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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The free Arteart radio app as well as on the
podcast Cold does a good job of cutting it up,
so if you missed any of it, we're there as well,
so there's no excuse.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
A lot to get into.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
On this first day of July, we have Inconceivable this hour,
we also have NBA Free Agency. Did the Bucks accidentally
ruin their title shots by letting Damian Lillard walk away?
We'll talk to you about that a little bit later,
but first it is maybe the quote of the month,
(00:29):
and it's already the first of the month. It's Paul
Finebaum this morning on Get Up and Call. Let's hear
with mister Finebaum, the true authority of college football, the
true authority of the SEC, had to say about arch
Manning the absolute ruf.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I think there's a reasonably good chance at Arch Manning
will be sitting on the front row in New York
at the Heisman ceremony. That's assuming that his team does
what it's supposed to do and compete for not only
the SEC, but for the national championship, and I really
believe they will. I think Steve Sarkisian, who's one of
the most amazing play callers I've ever seen, made a
critical mistake late in the year. He was way too
(01:08):
loyal to quinn Ewers, who was banged up and was
really ineffective. Had arch Manning been instituted in the second
half of that game, like Nick Saban did a couple
of years ago, with a tongue of I loa, I
think there's a reasonably good chance that Texas would have
beaten Ohio State and won the national championship.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
They're very capable of doing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It again this year. I believe also that arch Manning
is the best college football quarterback we have seen since
Tim Tebow entered the scene in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So let's start right there at the end, because there's
a lot to get into with Fine Bomb. Fine Bom
gave us plenty to talk about, but we'll start here.
Anytime you invoke the name of Timothy Tebow, you were
going to get the highest of high expectations. Now, do
I think Tim Tebow's the greatest college quarterback of all time?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think there's a lot of guys who have had
better single seasons than Tebo. I think about Joe Burrow
with that LSU team, sixty touchdowns. It's hard to beat
that Johnny Manzel might have been a little bit more
electric at Texas A and M and his Heisman season.
But if you gave me somebody's career, if I could
go and scherry pick a career of college football, I'm
taking Tim Tebow. So when you compare him to Tebow,
(02:23):
when you compare arch Manning to Tebo, immediately the stakes
are raised. Yeah, Texas is coming into the twenty twenty
five twenty sixth season as a preemptive favorite to try
to win a national championship, something that Steve Sarkisian has
not yet been able to do at the University of Texas.
And the expectations are ginormous for this program because they
(02:44):
are the University of Texas. That's just how it goes
in the state, That's how it goes nationally. This is
the flagship, this is the brand. So I look at Finebaum,
who has been known every once in a while to
try to throw something in the spokes of some of
these national championship contending teams, and I almost hear this
as fodder, a little bit of the outside noise to
(03:08):
throw the long runs off their game, to throw Arch
Manning off this game, and to throw meat red meat.
I should say to those Internet trolls who are going
to love every misstep, every misfire from this team. Now,
I don't imagine that's going to happen a ton this year,
but I do think that there are going to be
times there. It's going to be games, there's going to
be quarters where arch Banning looks like a guy who's
(03:30):
playing his first full season under center. I don't think
that that's insane to say. I don't think that that's
incorrect to predict that there will be games, there will
be times, there will be situations where he's going to
look like a quarterback who's starting his first season of
college football. He was a good backup last year. He
has the most important name in football. He is from
(03:52):
a lineage that not just him. He has a name,
but he also has two Hall of Fame quarterback uncles,
and he has a grandfather who was special in his
own right in Archie Manning. This is the name. This
is the first family of football in America. When you
have those expectations, when you have that last name, it
matters a little bit more, obviously, and you played for
(04:14):
the University of Texas. Somehow, the stakes are even higher.
So that was my first major takeaway is that to
compare him to Tebow. For Fine Bomb to come on
television on the first day of July where things are quiet,
it felt like he was just trying to make some noise,
try to put something out there to get some clicks.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I don't love that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't love that you're using the University of Texas
and Arch Manning to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That would be my first thing. The second thing is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That Fine Bomb is playing right into the internet conspiracy
theory that some of the we call them the Tinfoil
Hat Gang, have been putting out there for months, for
almost a year now, that Sarkesian should have moved off
of Quinn when Quinn had some of those injuries late
in the season, moved to Arch and give him the
key come playoff time. And we've heard it compared to
(05:03):
when Saban took the ball away from Jalen Hurts in
the National Championship at halftime, gave it to a tongue
of Aloa and they won the National Championship. But I
hate to break the news to you that those days
are the past. Those days you don't exist anymore. What
you are in now is a new era of college football.
