San Antonio Coaching School

Craig Way visits San Antonio over the weekend to the Coaching School and reveals insight to what coaches all over Texas are preparing for the upcoming season. Hear from Texas Head Coach, Steve Sarkisian, about the importance of attending these events. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
He's a Texas legend, a Hall of Fame broadcaster, the
voice of the Texas Longhorns, and your host of the
Craigway Show. Here he is now Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, it's a brand new week, right, especially if the
first day of your working week is Monday. But toward
that end, we're glad to have you this afternoon. Glad
to have you as always here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred of the Zone. My name is Craig Waite.
Thanks very much for joining us. We're with you each

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and every weekday afternoon, Monday through Friday, two pm to
five pm. Normally. The we part also includes the regular
producer of this program, Cameron D. Parker. The D on
the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as in his favorite
pro football team, which is in Oxnard, California, getting training
camp underway. Cameron is not with them, but the D

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does stand for departed departed Las Vegas. He's on his
way back here and so Cam out today and he
was calling Round Rock Express Action throughout the course of
the weekend here on thirteen under the Zone as they
took on the Las Vegas Aviator. So Cameron's on his

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way back from Vegas. When he's gone. It takes two
very able bodied people to make sure things go smoothly.
One of those is He's or Tishi is our producer
in San Antonio, routing things out to the air and
making sure it goes well. Here comfortably ensconced, the what

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we like referred to as the Fishbowl studio inside the
iHeart Compound is none other than our own antone like him?
Who is here? How are you today? I'm doing really good,
Craig super glad to be here. Yeah. Well, for folks
who don't know, Anton is a musician, now, some might
take issue with that when we find out what instrument

(02:39):
you play? So he doesn't play the triangle, No, he
plays the drums, yes, all of them you play. You
play percussion, So yeah, you're on You're on the drums.
So you guys had a gig this weekend up in
the Metroplex. We did.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, we had a We had a little show at
Armory in deep Elam Friday night with my band Whisk.
We played really good, made a lot of new friends cool,
and ran back home to play again on Sixth Street
last night at about midnight.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
So there was a little shaky getting in this morning.
But you're an iron man. That's good. That's good, all right,
So what how would you when when you're not covering
a lot of other stuff, what or even when you
are covering, what is the style of what you guys play.
We're a you know, we're a girl punk band. I'd

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pretty much call it that.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
You know, we take a lot of influence from stuff
like No Doubt and uh, you know, Hohle and Varuka
Salt and stuff like that. We love the nineties rock.
We're always showing up in the tattered old sweaters and
stuff like that. We've been compared to stuff like, uh,
you know, like Chris Cornell with the girl singer, you know,
his groups and stuff like that, Temple at the Dog.

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So we're we're you know, we're we're a real cool
nineties throwback band. And uh we're playing tonight at the Mohawk,
all right, A yeah, nine pm, it's our headliners show.
Now where's the Mohawks. It's gonna be on Red River. Okay,
it's down there, so you got to really want to
be at that show. But it's one that you're not
going to want to miss. Our tour kickoff. The group
is going to be going up to New York and
back this weekend, so we're really hoping to see.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Some people there. Yeah. So you have a female singer,
did you say we do? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Emily Gritzman. Okay, she's been fronting the band for about
two years. I joined about a year ago. It has
been all well since then.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Cool. Cool. And what other musicians you have in the band.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh, We've got my really good buddy, Frankie Caballero. He
plays lead guitar. I've been playing with Frankie since we were,
you know, in middle school together, ten or twelve years old,
and so it's really great that we've finally been in
this group together. And then on bass we have Alex Corbiel.
He's another really good friend of mine. I just met
a year or two ago. He's rock solid, you know,

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he never falters. He's all about just sticking, sticking to
the root and holding it down.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Man. That's cool. Yeah, you know, we may just before
the summer is out, we may have to get you
in to do the music survey, since you are, after all, musician.
I would love to say, all right, I'd probably do that.
We had markn We the world's strongest band do last Friday,
the music Survey being the twelve questions that revealed not
only about your taste in music, but a little bit

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about your life. And so Mark did an excellent JOBA
this Friday. Our old friend Bill Shooning, the recently retired
voice of the San Antonio Spurs. We were broadcast partners
for ten football and nine basketball seasons doing Longhorn football
and men's basketball, and he just retired as the play

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by play voice of the San Antonio Spurs. He's very
much enjoying retirement. But Bill will be in on Friday,
and so we'll do it on that all right. To
tell you what's coming up on the program today today,
there's a couple of things. First of all, today is
and I don't know where you stand on this an tone.
Today is National Junk Food Day. By the way, are

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you a junk food connoisseur?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, unfortunately so being a musician, options are limited, yeah,
especially those late night options, right yeah. So yeah, So
it is a National Junk Food Day, which will be
part of Inconceivable, which we do each and every afternoon
we do right around two forty.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
So we'll do that coming up. But in addition to
that the annual Texas High School Coaches Association's annual coaching
School and Conventions going on in San Antonio. I was
there throughout the course of the weekend mc their Hall
of Honor Induction banquet, which was great. It's always a

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great event on Saturday night, and then yesterday the event
that I really enjoy and I've been doing it for
over twenty years twenty two years for the Coach Association
is the Division one FBS Coaches Panel discussion. Every Division
one Football Bowl Subdivision coach, you know the FBS, the

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highest level head coach in the state of Texas. It
was all on the stage yesterday, thirteen of them. See
if I can. I'd always try to do this at
the top of my head and see if I can
remember them at the top of my head. You have
Steve Sarkisan obviously from Texas. You have Mike Elco from
Texas A and M. You have Joey McGuire from Texas Tech.
You have Sunny Dykes from TCU. You have Eric Morris

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from North Texas. You have GJ. Kenney from Texas State.
You have Jeff Traylor from UTSA. You have Phil Longo,
who's the new head coach at Sam Houston State or
Sam Houston's they'd like to call it. You have Scotty Walden,
who is the head coach at UTEP. You have trying

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to think, Oh, Willie Fritz, the head coach at Houston.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
You have?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's how many is that?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Now?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's ten? That's ten? So I'm missing three? Oh, Dave Randa,
the head coach at Baylor. Let's see, make sure I
didn't leave any I don't think I left any power
six coaches out. I don't think I did any of that.

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Let me think now, who else? Oh? No, I said, uh,
Scotty Walden of UTAP. I said GJ. Kinney of Texas State.
I said Jeff Traylor of UTSA. I said Eric Morris
of North Texas. I said Willie Fritz of Houston. Let's

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see who else am I leaving out here? And I
don't want to leave anybody, leave anybody else out at
So there's three more? Why am I leaving out? Oh?
RTT Lashley, the head coach at SA Mukay. All right,
so that's eleven, right, I think that's twelve? Is that twelve?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Got one?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
That's why I'm sitting there just trying to Scott Abell
of Rice. There you go. That was that was the
other one. Okay, all right, I just wanted to make
sure I didn't I didn't leave anybody out out of that.
So anyway, thirteen Division one head football coaches in the
state of Texas, and all of them up on the day,

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every one of them up on the stage, and all
of them get a chance to all of them get
an opportunity to speak. And the key thing about this
is there's only an hour set aside for Plus they
have to recognize the Royals Award high School Football Assistant

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Coach of the Year and it was coach from Sinton
High School, So there was that. There was the official
welcome that happened from from the Houston Texans and the
Kinder Texas Bowl. So they did that. So by the
time you get to that, you're really looking at about

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fifty minutes to get equal input from thirteen head football coaches,
and you want them all to speak more than one time, like,
for example, it wouldn't it wouldn't be a good feeling
to ask the head coach of UTEP, who's come all
the way from El Paso to get up there and
have one thing to say. So the goal is to
get and they're there for other reasons and other things

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as well. It is after all, coaching school, and there's
lectures and things of that nature. But you want to
give everybody a chance to speak a couple of times.
So that's my appointed job goal mission every year is
to make sure every one of those thirteen coaches gets
to have a say at least twice during one hour thing.

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And we actually went a little over an hour so
I could get everybody in twice, but it did everybody.
Everybody got a got a chance to visit and and
uh and talk about things. And we talked about in il,
we talked about transfer portal, we talked about relationships with
high school coaches, we talked about recruiting, all of this
and it was a it's a really healthy discussion. One

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of the questions for Steve Sarkisian was about the management
of the program because now one of the common place
positions for college football staffs is what's known as and
called a general manager. Now, a general manager in the
NFL or the NBA or Major League Baseball would be

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somebody who manages a lot of the personnel and the
financial stuff, the GM at the collegiate level, the big
question is what exactly do they do? And Sark gave
a really good answer on what Brandon Harrison their GM does.
It's kind of an amalgam of making sure in this
day and age of NIL and now where you can

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actually schools are paying student athletes to be able to
come to school to do that, to manage that because
there is a cap at twenty and a half million,
So there's that for anybody that can get up to
that cap. And so there's that, and then there's other
operational details as well. So that's an example of one

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of the questions we have. But anyway, when it was done,
I grabbed Sark very briefly and did a quick take
from him on that particular end because we just had
Sark on last week when we were in Atlanta for
SEC Media Days and I had my annual exclusive one
on one sit down with Sark where we go, you know,

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ten to fifteen minutes, we're just talking about his program
and where it is right now on the build up,
plus the issues of NIL and transfer portal and all
of those buzz phrases and buzz terms and words. We
did all that last week but I always like to
get with him at coaching school because it's a completely

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different environment. It's a completely different look to how the
coaches interact because it's on the one end, it's very
much more casual than being at media days, where they're
all in coats and ties and they're addressing questions for
the media and all this. And there are some media
sessions that happen there, but it's mainly lectures and like

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that panel discussion and the whole of honor banquet and
just networking. There is a ton of networking that goes
on at this event every year. So when it was over,
I just grabbed him real quick before he had to
be pulled into the matting crowd, you know, because there
was reception and all that kind of stuff in the
beer was flowing, you know, for for all of those

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who were doing all that kind of stuff. Sark not
into that, but there's but there's others, all the coaches
that were there. So we'll hear from Sark here coming
up in just a few minutes of brief brief words
from him, and obviously obviously we have to talk about
the Open Championship, the Texas X Scottie Scheffler, who is

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not only the number one ranked golfer in the world
right now, but now after winning his fourth Grand Slam
event and winning the third leg of the career Grand Slam,
after winning the Open Championship, which many people commonly refer
to as the British Open in these parts, but it's

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really internationally known as the Open Championship, winning that yesterday,
to go with two Masters titles and this year's PGA,
he now has won four major championships. And there are
some astonishing numbers to reveal, because now in the media
is really really good at doing this, drawing comparisons, always

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drawing comparisons, and they're drawing comparisons with Tiger Woods. But
there are some astonishing, scary comparative numbers between where Scottie
Scheffler is in his career and where Tiger Woods was
at about that time in his career. So we'll get
to that coming up as well. As always, we want

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hear from Sark. We'll also recap the open championship, all
that and more. Autumn Monday, Glad to have you with
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's the Craig Way Show with the Voice of the
Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Here on my Monday afternoon. Glad to have you with us.
I hope your weekend went okay. Apparently Antone Lankoms weekend
went very well. Do your hands get tired when you
played the drums?

