August 7, 2025 • 17 mins
Craig Way and Texas Basketball head coach Sean Miller deep dive into the future of Texas Longhorns basketball with an exclusive one-on-one interview with new head coach Sean Miller. Coach Miller shares his thoughts on assembling a brand-new roster, the importance of strength and conditioning, adapting to life in Austin, and the challenges of a stacked non-conference and SEC schedule.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, this may be some mad news for Mavericks fans.
You know, they've been looking to build a new arena
for the Mavericks, even though I think the American Airline
Centers is fine and now it's been around for what
twenty three, twenty four years or something, But that was
a whole part of what was going to go on
with the sale, and there was talk about them moving,
(00:41):
you know, with a possibility of casino gambling and all
that sort of stuff. But one of the areas that
they were looking at was and I know you won't
be familiar with this camera because as far as I know,
you've never been in jail before, I have none. Okay, Well,
don't plan on it either, Okay. Well, one of the
areas they were exploring for a possible new basketball arena
(01:05):
was the Loose Starrett Justice Center near Commerce Street and
river Front Boulevard, not far from the old Reunion Arena
by the way, just kind of down the street that
they would There was a lot of whispers about that. However,
Daryl Martin, the Dallas County administrator, says, I've heard that,
but they haven't contacted us, and apparently they're not that
(01:26):
interested in it. So no Mavericks at the jail site.
And while that's normally good news, in this case, it
might not be necessarily that doable. I think the only
Maverick that Mavericks Sam would have wanted the jail site
would be Nico Harris.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, there you go. So that was too easy. Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I just kind of set it up. You knocked it
out of the park. Speaking of basketball, long worn men's
basketball players doing individual workouts and some collective team things.
And this is a brand new chapter in Texas Longhorn
basketball history with Sean Miller, the former Arizona and Xavier coach,
(02:05):
taking the reins and trying to construct a roster that
has a bevy of new faces, putting together his coaching staff,
is support staff, and getting himself acclimated to living in
the area. All of these and some others were some
questions I had just a little while ago when I
sat down with the brand new head coach of the Longhorn,
Sean Miller. So the last time we visited, you talked
(02:28):
about having so much to get to in terms of
putting your staff together and roster construction and all those things.
Have you been pleased with how it's come together through
the process of the last few.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Months I have, You know, as we sit here and
talk right now, you know, been here between four and
five months. It feels a lot longer than that. We've
gone through a lot of different things. I'll start, Bill
Craig with our staff. Really love the staff that we've
been able to put together. You know, we have I
(03:04):
think a lot of different ingredients that complement each other
and make us what I believe is a complete staff.
And I don't think there's anything more important or sacred
to a coach's success or a program success and the
people that work closely together on an everyday basis and
that are in charge of these young people, the team,
(03:25):
the individual players that we have. So that's the first
part that I feel really good about. And then you know,
our team right now, we have a full roster. It
took us a while to get there, but you know,
I like our experience. I think we have the opportunity,
if we remain healthy, to have a team that has
quality depth, and in particular, I think our guard play.
(03:47):
You know, we come at you with a lot of
thousand point scorers, players that have played in college basketball
for three or more years. In the versatility of a
group there that can really carry us through what I
hope will be a very successful season.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's an old saying, some say it's a truism of
that the second most important member of the staff beyond
the head coaches, the strength coach. And with that in mind,
how important is it to have productive as coaches call it,
good weight on your guys to try to build them
up physically for the challenges of this season.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, that's been a real focal point of us establishing
our way of doing things as a basketball program here
at Texas. I brought with me and I consider him
a full member of our staff. Andy Kettler and coach
ket has been at some great places in Major League
Baseball for a period of time. Has worked both at
(04:45):
Louisville and when he was at West Virginia for about
a ten year window. That's when you would have played
West Virginia as part of the Big Twelve and they
would have been referred to as press Virginia. If you
remember that group, he would have been the strength of
additioning coach for Bob Hu during that period of time.
