. Slay Ball says
k State against Western Kentucky. Music City Bowl. Montagura has

(46:20):
at Iowa Missoo sleay ball says it's Minnesota LSU.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
The Alamo Bowl Balro Alamo Bowl.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Banna goerrasay's byu usc schlay ball says USC against Houston
Relyoquest Bowl Bontagura Illinois Texas in Tampa on New Year's Eve, Day,
Schleyboll Iowa Tennessee, the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl both
well Monna goersays Wake Forest, Arizona State. Slave Boll says
pitt Arizona Cheese at Citrus Bowl in Orlando both have

(46:49):
it as Michigan against Vanderbilt. The SRS Distribution Las Vegas
Bowl both have it Nebraska Utah, the Lockey Martin arm
Forces Bowl on January twod Monnagar says Kansas State. Navy
slay Boll says TCU Army both have Iowa stayed against
Memphis and the Liberty AutoZone Liberty Bowl. The Duke's Mayo
Bowl where you just spill a big old jar of

(47:10):
mao all over the winning coach. Bonnigarri says Louisville, Tennessee.
Sleay Ball says Duke Missoo. And finally, the Holiday Bowl
both have SMU in it. In San Diego, Bonnigara says
it'll be against Washington. Slave Ball says against Arizona State.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
So there you are.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
There's some from the College Football Playoff Interim Committee Chairman,
the Playoff projections The bowl projections up next. More from
Vick Schaefferman, Texas and when we continue here leading up
to the Texas women's game tonight, as the log warns,
will take on James Madison here on thirteen under the.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Zone, little discourse together, we're we're polishing up.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Our act, little disco, little soul, little yat ra.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, you see a little line dancing going on, little
electric slide, all that kind of stuff. But it does
fall into the yacht rock realm as well. Nick Fadden's
whitehead or within. No stopping us now, so we forgress
straight on into Texas women's basketball.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
So far, nothing's stopping them.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Log worn's off to a good start, ranked fourth in
the country and getting ready to take on James Madison,
and so far, Vic Schafer has been able to go
pretty deep into his bench, mainly because the games am beenlongsideed.
He's played nine players pretty regularly, and he was asked

(48:29):
if he wants to play those nine players consistently throughout
the season and his thoughts on the team's depth.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
I think our depth is pretty evident. I do feel
confident in the nine kids that we have. I don't
know that it'll you know, stay where everybody's playing double
digit minutes in certain ball games, but I think what
it does prove is everybody's capable of playing, in competing

(48:57):
and contributing. So I'm I'm encouraged by that. H you know,
we're they're all shooting the ball pretty well, and so
I think they all.

Speaker 6 (49:11):
Bring something to the table unique.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
He's always talking about being a mentally as well as physically,
but mentally and emotionally tough basketball team. So does he
feel like the toughness factor is where it needs to
be right now?

Speaker 6 (49:27):
Yeah, we're still looking for that still.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
Really, it's not it's probably not fair to say looking
we're still developing it, you know. I think that's something
that you develop over time with your practices, with with
how you want things done and executed and that kind
of thing.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
So, you know, but I do.

Speaker 8 (49:46):
I've seen, you know, the last couple of days, we've
had some things that we've really wanted to focus on
that require some toughness, and.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
They've done a good job.

Speaker 8 (49:57):
So, you know, baby steps, little victories, all those things.
I keep those in mind, and you know, I think
we're getting better and that's the biggest thing for me.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, it's a little bit difficult to ask that question
in November if the toughness factors were like, he said,
that develops during the course of the year. Anyway, one
player who definitely personifies toughness and grit and the way
she plays the game is Kyla Oldacre and the way
she just powers down in the block. And he was
asked about Kyla's personality and her resilience away from the floor.

Speaker 8 (50:31):
Yeah, she's a great kid. You know, really tries to
be a vocal person. She's very cerebral. She asks her
a lot of questions in practice, which is a good thing.
And you know, I think she's a good teammate and so,

(50:51):
you know, just trying to get her and Bray both
a little more active defensively.

Speaker 6 (50:56):
And then.

Speaker 8 (50:59):
You know, our guards have got to be a little
better passing the ball inside of the post.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
But Kyla gets she gets I have I don't know.

Speaker 8 (51:10):
How to say this other than she gets treated a
little differently in my mind sometimes in games, and it's
not fair, but you know it it you know, she's
a pretty tough kid, and and uh, you know, sometimes
I feel like you need to put a you know
what they call those things when you'd hang your sheets

(51:32):
out on the line, those clips when you were a kid.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
You know, we didn't have a dryer when I was
a kid.

Speaker 8 (51:38):
We put our what was that a clothes line.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
I feel like sometimes they got people.

Speaker 8 (51:46):
Close closed what was it a a close pin? I
feel like they're closed.

Speaker 6 (51:54):
Pin to her.

Speaker 8 (51:54):
Uh, you know, when they're trying to guard her down there.
I mean, they're just hanging all over and I just
you know, we haven't gone against anybody with any real size.
They'll have some size tomorrow and obviously we're fixing the
sea size a week from tomorrow when we go to

(52:17):
Vegas with UCLA and Duke in South Carolina.

Speaker 10 (52:20):
So but.

Speaker 8 (52:23):
She's a great kid, and you know, just trying to
get her completely healthy right now, I think is the
biggest thing we're trying to do all around, you know.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
And her ankle I think is fine, but you know,
she's working at it. I love the kid.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Then he was asked also about the newer players on
the roster and since he's had them for a little
while and had him on the floor and had him
in games, how new actually do the new players feel
to his team right now?