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Absolutely? Yeah, I'm a I'm a cramp and fool tell
you the truth. It's mostly it's it's not the hands
as much as it's like the wrists and the elbows
that just start to get wallered down.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah. Do you like work up healthy sweat? Always? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Anytime I play a gig, I bring three shirt three shirts,
one for the load in one for the performance, so
I'm all nice and clean and trim on stage, and
then one immediately afterwards I soaked through. What I haven't
yet worked up to is bringing multiple pairs of pants.
That's that's something that's kind of you know summer months.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Sit on another chair for that. This September, it'll be
on the open date weekend for football for Texas. Lyndon
and I are flying to Las Vegas to see Ringo Star.
Oh very nice. One of the greatest rummers of all time. Nice, Yeah,
he was.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
I saw him when I think I was thirteen years
old at the Moody Theater for a Halloween gig.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
It was Ringo Star and his All Star band.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
It was oh gosh. He had the guitar player from Toto.
I can't remember his name, but that was probably one
of the best shows I've ever seen. Just raw musicianship
on display exactly. And he's still doing it at age
eighty five. That's impressive.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
So that'll be coming him coming up in a few
minutes here. When that talk about a little bit about
the Open Championship, the as I mentioned the Texas High
School Coaches Association's annual coaching school and convention going on
in San Antonio. And San Antonio is a big convention town,

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but this is big even for San Antonio. They'll be
in the neighborhood of twenty thousand coaches in the area
there there in the convention center at all the hotels
will be filled, not to mention the golf courses and
the strip clubs probably too. But anyway, you know all
of that, and there's lots of lectures and things that

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go on. Then they have the exhibit Hall where you
can walk into the exhibit Hall and find anything from
where to buy a first down marker to a new scoreboard,
to an instruction manual to sports drinks. It's an amazing
eye candy look at all of that kind of stuff
for football and for athletic departments. In fact, our good

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friend Tom Barfield, who has helped us out on Texas
broadcast and one of the play by play voices of
Baylor Bear Baseball, just came from you driving up and
I said, it was the Exhibit Hall, the mad House,
a madhouse again, And sure enough he said absolutely, which
you would expect that it was going to be like that.
So in and around that there are these lectures and

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like I said, that panel discussion where we talked with
all thirteen Division one FBS coaches and got their takes
on everything from nil to a roster construction and roster management,
to to transfer portal, to recruiting, to dealing with the NCAA,

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all of these kinds of things. Because it was for
the benefit of the high school coaches who were there,
about nine hundred of those in the room taking that
end so that all went really well. And then what
I usually do is I'll grab a coach start for
a couple of minutes right after his before he's carried
off whisked off into another event. But here's my conversation

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here very briefly about the meaning of this event coaching
school as it relates to the University of Texas program
and the head coach himself, Steve Sarkishen. I know this
means an awful lot to you being a part of
a thing where twenty thousand coaches could be here. What's

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the most important thing for your program in relationship to
these high school coaches.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
I think one of the biggest things, especially in this
day and age, is making sure that they still matter
to us. The high school coach is vitally important to
our program, especially in.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
The state of Texas. Think about this, Craig.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
We've had twenty three players drafted in the last two years,
which is the most in the country. Nineteen of those
players are from the state of Texas. Nineteen kids that
played for these guys in high school football got drafted
by us the last two years and so how critical
are they to the support and what they do and
developing these players is huge for us.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
So I'd have it no other way than to be here.
The other thing, too, is Tuesday more into you're speaking
as well, and I know that means a lot to
you and the staff to be a part of the
instruction here, doesn't It is after all coaching school, Well
it is. It's been great.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
We've had Coach Scott speaking earlier today, we had Coach
Orfe speaking earlier today. And that's having the opportunity to
get in front of them.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
And that was an initiative that.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I tried to put forth a few years back with
Glenn and Joe and that if we're going to have
speakers at this clinic, I want the speakers not just
be from the University of Texas, but Texas universities.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Man. So whether it's it's Sunny and his.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Staff at TCU, or Joey or Coach el Coo at
A and m those guys, we've got great, great universities,
great coaching staff's, great programs in the state of Texas.
Let's make sure we're highlighting those coaches to speak in
front of the high school coaches, and that's occurred, and
I'll get my opportunity Tuesday morning.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Be ready to go. Are your players already texting and stuff?
They're ready to get this thing going. They're ready to go.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
You know, I was saying, you know, Media Days kind
of kicks off football season. When I get here on
a Sunday, it's football season, and so I think vacation's
done for me.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
We're ready to get cranked up here in about a
week and a half. There's that sign post thing I've
been telling you about that I talk about every year
sign posts that we're drawing closer to football season. The
first one of those really is the SEC Football Media Days,
and sark made reference, and then there's this coaching school

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and then of course coming up will be the start
of a brand new football season with practices, with players
reporting and getting all that underway. So conversation there with
Steve Sarkashan, who will be addressing the Coaching Association tomorrow.

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As I mentioned, it was an historic day yesterday at
Port Russian Northern Ireland. Scotti Scheffler, who earlier in the
week kind of laid out the fact that life's truest
fulfillment isn't just winning golf tournaments, because he said that

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only lasts for a few moments or whatever, and said,
if I can't be the best husband and the best
father that I can be while doing this, then I
shouldn't be doing this. So apparently he's doing all that.
Plus he's the number one golfer in the world right now.
He finished at seventeen hunderd two sixty seven yesterday, won

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the Open Championship by four shots. He shot sixty eight
at Royal Port, Russian Northern Ireland yesterday. He's twenty nine
years of age. And I was thinking about this when
he was holding the Claret Jug, which is a really
cool trophy. Probably only the Stanley Cup is a more
impressive trophy, but the Clart JUG's right there with us.

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And like the Stanley Cup, you get to keep it
for one year and then it goes back. Now you
get a replica of it for home, but the actual
Claret Jug itself you only get to keep it for
the one year that you are the reigning champion. But
there he is here. Here's some just absolutely mind numbing

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statistics to keep in mind. He's you know, he's won
the third leg of the career Grand Slam, and he's
done that by the age of twenty nine. He became
just the fourth player in Open Championship history to shoot
sixty eight or better in all four rounds. Colin Morikawa

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four years ago, Henrik Stenson back in twenty sixteen, and
Yespa Pernavic in nineteen ninety four. Right, So that's one
milestone there. He already won the PGA Championship by five
shots this year. He won the Masters last year by
four shots, and he won the Masters in twenty twenty
two by three shots. Before yesterday, no one had ever

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won each of their first four major titles by three
shots or more, and so he did that. He also
became just the third golfer to win multiple majors by
four or more strokes in a single year. Ben Hogan
the only guy to win three of the modern Grand
Slam in one year, the Master, there's the US Open

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and the Open at nineteen fifty three, and by the way,
the only reason that Ben didn't have a chance to
win the PGA to do the Grand slammons because the
PGA was held the same week back in those days
as the Open. He chose to go to the Open
that year and won that, but Ben Hogan and Tiger
Woods the other two who have done that. Scheffler has

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won twenty times worldwide since February twenty twenty two, and
this was the eleventh straight time when he had the
lead after fifty four holes and then ended up winning it.
So Xander Schoffley his quote was, I don't think we
thought the golfing world would see someone's dominant as Tiger

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come through so soon, and here Scott he's sort of
taking that throne of dominance. You can't even say he's
on a run. He's just been killing it for over
two years now. He's a tough man to beat and
when you see his name up on the leaderboard, it
sucks for us. So this from a guy who last
week said celebrating tournament wins doesn't last but for a

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few minutes before it was on to the next one.
He said he loves the work required to be the
best and that he thrives on competition, but in terms
of fulfillment, he said he often questions why he wants
to win so badly when the thrill of winning is fleeting,
But he said he was going to enjoy this one
a little bit more. Shane Lowry, himself, a former Open
champion from Ireland, said I played with him the first

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two days and honestly I thought he was going to
burdy every hole. It was incredible to watch. If Scotty's
feet stayed stable and his swing looked like Adam Scott's,
we'd be talking about him in the same words as
Tiger Woods. His bad shots are really good, that's when
you know he's really good. And then there's one other number,
and this one was just kind of weird and scary.

