Miller Defeats Beard, Super Bowl Recap, WBB Hosts Kentucky

On this edition of the show, Craig Way and Jake Herman discuss the weekend in sports including Super Bowl LX and a win for the Texas men's basketball team in Chris Beard's return to Austin. Plus, the Texas women's team prepares to host another ranked opponent tonight and a look at the way-too-early power rankings with the NFL offseason finally here!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
The front Moody Center in Austin.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's the Texas lawn warns against the old miss, rebels
swinging steps inside the arc, moves inside and he missed
it off the glass, but there for.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
The tip in is Voca Titus.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
The follow up the score is modus PoCA titus eighth
and ole Miss four has.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Deflected but recovered by wheelchair. Now back from Boca.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Titus left side driving in use as the glass. That
score has been a left hand art being guarded pretty
tightly on the dribble, trying to drive in cross court
pass works at the heiding sets his feet. Let's flyve
of the three and nails it first three pointer by
Heidi in Texas lead by five, sixteen to eleven. Now
goes to wheeling riding through traffic, os up, but he

(01:00):
dissed it over the top but comes down with a
loose ball. Now it goes to sway underneath Foco titus
a slam gun wit count with the Simeon Wilter in
the corner.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
How about a Tremont bart free warner. How about it
knocks it down time out Ole Miss.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Here's Tremaint Martin driving in the paint dump center the
kneath Foco.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Titus with a slam gun.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Check to the ball gruisy be obtained is for play.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Bunt us with sixteen first half points out front, Simmey
and Wilt fifteen on the shot by nine point forty
on the game flock inside Boca. Titus gets the bucket
in one, leaned in, laid it in on the great
feet from Simeon. Wilcher got the bucket and he was found.
They'll have a free throw the gun on the right side.
Tremont Mart top of the yard. Treman trying to drive

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in on the clap. He left hander floats in for Tremont,
who has seventeen Texas back in front. Sixty three sixty one.
We bring in the corner, put a free from the tie.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Got it the foul.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Casilla came over too late. Jordan Pope berries the three.
He'll have an ad one to come to try to
put Texas back in front. After the time out playing,
put it up and try to business book a Titus
business tip up. Swayne hasn't put back bucket gun and
he's found.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
There's Dalent Swayne. He is in the building.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Got the bucket in a free throw to come the
left side with it sends it to Boca Titus Town.
On the right side, Simi and Wilcher pulling on the
shot clock, sim has the launch of three god Sem
Wilcher with a dagger three pointer. Texas up seven a
ten oh run. The Loghorns now are winners of free

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Strange and boy did they close this game with a kick.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
They had a fourteen oh run early in the game.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
They finish with a fourteen oh run and Texas defeats
All Miss. Final score this aftern in the Booty Center,
the Texas log Horn seventy nine, the Old Miss Rebels
sixty eight. The momentum continues for the Longhorn men's basketball team,
momentum badly needed in order to continue to stay on

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the plus side of that bubble. We'll talk more about
that coming up today. Also, Texas women with a huge
game tonight. They play another ranked opponent. It's their fourth
ranked opponent in their last seven ballgames, last six ballgames.
And there was a football game played yesterday. Well some

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question how much of a game it really was, but
the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions. Good afternoon, everybody,
Welcome to the program here on Sports RADIOAM thirteen hundred
the zone where you can always also listen to us
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Speaker 4 (03:55):
My name is Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Glad to be with you, Glad to have the producer
Jay Herman alongside. How did you spend your Super Bowl
Sunday yesterday?

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Well, I had a good first half of the day
with family who were in town visiting over the weekend,
and then got to head on over and do a
Super Bowl party the right way with some of my
Austin friends who were grilling outside, had the game on,
had the volume up for the commercials.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
It was. It was a setup. I had no complaints about.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, So you said do it the right way.
I think you just named some of the things. There
were some grilling going on.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Some grilling, great spread of snacks, you know. Of course
the veggie tray had a dent put in it too,
but there were some good cookies and chips.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right I was. I was full by the end of
the first quarter.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Good I have.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
I have zero, zero complaints except for the fact that
I walked in into commander's jersey and just you know,
almost got laughed right out of the way.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I liked the guy in the commercial.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Hero was the progressive commercial that shows up in the
in the Duke jersey and it said Carolina hold or
something like that, you shut up in the commander's jersey.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Bill.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
You know, I was walking into a Texans household. So
it's not like it's not like I can't clap back, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Because they've never been in one. It just seems like
the Commanders have never been in one, never as the Commanders,
never as the Commanders, or as Washington football team. But uh, okay,
that's good. You know, that was one thing I was
going to toss out on the text line today. If
folks want to tell us what was the best thing

(05:30):
you ate yesterday on Super Bowl Sunday. Might not necessarily
have been in a Super Bowl spread. It might have
been a breakfast, might have been dinner after the game.
What was the best thing you ate yesterday on Super
Bowl Sunday? You can let us know by texting the

(05:52):
word Texas followed by that submission to eight one, five
three zero. So text the word Texas and if you
want to say, hey, I had a caramel apple yesterday.
That was fabulous. Whatever text that after the word Texas
day one five threes. Here are standard messaging and data

(06:12):
rates may apply.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Mine.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I have a favorite thing that I like that Linda
prepares every Super Bowl Sunday. But it was a really
good spread overall she had. She put together some Jalopenia
puppers that were really good. And you know, me, I'm
not a guy likes a lot of spice, but she,
you know, when she did it, she like got the
seeds out of the stuff that made it really really
unbearable hot, and where it just had just enough of

(06:39):
a little bit of kick in there with with the
sour cream and the other stuff and bacon wrapped on that.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
So it was that that was real good.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I had a good bacon wrapped Helopenia yesterday.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
There you go. And then and then.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
We had some really big shrimp with some cocktail sauce
that Eddie Worn gave to me and a jar.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
I've had it before.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
If you've ever been to the Saint Elmo Steakhouse in Indianapolis,
you'll know what I'm talking about. It's right downtown and
the Saint Elmo. It has a good steak. I've had
some better ones at some real, you know, fine dining establishments,
but it is a good steak and it is a steakhouse.

(07:24):
But that's not what they're known for. They're known for
the shrimp cocktail. You go there and has this nuclear
shrimp cocktail that its main ingredient is a horse radish
based thing. And I love horse radish and was sabi.
I'm more I have a difficult time with things like
halapenias and ghost peppers and things like that.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's a little too hot for me. But you know,
when it comes to things like horse.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Radish and also, like I said, like wasabi, I can
eat that stuff up. So the first time I went
there two thousand and five NCAA tournament, Texas Basketball was
there and several of us go out and they said,
you gotta have the shrimp cocktail. And I'm like, okay,
I like shrim cocktail. And they said it's because of

(08:12):
the cocktail sauce. It's got a horse ridded. I says, oh,
that's right up by alley. So it comes and there
it is, and they cautioned you then it can really
be powerful. I'm like God, and I just take a
big old scoot and I'll put that in start showing man,
this tastes good, and all of a sudden my scalp
was on fire. I mean it was just unbelievable, and
it blew out my nostrils and all that stuff. It's like,

(08:34):
my goodness. So I've had to be careful at times
i've gone since there, but I love it. So Eddie
Orn had been there recently and brought back a couple
of jars of the bottles.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Of it and gave us one.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
So we had some of that with it now, you know,
in moderation, Yes.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, absolutely, And then she'll make and we also had
some wings. Did wings because wings and Super Bowl kind
of go together, I guess. But she makes the tostatas
like these big old notchers, big round flat tostatas, and
it'll be like some cheese and some onions and some

(09:10):
beans and some guacamole and sour cream on.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's really really good.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So that was the best thing I had yesterday, the
tostatas that she makes. But you can let us know
on the text line what was the best thing you
ate yesterday?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Already got one crunchy spring rolls with some orange dipping sauce.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Now you speak my language there. That's good. Yeah, like
like really good spring rolls. That's a good call. The
food you ate might have been better than the game itself.
The best way that I can describe Super Bowl sixty
was to say it reminded me a lot of the

(09:51):
Super Bowls I saw in the seventies and eighties where
two good teams show up, but only one team plays well,
and they play really well and the other team doesn't
and it turns out being lopsided. Now, that happened, you know,
with the Eagles in Chiefs, and that happened with what
the Bucks and the Chiefs. But by and large, recent

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Super Bowls had been very competitive and pretty close. In
the seventies and eighties, there were a lot of lopsided ones,
even ones where the score wasn't that high. The first
Super Bowl that was played in the decade of the seventies,
January fourth, January eleventh, nineteen seventy was Super Bowl Forbes
the sixty nine season.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
The Chiefs won the game twenty three to seven.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
They largely dominated that game, it wasn't a blowout in
terms of the score. Same thing even with Super Bowl
three with the Jets Colts. Jets went sixteen to seven,
but they were up sixteen nothing in the fourth quarter
of the Colts didn't do anything until Johnny nine Ers
came off the benchly and let a touchdown drive late,
but that was about it. They remarked yesterday, another thing
that I really like are new records in Super Bowls.

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New records, And one we saw yesterday Jason Myers most
points scored in a Super Bowl. He had what five
field goals and two extra points? Yeah, so there was
that in most field goals in the Super Bowl he had.

