August 6, 2024 • 9 mins
Craig goes over how yesterdays pratcice went and we hear from Coach Sarkisian and how hes getting his players ready and used to the heat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seventy nine to fifty five. The US up by twenty
four points in that one. Kevin Durant just hit a
tough fadeaway jumper to put him backup by twenty six.
And the other notable thing about this, I don't think
it's anything serious, but Lebron James looked like he took
a shot to right above the eye or something that is.
In fact, he's still wiping down his face in the
(00:23):
left eye, I think, But he looks like he's all right,
and it looks for all the worlds though, the US
is going to cruise right on the end to that
semifinal matchup with Serbia. The other semifinal is already set,
with France moving into the semifinals to take on Germany.
(00:43):
Germany eliminated Greece and France knocked out Australia in overtime,
rallying back from down twenty four, so Victor Wembiyama will
get to play in an Olympic semifinal. Of course, he
was playing when they won silver back in the Tokyo
Games in that one, so we'll keep you updated on that.
We were just talking about press conference enders, as we
(01:05):
like to say, those ones that will shut down a
press conference pretty quickly when that happened. You said, at
your time going up there in northern California, you've you've.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Kind of witnessed some of those.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
One in involving a long time respected pro football writer
Tim Kawakami.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I remember when I was with the old station.
We had the Raiders and one of the Raiders assistant coaches.
I don't know what was said exactly, but he he
squared up Kawakami, and the PR guy had to step
in and everything, and he got a little ugly.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But yeah, so was it a player or a coach?
It was a coach an assistant coaches? Was that was
wanting to take him on?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh yeah, let me look at I bet you I
can find the videos thill.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Wow, We're fortunate in that we don't really have too
many of those that happen with regard to the Texas Longhorns.
And I would say that that's doing large measure too.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know, we've.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think put it this way, I think we've got
enough media here in this town who recognize if they
say something completely ridiculously goofy and dumb and all that
sort of stuff, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Not going to get them anywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And then not only that, on top of that, you
have a coach in Steve Sarkisian who is pretty good
at answering questions. So, for example, here was something we
played yesterday. This is from his media availability when folks
were talking about the toughness that a football team has
(02:53):
to accrue. And they have to accrue this toughness over
time and over workouts on the practice field and you know,
in the circle, in the pit, in the trenches, so
to speak, against one another, and they have to have
that growth in the locker room and team chemistry and
all that sort of stuff. But sark was was fond
(03:16):
of the word callous. And I don't mean like a
callous attitude. I'm talking about your body growing those kind
of callouses, both mentally and physically in preparing for the
advent of a football season.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This first week and a half, we have to kind
of develop the callouses as a team, right, the mental callouses,
the toughness, the ability to exell when it's difficult. And
that's kind of that first week and half, and that
the second two weeks there we got to fine tune
and we got to make sure we're feeling good when
that season starts. I think it's important to maximize the
(03:51):
bye weeks, and we're fortunate the season and a half
two of those, and then I think it's important to
play a lot of players, especially in those first four
games of the season, so that down the road, you know,
as the season goes, if guys get nicked up and
other guys have to come in and play. It's not
their first exposure to playing, so there's a lot of
layers to it. But naturally you want, you know, as
(04:13):
you hit Thanksgiving and then beyond, you know, we're hopeful
that we're as healthy as we can be. We're hopeful
that are that are that are really you know, our
best players are as healthy as they can be. And
because you're gonna need your best when your best is needed,
and if we're fortunate enough to play into a playoff, man,
you sure would like to have your full allotment of
your best players available to you right in December and January.