We just saw thee Or Texas Totate University go to
the Pac twelve yesterday for a little bit more money. Okay,
(05:27):
we are in a situation now that is the closest
we are ever going to get to player empowerment in football.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
College game has turned into semi pro game. You cannot
do that as a college football coach, and we're never
going to see a situation like Saban had in the
National Championship again. You have to ride with your starting quarterback.
That's just how it goes from here on out. Because
the sixteen fifteen year old quarterback who's coming up, who's
going to be the next quarterback of your favorite team?
(05:55):
They have that in their head that, hey, I remember
at halftime of a last game of the SEC schedule,
the slate that Sarkisian took the ball away from the
starter and gave it to me, gave it to the backup.
And then when you're the starter, your entire time, you're
looking over your shoulder worried that somebody's gonna take your job.
You can't have a successful football program doing that. We
(06:16):
said it then that Sarkisian was doing the right thing
by riding with Queen yours. If he can play, he
needs to play. But you also are in a spot
now where you're trying to recti act, retroactively change the past.
You're trying to retroactively move the goalposts and say, oh,
Art should have been playing. I'm gonna be honest with
you here, Okay, I think Sarkisian might be the smartest
(06:40):
college football coach in America. I'm gonna be honest with you.
I think he's one of the smartest college or football
coaches that we've had in the last twenty five years.
What he has been able to do at the University
of Texas is a statement towards that. So if he
says I'm gonna ride out with the guy who got
me here in Quinn, I'm gonna jump in the back
seat and say drive me there.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm on all on board with coach sark That's just me.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, maybe you are sitting there saying, oh, well, I
would have rather had arch Banning play. Well, that's easy
to play the results. It's easy to play the results
after not winning the national title, saying well, if.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He would, but we don't know that. You don't know
that I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I think that they've made the right decision at the time,
and I think that fine bomb going on get up
on a random Tuesday morning in July. Saying that Sarkesian
made a misstep is very easy to play the results.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's very easy to play the results of that.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
There's not another college football coach in America, not Ryan Day,
not Davo Sweeney, Nobody would have taken the ball out
of Quinnever's hands because they know the world that they
live in today. They know the world that they live
in today. That is a player empowerment era. And then
if you are the type of guy who's going to
take the ball away from your starting quarterback and give
it to the backup, then no starting quarterback then can
(07:54):
trust you. Whether he's banged up, maybe he has a
couple bad interceptions, he's looking over his shoulder. You can't
also fin football games like that, Yeah, Cole, Well, hindsight's
twenty twenty, and so I think that would be gone
farther with Arch. We don't know that, we don't know
what would have happened. But also if we're winning with Quinn,
(08:16):
that's fine, And there's honestly, I liked the approach sark
is taking with Arch. Just pump the breaks, be patient
with him. He's going to be fine. He's not pushing
him down our throats or anything like that. Pump the breaks.
He's going to be fine. Let him develop. It takes time.
He's not forcing it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And that's what I really appreciate about the whole sark situation,
in him developing Arch and coaching him the right way.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I will say that the outside noise that Longhorn fans
remember from five or eight or nine is now like
goes ten, fifteen levels higher because of social media, because
of the Internet, because of everything we have today. The
outside noise on this season is going to be unlike
any other season that Longhorn fans can remember because there's
(09:05):
legitimate title chances this year. Last year, first year in
the SEC, they exceeded a lot of people's expectations. You
come into year number two, you have a year of
SEC football under your belt. The outside noise this year
is going to be second to none in the history
of the Longhorns football program. How is Sarkisian going to
be able to make sure that that doesn't get in
(09:26):
the locker room? That will be the truest test I
think this season call. Yeah, I completely agree.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
But also it doesn't matter if you're playing at Ohio
State or San Jose State. Every team is going to
give you their all because you just have a target
on your back coming into the season of oh well
we fell short the year before, but hey, you know
we got arch revamping. Everything you know is looking up
to win a national championship. But every team is going
(09:52):
to be gunning for you in every fan and every
media member is going to do what they can to
you know, get the clicks and get the and really
try and cause that outside noise. I think Starks doing
a great job as well as containing that as much
as he can. But Fine Bomb, I'm not. I agree,
but don't agree type of thing. It is slow season.
(10:13):
I understand it. It's a Tuesday, you know, Fine Bam
knows what he's talking about. So again, it's just cut
the outside noise, focus on what's in front of you,
be patient with it, and let's go win a national championship.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The one thing Fine Bamb and I are going to
agree on is that Arch Band is sitting front row
at the Heisman ceremony probably most likely will be happening,
all right. When we come back NBA free agency. Did
the Milwaukee Bucks already ruin their title chances on day
number one?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Craig Wait Show rolls on, Andrew zim Will sitting in
for Craig Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
The free Arteart radio app as well as on the
podcast Cold does a good job of cutting it up,
so if you missed any of it, we're there as well,
so there's no excuse.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
A lot to get into.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
On this first day of July, we have Inconceivable this hour,
we also have NBA Free Agency. Did the Bucks accidentally
ruin their title shots by letting Damian Lillard walk away?