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Tiger Woods went from winning his first major championship, which
was a Master's, to his fourth major championship, which was
the Open in two thousand. After he won the Masters
in nineteen ninety seven, it was exactly one ninety seven
days in between winning that first major and winning the

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fourth major, Masters and the Open. Scotty Scheffler's first win
was a Masters in twenty twenty two. Is fourth major
the Open yesterday. Do you want to know how many days?
One thousand, one hundred ninety seven, exactly the same amount
of days the Tiger Woods had between. So the next

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thing everybody will look forward to is can he complete
the career Grand Slam We've been saying this about Jordan Spieth,
and Spieth hasn't won a PGA, but he's won a Masters,
a US Open, and an Open championship. Scotty has won
two Masters, an Open championship in a PGA. His next

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opportunity to complete the career grad and slam will be
next June. It'll be the US Open. It'll be next yeah,
at Shinnecock Hills next year. And if you're just looking
for those weird signs on what will be the final
round day that Sunday of the US Open, that's the

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day Scotti Scheffler turns thirty. So I don't know if
all the stars and planets are going to align for
all of that, but it's pretty interesting to reveal some
of that stuff. All right up next, and we'll get
to some other golf stuff throughout the course of the day,
But up next, we have Inconceivable for a Monday. Right here,

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I'm thirteen under the zone inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable, inconceivable us
that I don't think I miss What do you think of? Miss? Inconceivable?
Always when available, When available includes the Junk Food Fast

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Food Update and on National Junk Food day. It's only
right and proper that we have a junk food or
a fast food update for you got a couple here.
One is to let you know that. And I asked
Antonini if he is a fast food junkie. Hell, where
do you stand with Taco Bell man? Taco Bell is

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my first job sixteen years old. I was a Yeah,
I was working the front counter and the deep fryer
at Taco Bell. It was the summer that nacho fries
came out and it was like a war zone. It
was madness. It's madness. Well, they have a new one
dollar limited time treat. The Dulce de Le Chicks sent

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abund the lights, so they got those going on right now.
So that's one thing in case you're up to bad.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
I can promise you that is fried in the same
oil that the taco, the chips, the chicken, all that
the same deal.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Okay, all right, that's good to know. McDonald's is having
an issue right now. It's a shortage of lettuce. I
don't think that's that big of a deal for them.
Now listen for a big mac. You got the to
all bet patty special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on
a sesspency, but it might be the main problem they're

(31:29):
worried about is the snack raph. Yeah, that would do
it because they have the bigger pieces of lettuce on that. Yeah.
So McDonald's has told their franchisees in the United States
to refrain from putting lettuce on the chicken on the
McChicken sandwich so that they can help preserve supplies for
the snack Rap. Customers who are upset about the latt

(31:52):
lettuce the lack of lettuce on the McChicken were offered
McNuggets or a mcdouble burger as a substitute. The restaurant
says the lettuce shortage issues have been resolved in that
shortages of other menu items and ingredients have only been timber.
They hope to get it all back up and running soon.
They expect an increase in turnout for the return of

(32:13):
the snack wrap, but that customers showed up in greater
numbers than anticipated. They said, we've been blown away by
the response after putting the fan favorite item back on
the menu. The snack wrap had left in twenty sixteen,
but they brought it back. Yeah. Now, well now, they
say the unintended consequences of the depleted supplies of lettuce

(32:35):
and other toppings now is about to be resolved, So
there's some good news there. This isn't exactly fast food,
but folks kind of put its cuisine in the in
similar categories. You eat at Applebee's munch, Yeah, I've been
known to go a time or two. Okay, you know
they got that two for twenty five menu. Oh yeah, yeah,
all right, so it's tu entrees and an appetizer, I guess.

(33:01):
So now they're going to include on the entrees chicken
palm or chicken parmesan fetuccini and the big bang and burger,
the burger. I know they'd had a burger thing earlier
with it, but now they say they're going to have
the chicken parm fetuccini as well. So according to All Recipes,

(33:25):
it's a consumer website that examines examines restaurant foods. The combination,
they say works pretty well balances the cidity and creaminess,
so the portion size offers value. Also had enough food
for leftovers, So now you got that going and Applebee's,
which is naice, I guess if you want to go

(33:46):
for that. Okay, now a couple of crazy items here.
One was something that just well, one was just kind
of tragic and unfortunate. This happened in Pakistan. Pakistani police

(34:07):
have made multiple arrests after a couple were allegedly murdered
in broad daylight on the orders of a tribal elder
for having an illicit relationship. That's the latest so called
horror killing in that country, all right. These killings last

(34:28):
month in the southwestern Blakistan province underscores the shocking and
persistent nature of such crimes across parts of Central and
South Asia, where family and community members believe they can
restore honor through bloodshed. At least eleven people have been
arrested since video of the incident went viral on social media.

(34:49):
Graphic video of the killing shows about a dozen men
surrounding several vehicles in a desert. A woman or head
wrapped in a shaw could be seen slowly walking in
front of the vehicles as a man follows are watched
by the group. You are only allowed to fire at me,
nothing else, she can be heard saying, and then the
man raises a pistol and shoots her at close range,

(35:11):
and the woman remains standing after two shots showing me down.
After the third video then captures more gunshots, and then
the bloody bodies of a man and woman later were
revealed side by side. So after that, the man and
women were killed because they were allegedly engaged in a
relationship considered illicit by a local tribal leader, according to
a police report, but horror killings remain disturbingly common in Pakistan,

(35:37):
of hundreds of cases reported each year, though experts believe
the real number is much higher due to underreporting. Now here,
what happened. It's a Coldplay concert last week? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I did we know that. What happened was that the

(35:58):
CEO and co founder of Astronomer was caught on a
kiss cam, Andy Byron, and it was caught on the
kisscam with the Chief People Officer HR position, Kristen Cabot,

(36:20):
head of the human resources, kind of in an embrace there,
and they everybody saw that, and Byron has since resigned.
At least they weren't killed for having an illicit relationship. However,
there's there's a little more context involved here. You're familiar
with Chris Martin of Coldplay? Oh yeah, okay, he's the

(36:43):
front man Chris Martin said they gave a warning. We
said he gave concert goers plenty of notice that they
may appear on their video screens. During the JumboTron song
at their show on Saturday night, he said, we'd like

(37:04):
to say hello to some of you in the crowd.
This is in Wisconsin. How we're going to do that
is we're going to use our cameras and put some
of you on the big screen. Then he started up
as acoustic guitar and he said, so please, if you
haven't done your makeup, do your makeup now. This came
after they had plenty of the way they had plenty
of one. Yeah, yeah, So that's what happened with them.

(37:31):
Astronomers co founder and Chief product Officer Pete the Joy
is now serving as the interim CEO. In a LinkedIn
page on Friday from the company that said, our leaders
are expected to set the standard in both conduct and
accountability for company's board of directors also initiated a formal
investigation into the matter. Coldplay has yet to address exactly

(37:54):
and so other than the reference he made on stage
on Saturday, and lots of memes and stuff like that
has happened as well. So one other item and this
is kind of the stuff you see in weird movies.
Headline car flies through air, landing in barn roof in

(38:15):
Germany seriously injuring two. There's the photo car that went
to the roof of a barn that is in the attic. Man,
you said, well, how does this happen? Well. Police in
northwestern Germany yesterday said several people were injured when a
car veered off the road. It hit a seven year
old boy on a trampoline and went flying into a

(38:37):
barn roof on its side. Police said the car first
collided with a parked vehicle and the town of Bumpti,
broke through a hedge, drove into a garden where it
hit the boy. Then it went over uneven ground and
catapulted into the air, ended up crashing into the roof
of a neighboring barn about ten feet off the ground.
The boy was injured but expected to survive. Driver, an

(39:00):
unidentified forty two year old man, and his wife, was
also injured. Their two sons, eleven and twelve. A thirteen
year old passenger also on board, were able to leave
with minor injury. Dozens of firefighters, a dozen ambulances to
rescue helicopters were among the emergency services deployed in response.
So that is some weird stuff. All right, We'll be

(39:22):
back to wrap up hour number one here on thirteen
under the Zone.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
He's a Texas legend, a Hall of Fame broadcaster, the
voice of the Texas Longhorns, and your host of the
Craigway Show. Here he is now Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Second hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred Zone. Craig Gig with you here on them
on the afternoon. I hope your weekend was okay, RESTful
or at least fulfilling. You know, I find that a
lot of my weekends are not that rest pill But
that is no great revelation. When you're broadcasting ball games

(40:37):
or you know whatever, MC and events and things of
that nature, your rest quotient is going to be smaller,
There's no question about it. But there's an intrinsic fulfillment
that happens through the enjoyment of performing your duties. You know,

(40:58):
whether I'm calling a game or an event. I could
say the same about our studio producer here. Antone like
him who can go through the grind of performing with
his band. And the name of your band again, the
name of the band is Whisk Whisk w H I

(41:19):
s K. He came up with that name. It was
a It was our singer Emily a couple of years ago.
Don't ask her what it means. I don't think she knows.
I don't think it has I think we just wanted
to just kind of catchy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So
AND's drummer for Whisk. And even though you go through
three shirts a gig on that, and and you have

(41:40):
to go without some sleep and stuff like that, there's
a there's some fulfillment. There isn't there in the performance
of your appointed duties. Absolutely there is.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
To me, there is no joy greater than being behind
the kit and just tapping around any style, any gig,
any genre, anytime, any duration.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
There is nothing that is more fulfilling except for maybe
being on the radio. Oh okay, all right, So let
me ask you this question, and this sounds it may
sound completely stupid and silly and innocuous, but do you
have a favorite drum in the kit that you like?
You know what?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Actually that is a great question. I'm not a favorites guy.
I'm really not a favorites guy. I'm very situational. I
would say, you know, my favorite, the favorite drum has
to be the snare drum. It's what leads the whole band.
It's you know, it sets the pace, it sets the ceiling,
the volume ceiling. However, I am quite fond of the

(42:38):
floor tom because it's massive and it makes one sound.
It's the hardest drum on your kit to tune. It's
it's just in the way, no matter what. But it's
it's iconic to the kit.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
You know what I mean. You have to tune it,
you do. Yeah, drums are are a real doozy to tune.
It's like, you know, a guitar.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
To tune a guitar, you have to tune the string
and then you have to tune the strings in synchronicity
with that string.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Sure, a drum is you have so many different points
of control to hit.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
It's you know, some some drums have eight lugs, some
have ten, some have twelve, and that all completely changes
how the head interacts with the shell and the body.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
What do you call the little bitty drum? The ones
up top that you hit, Oh, those are the tom toms.
Those the wing toms. Okay, okay, yeah, I'm learning about
drums here. That's why I said that. You know there's
a but there is a but there is an an
intrinsic enjoyment that you drive from performing your craft. Yes,
that can step in and somewhat be able to take

(43:39):
the place of RESTful sleep. Yes, it's it's spiritually recharging.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Yeah, it may be physically demanding and at times mentally demanding,
financially demanding, but it is very fulfilling.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
You know.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I go through all this and I'm I feel happy.
So yeah, you can't really ask for much more. It's
it's trust me. It's a same way and calling the game,
at least for me. At least for me, I enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
And getting an opportunity to call play by play of
a long warn game or whatever, or a high school
game or whatever it might be. I enjoy it, and
you get you get a good physical or a physiological
sensation of being able to do that and bel in
the moment. Yeah, absolutely on that. Our text line is

(44:26):
open as always, and what you do simply is you
text the word texas follow by your question or comments
to eight one, five to three zero standard messaging and
data rates may apply. I was talking about coaching school
and how there are going to be anywhere from seventeen
thousand to twenty thousand coaches in San Antonio started really yesterday,