(04:33):
But that's a long.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Way from now. We've got to, you know, we've got.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
To stay focused on today.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And what we're doing. Yeah, it is a long long
way away.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And and somebody asked me about this the other day,
pardon me, their first hip of water. Somebody asked me
the other day and asked me if I could kind
of go over it again, And I'm more than happy
to do it, because this is new frontier for everybody,
everybody in college football about how the whole playoff system
(05:01):
and structure is going to work. We were even having
some conversation about it today. We were having some conversation
about it with regard to sites of the playoffs and
the way that the playoff system works. So just so
you'll know, the way it works is you have twelve
(05:24):
teams that'll make the college Football Playoff and the top
four seeds, and of course this will all be determined
on the field during the course of the year, but
the playoff committee will then you see the teams like
they do every year. But of course in the past
it just you know, the past couple of years or
(05:46):
you know, it just mattered about four teams, and now
it's going to matter with regard to twelve. So twelve
teams will get it, get in, and the top four
seeded teams will eve first round bys. So you know,
probably if the winner of the Southeastern Conference, whether it's
(06:09):
Georgia or Texas or whoever.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
If the winner.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Goes unbeaten and wins the conference championship, I think you
can take you to the bank. Obviously, they are going
to receive one of those four first round bys, and
it would probably it would probably be the case as
well for other power for conference champions if they're unbeaten,
that they'd probably get a first round by.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
They'd be one of the top four seats.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The remaining eight teams will play on the first weekend
and it works just like a regular seeded bracketed tournament
like NCAA basketball tournament, and that the fifth seeded team
will play the number twelve seed, the six will play
the eleven, the seven will play.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The ten, and the eight will play the nine.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now, the teams that are seed at fifth, sixth, seventh,
and eighth will get to host those first round playoff games,
so they actually played on their home field in the
first round. Then you get to the quarterfinals, and that's
where the bowls get involved.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The Rose Bowl is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A quarterfinal, the Fiesta Bowl is a quarterfinal, the Peach
Bowl is a quarterfinal. So you have all of these,
and the Sugar Bowl is a quarterfinal and then the semifinals,
I believe are the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl,
and then you have the National Championship. So that's how
(07:33):
it works, utilizing the bowls within the playoff structure. And
it was put up today and we mentioned this one
time before about a week ago, that it is possible,
it's possible for Texas to actually play as many as
three games in Atlanta in a little over a month.
And here's how it would work. If they were to
play in the SEC championship game, that would be one
(07:57):
time in Atlanta, a couple of weeks later or a
few weeks later playing in the quarterfinals. If they evan
scored it, there's a good chance they would play in
the Peach Bowl. Then they'd have to win their semi final,
which would probably be in the Cotton Bowl, and as
they won that, then the national championship game is in
Atlanta this coming season. So it's possible not just for
(08:18):
Texas but for many teams who could be in the
thick of the fight.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And we saw the preseason.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Coaches poll released yesterday that it could possibly be that
as well. So we'll see on all of that, but
that kind of explains a little bit into the third quarter,
the US leads Brazil by a score of ninety four
to seventy one. They're up twenty three points starting the
final quarter, and Kevin Durant has surpassed Lisa Leslie to
(08:47):
become the all time leading scorer in Olympic basketball history,
male or female. He became the all time leading men
score last Saturday in the winter for Germany.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Now he passed Lisa Leslie and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He is now the all time leading scorer in all
of Olympic basketball history. We'll be back to wrap up
Hour number two on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
Seventy nine to fifty five. The US up by twenty
four points in that one. Kevin Durant just hit a
tough fadeaway jumper to put him backup by twenty six.
And the other notable thing about this, I don't think
it's anything serious, but Lebron James looked like he took
a shot to right above the eye or something that is.
In fact, he's still wiping down his face in the
(00:23):
left eye, I think, But he looks like he's all right,
and it looks for all the worlds though, the US
is going to cruise right on the end to that
semifinal matchup with Serbia. The other semifinal is already set,
with France moving into the semifinals to take on Germany.
(00:43):
Germany eliminated Greece and France knocked out Australia in overtime,
rallying back from down twenty four, so Victor Wembiyama will
get to play in an Olympic semifinal. Of course, he
was playing when they won silver back in the Tokyo
Games in that one, so we'll keep you updated on that.
We were just talking about press conference enders, as we
(01:05):
like to say, those ones that will shut down a
press conference pretty quickly when that happened. You said, at
your time going up there in northern California, you've you've.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Kind of witnessed some of those.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
One in involving a long time respected pro football writer
Tim Kawakami.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I remember when I was with the old station.
We had the Raiders and one of the Raiders assistant coaches.
I don't know what was said exactly, but he he
squared up Kawakami, and the PR guy had to step
in and everything, and he got a little ugly.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But yeah, so was it a player or a coach?
It was a coach an assistant coaches? Was that was
wanting to take him on?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh yeah, let me look at I bet you I
can find the videos thill.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Wow, We're fortunate in that we don't really have too
many of those that happen with regard to the Texas Longhorns.