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And then also, and this fits to where we're going
with the theme on this, it was the first time
a team had been shut out for three quarters and
not scored a point for three quarters since Super Bowl nine.
Steelers Vikings. Steelers were up to nothing at the half,

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and they were up nine to nothing at the end
of the third, and the Vikings scored on a block
punt returned for a touchdown by Terry Brown, and that
cut the margin the sixteen to six and or nine six,
And then the Steelers got a late touchdown from Franco
Harris who ran for like one hundred fifty eight yards
in the game was the MVP. Well, there's some parallels
drawn between that game and yesterday's game because she had

(12:09):
a dominant running back like he had with Kenneth Walker
the third and who became a Super Bowl MVP. First
Super Bowl MVP won by a running back since Terrell
Davis for.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
The Broncos in Super Bowl thirty two.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, that was a much more high scoring game, but
this Super Bowl was much more like Super Bowl nine,
where one team just strangled the life out of the
other with its defense and did enough on offense, mainly
on the ground, to get the margins of victory.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Sam Darnold, it was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
He wasn't spectacular, but he was solid, and you know it,
hits a touchdown pass there, leads him on a couple
of touchdown drive and then they get a scoop and
score for another score and he gets put out of reach.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Other than that, it's Jason myersfield goals.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, he took care of the football. He was under
heavy fresh all night from the Patriot Blitz. Only took
one sack I believe. Yeah, had a couple of plays
that were near misses where he escaped pressure and nearly
hit a big play downfield. You think of the one
to Smith and Jigba in the second quarter, maybe that
was late in the first.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Late first And I don't even really think about it
being so much a miss on Darnold's part because he
was under such pressure he was getting rid of the football.
I mean, he didn't have a chance to set himself
to make a better throw in rhythm. He just had
to get rid of it, and he overthrew it all
the time. So you know, I don't put too much

(13:34):
blame on him for that. There were a couple of
other cases where there were a couple of near misses,
but the Patriots didn't didn't do it, didn't come up
with those plays. I think Drake may is a really
good quarterback. I think he'll continue to be a really
good quarterback.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
But in the face of that.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Relentless pass rush that sacked him six times, he had
a hard time and obviously had a fumble and had
a big interception Throne and then and then of course
the scoop and score off the fumble that was taken
back kind of put things out of reach on that.
So congratulations the Seahawks. It was not the best game

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in Super Bowl history. But it matched a lot of
super Bowl games, especially out of the decades of seventies
and eighties.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
And even some of the nineties as well.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
So you know, that's that's how that happens in the
in the championship game, quite often in the super Bowl.
I don't care to if folks want to comment on
that's fine. I don't care to get into talking about
the Super Bowl halftimes, you know, because the thing that's

(14:48):
disappointing to me about that discussion is that this is
a conservative estimate on my part. Out of all the
posts I've read on social media, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever,
conservative estimate, ninety seven percent of the folks who made

(15:12):
a comment about the Super Bowl halftime were falling on
one side of the political aisle or the other. It
wasn't about the entertainment value. And no matter how you
feel about the state of politics in our country today
one way or the other, the fact that it's now

(15:36):
brought so heavily to bear on things like a super
Bowl halftime. You want to see a bad super Bowl halftime,
go watch the ones that were done with up with people. Okay,
that was some not good super Bowl halftime I've never
seen those You're in luck. I'm just saying if most

(15:58):
of what I saw on social media was about the
quality or lack thereof, of either of the two halftime shows,
that would be one thing. But that's that's not the
way it rolled out. The people who commented on the shows.
Very few people of what I've had commented on how

(16:19):
much either enjoyed or disliked Bad Buddy's performance, or you know,
enjoyed or disliked the one that was headed up by
Kid Rock. That they just you know, that they did
like or didn't like the actual performance itself, which is
normally what we have every year. Normally folks would say, well,
I thought Prince did a great job, or I didn't

(16:41):
like Hendrick Lamar or Bruce Springsteen sounds for old people.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Or who the heck was in that left Shark costume. Yeah, yeah,
so a lot of that Ordrobe malfunctioned. I mean, there's
a lot of stuff about things other than the politics. Yeah,
but the politics, Craig, it just feels like people thought
of their answers before they even watched the show.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
A lot of a lot of folks did one way
or the other, not saying anything on either side. I'm
just saying that a lot of folks had made up
their mind about how they were going to feel about
either performance based on what their ideology might be. So
that's why I said, I didn't really care to get
that much into the uh into discussion half done commercials.

(17:23):
There were some good ones. There were some good ones,
but it wasn't It wasn't a banner year for Super
Bowl commercials.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
I didn't think, Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
There the the ones with the Polar Bears turning to
pepsi instead of coke. It was cute.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
That landed in my Super Bowl party Crown. I didn't
I didn't laugh so much, but I was like.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Okay, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
And there were a couple other ones I enjoyed. The
Jason Alexander cameo. Yep, yep, that was that was good.
What'd you think of the coin based karaoke?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I didn't. Yeah, that's for me.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
It was outside the box.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
But yeah, that's just kind of strange.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, it was. It was strange. It was strange, all right.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Coming up later on, we'll hear from the two head
coaches in the Super Bowl. But up next're gonna hear
from Sean Miller, Texas men's basketball coach. Course, it's a
huge game for the women tonight playing the Kentucky Wildcats.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
It's a six thirty tip off.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
We'll have the pregame beginning at six fifteen six fifteen
from Moody Center. Tip off at six point thirty for
Texas and Kentucky. But we're gonna hear from Sean Miller
recapping the Texas winn of Role Miss. That's next on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeart
Radio app.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
That must be some kind of way.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Glad to be waiting on the Monday afternoon. Motivation for
Jimmy Hendrix today.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Well, the twelves have a lot to celebrate, Okay, little
not to Seattle.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, all right, And they do win their second Super
Bowl in Franchi history. They got a lot of as
many super Bowl champions invariably have. They have a lot
of roster questions that they're gonna have to deal with
with regard to free agency. Jackson Smith and Jigma is

(19:15):
eligible for a contract extension.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
You don't want to give that guy an extension.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, Kenneth Walker is going to go into a contract
year too.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I started to say, negotiate your at your own peril.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
But they are the champions.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
They do have the Lombardi Trophy back in the p
in w Also, today we were tell you what's the
best thing you ate yesterday might or might not have
been during, before, during, or after the game, and we
have one. It said best Super Bowl meal. I made

(19:49):
smash burgers on the Blackstone season with Montreal's takes seasoning,
a double meat patty with cheese between the patties, and
a fresh bag of regular lay chips.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
I'm a single guy who enjoys.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh I'm a sick I don't know if he's single
or not, but he's a simple guy who enjoys simple things.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
You ever tried chips on a burger? Sure delicious? Oh yeah,
crunch burger.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I'll stuff him inside a Pomino cheese sandwich that I've toasted.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
The bread on is.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Got that from my dad when I was little. So yes,
that's an example what I'm talking about right there. And
as you mentioned, somebody else said the crunchy spring rolls
with orange dipping sauce. Good stuff. So the best thing
you ate, best thing you ate yesterday doesn't have to
be during the game. It could be before or after whatever,

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but you can text that to us. Text the word
Texas followed by what you ate to eight one five
three zero Standard messaging and data age mamply. All right,
let's hear from Longwort's head coach Sean Miller. This is
coming off that eleven point win. Overall Miss Texas was
up by eighteen in the first half of twenty nine
to eleven. They led by fourteen at the half or

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twelve at the half at thirty seven to twenty five,
and then it started to slip away. As a commodation
several things, ole Miss got hot from beyond the arc,
Texas got cold. There weren't many turnovers long As only
a ten in the game, but there were other mistakes
and took some rushed shots and ole Miss defended well,

(21:24):
I mean, that's what they're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
They're gonna they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Run that motion offense and then they're going to double
your best guys and drop coverage and try to make
you make mistakes.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
And worked for a long time. They came back.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I actually took a three point lead before the Long
Warns ripped it in the high gear in Texas closed
with a fourteen over run to win it. Here the
thoughts starting it off from head coach John Miller.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Obviously, a very very exciting game I'm sure to watch
as a fan, and I'm thrilled, really just really thrilled
that we were able to hold on and win the game.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
I really credit ole Miss.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
I thought the first ten to twelve minutes of the
second half was as good of offense as we've seen.
They made some contested twos, but they created a lot
of good shots. I think they made their first nine
shots of the second half, and coming off of how
we defended in the first half, it was a completely
different game.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
So do I think we.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Could have came out after halftime with more energy, more toughness,
carrying over a lot of the good things from the
first half. I do, and that's something we have to
take a look at.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
But I do credit ole Miss.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
I mean, they have to make the shots, and they
made quite a few for a while there, I didn't
think they were going to miss. And then when we
really needed at the very very end of the game
to get big stops, I think in that last three
and a half four minutes, we were able to get
quite a few and I credit our guys for continuing
to fight. You know, if things don't go well at home, especially,

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there are times when you can let like one segment
of the game continue and next thing, you know, you
just you look at each other and say, not today,
it's just isn't our day.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
We did not do that.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
We rallied, and I thought the final eight minutes of
the second half was a better level for us and
more indicative of maybe how we had played earlier in
the game in the first half. I also say this Modus,
coming off of South Carolina, that might have been the
worst SEC individual performance he had. If you remember, he
struggled down the stretch, making a few easy ones, which

(23:30):
he never does, and I thought he let some frustration
in that game affect him. We talked a lot the
last couple of days about that with him, and man,
he played his best game of the SEC season today.
He was the difference in the game. I mean, nine
for eleven, nine for twelve from the line. Again, he
gets fouled. You forget how many times a guy like

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him can get fouled. Twenty seven points though, twenty seven points,
so I thought Madus was a difference in the game.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
It was great to see him bounce back.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Okay, all right, so there's that.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Then Jordan Pope struggled for a lot of the game,
but he had a huge four point play in the
second half when the Long Wrangs were down three. He
hit a three foul hit the free throw, putting back
up a point. Simey and Wilcher started the second half
because of Pope's found difficulty, but Sean Miller explaining all
of that.