I believe he's the best in the country, and because
(05:05):
he understands the game of basketball, you know, his focal
point is how do we train our players in a safe,
aggressive manner and how do we bring out not only
the best of them while they're here at Texas, but
how can we allow them to leave the University of
Texas and play the longest period of time in their
lives this sport. So you know, everything from the machines
(05:28):
that we order built for seven footers to the things
we choose not to do, even from a conditioning perspective,
we do zero running on a track. We do no
pounding outside of the court. That's intentional, right, So I
love how he's done it. We've made a lot of
progress with our team, beginning in late May, early June
(05:49):
all the way through the entire month of August, and
I think that visibly you'll see some real change in
our changes in our guys body. And what I hope
is that we have a great conditioned team because you
can't be successful, especially in the SEC and college basketball
unless your conditioning area is superior.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
How has what you've needed to have take place rehabs
following surgery all season, unavailability to certain guys due to
those types of things affected how you and the staff
have tried to compile this group and get them in
their individual work and in their collective work to be
able to function even as you're anticipating the return of
(06:34):
other guys being healthy again.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Right, So, the circumstances that we inherited to some degree
in the team that we built over this summer, you know,
we're really minus what you'd call four players being able
to participate one hundred percent. Right Two tremon Mark and
Lacina and Trey Orr who are counting on both to
have big roles on our team. That they've been cleared
(06:59):
for non content, it's just a matter of them getting
all the way through their cycle of rehab from start
to finish. In Lacina's case, he tours ACL in early October.
He's entering the eleventh eleventh month. His rehab has gone
extremely well. His surgery was successful. It's a matter of
(07:19):
these last two four six weeks really allowing him to
max out and be the most healthy, flexible and strongest
that he possibly can be, and we're entering that very
very final phase with Tremon. He had torn labram which
you guys lived through a year ago, and that can
be very problematic for a basketball player. He had surgery
(07:40):
this spring and I would say he's about eighty percent
through it in terms of his overall recovery. However, he's
been shooting and cleared for non contact, been a full
participant in our strength and conditioning program for most of
the summer. We just haven't allowed either of those guys
to play in terms of our contact. That's hurt us
(08:01):
in the ability to play a lot five on five.
We've done the best we can in that area, but
those are things that happen in the summer. We've still
had a very productive summer. Our final two pieces though,
to our roster are two freshmen, Lewis and Declan. They
both come as international students, Lewis from Great Britain, Declan
(08:22):
from Germany, and there are about two weeks two weeks
to four weeks away from actually arriving here in the
States to be a freshman here at the University of Texas.
So they're in the final stages of doing what they
need to do in their respective countries, but they both
officially visited us. They've been here at the University of Texas,
(08:42):
and I think they're anxious to get here finally, but
they've not been a part of anything we've done this summer.
Both will be incoming freshmen, so they definitely will have
a learning curve when they get here.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Safe to say that at this point, the area that
perhaps has the most depth with which you're the most
comfortable right down as your back court.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
For sure, And I would even say backcourt extends to
like all guard positions, the point guard, the two, the three,
and then sometimes the way the game's played today, you know,
and what I've learned about the SEC, you have to
be a depth at both playing two bigs and sometimes
only one big. And when you play with one big,
(09:26):
that allows you to play an extra perimeter player on
the court. So we're building our roster to be able
to do both to compete in obviously this Lion's Den
of a league. We're in the SEC, But I do
love our depth. Sometimes I can't even name them all.
And I believe this that each of our returning guards
(09:46):
as well as newcomers, will have a big role on
this year's team. You know, my attempt, Craig would be
you know, you look at Jordan Pope and Sim Wilcher,
Tremon Mark Dalan Ken the Weaver.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And Cam Heidi.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I hope I didn't miss one, but if I did,
I think it bodes well in terms of being able
to back up that. You know, a number of those
guys have been a thousand point scores, have played in
college basketball for two or more seasons, many of which
are in their last season, have Texas experience they return
from last year's team, you know, in the quality of
(10:28):
shooting right and dribbling and passing. So I believe we
have versatility and depth, and that to me is initially
what I would consider the strength of our team.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
With the understanding that one size does not fit all.
