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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We enter, Hey, yacht rock, Wednesday, the hump.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Day of the week.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Glad to have you with us here on Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred of the zone.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good after it, and everybody, welcome to the program. My
name is Craig Wait. Glad to have you with us.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
As I always say, if Wednesday is truly the hump
day for you, we hope we can help you get
over that hump. And on the down he'll run to
the weekend. For some of you, Wednesday's the end of
the work week. I've been told him as if that's
the case, good on you, good for you, and hope
that you enjoy your weekend as it were coming up

(00:31):
next couple of days. And for those of you who
are just starting out your work week, hopefully oing get
you off to a good start.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Glad to have you with us.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Us includes the producer of the program, Jay Carmon, and
let us one more time, Jake once mom let us
put to rest, and he worries that Cameron Parker is
no longer employed here. He is very much cainfully employed.
In fact, he was promoted. That's why he's doing a
lot of other administrative orient things and why there was

(01:01):
the need to have someone else join our team. Enter
Jay Herman, who appears to have gotten the hang of
things after a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, don't put the jinks on me, Craig, but just no,
just no. Cameron misses you every day.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No he doesn't. He doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
His mind hanging out with me a little bit when
we're on the road with men's basketball, which we will
be in the seat. Let me tell you something, he's
gonna be real happy him around when he gets to
do when he gets to go to Maui this year. Mmmm,
you know. So he's and my wife, by the way,
for my birthday, gave me a couple of really nice

(01:38):
Hawaiian print shirts with the express purpose of wearing them
in Mali.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh that's that's a great gift, very thoughtful.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, you know, when we see the Maui invitation go on,
there's guys in there that looked like, in some cases,
look like they're wearing bed sheets, you know. And it
was like that with me and Eddie Orn and our
one time engineer producer Mike Perl. We were all wearing
these burnt orange ones that had longhorns all over in
a Hawaiian print fashion. So I think I still may

(02:06):
have that one around somewhere in the closet. But she
got me a couple of really nice, fashionable ones, one
from our friends at Sir Patrick. So anyway, that's he'll
be happy for that. He'll be happy for the season
opening road trip to Charlotte, North Carolina when he gets
to go back.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
To his hometown.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, how about that to.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Engineer a men's basketball game for So, Cameron Parker is
very much part of the team. And we'll see Cam
later this afternoon because not only is he the chief
engineer slash producer of our Longhorn men's basketball games broadcast,
and not only the co host of long Oorns Game

(02:51):
Day with my Cardboll Harge and Mark Henry out at
Bevo Boulevard and Winship Circle at hook them hangout every
Saturday where the three of the those guys will be
hanging out this Saturday afternoon. Jake will be there engineering
as well. Yeah, no Cam this Saturday though, Except for
this Saturday, I started to say, and Kim will be

(03:14):
attending a wedding, not his own, it as a wedding
in North Carolina. But we will see Cameron today before
he gets out of town because we go over to
record Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark and he wants you
to kind of see how the whole operation runs on that,
so you'll get you'll get exposed to that this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, should be exciting.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
And you know when you picture, you know, you describe
Cam at a wedding, but not his own. It makes
me think of Nathan Fielder and the rehearsal. Yes, yes,
just hanging out at the wedding, hanging.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Out said he's he's he's got another one. I think
next month and it's in Orlando. Yeah, I think it's
the same weekend as the Long Warn football game at Florida.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
So he doesn't know if he's going to make it
to the wedding. He might if the time works for
the kickers. We don't yet know the kickoff time for
that game.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
The wedding's not at Cover three with Longhorn game.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Day, No, it's not a Cover three.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
It won't be there so anyway, Well, so Cameron very
much is still a part of the picture, and the
plan and all that other kind of stuff is just
the actual producer duties for this program have fallen to
Jake now, so he puts up with me as best
as possible.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
And Cam does pop in.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
We had him pop in on Monday to get his
reaction about the Dallas Cowboys. That is, after all, you know,
his self loathing favorite football team that he's just kind
of stuck with. You know, this is something and maybe
maybe folks can answer this question on our text line.
We have the text lone available as always for you,

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and we certainly encourage your participation if you if you
want to, you've got something to say or a question
about something, We're always happy to have you do that.
But here's a question we might have for you, because
I find this difficult, really difficult to be able to do,

(05:08):
even if I wanted to, and I don't, but even
if I wanted to, and that is to just discard
your favorite pro sports team in favor of another or
college athletic team, and especially I think there are people
with college teams who have more of themselves invested in them,
perhaps unless you live in an area where collegepoords.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Doesn't mean as much.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean, college sports meant something where you grew up
in the greater Washington, DC area, but not like it
does in the South or here or in other parts
of the country.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Am I right?

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
And DC as a sports town a little bit transient
because a lot of people that live in d C
didn't grow up there and don't plan to stay there.
It kind of depends on what their jobs are sometimes
who's in charge anyhow, College it's the same thing. It's
even more of a mosaic in terms of fans. But Craig,
it's much easier to quit your sports team allegiance and

(06:01):
switch if you're a Wizards fan, as of the draft lottery,
which saw Cooper Flagg become a Dallas Maverick.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, I have quit the Wizards.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Really, you just disengaged yourself from you grew up there
where they still they've already become Wizards by the time
you came into existence.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm half kidding. I'm excited about the young guys they have,
but I just can't. I've quit following it on a
night to night basis.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know what, The Wizards always strike me as a
team that seems to have a truckload of new young
guys every year, and then they're gone in there's another
truckload of new young guys the next year that.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Come in for them.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, and this front office has been the shrewdest of
the few regimes that there have been in my lifetime
in terms of fully committing to completely tearing it down. Craig,
it's year three now of what they're calling the deconstruction phase.
What is it some sort of gourmet sandwich?

Speaker 2 (06:54):
When does it reconstruct?

