August 7, 2024 • 11 mins
Hour 3 continues with Texas Longhorns linebacker David Gbenda speaking about his role as a leader on the defense, Anthony Hill, the new defensive tackles, first day of practice in pads, and getting lost in DKR.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This will interest you, and it will interest a lot
of people, think certainly interested me. I know it will
interest you because you, like me, are a big baseball fan,
and you, like me, are also a NASCAR fan. And
in case you didn't hear about this, remember a few
years ago when Tennessee and Virginia Tech played a football game,
(00:29):
and also East Tennessee State played Western Carolina Bristol Motor Speedway.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Remember when they did that a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And then because Bristol Motor Speedway is a small ovals
you know, half mile track and it's done really in
stadium style, so one hundred and fifty thousand fans can
fit in there, and they have two NASCAR Cup races
there per season.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, there's going to be a baseball game there next year.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And they picked the two teams that it makes the
most sense to lay there, at least the first one,
the Braves and the Reds, because Bristol is well, I
started saying, it's about halfway between the two. It's a
little closer to Atlanta than it is to Cincinnati. That point,
it's not real far from Cincinnati. So in fact, my
(01:18):
broadcast partner on men's basketball, Eddie Orton grew up a
Cincinnati Reds fan because he grew up in Harriman, Tennessee,
near Knoxville, and he said his grandfather and his dad
used to take him to Cincinnati Reds games at Old
Crosley Field up there. But the Braves and Reds, according
to MOTL reports, are going to play a game about
(01:41):
a year from now, August second, twenty twenty five at
Bristol Motor Speedway. There is a news conference on Friday
with Speedway Motorsports and they're going to discuss the twenty
twenty five schedule for Bristol the Cup races and that
Austin Ridley is the Brave third baseman. He was born
(02:05):
in Memphis. He lives in Mississippi, and he's a big
fan of NASCAR as well, and he said it'll be
like SEC football. You know what's crazy. I've never been
to a NASCAR race, never been to Talladega. As close
as I am, I've been to Talladega. I've been a
race at Talladega. Saw Dale Earnher went in there back
a long time ago. But anyway, also Bristol hosted and
(02:31):
then this goes back an NFL exhibition game in nineteen
sixty one between Philadelphia and Washington, and it was in
consecutive weeks in twenty sixteen when they had that Tennessee
Virginia Tech game and the East Tennessee Western Carolina game.
Now I would say this, I think it's really cool,
but it's it'll be interesting the way that they can
(02:54):
that they construct this, because if you just look at
the track, it looks like it might have a really
short distance down either the left or the right field
foul lines, kind of like the old Los Angeles Colisseum.
And the Dodgers played there for four years when they
first moved out from Brooklyn and they were building Dodger Stadium,
and it was an estimated two hundred and forty seven
(03:20):
feet down the left field foul line. Now, they installed
a fifty foot high screen to block real cheap home runs,
but there were a lot of pop fly home runs
and whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They had. A guy named Wally.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Moon who played for the Dodgers, played for the Cardinals,
a couple of other teams, but he played for the
Dodgers at that time, and they had what were called
moonshots when he could hit almost these high arcing pop
fly shots that would land over that fifty foot fence
there short left field at the LA Coliseum. Now, on
the other hand, right field is about three hundred and
ninety feet down the right field line, so you couldn't
(03:51):
get a ball out if you were a left handed
hitter driving it out to deep right field as well.
So I don't know if it'll be quite the situation
like that, but they said they're gonna play major of course,
you know they played exhibition games. They played exhibition games
at in the Alamodome, including the Rangers. My two sons
(04:15):
went to a game there. It might have been Rangers Dodgers.
They went together.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I didn't. I didn't go. They went.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that poke down either the left field or the
right field line is a close one.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's a tight one there.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But that's what happens when you have dome stadiums that
are ovals and are not circles that would be.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Better suited for Major League Baseball games.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
All right, Logward football team back on the practice field today.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And the bad news you've heard it by now that
came down earlier that CJ.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Baxter has lost for the season, suffered a knee injury
in practice yesterday. Various reports that said, the extended the injury,
whether it was torn LCL and or PCL, but he
is having surgery and he's out for the rest of
the year.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So the Longhorns will go on.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Obviously, Jayden Blue becomes kind of the lead back, but
there'll be several different guys. Tray Wisner would be one
and said with the younger guys coming in the freshman
like a Jared Gibson, some of those other guys will
get opportunities as well. Meanwhile, it goes on to the
defensive side as well. They continue to grind and on
(05:31):
the defensive side. David Benda is one of those old heads,
long in the tooth guys, sixth year senior, that sort
of thing. The first he was talking about the progress
of Anthony Hill, who had been playing on the outside
and Hill now as a sophomore, moving inside into the
inside linebacker spot. In what David Benda sees from the
(05:54):
youngster Hill on the move inside.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Honestly, I feel like it doesn't really affect me at all.
