November 7, 2024 • 13 mins
Tonight's edition of Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark features special guest Nate Boyer. Boyer joined Sark and Craig Way to discuss his transition from the military to college football.
Plus, hear audio from Coach Sark's Thursday media availability as the Longhorns prepare for Florida. Sark discusses the depth at WR following the departure of Johntay Cook and how he he'll try and get the Gators defense off balanced on Saturday.
Plus, hear audio from Coach Sark's Thursday media availability as the Longhorns prepare for Florida. Sark discusses the depth at WR following the departure of Johntay Cook and how he he'll try and get the Gators defense off balanced on Saturday.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Craig here on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Glad to have you with us as we draw just
ever so slightly closer to the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Cam you said we had somebody.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I mentioned the two ways that the two most let
me put it this way, the most regular ways that
folks have reached out to us, and that was either
on the text line by texting the word Texas followed
by your question or comment to eight one, five three zero,
So you can do that with standard messaging in data rates,
(00:56):
possibly applying. I mentioned the talk about feature on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You can do that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You just download the iHeartRadio app, search AM thirteen under
the zone and then you'll see the red button with
a white microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's the talk back feature.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You push that button, you can leave us a message
up to thirty seconds about some a topic or a
question or whatever. But there is a third way, and
someone has accessed us via.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That third rapp Mike Carge commenting what up, thank you hardball,
and then also from Carlos Salinas saying just wanted to
say love listening to the show. I will be in
Austin for the game on Saturday, first game since Sam
Ellinger's freshman year.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Looking forward to seeing the Horns and action.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Way to go, Carlos. Glad you're going to be able
to make that game for the first time since Sam.
So I'll add to that. There is a woman. I
guess I should still say young lady because she's considerably
younger than me, but she's probably in her mid thirties,
I guess by now. But anyway, she was a She
(02:05):
was a UT graduate in two thousand and eight, and
I know her. Her name is Danielle Doyer and she
worked as a student in turn of whatever in the
media relations department for baseball, so that's where I'd gotten
to know Danielle. And she's coming to town for the
game with I think she has three cousins. She said,
(02:30):
there's four of them coming to the town for the game.
It will be her first Longhorn football game since two
thousand and eight, since she was an underground. First time
to see him in the stadium. She's been in some
Bowl games, but the first time to see it. I
also know daniel because she is a diet in the
wild Dodger fan and there's.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
A little cluster of us. There's a little group of
the group text thing and so okay. And not only that,
I give her credit.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
She's a Dodger fan who has to live in San
Diego and I has to live in Sandio. What I
mean is her job here in San Diego, but she
has she has to put up with a lot of
Padre fans or she likes to call them Madres fans.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So yeah, so it was especially vindicating for her when
the Dodgers beat the Padres in the Division Series and
then of course went on to win the World Series.
But anyway, she's coming to a long worn game for
the first time since two thousand and eight. So it's
good to hear all these people coming. It's military Appreciation weekend.
Last night on Long Horn Weekly, Sark was wearing really
cool green Camo Camo here uh Camo Texas football hoodie.
(03:34):
It's pretty cool. And we had the guy I call
American hero, Nate Boyer with us. And for folks who
don't know Nate's story, it's fascinating. He was a guy
who and I didn't know there was I know a
lot about Nate because I've known him well over the years,
but there was a couple of things I didn't know
about him. He didn't he didn't play football in high school.