Speaker 3 (06:56):
My goodness, hopefully next year, because nobody on the books
really after next year. They've been taking on big veteran
contracts and then flipping them for more picks. But the
plan has not been winning for about four years, and
it's not going to be winning for about the next
two or three years.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Here's the bottom line on that deal. At some point
you have to pay big money. You can keep dumping
big veteran contracts and bringing in young guys on the
rookie deals, but eventually, if you want to be competitive
at all, you're going to have to pay those young
guys if they're good enough.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, they're trying to copy the Thunder.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
They're trying to replicate what the Thunder did, and that
that doesn't always work that way.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
You have to get the right guys in there.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's right, that's right. Speaking of the Thunder, my youngest son.
That's his favorite team. It's Cameron's favorite Nbad good ways
for camera. Yeah yeah, the tea. They got to celebrate
a championship. And I always say every person who really
invests of themselves in a pro sports team should be

(07:57):
able to celebrate at least one championship of one of
their favorite sports teams in their lifetime.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
You've been able to do that, right.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
I got that the year I grew capital the day
I graduated high school, I stayed downtown in DC with
some friends and watched Game five with the Stanley cop
outside of what was then known as the Verizon Center
and got to party in the street with everybody. It
was an amazing, amazing day. And then the Nationals won
it a year later.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
What's the Verizon Center called now.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Capital One Arena?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Sure it is, okay.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I did a Texas game there very early in its existence.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
This is how early it was called the mc I Center.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yep, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Back then Texas played there.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Gilbert Arenas, Wizards played there.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
And handgun optional.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
So so anyway, the I always said that everybody deserves
if you're if you're truly a sports fan, if you're
truly a fan of your team, and you you invested yourself,
your sweat equity, and your rooting fandom in a team
you deserve to celebrate at least one champions I've been very,

(09:07):
very fortunate in my life. All of my favorite pro
sports teams have won at least one title in my lifetime,
one that I remember and recall and can celebrate. For example,
in the NHL, when I was a little kid, I
liked the Boston Bruins because there was no team in Carolina,
and I got to see him win a couple of
Stanley Cups, and then they didn't win one into what

(09:27):
twenty eleven I think it was, and I felt good
for them. But by then I had become a Carolina
Hurricanes fan because when the team moved for Hartford, their
first two or three years they were in Greensboro, so
I knew my hometown was not going to have a
major pro sports team for very long. And I actually
flew with my oldest son. He was kind of young

(09:49):
at the time, I think he was like twelve or thirteen.
We flew to Greensboro to see the last ever regular
season game the Avalanche played in the Greensboro Coliseum before
they moved in Raleigh the next year when they what
was then called PNC Arena. Get what it's called now.
I just called a game there last November when Texas
played there. But anyway, it's it's it's got another bank

(10:12):
name or something like that on it.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, it's not coming to mind yether.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I prefer to block out memories of all Capitals games
that have happened there recently.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, okay, So, uh so they won in O six
Lenovo Center, Lenovo Center.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Thank you. After I have a Lenovo laptop, I should
remember that anyway.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
So.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
The uh yeah, it's Lenovo Center.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
So anyway, that was in O six, So that was
the hockey part that that's And then the Bruins won
in eleven. So it's the root for Boston when they
don't play Carolina. So that's okay. So I've been lucky
in Nevers NBA Mavericks won in twenty eleven, got to
the NBA Finals a little over a year ago, and
I actually went to Game four Land and I went

(10:56):
out there and paid pretty steep price, but it was
a bucket list thing I wanted to go, and I
got some good seats and went to that. So they
didn't win them, but they did win back in twenty eleven.
And when I was younger, before the Mavericks came out,
I was a Laker fan, and then Showtime and all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
So I got plenty of basketball titles.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Rams yeah, twice in my lifetime, once in Saint Louis
and then once in LA.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
So that's cool.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Dodgers obviously last, you know, winning last year when they
and they also won in twenty twenty. They won in
eighty eight, they won in eighty one when I was
in college. So I've been fortunate. I've been fortunate. You
always want more, but I've been fortunate and been like
you know, Cup fans went through one hundred and eight
years between Tom Ras Red Sox fans eighty six years.

(11:44):
My youngest son is a Red Sox fan, and I
had to explained to him, like, dude, you've had four
World championships in your lifetime, four, seven, thirteen, and eighteen.
In fact, when and I flew out in eighteen when
they beat the Dodgers in Game five to win to
win their fourth in the New Millennium, that was after
won eighty six years. And I said, you didn't have

(12:06):
to go through all that, A lot of Red Sox
fans true died in the wool. Red Sox fans were born,
lived their entire lives, and died not seeing the Red
Sox win a World Series. But they've won four since then.
It's getting to be a bit of a drought for
Yankees fans. It is for the team that's won more
World Series than any other, they haven't won one since
two thousand and nine.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, Yankee fans, about my age. If you're younger than me,
I'm twenty five. If you're younger than me, you have
no you can't get called a bandwagon Yankee fans.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's right, all right.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
So here's my question if folks want to want to
chime in on this on the text line, have you
disengaged yourself, dropped your pro sports rooting team. And the
reason why I bring this up is my oldest son
apparently has no problem doing it, at least with his
NFL team. When he was a little kid, he liked

(12:59):
the Jaguar, he liked the uniforms, and Fred Taylor and
Mark Brunell.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
We liked them.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Then after a while, when they weren't good and the
Cowboys were starting to rise. He thought, you know what,
I should root for the Cowboys. That's in my own state.
We lived in their temperline. I'd taken him to a
couple of co also took him a couple of Jaguars games,
but he was like, we should go, So we just
dropped him. He was like, you can really do that,
and at the time, he said, you should be able
to do that at least once you know we's done

(13:24):
it again. He and his betrothed they get married. She
grew up Wisconsin, so she was kind of a Backers fan.
A lot of the family. They decided to pick a team,
not Cowboys, not Packers. They decided to randomly pick a
team and throw all of their rooting capital into it
and say, this is our team. We're going to get

(13:45):
a jersey, We're gonna eventually go and see them play.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know what team? They picked?

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Which team?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
The Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh no, And I told him, I said, you've seen
a team that doesn't look to be well coached, doesn't
look to be well owned, doesn't look to be well quarterbacked,
and doesn't look to be well stocked, and yet they
picked the Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
So okay, but he's able to do that. I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
I went through a lot, I want to tell you
a lot of lean years rooting for the Rams, a
lot both in LA and sing lists. Yeah, so, but
I stuck with him. Same thing with the Dodgers, and
people said why it just to repeat for folks who
said why did you pick those teams when I was
a little kid, it was for completely different reasons, and
Los Angeles had nothing to do with it. I don't
even really think that much of the city LA it

(14:31):
had nothing to do with that. When I was a kid,
my dad used to tell me stories. He went to
two World Series in nineteen fifty two and fifty three
when he was stationed in the Army in New York City.
He saw the Dodgers and the Yankees played twice in
the World Series. He saw car lursk and strike out
fourteen Yankees at one point, which was a record that
held until nineteen sixty three, when Sandy Kofax struck out

(14:55):
fifteen Yankees in Game one of the sixty three World Series,
and that lasts for five year until Bob Gibson struck
out seventeen Detroit Tigers in Game one of the sixty
eight World Series. For the Cardinals, but he went to
a couple of World Series. And when I was a
little kid near at nighttime, he would sit on the
edge of either my bed or my younger brother and
he would tell us stories about the Yankees and the
Dodgers and Mickey Mann and all this kind of stuff,