Both players, they're both dying now and is very skilled.
He's coming along really well, and I feel like it's
just the trust that we've been building. I trust Anthony
one hundred percent. So it doesn't really affect me at
all at anything.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It just makes it more.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Fun because just building that bond and getting to know
him and also understanding how his mind works, and just
continuing to grind throughout the summer. Then now we're in
fall camp and he's making plays. I'm making plays. I
feel like it's just it's been fun, honestly.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, So that's why he said, it doesn't affect in
terms of what he has to do. Uh, you know,
whether whether it's Hill was playing inside or outside, it's
whatever he has to do on that now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
In terms of his own preparation for the coming season,
he continues to work hard and as a six year senior,
he's going to be very giving of advice to a
young guy like Anthony Hill.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Like I just said earlier, the growth has been coming
along swimming with He's a fast learner and he picks
up all he picks up very well, and he knows ball.
His football IQ is up there. But with me, I
just try to basically, whenever I watch film or just
little nuggets I pick up, I try to just give
it to the younger guys, whether it be just a
different formation, what coach Sark is trying to do here
(07:15):
or in this defense, what's the weakness or what I've
learned throughout my mistakes. Just to give it to them
to make their process come along easier, like just little
things here with line games, alignments, little stuff like that,
so it can make it the development process ten times
easier for him.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, that sounds like what a leader would do. Benda
was asked how much pride does he take in being
a leader and really viewed in that prison by his
coaches and teammates.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Being a part of that team Lester was amazing and
to be a part of it was cool. So coming
back for me was just to try to duplicate that
and just you know what I'm saying, not even just
duplicate it, go further win the national championship. So it
means a lot to me to work so hard and
finally just sort of lead, be at the forefront of
it and just try to change the university and do
what I came here to do.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
First day in pads was yesterday. How did Benda field
he and his teammates did on day number one in pads?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It was very excited and then offensive defense we competed
our butts off and we just got after it. What
it means for the team is it's just sort of
let us know where we're at. But also, like ost
Sarks says, throughout the throughout this period, it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
We practiced at three pm.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Obviously we were insectsist is hot, but that didn't really
sway us. We got after we competed, and I felt
like the team is at a different place.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But it's in a good place. Yeah, that's that's good
to hear. And one more from David Benda.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
There's a lot said about the defensive tackles now and
how they respond this newer group since to Andandre Sweat
and by Ra Norfi have moved on. You've got Vernon
brought and Alfred Collins kind of in the middle, but
there's other guys as well, And how have they looked
(08:58):
in all of this?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Man, the defense, the tackles you got from Bill, your
main tia, they're they're great implementations to the team, and
I feel like they've been coming along well, just getting
to know Bill Germine, even just getting lost.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
In the stadium with them yesterday in dk R. I mean, yeah,
I'm being so serious.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So we had to renew Broadway from the tank, but
the usual way we went to was closed because it
was after hours. But just getting to know them and
seeing how they play and what they add to the team,
it's it's very much. It's very good addition, and I'm
glad they're here and they've been very much willing to
learn and just help us.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You know, have you gotten lost in dk R before, Craig,
probably a long time ago, maybe trying to think.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
About it, there's been put it this way.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There have been times when I thought if I went
a certain way once the stadium because because most people
seeing their listening, go, how could you get lost?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's just an oval. You just walk around.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Remember there's different ramps and up and down in corridors
if you will, especially toward the north end where they
really did all that, because I say, especially now with
the south end, it may be well the same and
I'd be parked like saying, Manor garage and it was
going around to the press box or up to the
ninth floor for the news conference, and you get inside
(10:18):
and you walk around in some of that upper area
and then go down and then around you.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Can you can go down a different kind of hallway.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And know that you're inside of the stadium, but you're not
exactly sure you know where you are.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But the question is.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
If I continue to go down this way, can I
get through the door I need to get to to
get to an elevator or the floor or the exit
that I needed toasm some of courts, it's just dead
end at a spot you got to turn around and
go back. So I understand what David Bednena means some
when he talks about getting lost in the stadium. And
then you got new guys. He mentioned Kobe Black, he
(10:58):
was talking about him. Then new guys on the defensive front,
like Trey More mentioning you know what what what he brings,
and so there's a lot of fun just kind of
you know, dealing with that guys getting used to Bill Norton.