We'll talk to you about that a little bit later,
but first it is maybe the quote of the month,
(00:29):
and it's already the first of the month. It's Paul
Finebaum this morning on Get Up and Call. Let's hear
with mister Finebaum, the true authority of college football, the
true authority of the SEC, had to say about arch
Manning the absolute ruf.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I think there's a reasonably good chance at Arch Manning
will be sitting on the front row in New York
at the Heisman ceremony. That's assuming that his team does
what it's supposed to do and compete for not only
the SEC, but for the national championship, and I really
believe they will. I think Steve Sarkisian, who's one of
the most amazing play callers I've ever seen, made a
critical mistake late in the year. He was way too
(01:08):
loyal to quinn Ewers, who was banged up and was
really ineffective. Had arch Manning been instituted in the second
half of that game, like Nick Saban did a couple
of years ago, with a tongue of I loa, I
think there's a reasonably good chance that Texas would have
beaten Ohio State and won the national championship.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
They're very capable of doing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It again this year. I believe also that arch Manning
is the best college football quarterback we have seen since
Tim Tebow entered the scene in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So let's start right there at the end, because there's
a lot to get into with Fine Bomb. Fine Bom
gave us plenty to talk about, but we'll start here.
Anytime you invoke the name of Timothy Tebow, you were
going to get the highest of high expectations. Now, do
I think Tim Tebow's the greatest college quarterback of all time?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think there's a lot of guys who have had
better single seasons than Tebo. I think about Joe Burrow
with that LSU team, sixty touchdowns. It's hard to beat
that Johnny Manzel might have been a little bit more
electric at Texas A and M and his Heisman season.
But if you gave me somebody's career, if I could
go and scherry pick a career of college football, I'm
taking Tim Tebow. So when you compare him to Tebow,
(02:23):
when you compare arch Manning to Tebo, immediately the stakes
are raised. Yeah, Texas is coming into the twenty twenty
five twenty sixth season as a preemptive favorite to try
to win a national championship, something that Steve Sarkisian has
not yet been able to do at the University of Texas.
And the expectations are ginormous for this program because they
(02:44):
are the University of Texas. That's just how it goes
in the state, That's how it goes nationally. This is
the flagship, this is the brand. So I look at Finebaum,
who has been known every once in a while to
try to throw something in the spokes of some of
these national championship contending teams, and I almost hear this
as fodder, a little bit of the outside noise to
(03:08):
throw the long runs off their game, to throw Arch
Manning off this game, and to throw meat red meat.
I should say to those Internet trolls who are going
to love every misstep, every misfire from this team. Now,
I don't imagine that's going to happen a ton this year,
but I do think that there are going to be
times there. It's going to be games, there's going to
be quarters where arch Banning looks like a guy who's
(03:30):
playing his first full season under center. I don't think
that that's insane to say. I don't think that that's
incorrect to predict that there will be games, there will
be times, there will be situations where he's going to
look like a quarterback who's starting his first season of
college football. He was a good backup last year. He
has the most important name in football. He is from
(03:52):
a lineage that not just him. He has a name,
but he also has two Hall of Fame quarterback uncles,
and he has a grandfather who was special in his
own right in Archie Manning. This is the name. This
is the first family of football in America. When you
have those expectations, when you have that last name, it
matters a little bit more, obviously, and you played for
(04:14):
the University of Texas. Somehow, the stakes are even higher.
So that was my first major takeaway is that to
compare him to Tebow. For Fine Bomb to come on
television on the first day of July where things are quiet,
it felt like he was just trying to make some noise,
try to put something out there to get some clicks.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I don't love that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't love that you're using the University of Texas
and Arch Manning to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That would be my first thing. The second thing is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That Fine Bomb is playing right into the internet conspiracy
theory that some of the we call them the Tinfoil
Hat Gang, have been putting out there for months, for
almost a year now, that Sarkesian should have moved off
of Quinn when Quinn had some of those injuries late
in the season, moved to Arch and give him the
key come playoff time. And we've heard it compared to
(05:03):
when Saban took the ball away from Jalen Hurts in
the National Championship at halftime, gave it to a tongue
of Aloa and they won the National Championship. But I
hate to break the news to you that those days
are the past. Those days you don't exist anymore. What
you are in now is a new era of college football.