(03:54):
I thought i'd remember to hear any He played some baseball,
he played some basketball, he didn't play football. It was
kind of drifting. Didn't know what he was going to
do with his life. So he joins the military. He
was twenty when nine to eleven happened, and it was
still he said, three more years before he joined up enlisted. This,
by the way, is the story's going to tell tonight
(04:15):
along one weekly, because he was there with us last night,
and he enlisted. He was in the Army. He got
in the Special Forces. He became a Green Beret. He
was on a lot of Black Ops operations and things
like that. As a guy who got very very close
to him, our deer and now departed fro him, Bill Little,
(04:35):
who for many years, of course, was the lead liaison
and media relations for a University of Texas athletics, and
we missed Bill.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He is a great guy. Bill got to know Nate
really well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That Bill used to say of Nate to me, you know,
he took a few lives talking about some of the
black ops and stuff, and of course Nate didn't discuss
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He said, we had a job to do. We went
and did our job.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But he comes out of the service in two thousand
and nine, I believe it was as a Green Beret,
a veteran, decorated Bronze star, all of those things, and
doesn't know what he wants to do with his life
except he wants to play college football. Now by now
(05:23):
Nate Boyer's twenty eight years old, but he wants to
play college football.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And he said.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Even he started to think about this while following the
Loghorns during that two thousand and eight season when they
ascended to number one, and of course had there was
the Michael Crabtree game in Texas ended up winning the
Fiesta Bowl and finishing number three in the country. But
he had never lived in Texas. He was from California,
but he had friends from Texas. So he became an
(05:48):
amorate with the Long Warn football program, and he started
doing football training while still in Afghanistan and said he
was like, you know, backpedaling as a d be on
routes through sand and doing all of these drills and things.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So he gets back, he said. He went.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
He took his transcript with him down to the admissions
office at UT He said, I dressed out and I
dressed blues and everything. Walked in and said, am I
able to enroll? And they looked at his GPA, which
he said was like two point nine. It was just
a tad blow a three point zero, and they said,
you probably need to take some junior college classes.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So he did. He went to JUCO.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This is, by the way, this is the closest thing
to a Texas version of Rudy. He goes to JUCO,
he takes classes, then he comes out of that he's
able to enroll. There were some tryouts for walk on positions.
He tries out. He makes it as a walk on,
and like in twenty ten, he's there and never sees
(06:53):
the field. It's the spring ball. He goes to coach Brown.
He says to Mac, I really want to play. I
think I can do this. Been working on this deep
snapping thing, I think. So he tries and he and
he becomes the deep snapper. He snapped on punts and
placements the first year and then just placements the rest
of the time. But he did that and lettered and
(07:16):
did all of those things. He actually got signed to
a free agent deal by the Seattle Seahawks, made the
first cut in twenty fifteen, and then was that go?
And he said, so, then I had to figure out
what's next in my life. And he's become a bit
of a filmmaker, an actor, a philanthropist. He's also the
(07:37):
guy when the whole Colin Kaepernick thing was going down
and all the controversy, Nate Boyer was the intermediary who
stepped in and was a council of sorts to Kaepernick
and kind of go between between that and the NFL
and things of that nature and being a voice or
reason saying both sides can have a point on this thing.
(07:59):
And so anyway, he's been involved in a great many things.
But his story is fascinating and he's a part of it.
You'll hear it tonight on long Ward Weekly at seven
o'clock with Coach Sark. Speaking of Sarc, let's hear a
couple of things from before we get to the break here.
First of all, his opening remarks on getting his team
ready for this matchup with the Florida Gators.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
A couple of things.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
First order business, I want to kick it off by
wishing Angie Kelly and our women's soccer program the best
of luck tonight in the SEC semi finals. A lot
has been made of our entire athletic department moving in
the SEC and for her to get off to the
start that she has with women's soccer has been awesome.
Wish them the best of luck, you know too. Obviously
(08:43):
we've had some roster movement today with John T. Cook
moving on. You know, we have nothing but respect for
he his family. Wish him the best of luck in
his future endeavors. And then moving on to Saturday, pretty
cool day for us. You know, once a year we
get to kind of salute our service and our vets
(09:03):
and what they what they do and have done for
our country to provide the opportunities that that we get
to have, and so excited to.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Be able to do that.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And then we get to welcome in a really good
Florida Gators team. And the more I've watched them here
throughout the week, the more respect I have for the
roster that they have, the coaching that they do, the
nature in which they play the game. These guys are
our big, physical, long team and one that has played
really good football last month and a half or so
(09:33):
of this season. And so think about the two losses
that they've had. One was to Tennessee on the road
in overtime. Who's the number seven team in the CFP
right now, and then they took Georgia to the Wires
tie ball game with about seven minutes to go last week,
Who's number three in the CFP. So it's a very
quality opponent. And on the flip side, I think we've
(09:55):
had a really good week of work, you know, I
think the buye came in a good time for us,
and I appreciated our players kind of intent, the urgency,
and the energy of which they practiced this week. And
I felt it all the way up and through till
today's practice. I mean, they were really flying around, and
that's always a concern as a coach you get into November,
(10:16):
you know, sometimes practice can get a little monotonous, and
I didn't feel that at all this week, and so
that's a good sign for us. And now we got
to put it all together and play again football Saturday
at eleven am.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And then on to a couple of questions, he was
asked you heard him saying that John Tay Cook had
decided to leave the program.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
More on that at the moment, but.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
As an adjunct question to that, Sark was asked, does
he expect to see attrition at a position like wide
receiver where you have plenty of debt And we've talked
about a lot of depth that the wide receiver and
the defensive back positions and even the defensive line as well.