Speaker 7 (24:21):
Well, I think, you know, Jordan Pope deserves a lot
of credit because he didn't necessarily play well.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
A lot of things didn't go his way.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
But he made a huge street point shot in the
left corner in front of our bench, which was a
four point play, and he made big plays down the stretch. Again,
it was kind of what I said earlier, and things
don't go well for you as a team, and it
feels funny can't stop the other team. Sometimes that small
segment can grow and it can become the entire game,
the entire second half. I thought we had a number

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of players rally and make big plays down the stretch.
Jordan Pope is one of them. I didn't think he
played well. You know, we talked to him a lot
at the end of the first half about finishing the
half with two fouls. If you play with two, especially
if you're a point guard, you know, we have to
be able to trust that you're not going to get
the third.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
And I thought his third foul, you know, changed the game.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
The reason he didn't start in the second half was
simply that he had already committed three fouls. I also
will tell you Simeon Wiltcher, in my opinion, made the
biggest play in the game, and that was his three
point shot with the clock expiring. I was a huge
play that really broke the game open for us at
the end.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Absolutely, it was really big.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
And I thought that answer is, you know was I
thought the question was unnecessary. Why would Wilcher start to
say to that Pope had three fouls. I thought it
was a pretty obvious thing there. Anyway. He also was
asked about what modest Boca Titis did in controlling his emotions,
because sometimes it's been a challenge here and his conditioning,

(25:55):
how it's made a factor.

Speaker 7 (25:57):
Wells Lasina Trey or dealing with a knees warness.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
So we could have played him, but we elected not to.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
So we want Nick Cody and we talked to Motus
about being able at this point in the season to
play longer stretches, which means foul less, be more in
control of your emotions.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
But his conditioning is incredible.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
I mean he's one of the best conditioned the big
guys that I've ever been around. I mean he's seven
foot two fifty. I think his body fat is about
five or six percent. And with that, he's one of
the hardest workers on our team. And you know he's
able to play more minutes. What's prevented him from playing
more minutes in the past are those two or three

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plays where to your question, you have to be able
to control your emotions, adjust and be a smarter defensive
or offensive player. But he's improved, and again I would
just tell you modest, this was his day.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
The reason we beat Ole miss. He was the difference
in the game on our end.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, a big, big part of it there, all right,
So there's some thoughts from the head coach, and of
course long Worns don't play a midweek game. This is
their open date in the middle of the week, and
they'll try to get some guys some much needed rest.
Most everybody's reasonably healthy and that's good except for Lacina trailery.

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But they could have played him if they wanted to
or really needed him on Saturday, but decided not to
do it. Sean Miller told us that before the game
told Eddie Orne and myself when we were meeting with
him before, he said, probably not going to play La
scene unless we really have to that Nick Cody would
go in there because it's the same need that he
had the operation on a year ago, and they're just

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trying to play it cautiously. Let it have another really
week of rest since they don't play again until Saturday
night in Columbia, Missouri against the Missouri Tigers. All right,
up next, we bring it Inconceivable for a Monday coming
off the Super Bowl here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
Zone of the Guy, our Radio app.

Speaker 8 (28:20):
Sixty minutes to ground the sixtieth Super Bowl. Chat Up,
we gotta hub center player, She's still here, third and five?

Speaker 1 (28:30):
There, step up?

Speaker 8 (28:31):
He lost the football screen. Seattle has recovered. Whyr Kurfee calls.

Speaker 7 (28:36):
On the football.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Run on the field of the Bob.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Why about Seattle work out?

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Darren Hall knock get out the game's first turnover belongs
to this incredibly talented Seattle defense A three.

Speaker 10 (28:51):
And sixteen Seattle first and ten leading twelve nothing, Donald
unders center five under defensive line against the.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Stats, turn right backs the head.

Speaker 10 (28:59):
Up her dumb let's godows the rowling go pop.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Puts down, Paw cuts down Cunner.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
The fight end over.

Speaker 11 (29:07):
The shutter caps in the corner of the episode, and
we got our first touchdown of Super Bowl sixty and
the Seahawks, it's stepped their lead early in the fourth
eighteen ju up.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
In Sey twenty fourth pason five example and right chicks.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
Copy four.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Chucks down the.

Speaker 11 (29:29):
Weblin eight fifty a goo.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
I step up and shoot went down badle this intersection
Helen Hide rowling in the middle. Julian Love has it
Love fifty Love forty out the bounds not the thirty.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Six yard line.

Speaker 10 (29:52):
The Patriots hampled first down and the club is taking it.
Four thirty eighth and they trailed twenty two seventh shotgun
step forty four Seattle.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
He's energy brought back the ball three picked up by
no food.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
Running down the side thirty twenty ten five touchdown. It's
picked off that a touchdown. Seattle's scored on another turnover
and that will seal And it seems right now for

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the Seahawks in Super Bowl sixty.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
The twelve they are standing.

Speaker 12 (30:31):
The Seahawks defenders are asking for even more noise and
they're getting it. Three receivers on the left side from Ay,
single receiver right May dumps it off underneath. Ball is caught.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's the running back. It's Henderson, he is tackling bounds.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
Three two flood that Seahawks. They're bringing it home again
for a second time in left in twelve years, Seahawks
whins super Bowl sixteen. They are bringing them the party
back to the Northwest. How the party begins at Levi

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Stadium and in Seattle, and it won't stop four days.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
So there it is the recap of Super Bowl sixty
and captured by the Seattle Seahawks. Our number two of
the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone,
Craig Way alongside the producer Jay Herman, Steve Rabel play
by play voice of the Seahawks, you heard him there
on the tail end of also Kevin Harlan, the voice

(31:42):
of the NFL.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
There on Westwood one of the Super Bowl and so
a new.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Super Bowl champion is crowned second time in franchise history
for the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
So they denied the Patriots. Would that have been seven to.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
The Patriots that they wont Would it not have been eight?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Might have been eight?

Speaker 1 (32:02):
But who's counting?

Speaker 6 (32:04):
Right?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
It wasn't enough for Belichick to make the Hall of Fames.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
I'm trying to block the one out of my mind.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
When they beat the Rams the last time, speaking of
dud games at thirteen to three game, you know, when
he got to the fourth quarter last night, that was
to me, the only remaining mystery is what we see.
So it was they were trying to win their seven.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
They were Yeah, I was wrong. They were looking for
number seven.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Okay, I thought they'd won six. But you know, the
only mystery to me was whether we would see the
first shutout in Super Bowl history. And we've actually had
some close ones, close calls to shutouts passed through the time.

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We don't remember them really that well. Like I said,
the Colt score with about three minutes to go against
the Jets lost sixteen to seven. The Vikings scored early
third quarter and that cut the chief lead to sixteen
to seven, and the Chiefs scored other touchdown there. But
super Bowl six, Miami only scored three points. It's the

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fewest in a Super Bowl, along with the Rams against
the Patriots, but both of those teams.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Scored their three before the fourth quarter began.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
In fact, the Dolphins scored in the second quarter to
pull to within ten to three at Dallas, and at Dallas,
Halftimes scored and the Cowboys took command of it from there,
and the Rams scored in the third quarter, but New
England pushed it away after that.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
In Super Bowl thirty five, the Ravens beat the Giants
thirty four to seven, held New York's offense without any points.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
That's right, took a kickoff return for a touchdown and
at the time it's like, oh wow, new life for
the Giants, and then Jermaine Lewis promptly returned the ensuing
kickoff for a touchdown. It's the only time that's happened
in NFL history where he had back to back kickoff
returns for touchdowns in Super Bowl history. Super Bowl seven,

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the Miami Dolphins were perfect. They went seventeen and oh.
That year they beat the Washington Redskins four thirteen to seven.
But there was only about three minutes I think to
go in that game, or four minutes right around there
when garyl your Premium lined up to try the field
goal that got blocked and then he kind of bobbled
it around and Mike Bass picked it out of the
air and went forty nine yards for a touchdown that

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got washing on the board.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Otherwise it might have been shut out.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
A lot of folks point out how fitting would it
have been had to your Premium made the field goal
when they won seventeen to nothing. They completed seventeen in
oh season. But life doesn't always work that way. But
it did work that way for the Dolphins to go undefeated.
So anyway, those were some of the things that happened
out of the Super Bowl, and we should hear from

(34:40):
the two head coaches in this Super Bowl. And started
off with Mike McDonald, the head coach of the Seahawks,
talking about Sam Darnold overcoming the labels that had been
placed on on him and his prior four teams before

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he arrived in Seattle.

Speaker 6 (35:03):
Spending more time with Sam.

Speaker 13 (35:04):
On all these interviews, it's like Sam doesn't care about
the obstacle, Like everyone's made a narrative of this guy
of like everyone is, they have tried to put a
story in a label on who he is as a person,
who he as a quarterback.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
He does not care. Okay, he just is the same
guy every day since he shows up.

Speaker 13 (35:26):
He's so steadfast, he's a great teammate, the teammates, his
teammates love him.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
All he's done since he's walked in the door.