Speaker 8 (53:00):
I think the fact that we were able to go
to Canada in the summer and we got ten practices
this summer. It really kind of sped up the process
a little bit, which was great.

Speaker 6 (53:12):
So, I mean, I think they have all fit in
really well.

Speaker 8 (53:16):
I think what I'm seeing here in the last week
is Taya getting more comfortable with what we're doing defensively,
realizing how hard and how physical she needs to play
crump is. She is a super confident kid. I love
that about her. And obviously she can really really shoot

(53:39):
it and so and she works extremely hard on the
other parts of her game that most freshmen are challenged
with when they come to college.

Speaker 6 (53:48):
So she doesn't shy away.

Speaker 8 (53:50):
From hard work, and that's why she's going to be
a great player here. So I think all of them
feel really good. Breas you know somebody that that has
been been starting for us since the summer really and
you know, she walked by me today after practice it coach,

(54:12):
don't worry, I'm gonna get down. I'm gonna get that
hedge and recover down. I'm going to get that help
and recover down for you. Just don't give up on me.
And you know, you you got to love that about
a kid that that that you know, wasn't anything I
said other than we just keep coaching it and teaching
it and demanding it, and she knows how important it is.

(54:33):
And uh so, you know, these this is a really
special group. They're great kids, they really are, and for
the most part, most you know, most all of them
work extremely hard. Like I had to cut some drills
off today. We were going really hard and I'm trying
not to. You know, I don't want to win the

(54:55):
game today. I need to win the game tomorrow, and
so I we cut out. I cut out some stuff
today in practice.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
So you know, they feel like they've been here a while,
I'll put it that way.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
One other from Vick Schaeffer was talking about the logistics challenge.
I get the feeling that the reporter is really kind
of like it's almost like poking the bear. They want
to ask him about practice time and if practicing outside
of Moody centers a disadvantage, because that'll light a fuse sometimes.

(55:29):
So he was asked about the time in logistics challenges
and practicing away from Moody Center.

Speaker 8 (55:36):
Well, it's a lot. To be honest with you, I
think any basketball coach would say this. A home court
advantage is a home court advantage because that's where you
practice and play, not just where you play. I mean,

(55:59):
if that's all I did, was played in there like
an NBA team, which we don't have NBA players. The
men don't either. We got to have guys in the gym.
We got to have girls in the gym that are
used to the background and the depth perception and all
that when they're shooting the ball. And so any coach

(56:19):
anywhere in America wants to be in the their home arena.

Speaker 6 (56:23):
As much as possible.

Speaker 8 (56:26):
And so, you know, that's why I'm going into mornings
on Tuesday and Thursdays, because I was trying to work
with Sean a little bit so that one of us
wasn't having to practice at six o'clock at night if
the arena was available on Tuesday and Thursday. And so

(56:49):
it you know, but when I make the commitment to
going on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, I have to go
every Tuesday and Thursday morning in the morning, whether the arenas.

Speaker 6 (56:59):
Of el we're not.

Speaker 8 (57:00):
Because my class schedules now made and so we have
classes in the afternoon.

Speaker 6 (57:05):
I won't ever do it again.

Speaker 8 (57:06):
It's really difficult practicing in the afternoon and then getting
kids back up the next morning for an eight o'clock
practice twice a week. He can do it once on
the weekend every now and then, but that's a lot.
And so but to answer your question, Danny, that's any

(57:27):
coach worth their salt is going to want to be
in there because that's what makes it a home court advantage.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
We're not coaching NBA people.

Speaker 8 (57:35):
We're not coaching pros that can step into any arena
and then a thirty five forty five minute shoot around
can get comfortable because they've already done that. You know millions,
they've already shot millions and millions and millions of.

Speaker 6 (57:50):
Shots in their life. That's not what we are.

Speaker 8 (57:54):
And I think that's the misconception sometimes when you have
practice quote unquote practice facility that you know, everybody thanks,
well you have a practice facility. Well, that's not really
what I want my practice facility for. I'm fine being

(58:15):
in here in the summer, but you know, during the season,
we need to be in our arena. So you know,
we're we're working at it, we're trying to do the
best we can and in being in there, and you know,
at the end of the day, it's it's it's challenging,
but you know, we're we're navigating it.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
So there's more from Vick Schaeffer, and of course we'll
hear from the Longhorns head coach or on the pregame
show tonight Texas against James Madison, and we'll hear that
coming your way six forty five hour time, seven o'clock
tip off here on the Zone as the Texas women
try to win their final game at home before going
to Las Vegas next week to play in that Player's

(59:01):
Era Championship against UCLA and then probably South Carolina, either
South Carolina or Duke Well here from the men's head
coach Sean Miller coming up when we continue on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app
sell here on a yacht Rock Wednesday with the iconic

(59:22):
James Taylor Shower of the People part of the yacht
Rock catalog here on this Wednesday, as we mentioned, Texas
women's basketball coming your way tonight on the Zone six
forty five pre game start time, seven o'clock tip as
Longhorns will be playing James Madison. Longhorn men won last
night handily of a Writer, ninety nine to sixty five

(59:46):
at Moody Center Among the standout performances, Dylan Swain had
twenty six points. He was one shy of his career high.
Here's a bit of irony. And I asked him about
it after the game. Did he remember when he got
his career at twenty seven? He goes, Yeah, last game
I played at Xavier, it was their first round ins.
He a tournament lost to Illinois after the beaten Texas

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in the first four.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
He scored twenty seven points in that game.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
Wasn't that one of those just crazy cat and mouse
high scoring games. Yeah, that was how Illinois played last year. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
And then you had a career high from Cam Heidi,
who was in the starting lineup because of slight growing
injury to Nick Cody. So Cam Heidi career high twenty points,
and Modus Pokotitis had twenty points. Like Swain, Vocatitas was
one shy of a career high. He had twenty And

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so you had three Longhorns scored twenty or more points
and Texas won handley. After the game, Long Worns head
coach Sean Miller in talking about TTS in comparison to
coming off the wins Saturday over Kansas City where he
was not real happy with howth went about much more
pleased with what he saw last night.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Well, you know, first of.