(15:17):
and the two great teams, the Yankees and Dodgers. And
blue was my favorite color at the time, so I
liked the Dodger blue collar. And then the first package
of baseball cards I ever had, I opened the first
card was Bill Russell of the Dodgers. I was hooked
at that point. That was nineteen sixty nine. Ever since,
been devoted dead again. Suffered last night watching the bullpen

(15:38):
blew blow another game last.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Night after the comeback too.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh gosh, and Otani, who pitched five no hit innings
and hit his fiftieth home run of the year, pull
him out in the bullpen just completely employs.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
But that's been happening a lot lately.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I have a mixed experience watching the Phillies with all
the former Nats guys.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, I understand that, So I had that, And then,
like I said, I liked the Lakers with Jerry West
wil Chamberlain early days. But when the Mavericks came into existence,
I was in college in Dallas and I worked. Mavericks
came selling merchandise, so I've been with them since nineteen
eighty and then the Rams. When it was a little kid,

(16:13):
my brothers and I I have three brothers and a sister,
and my brothers and I would all write letters to
teams looking to get autograph photos or whatever.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's what kids did back then.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
And I wrote to several different teams that had one
brother was a Packers fan because of the Lombardi era.
I had one brother was a Jets fan as a
Joe Namath, and my younger brother became a Cowboys fan.
And I wrote these letters off and the only team
to answer was the Rams. And it was this autographed
eight by ten black and white glossy of Roman Gabriel,
the quarterback with the autograph A champ never quits Roman Gabriel,

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probably signed by member of the promotion staff. I don't know,
but it meant a lot to me as a kid.
I also liked the uniform, like kids do. I was
locked in nineteen sixty nine. They started the year eleven
and zero and ended up frustrating me by losing in
the first in the Western Conference playoffs and the Vikings
and ever since, and they went decades of frustrating. We

(17:04):
had the Ferragamo team, yeah yeah, yeah, they finally at
least got to a super Bowl, but those other great
teams they had in the seventies couldn't get over the
hump of the NFC championship. So but I have stayed
with my teams all the way through, and I don't
know how I could emotionally disengage from that. But apparently
it's no problem for my son. And like you said,
you know, maybe you've kind of disengaged from the Wizards.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's it's it's just the thing where I can't I
can't get invested in any individual player that team's, especially
in a league like the NBA.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's a good point, all right.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
So that's the question if you want to, you know,
chime in on the text line, have you been able
did you ever just totally jettison your favorite pro sports
team and adopt another one and get into it?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
For that, we've got one already, Todd says he quit
the Kansas City Chiefs because his brothers started liking them.
Two brothers cannot like the same team. Now we got
to have something to argue about it.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know what, It's a good point.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Like I said, all my brothers that like different teams,
all of them like different teams, and my sister as well.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
So there you go. All right, we're gonna get to that.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
We're also going to hear conversation with Hero Canoo at
the Long Orange defensive front. He'll visit with our Will Matthews.
We have inconceivable this hour which does have a sports
theme in it. Also next hour, we are going to
hear in the next hour of the program conversation with

(18:30):
Trevor Goosby. And also in the four o'clock hour, we'll
hear from Longren's head coach Steve Sarkisian start from the
SEC teleconference today and you'll hear a conversation with Leonga Lafoul,
long Orn's linebackers. So we got a lot in store.
We'll get to your questions as well as we continue.
On a yacht Rock Wednesday, I'm thirteen under the zone.

(18:51):
If bands are on the Mount Rushmore of yacht rock,
Toto is right there. They're one of them, and if
I can ever get Jay to watch the documentary, he
would see that about how they belong up.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
There and that was made who by Bill Simmons.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Right, Uh, yes, you think box.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
I'm a fan of his song.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Get that really really good. It's it's it's very good.
But that's total obviously with a whole line. I always
said that the first time I ever heard that song,
I was in I was a freshman at UNC Wilmington,
was in my dorm and I'm walking down the hall
and somebody's playing that incredibly loud.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Pop up what is that? Sounded? A walk down? About
a month later, same thing.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I get off the elevator, I was on the second
floor and I'm walking down the hall and I hear
the opening bars to van Halen's running with the Devil.
Boom boom boom boom bom bom bom.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
What is that van Halen?

Speaker 1 (19:47):
That's how I got introduced to Van Halen when I
was a freshman at UNC Wilmington in nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know what they were blasting in the dorms when
I was a freshman.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
What was it?

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Mobomba? Oh well there you got sicko mode there.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
On the text line, somebody said, as you pointed out
about the Chiefs because of his brother doing it. By
the way, Todd asked me how the birthday was. It
was great, had a great time. And then Todd also
added that he said I like the Rams too because
of Nolan Cromwell. Great safety from Kansas, let's see. And

(20:24):
then somebody else said I quit the Cowboys while Switcher
was the head coach. I understand. All right, Let's hear
from Loghorn's defensive lineman, Hero Canoe, sitting down with our
Will Matthews.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Hero, what's so interesting outside of the game.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
You killed it this last game, really really balled on
the field. But you got to tell me about your
story coming from Germany at sixteen by yourself, trying to.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
Make your way. Tell me about that.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah, you already mentioned.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
I came to America County, to California's zactly at sixteen.
I lived with a host family, awesome family, superiors family.
They're actually gonna come to a couple of my games
to see them.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
But yeah, so I.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
Lived with them during COVID, like really twenty twenty, like
peak COVID, and everything was like shut down, you know,
especially in Germany. Germany was really bad about it. So
I was in America for nine months. I couldn't see
my family and like my you know, immediate family or
nothing like that. And they were by my side of
the entire time through the whole process of playing the delayed.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
High school football season. So then my senior year really
having like a breakout getting recruited on the national level.
So yeah, that's basically my FA call them the fake family,
but they're really like.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
My family to call brothers to my host brother and
obviously mom dad are like still by the first name,
but you know, they're basically my second parents.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
Tell me about like playing California and getting recruited nationally,
especially with your family being so far away in Germany.

Speaker 8 (22:05):
Yeah, so I played at Santa Margaria Catholic High School,
which is in Orange County, California, Cinema Garia.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
It was awesome, Like it's.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
Trinity League, so we played against the big time schools
like modern day Santralbrasco Serviyed. Like for the people that
don't know survive Mason Grahant went there, team went there.
The guy from Arizona got drafted to the Pants so
a bunch of talities really like d'ur in Orange County.
They got to go against, which is ultimately the reason
why I got.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Recruited on a national level.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
Again, fun fact, Brendon Baker I played against in high
school and that was like the first time we met that.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
We've been in the contact ever since. Really.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, So you get recruited national and you get up
to Ohio State, you do your thing there.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
You guys played Texas this.

