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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We continue from SEC Media Days, always a fun convocation
and conclave of some of the best, biggest and brightest
minds and my cards too. But also also in addition
to that, we're very pleased to be joined by one
of the foremost voices on network radio when it comes
(00:21):
to college football, and that's Peter Burns of ESPN.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's great to see. I gotta be honest with you
that this is such a huge moment for me.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I grew up and I don't want to age you,
but I'm here living in San Antonio, Texas and listening
to the great Craig Way calls, so many calls, and
so like there's moments in your life whe're like, you
have this pinch me moment, like how the hell am
I here? And the first one I ever had was
when I was working for the SEC Network. We had
just launched as one of the original anchors, and Brent
Musburger threw it to me at halftime and I'm like,
(00:49):
oh my god, this is really happening, and like they're
gonna find out I'm such a fraud.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They're gonna kick me out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Now eleven years later, I get opportunity. You guys are
here and I get to talk to you. This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I could do it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Spurger said, all right, we're gonna send it to our
friend Peter Burns. I hammer the under That's what Mart,
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
There.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This event means a lot of different things to different people,
whether you talk about coaches or administrators or whatever. But
uh and and that goes for media and fans as well.
How do you consume it?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So it's interesting because Craig, this is the first year
that I felt that it's been a normal media day
since twenty nineteen. Twenty twenty, who didn't have it twenty one?
We're talking about conference expansion, Texas, Oklahoma are coming in.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What that's going to look like.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay, now we're doing the College Football Playoff, is expanding,
nil transfer portal. All of that stuff seems to settled down,
and this is the first time I feel like we're
actually talking about football. The problem is nobody knows who
the hell's on the roster anymore, including some of the coaches.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I mean, like I had coach earlier yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'll be well, say what coach it was, but he
was like, hey, be careful about my defense.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I got to figure out.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Who's still on there does to go too deep, and
that's that's not unique because I mean you get you know,
teams like Old miss that have four returning starters back
next year.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Why it's important for me, it's not so much of
what is said, it's how they say it. I'll vially
remember one of my favorite stories of media days was
Mark Stoops. This was probably four or five years ago.
We're in our little ESPN green room. He had done
his you know, interviews and stuff like that, and he
storms down the hall and I'm like, oh damn, like, what.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The hell just happened?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And he pulls me to the side and he goes Peter,
this is a bunch of bs.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He's like, nobody's talking about this team, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And he was pissed. And we're not in front of
any cameras. He's not doing this. He's just he's vetting,
I mean, just venting. And I realized like, oh, they're
gonna be really good and the media I picked them
to win four or five games, they went on to
win ten. So a lot of times it's what these coaches,
how they handle themselves. The way that they talk inside
or how they connect throughout the rooms. And a lot
(02:51):
of that too is with the quarterbacks as well, watching
them how they work doing these interviews. Are they always
on their phone? Are they taking pictures of the whole time?
Are they engage making eye contact? And you could pretty
much doing this long enough time, you could you pretty
much know who are going to be the dudes and
who are gonna be the ones that are playing the
part of a dudes.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, I always think about it too. You were talking
about the quarterback situation. I've always been one to think
every quarterback on your squad, I mean not on your squad.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But on each team should be represented here.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
A lot of times the coaches don't even bring a
quarterback because I don't know what the message is going
to be.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Are they not good in front of the camera.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Are they going to may not know, may not know who?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
We've seen both sides of it. I mean, listen, I
can't believe It's like have watching the Bloods and Crips
and you guys, he's over here and you have sooners
over here. But like when you think about Marcel Reid,
why would Marcel read not be the guy now? Whether
or not he has a kids camp that he's working
in college station or wherever, wherever it is home for him.
I get it, but I'm like, this is a pretty
big opportunity to showcase and shine your light on who
(03:52):
you were going to be. So and then you get
situations like you guys where you have a manning who
for the time, at probably age of three, he was
getting ready for these moments, so we'd like to see
the quarterbacks. I had an opportunity to interview Austin Simmons yesterday.