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
All, I thought we responded well from our Kansas City game.
You know, every one of these games, because it's so early,
you know, you're you're you're searching for perfection, and there's
just a lot of different areas or moments.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Of the game where we have to improve and be better.

Speaker 10 (01:01:21):
However, I thought our quality of play, our effort level
from start to finish, how we came out at the
beginning the first four minutes was what we really wanted
and and obviously Cam Heidi had a lot to do
with it. So we talked about the other night that
sometimes you know, when the ball's not going in, it
can become contagious, and then other parts of the game

(01:01:43):
can be left open because guys get down on the
fact that the ball just isn't going in, and then
we don't defend, we don't rebound, we don't run well
when you make them the other the opposite can happen.
And I thought that his six threes and early threes
in the game settled us down, and then obviously watching
him get red hot the second half really broke the

(01:02:04):
game wide open. But it was great to see Cam
do that. Because you have to remember about Cam Idy.
He's played on the number one team in America. He's
played in a National championship game against Yukon. He's played
in multiple NCAA tournaments since, had a role playing nineteen
minutes a game in a Big Ten conference for Matt
Painter and Purdue. You know, those are all things we

(01:02:27):
really respect, and I just feel like, you know, he's
been beat up here early in the season injury wise,
missed the game, and then the other day he played
and you didn't even know he could shoot because he
never shot one. So it becomes our job as the
staff to make sure that our team knows and he
knows we want him to take open threes, and we

(01:02:49):
have to be creative in helping him get those threes
sometimes as well, because you know, I think when he's
contributing in that area, he makes our team a better team.
So there's a lot of as I can talk about,
but I thought Cam Heidi on our end was the
storyline of tonight's game, and I'm happy for him.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
So with the win, the log runs are now four
and one. They've won four in a row, and that
was after that season of being lost at Duke. They
handled their business and all four of the home games.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
No again.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
The game last Saturday against Kansas City, it was kind
of less handling a business and more just kind of
sloppy play throughout.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
But they are not good shooting.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
But they did manage to win the other games Lafayette, Fairley,
Dickinson and last night against Ryder.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
They were very, very sharp.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
They were in the nineties and all all three games
and looked really really good. Now I know there's you know,
competition two that you kind of factor into all of this,
so that's important to keep in mind. Well, we're gonna
find out quite a bit more about them next week.

(01:03:59):
They will leave for Maui on Saturday and fly into
I think the airport is ky Lui, and then you
kind of bust around their stay at Kona Polly. The
games are in Lahina, which are nearby, and they'll play
Arizona State on Monday night. That's the only definite start
time we know. That's ten thirty Monday night against Arizona

(01:04:22):
State six thirty Hawaii time, but ten to thirty on Monday,
and then depending on whether they win or lose on
Monday against Arizona State, they'll play either Washington State or
Shamanad and they will either play at ten o'clock Texas
time that night or eight o'clock. We would all hope

(01:04:43):
for the eight o'clock game because that's in the winners bracket,
so they would certainly hope that that would be the case.
And then the final game on Wednesday, the twenty sixth,
will be to be determined. We'll find out. It depends
on how they've done in the first couple of ball games.
All Right, we will be back to wrap up our
number two, and I want to tell you this just

(01:05:04):
to give you a heads up. If you're you know whatever,
get ready to leave for the day, or if you've
got some other things to do, you would definitely want
to hear the first part of the four o'clock hour,
if no other part. If you're a long one football fan,
because Steve Sarkisian on the SEC teleconference today open it
up by going off on all those rumors and conjectures

(01:05:28):
about the possibility of him leaving, you'll want to hear it,
trust me on that. All right, we'll be back to
wrap up hour number two on thirteen hundred Zone. For
the final hour of the program here on Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred the Zone, Craig Way alongside the producer
Jay Herman, glad to have you with us as well

(01:05:49):
on a yacht Rock Wednesday. Coming up in this four
o'clock hour, we'll hear more from Hunter euro check the
athletic director from Arkansas who is the interim commissioner, excuse me,
interim committee chairman of the College Football Playoff Committee.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
He's in Remember that it was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Last week that Mac Rhodes, the committee chairman and athletic
director at Baylor, stepped down from the committee and took
a leave of absence from Baylor for personal reasons. So
Hunter Eurochek, who happens to be the athletic director at
Arkansas who plays Texas this week, serves as the committee chairman.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
We'll hear from him.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Coming up a little bit, we'll hear more from Vick
Schaeffer as well as the Texas Women prepare to host
James Madison tonight. You can hear it right here on
Sports Medio AM thirteen under the Zone. Kathy Arnstone joined
me for the call from Moody Center, Texas against James
Madison six forty five airtime and a seven o'clock timp okay,
I don't want to delay this any longer. A little