And as you continue to see your guys develop, do
you have in mind, or at least historically for you,
what is most comfortable for you and the staff in
terms of your rotation, How many guys you like to
use during the game.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Regularly, it usually settles into eight. We've played as many
is nine. The ninth guy just more dependent on circumstances
and length of time, is not usually more than just
several minutes. However, that ninth player is playing for a
(11:15):
reason and oftentimes when foul trouble, injuries, illness, different things occur,
he's called the duty in a bigger fashion. I can
see this year's team coming out of the gates really
going nine deep. I hope that's the case. I think
depth is a real factor in college basketball. You know,
it's you know, when you play thirty five games, you're
(11:40):
playing eighteen plus the SEC tournament against the very best
in the country. You know, in our case, you look
at our non conference schedule Maui three games and three
days in the month of November. What's the first game
after Maui Virginia at home? You know, what's the opening
game of the year at Charlotte to play Duke. What
(12:00):
what's the non conference game which we have to return
at Yukon, you know, which I'm very familiar with coming
from the Big East. You know that's going to require
a lot. It's nobody's going to shoot holes in our schedule.
So what helps you get through that schedule a competitive
balance and spirit every day players that can do multiple things,
(12:22):
a versatile team, but also scholarship players that you know,
we're not relying on an iron five that we can
go as many as nine ten in a pinch deep,
so we tried to build it that way.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I hope that's the case.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, I was going to ask you about the schedule
next and given the SEC's release of the conference schedule
this week as well, what's your overview when you look
at it coming off of that very competitive non conference
schedule to talk about and then you jump right into
conference play in early January.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You know, just saying it like it is, it's not
to our advantage to play our most difficult games early
this season simply because we don't have the lack of
our lack of familiarity is our biggest obstacle here initially, right,
not just because we have, you know, in essence eight
(13:18):
nine new players, but we're a new coaching staff. So
other than Dalen Swain and Lasina Tree or nobody at
Texas has ever been coached by me in a single game,
has never really gone through a real practice in the
fall yet, So you know, we don't have the gift
of experience in Texas experience and you know, Sean Miller
(13:39):
and this staff experience, so we embrace that I think
we acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So we're trying to work through different creative ways to
overcome it and catch up quickly. But we're going to
be challenged with, you know, those types of games, the
Maui Invitational Tournament, not just who we play there, but
the fact that we have to play back to back
to back games coming out of the gates in Game
(14:05):
one playing Duke and Charlotte, playing at Yukon playing Virginia
at home, and then the Guarantee games. You know, those
types of games which when you look at what's changed
the most in college basketball the unpredictability of November games
because like us, there are certain teams that have eight
new players, but at that level, sometimes those eight new
(14:29):
players can change the dynamic of their roster and flip
it in one year, more so now than ever before.
So you know, we respect every game and every opponent,
and we have to be ready, especially in those first
two months.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Last thing I want to ask you about is the
lifestyle transition for you and the family as well. At
the news conference, talked about how there'd been one house
finished in Cincinnati and trying to adjust to here. How
has all of that gone for you and the family
in terms of relocation and establishment of your residency down here.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well, I'll just start off with you know, I'm just
both honored and grateful to be the head basketball coach
here at the University of Texas. And uh, you know,
I forever grateful towards Cryst Delcante for his belief in
in in me as a coach, uh.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And and allowing us to have this opportunity.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It doesn't take you very long to understand just what
what a terrific and extra special place the University of
Texas is.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Living in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
The facilities that we have this campus, the athletic department
in general, it's second to none.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You know. We like to say Texas is different, and
it is.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So, you know, the transition has been really smooth from
that perspective, because you're you're running to something you want
to You're thrilled to be a.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Part of, an anxious and eager to get started. Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You know, the weather in the summer, the beautiful blue sky,
the Texas heat, you know that that's even positive for us.
So my wife and I we have three sons that
are all older, our youngest is twenty five, our oldest
is thirty, and our middle son is twenty eight, so
we don't have kids in the house. So it's her
(16:14):
and I and we're anxious to move into our house.
We're going to live here close to campus, and we
move in late August, so we're a few weeks away.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
There. It is with Sean Miller, Hey, it's not often
you hear a guy say the beautiful blue sky in
the heat of Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
They like it. I like it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I know there's those of you out there going give
it time. You got to remember also where the other
two places where he's lived. Cincinnati is hot in the
summertime and it's quite humid. Arizona is not a humid
but it's very hot in the summer. So maybe this
kind of strikes the balance in between. I don't know,
(16:56):
interesting things from him about all of that and the
guy he has and the work that still has to
come for them in getting their full roster, because they
have not had their full roster yet, as he pointed out,
with the two international players coming in and getting guys
off of surgery and rehab as well, so it's going
(17:19):
to be interesting. And the Heavy duty Conference schedule, preceded
by a very challenging non conference schedule as well. All right,
we're gonna have some more long on football talk coming up.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, this may be some mad news for Mavericks fans.