(44:52):
but even some in on Saturday because the whole of
honor banquet on Saturday night. I even saw a few
one I went down there. I had to check in
on Friday, So I went in and on Friday, Friday evening,
and they were already some checked in, and then Saturday
was more of an influx there and then it was
just an avalanche yesterday and today. And they all register
with the Texas High School Coach Association to go into

(45:13):
coaching school and that sort of thing. And it's called
coaching school because originally that's exactly what it was. Coaches
would come from all across the state of Texas that
started in the nineteen thirties to hear from other successful coaches,
be they at the collegiate level or at the high
school level, and so they're learning. It has become a

(45:36):
convention in that they also elect their new officers and
things of that agere and there are other issues that
come up before the body of the convention itself, so
there's a lot of things that go into it. And Seapal,
who spent thirty years in public education, said, you know
what's funny. At coaching school, you can walk into a

(45:56):
bar and holler, hay, coach, and see how many heads
turn exactly right. And let me also say this that
Eddie Joseph, who was the great director executive director of
the Coach Association for many years before he retired from that,
he is the foller Gary Joseph who's the head coach

(46:18):
of Katie and he was a he was a great executor.
But he used to say, I call everybody coach because
I know I can get away with that and I
don't have to worry about remembering anybody's name. So if
you say coach, hey, coach, good to see you, booth,
the guys turn around and say that. So, see Pal's right,

(46:39):
you can walk into a bar holler haye, coach. How
many heads? Thirty years ago, he said, coaches used to
wear coaching shorts, school stuff and school stuff in a
lot of places, even the strip clubs, he said, at
least that's what someone told me. Uh sometimes there even
school car you know, they have the logo of the

(47:01):
school outside some of those establishments. He's that's what thirty
years in public education will do. I used to affectionately
refer to coaching school as the world's largest convocation of
bike shorts and heat bomb if you were if you
saw those guys wearing those those shorts, those those uh,
those bike shorts in the day, those polyester bike shorts

(47:26):
used to it with the snaps in the front, and
then like tube socks and sneakers, and they might have
a shirt from their school. That's that's what Seatpalace talking about.
It's clearly changed a lot now. Yes, there are guys
to wearing shorts, a lot of them, and wearing school
logo shirts or shirts like when I'm actually wearing a

(47:46):
thhsse a shirt logo shirt. Today there are those wearing that.
But there are a lot more in fashion these days
than they were back in the day. Uh that somebody
else mentioned that when I was talking about the Open
Championship and there were some unusual things coming, I'm going

(48:08):
to get into that. Among One of those, however, somebody
Paul mentioned was the bury ball that Rory macrory dug up.
Was funny and if you don't know what he's talking
about there. I'll explain it here in a few minutes
after the break, because it's it was. It was a
bizarre thing that happened. There were several that happened at

(48:30):
the Open Championship. And then somebody just texted a few
minutes ago and said, Hey, I just ran an NBA
All Star and former Longhorn Longhorn Jared Allen at the
grocery store. It was my lucky day because he was
able to reach the last milt for me. Nice skygo cass.
Jared's a seven footer with an extensive reach. I could

(48:53):
reach all the way to the back then. And Jarrett
is a prince of a fellow, such a nice guy,
such a great guy. I could just imagine him doing that,
getting some reaching the last cart in the milk that
I could. I could just see him doing that. So
that's good to hear. All Right, coming up, Like I said,

(49:15):
I'm gonna get to some notes from the Open Championship.
Other other than Scottie Scheffler's dominance, which is now taking
him skyrocketing up US. He's the world's number one golfer.
He's going to be in defense of his FedEx Cup
and that's coming up starting next week, so he's gonna

(49:37):
be in defense of that. He's already won two major
championships this year, so he's gonna be tough to beat.
But we'll have some notes about the open that came
out of that that were different than what Scott he
encountered and what he did, so we'll get to that
coming up. Glad to have you with us this afternoon.

(49:58):
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(51:03):
much time if you're trying to contest. We have another contest.
What tickets are we going for today? This week?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
We are going to be giving away a pair of
tickets to see Cohed and Cambria at the Moody Center
on September ninth.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Okay, good, So we're gonna give those away coming up,
and starting tomorrow, we'll give away some copies of Dave
Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. But you're gonna have to be
in the drawing for that. It's not even really a drawing.
That's gonna be a determination thing, and I'll explain it tomorrow,
but you're gonna have to do it by way of

(51:37):
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of Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine. So all right, up
next some other Open Championship notes, and we'll continue here
on this Monday afternoon on thirteen under the Zone.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
of the Longhorns. Craig what follow on social media at
horn Boys.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Always fun to visit with you, Always fun to get
the feedback, and I got plenty of that yesterday there
down in San Antonio at the Coaching Convention. But we
always encourage uh there on on the text line and
you said we had a question from another Texter.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Oh yeah, my dear old dad, Eric like him as
listening in today, which okay, Mary much appreciate.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I think we're friends on Facebook. I think Eric and
I know it might be.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Yeah, he's a contributor for WAI in San Antonio, but anyways,
he he's a big fan of yours and he wanted
me to ask you who your greatest sports broadcasting influences.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Wow, it's a good question. There's actually a couple that
I never met who were no longer with us, and
two that had hands on instruction advice and mentorship from me.
First of all the two that I never got a
chance to meet, one was Kirk Galli, who was the

(53:09):
great broadcaster sports broadcaster for NBC for years. Kirk Galli
had a full, rich life as a broadcaster and other things.
He actually he grew up in Wyoming. He actually played
basketball at the University of Wyoming, and I think he
was part of the team that actually won the NCAA

(53:31):
championship in nineteen forty two, I think it was. But
he went on into broadcasting and then in I think
it was, well, it was after World War Two. He
became the play by play voice of the Boston Red
Sox for like fifteen years. Then he started with NBC,

(53:55):
started working with NBC and also he was well. While
he was with NBC, he did the AFL at the
time and then after the merger, you know AFC games
also with regard to the NFL, but he did the AFL,
but he also did the Rose Bowl, He did the
NCAA basketball tournament, He did the Baseball Game of the

(54:18):
Week and the World Series. He was a man of
multiple talents and so he was the first real broadcast
sports broadcast influence I have. When I was like seven, eight, nine, ten,
that got me really interested in it. Another one would
have been Woody Doram Moho's longtime voice of the North
Carolina Tar Heels when I was growing up, when I

(54:38):
was ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, that sort of thing,
and I grew to really admire and respect him. And
it's funny. I met Woody later when I was working
in Dallas, and great guy. He has since passed, but
his son is Westburham, who's on ACC network and is
a friend and we visit and text one another and

(54:58):
things of that nature. So it's always good is with him.
The other influence that I had was Vin Scully. Now
this has nothing, I won't say nothing, but it's not
related to the fact that I'm a big Dodger fan.
I was a Dodger fan. Was a little kid before
I even knew growing up in North Carolina, who had
never even heard of Vince Scully. I've never heard of
Dodger broadcast. I was just a Dodger fan. But as

(55:20):
I got older and I got a chance to watch
Vin Scully on television, another guy who was very, very
multi talented. A lot of people may not remember the
famous Cowboys NFC Championship game when they lost to the
forty nine Ers. The catch Dwight Clark catch. Vin Scully
called that game for CBS, not Pat Summer All. It
was Vince Cully who called that game. He did the NFL,

(55:44):
and he actually hosted a couple of he hoasted a
game show, he hosted a variety show. But through it
all he was the voice of the first Brooklyn and
then Los Angeles Dodgers for sixty seven years. That's a record.
I don't think that'll ever be matched. Sixty seven years.
I think he's the greatest sports broadcaster of all time.
Some have even theorized that he might be the greatest

(56:06):
broadcast rules. I don't know that to go that far,
because I think about guys like Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow,
you know, great broadcast news journalists, but Vince Kelly held
his own. Obviously. It was I think the greatest sports
broadcaster of all time. So those were two influences on me.
I never met either of those guys. I actually did

(56:27):
meet Vince Cully very briefly in the Dodger Stadium press box,
but that doesn't really count. I mean it wasn't like
you known Nay was just a lot of right just past.
But the two who really influenced and helped me out
an awful lot. One we just lost him about a
month ago. Was my broadcast mentor and teacher at North Texas.
Bill Mercer just lost it at the age of ninety nine.
Bill was a World War Two vet and was a

(56:51):
play by play voice of the Cowboys when they won
their first Super Bowl. He was the first play by
play voice of the Texas Rangers. He did the Chicago
White Sox compley years. For thirty five years, he was
the voice of the Mean Green for North Texas and
I studied under him sports broadcasting and he kind of
took me under wing and gave me a lot of
great advice and a lot of great mentorship. A lot

(57:11):
of folks remembering for World Class Championship Wrestling getting to
know the von Erics. If you've ever seen the movie
The Iron Claw, Oh, the announcer, that's Bill Mercy. It's
a pattern after him. Okay, okay, okay, that's that's him,
modeled after Bill, because he did. He was the announcer
for World Class champions Wrestling all those years with the
VN Erics and the Free Birds and all of those

(57:31):
guys as well. And then the other was my boss
for seven years and still the current play by play
voice of the Dallas Cowboys, Bradham and who was a
friend and we get him on the show every year
and we'll have him on during training camp, I guess.
But Brad was my boss for seven years when I
worked at KRLD, so I learned a lot from him
as well. So those were kind of the broadcasting influences,

(57:52):
if you will, that I had, Yeah, yeah, and it
you know, it helps shape a person's career and things
like that. And then there were other people Bud meet
along the way that you became friends with. Ron Franklin
of course had been a former voice of Longhorns and
then on the ESPN good friend and uh that you know,
learned a lot from him, And there were others as well,

(58:12):
but those were the main ones, the main influences, uh
that that kind of helped me along the way. So
there were some there were some unusual things that came
out of the Open Championship other than and maybe the
most usual and not unusual element with Scotty Scheffler winning

(58:34):
since he's been winning so much lately. But there were
other things that happened as well. First of all, from
the performance side, we had we had somebody uh text
in about what happened to Rory McElroy. I don't know
if you saw it. He hit a ball into the
rough and I forgot what hold is. I want to