(01:06:59):
while ago, Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkishan took his usual
spot in the in I guess, in the pecking order
or the way it's the way it's all set up
on the SEC teleconference as I like to call it,
the route tree that they go, and he always follows

(01:07:22):
Clark Lee of Vanderbilt, and he always precedes Mike Elco
at Texas A and m who's the last one on
the call, right because it actually starts like ten o'clock
in the morning and that sort of thing, and so
they work out the times that work best for each coach,
and for Sark it's about twelve thirty. He actually got
on it a little bit later because Clark Lee's segment

(01:07:45):
ran a little bit long, but when he got on,
he didn't waste any time. I want you to hear this,
and we always bring you Sark's comments anyway from the
Monday news conference on this program and then tomorrow and
he'll probably be asked about what he said today, but
tomorrow on the media zoom his final weekly media session,

(01:08:10):
So we'll hear from him tomorrow and we always bring
you what he says today Wednesday on the SEC teleconference,
and we'll bring you all of his comments, but it's
the first comment that you really need to hear. This
is clearly because of how the rumormill spiked yet again
surrounding Sark's future. Remember the report from Heather Dnich no

(01:08:36):
Diana Rassini, not Heather Dnach, Diana Verssini for the Athletic Reporting,
And it was the morning of the game in starkvill
that representatives for Sark were kind of reaching out testing
the waters with the NFL teams to see about interest.
There was a vehement denial from his representation and then

(01:09:00):
I'm Sark in the postgame press conference about there's been
no conversations with anybody else and that sort of thing.
And then there were some people that were cherry picking
the thoughts or what Sark said. Well, he didn't really
deny it. He didn't really. He just said the reports
blah blah blah. He didn't really deny it. For those
people and for everybody else, listen to this.

Speaker 11 (01:09:21):
Yes, I'd like to comment on something before I get
into our team. Something that has been bothering me now
over the past few weeks, and that is people reporting
that are insinuating that there's a possibility I could leave
the University of Texas, and that is absolutely false and untrue.

Speaker 6 (01:09:42):
I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 11 (01:09:43):
Never do I do this because I never want to
be a distraction, so I never addressed these things. But
at this point now I feel like that is important
that I do do this because it's important for our team,
it's important for our university. I've had no discussions, not
with my agent, not with the university, not with any
other school, not with any NFL team about ever going

(01:10:06):
anywhere else.

Speaker 6 (01:10:07):
I came here to win championships.

Speaker 11 (01:10:10):
I've got two kids enrolled at the University of Texas,
one in law school, one on our team. I've got
a third that hopefully decides to enroll at the University
of Texas next ball. And my wife and I just
had our son here in Austin. This is our home.
We came here to win championships. We've built a damn
good football program. One of the five years that we've
been here, we've been to two College football Playoffs. We

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won a big twelve Championship. We went to the SEC
Championship game in year one. We've had twenty three players
drafted the last two years, which is more than any
other school in the country. And our team GPA is
in an all time high. So can we please stop
putting things out there that you have absolutely zero evidence on?

(01:10:51):
And then can we please stop retweeting, putting it back
out there as if it's true, as if it's the gospel.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
It is not true.

Speaker 11 (01:11:00):
If you have a question about my future, call me
or call Christell Connie, our athletic director, and we can
set the record straight for you. So if everybody understand,
so moving forward, when some Joe Blow decides to put
something on social media out there, we all don't run
with it like it's the gospel. Can we all agree
on that on this call.

Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
And if you have a.

Speaker 11 (01:11:21):
Question about my future with the University of Texas, ask
me on one of these calls, ask Christelle Connie. He'll
be more than happy to take your call so that
we can sect the record straight so we can focus
on our football team, which is really what we should
be doing.

Speaker 6 (01:11:37):
Everybody good with that.

Speaker 11 (01:11:38):
Next, our football team has got two really big, big
weeks in front of it, and we've got a great
rivalry game this weekend with Arkansas then being back at DKR.
We're pumped about the opportunity. Like I said, we've got
two big weeks in front of us here that we've
got to put our best foot forward, and I know
our guys are working hard to do that. But this

(01:11:59):
should be a heck of an environment, hecky game being
back at DKR this Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
So that's the statement there, And he opened it up
before it ever got to.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
The questions and.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
If you had any ambiguity or any question about any
ambiguity about Steve Sarkisian's commitment to his football program into
the University of Texas, I don't know how you can
look at this with a jaundiced eye or question or
doubt it for anybody had said, well, he didn't really

(01:12:36):
deny there was. He flatly refuted it that I did.
Said he's committed to Texas. This is their home. And
he went on to talk about a daughter being in
law school year and Brady Sarkisian his sons walk on
to the football team. I mean, you know, I think
I think maybe he has set the record straight reach

(01:12:58):
for now. It's not going to stop some people from
thinking how they want to think and expressing their opinion.
But he's letting you know that there's no basis for
anything that anyone is putting out there about his future.
So I think that's important to point out there. All
right now, some meat and potatoes from him. On the

(01:13:20):
rest of the he was asked about with the college
Football Playoff rankings coming out and Texas of course is
down to seventeen, but the SEC well represented. He was
asked how he felt the SEC was being evaluated in
the college Football Playoff rankings.

Speaker 11 (01:13:38):
I think the one thing about the SEC is that
how challenging it is from week to week.

Speaker 6 (01:13:44):
And it's not.