But he was asked if he expects does he has
(11:02):
he come to expect that attrition is a natural thing
to have happen at a position with a lot of
depth like wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I think in this day and age of college football,
some of that is natural. You know, we try to
really pride ourselves on being a heck of a developmental program,
and you know, I think that we have some living
examples on our roster today of guys that maybe weren't
frontline starters in year one or year two and then
developed into really productive players in year three or even
(11:33):
in year four. And so I try not to fall
prey to that that that's just what's going to happen,
but I understand it when.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It does happen, If that makes sense. Yeah, all right,
there's that and then one other thing. He was asked,
how challenging is it as a play caller to try
to get your opposing defense off balance with the play calls.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, you know, I think I think at one it
all ties together. I hate to just become so specific
it's just the past game or the run game. I
think all the stuff that we do needs to tie together.
And then I think you you have to then have
you know, call things that are one complimentary to other plays,
but two sometimes are outside of the box to to
(12:23):
force a defensive coordinator or or coaching staff to kind
of scratch their head. And I think sometimes naturally every
week you have to present new looks, things that aren't
on tape that they have to adjust to that maybe
take away some of the focus.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You know, we only get you know, about.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Five days with our players to get ready for each week,
and so there's only so much you can do that
is new. But hopefully you have a solid foundation of
work that you put in in training. Cant that we
can use multiple formations, motion shifts, personnel groupings to kind
of disguise or hide some of those things. But then
at the end, as a play caller, you want to
(13:04):
call things that put your players in the best position
to be successful. But on the same token, you want
to make sure you're calling things that the defensive coordinator
and their players don't know exactly what's coming. And that's
a fine line because I can come up with a
brand new set of plays in every situation every week,
but I don't know how fair that would be to
our players that they would have the confidence to go
(13:25):
execute those things.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
All Right, there's some from Sark. We'll hear more from
him next hour and also in the four clock hour
from today's media. Zoom up next Inconceivable on a Thursday
afternoon here on sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the Zone.
It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Craig here on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Glad to have you with us as we draw just
ever so slightly closer to the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Cam you said we had somebody.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I mentioned the two ways that the two most let
me put it this way, the most regular ways that
folks have reached out to us, and that was either
on the text line by texting the word Texas followed
by your question or comment to eight one, five three zero,
So you can do that with standard messaging in data rates,
(00:56):
possibly applying. I mentioned the talk about feature on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You can do that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You just download the iHeartRadio app, search AM thirteen under
the zone and then you'll see the red button with
a white microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's the talk back feature.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You push that button, you can leave us a message
up to thirty seconds about some a topic or a
question or whatever. But there is a third way, and
someone has accessed us via.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That third rapp Mike Carge commenting what up, thank you hardball,
and then also from Carlos Salinas saying just wanted to
say love listening to the show. I will be in
Austin for the game on Saturday, first game since Sam
Ellinger's freshman year.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Looking forward to seeing the Horns and action.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Way to go, Carlos. Glad you're going to be able
to make that game for the first time since Sam.
So I'll add to that. There is a woman. I
guess I should still say young lady because she's considerably
younger than me, but she's probably in her mid thirties,
I guess by now. But anyway, she was a She
(02:05):
was a UT graduate in two thousand and eight, and
I know her. Her name is Danielle Doyer and she
worked as a student in turn of whatever in the
media relations department for baseball, so that's where I'd gotten
to know Danielle. And she's coming to town for the
game with I think she has three cousins. She said,
(02:30):
there's four of them coming to the town for the game.