(58:55):
say it was seven, but I can't remember for sure.
And he go over. He goes over to hit the
ball out of the rough, and he does so successfully.
He hacks it out of the ball flies out, but
as it flies out, another golf ball flies up in
the air and lands right by me. Everybody looked at that, like,
did he just hit the ball backward? I saw that, Yeah,
I saw that. I saw that clip. Yeah, yeah, that

(59:16):
was crazy. Yeah. It was another ball that was buried
and on contact through his downswing and follow through. Not
only did he hit his own ball that he was
trying to hit and correctly hit to knock out of there,
but that other ball that was buried in there whacked
out and went behind him on that. There's no penalty

(59:37):
for anything like that. He played his ball and it
got out, but that was bizarre. He said he never
had anything like that. Happen before his life. I don't think.
I don't know if anybody's ever had that on purpose,
you know, on accident, if they weren't trying to trick
shot or something. To be such a good golfer, you
can hit two balls without even trying, no kidding. Normally,

(59:57):
if you hear about a guy hitting the ball, license
because he double hit, which can happen. It's rare, but
it can. It can happen. I always remember the nineteen
eighty five US Open forty years ago. TC Chin was leading,
but he tried to hack it out of some rough
and it hit his club faces came out and then

(01:00:19):
it caught the shaft. Well, that's a penalty if you
double hit. And I always remember the steam golf broadcaster
Peter Allis, O my wood, he's hit it twice and
he had and it was a two stroke penalty, and
it'll kind of take him out of contention. Then he
had Bryson to Shambo. Of course, to Shambo won a

(01:00:40):
US Open last year, and he's an annual contender. Pretty
polarizing figure since he's you know, been on the live
golf tour. And so he arrives at Royal Port Rush
and shoots a seventy eight in the first round. Horrid

(01:01:01):
that included a whiff. Now, duffers like me and my
sons when we were on vacation, you know, we whiff.
I didn't this time, but both both both of my
sons and my son in law all whiffed at one
point trying to hit a ball out of the rough
playing down at Myrtle Beach. You know, every day, duffers,

(01:01:27):
they might whiff. Not PGA touring pros right especially one
is high level of bryce in the shambo he did
and shot seventy eight in the first round, and he thought,
oh gosh, what a horrid open for him. He's done.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
He followed with three straight rounds under par, including a
sixty four yesterday, and it put him in the top
ten at a major championship for the seventh time in
his past eleven starts. He said, always told I always
told you guys, I like it when it's fair conditions.
After the first Roundty shot seventy eight, he was tied

(01:02:04):
tied for one hundred and forty fourth. He said, I
still have to crack the code when it's raining and windy.
He said it was a fun three days. It was
early crowd of the way I turned it around and
gave himself actually some hope and with his finish, Deshamba
likely solidifies his spot on the US Ryder Cup team
heading into this week to Shamba, a two time Open winner,

(01:02:27):
fifth in points behind Russell Henley, Xander Schoffley, JJ Spond
and Scottie Scheffler. The top six players in the standings
automatically qualify for the team that will face the Europeans
at Beth Page Black in September. As the captain, Keegan
Bradley will select the remaining six players and he could
name himself as a playing captain as well. That's possible.

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Deshambo said his experience playing team golf on LIV has
taught him that the best approach to being in a
team setting is to let the individual be the best
individual that could possibly be had to the team. That's it,
he said, don't try to put someone in a bubble
and saying you need to do this, you need to
do that. So that was unusual that it happened to Deshambo.

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You had Sergio Garcia, who is a major champion himself,
and he played most of his final round yesterday without
his driver and s, and he said why why would
he do forget it? No, on the second hole, his

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t shot went awry and he slammed it into the
ground of frustration and broke it in half. Yeah, that
would do it. Yeah, I had it happened to be
one time with a driver. Not out of frustration. I
just hit a ball, and I actually hit the ball
pretty well. When I did it snapped the driver head
right off. They were rented clubs. I was in San

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Diego one time. It was a rented set of clubs. Anyway,
So players are not allowed to replace a club that
is broken in anger during a round. That's pretty fair, yes,
So what happens. He ended up making a birdie on
that par five second hole. After that, had five birdies

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on the day, two bogies. He shot sixty eight, his
only sub seventy round of the week, finished at minus three.
So maybe snapping the driver in two, maybe maybe that's
a good thing. I don't know it was good, you know,
Whether it was or not, I don't know. But anyway,
so that happened. And then there's the story. And this

(01:04:37):
didn't have anything to do so much with the open,
except that he talked about it. This was what happened
to Wyndham Clark at the US Open. You see, Wyndham
Clark has been banned from Oakmont Country Club, where they
played the US Open for damaging his locker. Oh yeah,

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he he got mad and smashed up his locker and
as a result of that, Oakmont had decided to ban him.

(01:05:21):
In a letter sent to Oakmont Country Club members earlier
this week, the club president John Lynch said the club
is ban Clark after multiple discussions with the United States
Golf Association and the club's board. Oakmont's not scheduled to
host the Open again until twenty thirty three. That would
be the final year as ten year exemption for winning
the Open back in twenty twenty three at the Los

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Angeles Country Club. He's thirty one.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
He could be permitted to return to Oakmont if he
pays for damages, makes a quotations meaningful contribution to a
charity selected by the club's board, and undergoes counseling and
or anger management therapy. According to the letter, well, Wndam

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Clark is willing to step up and do the right thing.
He said, I did something awful. I'm really sorry. For it.
Hopefully they have it in their heart to forgive me,
and maybe in the future I'll be able to play there.
But they said, well, he was asked, you know what's
gonna what will happen with Regred. He goes, that's up
to them. I really don't know. I would hope so
it's a fantastic course in place, but that is up

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to them. He said. We reached out and we wanted
to do that. Obviously, it's a no brainer to pay
for the damages. That was a given. Then, obviously all
the apologies, and I want to give back to the
community because I heard a great place in Pittsburgh, so
I wanted to do anything I can to show them
that what happened there was not a reflection of who
I am and won't happen again. But I want to

(01:06:52):
show them who I really am with the apology and
the things I'm going to do. He was kind of
surprised that the punishment was detailed in a letter to
the members of the club. He said, we were hoping
it was going to be private. I'll just leave it
at that, but it is important to note that this
is not the only time he's been criticized for poor

(01:07:12):
en course behavior. At the PGA, he threw his driver
and damaged a sign near the tea box that featured
one of his most prominent sponsors, so he's had to
pay for that. He has been open about addressing his
mental health and temper in the past. Quote been pretty

(01:07:33):
open about my mental shift and changed to get better.
And I did that in twenty three and twenty four.
Then having a tough year in all the expectations and
just frustration all coming together, and I did two stupid things.
But one thing that it did do was wake me
up and get me back into the person I know
I am in the person I want to be. Hope
these things don't reflect because I don't think they reflect
on who I am. And I'm going to forward that

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and I'm going forward that that stuff is not going
to happen again. How many times do you need to
do it to say that's not me.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Maybe it was just the band that kind of got
him shaken up. You know, he thinks he can keep
getting away with it as long as they keep letting him. Yeah,
I know, yeah, it's like, all right, that's not me.
I smashed a sign.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
That's not me. I smashed a locker, but that's not
who I am. Okay, he has slipped the twenty eighth
in the official World Golf Ranking. He recorded his best
finish in a major this past weekend since winning the
US Open in twenty twenty three. It was his second
top ten finish in twenty starts on tour this season.
So he's got to get his temper under control, pay

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some restitution, give you a little community service or something
like that, and then maybe he'll be back in good graces.
All right, We've got more coming up as we continue
here on thirteen under the Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
We're back. It's The Craig Way Show with Hall of
Fame broadcaster and voice of the Texas Longhearts, Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I'm glad have someone texting this in because I was
all set to say this, and I didn't say it
when I when I was describing the broadcast career of
Kirk Galli, the great multi talented NBC broadcaster, the old
Wyoming Cowboys, he was doing in the uh, you know,

(01:09:32):
and that he did Major League baseball in the NFL
and college football and college basketball, did all of that
sort of stuff. The other thing he did, and somebody
reminded me on the text line. I planned to mention
this and then just flat forgot about it. He was
host of an outdoors program on ABC called The American Sportsman,

(01:09:53):
and it was really weird because it was one of
the few times that a renowned Ork sports broadcaster was
allowed to work on two networks. Now it happens pretty
regularly these days with things, but back then it was
highly unusual. But he was kind of grandfathered in because

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I think he started doing The American Sportsman when the
AFL games were on ABC back in the early sixties,
like sixty two and then and then of course he
went to NBC to do the AFL in nineteen sixty
six and to do the Major League Baseball Game of
the Week and all of that, but he was allowed

(01:10:36):
to continue doing The American Sportsman, and it was an
outdoor you know, basically hunting and fishing show, but it
was more than just that. He did it with celebrities
and it was all shot on film. And one of
his regular companions was Ted Williams, the Great Baseball Player,
because Ted had played for the Red Sox during the

(01:10:58):
time when Kirk Gatty was the by play voice from
fifty one to sixty six and and and so it was.
It was a really good outdoor show. And so he
he did that, and uh here's here's somebody Uh did
very nice compliments saying, you know what's when I was
talking about me, well, uh, fulfilling? What it what it

(01:11:22):
is that is fulfilling for us? I mentioned, as you know,
when Antone was in here, and we think Antony, he's
now off to do perform his other duties. He has
lots of duties here in the building. But I wanted
him to hang out a little bit and let folks
get to know him a little more. And talked about

(01:11:43):
him playing drums and how it was kind of fulfilling
for him, like calling a game might be so for
me and somebody's and someone very nice texting, you know
what's fulfilling? Uh hearing your son school the voice of
the Long Chords on drums, great job and tone mad
respect Greg, Thank you Eric, Like I appreciate that he

(01:12:04):
was school with me on drug. I was always fascinated
by drums. Never had the time to learn to play them,
but I was always fascinated by them. And yeah, yeah,
it was good. It was good hearing him tell me
all about the drums and what works. So I have
mad respect for him, Eric, no doubt about it. With

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regard to the coaching school, and I mentioned about wearing
the polos and things of that nature, somebody said.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
They it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Seatpal said they sell a lot of those pop bellied
coaching shirts too. You mean the Triple Axcess. Uh, they
got those. If you go in the if you go
in the exhibit hall, and for the layman, let me
tell you this, it's it's a special sight to see