Speaker 11 (01:13:47):
It's not a hey, once every three weeks you got
to get up for a game. You have to get
up for every game in our conference, week in and
week out, and if you don't, you're going to be
in for a dogfight, and it's going.

Speaker 6 (01:13:59):
To be very challenging.

Speaker 11 (01:14:00):
And it's going to be very challenging because of a
the quality of coaching, b the quality of players. Like
just to put this into perspective, in the National Football
League right now today, there are four hundred and fifty
one active players from the Southeastern Conference. The next closest
conference with players in the NFL is the Big Ten

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with two hundred and eighty eight, then the ACC with
two hundred and eighteen, and then the Big Twelve with
two hundred and seven. So that should just speak to
the to the to the volume of quality players that
are in this league. Granted, there's great teams, there's great coaches,
and so it's not about the one time game getting

(01:14:42):
up for the one time game. It's the grind of
eight straight weeks of playing our schedule and playing in
some of the environments that we play in, and now
next year going to nine conference games. And so hopefully
the committee can look at that and say, hey, what
what is the gravity that it takes its toll on

(01:15:03):
your team of playing in these types of games week
in and week out, against the quality of player and
against the quality of coaching. But we'll see, you know,
we'll see how this all shakes out, what it all
looks like. What I do know is, you know, on
our end, by the end of the regular season, we'll
play five top ten ranked teams out of our twelve
regular season games on our schedule, and four of those
teams are in the Southeastern Conference.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
Two of those games were on the road in true
road environments. One of those was at the neutral site
the Oklahoma game. But those two that were played on
the road Ohio State to open the season and Georgia
last week. And he was asked what are any similarities
and differences of playing Ohio State and Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
His perspective on.

Speaker 11 (01:15:48):
That, No, both really good teams, both really good coaches.
You know that they're in great environments. I have to
say we play in out Ohio State, playing at Georgia,
both great environments.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Okay, onto Arkansas now, and he was asked by a
member of the Arkansas media about the challenges of facing
Bobby Petrino. Now, remember Sam Pittman was the coach a
year ago in Texas won the game up in Fayetteville.
So now they're playing Arkansas at home for the first
time since two thousand and eight. Bobby Patrino, who was
the offensive coordinator last er, is now the interim head coach.

(01:16:20):
And he was asked about the challenges of facing a
Patrino coach team.

Speaker 11 (01:16:24):
I think coach Patrino, obviously he's been doing it a
long time and has Bunda doing at a high level
at various places. I think at the end of the day,
you know what they're able to do that make them
so difficult as they've got all the pro style offense
that you want, the pass game, the run game, the
play ash game, the multiple personnels. You add it with
the designed quarterback runs, which is a real problem, and

(01:16:47):
then the ad living of the quarterback when when the
play breaks down and so, but coach Patrino is going
to exploit your weaknesses when he can find them, and
if he can find him, he's going to attack you
that way, and he's going to and he's going to
have layers to those plays in which he attacks you with.
And so, like I said, he's great coach, He's been
doing it a long time, and we've got to work

(01:17:08):
it out for us.

Speaker 6 (01:17:08):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Going back to the business of his opening statement about
addressing the rumors and all that kind of stuff, he
was asked, how often does he have to reiterate these
types of things to his team, to his players, especially
in this age of social media transfer portal all those
kinds of things. How often does he have to reiterate
these types of messages to let them know what's true

(01:17:32):
and what's not.

Speaker 11 (01:17:33):
Well, I think it varies, you know, I think because
in this day and age, you know, unfortunately, people weaponize
coaching rumors to their to try to their benefit, whether
it's in recruiting, whether it's in the transfer portal, or
whether it's trying to get players, tampering with our players
that aren't our current roster. And so, you know, trying

(01:17:54):
to weaponize somebody's future and the future of a university
to benefit yourself to some degree seems unethical, but it
is what it is, and so there's time. There's a
time and a place when I try to address it,
and hopefully that's the only time that I have to,
because I don't want to be a distraction. It should
be about our players. It should be about the season

(01:18:15):
and the journey that they're on. But I also want
to give them peace of mind and give their parents
peace of mind of who their coaches and who their
coach is going to be in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
All right, back to the Arkansas thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
As I mentioned, this is the first time since two
thousand and eight that Arkansas has played here. That was
a non conference game, back when Texas was in the
Big twelve and the long Hoarns won that handily, just
blasted Arkansas fifty two to ten in that game. It
was weird though, because what it did was that was

(01:18:47):
a home and home that was eight to nine. They
couldn't play the well. First of all, the eight game
they had to push back for a couple of weeks
because a hurricane I believe it was it blew up
into Arkansas said to push the push the game back
by a couple of weeks. Fortuning boath teams had an
open date at the end of September and so they

(01:19:08):
were able to work that out. Then the two thousand
and nine game, Arkansas asked if it could be postponed
because they were going to start a at the time
non conference series with Texas A and M at Jerry World.
So they said yeah. So it was pushed back originally
to twenty fourteen. Then it got pushed back I think

(01:19:28):
the twenty eighteen ultimately twenty twenty one, and it happened
to be sarks first year when Texas went in there
and they I think it was forty to twenty one
by Arkansas. That was the back half of a non
conference but they haven't played in Austin since two thousand
and eight. They haven't played a conference game against Arkansas
here since nineteen ninety when they were both still in

(01:19:50):
the Southwest Conference.