You know, they've been looking to build a new arena
for the Mavericks, even though I think the American Airline
Centers is fine and now it's been around for what
twenty three, twenty four years or something, But that was
a whole part of what was going to go on
with the sale, and there was talk about them moving,
(00:41):
you know, with a possibility of casino gambling and all
that sort of stuff. But one of the areas that
they were looking at was and I know you won't
be familiar with this camera because as far as I know,
you've never been in jail before, I have none. Okay, Well,
don't plan on it either, Okay. Well, one of the
areas they were exploring for a possible new basketball arena
(01:05):
was the Loose Starrett Justice Center near Commerce Street and
river Front Boulevard, not far from the old Reunion Arena
by the way, just kind of down the street that
they would There was a lot of whispers about that. However,
Daryl Martin, the Dallas County administrator, says, I've heard that,
but they haven't contacted us, and apparently they're not that
(01:26):
interested in it. So no Mavericks at the jail site.
And while that's normally good news, in this case, it
might not be necessarily that doable. I think the only
Maverick that Mavericks Sam would have wanted the jail site
would be Nico Harris.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, there you go. So that was too easy. Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I just kind of set it up. You knocked it
out of the park. Speaking of basketball, long worn men's
basketball players doing individual workouts and some collective team things.
And this is a brand new chapter in Texas Longhorn
basketball history with Sean Miller, the former Arizona and Xavier coach,
(02:05):
taking the reins and trying to construct a roster that
has a bevy of new faces, putting together his coaching staff,
is support staff, and getting himself acclimated to living in
the area. All of these and some others were some
questions I had just a little while ago when I
sat down with the brand new head coach of the Longhorn,
Sean Miller. So the last time we visited, you talked
(02:28):
about having so much to get to in terms of
putting your staff together and roster construction and all those things.
Have you been pleased with how it's come together through
the process of the last few.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Months I have, You know, as we sit here and
talk right now, you know, been here between four and
five months. It feels a lot longer than that. We've
gone through a lot of different things. I'll start, Bill
Craig with our staff. Really love the staff that we've
been able to put together. You know, we have I
(03:04):
think a lot of different ingredients that complement each other
and make us what I believe is a complete staff.
And I don't think there's anything more important or sacred
to a coach's success or a program success and the
people that work closely together on an everyday basis and
that are in charge of these young people, the team,
(03:25):
the individual players that we have. So that's the first
part that I feel really good about. And then you know,
our team right now, we have a full roster. It
took us a while to get there, but you know,
I like our experience. I think we have the opportunity,
if we remain healthy, to have a team that has
quality depth, and in particular, I think our guard play.
(03:47):
You know, we come at you with a lot of
thousand point scorers, players that have played in college basketball
for three or more years. In the versatility of a
group there that can really carry us through what I
hope will be a very successful season.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's an old saying, some say it's a truism of
that the second most important member of the staff beyond
the head coaches, the strength coach. And with that in mind,
how important is it to have productive as coaches call it,
good weight on your guys to try to build them
up physically for the challenges of this season.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, that's been a real focal point of us establishing
our way of doing things as a basketball program here
at Texas. I brought with me and I consider him
a full member of our staff. Andy Kettler and coach
ket has been at some great places in Major League
Baseball for a period of time. Has worked both at
(04:45):
Louisville and when he was at West Virginia for about
a ten year window. That's when you would have played
West Virginia as part of the Big Twelve and they
would have been referred to as press Virginia. If you
remember that group, he would have been the strength of
additioning coach for Bob Hu during that period of time.