We just saw thee Or Texas Totate University go to
the Pac twelve yesterday for a little bit more money. Okay,
(05:27):
we are in a situation now that is the closest
we are ever going to get to player empowerment in football.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
College game has turned into semi pro game. You cannot
do that as a college football coach, and we're never
going to see a situation like Saban had in the
National Championship again. You have to ride with your starting quarterback.
That's just how it goes from here on out. Because
the sixteen fifteen year old quarterback who's coming up, who's
going to be the next quarterback of your favorite team?
(05:55):
They have that in their head that, hey, I remember
at halftime of a last game of the SEC schedule,
the slate that Sarkisian took the ball away from the
starter and gave it to me, gave it to the backup.
And then when you're the starter, your entire time, you're
looking over your shoulder worried that somebody's gonna take your job.
You can't have a successful football program doing that. We
(06:16):
said it then that Sarkisian was doing the right thing
by riding with Queen yours. If he can play, he
needs to play. But you also are in a spot
now where you're trying to recti act, retroactively change the past.
You're trying to retroactively move the goalposts and say, oh,
Art should have been playing. I'm gonna be honest with
you here, Okay, I think Sarkisian might be the smartest
(06:40):
college football coach in America. I'm gonna be honest with you.
I think he's one of the smartest college or football
coaches that we've had in the last twenty five years.
What he has been able to do at the University
of Texas is a statement towards that. So if he
says I'm gonna ride out with the guy who got
me here in Quinn, I'm gonna jump in the back
seat and say drive me there.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm on all on board with coach sark That's just me.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, maybe you are sitting there saying, oh, well, I
would have rather had arch Banning play. Well, that's easy
to play the results. It's easy to play the results
after not winning the national title, saying well, if.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He would, but we don't know that. You don't know
that I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I think that they've made the right decision at the time,
and I think that fine bomb going on get up
on a random Tuesday morning in July. Saying that Sarkesian
made a misstep is very easy to play the results.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's very easy to play the results of that.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
There's not another college football coach in America, not Ryan Day,
not Davo Sweeney, Nobody would have taken the ball out
of Quinnever's hands because they know the world that they
live in today. They know the world that they live
in today. That is a player empowerment era. And then
if you are the type of guy who's going to
take the ball away from your starting quarterback and give
it to the backup, then no starting quarterback then can
(07:54):
trust you. Whether he's banged up, maybe he has a
couple bad interceptions, he's looking over his shoulder. You can't
also fin football games like that, Yeah, Cole, Well, hindsight's
twenty twenty, and so I think that would be gone
farther with Arch. We don't know that, we don't know
what would have happened. But also if we're winning with Quinn,
(08:16):
that's fine, And there's honestly, I liked the approach sark
is taking with Arch. Just pump the breaks, be patient
with him. He's going to be fine. He's not pushing
him down our throats or anything like that. Pump the breaks.
He's going to be fine. Let him develop. It takes time.
He's not forcing it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And that's what I really appreciate about the whole sark situation,
in him developing Arch and coaching him the right way.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I will say that the outside noise that Longhorn fans
remember from five or eight or nine is now like
goes ten, fifteen levels higher because of social media, because
of the Internet, because of everything we have today. The
outside noise on this season is going to be unlike
any other season that Longhorn fans can remember because there's
(09:05):
legitimate title chances this year. Last year, first year in
the SEC, they exceeded a lot of people's expectations. You
come into year number two, you have a year of
SEC football under your belt. The outside noise this year
is going to be second to none in the history
of the Longhorns football program. How is Sarkisian going to
be able to make sure that that doesn't get in
(09:26):
the locker room? That will be the truest test I
think this season call. Yeah, I completely agree.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
But also it doesn't matter if you're playing at Ohio
State or San Jose State. Every team is going to
give you their all because you just have a target
on your back coming into the season of oh well
we fell short the year before, but hey, you know
we got arch revamping. Everything you know is looking up
to win a national championship. But every team is going
(09:52):
to be gunning for you in every fan and every
media member is going to do what they can to
you know, get the clicks and get the and really
try and cause that outside noise. I think Starks doing
a great job as well as containing that as much
as he can. But Fine Bomb, I'm not. I agree,
but don't agree type of thing. It is slow season.
(10:13):
I understand it. It's a Tuesday, you know, Fine Bam
knows what he's talking about. So again, it's just cut
the outside noise, focus on what's in front of you,
be patient with it, and let's go win a national championship.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The one thing Fine Bamb and I are going to
agree on is that Arch Band is sitting front row
at the Heisman ceremony probably most likely will be happening,
all right. When we come back NBA free agency. Did
the Milwaukee Bucks already ruin their title chances on day
number one?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Craig Wait Show rolls on, Andrew zim Will sitting in
for Craig Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
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