Speaker 6 (01:19:51):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Yeah, I think my dad was in college.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Yeah, right, exactly nineteen ninety that was the Shock the
Nation tour when Texas won the Southwest Conference win with
the Cotton. So he was asked, how important in the
old Southwest Conference rivalry thing between Texas and Arkansas?

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Does this factor in because of the old Southwest Conference rivalry?

Speaker 11 (01:20:12):
Well, it's it's huge, you know when you when you
think about what this game meant for decades, you know,
and going back to Coach Royal and Coach Broyle's and
some of those great teams and great games that they played,
you know, one versus two for a national championship and
so on and so forth. And so I think that
that's very important.

Speaker 6 (01:20:31):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:20:31):
I think history lessons are are really good for our
players and for our youth in general. You know, we
live so much in the now right now and what's next,
that sometimes we need to take a step back and
look at how did we get here and how did
the university get here? Part of how the University of
Texas get here is because of the rivalry with Arkansas
and some of those great players and coaches and teams,

(01:20:55):
and so, you know, we definitely take the time to
uh to honor and recognize what, you know, what this
game has meant for so many decades in the past.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Yeah, yeah, they'll do that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
And by the way, in case you were thinking about
the shootout of sixty nine, that game was in Fayetteville.
The Texas won fifteen to fourteen. They got number one
versus number two in the long runs, clinching the national championship.
Richard Nixon, President Nixon presenting that plaque he had in
the locker room, and coach Royal about all that they
did play the next year and that the game, like

(01:21:24):
the one in sixty nine, I got moved to the
end of the regular season and they played it in Austin.
It was Austin's turn to host. It's interesting there are
a couple of footnotes about this. It was the first
time Texas had played the season on artificial turf.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
They laid out the old rug, you know the rug there.
It was brand new.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
Then in nineteen seventy Texas was number one again and
they destroyed Arkansas. They beat him forty two to seven,
and there was this picture on the cover of Sports
illustrated Steve Wooster the running back running and Texas won
that to go to ten and oh and they were

(01:21:59):
declared national champions in the Coaches Bowl in that day,
which awarded the national title before the ball games.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
So they were declared national championship. We keep the champions
we keep going like this with the committee. I'll be
on board going back to that. There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
So they were declared national champions. The AP was waiting
to have to the ballgames. Texas had players injured in
that game in other games and they were really hobble
when they played Notre Dame in the copp Bowl and they.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
Lost to Notre Dame. So they didn't win the AP
national title.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
Nebraska won it because Ohio State also got upset by
Jim Plunkett and Stanford and it was and Nebraska beat LSU.
So Nebraska and Texas split the nineteen seventy national championship
and that was the last national title Texas won until
they won twenty years ago in two thousand and five. Okay,

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one final thing about the challenge of finishing the regular
season with two fierce rivals Arkansas and Texas A them.

Speaker 11 (01:23:02):
Ay, I do think it's it's a great challenge and
not only two SEC games at the end of the year,
but two rivalry games. And I know, you know, so
much talk was made when conference realignment started and teams
moving to you know, from one conference to the next,
and people losing rivalries, long standing rivalries. You know, the
reality of is we gain two back. You know that

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the rivalry with Arkansas has been historic. Obviously, the rivalry
with A and M has been historic. And we get
to play OU in the middle of the season. So
we've got three great rivals that we get to play.
It's one of the beauties now of being in the
in the SEC.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
All right, there, it is coach sarks opening statement there,
obviously wanting to once and for all put to rest
rumors of him possibly thinking about other jobs, and then
his thoughts on this matchup with Arkansas. All right, we're
gonna turn our attention to the national college football seam.
We'll hear from speaking of Arkansas, their athletic director Hunter Yurochak,

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who is the interim committee chairman for the College Football Playoff.
We'll do that next here on sports Radio AM thirteen
under the zone of the iHeartRadio app. Okay, and some

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seals and cross on a yacht Breck Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
So oh, listen to this party here. Here's the breadthe.

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Part, little breadth eat part there on the yacht rock Wednesday.
All right, we're talking about college football playoff and the
top three obviously remained the same Ohio State, Indiana, Texas,
A and M a little bit of shuffling before it

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was toward the back side of the top ten. That
has everybody, including the producer Jay Carman, all exercise about
Notre Dame being ahead of Alabama, and your reasoning white
should not be that is.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Is the fact that Alabama has four wins against teams
that are currently in the committee's top twenty five, including
a win at Georgia Notre Dame one in two against
teams currently in the top twenty five. And if you
want to count teams that dropped out of the top
twenty five, that's fine. You can give Notre Dame a
win over Pitt But you also got to take into account, well,

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where we're Vanderbilt Missouri rank. When Alabama played them, they
were in the top fifteen, So it's just four really
good wins against one good win, and that to me
that it's you know, when you have the same amount
of losses, the wins should carry the day.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
So Hunter Yurachek, the committee chairmer, has asked similar questions
about that, and so he discussed why the committee thought
that certainly Alabama was the best among the one loss teams,
but now third among the two loss teams.

Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
Yeah. I think when you look at how we have
these teams ranked.

Speaker 4 (01:26:08):
Right now, Nicole, you've got three undefeated teams one through three,
you have four lost teams, four one loss teams at
four through seven, and then you had that grouping of two,
three really good eight and two teams.

Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
And then you start comparing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Oklahoma Notre Dame in Alabama, and you know, as we
talked about, obviously they head to head, Oklahoma gets that
over Alabama, and then you start have comparable losses Notre
Dame against Miami in Texas A and m and then
Oklahoma for Alabama, and then of course that Florida State game.
And so when you had one loss and you were

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really they were, Alabama was rolling there in the middle
of their season with those four wins Georgia, Vanderbilt, Missouri,
and Tennessee. And while they've continued to win games, they
struggled on the road and had to score two touchdowns
late and winning out South Carolina. Again, that was a
game that they.

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
Didn't run the ball very well.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
They didn't look like the same Alabama team against LSU
last weekend and then they had a tough loss.

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
They had some turnovers.

Speaker 4 (01:27:12):
That that came back to bite them, but again didn't
run the ball very well in the game against Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
All right, that's one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
So now they're being measured against how they looked themselves
in maybe the second best winning the country this year.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Just move the goal posts. Move those goal posts, all right.
Your dad's an Alabama fan, he is.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
I should probably disclose that earlier in the program. He's
going to be He's going to be happy if he
hears me fighting for Alabama's spot here. But but I
would I would say the same if it was Texas,
if it was Vanderbilt, if it was Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
With this resume, he was asked, why is b YU,
which is in that just outside the group to get
into the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Why is b YU behind the other two lost teams.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
I think it is really the way they looked in
that game against Texas Tech. They were dominated on both
sides of the ball in that game against Texas Tech.
And then you look at their wins. They have a
win over Utah, who's ranked thirteenth, but then their other
wins are against that we would consider quality wins are against

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an unranked Iowa State team, Arizona.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
And East Carolina. And then you look at a two
loss Alabama.

Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
Team that's got wins against number four Georgia, number fourteen, Vanderbilt,
number twenty one, Missouri, number twenty Tennessee, Notre Dame's got
to win over fifteenth ranked Southern cal and then last
week Dominie went on the road to pitt who was ranked,
and then Oklahoma has wins at number eighteen, Michigan, number
twenty Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
And at number ten Alabama.

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
So I think it's just the number of quality wins
that are with those two loss teams ahead of them,
and then how they looked in that game two weeks
ago in Texas Tech against Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Okay, all right, understand.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
So anyway, next he was asked, speaking of Texas Tech,
he was asked about this whole dynamic with the Big Twelve,
because the Big Twelve is kind of getting it's not
quite to the level of the Wheel of Destiny for
the ACC, it's not far from it. The difference between

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the ACC and the Big twelve is there is a standalone,
clear best team right now in the Big Twelve. That's
Texas Tech standalone.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
B YU is good.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
We'll see how Utah, We'll see how it all plays out.
But really the one standalone clearly above the pack group
is Texas Tech right now. But what happens if they
should lose in the Big twelve championship game or and
this might be more intriguing, Let's say Tech is in

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the Big twelve Championship game and then they beat YU
or Utah or somebody else. Does it lock everybody else
out of the Big twelve and it becomes a one
big league? So he was asked about the Big Twelve
championship and how it could impact the rankings of the
Big twelve schools.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
Yeah, the first part of your question regarding the conference
championship game, whoever makes the Big twelve conference championship game,
And I don't know the scenarios of who gets in
and who does it, but it's just another data point
that we would compare the participants of those games to
the other members of the Top twenty five, and so
it's really just another data point.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
That we'd use.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
So it's hard to say how that's going to impact
one team versus participating in it versus a team that
doesn't participate. The committee. We've had a lot of respect
for Arizona State. They've had a lot of injuries this
year and continue to play through those.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
They're the one.

Speaker 4 (01:30:58):
Team that's beaten Texas Tech, who's ranked number five, a
team that is highly regarded by this committee. They also
have a win at Iowa State, and then they've got
losses to a Houston team that is now ranked twenty third,
a Utah that's twelve, and then a good Mississippi State
team that is five and six, but a team that's

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played very well this year and against their SEC schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
Okay, all right, So I do find it interesting you
have a committee interim chairman who's not from the Big
twelve Conference, okay, replacing a guy who was the committee
chairman who was from a Big Twelve Conference school, Baylor.
Now Baylor's not in the race for the deal. But

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I do find it interesting if here's a guy who's
the interim committee chairman he doesn't know the tie breakers
in the Big Twelve, I would think this is just
me and I remember I said I love when they
do the thing. I'd love to be on it one time.
I would want to know every single tie breaking ramification
in the Big Twelve, the SEC, the American, which could

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be a mess right now.

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
I don't want to know all that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
So he's kind of showing his I got plugged in
nature there on that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
Thing, especially if it comes to a conference tiebreaker where
strength of schedule matters, because that should matter, and your
evaluation of the team, Yeah, this team got to play
for a conference championship because they performed the same as
another team with the harder schedule. So now you maybe
are less motivated to Dingham for losing.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Yeah, we'll see. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Coming up, we're going to hear from Texas women's head
coach Vick sha From when we continue on thirteen hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
The Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Here on a Irock Wednesday, the godfather of it, Michael
McDonald's with Doobie Brothers their version of you belong to me?
I don't know, I guess I like this version slight,
but it would be only slightly better than the Carly
Simon version.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
Carl's version is great, and the two of.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
Them, Michael McDonald and Carly Simon worked on this song together,
so that's that's really cool. But her version of it
is slightly different. It might be a little more. There
might be a little more angst in it of the
lyrics different. Nope, exact same music, exact same, the the

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beat if it, If it's different, it all might only
be a slightly half a beat slower on the Doobies version.
If that, I don't even know. If it's that, it
might be the exact same. It's pretty close. So Carly's
version is very good, good too. So if you say, hey,

(01:33:58):
I like the Carly Simon versus, hey, I like it too.
I just happened to pick out that specific one today
on he Got Rock Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (01:34:06):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
A couple more comments from Vic Shavor of the Texas
women's coach.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
We've heard from him throughout the course of the program.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
And he's talked about different players and how he's liked
what he has seen from them. So he was asked
the type of work that Jordan Lee has put in
over the summer. Remember she was on a national team
as well. And what has really impressed him.