Speaker 13 (35:33):
Has just been a tremendous player on our football team
and a tremendous leader who is the same guy every day.
And that's who he is and that's how we need
to talk about him moving forward.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Okay, all right, how do you want to talk about
Ken's Walker the third and his MVP performance.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Yeah, I'm really happy for Ken played a tremendous game.

Speaker 13 (35:52):
Our offensive line played really well or tight ends or
everyone really dedicated themselves as the run game today, which
is something we had to get going.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
To really control the game.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
And uh.

Speaker 13 (36:04):
And I think this is you know, one of the
best persons of Ken that we've you know, up to
this point. That's another example right of you know him
and Sharps had did you know I did such a
great job throughout the season playing off one another. Sharps
goes down, which I mean he deserves a massive shout out,
Zach Sharpernay, what he's done for our football team. But
Ken just keep attacking, you know, and keeps stacking all

(36:25):
those things. I mean, this is a system that it
takes a lot of reps to feel like, to feel
how to run the the you know, his own plays
and you know, he just keep stacking those plays and
then you start to play more decisively, and then those
runs starts to pop.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
One hundred and thirty five yards on twenty seven Carri's
earning him the Super Bowl MVP honors. And and by
the way, he had the most rushing yards in the
first half or second most rushing yards in the first
half of a game in Super Bowl history, second behind
Timmy Smith Washington. Doug Williams won that MVP. Timmy Smith
rush for two.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Hund and forty yards to that game, and he wasn't
the starter most of the season.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
No think about Kenneth Walker as well, right, being in
a committee all year with Zach Sharbonnay, he goes down
like your coach talk about there.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
True And how excited is Mike McDonald to get back
to Seattle to celebrate.

Speaker 13 (37:14):
Yeah, that sounds pretty cool. It sounds like a lot
of fun. And I was just telling Dave, you know,
it's like, throughout the NFC chain, you're not thinking about
the Super Bowl. You're just doing everything he possibly can
to win that game, to help your team win. And
we felt the same way the last two weeks for
the Super Bowl. I haven't really thought about what the
celebration is going to be like, but now that they're there,
it's going to be pretty awesome. Look, this is this

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is why this is like, this is why you coach,
This is why you want to do it at this
level because you can't. You have the opportunity to bring
the twelves that people our community together, our players, let him,
let him feel what it feels like, the like the
reward of being on this team and b champions.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
That's what fires you up.

Speaker 13 (37:54):
Like it, you know, that's that's just what you gets
you so excited, and that's what makes you so proud
of our team and for us to be able to
do it for our community and our team is.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Doesn't get any better than this.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
And then there's the other side.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Mike Rabel, the head coach, of the Patriots asked what
was his message to the team in the locker room
after the defeat.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
But I'm proud of everything that they did.

Speaker 14 (38:15):
I'm disappointed, and just like they are, reminded them that
we're three hundred and seven days in to what hopefully
is a long successful relationship and program, and it's okay
to be disappointed.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
We have to be disappointed and upset together.

Speaker 14 (38:34):
And you know, like I always do, I tell them,
I'm appreciative of them, I'm thankful, I'm grateful that I
get to coach them, and.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
You know, we don't want to. Part of our identity
is not being a front runner.

Speaker 14 (38:47):
And so again, just like every year, somebody's gonna lose
this game, and we have to remember what it feels
like and make sure.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
That it's not repeated.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Okay, all right, So what did not well? A lot
of the obviously didn't work. But what stood out to
him about what did not work for his team?

Speaker 14 (39:05):
You know, we couldn't we couldn't gain any rhythm, feel position.
You know, we we we got to get into drives
better offensively. Defensively, we've been really good against the run lately,
and we weren't. And uh, you know, again, we were
just playing catch up and we did a great job
in the red zone and we competed, but unfortunately, I

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think the turnovers, you know, ultimately costed us. And I
appreciate the way that the guys offensively battled and competed,
but just just not enough consistent you know, uh, execution.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, and then finally his thoughts on Brake May and
everything that guy went through this season.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
This is, guys, this is you know.

Speaker 14 (39:49):
I mean, we can sit here and try to put
it on one guy, you'll be disappointed because that'll never happen.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
You know.

Speaker 14 (39:56):
It starts with us as coaching staff and making sure
that you know that we're doing our part.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
And then obviously we have to be able to execute.
We've got to be able to protect.

Speaker 14 (40:06):
When we do protect, you know, we have to be
able to progress through and throw the ball the guy's
open and you know, and help the quarterback and then
he's got to be better.

Speaker 6 (40:14):
Like that's just how it goes. So you know that's
never going to change.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Okay, all right, so new super Bowl champion. It's all set.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Now it goes to who's ready to be the best.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Team next year? Right, So already the way too early.
Power rankings are out. Okay, all right, so have you
looked at these?

Speaker 5 (40:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Okay, Let's let's play a little little guessing game here
on this. I'll go from bottom the top.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
I'll tell you, all I've seen is the odds for
next year's champion. But I've seen nothing near the bottom.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Of the thirty two teams in the NFL on the
power ranking. These are ESPN's power rankings. Who would you
say is number thirty two Cleveland?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yep? Really, yep?

Speaker 11 (41:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Five and twelve just lost Gym Schwartz too, Yeah yeah, yeah,
they're they rank thirty second and they have the defensive
player of the year on their team.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Uh yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
It was, yeah, a difficult ride for them, and and
so there's a there's a little slug line between after
each team's ranking, and number thirty two for Cleveland is
in three words all in on offense. Okay, thirty one

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is the Jets off season and three words start over again.
The Raiders are thirtieth. Free words fix the trenches.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
Hey they got they got Kubiak coming over? Yeah they
will if your Mendoza potential number one pick. You see
that offense last night and think all right.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Here we go.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yeah, they're saying they've got it. They've got to be
better on the offensive, a defensive line. Miami's twenty ninth
three words time to rebuild, Cardinals twenty eighth, reset and reboot,
Titans twenty seventh just had playmakers.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Say they need to add a lot more than that.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Scenes twenty six, build off twenty twenty five, Giants at
twenty five John Harball's team. That's true, Falcons at twenty four,
add depth everywhere, Vikings at twenty three QB and leadership.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
What could have been that's my Vikings line.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, yeah, could have been twenty two Carolina. Time to
build twenty one Pittsburgh, not a rebuild. Twenty Washington commanders
rebuild the.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Operation feels about right. Okay, twenty.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Let's see nineteen too.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Low on Carolina. That's I'm going to plant a flag there.
They're going to be looked at in a little bit
more favorable light at this time next year.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I think.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
It says they can try to add on some at
add on some depth. Yeah, they might have a chance.
No longer hindered in the draft by the trade up
to take Bryce Young in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
I think Bryce is a guy. I don't know if
he's a top ten guy, but he's a franchise guy.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Nineteen Indianapolis running it back, talking about resigning Daniel Jones,
and you know, hopefully he's recovered from that that injury
as well. Eighteen Dallas Cowboys fix the defense.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yep. Simple as simple as you like. Yeah, we haven't
seen Cincinnati yet.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Have we.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Seventeen Tampa Bay recapture their mojo. Cincinnati improve the defense, yep.
Fifteen Chargers secure the edge, unrestricted free agents off the
edge in away and Mac fourteen Ravens all about Lamar.

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Thirteen Texans improve within margins. Offensive line, running back position
is going to be key spots to focus on, and
adding to the safety room.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yep. Take a little pressure off of Stroud.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
I know he doesn't have that much pressure with the
defense playing good complminary football, but I like that analysis there.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
On the Texans.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Number twelve Chiefs restart the reload as Mahomes is rehabbing
the left knee.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
They're not favored to win their division next year. Kansas
City No.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Number eleven Chicago Bears quiet ish for once.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
I can tell you, Craig. They don't mind that.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Number ten, top ten into out Green Bay Packers run
it back keeping battle of floor. General manager Brian gudakuns
as well. So yeah, Number nine Jacksonville pass rush.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Help need that.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Number eight Eagles unlock the offense. Number seven Lions retool
offensive lobbe Number six forty nine Ers the next nucleus
talk about that. They've got to figure out some of
the other airs. Pass rush receiver groups need some significant attention.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Number five get defense healthy.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Number five Buffalo pressure is on.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Was it McDermott, It basically brought back all the same staff.
Number four Denver find some pop yep, yep they do.
They do need that.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
They were twenty ninth in percentage of drives that ended
in a three and out.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Man, you don't like that, stuck on it.

Speaker 5 (46:02):
That's not a Sean Payton stat not a Sean Payton teen.
I think some of that is on bo Nicks and
some of that is on playmakers. Bo's got a tendency
to hold the ball. Took a few too many sacks
this year, and they didn't really have a guy that
could take the top off your defense either.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Number three's the rams, fix special teams. I agree with that,
and also fix the secondary because that's what they really
got to do. Number two New England late round draft picks.
They're saying that might help them because all eleven selections
made the roster last year of the draft. And number

(46:39):
one defending Super Bowl champion Seattle break the bank because
as we mentioned, they're going to have. You got Jackson
Smith and Jigba and I I'm Witherspoon Will could top
thirty million per year in new money. You have Reshi
Shahid schedule to become a free agent, Kenneth Walker and

(47:01):
Kobe Bryant as well, so they're gonna have to spend
some money to do that.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
So there is the way too early power rankings for
the NFL.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
All right, Up next, we'll hear from Walghorn basketball coach
Sean Miller and also from Vick Schaefer.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
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long worn basketball conversation. This from the head coach of
the Long Warns, Sean Miller. Tex Is coming off that
game Saturday where they came came from ahead and then

(49:16):
from behind because they were up by eighteen in the
first half, got down by three in the second half,
and then closed the game on a fourteen to run
And they did it in large measure without Dalan Swain,
although he had a huge three point playing a couple
of free throws down the stretch, and they were able

(49:37):
to do that despite, according to the head coach, the
quiet performance.

