June 19, 2025 • 11 mins
Craig talks about his upcoming vacation and Texas sports. He revisits his overall schedule and when the best time to plan a vacation is!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Up through.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wednesday of next week, and then next Wednesday. I began
from that point forward what Cameron referred to, and I'll
be honest with you, what we used to refer to,
not only across town, but when I was here the
first time for the nineteen year run that I had
(00:26):
from nineteen ninety seven, almost twenty years to January of
twenty seventeen. The first go around with the zone, even
going back to before it was the zone was dam
thirteen hundred. We used to refer to as the sabbatical,
so the annual vacation for me, and as people who
(00:49):
have followed me or the program all the years, they
know that there's really and truly only one time of
the year that I can take vacation. There's really only
one time, and it starts from late June, and I've learned,
by the way, make sure it's late enough to where
(01:11):
if the Longhorn baseball team has a great run in Omaha,
that I don't get caught up in that deal. Because
the vacation almost always, it hasn't been every time, it
almost always winds up being on the coast in North Carolina.
I grew up in central North Carolina, North the north
central part of the state in Greensboro, but I grew
(01:31):
up about three and a half hours from the coast,
and whether you're talking about from the outer Banks on
the north coast to all the way down to the
Crystal Coast which is near the Emmerald Isle and Morhead
City and all that, all the way down to the
part that I usually go to, which is the South
Brunswick Islands, right near the border with South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I usually go there and.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Take my time, get a couple of days up there,
because they usually end up driving stay there for a
couple of weeks and then come back. And that's the
case again this year. Alyn and are going to drive
up because if for no other reason, she can take
her espresso machine that way, if we.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do that, you bring a whole expresso machine with.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's one of those. We
have two.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We have one of those big ones. What is it
a bravail. We have one of those. You've seen those.
She has a smaller one that she had before we
got together back at eighteen. It's the n Espresso.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
One of those. I have that one.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, yeah, that's the one we take with us and
and so it'd be a little bit difficult to ship
or fly that. Roger Wallace told us it's a way
you can put it in your carry on. It might
be a little bit difficult, but there's other reasons as well.
It just it kind of makes sense to do it.
We take a lot of other things, and it just
makes it a lot easier, especially when you're going to
(02:52):
go for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, if you're there for an extended period of time,
I mean, why not? And if it fits, it's probably
Is it the virturo one where it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It, No, this one, No, it's more her she could
correct me on this side. To me, I think I
remember it being more squatty and horizontal or any stick
the pods in the in the tube thing and then
you do it or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay, I just mind's narrow. I think it's older. But
it's got the automatic lid. It's great. But it takes
those big pods. You can only get them at an
expresso store.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, but she orders them. Yeah, I ordered me. It
works out that that way as well. But so I
do that for for a couple of Like I said,
I one of the years at the log Horns, I
want to say it was twenty eighteen that they went
to Omaha. I had a planned vacation and it was
(03:42):
a flight trip that year, if I remember correctly, and
so it really slammed up against my departure date. And
and then and then I went ahead and set my mom,
who was still with me with us at the time.
I sat her and my son. I went they had
and flew them, and then I just caught up to them.
Now make sure I'm beyond what would be the latest
(04:05):
state possible for college baseball if the Long Words were
to get all the way to the national championship and
so on and so forth. And I'm there for a
couple of weeks until mid July, and then they usually
come back in mid July.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, mid July is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right around time conference football media days are underway. And
for years and years, of course it was the Big
Twelve media Days. I went to every Big Twelve media
day except one that the years that Texas was in
the Big Twelve Conference. The only year I didn't go
was nineteen ninety seven. I believe every other year I
went to Big twelve football media days. And then of
(04:40):
course last year was the first year for Texas to
be in the SEC. The SEC media days were in
Dallas last year, so that made it very convenient for
all of us to go up to This year, they're
in Atlanta, so it was definitely a flight trip for
everybody else that would be going. For me, it's kind
of on the way back, driving back from the coast,
(05:01):
So anyway, that's that's when I.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Take the vacation.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But I do it in one lump because other than
a day here or a day there, really I don't
have an opportunity to take any time off because once
you get back, you know, then you start getting the
football stuff. Always talk about sign posts, mile markers, mile posts,
so to speak. The first of those is coming up
(05:27):
in the next week to ten days the release of
Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The new magazine will be coming out.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Greg Tepper, the editor in chief of the magazine, will
join us next week to talk about it. We mentioned
last week. Sark is on the cover of it. On
the on the main cover, the gatefold cover, that's the
inside flap cover, the one where they always put high
school athletes or coaches on there. They have Salina's head
coach Bill Elliott, and a couple of his players on
(05:55):
there that we've seen. Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine is
already unveiled that, but the magazine itself is not yet
on the shelves.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's going to happen in early July.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
We do expect to get our annual shipment, so we
will be giving away copies on the program. We'll look
forward to that. We're we're going to do that as well.