I believe he's the best in the country, and because
(05:05):
he understands the game of basketball, you know, his focal
point is how do we train our players in a safe,
aggressive manner and how do we bring out not only
the best of them while they're here at Texas, but
how can we allow them to leave the University of
Texas and play the longest period of time in their
lives this sport. So you know, everything from the machines
(05:28):
that we order built for seven footers to the things
we choose not to do, even from a conditioning perspective,
we do zero running on a track. We do no
pounding outside of the court. That's intentional, right, So I
love how he's done it. We've made a lot of
progress with our team, beginning in late May, early June
(05:49):
all the way through the entire month of August, and
I think that visibly you'll see some real change in
our changes in our guys body. And what I hope
is that we have a great conditioned team because you
can't be successful, especially in the SEC and college basketball
unless your conditioning area is superior.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
How has what you've needed to have take place rehabs
following surgery all season, unavailability to certain guys due to
those types of things affected how you and the staff
have tried to compile this group and get them in
their individual work and in their collective work to be
able to function even as you're anticipating the return of
(06:34):
other guys being healthy again.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Right, So, the circumstances that we inherited to some degree
in the team that we built over this summer, you know,
we're really minus what you'd call four players being able
to participate one hundred percent. Right Two tremon Mark and
Lacina and Trey Orr who are counting on both to
have big roles on our team. That they've been cleared
(06:59):
for non content, it's just a matter of them getting
all the way through their cycle of rehab from start
to finish. In Lacina's case, he tours ACL in early October.
He's entering the eleventh eleventh month. His rehab has gone
extremely well. His surgery was successful. It's a matter of
(07:19):
these last two four six weeks really allowing him to
max out and be the most healthy, flexible and strongest
that he possibly can be, and we're entering that very
very final phase with Tremon. He had torn labram which
you guys lived through a year ago, and that can
be very problematic for a basketball player. He had surgery
(07:40):
this spring and I would say he's about eighty percent
through it in terms of his overall recovery. However, he's
been shooting and cleared for non contact, been a full
participant in our strength and conditioning program for most of
the summer. We just haven't allowed either of those guys
to play in terms of our contact. That's hurt us
(08:01):
in the ability to play a lot five on five.
We've done the best we can in that area, but
those are things that happen in the summer. We've still
had a very productive summer. Our final two pieces though,
to our roster are two freshmen, Lewis and Declan. They
both come as international students, Lewis from Great Britain, Declan
(08:22):
from Germany, and there are about two weeks two weeks
to four weeks away from actually arriving here in the
States to be a freshman here at the University of Texas.
So they're in the final stages of doing what they
need to do in their respective countries, but they both
officially visited us. They've been here at the University of Texas,
(08:42):
and I think they're anxious to get here finally, but
they've not been a part of anything we've done this summer.
Both will be incoming freshmen, so they definitely will have
a learning curve when they get here.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Safe to say that at this point, the area that
perhaps has the most depth with which you're the most
comfortable right down as your back court.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
For sure, And I would even say backcourt extends to
like all guard positions, the point guard, the two, the three,
and then sometimes the way the game's played today, you know,
and what I've learned about the SEC, you have to
be a depth at both playing two bigs and sometimes
only one big. And when you play with one big,
(09:26):
that allows you to play an extra perimeter player on
the court. So we're building our roster to be able
to do both to compete in obviously this Lion's Den
of a league. We're in the SEC, But I do
love our depth. Sometimes I can't even name them all.
And I believe this that each of our returning guards
(09:46):
as well as newcomers, will have a big role on
this year's team. You know, my attempt, Craig would be
you know, you look at Jordan Pope and Sim Wilcher,
Tremon Mark Dalan Ken the Weaver.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And Cam Heidi.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I hope I didn't miss one, but if I did,
I think it bodes well in terms of being able
to back up that. You know, a number of those
guys have been a thousand point scores, have played in
college basketball for two or more seasons, many of which
are in their last season, have Texas experience they return
from last year's team, you know, in the quality of
(10:28):
shooting right and dribbling and passing. So I believe we
have versatility and depth, and that to me is initially
what I would consider the strength of our team.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
With the understanding that one size does not fit all.
And as you continue to see your guys develop, do
you have in mind, or at least historically for you,
what is most comfortable for you and the staff in
terms of your rotation, How many guys you like to
use during the game.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Regularly, it usually settles into eight. We've played as many
is nine. The ninth guy just more dependent on circumstances
and length of time, is not usually more than just
several minutes. However, that ninth player is playing for a
(11:15):
reason and oftentimes when foul trouble, injuries, illness, different things occur,
he's called the duty in a bigger fashion. I can
see this year's team coming out of the gates really
going nine deep. I hope that's the case. I think
depth is a real factor in college basketball. You know,
it's you know, when you play thirty five games, you're
(11:40):
playing eighteen plus the SEC tournament against the very best
in the country. You know, in our case, you look
at our non conference schedule Maui three games and three
days in the month of November. What's the first game
after Maui Virginia at home? You know, what's the opening
game of the year at Charlotte to play Duke. What
(12:00):
what's the non conference game which we have to return
at Yukon, you know, which I'm very familiar with coming
from the Big East. You know that's going to require
a lot. It's nobody's going to shoot holes in our schedule.