The kid over at Old Miss nineteen years old homeschool,
skipped two grades, and like, remember the Todd Morenovitch story, right,
(04:14):
well that was like where his family just from day one,
his dad's like, you're gonna do this, this, this, this,
and this.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I think this could be the opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
In the fact of while that happened, I think it
could it could really help him. And this kid played
baseball and I mean he's just he looks he looks
like a bigger, faster, stronger version of Tua and even cooler,
calm and collected than that.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So yeah, I came away really impressed with him yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Toward that end, anybody that's gotten to know a little
bit about the whole thing that has surrounded Arch Manning
understands that his family model has been really, really good.
They've been very very patient, not only Cooper and his mom,
but the uncles and his grandfather and grandmother. They've all
taken a very deliberate approach to this whole thing and
(05:00):
have not been in a hurry. Now, having said that,
I just visited with David Cutcliffe upstairs of course the
long time. Yeah, it was a coach of elid Ole Miss,
an offensive coordinator for Payton.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
They're in coach to Duke and all that, and he
let Arch know. Arch did not know this.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It was in a room upstairs with Arch, and he
let Arch know that when he was born, he had
a courier send over a letter of intent to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
For Arch.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So I guess the point of all of this. The
point of all this is that those sorts of expectations
and accolades have been coming for some time for Arts.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But it seems as though he has processed well.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And that's also one of the reasons why I thought
him going to Texas made perfect sense. He wasn't going
to be in the shadow, or living in what had
happened over in Oxford or what happened over in Knoxville.
With Peyton, he had an opportunity to only forge his
own new beginnings, but also that Sark had a vision
for him. Listen, I'm not gonna put you in. You
(06:02):
don't need to be a freshman writer from the jump.
In fact, you don't need to need to be a sophomore.
Get bigger, faster, stronger, and you can tell the way
his body has developed over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So do you go back and look at the history
of Eli and Peyton.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
They weren't guys that played great right from the jump,
and they're looking at it for more of a macro
of Hey, do you want to have a Hall of
Fame type career?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Win super Bowls? Don't be in a rush to be
out there.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And by the way, it doesn't hurt whenever you're gonna
make probably more money than all of us can, but
well not Craig Way, but a lot more money than
everybody else. Combine. While you're doing it, take time, it's college.
Enjoy yourself because at some point every single person at
Jamal Charles on My show earlier today and I asked Jamal,
I was like, how was it in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And he goes and he just he goes.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Man, you saw me smiling Earlier's because I was thinking
about the times that I was carrying the ball for
Mac Brown and I was with Vince Young and I
was winning national championships and Craig Wave was on the call,
you know, like that type stuff like that is what
you'll remember more so than anything is the next level
is business because.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
In it's business now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But I think it's it's the purest version of what
we'll ever see anymore. And I think Sark has absolutely
threaded the needle of saying being open, honest, respectful with
these players and go, yes, this is real.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
There are responsibilities, and he.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Runs it like an NFL team, And I think that's
one of the reasons why the Longhorns are here to
stay for a long long time.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
We appreciate it, man, that's exciting times and as always,
it's always good seeing you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But most importantly you got the chance to meet Craig.
What I mean, Listen, I was gonna ask for an autograph.
I don't know if that there general, we appreciate it
and it's been again. Having Texas in this conference has
created a jolt.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And well that's one thing I was gonna ask you
now that last year, at this time in Dallas, Yeah,
there was I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Anybody wanted the Longhorns to fail.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, there was an undercurrent of let's see how they do.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Let's see how they see. If you felt it was
not that they did selight in Austin. I mean, I listen,
I lived in Texas for twenty years. I'd always be
up at a thirty five every time I had a
chance to go up, you know, up to Austin. And
but it was more so like you need to pay
your dues because how often in the SEC do we
say you do you really need to do this, this
or this, and you can't just hurry up and have success.
(08:22):
So that's why I trust me. Everybody, even Alabama fans
were pulling for Georgia last year in the SEC Championship Games.