Speaker 7 (22:51):
Last beginning of the year and now you're turning around
and playing for Texas. Talk about that transition from Ohio
State to saying kind of what you found here?

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, obviously both progs are awesome.

Speaker 8 (23:04):
And the end after the national championship, I have to
lift the decision that I want to transfer, and Texas
supposed the.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
School that ultimately came down to. I love to hear.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
I love the coaches, I love the people and the people,
the players, and the city years a home and it
actually kind of reminded me a little bit of Germany.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh really yeah, maybe a little bit warmer.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah. I came here.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
I came in like January and February and it was
like eighty degrees already and I'm like, it's supposed to
snow right now.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Yeah, I'm not used to, but it was. It has
been awesome.

Speaker 9 (23:36):
I cannot like having.

Speaker 8 (23:38):
To make it like I make that decision and I'm
completely happy about it.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
So tell us a little bit about, you know, how
it has felt playing in dk R. We're walking into
the third game at Darryl ka Memorial Stadium. How's it
been taken in? All the fan and all the stuff
here right now?

Speaker 5 (23:58):
So it's funny because we have like forcouts and in DKR.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
As well, but it was always empty and now walking
into DKR and seeing like, what is it one hundred
thousand fans.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Like loud, they're engaged. It was awesome. Like the atmosphere
is awesome. I can't wait for this opportunity game to
see the night game version of it.

Speaker 8 (24:16):
We had like a morning eleven AM at two thirty,
and now we're going to have like sixty thirty or seven,
so it's trying to be awesome.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
I'm looking forward to it, all right, y'all, y'all heard
it from here and then thank you. You know, I'm
looking forward to watching the show out because league appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, very entertaining guy. We had a chance to visit
with him after the game last Saturday, and his story
is unique, growing up as military kid in Germany and
then having a host family and uh playing as as
you heard him say, playing high school football at a
very high level.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
And you can say what you want to say.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
About high school football in Texas, and I do, by
the way, I agree with you when it comes to
high school football in Texas, and that is I think
it's the best high school football in the United States.
But there are certain programs that are really really good.

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And he mentioned Modern Day that's one of the top
in the country and survied in Santa Margarita where he went.
I mean, there is some really good private and church
related private school programs in California that are really really
good and can play on a par with a lot
of the outstanding teams in Texas. All right, up next

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Inconceivable on a Wednesday afternoon, a Yacht Rock Wednesday here
on thirteen hunderd The Zone, second hour of the program
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Craig
Way alongside the producer Jay Herman, Glad to have you
with us this afternoon and we're with you upun till
five o'clock and then Jake and now head over to

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campus to record this week's edition of Long Worn Weekly
with Coach Sark, and that will air tomorrow and then
it'll reair at five o'clock on Friday. So even if
you miss the even if you wind up missing the

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program tomorrow when it first airs from the radio network,
you can certainly catch it on Friday afternoon when we
have the re airing of that. Meanwhile, you know, we
bring it to you a couple of times also to

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not only give you the opportunity to do that, but
also to be able to work it around the waning
days of the Round Rock Express season. And the Round
Rock Express season will end this weekend in Sacramento as
they play the Sacramento river Cats, so it will believe

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the show will air in its regular timeslot of seven
o'clock tomorrow night, because the Express aren't playing until.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Eight forty five.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
So I think it's I think it'll air in its
regular seven o'clock start time tomorrow, Long One Weekly with
Coach Sark, and then it will re air on Friday
afternoon at five o'clock. Immediately following this program, so we
bring that to all right, Yeah, quick note about Major
League Baseball because a lot of these Pennant races and

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all are very very tight and close. If you are
a Chicago Cubs fan, and I know there's a lot
of you out there, if you are a Cubs fan, rejoice, celebrate.
The Cubs have just clinched their first trip to the
postseason since the COVID year of twenty twenty. They beat

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the Pirates at Park this afternoon, eight to four. It's funny.
They talked about what I read from Major League Baseball
about it, and I had the game on here in
the booth, was watching the game.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
And.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
It's the last time that they got into the postseason.
The team was limited to high fives and fist bumps
because that was during that COVID nineteen short and twenty
twenty series season. Of course, I have enough fond memories
of it myself, because the Dodgers won the World Series
eight year and and I went to two of the
postseason games because remember, I remember what a weird postseason

(28:37):
that was, Jake, And it was the year after your
Washington Nationals won the whole thing, and the Dodgers had
the best record. They won forty three of their sixty games.
They went forty three and seventeen. They swept the Milwaukee Brewers.

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They had to play a wildcard series even though they
had the best record in all the baseball.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
They swept the Milwaukee Brewers.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
They swept the Padres, and then they played the Braves
and they were down three games to one. But they
were playing the Braves in Arlington at Global Life Field.
It's funny, the Rangers had not even gotten playing Global
Life Field yet.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
It was so new.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
They're in twenty twenty, but they were having National League
Championship Series games there, and the World Series was going
to be there.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
And the Yankee fan friend of mine who lives who
was my roommate in Austin, made the trip to what
to Global Life Field for the World.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Series or the or the or the NLCS.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
He bought a ticket to the World Series, thinking the
Yankees would.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Be Oh, I see, kept the ticket of Tampa Bay Rays.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Kept the ticket, watched some baseball I think I believe.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Rooted for the Rays.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay, but I was rooting for the Rays in the ALCS.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, all right, Well, the Dodgers got down, I went
to I got tickets to our man. Greg Tepper, the
editor in chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, is
with his brother a Rangers season ticket holder, and so
they got an option to buy postseason tickets even though
the Rangers weren't going to be in it. So they
bought tickets, and they bought like some tickets in the

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regular seats, which were good seats on the first base side.
And he asked me, I know you're a Dodger fan.
He interested in going, I'll sell them to your face
value and I was like, yeah, sure. So I went
to like Game two when the Braves had a huge lead,
Dodgers came back, cut it to one, but lost that.
He was eighty seven, and I went with Linda and
my son and my son in law and we went