(01:12:58):
to go into that exhibit bit a haul during coaching
school in the convention, and you don't have to be
a registered coach or even an exhibit or anything like
that to go into it. I do think there is
an admission charge if you're just walking in. It's it's
pretty nominal, but it is a site when you walk
in there and there's these giant screens with stuff going

(01:13:20):
on and highlight videos and things like that, because it's
somebody selling either giant screens or highlight videos. And then
there's basketball goals at different time, there's clinic stuff going on,
there's demonstration. Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine has a huge
setup in there. Greg Tepper and Ashley Pickell and Courtney

(01:13:41):
Mallory and all the rest of that crew there. They're
doing their show live, the Texas Football Today show that
they do, and TEP is going to be on the
show with us tomorrow, and it reminds me, and I'm
gonna do this more than one so I'm going to
remind you of it because I know I'm going to

(01:14:01):
get a lot of questions about this, so I think
it's pretty safe to let you know this now. There's
been some stuff in the works here. As you know,
I've been doing that high School Scoreboard Live show every
year since nineteen ninety six, with the exception of one

(01:14:23):
three year period from two thousand and one through two
thousand and three after I'd moved down here and I
just moved over to the play by play of the Longhorns,
and I didn't feel I could do it at the time,
and I didn't do it for three years, but I
came back in two thousand and four and I've been
back ever since doing it. And I was there when
it started, when Jeff Watt's Productions used to produce it

(01:14:46):
for then Fox Sports Southwest back in nineteen ninety six.
And that show is carried all the way through through
the various incarnations of Fox Sports Southwest to Ballet Sports
Southwest to fan Duel Sports Southwest. I think it's a
pretty safe bet to tell you that that Scoreboard show

(01:15:09):
has now run its course and will not be back
on this fall. And I had a lot of people
say to me, you know, coach, he goes. I really
enjoyed watching all that, and I appreciated all that, But
we kind of all solved the incoming, those of us
who were involved in the show, Greg Tepper and Aaron
Hartigan and our producer Patrick mcdrovsky. Because of the ever
changing ownership and management of that regional sports network that

(01:15:34):
used to have the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Mavericks
and the Dallas Stars, that Fan Duel Sports Southwest, it's
operated by a company out in California, and through a
series of reorganizations, and there was a bankruptcy again through
the Diamond Sports, which was owned the parent company being
Sinclair Broadcasting, which all owns a number of television stations

(01:15:55):
across the country, including KI here in town. We finished
the season, but it's been crickets. No word from anyone
there all the way. Here we are at the end
of July about the return of a scoreboard show or
doing games. And then it was just announced a few
weeks ago that Victory Sports Plus has landed the contract

(01:16:19):
for televising and producing the Texas high school football state Championships.
And I think that's a really good thing. Now, for
those who say, well, that's an app, yes it is,
it is. But here's the first here's the first thing
you need to know about that app. It's available all
across the state of Texas. Whereas when we were on
Ballet Sports Southwest or you know, fan Duel, you know

(01:16:42):
it was only available in about thirty percent of the
state because various cable and satellite companies didn't carry it.
That was the first thing. Here's the other benefit. It's free,
absolutely free. Anybody that's watched the Texas Stars know that
knows that absolutely free. So if you've got streaming devices,

(01:17:03):
and you've heard me talk about a friend Tom McKay
and Audio Visual Consultations, they're really good at helping people
work their streaming and devices into their television. Like if
you have Roku or some other ways to bring streaming
services in, you'll be able to watch the state championships.
They're on your television for free, and Victory Sports Plus
has asked me to be a part of that, and

(01:17:24):
I will be. Obviously, that won't have anything to do
with what I do here on a daily basis two
to five or broadcasting the Texas Long Corn Games. It's
just doing the high school state championships like I've done
for the last thirty years, and their management approached me
and asked me if I would be a part of that.
They're actually also going to do a game of the

(01:17:44):
Week on Fridays, and on some of those games I
will appear. Obviously I won't when I have to travel
for long Corn games, but it'll I'll be on some
of those games, and I'll be the lead voice on
the state championship telecast most of those anyway. So anyway,
that's part of the changing face of what's going on

(01:18:05):
with entertainment options and sports broadcasting and telecasting. So I
just wanted to get that out of the way and
let you know about that, and I'll remind people of
it because I know we'll get more questions about it
as time goes forward. All Right, we'll be back to
wrap up Hower number two. I'm thirteen under the Zone,
all right, coming up on the end of our number two.

(01:18:27):
And on that text line, by the way, see Powell
remembered Bess Parker, remember him Daniel Boom. He also played
Davy Crockett too, being on American Sports with with Kurt
GALTI going bear hunting and somebody thanks for the information

(01:18:50):
on what will happened on my high school friend. They said,
do you keep up with Jeff Howe? Do you have time?
I do, and I see Jeff Saw. I'm at a
A S. He's media days and Saw I'm there at
coaching school as well. Jeff and I are stay in touch,
the former co host, I have there, all right, we
have one more hour of the program to go right
here on thirteen hundred the Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame broadcasting Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Though I didn't find a line one of the program
here on sports radio, I am thirteen hunder this, so
I'm glad to have you with us. Craig wait with
you here on this Monday afternoon. He's orts our producer.
They're in the home studio in San Antonio and here
in Austin, and our thanks as well to our erstwhile

(01:20:00):
well in studio producer here and that being antone like him,
so glad to have him involved in that as well.
All Right, So a couple of things I wanted to
get to, and one of those is I have a
feeling that if you're a Cowboys fan, it did not

(01:20:20):
escape your notice. If you're not a Cowboys fan, you
might have noticed it, or you might not have been.
It probably doesn't matter anyway, but there are a lot
of Cowboys fans in this town, in this state as well.
And in case you did not notice, the Dallas Cowboys

(01:20:41):
did report the training camp yesterday. They are in Oxnard, California.
Whereas Jerry Jones used to say Oxnard, Oxnard, California. They
if you wondered about the Cowboys and their their training
camp destinations for years when they first started, I think
the very first two maybe were in Pendleton, Oregon, in

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the first couple of years in the NFL. Then they
moved the Thousand Oaks, California, maybe nineteen sixty three, and
they were there from nineteen sixty three through eighty nine,
and it was kind of an idyllic little place to
go to. It was just kind of tucked in in
the Caneo Valley right there on the campus of cal

(01:21:27):
Lutheran University. It was a really a nice place to
do it. I covered a couple of Cowboys training camps
there in the late eighties when it was first starting
out in the business, and it was working for KRLD
and Dallas, and we had this training camp with six
weeks out there. So the way that it would work
is Chuck Krugerstein was on our staff, I think, would

(01:21:48):
go out for the first two weeks, and then Brad
Scham would be out there for the middle two weeks,
and then I would go for the last two weeks,
which I enjoyed because that's when the exhibition games would start.
They would have a couple of preseason games, like one
would be on the West Coast, either in San Diego
or in Los Angeles or Anaheim one year when they

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played the Rams. One year it was in Kansas City
against the Chiefs. But and then they flew back to California.
But it was a nice place, you know, and he
lived in the dorms and stuff there, and the players
lived in the dorms there. There was this story about
and I've told this story before, but when Tech Shram
was the president general manager and he came out of

(01:22:33):
the dining hall one morning and he had on shorts
and a T shirt and like jogging shoes and he
took off jogging. And I asked Dave PELLETIERU at the
time was the assistant media relations director for the Cowboys.

(01:22:54):
I said, where's Tech off to? He goes, Oh, it's
his usual true routine, he said. He has breakfast and
he runs up and there's this hill, kind of a
you know, pretty good sized hill, a couple hundred feet
up or whatever. He said. He runs up to the
top of the hill, pukes, and then comes back down.
He's ready to get his day going. So, but the

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temperatures were always like in the mid eighties and nice
breezes blowing and stuff like that. And they would have
the two a day practices and he'd walk down to
the dining hall and I mentioned that's where I saw
one time in there John Wooden doing a basketball camp.
It was great. They were there through the first year
that Jimmy Johnson was the head coach and Jerry Jones

(01:23:37):
in charge then they moved to to Austin, and they
were here in Austin for several years at Saint Edward's,
and then it kind of mixed in an amalgam of
wichital Falls back to Austin, San Antonio, and then they
kind of mixed in California with Dallas Fort Worth and

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so they pretty much do the whole front heavy first
half or first two thirds of camp in Oxnard. Now
they moved a few miles up the coast up the
Ventura Freeway. I guess it would be or just to
move up the up the highway, up the one oh one.
I guess it is up to Oxnard, which is where
the Raiders train for years and years. They pretty much

(01:24:23):
just kind of taken over the site where the Raiders
did the players live in. I think it's a Marriott
residence in kind of apartment type situation, uh there when
they're in training camp out there in California.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
And a lot of the local media, certainly from Dallas
Fort Worth, has followed them out there. Uh, and it's
chronicling uh their adventures. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Head coach Mike Schottenheimer, the new head coach and team
owner and president Jerry Jones have kind of the state
of the Team address where Jerry gets up there and
they talk in some great glowing you might say terms
about what their expectations are and what they think they

(01:25:09):
can do is a team. But this year, this year,
they've been beaten to the punch in that category by
the Pro Bowl guard Tyler Smith. When the team arrived
yesterday in Oxnard and they got off their buses, they
came in from the airport, I think they flying a

(01:25:30):
burbank on the north side, and then they flapped there
and somebody in a media gathering there's Tyler Smith, and
somebody asked, Tyler, what what are the realistic expectations for
this football team this year? It is quote super Bowl champions.
It's always the expectation. And we know the Cowboys have

(01:25:52):
not played in the Super Bowl in thirty years now.
It's going on third. This will be This twenty twenty
five season will be the mark thirty years since their
last Super Bowl season nineteen ninety five. That's the last
time not only that they won a Super Bowl, it's

(01:26:13):
the last time that they played in the Super Bowl.
Not only is it the last time they played in
the Super Bowl, it's also the last time they even
advanced as far as the NFC Championship game. I haven't
even been in the NFC Championship since that nineteen ninety
five NFC Championship game against the Packers. I was actually

(01:26:34):
at that game. That was one year where and I was,
you know, obviously working in Dallas at the time. So
we covered the Cowboys pretty extensively and did the talk shows,
and even our news radio operation went out to Los
Angeles before they were in Super Bowl twenty seven and
did the whole afternoon news block out there in this

(01:27:00):
Ward's casting. The talk shot there and they did the
same thing. And back to the Craig Way Show.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
Connect with Craig through the text line by text Team
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Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
I had.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Recorded that we had a little drop out there right
before the break, So, uh, just to finish what I
was saying about the Cowboys, because today was the first day,
first full day of training camp. They reported yesterday, and

(01:27:55):
maybe the timing worked out. At the moment that I
read the quote from Tyler's Smith, the Cowboys guard that
their expectation was the Super Bowl. Maybe it was the
timing off of that that sent the computer out of
whack and disconnected us briefly, something something Freudian perhaps there.