They're like, you need to earn it, but I'm excited
about it. Gonna be fun this year.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He appreciate you taking the time. Thanks boys, all right,
Peter Burns. GESPN will continue here on Am thirteen, under
the zone
We continue from SEC Media Days, always a fun convocation
and conclave of some of the best, biggest and brightest
minds and my cards too. But also also in addition
to that, we're very pleased to be joined by one
of the foremost voices on network radio when it comes
(00:21):
to college football, and that's Peter Burns of ESPN.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's great to see. I gotta be honest with you
that this is such a huge moment for me.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I grew up and I don't want to age you,
but I'm here living in San Antonio, Texas and listening
to the great Craig Way calls, so many calls, and
so like there's moments in your life whe're like, you
have this pinch me moment, like how the hell am
I here? And the first one I ever had was
when I was working for the SEC Network. We had
just launched as one of the original anchors, and Brent
Musburger threw it to me at halftime and I'm like,
(00:49):
oh my god, this is really happening, and like they're
gonna find out I'm such a fraud.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They're gonna kick me out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Now eleven years later, I get opportunity. You guys are
here and I get to talk to you. This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I could do it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Spurger said, all right, we're gonna send it to our
friend Peter Burns. I hammer the under That's what Mart,
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
There.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This event means a lot of different things to different people,
whether you talk about coaches or administrators or whatever. But
uh and and that goes for media and fans as well.
How do you consume it?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So it's interesting because Craig, this is the first year
that I felt that it's been a normal media day
since twenty nineteen. Twenty twenty, who didn't have it twenty one?
We're talking about conference expansion, Texas, Oklahoma are coming in.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What that's going to look like.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay, now we're doing the College Football Playoff, is expanding,
nil transfer portal. All of that stuff seems to settled down,
and this is the first time I feel like we're
actually talking about football. The problem is nobody knows who
the hell's on the roster anymore, including some of the coaches.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I mean, like I had coach earlier yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'll be well, say what coach it was, but he
was like, hey, be careful about my defense.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I got to figure out.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Who's still on there does to go too deep, and
that's that's not unique because I mean you get you know,
teams like Old miss that have four returning starters back
next year.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Why it's important for me, it's not so much of
what is said, it's how they say it. I'll vially
remember one of my favorite stories of media days was
Mark Stoops. This was probably four or five years ago.
We're in our little ESPN green room. He had done
his you know, interviews and stuff like that, and he
storms down the hall and I'm like, oh damn, like, what.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The hell just happened?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And he pulls me to the side and he goes Peter,
this is a bunch of bs.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He's like, nobody's talking about this team, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And he was pissed. And we're not in front of
any cameras. He's not doing this. He's just he's vetting,
I mean, just venting. And I realized like, oh, they're
gonna be really good and the media I picked them
to win four or five games, they went on to
win ten. So a lot of times it's what these coaches,
how they handle themselves. The way that they talk inside
or how they connect throughout the rooms. And a lot
(02:51):
of that too is with the quarterbacks as well, watching
them how they work doing these interviews. Are they always
on their phone? Are they taking pictures of the whole time?
Are they engage making eye contact? And you could pretty
much doing this long enough time, you could you pretty
much know who are going to be the dudes and
who are gonna be the ones that are playing the
part of a dudes.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, I always think about it too. You were talking
about the quarterback situation. I've always been one to think
every quarterback on your squad, I mean not on your squad.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But on each team should be represented here.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
A lot of times the coaches don't even bring a
quarterback because I don't know what the message is going
to be.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Are they not good in front of the camera.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Are they going to may not know, may not know who?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
We've seen both sides of it. I mean, listen, I
can't believe It's like have watching the Bloods and Crips
and you guys, he's over here and you have sooners
over here. But like when you think about Marcel Reid,
why would Marcel read not be the guy now? Whether
or not he has a kids camp that he's working
in college station or wherever, wherever it is home for him.
I get it, but I'm like, this is a pretty
big opportunity to showcase and shine your light on who
(03:52):
you were going to be. So and then you get
situations like you guys where you have a manning who
for the time, at probably age of three, he was
getting ready for these moments, so we'd like to see
the quarterbacks. I had an opportunity to interview Austin Simmons yesterday.