So what helps you get through that schedule a competitive
balance and spirit every day players that can do multiple things,
(12:22):
a versatile team, but also scholarship players that you know,
we're not relying on an iron five that we can
go as many as nine ten in a pinch deep,
so we tried to build it that way.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I hope that's the case.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, I was going to ask you about the schedule
next and given the SEC's release of the conference schedule
this week as well, what's your overview when you look
at it coming off of that very competitive non conference
schedule to talk about and then you jump right into
conference play in early January.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You know, just saying it like it is, it's not
to our advantage to play our most difficult games early
this season simply because we don't have the lack of
our lack of familiarity is our biggest obstacle here initially, right,
not just because we have, you know, in essence eight
(13:18):
nine new players, but we're a new coaching staff. So
other than Dalen Swain and Lasina Tree or nobody at
Texas has ever been coached by me in a single game,
has never really gone through a real practice in the
fall yet, So you know, we don't have the gift
of experience in Texas experience and you know, Sean Miller
(13:39):
and this staff experience, so we embrace that I think
we acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So we're trying to work through different creative ways to
overcome it and catch up quickly. But we're going to
be challenged with, you know, those types of games, the
Maui Invitational Tournament, not just who we play there, but
the fact that we have to play back to back
to back games coming out of the gates in Game
(14:05):
one playing Duke and Charlotte, playing at Yukon playing Virginia
at home, and then the Guarantee games. You know, those
types of games which when you look at what's changed
the most in college basketball the unpredictability of November games
because like us, there are certain teams that have eight
new players, but at that level, sometimes those eight new
(14:29):
players can change the dynamic of their roster and flip
it in one year, more so now than ever before.
So you know, we respect every game and every opponent,
and we have to be ready, especially in those first
two months.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Last thing I want to ask you about is the
lifestyle transition for you and the family as well. At
the news conference, talked about how there'd been one house
finished in Cincinnati and trying to adjust to here. How
has all of that gone for you and the family
in terms of relocation and establishment of your residency down here.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well, I'll just start off with you know, I'm just
both honored and grateful to be the head basketball coach
here at the University of Texas. And uh, you know,
I forever grateful towards Cryst Delcante for his belief in
in in me as a coach, uh.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And and allowing us to have this opportunity.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It doesn't take you very long to understand just what
what a terrific and extra special place the University of
Texas is.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Living in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
The facilities that we have this campus, the athletic department
in general, it's second to none.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You know. We like to say Texas is different, and
it is.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So, you know, the transition has been really smooth from
that perspective, because you're you're running to something you want
to You're thrilled to be a.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Part of, an anxious and eager to get started. Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You know, the weather in the summer, the beautiful blue sky,
the Texas heat, you know that that's even positive for us.
So my wife and I we have three sons that
are all older, our youngest is twenty five, our oldest
is thirty, and our middle son is twenty eight, so
we don't have kids in the house. So it's her
(16:14):
and I and we're anxious to move into our house.
We're going to live here close to campus, and we
move in late August, so we're a few weeks away.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
There. It is with Sean Miller, Hey, it's not often
you hear a guy say the beautiful blue sky in
the heat of Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
They like it. I like it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I know there's those of you out there going give
it time. You got to remember also where the other
two places where he's lived. Cincinnati is hot in the
summertime and it's quite humid. Arizona is not a humid
but it's very hot in the summer. So maybe this
kind of strikes the balance in between. I don't know,
(16:56):
interesting things from him about all of that and the
guy he has and the work that still has to
come for them in getting their full roster, because they
have not had their full roster yet, as he pointed out,
with the two international players coming in and getting guys
off of surgery and rehab as well, so it's going
(17:19):
to be interesting. And the Heavy duty Conference schedule, preceded
by a very challenging non conference schedule as well. All right,
we're gonna have some more long on football talk coming up.
I'm thirteen under the Zone.
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