He mentioned Bill Bill Kill. Bill Bill Norton is uh,
there's a lot of jokes about uh. He has just
(11:19):
you know, Bill has just that regular regular name, regular
dude Bill Norton coming in from Arizona, and you know
what's he all about? But he's he's impressing people early
on in the workouts without hard.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
He's been working all right.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Will have Moore coming up on this LONGRN football team,
a couple other items as well, and continue on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio AM
This will interest you, and it will interest a lot
of people, think certainly interested me. I know it will
interest you because you, like me, are a big baseball fan,
and you, like me, are also a NASCAR fan. And
in case you didn't hear about this, remember a few
years ago when Tennessee and Virginia Tech played a football game,
(00:29):
and also East Tennessee State played Western Carolina Bristol Motor Speedway.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Remember when they did that a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And then because Bristol Motor Speedway is a small ovals
you know, half mile track and it's done really in
stadium style, so one hundred and fifty thousand fans can
fit in there, and they have two NASCAR Cup races
there per season.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, there's going to be a baseball game there next year.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And they picked the two teams that it makes the
most sense to lay there, at least the first one,
the Braves and the Reds, because Bristol is well, I
started saying, it's about halfway between the two. It's a
little closer to Atlanta than it is to Cincinnati. That point,
it's not real far from Cincinnati. So in fact, my
(01:18):
broadcast partner on men's basketball, Eddie Orton grew up a
Cincinnati Reds fan because he grew up in Harriman, Tennessee,
near Knoxville, and he said his grandfather and his dad
used to take him to Cincinnati Reds games at Old
Crosley Field up there. But the Braves and Reds, according
to MOTL reports, are going to play a game about
(01:41):
a year from now, August second, twenty twenty five at
Bristol Motor Speedway. There is a news conference on Friday
with Speedway Motorsports and they're going to discuss the twenty
twenty five schedule for Bristol the Cup races and that
Austin Ridley is the Brave third baseman. He was born
(02:05):
in Memphis. He lives in Mississippi, and he's a big
fan of NASCAR as well, and he said it'll be
like SEC football. You know what's crazy. I've never been
to a NASCAR race, never been to Talladega. As close
as I am, I've been to Talladega. I've been a
race at Talladega. Saw Dale Earnher went in there back
a long time ago. But anyway, also Bristol hosted and
(02:31):
then this goes back an NFL exhibition game in nineteen
sixty one between Philadelphia and Washington, and it was in
consecutive weeks in twenty sixteen when they had that Tennessee
Virginia Tech game and the East Tennessee Western Carolina game.
Now I would say this, I think it's really cool,
but it's it'll be interesting the way that they can
(02:54):
that they construct this, because if you just look at
the track, it looks like it might have a really
short distance down either the left or the right field
foul lines, kind of like the old Los Angeles Colisseum.
And the Dodgers played there for four years when they
first moved out from Brooklyn and they were building Dodger Stadium,
and it was an estimated two hundred and forty seven
(03:20):
feet down the left field foul line. Now, they installed
a fifty foot high screen to block real cheap home runs,
but there were a lot of pop fly home runs
and whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They had. A guy named Wally.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Moon who played for the Dodgers, played for the Cardinals,
a couple of other teams, but he played for the
Dodgers at that time, and they had what were called
moonshots when he could hit almost these high arcing pop
fly shots that would land over that fifty foot fence
there short left field at the LA Coliseum. Now, on
the other hand, right field is about three hundred and
ninety feet down the right field line, so you couldn't
(03:51):
get a ball out if you were a left handed
hitter driving it out to deep right field as well.
So I don't know if it'll be quite the situation
like that, but they said they're gonna play major of course,
you know they played exhibition games. They played exhibition games
at in the Alamodome, including the Rangers. My two sons
(04:15):
went to a game there. It might have been Rangers Dodgers.
They went together.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I didn't. I didn't go. They went.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that poke down either the left field or the
right field line is a close one.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's a tight one there.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But that's what happens when you have dome stadiums that
are ovals and are not circles that would be.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Better suited for Major League Baseball games.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
All right, Logward football team back on the practice field today.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And the bad news you've heard it by now that
came down earlier that CJ.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Baxter has lost for the season, suffered a knee injury
in practice yesterday. Various reports that said, the extended the injury,
whether it was torn LCL and or PCL, but he
is having surgery and he's out for the rest of
the year.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So the Longhorns will go on.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Obviously, Jayden Blue becomes kind of the lead back, but
there'll be several different guys. Tray Wisner would be one
and said with the younger guys coming in the freshman
like a Jared Gibson, some of those other guys will
get opportunities as well. Meanwhile, it goes on to the
defensive side as well. They continue to grind and on
(05:31):
the defensive side. David Benda is one of those old heads,
long in the tooth guys, sixth year senior, that sort
of thing. The first he was talking about the progress
of Anthony Hill, who had been playing on the outside
and Hill now as a sophomore, moving inside into the
inside linebacker spot. In what David Benda sees from the
(05:54):
youngster Hill on the move inside.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Honestly, I feel like it doesn't really affect me at all.