The kid over at Old Miss nineteen years old homeschool,
skipped two grades, and like, remember the Todd Morenovitch story, right,
(04:14):
well that was like where his family just from day one,
his dad's like, you're gonna do this, this, this, this,
and this.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I think this could be the opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
In the fact of while that happened, I think it
could it could really help him. And this kid played
baseball and I mean he's just he looks he looks
like a bigger, faster, stronger version of Tua and even cooler,
calm and collected than that.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So yeah, I came away really impressed with him yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Toward that end, anybody that's gotten to know a little
bit about the whole thing that has surrounded Arch Manning
understands that his family model has been really, really good.
They've been very very patient, not only Cooper and his mom,
but the uncles and his grandfather and grandmother. They've all
taken a very deliberate approach to this whole thing and
(05:00):
have not been in a hurry. Now, having said that,
I just visited with David Cutcliffe upstairs of course the
long time. Yeah, it was a coach of elid Ole Miss,
an offensive coordinator for Payton.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
They're in coach to Duke and all that, and he
let Arch know. Arch did not know this.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It was in a room upstairs with Arch, and he
let Arch know that when he was born, he had
a courier send over a letter of intent to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
For Arch.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So I guess the point of all of this. The
point of all this is that those sorts of expectations
and accolades have been coming for some time for Arts.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But it seems as though he has processed well.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And that's also one of the reasons why I thought
him going to Texas made perfect sense. He wasn't going
to be in the shadow, or living in what had
happened over in Oxford or what happened over in Knoxville.
With Peyton, he had an opportunity to only forge his
own new beginnings, but also that Sark had a vision
for him. Listen, I'm not gonna put you in. You
(06:02):
don't need to be a freshman writer from the jump.
In fact, you don't need to need to be a sophomore.
Get bigger, faster, stronger, and you can tell the way
his body has developed over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So do you go back and look at the history
of Eli and Peyton.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
They weren't guys that played great right from the jump,
and they're looking at it for more of a macro
of Hey, do you want to have a Hall of
Fame type career?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Win super Bowls? Don't be in a rush to be
out there.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And by the way, it doesn't hurt whenever you're gonna
make probably more money than all of us can, but
well not Craig Way, but a lot more money than
everybody else. Combine. While you're doing it, take time, it's college.
Enjoy yourself because at some point every single person at
Jamal Charles on My show earlier today and I asked Jamal,
I was like, how was it in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And he goes and he just he goes.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Man, you saw me smiling Earlier's because I was thinking
about the times that I was carrying the ball for
Mac Brown and I was with Vince Young and I
was winning national championships and Craig Wave was on the call,
you know, like that type stuff like that is what
you'll remember more so than anything is the next level
is business because.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
In it's business now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But I think it's it's the purest version of what
we'll ever see anymore. And I think Sark has absolutely
threaded the needle of saying being open, honest, respectful with
these players and go, yes, this is real.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
There are responsibilities, and he.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Runs it like an NFL team, And I think that's
one of the reasons why the Longhorns are here to
stay for a long long time.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
We appreciate it, man, that's exciting times and as always,
it's always good seeing you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But most importantly you got the chance to meet Craig.
What I mean, Listen, I was gonna ask for an autograph.
I don't know if that there general, we appreciate it
and it's been again. Having Texas in this conference has
created a jolt.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And well that's one thing I was gonna ask you
now that last year, at this time in Dallas, Yeah,
there was I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Anybody wanted the Longhorns to fail.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, there was an undercurrent of let's see how they do.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Let's see how they see. If you felt it was
not that they did selight in Austin. I mean, I listen,
I lived in Texas for twenty years. I'd always be
up at a thirty five every time I had a
chance to go up, you know, up to Austin. And
but it was more so like you need to pay
your dues because how often in the SEC do we
say you do you really need to do this, this
or this, and you can't just hurry up and have success.
(08:22):
So that's why I trust me. Everybody, even Alabama fans
were pulling for Georgia last year in the SEC Championship Games.
They're like, you need to earn it, but I'm excited
about it. Gonna be fun this year.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He appreciate you taking the time. Thanks boys, all right,
Peter Burns. GESPN will continue here on Am thirteen, under
the zone
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