(01:28:17):
But just to finish what he was saying is, you know,
here are the Cowboys who have not reached, as I mentioned,
an NFC championship game in thirty years, nineteen ninety five,
the last time, and now now the Cowboys were on
the clock as having the longest drought in the NFC

(01:28:41):
after the Commanders made it last year and the Lions
made it the year before, whereas the Cowboys went seven
to ten last year. Now they have a rookie head
coach and Brian Schottenneimer replacing Mike McCarthy. So when they
asked Tyler Smith, what is the realistic goal? And he
said the Super Bowl, super Bowl champions that's always the expectations,

(01:29:04):
and a lot of the assemble media just kind of
looked at him and he said, I think it's a
realistic Oh yeah, And then somebody said why and his
quote was because we win to Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Why can't we win? Do you think it's unrealistic? That's
that like when did you stop beating your wife? Question?
Do you think it's unrealistic? Unrealistic, yes, impossible, of course
not interesting. Turnarounds happen quite often in all of pro sports,

(01:29:41):
including the NFL, but the NFL is probably the closest
thing to the occham's raisor the expected thing, the most
obvious answer being the simplest one, the most reasonable one,
and that would be that they're not going to make it,
but we'll see you. Before they were last year, they

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had three straight twelve and five seasons, but they lost
twice to the forty nine ers and lost once to
the Packers. They did pick up George Pickens from the
Steelers in that trade. Alongside to go with Ceedee Lamb,
they added linebackers Kenneth Murray Junior and Jack Sanborn. They
added defensive tackle Solomon Thomas and pass rusher Dante Fowler Junior.

(01:30:24):
And free agency, they acquired former first round pick Kayii
alam Elam from Buffalo Dak Prescott is healthy. He missed
nine games last year because that what's called the hamstring evulsion.
It just sounds bad, but he has been cleared for
full activities in camp and when Prescott has played in

(01:30:47):
more than half of the team's games the Cowboys have
made the playoffs in five of seven years. That number
alone has me believing that the Cowboys drought is not
even primarily, let alone exclusively, It's not even primarily on

(01:31:09):
Dak Prescott's shoulders as the quarterback. Yeah, you've got to
be a playmaker and getting over the hump to get
to the NFC Championship. Yes, that falls on the quarterback
shoulders as well, but not all of it, but it's
a big part of it. The team that I root
for realized it was not going to be able to

(01:31:32):
win a super Bowl with the quarterback they had they had.
You know, the Rams made the trade, they had Jared Goff.
They got to a Super Bowl with GoF lost to
New England, but they felt they weren't going to win
unless they made the deal. And he made the deal
with the Lions get Matthew Stafford and they won a
super Bowl. Goff has gotten close with Detroit, but they

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hadn't gotten there yet. Anyway, the Cowboys still feel pretty
pretty confident that they can do some damage on that.
So this afternoon, Jerry Jones is doing that state of
the Team address thing. So there's going to be a

(01:32:13):
couple of things that he's going to be asked about.
The whole expectation of the Super Bowl thing that comes
up every year. So sure, yeah, he'll be asked about that.
That's kind of old news though. I mean, we know
it's a thirty year drought now, and we know he
says he's all in and that's the expectation. We understand
all that, that's his belief on that. But as folks

(01:32:37):
like to say, the proof is in the pudding. When
does he plan to get the contract done with Micah Parsons?
Does he feel comfortable with what they have at running
back right now? And if he says he does, the
easy follow up is why because they don't really have

(01:32:59):
the pin is there that you would expect. But those
are things that he'll discuss this certainly this afternoon and
we'll have some comments on that tomorrow. Okay. As I mentioned,
the Longhorns begin practice next week and so it's it's
coming down to the start of camp. The first Texas game,

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as we know, is August thirtieth in Columbus at Ohio State, which,
by the way, the Big Ten preseason media poll came
out as voted on by the media. There their their
media days have been going on, and the accs are

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going on. The SEC, of course is done, and the
Big Twelve is done. But in the Big Ten media poll,
Penn State was picked to win the conference, not Ohio State,
barely over Ohio State, but they were picked the head
in the balloting over Ohio State just by a very

(01:34:05):
small amount. But Ohio State was picked second in in
that preseason balloting by the media that covers them so
and and like I said, it was very close balloting

(01:34:28):
on that. In fact, just looking at the number on this,
I just want to make sure I'm yeah, it's weird
because Circus Sports has the odds to make the college
football playoff and Ohio State has the best odds, followed
by Penn State, Oregon, Michigan, USC, Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Washington, Minnesota.

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The odds for the SEC teams to make the College
football playoffs Texas by significant margin, in Georgia, Alabama, LSU,
will miss Texas, A and M Auburn, Tennessee, Oklahoma or Florida, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, and Missouri. And for the Big Twelve teams
via Circus Sports, it's Kansas State, Texas, Kinnas State, Texas Tech, Utah,

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Arizona State, Baylor, Iowa State, TCU, Kansas, and BYU. And
for the ACC it's Clemson, Notre Dame, Miami, Louisville, SMU,
Georgia Tech, Florida State in pitt and also the group
of five teams to make it it's actually G six

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is the way to count now, But it's Boise State, Tulane, Memphis,
James Madison, UNLV, UTSA, Liberty, Texas State, Louisiana, and Toledo.
So was there all right? So in the Big ten
balloting that I mentioned their preseason poll, Penn State got

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eleven first place votes, Ohio State got ten, the margin
of one first place vote. Oregon got a couple of
first place votes. They finished third in the balloting overall.
Illinois finished fourth in the balloting. Michigan, which got the
one other first place ballot, was fifth overall in the

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Big ten preseason balloting, and the rest of the eighteen
member Big Ten had Indiana six, followed by Iowa, Nebraska,
US and Washington second ten, with Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan State,
Rutgers UCLA. The Michigan State and Rutgers both tied at
thirteenth in the balloting online, Rutgers in Michigan State tied

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at thirteen the UCLA, Maryland, Northwestern, and Purdue. So there's
the balloting that that Penn State is actually the preseason
choice to win the Big Ten, although barely. Ohio State
is the defending national champion is going to be extremely
difficult to defeat in Columbus in the Horseshoe on August thirty,

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no question about that. So Texas High School Coaches Association's
Annual Coaching School is going on in San Antonio yesterday.
The coaches who of the Division one FBS programs Texas

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Texas A and M Texas Tech TCU, Baylor, Rice, Houston,
North Texas, Texas State UTSA utep I said, Rice and Houston,
all of the Division one SMU Division one FBS programs,

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their head coaches participated in the panel discussion that I'm
moderated yesterday and they all talked about the importance of
continuing to connect with the high school coaches in Texas.
Now to full disclosure here, they were speaking to their constituency.
They were talking to a group of about nine hundred

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high school coaches who were in the audience, addressing a
variety of questions that the board of the Texas High
School Coach Association presented to me, and I posed these
questions to these Division one college coaches and it was
a good give and take about the state of the game.
It's a very popular phrase, by the way, for folks

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to say the support of football is under attack congressionally, legislatively, administratively, scholastically.
So they're all kind of in unison about where where
they stand with regard to that and how those where,

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what they have to do to band better, band it better.
And of course the usual comments came out about keeping
street agents from infiltrating high schools to kind of poison
the well and make it more difficult in terms of
unreasonable demands by student athletes and their families or representatives.

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So all of that stuff was in the pot and
all of it. And I have found as the moderator
of this event the past few years, that it has
been more commonplace in the last three four five years
to hit on these same topics because they continue to
be a concern, especially now after the House settlement and
the schools are going to be paying student athletes directly.

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You add that to the kettle that already holds nil
transfer portal, roster management and recruiting and all of those things.
And so that's the concern not only in the minds
of the college coach, has been in the high school
coaches as well. There's some unanimity involved with that. So

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everybody got to speak their piece about it. You know,
we passed the questions around to all thirteen coaches. They
all had equal amounts to answer questions all the way through,
and it was whom good, give and take when it
was over. And when it was over, I pulled Long
Horn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian aside just for a moment,

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because what happens at these conventions is after a big
event happens like a chalk talk or a lecture in
front of a full room by a coordinator from a
college staff or a head coach, Sarka is going to
speak tomorrow to the convention, and there's you usually after

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a big session like that, there's a what do you
want to call it a networking a You know, there's
there's friendship time spent together, and there's beverages involved in
snacks and things like that, and there's a lot of
networking and talking that goes on. So right before when

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he was getting ready to head to that, I've managed
to pull Logwren's head coach, Steve Sarkisian aside, and I
wanted to find out from him about this event because
we had sark On last week, had the sit down
one in one, one on one conversation with sark at
SEC Media Days, and he had the general media session,

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and he had the breakout session, and he had another
session with the local Austin media in addition to the
segment that he did with me. So we did an
awful lot there. He did another little mini press conference
thing there, as all the other Texas coaches who were
there did, and so he had all of those together.