Speaker 7 (49:41):
Well again, you know, you win as a team, you
lose as a team, and we really needed some other
guys to fill that fill in for Dalen. As you know,
he's he's carried quite a load this year. What I
sense with Dalen is he needs a break. You know,
we haven't.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
We haven't really had that buy.

Speaker 7 (49:58):
I think we're one of the last team in the
SEC and it's not like we're going to, you know,
go to Disneyland this week and just chill. But there's
a difference between playing a game and not And I
think that we recognize that we've we've hit a really
hard stretch. We've played what twenty four games in about
the lost ten ten or eleven games in a short

(50:19):
window of time, and all that we're asking him to do.
I think this week comes at an ideal time for him,
you know, where he can get his feet under him,
get healthy, not have the burden of another game coming
and uh and obviously for us to get better and
for him to be at his best next weekend at Missouri.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Yeah, that's important.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Also it's important for modest Focatitas to continue to use
his size advantage much in the way he did on Saturday.

Speaker 7 (50:48):
Well, the one thing about a big guy, they can't
do it alone. They don't dribble the ball up the
court and create their own shot. So you know, it
takes teamwork, it takes chemistry, timing, and it takes them
into dilligence. Even as a coach, like it's not easy,
like how to get him the ball, When to get
him the ball, how to go about getting that to him?
But I thought we did a really good job as

(51:09):
a group doing that today. You know, we had an advantage.
That doesn't mean that it's going to show up, but
it did today in large part because I thought he
got the ball in the scoring area. Ole Miss too,
you know, they were more aggressive than we've seen them,
you know, trapping, more denying, and really prushing further from
the basket. So with that, it opens things up in

(51:30):
the lane and opens things up at the rim. And
there were a couple of times where I thought Modest
took advantage of that.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
One other question put to Sean Miller was the backstory is?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
He says the other side of that, Chris Beard coming
back to Austin first time since he had been the
head coach at Texas, and he mentioned his press conference,
you have they can get a little extra motivation by
talking about how they used to all coach there or
several members of his.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Staff and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
And did Sean Miller talk to his team about Chris
Beard having been there in the narrative surrounding the game, No,
for sure.

Speaker 7 (52:06):
I think we recognized, first of all Ole Miss this
was their fourth consecutive road game, and I know there
are circumstances that dictated that, But in fairness to them,
that is not easy in this league this year to
play four consecutive road games, so this is the fourth
of that. We knew that just generally, they play the
game with a lot of effort. They play the game,

(52:29):
they play a deep bench, they play hard. This was
going to be a meaningful game to their group, and
we knew that. However, this is a meaningful game for
our team and our group, not because of the backstory,
but because what we're trying to accomplish.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
We have players in our locker room.

Speaker 7 (52:45):
I mentioned it after the South Carolina game that have
never won three conference games in a row, and today
they did that for the first time. It's those small
steps that can build a strong foundation for a program.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
So today was a.

Speaker 7 (52:59):
Meaningful game for us. Also, we only have so many
of these SEC home games left. We want to be
at our best for every one of them. So coming
off of South Carolina, we wanted to build and grow
on that experience, and I thought we did today. I
also want to just thank our crowd, students, and everybody
in a building made it just an incredible college basketball

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game atmosphere, and I don't know if there was a
better setting anywhere in the country today than the one
we experienced, and I thought down the stretch of the game,
our crowd helped us win.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
It was the type of atmosphere the Vick Schaefer is
hoping to have tonight as his team plays eighteenth Frank Kentucky.
That's next when we continue on thirteen hundred the Zone.
Jake rolling us back with bands from the Seattle area
and that includes those. Wilson's sisters Hand and Nancy saw
him in concert the Texas Jam in nineteen seventy nine

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when I was eighteen. That almost passed out from the
heat there at the It's a good show though it's
them Boston Blue Oyster, Cole uh van Halen, Sammy Hagar,
pre van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Nazareth.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
So he was an all day and evening thing. But
part was one of the big hicks of the deal.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
I was thinking to myself a second ago, didn't you
just say you hadn't seen Boston.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Then I remembered it was Chicago.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Chicago, Boston had seen. Okay, our man CB. I've been
waiting to hear from CB from the PNW, he said,
I know why. Kenneth Walker the third one of the MVP,
but Michael Dixon or Byron Murphy could easily have been
the MVP last night. I thought the halftime show was incredible,
and I'm not a bad Bunny fan, says CB. Okay,

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Byron Murphy did have a big game. Michael Dixon, I
think he punted seven times and put like three inside
the ten.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
There was a moment if the game had stayed twelve
to nothing or fifteen nothing. He was a Myers miss
away from being the MVP.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, yeah, could have been. He to this day is
the only MVP of a bowl game that in the
Texas Bowl. There so good points made fire Man CB.
All right, let's hear from Vick Schaefer. As Texas prepares
to take on eighteenth rank Kentucky, taste the fourth ranked
opponent they'll face in their last six and it's gonna

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be the sixth in eight games by the time they
finished the road trip that starts this week Thursday night
at fifth rank Vanderbilt. By the way, it's gonna be
their fifth game against a top five opponent this year.
They're three and one so far against top five ranked opponents.
And then they're gonna play I think it's twenty third
ranked Tennessee on Saturday on Sunday, so a bevy of

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ranked opponents.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Hey, that's life in the SEC.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
And so Vick was asked as he discussed the big
picture of these SEC games with the team where he
just focus in diland on one at a time.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Not really, you've been around me, and if I'm one
game at a time, guy, I don't really get.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
Too caught up and you know who's next where all that.
I just I live in the moment.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (56:11):
You know, I've been consumed with Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Have so much respect and admiration for coach and the
job he does. I think it's really uh special. I'm
honored to share our breath, our breath, our our our
pink game with him, knowing that his wife is a
cancer survivor, and you know, it's it's an honor for
me to be able to and for us here at

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Texas to be able to share that game, and because
I know it means a lot to him and his family.
And you know, he and I uh had a great
visit last year. I think we played them at their
place on this day on this game. So you know,
my mother uh had five separate. This is back in

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the old days. Now in the sixties and seventies, when
we didn't have all the technology, where she had five
separate surgeries, breast surgeries, where we didn't First of all,
I can remember my mother and father sitting at the
kitchen table talking about if she didn't make it out
of surgery, you know what that looked like. And then

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I can remember, you know, back then, whenever they did
the biopsy, they walked down the hall and they had
to have it looked at to see if it was
cancerus or not, to whether they were going to come
back and do something more invasive or if they were
just going to you know, sew them up.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
And so you had that bit of trepidation and concern
as well.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
And you know, Mom used to always say she's in
the annals of medical history. She had five separate surgeries,
and every one of them was benign and just really
really fortunate and lucky. And always celebrated that. Man, we
just always were just so happy. And I remember each
and every one of those times.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
And so.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
In any case, uh, you know, it's a it's a
special game and one that we're honored to be a
part of.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Does give you some perspective, doesn't it?

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
In terms of more of the basketball oriented things of late,
they've had all these different contributors. Jordan Lee's been kind
of quietly her shots falling off a little bit, and
Vic was asked as he lost confidence in it.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think so. I think what
you you know what I've noticed by Jordan she just
keeps working. She's in the gym every day. Uh, She's
really been deliberate in uh, in staying in the gym
and staying after it. It certainly doesn't affect her how
she plays. On the other end, the kid is special

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and you know, tough. I think that's the thing you know,
you notice is just how mentally tough she really is.
And uh, again, you know, when you play this game,
you're bound to go through you know, a stretcher two.
And you know, I see her in practice and and uh, Mark,

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I'm the kid's really good. So it's just kind of happened.
It's nothing that I'm really worried about. I got a
lot of things to worry about, but Jordan Lee and
one of them, she's been really really focused and really
intent on on again our team and the success of
our team, and and so uh, you know, I see

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her in the gym every day. She comes early, she
may stay late, but she just keeps working at it.
And that's what you want to see as a coach.
I mean, it's really cool.

Speaker 6 (59:42):
All right.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
He's also I thought it was pretty cool the way
that Aliah Crump has come back from her injury and
has been a factor.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Yeah, you know, she's uh, even when she was over
there on the you know, on the bench. I think
you don't want everybody to go through that, but you know,
Rory Harmon would tell you she learned a lot sitting
over there. You know, she learned a lot watching her teammates.
You know, some of them aren't here anymore, but some
of them, you know, she'd see see them and she'd go, coach,

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I understand why you get upset with her, or I
understand why you get upset with us.

Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
And so when you sit over there, there's a lot
to learn.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
And you know, for a freshman to be able to
come in and play and then sit a little bit
and then now back in playing, man, that's a you know,
you don't want people to have to go through that,
but I think that's a really good education for him.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
And again, you know, a Leah won't see the freshman wall.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
She's had plenty of rest and downtime, missed you know,
those games, and so man, she's chomping at the bit.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
She's ready to go. She's confident.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Obviously, she's playing extremely well at a very high level.
And so, you know, again, a kid that really invests
in her craft, invest in her game, comes early, gets
shots up with Blair Day, her and Booker in there,
you know, every day together. So it's, uh, you know,
I'm happy for her. Obviously, that injury. Uh, you know,

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so many people get those those stress fractures, stress reactions,
especially young kids freshman. But even Rory had one of
her sophomore year, if you remember, she had a one,
and I think she missed five games. But Elia's was
a little more significant. And so it's good to see
her back. Obviously, she's impacting our team at a very

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very high level. She's playing as good as any freshmen
in our league, shooting it at you know, an unbelievable
clip you know, in conference alone, shooting fifty seven percent
from the field in fifty four from three. You know,
so she's really impacted our team. She's our second leading
scorer in conference.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Yeah, she's been really, really good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
All right, we'll be back to wrap up our number
two here on thirteen under the time love.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
And this.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
And that's how it rolled.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
As we get this third hour of the program underway
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone, as
the Texas long Worns did win. Thanks to Jay Carman,
our producer, for bringing us the updated montage of the
highlights of the Texas win over the old Miss Rebels

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seventy nine to sixty eight. Texas now has its open
date on the schedule and that's in the midweek and
then they'll return to action on Saturday. So here we
are third hour of the program here on the Zone.
Craig joined by Jay Carman, our producer as well. I
didn't even get a chance to ask it, sir. Did
you get a chance even to see the game on Saturday?

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Oh yeah, I had.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
You know, I had a nasty Super Bowl streak of
three years in a row watching by myself.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
That was broken. I got to watch with some friends.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
Okay, it was.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
It was fun because had that game, had I been
by myself for that game.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
And maybe it would have been a little a little slow,
it might have given you that impression of it, as
we heard a highlight montage of Super Bowl sixty opening
last hour of the program, and we'll have more on
that coming up. But it's a big week in college basketball,
and it's a because now we're into really what a

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lot of folks would refer to a little bit as
the dog days in conference play. You know it is
in baseball when they say you're getting into the dog
days of the season, those would be like starting after
All Star Break late July, throughout the month of August.
Really and truly the month of August is really kind
of the dog days of baseball. And then they get

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into the Pennant and stretch drive in September, and everybody
perks up a little bit. By the way baseball perking
up now. Pitchers and catchers reporting at various times and
days this week.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
So that's in a way.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
I had a brother text me last night and goes, oh,
Craig ought to be appy pictures and catchers report this week,
And I said, first step, And then he said, so
the Dodger trying to win their one hundredth World Series.
It said, actually, they've only won nine. They've won nine,
but only they're not even number two on the list
all time to the Yankees. I think the I think

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the Cardinals are number two all time in World Series one,
so you know they they're not They're not number two
on the list that I know for a fact.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
But they are going for three in a row. But
that's for more conversation coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
I don't even know how many more than the Dodgers
the Cardinals, who want but I want to say something
like eleven or twelve or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Cardinals have eleven total.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
There you go, there you go? All right? All right?
And like I said, LA's one nine. How about the Giants?

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
The Giants have won eight?

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Do you know the two other teams tied with the
Dodgers in third place with nine?

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
I'm gonna guess, well, if you count them in two
of the three cities they've occupied, well it's now four cities.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
I'd say the Athletics are probably in there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
That's one of them because they had those Philadelphia Athletics championships,
didn't win any winning with the Kansas City A's for
twelve years, and then they won three in a row
as Oakland, then one, then two more there in the night.
So anyway, all right, So that's one of them. Boston,
Boston's the other.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
I thought so.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
And so all three of those teams have won nine.
The Dodgers, the A's, and the Red Sox. I would
say the Dodgers are definitely closer to winning a tenth
than the A's are. Red Sox maybe improved this year,
might be able to make a run there, we'll see.
It's really weird given the fact that they went through
an eighty six year drought after winning in nineteen eighteen

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and didn't win again in two thousand and four. But
then they won in four. They wanted seven, they won
in thirteen, and they wonted eighteen. My son, my youngest son,
who was a Red Sox fan because that was the
tee ball and then the little league team he played
on when young, so he became a Red Sox fan.
I was a Tiger, well he and so was my
oldest son. And he was a Tigers fan for a
while now, and then when he went to work for

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the Royals organization, that changed him, you know, the Royals,
And even though he doesn't work in Major League Baseball anymore,
he's still a Royals fan. But my youngest son, yeah,
he was born in nineteen ninety nine, so he never
got to witness those decades and decades and decades of

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droughts where folks lived their entire lives and did not
live to see a Red Sox champion. And my dad
not that he was a Red Sox fan. He was
a big Ted Williams fan for a while, but he
went a big Red Sox fan for say. In fact,
he was a Yankees fan. But he lived his entire
life didn't live to see the Red Sox win a

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world title in his lifetime. And there were many many others,
especially one folks up north in Boston. When I saw
that what's what's called I believe or something? It was, say,
the the thirty for thirty on the Red Sox. It
was it was pretty good when they when they finally
broke through an O four and won.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
It was it the four Days in October?

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Yeah, I thought there was that might have been it.
I was thinking it was something else about that had
the word believe in it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Four Days in October is one of the thirty for
thirties on the Red Sox. So there's more than one
that's that's the only one I've seen so far back,
but you've probably seen something.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Else I might have, but I definitely saw believers. That's
the one.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
That's the one I saw believers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
And and you know, there were a lot of profiles
of folks in there that you know, they were going
out to the cemetery after the Red Sox won and
O four and placing flowers there and said, Dad, we
made it or something like that, you know, and their
parents lived their entire lives and they were, you know,
ardent Red Sox fans. That's another reason why I say

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that every person who is an ardent fan at least
of a pro sports team, if not also a college team,
but certainly of a pro sports team. Each person who
is an fan of a pro sports team should hopefully
live long enough to see their favorite team win at
least one world title in one of the four major

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sports in football, pro basketball, baseball, or hockey that your
favorite team. Hopefully, every true pro sports fan can live
long enough to see at least one of their four
favorite teams win a world championship, which brings us to

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the Seahawks. Now, folks had been long enough, you know,
the twelves as they call them, or other folks that
are fans of the Seahawks were around to see them
win in what was it, twenty to fifteen? I guess
it was, But if not, then certainly they got treated
to Seattle's Super Bowl dominant win over the Patriots that

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were recapped earlier in the program. But still it's worth
repeating about because now you know, as we've said before,
you know what comes up after that. You know what
usually comes up after that is you know, can they
repeat what are the odds? And you know who might

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who might win the Super Bowl next year?

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
Okay, so.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
The Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl after entering the season,
and I'm not sure I understand this. So they were
a plus six thousand long shot. I didn't think they
were that long. A shot sixty to one. Yeah, that's
what that is.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Okay, all right, Yeah, if he.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Still feels longer than it should have been. Yeah, of course,
with hindsight.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
I actually well, I actually picked him to win the West,
not the forty nine ers he did. And then when
it started coming down to the wire in the regular season,
I pointed out that whoever won that game in Seattle
that Thursday night game that we've talked about at length,
where I was sitting in a darkened booth at Jerry

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World after calling a high school state championship game watching
the fourth quarter in the overtime of that game. But
I really truly felt that whichever team won that game
was going to wind up winning the Super Bowl, because
I thought by then that the Seahawks and Rams were
the two best teams. Although the team that was going
to lose that game in Seattle might not necessarily make

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it back to the NFC Championship because they might have
to go to Philadelphia Chicago.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
They didn't have to go to Philadelphia. They did go
to Chicago.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
The Rams didn't won there, but the NFC Championship game
being in Seattle gave them quite the advantage. And I
think we did see that the two best teams in
the NFL this year played in the NFC Championship, not
in the Super Bowl. It was a great run for
the Patriots, but they weren't the second best team, and

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Seattle's dominance because the Rams put points on him in
the second and third games, both of which were in Seattle,
and New England just struggled throughout the night.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
The only quarterback to look like any semblance of their
usual self against Seattle this season in the second half
onwards was Matthew Stafford. Yeah, backs up that MVP win
very nicely.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
Yeah, yeah, it does. So they were sixty to one
shots to win.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
They will.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
In our next season favored to win. But they're tied
with guess who with the Rams.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
And what's it?

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Nine and a half to one. I guess that tells
me Stafford is not retiring.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
When he said that at the NFL Honors thing the
other night, right he said when he came back to
the we're gonna go back, followed by the Bills. We
keep tossing the Bills up there, expecting maybe them to
finally land on the year. Was make Derriman holding them back?

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
I don't know. I guess we'll find out.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
They do kind of historically, just from what I've read
because I didn't live during this time period, but their
plight reminds me a lot of the Brooklyn Dodgers in
the forties and fifties. They got their time after time
after time and continue to get beat now. They got
all the way to the Championship, to the World Series
and lost to the Yankees in forty one, forty seven,

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forty nine, fifty two, fifty three. They lost five times
before they finally beat him in fifty five, and then
they promptly lost him in fifty six.

Speaker 4 (01:12:43):
But it kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Reminds me of Buffalo getting there, getting there, getting there,
and just can't crack through, you know, for a long time.
And I know a lot of folks don't realize this
because if they saw that North Carolina Duke basketball game
on Saturday, which was just epic on Saturday evening, I
got home in time from the Texas, can't watch it,
and I thought it was.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Just just really really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
But they showed like the championship banners in North Carolina
has won, and they won seven. However, they went twenty
five years between winning their first and second. Frank McGuire
was the coach when they went undefeated in nineteen fifty
seven and beat the Kansas team led by Wilt Chamberlain,
and they won that in triple overtime one night after.