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and they were they were good seats for that, and
the Dodgers got down three games to one. It came
i'll the way back and wanted. Then they get to
the World Series and he calls me again. He goes
he interested in four tickets for Game one.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I'm like, am I.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
So I paid, you know, the face value form, but
we were eleven rows from home plate. We were just
just to the third base side of home plate for
Game one, Kersher on the mound, erasing the demons of
the postseason.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Pit's very well. Dodgers won Game one of the series.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Went on when the world You're right, you have been
very lucky in your lifetime.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I told you.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
I told you I've been fortune. I count my blessings.
I understand. I've also been in the World Series when
they lost and went in twenty eighteen London.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I flew out.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
There just boom, flew out there Game five on Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
They lost, came back on the Red Eye.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
I had that.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
But we did that.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, I know it was great.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
We last year flew after the Georgia game on Sunday morning,
we flew to La not for a baseball game, even
though the Dodgers were playing Game six of the NLCS
against the Mets and they were on the verge of
clinching the trip back to the World Series. No, I
didn't know that at the time. I purchased tickets for
Joni Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl. She's a lifelong John

(32:00):
Mitchell fan. I feel the same way about musical acts
as I do about sports teams. When I say that
you should.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
You should.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Every true sports fan that invests of themselves into a
team should deserves to see their favorite pro sports team
when at least one world title in one of the
sports that you root for. I'm not saying in everyone
to be great of them. I've been lucky in that
all the teams I root for in pro sports have
won at least one title in my lifetime that I

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remember and everything. But I'm just saying, if you're a
fan of pro sports in general, of teams, you should.
You deserve to see your team win at least one
world title in one of those four major team sports.
You can even throw an MLS if you want. Say
you're an Austin f C fan, but you don't care
so much about the NFL or the NBA or Major

(32:51):
League Baseball or the NHL. If you're a died in
the wold Austin FC fan, then yeah, you should deserve
to see your favorite team win at least one title.
So we tossed out the question today about you know what.
I feel the same way also about musical acts. If

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they're living and still performing and they're really really a
big fan, you really should endeavor to see your favorite
artist or band at least once in your life. And
I knew what a huge fan she was of Joni Mitchell.
And I like Jenni Mitchell's music, but she was a
massive fan, kind of like how I am about Billy
Joel or the Beatles of Paul McCartney, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
So it was a surprise.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
I got tickets and we flew out there and Hollywood
Bowl was a beautiful night, and we saw Joni Mitchell.
But at intermission, when James put it on my phone
was watching the Dodgers finish off the Mets to win
the National League, and other people around the Hollywood Bowl
were doing the same thing. And when the Dodgers got
the final out, this big ripple of cheering went up

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through the Hollywood Bowl.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I turned to Linda and said, that's how you know.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
And I'm committed to you in this marriage if I'm
willing to SKIPI of the NLCS to see Jodi Mitchell.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
It's one of those remember where you were.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, yeah, it was that so anyway, but I did
offer up the question on the survey, on the text line,
if you have become so disgruntled with your favorite team
and you're just very unhappy with them pro sports team,

(34:26):
like you know, Cameron Parker with the Cowboys. You can
dump the Cowboys if you got now Cameron, Cameron is
just basically chosen to become an NFL unuch. You know,
he just he just he's just giving up, giving up
his inner working passion for an NFL team. He's just

(34:50):
walking away from the Cowboys. But he's not walking to
toward another NFL team.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
He's walking into the abyss, I guess again, into a new.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Trial like Rob Low in an NFL hack.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
And you know what, I think he will never admit this,
but I think and I think it's okay for him
to feel his way. I think he's reserving the right
to come back to them if they do ever figure
it out. Because he likes Brian Shottenneimer, he likes Shotty
and we'll hear from Shoddy a little bit later this hour,
but he he likes him. He just understands what the

(35:24):
Cowboys are up against with the Jones family.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
He unfollowed him, but he didn't block them.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, there you go. That's a good way to describe it.
So we'll see how it is for him ultimately on that.
But anyway, everybody should deserve to see their favorite team,
you know, win a championship. Now, the Cubs today just
clinched a playoff spot, but the champagne is flowing.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
And all this other kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
So they did celebrate a trip to the playoffs, and
they're going to wind up being a wild card, probably
the four seed, because the Brewers are going to win
that division, and uh, they're gonna be the one seed
unless the Phillies overhaul. And Phillies are only a game
and a half back of the Brewers thanks to two

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wins gift rapped to them by the Dodger bullpen each
of the last two nights, but they've got a shot
the Phillies do to overtake the Brewers. One of those
teams will be the one seed. One of those teams
will be the two seed. The winner of the National
League West will be the three seed. I don't know
who that's gonna be. The Dodgers still only have a
two game lead on San Diego, and they keep finding

(36:30):
new and creative ways for the bullpen to squander leads.
Last night, it was after Choeotani pitched five no hit innings,
and they found the way to give up a six
run sixth with Justin Robleski, who's been on a good
roll of late, but now he has caught the malady
that the rest of the bullpen has suffered. So I
don't know who's gonna be win the West. They're gonna

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be the three, The Cubs are probably gonna be the four.
The team that doesn't win the National League West, either
La or San Diego is probably gonna be the five.
And then there's this wild goose chase for the final
wildcard spot. The Mets, Giants, Diamondbacks, and Reds all still

(37:13):
have legitimate shots to claim the like twelve games to
go in the season.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, how about the Diamondbacks, Craig, I mean, I think
a lot of us wrote them off when they haven't
come up once.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
And what the Giants did? They went fire sale, they
just did. They dumped a lot of stars, and yet
the younger guys they have have helped them fight through.
So yeah, and the Cubs, while they celebrate, you know,
with the champagne and stuff, they know if they're the
four seed, they're hosting a wildcard series. So whoever doesn't

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win the Nation League West is going to have to
go to Wrigley Field and playing that wildcard round. So
that's why the onus is to try to win the series.
Joe Davis, who was doing the Dodger telecast last night,
opining the question, would you rather be the four seed
and stay away from the Phillies but you got to
go to Wrigley Field? Or would I mean be the

(38:04):
five seed to go to the four seed? Or would
you rather be the three seed? Win the division, play
the sixth seed and then you'd have to go to Philadelphia.
Give me the three seed. At least you're playing at
home in the wild card round if you're the three.
I guess whoever survives that chase for the six spot Mets, Giants,
d Backs, Reds, whoever wins has to go to La.