Speaker 8 (01:34:29):
And Jordan Lee is probably top two in most improved
players on our team.

Speaker 6 (01:34:37):
I love her presence.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
She talks, communicates, which gives her a presence on the
floor or enhances her presence on the floor. Let me say,
and so Jordan has really gotten better, and you know
she's making shots. Man, she made a bunch of shots

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this morn and kid doesn't like coming out. She practices hard,
you know, plays a game hard. And so really been
pleased with Jordans and she just brings.

Speaker 6 (01:35:12):
A you know, a really good.

Speaker 8 (01:35:17):
Opposite wing to Booker, you know her and Aliah. That's
two kids that can really shoot it out there. So
people is it's gonna be hard for people to zone
us when you've got those.

Speaker 6 (01:35:28):
Three out there that can really shoot the three. And
that's what I like.

Speaker 8 (01:35:33):
I mean, I I love having shooters. I love people
that can stretch the floor because it really frees up
my big pit players inside for one on one. And
I think I've got two people inside that can really
score one on one. If you're gonna try to come
double me, you're gonna pick your poison. And so but
Jordan Lee, man, she's I love her. She's just been

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a she's gotten better. She's worked at it, plays hard, practices,
hard communicates just as a real steady presence on the floor.
And you know you're right. Only two turnovers, you know
which which I really like. Actually she's only got one

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eight assistant one turnovers, shooting fifty five forty from three
eighty three at the line. I just needed a rebound,
if I had to pick one thing, I needed a
defensive rebound a little bit more, and she knows that.
So but man, she's she's really been special. And I
look for her to have a great year for us.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
And since Jordan Lee has worked very hard and all
of his players were, he demands it. But she's also
improved her game a bit. And so Schaeffer was asked
if she's in that top two or three or whatever
of most improved players, who are the others.

Speaker 8 (01:37:01):
As great as Booker is, She's just she just gets
better and better. I see her do things every day
and and every now and then I'll think, man, she's
really gotten better at doing that. And but again, when
you're in the gym as much as she is, she's

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can you you're only gonna get You're only going to
get better. And gre Preston, I would say she's gotten
a lot better. You know, probably those three are most
improved on our team. But you know, Preston is she's
been battling a thumb injury and she's still shooting the

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ball well. As I've told you all many times, she's
not fast, she's electric and uh, and so you know,
those kids are all doing a great job for us,
and and uh.

Speaker 6 (01:38:01):
It's it's.

Speaker 8 (01:38:06):
Good to see and it's something we take great pride in, y'all. Development, Like,
I'd so much rather to have freshmen that come in
and stay with me four years, because I feel like
we're really good at developing kids and developing players. And
I think, you look at my team right now, I

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think we've got some kids that I'll take great pride
in knowing we've really done a good job developing them
and they're going to continue to get better and better
and better. So I think in a short period of
time with Leah, Crumbs gotten better. You know, I think
her confidence level is really really high, and it should

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be because she's a really good player. But she's gotten
better since she's been here at Texas. I feel like, okay,
So there it is.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
Tonight the log Worns host James Madison, Texas four and
oh ranked fourth in the country right now a Texas women.
They've won their games one aweight, fifty one, twenty three
point fifty one, eighty five, fifty six, one hundred to
thirty eight, and won eleven to forty five. In case

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you're wondering, right now, this team is averaging one hundred
and five points per game and holding opponents to forty
seven and a half per game. Right now, They've got
really good balance. Madison Booker averaging seventeen a game, Leah
Crump the freshman averaging fifteen a game, Jordan Lee averaging
fourteen a game, Kyle Oldacre averaging twelve and a half

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a game, Brianna Preston averaging ten per game, Justice Carlon
just inside of ten, at nine and a half per game,
in Toyo Sidbury at nine points per game, Briat Cunningham
just under nine.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
So they've got great.

Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
Balance all of that as well, all right, And so
they play tonight and then they will be off to
Las Vegas. Las Vegas Nevada is where they'll play in
the Players Era Championship, starting off against UCLA, a final

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fourteen from a year ago on a ranked team. That
is going to be one week from today, Wednesday afternoon
at one o'clock in the afternoon, so it will be
no program here next Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
It'll be one o'clock in the afternoon next Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
Then they'll play on Thanksgiving night, either at seven o'clock
if they win or if they lose, or at nine
point thirty if they win against either South Carolina. It's
probably gonna be South Carolina in the final. So if
Texas wins, is probably gonna be the first of at
least three and well, yeah, possibly three. They only play

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South Carolina one time this year and it's in Colombia,
so guaranteed two times, once in Vegas if they meet
him there. Once in Colombia, perhaps in Greenville the SEC
Championship game, and of course last year they did that
and they also played him in the Final four. I
don't know, but they would definitely play them twice if

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they meet him in Las Vegas because of the one
game they have they're in Colombia in the regular season,
all right, We'll be back to wrap up today's edition
of the program right here on sports Radio AM thirteen
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