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He used to play the semi finals and the finals
and back to back nights. One night after they went
triple overtime to beat Michigan State in the semifinals, but
then they went twenty five years. Frank McGuire's young assistant,
Dean Smith, took over the program at the turn of
the decade, and he had gone to the final four
seven times before he finally won a championship seven times.

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So it reminds me of other teams that, you know,
knock on the door and knock on the door. Denver
Broncos had a knock on the door a lot, not
as often as at the Sea. The Broncos lost the
cow Boys, Ellison the Giants was watcha do you have?
They lost four times before they finally won one. So
the Bills, of course, the Bills haven't been back in
a while and breaking through and everybody, I think, thought

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this was going to be the year Buffalo would do it.
Once Kansas City fell off its pedestal, they weren't there
to get in the way. The Ravens really weren't there
to be in the way. The Steelers weren't there to
be in their way. So it looked like they would
finally get through and it didn't happen. So maybe the
coach can change, will make a difference. Who knows, I

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don't know, all right, coming up We're going to hear
from Texas women's head coach Bick Schaeffer, some more from
VIC about tonight's big matchup against the Kentucky Wildcats. We'll
do that when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone and the IR Radio app.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Hey, guys, BK here from the Bucky and BK Show.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
We hope you'll join us every weekday afternoon on your
drive home from.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
So excited to be a part of the Zone team.
Can't recapping Super Bowl sixty next year.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
The Seahawks and Rams are co favorites to win it,
which is interesting since they're in the same conference.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
But then Buffalo is after that.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
So I was thinking during the break about why Buffalo's
odds stayed so high, and I just got to thinking
about that division a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:15:23):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
The Jets not going to noticeably look different next year,
bringing back Aaron Glenn without a clear franchise, changing quarterback
at number two in a most draft.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
And we're finding out more and more hearing from Jets
players that it was a cancerous locker room that the
Jets had.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
Put that under headlines you see every two or three
years with that organization, no kidding, No kidding, there's that,
and then you got New England facing a much more
difficult schedule next year, yep, after winning the division, and
Miami with a new head coach Jeff Affley.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Who knows how that'll look, right, So I.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
Would say, with all of that in mine, it probably
does set up to where Buffalo could be a favorite
in the East winning it all and we'll see or
even winning the AFC.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
We'll find out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
We were also talked about the long worn Nets basketball
victory on Saturday against Old Miss, and Texas women's head
coach Vick Schaeffer's getting his team ready to play another
ranked opponent tonight, the Kentucky Wildcats, but he was asked
in his media availability yesterday about conversations that he has

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with the men's head coach Sean Miller at this time
of year.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
It was great to see him and we had a
good visit, and you know, I just really just you know,
I see his team getting so much better each and
every game each and you know, every time they play.
I don't get to watch them in practice every day,
but I do watch every game, and I just see
his team really evolving and maturing and playing like he

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wants them to play. I can't impress upon you all
enough how hard it is to inherit a team that's
played for somebody else. Not good, better, indifferent. But then
we all have our own style, we all have our
own demands, okay, we all have our own way that
we want things done.

Speaker 6 (01:17:19):
And it's just hard to instill that in four or
five six months, y'all. And so I see his team
getting better each and every day.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
I mean, you look at yesterday, man, they dominated Mississippi early.
Mississippi made a run, and then they responded to that run.
That says to me, that says as much about them
opening the game and getting on them as it is
anything how they were able to respond when they could
have just folded and not responded right, and Ole miss

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could have could have ended up getting out of here
with a win. But you know, you see that last
night in the Tennessee men's game. You know, that's the
second time Kentucky's come back and beating them after Tennessee's
had him down double digits, and so you know, I
just I just it was a great time for us to.

Speaker 6 (01:18:08):
Catch up again.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
I deep respect and admiration for him and the job
he's doing and and again, I know how hard it is.
I mean, we've all been there and uh and so,
but it was it was good to be able to
visit briefly. You know, we typically it's him wishing me
good luck, me wishing him good luck via text and

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not a whole lot of dialogue. He's got his staff
meetings and his practices. I've got my staff meetings and
my practices in my film. So we're all kind of
caught up in our own world and our own life
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Next and interesting question posed by our friend Mark Rosner,
who covers the Long Words for AP and it was
about international players. Now, Longhorns do have some internationals on
their roster, most notably Lavisa asprink Hoes, who is a
center that the Red this year.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
Grace Printer from Ireland has.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Seen limited action this year, and a lot of times
international players take a little while longer.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Than just you know, get acclimated to everything.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
But they're also very actively recruiting other international players. And
Vick was asked about the initiative with recruiting the international
base as well as domestic Well, I just I.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
Think that that's that's an area that you obviously need
to explore.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
With everything going on on the men's side, and how
they're letting those guys come over here that have been
playing professionally over there for years, there's something to be
said for taking a kid that's played, you know, professionally
over there or played with professionals. They may not have
gotten paid, but they've been playing on a professional team

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with other pros against women, and they're still young. There's
something to be said for the advantage that that brings
to the table. So, you know, I think you have
to explore it. With the way that that we where
we've you know, where we're evolving and and all that.

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I just think you have to you always have to
look and and so that's what we do.

Speaker 6 (01:20:23):
Where we we have we do have.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Contacts all over and you know, we are always exploring
those options.

Speaker 4 (01:20:34):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
If there's one player who in the last couple of
ball games has really made the most of her minutes
on the floor, it's been Taya Sidbury, who is the
senior transfer forward and and Vic likes to point out,
you know, she was the all time leading high school
scorer point scorer in Utah high school basketball history. I

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remember asking her, how does a kid from you, I'll
wind up at Boston College. And she said, well, they
were one of the first to show interest in me,
and there was a family connection and all that sort
of stuff. And so she played three seasons at Boston
College and was on the verge of a thousand career
points when she transferred to Texas for this senior season,
and she has since topped one thousand career points.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
She didn't miss a shot the other night when she
was on the floor against LSU.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
So Vick was asked about, you know, balancing the rotation,
because if you look at it, you have Ory Harmon,
Jordan Lee Justice, Carlton Madison Booker, Braa Cunningham, Kyle Oldacre,
Aliah Crump, Breanna Preston, Ashton Judd. That's nine players, and
then Tayo Sidbury makes ten. And that doesn't even include
Sarah Graves and Grace Printer, who might get a little

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bit of time mostly in mop up duty there when
the issue is well in hand. But that's ten players.
And the conventional wisdom about a lot of college basketball
coaches is to have by the time you get to
postseason a rotation of either eight or nine players, depending

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on the type of team you have, whether you're more
guard heavy or you know, wing heavy or post heavy,
and what you might see in the postseason, and that
it might be a challenge trying to juggle all of
those players if you have more than say nine, even
maybe more than eight. Big doesn't see it that way.

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He knows he's got lots of players who bring different
gifts to the party. And that goes for what he
had to say about Taya Sidbury.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
First of all, Taya is finally healthy. You know, she's
finally paying free where she can run and get up
and down the floor and not literally drag that leg around.
I mean, and the kids, you know, really tried to
play through it, but at some point we just weren't
getting ahead of it, and I just made the decision
I was going to rest her a little bit and
see if we could get ahead of it, which we did.

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But as you know, when you're sitting out, somebody else
is working and sometimes you get passed up a little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:23:03):
But you know, Taya such a sweet kid, and yet.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
This game requires toughness, it requires physicality, and you know
Justice is a physical kid, man.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
She's really physical.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Offensively, I would say Ashton's really physically physical defensively, she
will step in front of her freight train take a charge.

Speaker 6 (01:23:29):
Justice will too. Justice has been taught.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Defensive principles and knows how to take a charge as well.
So you know, and Taya has taken some charges here,
probably the first ones in her career. But you know,
I think all of them brings something to the table.
I think Justice had our first seven points in the
second half the other night, and so it's just you know,
when she gets winded, when she gets tired, okay, we

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got to go to another one, or maybe you know,
it's it's something else.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
Who knows, But I just think it's hard.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
You know, the answer is it's hard when you have
those three I got my two headed monster at five
right with Brea and Kyla, I guess I got a
three headed monster. I just need them to be monsters.
I don't need them to be sweet. I need them
to be monsters at that four spot. And you know,
it's nice to have that luxury, and so you know,

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it's it's it's a challenge for me, for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:24:26):
I won't dodge that. It is a challenge.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
But you know, we're I think we're we're figuring it
out and again, every practice is a tryout.