(38:27):
So then if you win that, then, yeah, you got
to deal with Philadelphia. But that's not any easier or
any more difficult than dealing with the Brewers.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, you're just hoping get the three seed and then
let this chase drag on and on and let the
number six seed use all of their arms to the
maximum extent before you have to see them.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Meanwhile, in the America League West, it's falling apart from
the Rangers. They were right there and they've dropped the
last two games to the Astros, so even to be
on the fringes of contention, they've got to win that
last game, all right. Coming up next, back to some
football conversation, we continue on thirteen under the Zone. This
version definitely better than the Uncle Cracker version, although he

(39:11):
does have to be Gray in it in the in
the bridge in the middle part of it.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
But I like the original one.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
And by the way, I saw a thing on social
media one time when we we're talking about different yacht
rock songs or whatever, and this song came up w
Grahan and somebody goes, oh, I want hit one, and
I'm like, no, he's not.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
No, he's not. You don't know you're Adobe Gray. Go
back to nineteen.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Sixty five, the vocal version of the song that we
end the program with every day the d crowd, and
it's a real hip hopping with lyrics, not the version
that we play, the instrumental jazz oriented version with the

(39:54):
Ramsey Lewis trio. It's an actual version thing with him.
He's just eight years younger because this was nineteen seventy
three months hit before I jump back to football here
and get to a couple of things. And then, by
the way, coming up, you're gonna hear from Trevor Gooseby,
Long Warren's offensive lineman coming up with Will Matthews in
the next segment. Just another thing about the baseball playoff picture.

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And incidentally, I mentioned how the Rangers it's kind of
slipping away from them. Text on, somebody said the Rangers
could still win the silver boot. He'd probably give him
planner FASc itis. They can if they win the game,
they would get the silver boots on that. Do you
see where Sean McVay, the Rams coach got planner tore

(40:41):
his planner fascia.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
I guess he would call it. He tore that like
jumping up and down on the sideline.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Did he reveal what play had happened on? Was it
that DeVante Adams touchdown?

Speaker 2 (40:52):
I know, I think it was on a stop that
they got. I think it's what I read.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Anyway, he was like, yeah, I tore the planner fascia
or whatever he said.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
But it's okay.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Is it going to be down there on a scooter?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Maybe on a boot? Okay, is what I'm hearing. He
maybe in a boot said he wasn't sure yet. Somebody
else said, when I was talking about taking lind to
the sea, you know, Joni Mitchell said, so when of
y'all sing air supply? And that's somebody who knows me.
They know that's not happening.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
That was in I don't know if it was day
one stuff, but day two or three of working with
Craig the Great cam Parker said, never, under any circumstances
even think about playing air supply.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
I suppose, I suppose that I don't really hate air supply.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
But let me just say.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
You know, it's kind of like when we do the
music survey and I say, try not to hate anything,
but if there's a song you hear from a certain band,
it motivates you to change the station. For me, that
would be air supply. And yeah, the djy at the
wedding three years ago that Linda and I had in
Myrtle Beach, and he asked me what kind of music
to play, especially during dinner and then on the dancing,

(42:07):
and I said, you can play most anything, and you
can play some people would like some country.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
You can do that, maybe even a little disco.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
There was a little electric slide that went in an
old deal, I said, but largely yacht rock and especially
during dinner, and he did well, air supply falls into
the yacht rock genre.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I just don't happen to like it.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
And he played and I was talking somebody at the
time and it came up and I was like, that's
air supply. And somebody was standing next to me and
they laugh They said, I saw that look on your face.
And then when I talked to the DJ actor who
I thought really otherwise did a very good job, and
he said, was everything okay? I said, yeah, you know,
I said, I was able to overlook the airspot. He goes,

(42:45):
did I play an He goes, oh, I guess I did.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I didn't. I said, you didn't know.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
I didn't specifically tell you no air supply.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
But the DJ didn't listen to this program then.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
No, No, he was in Myrtle Beach, South Oh. Yeah,
that's right, so he wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Know for it, you could listen anywhere.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
So what I was about to say about Major League
Baseball is is that there are eight teams. According to
Will lead who writes for MLB dot com, and he
wrote a really good piece today about eight teams with
a chance to turn playoff regrets in the distant memories,

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And he makes a very good point about the postseason
if you can just get in. You got to say
when the Rangers won the World Series, they were a
wildcard team on the road, Remember in Tampa, and or
there be Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
First, I guess, And then Tampa wasn't it? Or Tampa first?

Speaker 1 (43:41):
In Baltimore's Tampa because they had to go from Seattle
to Tampa.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, and that Baltimore team, That's what started the whole
debate about is it worse to wait through the long
wildcard series? Because that Orioles offense was incredible that year.
They couldn't hit a beach ball in that series.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
That comes up about the Dodgers every year about we
get to buy, we want to get to buy, and
all that kind of stubby the two seed. Anyway, what
will each writes about? He said, of the eighteen legitimate
contenders for postseason spot. Ten of the eighteen Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Cubs, Giants, Phillies, Yankees,

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Red Sox, Rangers, Royals, and Astros.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Ten of the.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Eighteen have won a World Series this century. Ten of
the eighteen That means they're eight who have not all
eight of those teams have gotten closer, at least got
close enough to have their hearts broken. Right now, the
memories of those losses and that painter are still fresh
in the minds of their fans, But there's nothing like
a World Series title to turn the frowns upside down forever.

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And so here are the teams that look at the
roughest postseason memory for these teams. Blue Jays who lost
the ALCS to the Royals in twenty fifteen, Brewers that
twenty eighteen NLCS against the Dodgers, Guardians who were up
three to one on the Cubs in the twenty sixteen

(45:08):
World Series.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
That rain delay.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Yep, Mariners.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
They go all the way back to two thousand and one,
the year they won one hundred and sixteen games and
lost in the ALCS to the Yankees, who then lost
to the Diamondbacks in the World Series Mets two thousand
and six NLCS versus the Cardinals. They talk about Beltron
taking the third strike off Adam Wainwright that lives in
the memory. Padres last year's NLDS against the Dodgers when

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they were up two games to one, they only had
to win one more.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
And they rushed.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
TV.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
I guess it was. I forgot who it was. Wasn't PV.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Anyway, they rushed, so I backed to the rat now
while the Dodgers had a bullpen game, and the Dodgers
found the way to win it, and then they went
back in won Game five. In La Reds twenty twelve
NLDS against the Giants. Did the Nationals play the Giants also?
In that twenty twelve the wild Card Series? Or is

(46:08):
that twenty fourteen?