So that's the first signpost, if you will. The second
one is Conference Football Media Days. So there's that, and
(06:33):
that would be, like I said, it's in Atlanta from
the fourteenth through the seventeenth of July. The third signpost,
at least for me personally and for a lot of
football fans, happens right on the tail end of that,
and that is the annual Texas High School Coaches Association's
annual coaching school and Convention.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's their sixty fifth this year, so it's been around
a long time. Their membership now numbers twenty eight thousand.
They have twenty eight thousand members now. They don't all
come to Coaching School, but at least around fifteen thousand
do every year.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I used to say it was the world's largest convocation
of bike shorts and heat bomb because you have the
exhibit hall where all the exhibitors are there, so you
can go in there and you can find anything from
coaching directories to blocking sleds, to down markers, to energy drinks,
to instruction videos if it has to do with football
(07:35):
or athletics. Vendors are in there in the convention center,
in this case in San Antonio, be the Henry be
Gonzales Convention Center, and the visitor it's quite a spectacle.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And then they have lectures.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Of course Sark is one of the keynote speakers this year,
and so all the high school coaches get there, get
together there every year and they go to these lectures
from other coaches. And it's not just all it's other
sports as well, but they go to these lectures and
they listen to one another and have a lot of
give and take in exchange of ideas and things like that.
(08:10):
I'm involved in a couple of events with that. One
I MC their Hall of Honor dinner, which is their
Hall of Fame where they induct new coaches every year.
So their Hall of Honor banquet is that weekend, and
that's in that third weekend in July like eighteen, nineteen
twenty twenty, first right around there for Coaching School the
other thing. And I really enjoyed doing this every year
(08:32):
and it's a lot of fun and we usually have
some social media postings of it and people report on
it as well. The Texas High School Coaches Association in
this annual Coaching School also hosts a panel discussion. Now,
this panel discussion involves every Division one FBS head football
(08:59):
college coach in the state of Texas. So FBS football
bolshob Division. There's thirteen of them. So see if I
can remember them off the comand Steve Sarkisian, you have
Mike Elco at A and M. You have Red Ashley
at s m U, you have Sunny Dykes at TCU.
(09:20):
You have See if I can just remember the other programs,
I can skirt through that quicker than trying to remember
everybody's names. Baylor, U, TEP, Houston, Rice, uts A, North Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There's one more Texas Tech, Texas Tech.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Hold on, It'll come to me. Texas State. Yes, that's
twelve and I'm leaving one out whom are leaving out.
I've done Texas Texas A and M Baylor TCU, Rice Houston,
North Texas, SMU, Texas tech.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
U TEP. Did I say you tip earlier?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Maybe oh, Sam Houston, Yes, yeah, yeah, Sam Houston because
they've only been Division on FBS a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Phil Longo is the new coach there.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So anyway, all thirteen head coaches that these programs are
all on the stage at the same time, and it's
my responsibility to moderate it as a panel discussion and
try to make sure everybody gets a chance to speak
a couple of times. But it's for the coaches, the
high school coaches, and there's questions submitted and then we
put these questions to the coach and it's really an
(10:37):
outstanding it's change and thoughts from these coaches. It can
get a little humorous, but it can also be very
very very very insightful. So that's another thing that is
a part of the Coaching Convention and Coaching School. So
that's one of the things. So that's the third signpost
(11:00):
for me about the advent of the coming football season.