Speaker 6 (01:24:35):
In my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
And then just as a follow up on Tayo Sidbury
and what she means to this team. She's pretty fast.
She can get down the floor quickly. It was a
great runout break the other night when Madison book received
the ball was going out of bounds and flipped it
back down the floor and it got the Sidbury and
she just charged him for the layup.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
That was one of the more impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Shots of the game, and Kathy was all over it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
Just that the awareness from Booker to throw that towards
the opponent's basket.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
So many players in that moment.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
Will you either throw it blindly or just throw it
to the nearest teammate regardless of where they're standing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Yeah, that's a coach for you. By the way, Kathy
coached a state championship team as they head coach at
Playing View. Of course, for many years on Jody Conrad's
staff for Texas, including on that final four team and
three so Kathy has seen him played a lot of basketball. Kathy,
by the way, was a state championship player for South
Lake Carolin. Though we were a one A school. Today

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it would be two a with the nomenclature having been
bumped up. But they were a small, little rural school
when she played for them in the mid seventies and
they won a state championship. And then she played she
was great, a great player at Whaland Baptist, you know,
in the early days of women's college basketball on the
national scene, and then a head coach at Playing View

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won a girls state championship in nineteen ninety and then
of course many years as Jody Conrad's assistant. She also
was the operations chief of staff for the Late pat Summit,
did that afterwards, and then came back to Texas as
a senior associate ad and sport administrator for women's basketball.
She's now and she will remind you at any and

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every turn if you ask her enjoying retirement. Other than
she said, the one thing I wanted to keep doing
was working the broadcast, she said. But other than that,
she called her a career. But she still has that
incredible mind for basketball, and that's why it's always a
lot of fun to have her on board on our broadcast.
So anyway, this business about Taya Sidbury's speed, how important

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it is in transition games, Vick Schaeffer was noting when
there's big players, you know, larger post players on the
opponent's team.

Speaker 6 (01:26:48):
Yeah, no doubt, it's important no matter who you're playing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
You know, she's really good her first three steps pretty fast,
pretty quick, heads down like you want. So she he's
great getting out in transition. She's really good finishing at
the rim as is you know, Justice and so you know,
I do think there's an advantage there. And again I

(01:27:13):
need her to obviously help me rebound some and be
a good defender. And then you know, she's four for
four the other night, and you gotta love that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
So it's Texas and Kentucky tonight. We'll have it for
you on thirteen Under the Zone. Six fifteen the pregame
start time. It'll be preceded by Bucky and BK. They'll
go from five to six fifteen, six fifteen with the
airtime six thirty the tip off from Moody Texas and Kentucky.
You heard us made reference make reference to Sean Miller,

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the men's head coach. We're gonna hear more from coach
Miller coming up next when we continue on Sports Radio
AM thirteen Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app thank
you here on a Monday following Super Bowl sixteenth, I'm
thirteen under the Zone. You heard our takes on the
game earlier in the commercials and all that stuff. So

(01:28:04):
now the football world moves into its off season. At
the NFL level, basketball continues somewhere between two thirds and
three fourths of the college basketball season. I guess you
might say it's three fifths of the way in the
books right now for the college basketball regular season, important
game coming up with the long Ones on Saturday. They'll

(01:28:25):
take on the Missouri Tigers in Columbia that following a
midweek bye. That's their rotation of the open date on
that Some other comments from Sean Miller after the game. Nobody,
but nobody other than Kirk Bowles of the Houston Chronicle
for many years, many decades of the Austin American statesman

(01:28:50):
who can fashion a phrase with the best of them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
In a question into the when did you stop beating
your wife?

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
Question, as Sean about how would he raid his team's
resilience after blowing an eighteen point lead, I.

Speaker 7 (01:29:05):
Don't know how to take that question. You know, you
blow an eighteen point lead and have resilience. But yeah,
the thing about playing in a conference like the SEC
is I think as a coach, you know, you have
to steer the ship with an understanding that that there's
a lot of parody, you know there.

Speaker 6 (01:29:25):
I used the analogy earlier with you guys of.

Speaker 7 (01:29:27):
The NFL, where from one Sunday to the next, it
just seems like you have a cluster of teams that
are all trying to accomplish the same thing, and the
margin in separation is just single plays, you know, for
what we're trying to accomplish in the in the SEC,
in these eighteen games, and then the bigger picture for March.
You know, it comes down to big plays. It comes

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down to being able to, like you said, be resilient.
At Oklahoma got off to a terrible start, hung in there,
rallied and really the last eight that game is where
we won it. You know, against South Carolina, a lot
of things didn't go our way. I didn't think Modest
was himself. I didn't feel right, but we hung in
there and fought through. And then you know, today was

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like three games. First half, first twelve minutes of the
second half, and then the last eight minutes of the game,
But we did rally and I do think that that's
a great word to describe the final stretch of today's game, resilient.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
So yeah, there is resilience involved. Even after quote unquote
blowing the lead. You know, there's there's a fine line,
there's a gray area. And this is not to say,
by the way, that Texas did not have its issues
in letting that eighteen point lead slip away in the
second half against home mess. They certainly did. They were

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there were some poor shots taken there. What when the
turnover filled thing? They why don't we just ten for
the poll of for the full ball game? But gave
up some easy rebounds, miss some free throws, miss some shots,
and give credit, Ole miss hit five threes in the
second half to turn the game around, and that's why
it became a real contest down the stretch.

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
But again Texas showing that resilience there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
Now, as I pointed out earlier, they enter the bye week,
so they're into the open date and it's not a
full week of a buye because they play on Saturday
in Columbia against Missouri. They'll travel on Friday, but they
don't have the midweek game this week. So Sean Miller's asked,
what will the emphasis be on this week with no

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game in the middle of the week.

Speaker 7 (01:31:36):
Well, we want to be as healthy as we can
and we'll look at the next seven days of how
to go about doing that, maybe replacing a game with
a complete day off. We also have to work like
our practices have to be great. It's what we will
This is a week where you can really get sharp.
There's a few things we can change, There's a number

(01:31:56):
of things we can work collectively to improve, but that's it.
You know, the teams that keep getting better in February
are the teams that play in March, and we want
to be one of those teams. So the week off
is only off from the perspective of a game. What
we're trying to accomplish is a lot. But I do
think part of what we're trying to accomplish is, you know,

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to the earlier question about Swain, you know, really allow
him to get his legs under him for a stretch run.
And I think that I am at least aware and
smart enough to know we can accomplish that this week.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Next Coach Millers asked by Daalon Swain, who really struggled
for a lot of the ballgame as Ole Miss and
plint a great many double teams on and drop coverage,
those things like that on him.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
You know, a.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Hallmark if you will, of Chris Beard coach teams when
he was at the head coach of Texas Tech, when
he was at the head coach at Little Rock before
the By the way, you know we were naming, We
had a trip a question the other day about name
at least one of the schools prior to Texas Tech

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where Chris Beer coach. We gave away basketball tickets and
and fortunately we had people come up with correct answers,
and Angelo State was guessed, Little Rock was guessed Fortscott
Community College. There was also Seminole State College that was
in there. That one wasn't guessed, but that was one
of the places where he'd been. There was that team

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and what was called the ABA, but not like the
ABA of the seventies. It was a minor league basketball
thing that was played. They were called the Carolina something
or other, but anyway they played. They based out of
Myrtle Beach, the Warriors, that's it, and they based out
of Myrtle Beach. He coached that team, So but throughout

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the court, yes, don't forget McMurray and McMurray that was
the other one there. So with all all the teams
that he coached, one common thread that has gone through
with his teams is running motion offense, much like what
Bob Knight did since he was on Bob Knight's staff
and then and Eddie Orn mentioned it in the broadcast

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before the game even tipped off. He's going to try
to take your two best players away mainly by double teams, traps, zones,
drop coverage whatever. He's going to really try to take
your two best scorers away. Well, it didn't really work
with Madus Fokatitis, who had twenty seven in the game.

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It did, however, to a large measure, work on Dalan
swayn Unti late in the contest. He had a big
three point plane that he hit a couple more free
throws down the stretch. So that was a big part
of it is what they were trying to do on him,
and Coach Middler was asked about you know how it
unfolded throughout the course of the game with what Daylan

(01:34:58):
Swayne had to face from that coverage of all myths.

Speaker 7 (01:35:02):
Well, you know, Dalen is a very willing passer. He
had four assists, you know. Unfortunately I thought he had
like two or three tough turnovers. And look, one of
the reasons the game felt so funny, you guys have
to see it is we had ten turnovers and that
is not a lot. I mean, I would have liked
to have played it with single digit turnovers, but ten
is pretty good. In the second half, we had three,

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but they had fourteen points off our ten turnovers. So
the turnovers in this game went like steel dunk steel
three point play. Part of their sixty eight points had
nothing to do with their offense. They scored fourteen of
their sixty eight points off of our turnovers. So I
think that's something that made the game feel funny, and

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it's really something we had to overcome to win the game.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
And then obviously, with you know, Swaying being largely held
in check for a lot of the game, it was
important for modest Foken Tiers to have a big game.
And you're hurting the highlight montage. He scored the long
orange first eight points. He was big throughout the course
of the game, and coach Millers asked about how important

(01:36:10):
was it not only for modus focus titis to contribute
and have a big scoring game, but to get off
to the fast start when in some recent games he's
had fould difficulty early.

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
In contest, we came out.

Speaker 7 (01:36:22):
Of the gates playing well, and I think that was
what was equally frustrating about the beginning of the second half.
If you judged us in the first four plus minutes
of the first half the start of the game, and
then you would judge us the first four minutes and
the second half is two entirely different teams.

Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
I have to grow that. I have to as the coach,
fix that. I have to make our group aware of that.

Speaker 7 (01:36:47):
Your responsibility as a starter is to really be ready
in those first four minute segments of both halves.

Speaker 6 (01:36:54):
That's why you start. So we have to take a
look at that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
Yeah, that's part of the reason why Sean puts such
emphasis on he calls it those ten four minute wars,
and he puts such emphasis on numbers one, five, and six.
One is the first four minutes of the game. Five
is the last four minutes of the first half. Six
is the first four minutes of the second half. Those

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are all important as well as obviously the last four
minutes of the game, but those segments in particular, and
he was kind of referring to that as well. All Right,
we'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
program on thirteen under the Zone.