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But they but those sessions, they're usually asking him there's
a lot of specificity about positions and injuries and roster
management and guys who have just come into the program,
when does he expect answers on this or that, and
then obviously the requisite questions about arch manning. So those
are those are the questions that we've all heard and

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heard and heard and heard, and we'll continue to hear.
By the way, you'll continue to update us after practices
on who look good and what he's seeing and all
that sort of stuff. But what I wanted to gather
from him, and we'll play this here, was just a
very brief conversation about his role at an event like

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this as it pertains to the relationship that he has
with the largest body of its kind in the world.
There are over I believe they said there are over
twenty eight thousand members of the Texas High School Coaches
Association twenty eight thousand, and there was going to be

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somewhere between by the time all is said and done tomorrow,
after their final registration is done for the weekend into
the start of this week and their general session where
they elect the new president, all this sort of stuff,
there would be somewhere between seventeen thousand and twenty thousand
coaches in attendance. So that is the lifeblood. Mac Brown

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used to say, the life blood of a college football
program is its recruiting base. And so there it is
right in front of him. So I wanted to get
the thoughts of Sark about his interaction with these coaches
and what it meant to it and what it meant
to him. You may have missed it. We aired at
the two o'clock hour, but wanted to bring it back

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to you again for those who may have missed it
a few minutes that I had with Sark after yesterday's
panel discussion. I know this means an awful lot to you,
being a part of a thing where twenty thousand coaches
could be here. What's the most important thing for your
program in relationship to these high school coaches.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
I think one of the biggest things, especially in this
day and age, is making sure that they still matter
to us. The high school coach is vitally important to
our program, especially.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
In the state of Texas. Think about this, Craig.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
We've had twenty three players drafted in the last two years,
which is the most in the country. Nineteen of those
players are from the state of Texas. Nineteen kids that
played for these guys in high school football got drafted
by us the last two years, and so how critical
are they to the support and what they do and
developing these players is huge for us.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
So I'd have it no other way than to be here.
The other thing, too, is Tuesday morning you're speaking as well,
and I know that means a lot to you and
the staff to be a part of the instruction here,
doesn't it is after all coaching school, Well, it is.
It's been great.

Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
We've had We've had Coach Scott speaking earlier today, we
had coach or Fe speaking earlier today and us having
the opportunity to get in front of them.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
And that was an initiative that I tried.

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
To put forth a few years back with Glenn and
Joe and that if we're gonna have speakers at this clinic,
I want the speakers to be not just be from
the University of Texas, but Texas universities.

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
So whether it's it's Sunny and his staff at TCU,
or Joey or Coach el Co at A and m
those guys. We've got great, great universities, great coaching staff's,
great programs in the state of Texas at Letas. Make
sure we're highlighting those coaches to speak in front of
the high school coaches. And that's that's occurred. And I'll
get my opportunity Tuesday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:45:47):
G ready to go? Are your players already texting and stuff?
They're ready to get this thing going. They're ready to go.

Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
You know, I was saying, you know, media days kind
of kicks off football season. When I get here on
a Sunday, it's football season, and so I think vacation's
done for me.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
We're ready to get cranked up here in about a
week and a half. Me too, vacation's done for me.
I'm ready to get cranked up in the week and
a half as well. He mentioned Joe and Glenn. Where
he said Glenn and Joe. He's talking about the two
guys who are at the top of the Texas High
School Coach Association, Joe Martin, who's the executive director, and

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Glenn West, the assistant executive director. There is a new
president that's elected every year, but the president, it's a
three year cycle that you run. The president is an
active coach that has the outreach of being an active coach.
And there are when you are elected, you actually serve

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a three year term, one as the president elect, then
the next as the president, and then what's called the
immediate past president, and you're kind of on a board
and all that. The guy was elected last year as
the president elect served that first year and now we'll

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go into serving as the president. Is Drew Sanders, the
head coach of the Vandagrid Vipers. Drew by the way.
Congratulations to him. Was also named the Texas High School
Coaches Association's Boys Overall Sport Coach of the Year encompassing
all sports, and that was recognized at the banquets. And

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congratulations Drew, who will lead his Vandergrid Vipers back onto
the field as a defending state champion this fall. Allright,
we got more coming up. To stay with us. We'll
continue here on thirteen under the Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
It's the Craig Way Show with a voice of the
Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame broadcaster area Craig Way.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
I'm glad to have you with us on the Monday
afternoon tomorrow on the program. Greg Tepper, managing editor of
Dave Campbell's Texas Football. He's not the managing editor, he's
the editor in chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine.
TEP will join us and we're going to start giving
away copies of the magazine tomorrow on the program. And

(01:48:24):
again it'll be through our talkback feature where we will
ask a question. It's not a trivia question, it's an
opinion question of you. Well, not even an opinion. It's
this first one will be an experience question for you
and daily as we go through it to give way

(01:48:49):
two or three copies of day whatever we do for
a bit, the best answers on our talkback feature will
be the ones that crew the magazine, So we start
that tomorrow. I mentioned at the top of the program
that we're getting closer to the Major League Baseball trade deadline.
We're ten days away from him. I was visiting with

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Gene Watson, our good friend and contributor, the personnel director
for the Chicago White Sox, the other day, and you'd say,
why would you worry about the White Sox. They're not
in contingent and the Orange. But there's buyers and sellers,
as we know. And for those folks who say, well,

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would the White Sox have anything all for? Yeah, Luise
Robert is probably their one big carrot that they can
dangle out there. Well, there was an article today that
named the top fifty possible trade deadline candidates and the

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two guys guys are who are always on top of
this thing for ESPN or Kyler McDaniel and our friend
Jeff Passen, and they put together a list of the
ones you might think, really they might they be a

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a trade deadline candidate and numbers thirty one through fifty,
you're just kind of casual mentions, like a Kyle Finning
into the Nationals, Emilia Pagan of the Reds, Andrew Heeney
the Pirates, who's been around and around, Tyler Anderson, who's
been around around, starting pitcher for the Angels, and then

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he got into the top thirty, and he got into
the two of these guys, and they got into some
specifics and just to kind of highlight a couple of them.
For example, number thirty would be Luis Severino, the starting
pitcher from the A's twenty five percent chance of being traded,
but then they they have a description, then they call
for best fits, and the best fits they list for
Severarino would be Toronto, the Cubs, Baltimore, and the Mets,

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Redeptmer's of the Angels at twenty nine and Olas Garcia
the Rangers listed as a possible trade deadline candidate. Chance
of trade fifty percent. Best fits Philadelphia, Seattle, San Diego,
and San Francisco twenty seven. Ryan Helsley starting a pictuer

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of the Cardinals right hander. Chance of trade sixty percent,
best fits Dodgers, Phillys, Yankees, Tigers and Mets. Nolan Aeronado.
Now he has a full no trade clause, he'd have
to okay a trade to a contender. Well, the four
teams that would seemingly be interested in him are all contenders.

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The Yankees, the Tigers, the Brewers, and the Mariners all
in the hunt. He would be at twenty six, Taylor
Ward of the Angels at twenty five. I mentioned Louis
Robert Jr. From the White Sox. He's listed at twenty
four percent and also a chance of trade being fifty
percent either the Padres, Phillies, Mets, or Giants. Pete Fairbanks,

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the right hander from the Rays. Trade chance they say
thirty five percent could go to the Dodgers, Phillies, Tigers, Braves,
Diamondbacks or Rangers if they thought they were still in
the fight. And then other ones are Ryan McMahon and
of the Rocky, Cedric Mullins of the Oriels, David Bednar,

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a good reliever or a closer for the Pirates, and
sure enough, teams that are in need of a closer
like the Tigers and the Dodgers and the Phillies all
would be interested as well as the Yankees, Mets, and Cubs.
Felix Batista, right hander for the Orioles. The Rangers are
listed as possibly being interested, as well as the Dodgers, Phillies,
and Tigers. He's back from Tommy John Surgery, Edward Cabrera

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of the Marlins, Dodge Bradley of the Rays. Marcel Ozuna
of Atlanta a seventy percent chance of being traded, and
he is a standard designated hitter, so like the Tigers,
the Rangers who are in need of hitting. The Giants,

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the Padres, and the Mariners all interested. Ryan O'Hearn, first
baseman of the Orioles listed, Josh Naylor of the Diamondbacks,
Mary ol Kelly of the Diamondbacks, Zach Gallon of the Diamondbacks.
These are all guys that they figure the diamond Backs
will be sellers, not buyers. Mitch Keller or the Pirates,
and it gets into the top ten. Griffin Jacks of

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the Twins, Kate Smith picture for the Guardians, Chris Bubeck
picture for the Royals. The Rangers are mentioned possibly interested
in the closer Emmanuel Close of the Guardians. It's difficult
to imagine him being traded, though John Duran of the
Twins at number six, Seth Logo of the Royals, at five,

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Sandy Alcantara the Marlins, and number four journed Uranda the
Red Socks at number three, number two Stephen Kuana the Guardians.
And the number one trade candidate they have listed is
Uheneo Suarez of the Diamondbacks. And again Diamondbacks have been
pretty good of late, but they're in fourth place in

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the West and they're probably not going to leap past
the Giants, Padres and Dodgers in the West, so that's
why they're mentioned there. All right, we'll be back to
wrap up today's edition of the program here on thirteen
under the Zone. Yeah or not far from here from

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coach Sart on a regular basis, they're talking about things,
not just returning to the show. Here for the final
few minutes, there's a couple of couple of college football nodes.
The quarterback for BYU last year was Jake Retzloth. Had
a great season. Now the Longhorns were able to get
him out of his game and for some mistakes as

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well when they played them, but really good quarterback and
he's transferring to Tulane. Tulane spent more than a week
doing background checks on Rhetslof, including having the university's titled
nine office take a close look at that transfer. He's

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he expected to enroll as a walk on and compete
for the starting job in training company the upcoming weeks.
This follows his former withdrawal from the school a couple
of weeks ago in the wake of that planned seven
game suspension of him for violating the school's honor code.
The suspension came about after Rhetslof was accused of sexual

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assaults in a lawsuit in May of this year for
an assaultable woman back two years ago. He denied each
and every allegation, has never been charged. The lawsuit ended
up being dismissed, both parties agreeing to dismiss with prejudice.
So Redslov's response included an admission of pre marital sex

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and of course that's a violation of the honor code.
They were going to suspend in seven games. So he's
leaving and he's going to play at Chulane'. That's one thing.
Here's a been of good news as it continues for
the University of Texas. You probably heard it about last night.
Came down Derek Cooper, another five star recruit ESPN's number

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one running back in the twenty twenty six class from
Shaman A Madonna Prep school in Hollywood, Florida, has committed
to the University of Texas. He chose the Long Runs
over Florida State, Georgia, Miami, and Ohio State yesterday, So
another recruiting response there for Sark. All right, we'll be

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back with you tomorrow. Thanks so much to East Ortiz,
who's been a producer of the past few days. Thanks
as well to antone like him for his help. And
tomorrow on the program, we'll visit with the editor in
chief of Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine talking about the
brand new edition. We'll start giving away copies of that
magazine when we visit with Greg Tepper for all of us,

(01:57:12):
I'm Craig Wait, thanks for joining us. Cavino and Rich
Fox Sports Radio up next, we'll visit with you tomorrow
afternoon at two o'clock. Right here, I'm thirteen under the zone.