Both players, they're both dying now and is very skilled.
He's coming along really well, and I feel like it's
just the trust that we've been building. I trust Anthony
one hundred percent. So it doesn't really affect me at
all at anything.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It just makes it more.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Fun because just building that bond and getting to know
him and also understanding how his mind works, and just
continuing to grind throughout the summer. Then now we're in
fall camp and he's making plays. I'm making plays. I
feel like it's just it's been fun, honestly.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, So that's why he said, it doesn't affect in
terms of what he has to do. Uh, you know,
whether whether it's Hill was playing inside or outside, it's
whatever he has to do on that now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
In terms of his own preparation for the coming season,
he continues to work hard and as a six year senior,
he's going to be very giving of advice to a
young guy like Anthony Hill.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Like I just said earlier, the growth has been coming
along swimming with He's a fast learner and he picks
up all he picks up very well, and he knows ball.
His football IQ is up there. But with me, I
just try to basically, whenever I watch film or just
little nuggets I pick up, I try to just give
it to the younger guys, whether it be just a
different formation, what coach Sark is trying to do here
(07:15):
or in this defense, what's the weakness or what I've
learned throughout my mistakes. Just to give it to them
to make their process come along easier, like just little
things here with line games, alignments, little stuff like that,
so it can make it the development process ten times
easier for him.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, that sounds like what a leader would do. Benda
was asked how much pride does he take in being
a leader and really viewed in that prison by his
coaches and teammates.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Being a part of that team Lester was amazing and
to be a part of it was cool. So coming
back for me was just to try to duplicate that
and just you know what I'm saying, not even just
duplicate it, go further win the national championship. So it
means a lot to me to work so hard and
finally just sort of lead, be at the forefront of
it and just try to change the university and do
what I came here to do.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
First day in pads was yesterday. How did Benda field
he and his teammates did on day number one in pads?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It was very excited and then offensive defense we competed
our butts off and we just got after it. What
it means for the team is it's just sort of
let us know where we're at. But also, like ost
Sarks says, throughout the throughout this period, it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
We practiced at three pm.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Obviously we were insectsist is hot, but that didn't really
sway us. We got after we competed, and I felt
like the team is at a different place.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But it's in a good place. Yeah, that's that's good
to hear. And one more from David Benda.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
There's a lot said about the defensive tackles now and
how they respond this newer group since to Andandre Sweat
and by Ra Norfi have moved on. You've got Vernon
brought and Alfred Collins kind of in the middle, but
there's other guys as well, And how have they looked
(08:58):
in all of this?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Man, the defense, the tackles you got from Bill, your
main tia, they're they're great implementations to the team, and
I feel like they've been coming along well, just getting
to know Bill Germine, even just getting lost.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
In the stadium with them yesterday in dk R. I mean, yeah,
I'm being so serious.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So we had to renew Broadway from the tank, but
the usual way we went to was closed because it
was after hours. But just getting to know them and
seeing how they play and what they add to the team,
it's it's very much. It's very good addition, and I'm
glad they're here and they've been very much willing to
learn and just help us.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You know, have you gotten lost in dk R before, Craig,
probably a long time ago, maybe trying to think.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
About it, there's been put it this way.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There have been times when I thought if I went
a certain way once the stadium because because most people
seeing their listening, go, how could you get lost?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's just an oval. You just walk around.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Remember there's different ramps and up and down in corridors
if you will, especially toward the north end where they
really did all that, because I say, especially now with
the south end, it may be well the same and
I'd be parked like saying, Manor garage and it was
going around to the press box or up to the
ninth floor for the news conference, and you get inside
(10:18):
and you walk around in some of that upper area
and then go down and then around you.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Can you can go down a different kind of hallway.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And know that you're inside of the stadium, but you're not
exactly sure you know where you are.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But the question is.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
If I continue to go down this way, can I
get through the door I need to get to to
get to an elevator or the floor or the exit
that I needed toasm some of courts, it's just dead
end at a spot you got to turn around and
go back. So I understand what David Bednena means some
when he talks about getting lost in the stadium. And
then you got new guys. He mentioned Kobe Black, he
(10:58):
was talking about him. Then new guys on the defensive front,
like Trey More mentioning you know what what what he brings,
and so there's a lot of fun just kind of
you know, dealing with that guys getting used to Bill Norton.
He mentioned Bill Bill Kill. Bill Bill Norton is uh,
there's a lot of jokes about uh. He has just
(11:19):
you know, Bill has just that regular regular name, regular
dude Bill Norton coming in from Arizona, and you know
what's he all about? But he's he's impressing people early
on in the workouts without hard.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
He's been working all right.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Will have Moore coming up on this LONGRN football team,
a couple other items as well, and continue on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio AM
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