Speaker 10 (46:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
In twenty fourteen the Nationals played the Giants lost in
four games, including the eighteen inning game, right, the eighteen
inning game that we had company over four for holiday
and everybody stayed and everybody was sad.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
I was sad.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
And then they stayed for the whole game and most
of them did.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
And then in Game four, the Nats were down one
and walked in a runner on an intentional walk gone wrong.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Back then, you couldn't just throw four fingers at the end.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yeah, you had to pitch him.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
I think I had to listen to the rest on
radio after that. I was so upset.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
How old were you at fourteen? Oh?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Yeah, Okay, well too old to be having to tangrae.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
I gotcha, I gotcha.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
Well.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Also Tigers twenty thirteen alcs against the Red Sox. So
those are eight teams that and I think you could
list every one of those eight teams and say they
have a legitimate shot because this year appears to be
more wide open than any year. The Brewers looked invincible
for a while, but of late they've looked a lot
more human. Philly's been up and down, Dodgers been up

(47:15):
and down, Yankees been up and down, Blue Jays, Tigers,
they're all fulled Astros.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
You know, the Mariners a recent rise.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
So would I would say that this year is more
wide open than any.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Just find a way to get in.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Right now, the Mariners have a half game edge on
the Astros in the West, and the Rangers are four
and a half back in the West. And then you know,
in the wild card standings as it stands, the Yankees
and Red Sox look to be in pretty good shape
to be in. Oh, the Astros rather, and then the
Red Sox two and a half up on the Guardians,

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three and a half up on the Rangers, so they're
gonna have to the Rangers are just gonna have to
find a way. They're going to have to beat the
They have to beat the Astros tonight.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
They have to. They just have to.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
It's a must win. So if they do that, then
then climb a little closer. But if they wind up
getting swept out of that, yeah, don't see it happening.
All right, stay with us because coming up our man
Will Matthews and his continual series of sit down visits
with long worn football players. We'll visit with the long
Warrens outstanding offensive left tackle. That's Trevor Gooseby.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
We have that.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
We'll also hear from Ryan Schottenheimer Moore coming up right
here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
No.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Glenn Campbell had some yacht rock working too.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, yeah, there's two or three of his crossover tunes
in the seventies to eighties, and that was one of them.
Country Boy, about the rise of the guy who you know,
the country music star back at Tennessee makes it big
in LA, but he longs for the old days, being

(48:59):
back when he used to play his songs for free.
The price of faming glory, right, we continue here.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
You know there's similar songs like that.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
It's a song that was by Bad Company Shooting Star
about the Johnny who gets the guitar and makes the
number one and then he dies of like an overdose
of sleeping pills and a bottle of whiskey and all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
To say, it was all the charge to make the
big time.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
It's gonna say Bad Company, you're talking about similar thematically,
not necessarily music.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Yeah right, Bad Company itself was a great band. But anyway,
all right, so continuing here on the shot Rock Wednesday,
there with a little offering from Glenn Campbell, how about
an offering from a long run offensive lineman Trevor Gooseby
slowly working into really being the anchor of that offensive
front on that left side, you know, having to step

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in for after Kelvin banks departure, and once again our
will Afews had the opportunity to sit down with a
long worn in this case Trevor Goosebi, sir, I.

Speaker 7 (50:04):
Want you to tell me about once you're interested in
what gets you excited?

Speaker 11 (50:08):
Oh man, I love music, food obviously couldn't tell me
in a big human.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
I love food, I love legos, and then I love
just fashion in general.

Speaker 7 (50:18):
So so we okay, so those are four food groups
at the moment, if we're just gonna stay in the
vein of food, and let's talk about legos.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
What's exciting about legos.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
Man, It's just the complexity of it. But just like
it's it's a pastime, you know.

Speaker 11 (50:33):
It's like I hate to take all the pieces and
I have to build something that I love.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
I'm a big Batman guy, so.

Speaker 11 (50:39):
I'm doing all the Lego Batman things. I played Lego
Batman on the DS growing up. That was probably one
of my favorite games of all time. Like I actually
just got a DS last year and I replayed the
game just for you know, nostalgic memories.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
So that was awesome.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
But just you know, doing that in my past time,
it's really fun for me.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
So and so ever, it refers to legos.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
Are you you like just a bunch of pieces that
you make your own thing? Are you like you know
by by the book, turning the pages step by step
the book?

Speaker 11 (51:10):
But growing up, we had this like huge Lego tub
where it's just a bunch of Lego pieces. And I
used to build houses, cars, ships, I used to build
you know, spaceships, rocket ships.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
So all that, all the above.

Speaker 11 (51:22):
I remember, I howd this like toy story emperorsert kid
that I used to use.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
It was all the purple legos, which is really fun.

Speaker 11 (51:29):
So yeah, I used to you know, go mind, you know,
just kind of freelancing it.

Speaker 7 (51:33):
But I usually go by the book. So okay, yeah,
so legos. Now let's talk about music. So I can
see you got really excited about this. Love music.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
Tell me about your music obsession.

Speaker 11 (51:46):
So growing up, I listen to a lot of low
Wayne Drake, the whole YMC ANDB Crew early twenty ten.
So that was my dad's doing, you know, Chris Brown.
I'm still small those you know guys out there. And
I say, Drake is my favorite rapper. Recently, I've been
in the Little Luzi verse. I like him. He's a
good rapper. And then a guy by the name of

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Lucky He's one of my favorite rappers, just kind of
he's more like melancholic, if you will, kind of more
chill rap, which I like.

Speaker 6 (52:14):
So and so what draws you to the rapper?

Speaker 7 (52:17):
Now, you said quite a few different people, but what's
the common threat?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Really?

Speaker 5 (52:22):
Just the beats. I love the beats and kind of
like the complexity of it.

Speaker 11 (52:25):
And also like Lil Wayne's ability of freestyle on beats
is crazy, Like he he made.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
Me want to be a rapper, so I'm trying to
one day and too. But I'm a better writer than anything.

Speaker 6 (52:38):
Okay, but I can.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
I can go out and.

Speaker 6 (52:39):
Write some bars, so you can write bars. Okay.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
I might have a single coming sen so check it out.

Speaker 7 (52:44):
Take this out and then so we can't leave without
touching on fashion.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Oh yeah, so is that something.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
That you get really excited about or how does that
fit into legos, Legos music, fashion food I love for me,
like all.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
Four of those, it kind of hits on one point.
It kind of like I'm able to express.

Speaker 11 (53:06):
Myself through Legos, food, fashion music, especially like fashion, like
I'm able to express my creative sign and kind of
tap in just like with my mental in.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
My mind, like he's able to.

Speaker 11 (53:16):
I'm able to express myself through you know, clothing, which
I love.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
So so is there a clothing line coming out soon? Shun.
We expect something from you damn here.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Soon, probably in the next couple of months, maybe a year.

Speaker 11 (53:28):
You know, I'm still in the works, you know, but
I want to release something that you know, that I
love and like that I'm passionate about. I'm not here
for the money. I'm not here to release for the money.
I'm just here to release so I can say that
I have something that that's mine, that I own, that's
comes from my brain. I'm able to put on on
the canvas if you will.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
So let's go.