And then of course you get in August, you get
in a football practice and it's it's up and running
it all. And by then also NFL training camps are underway,
so that's all still to come. So fitting in between
the end of the collegiate athletics season with the end
of baseball and the signposts for football is one window
(11:24):
where I can slip the vacation yet, So that's that'll
be happening. So I'm here until next Wednesday and then
and then out up until SEC.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Media Days, so it'll be it'll be that all right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We're gonna get some of your questions coming up, and
we got some other topics to get to when we
continue here on thirteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The Zone
Up through.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wednesday of next week, and then next Wednesday. I began
from that point forward what Cameron referred to, and I'll
be honest with you, what we used to refer to,
not only across town, but when I was here the
first time for the nineteen year run that I had
(00:26):
from nineteen ninety seven, almost twenty years to January of
twenty seventeen. The first go around with the zone, even
going back to before it was the zone was dam
thirteen hundred. We used to refer to as the sabbatical,
so the annual vacation for me, and as people who
(00:49):
have followed me or the program all the years, they
know that there's really and truly only one time of
the year that I can take vacation. There's really only
one time, and it starts from late June, and I've learned,
by the way, make sure it's late enough to where
(01:11):
if the Longhorn baseball team has a great run in Omaha,
that I don't get caught up in that deal. Because
the vacation almost always, it hasn't been every time, it
almost always winds up being on the coast in North Carolina.
I grew up in central North Carolina, North the north
central part of the state in Greensboro, but I grew
(01:31):
up about three and a half hours from the coast,
and whether you're talking about from the outer Banks on
the north coast to all the way down to the
Crystal Coast which is near the Emmerald Isle and Morhead
City and all that, all the way down to the
part that I usually go to, which is the South
Brunswick Islands, right near the border with South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I usually go there and.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Take my time, get a couple of days up there,
because they usually end up driving stay there for a
couple of weeks and then come back. And that's the
case again this year. Alyn and are going to drive
up because if for no other reason, she can take
her espresso machine that way, if we.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do that, you bring a whole expresso machine with.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's one of those. We
have two.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We have one of those big ones. What is it
a bravail. We have one of those. You've seen those.
She has a smaller one that she had before we
got together back at eighteen. It's the n Espresso.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
One of those. I have that one.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, yeah, that's the one we take with us and
and so it'd be a little bit difficult to ship
or fly that. Roger Wallace told us it's a way
you can put it in your carry on. It might
be a little bit difficult, but there's other reasons as well.
It just it kind of makes sense to do it.
We take a lot of other things, and it just
makes it a lot easier, especially when you're going to
(02:52):
go for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, if you're there for an extended period of time,
I mean, why not? And if it fits, it's probably
Is it the virturo one where it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It, No, this one, No, it's more her she could
correct me on this side. To me, I think I
remember it being more squatty and horizontal or any stick
the pods in the in the tube thing and then
you do it or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay, I just mind's narrow. I think it's older. But
it's got the automatic lid. It's great. But it takes
those big pods. You can only get them at an
expresso store.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, but she orders them. Yeah, I ordered me. It
works out that that way as well. But so I
do that for for a couple of Like I said,
I one of the years at the log Horns, I
want to say it was twenty eighteen that they went
to Omaha. I had a planned vacation and it was
(03:42):
a flight trip that year, if I remember correctly, and
so it really slammed up against my departure date. And
and then and then I went ahead and set my mom,
who was still with me with us at the time.
I sat her and my son. I went they had
and flew them, and then I just caught up to them.
Now make sure I'm beyond what would be the latest
(04:05):
state possible for college baseball if the Long Words were
to get all the way to the national championship and
so on and so forth. And I'm there for a
couple of weeks until mid July, and then they usually
come back in mid July.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, mid July is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right around time conference football media days are underway. And
for years and years, of course it was the Big
Twelve media Days. I went to every Big Twelve media
day except one that the years that Texas was in
the Big Twelve Conference. The only year I didn't go
was nineteen ninety seven. I believe every other year I
went to Big twelve football media days. And then of
(04:40):
course last year was the first year for Texas to
be in the SEC. The SEC media days were in
Dallas last year, so that made it very convenient for
all of us to go up to This year, they're
in Atlanta, so it was definitely a flight trip for
everybody else that would be going. For me, it's kind
of on the way back, driving back from the coast,
(05:01):
So anyway, that's that's when I.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Take the vacation.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But I do it in one lump because other than
a day here or a day there, really I don't
have an opportunity to take any time off because once
you get back, you know, then you start getting the
football stuff. Always talk about sign posts, mile markers, mile posts,
so to speak. The first of those is coming up
(05:27):
in the next week to ten days the release of
Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The new magazine will be coming out.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Greg Tepper, the editor in chief of the magazine, will
join us next week to talk about it. We mentioned
last week. Sark is on the cover of it. On
the on the main cover, the gatefold cover, that's the
inside flap cover, the one where they always put high
school athletes or coaches on there. They have Salina's head
coach Bill Elliott, and a couple of his players on
(05:55):
there that we've seen. Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine is
already unveiled that, but the magazine itself is not yet
on the shelves.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's going to happen in early July.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
We do expect to get our annual shipment, so we
will be giving away copies on the program. We'll look
forward to that. We're we're going to do that as well.