It will be her first Longhorn football game since two
thousand and eight, since she was an underground. First time
to see him in the stadium. She's been in some
Bowl games, but the first time to see it. I
also know daniel because she is a diet in the
wild Dodger fan and there's.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
A little cluster of us. There's a little group of
the group text thing and so okay. And not only that,
I give her credit.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
She's a Dodger fan who has to live in San
Diego and I has to live in Sandio. What I
mean is her job here in San Diego, but she
has she has to put up with a lot of
Padre fans or she likes to call them Madres fans.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So yeah, so it was especially vindicating for her when
the Dodgers beat the Padres in the Division Series and
then of course went on to win the World Series.
But anyway, she's coming to a long worn game for
the first time since two thousand and eight. So it's
good to hear all these people coming. It's military Appreciation weekend.
Last night on Long Horn Weekly, Sark was wearing really
cool green Camo Camo here uh Camo Texas football hoodie.
(03:34):
It's pretty cool. And we had the guy I call
American hero, Nate Boyer with us. And for folks who
don't know Nate's story, it's fascinating. He was a guy
who and I didn't know there was I know a
lot about Nate because I've known him well over the years,
but there was a couple of things I didn't know
about him. He didn't he didn't play football in high school.
(03:54):
I thought i'd remember to hear any He played some baseball,
he played some basketball, he didn't play football. It was
kind of drifting. Didn't know what he was going to
do with his life. So he joins the military. He
was twenty when nine to eleven happened, and it was
still he said, three more years before he joined up enlisted. This,
by the way, is the story's going to tell tonight
(04:15):
along one weekly, because he was there with us last night,
and he enlisted. He was in the Army. He got
in the Special Forces. He became a Green Beret. He
was on a lot of Black Ops operations and things
like that. As a guy who got very very close
to him, our deer and now departed fro him, Bill Little,
(04:35):
who for many years, of course, was the lead liaison
and media relations for a University of Texas athletics, and
we missed Bill.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He is a great guy. Bill got to know Nate
really well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That Bill used to say of Nate to me, you know,
he took a few lives talking about some of the
black ops and stuff, and of course Nate didn't discuss
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He said, we had a job to do. We went
and did our job.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But he comes out of the service in two thousand
and nine, I believe it was as a Green Beret,
a veteran, decorated Bronze star, all of those things, and
doesn't know what he wants to do with his life
except he wants to play college football. Now by now
(05:23):
Nate Boyer's twenty eight years old, but he wants to
play college football.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And he said.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Even he started to think about this while following the
Loghorns during that two thousand and eight season when they
ascended to number one, and of course had there was
the Michael Crabtree game in Texas ended up winning the
Fiesta Bowl and finishing number three in the country. But
he had never lived in Texas. He was from California,
but he had friends from Texas. So he became an
(05:48):
amorate with the Long Warn football program, and he started
doing football training while still in Afghanistan and said he
was like, you know, backpedaling as a d be on
routes through sand and doing all of these drills and things.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So he gets back, he said. He went.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
He took his transcript with him down to the admissions
office at UT He said, I dressed out and I
dressed blues and everything. Walked in and said, am I
able to enroll? And they looked at his GPA, which
he said was like two point nine. It was just
a tad blow a three point zero, and they said,
you probably need to take some junior college classes.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So he did. He went to JUCO.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This is, by the way, this is the closest thing
to a Texas version of Rudy. He goes to JUCO,
he takes classes, then he comes out of that he's
able to enroll. There were some tryouts for walk on positions.
He tries out. He makes it as a walk on,
and like in twenty ten, he's there and never sees
(06:53):
the field. It's the spring ball. He goes to coach Brown.
He says to Mac, I really want to play. I
think I can do this. Been working on this deep
snapping thing, I think. So he tries and he and
he becomes the deep snapper. He snapped on punts and
placements the first year and then just placements the rest
of the time. But he did that and lettered and
(07:16):
did all of those things. He actually got signed to
a free agent deal by the Seattle Seahawks, made the
first cut in twenty fifteen, and then was that go?
And he said, so, then I had to figure out
what's next in my life. And he's become a bit
of a filmmaker, an actor, a philanthropist. He's also the
(07:37):
guy when the whole Colin Kaepernick thing was going down
and all the controversy, Nate Boyer was the intermediary who
stepped in and was a council of sorts to Kaepernick
and kind of go between between that and the NFL
and things of that nature and being a voice or
reason saying both sides can have a point on this thing.
(07:59):
And so anyway, he's been involved in a great many things.
But his story is fascinating and he's a part of it.