And I would say that that's doing large measure too.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know, we've.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think put it this way, I think we've got
enough media here in this town who recognize if they
say something completely ridiculously goofy and dumb and all that
sort of stuff, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Not going to get them anywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And then not only that, on top of that, you
have a coach in Steve Sarkisian who is pretty good
at answering questions. So, for example, here was something we
played yesterday. This is from his media availability when folks
were talking about the toughness that a football team has
(02:53):
to accrue. And they have to accrue this toughness over
time and over workouts on the practice field and you know,
in the circle, in the pit, in the trenches, so
to speak, against one another, and they have to have
that growth in the locker room and team chemistry and
all that sort of stuff. But sark was was fond
(03:16):
of the word callous. And I don't mean like a
callous attitude. I'm talking about your body growing those kind
of callouses, both mentally and physically in preparing for the
advent of a football season.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This first week and a half, we have to kind
of develop the callouses as a team, right, the mental callouses,
the toughness, the ability to exell when it's difficult. And
that's kind of that first week and half, and that
the second two weeks there we got to fine tune
and we got to make sure we're feeling good when
that season starts. I think it's important to maximize the
(03:51):
bye weeks, and we're fortunate the season and a half
two of those, and then I think it's important to
play a lot of players, especially in those first four
games of the season, so that down the road, you know,
as the season goes, if guys get nicked up and
other guys have to come in and play. It's not
their first exposure to playing, so there's a lot of
layers to it. But naturally you want, you know, as
(04:13):
you hit Thanksgiving and then beyond, you know, we're hopeful
that we're as healthy as we can be. We're hopeful
that are that are that are really you know, our
best players are as healthy as they can be. And
because you're gonna need your best when your best is needed,
and if we're fortunate enough to play into a playoff, man,
you sure would like to have your full allotment of
your best players available to you right in December and January.
(04:33):
But that's a long.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Way from now. We've got to, you know, we've got.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
To stay focused on today.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And what we're doing. Yeah, it is a long long
way away.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And and somebody asked me about this the other day,
pardon me, their first hip of water. Somebody asked me
the other day and asked me if I could kind
of go over it again, And I'm more than happy
to do it, because this is new frontier for everybody,
everybody in college football about how the whole playoff system
(05:01):
and structure is going to work. We were even having
some conversation about it today. We were having some conversation
about it with regard to sites of the playoffs and
the way that the playoff system works. So just so
you'll know, the way it works is you have twelve
(05:24):
teams that'll make the college Football Playoff and the top
four seeds, and of course this will all be determined
on the field during the course of the year, but
the playoff committee will then you see the teams like
they do every year. But of course in the past
it just you know, the past couple of years or
(05:46):
you know, it just mattered about four teams, and now
it's going to matter with regard to twelve. So twelve
teams will get it, get in, and the top four
seeded teams will eve first round bys. So you know,
probably if the winner of the Southeastern Conference, whether it's
(06:09):
Georgia or Texas or whoever.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
If the winner.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Goes unbeaten and wins the conference championship, I think you
can take you to the bank. Obviously, they are going
to receive one of those four first round bys, and
it would probably it would probably be the case as
well for other power for conference champions if they're unbeaten,
that they'd probably get a first round by.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
They'd be one of the top four seats.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The remaining eight teams will play on the first weekend
and it works just like a regular seeded bracketed tournament
like NCAA basketball tournament, and that the fifth seeded team
will play the number twelve seed, the six will play
the eleven, the seven will play.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The ten, and the eight will play the nine.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now, the teams that are seed at fifth, sixth, seventh,
and eighth will get to host those first round playoff games,
so they actually played on their home field in the
first round. Then you get to the quarterfinals, and that's
where the bowls get involved.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The Rose Bowl is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A quarterfinal, the Fiesta Bowl is a quarterfinal, the Peach
Bowl is a quarterfinal. So you have all of these,
and the Sugar Bowl is a quarterfinal and then the semifinals,
I believe are the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl,
and then you have the National Championship. So that's how
(07:33):
it works, utilizing the bowls within the playoff structure. And
it was put up today and we mentioned this one
time before about a week ago, that it is possible,
it's possible for Texas to actually play as many as
three games in Atlanta in a little over a month.
And here's how it would work. If they were to
play in the SEC championship game, that would be one
(07:57):
time in Atlanta, a couple of weeks later or a
few weeks later playing in the quarterfinals. If they evan
scored it, there's a good chance they would play in
the Peach Bowl. Then they'd have to win their semi final,
which would probably be in the Cotton Bowl, and as
they won that, then the national championship game is in
Atlanta this coming season. So it's possible not just for
(08:18):
Texas but for many teams who could be in the
thick of the fight.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And we saw the preseason.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Coaches poll released yesterday that it could possibly be that
as well. So we'll see on all of that, but
that kind of explains a little bit into the third quarter,
the US leads Brazil by a score of ninety four
to seventy one. They're up twenty three points starting the
final quarter, and Kevin Durant has surpassed Lisa Leslie to
(08:47):
become the all time leading scorer in Olympic basketball history,
male or female. He became the all time leading men
score last Saturday in the winter for Germany.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Now he passed Lisa Leslie and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He is now the all time leading scorer in all
of Olympic basketball history. We'll be back to wrap up
Hour number two on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
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