So that's the first signpost, if you will. The second
one is Conference Football Media Days. So there's that, and
(06:33):
that would be, like I said, it's in Atlanta from
the fourteenth through the seventeenth of July. The third signpost,
at least for me personally and for a lot of
football fans, happens right on the tail end of that,
and that is the annual Texas High School Coaches Association's
annual coaching school and Convention.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's their sixty fifth this year, so it's been around
a long time. Their membership now numbers twenty eight thousand.
They have twenty eight thousand members now. They don't all
come to Coaching School, but at least around fifteen thousand
do every year.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I used to say it was the world's largest convocation
of bike shorts and heat bomb because you have the
exhibit hall where all the exhibitors are there, so you
can go in there and you can find anything from
coaching directories to blocking sleds, to down markers, to energy drinks,
to instruction videos if it has to do with football
(07:35):
or athletics. Vendors are in there in the convention center,
in this case in San Antonio, be the Henry be
Gonzales Convention Center, and the visitor it's quite a spectacle.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And then they have lectures.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Of course Sark is one of the keynote speakers this year,
and so all the high school coaches get there, get
together there every year and they go to these lectures
from other coaches. And it's not just all it's other
sports as well, but they go to these lectures and
they listen to one another and have a lot of
give and take in exchange of ideas and things like that.
(08:10):
I'm involved in a couple of events with that. One
I MC their Hall of Honor dinner, which is their
Hall of Fame where they induct new coaches every year.
So their Hall of Honor banquet is that weekend, and
that's in that third weekend in July like eighteen, nineteen
twenty twenty, first right around there for Coaching School the
other thing. And I really enjoyed doing this every year
(08:32):
and it's a lot of fun and we usually have
some social media postings of it and people report on
it as well. The Texas High School Coaches Association in
this annual Coaching School also hosts a panel discussion. Now,
this panel discussion involves every Division one FBS head football
(08:59):
college coach in the state of Texas. So FBS football
bolshob Division. There's thirteen of them. So see if I
can remember them off the comand Steve Sarkisian, you have
Mike Elco at A and M. You have Red Ashley
at s m U, you have Sunny Dykes at TCU.
(09:20):
You have See if I can just remember the other programs,
I can skirt through that quicker than trying to remember
everybody's names. Baylor, U, TEP, Houston, Rice, uts A, North Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There's one more Texas Tech, Texas Tech.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Hold on, It'll come to me. Texas State. Yes, that's
twelve and I'm leaving one out whom are leaving out.
I've done Texas Texas A and M Baylor TCU, Rice Houston,
North Texas, SMU, Texas tech.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
U TEP. Did I say you tip earlier?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Maybe oh, Sam Houston, Yes, yeah, yeah, Sam Houston because
they've only been Division on FBS a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Phil Longo is the new coach there.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So anyway, all thirteen head coaches that these programs are
all on the stage at the same time, and it's
my responsibility to moderate it as a panel discussion and
try to make sure everybody gets a chance to speak
a couple of times. But it's for the coaches, the
high school coaches, and there's questions submitted and then we
put these questions to the coach and it's really an
(10:37):
outstanding it's change and thoughts from these coaches. It can
get a little humorous, but it can also be very
very very very insightful. So that's another thing that is
a part of the Coaching Convention and Coaching School. So
that's one of the things. So that's the third signpost
(11:00):
for me about the advent of the coming football season.
And then of course you get in August, you get
in a football practice and it's it's up and running
it all. And by then also NFL training camps are underway,
so that's all still to come. So fitting in between
the end of the collegiate athletics season with the end
of baseball and the signposts for football is one window
(11:24):
where I can slip the vacation yet, So that's that'll
be happening. So I'm here until next Wednesday and then
and then out up until SEC.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Media Days, so it'll be it'll be that all right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We're gonna get some of your questions coming up, and
we got some other topics to get to when we
continue here on thirteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
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