You'll hear it tonight on long Ward Weekly at seven
o'clock with Coach Sark. Speaking of Sarc, let's hear a
couple of things from before we get to the break here.
First of all, his opening remarks on getting his team
ready for this matchup with the Florida Gators.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
A couple of things.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
First order business, I want to kick it off by
wishing Angie Kelly and our women's soccer program the best
of luck tonight in the SEC semi finals. A lot
has been made of our entire athletic department moving in
the SEC and for her to get off to the
start that she has with women's soccer has been awesome.
Wish them the best of luck, you know too. Obviously
(08:43):
we've had some roster movement today with John T. Cook
moving on. You know, we have nothing but respect for
he his family. Wish him the best of luck in
his future endeavors. And then moving on to Saturday, pretty
cool day for us. You know, once a year we
get to kind of salute our service and our vets
(09:03):
and what they what they do and have done for
our country to provide the opportunities that that we get
to have, and so excited to.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Be able to do that.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And then we get to welcome in a really good
Florida Gators team. And the more I've watched them here
throughout the week, the more respect I have for the
roster that they have, the coaching that they do, the
nature in which they play the game. These guys are
our big, physical, long team and one that has played
really good football last month and a half or so
(09:33):
of this season. And so think about the two losses
that they've had. One was to Tennessee on the road
in overtime. Who's the number seven team in the CFP
right now, and then they took Georgia to the Wires
tie ball game with about seven minutes to go last week,
Who's number three in the CFP. So it's a very
quality opponent. And on the flip side, I think we've
(09:55):
had a really good week of work, you know, I
think the buye came in a good time for us,
and I appreciated our players kind of intent, the urgency,
and the energy of which they practiced this week. And
I felt it all the way up and through till
today's practice. I mean, they were really flying around, and
that's always a concern as a coach you get into November,
(10:16):
you know, sometimes practice can get a little monotonous, and
I didn't feel that at all this week, and so
that's a good sign for us. And now we got
to put it all together and play again football Saturday
at eleven am.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And then on to a couple of questions, he was
asked you heard him saying that John Tay Cook had
decided to leave the program.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
More on that at the moment, but.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
As an adjunct question to that, Sark was asked, does
he expect to see attrition at a position like wide
receiver where you have plenty of debt And we've talked
about a lot of depth that the wide receiver and
the defensive back positions and even the defensive line as well.
But he was asked if he expects does he has
(11:02):
he come to expect that attrition is a natural thing
to have happen at a position with a lot of
depth like wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I think in this day and age of college football,
some of that is natural. You know, we try to
really pride ourselves on being a heck of a developmental program,
and you know, I think that we have some living
examples on our roster today of guys that maybe weren't
frontline starters in year one or year two and then
developed into really productive players in year three or even
(11:33):
in year four. And so I try not to fall
prey to that that that's just what's going to happen,
but I understand it when.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It does happen, If that makes sense. Yeah, all right,
there's that and then one other thing. He was asked,
how challenging is it as a play caller to try
to get your opposing defense off balance with the play calls.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, you know, I think I think at one it
all ties together. I hate to just become so specific
it's just the past game or the run game. I
think all the stuff that we do needs to tie together.
And then I think you you have to then have
you know, call things that are one complimentary to other plays,
but two sometimes are outside of the box to to
(12:23):
force a defensive coordinator or or coaching staff to kind
of scratch their head. And I think sometimes naturally every
week you have to present new looks, things that aren't
on tape that they have to adjust to that maybe
take away some of the focus.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You know, we only get you know, about.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Five days with our players to get ready for each week,
and so there's only so much you can do that
is new. But hopefully you have a solid foundation of
work that you put in in training. Cant that we
can use multiple formations, motion shifts, personnel groupings to kind
of disguise or hide some of those things. But then
at the end, as a play caller, you want to
(13:04):
call things that put your players in the best position
to be successful. But on the same token, you want
to make sure you're calling things that the defensive coordinator
and their players don't know exactly what's coming. And that's
a fine line because I can come up with a
brand new set of plays in every situation every week,
but I don't know how fair that would be to
our players that they would have the confidence to go
(13:25):
execute those things.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
All Right, there's some from Sark. We'll hear more from
him next hour and also in the four clock hour
from today's media. Zoom up next Inconceivable on a Thursday
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