Speaker 6 (53:47):
I want to be the first person whatever. Whenever you
get done for me on that list, I will thank you.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
It's sir, all right.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
So there it is with Trevor goosebeek Long worns left
tackle along that offensive front. You know, it's kind of
settling in with that offensive front. Now, the left guard
position pretty much claimed by Connor Strow as the starter,
although Netto Mosulu works in the rotation. Same thing at
the center, and now Cole Hudson's been banged up, so

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we'll see how he can go. If you can't, they
do have options there. Connor Robertson would probably be the
first backup. DJ Campbell could swat slide over into it.
Connor stroke can play some center as well. But when
they are all in the healthy state, Strow is at
your left guard, of course, Gooseby at left tackle. Hudson

(54:39):
went healthy at center, d J. Campbell at right guard,
and Brandon Baker at right tackle. So that's where that
stands with regard to the offensive front. You know, coming
up in the four o'clock hour, we're gonna hear some
more from Long Horn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. Of course,
on Monday, we brought the news conference live from the

(55:02):
UT campus and then his comments on that. But he
does three major full scale media availabilities. The one on
Monday was the press conference. On Wednesday, there's the SEC
teleconference where he's on answering reporters questions, and then on
Thursday is the Media Zoom, which is the last opportunity

(55:26):
of the week for the local media asking questions. Now,
of course we have Long Worn Weekly, which we record
on Wednesday evenings on the UT campus and then we
broadcast that for you on Thursdays.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Most of the time at the evening depends on the
start of the Round Rock Express.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
But of course this is the final week of the
regular season, final week of the season for the Express,
and so there's all of those opportunities, and we bring
you a segment of it in the program on Friday.
But to the teleconference which happened earlier today. You'll hear
him mask in specific about the Running Game. Not so

(56:06):
in fact, I don't even think there was a question
about Arch banning. Imagine that. Wow, yeah it was. It
was about the Running Game. So we'll hear Sara talk
about that, all right. Coming up next, we'll be back
to wrap up our number three, our number two of
three right here on sports Medio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app third and final hour of
the program here on a Yacht Rock Wednesday here on

(56:31):
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the zone. Craig Way alongside
the producer Jay Kerman. Glad to have you with us
as well, so we're with you up until five o'clock
as always. Tomorrow on the program, we'll hear from long
Orn's head coach Steve Sarkis. We're gonna hear from him.
Coming up in a few minutes is from today's SEC teleconference.

(56:52):
It might be a little refreshing to some folks because
there's not a question about Arch banning. I mean, there's
references made to Arch from this teleconference that happened about
twelve thirty this afternoon, but no in specific things I
think other than maybe how important is the run game

(57:13):
to aiding the passing game? So it was kind of
going around the garage to get to the barn, but
it didn't do that that much. It was more about
the running game.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Yeah, and you know, references to Arch were made just
in terms of, you know, in terms of offensive game planning.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Maybe release time we'll get to all that.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Yeah, yeah, it was more oblique reference.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Yeah, there was I guess there was that one question
Terry Middleton and Hornes Illustrated asked about release time on that,
but it wasn't necessarily related to actual performance, good or
not good or whatever. We always have fun with this.
The Bottom ten comes out every week and again if
you haven't read it, and Ryan McGee puts it together,

(57:56):
this is actually the reincarnation of a syndicated newspaper piece,
and I forgot through the original guys, I want to
say was from the Los Angeles Times, either of the
Los Angeles Times than the New York Times, one or
the other.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Back in the eighties.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Because when I was in college, my best friend and
I and we were joking about this.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Yesterday he texted me to wish me a happy birthday
and we were.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Talking about how we're all kind of getting older and
now starting to get not only emails but actual snail mail,
actual junk mail stuff about, you know, considering the investments
that we have to make into medicare, you know, and
all of that kind of stuff on the road.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
And they're choosing the snail mail method to appeal to
a certain audience. You're like, hey, I'm not in that
crowdy accent there.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Look if you went to college in the eighties and
you're approaching the federal retirement age or whatever, hey, you
need to be.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Looking at this. Okay.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
So we were talking about that, but we were going
back and forth, but we were also we enjoyed that
bottom ten thing. And it's very it's done much in
the same jocular manner. It's a humor piece. It's not
it's not intended to be seriously, these are the ten
worst college football teams in the country, because they aren't.

(59:13):
Florida is not one of the ten worst college football
teams tory, but they are in the bottom ten. It's
all about where you are and what you're doing and
goofy things and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
And we heard it earlier.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
The piece about the Florida assistant coach and inconceivable that
I did back in the first hour of the program
of the trouble he got into because his part in
the scuffle with LSU.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
All of that.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
So anyway, with that in mind, with the Bottom ten
that Ryan McGee of and normally i'll just read off
to ten and his comments about one, but he starts
off with every week with what he refers to as
the inspirational thought of the week. Well, his inspirational thought
of the week is I'm burning for you. That the

(59:57):
Blue Oyster Cult song where he to the actual refrain
is time, well actually the second versus time, everlasting, time
to play B sides. Time ain't on my side. Time
I'll never know. And then the refrain burn out the day,
burn out the night. I'm not the one to tell
you what's wrong or what's right. I've seen sums that

(01:00:19):
were freezing, suns that were freezing in lives that were through.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
But I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you from Blue.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Oyster Coal, And he says here at Bottom ten headquarters,
currently located by the huge pile of go to containers
that Jess Sims brings home from all of her college
game day road eats segments.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
We know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
That where there is smoke, there is also fire and
barbecue and ash, but hopefully no ash on the barbecue.
There are a lot of chairs being barbecued in college
football these days. Hot seats. See this is where he's
landing on this Hot seats that became kindling and way
too early for In October fall harvest Bonfire, UCLA in Virginia,

(01:01:02):
Tech became the first FBS teams to part ways in
season with their head coaches. Won a legendary former player
and the other a legendary former assistant coach, and that
has led to a Honka honk of burnin whose next
hot seat lists. He said, it's enough to make one
well take seat and pause to contemplate their place in

(01:01:23):
this world. Might one day we wake up to find
an athletic director standing in the door of our office
with a pink slip, or a booster who sells cars
and thinks he's an expert on the spread offense standing
in our door with a buyout check, or Lane Kiffin
standing in the door of our kitchen with a tape
measure and fabric samples. And wait as we sit here.

(01:01:44):
Did someone spill tabasco on this chair or did we
accidentally get some muscle rub in our drawers?

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
It just don't make him like Ryan McKee.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
No, no, So so here's his post week three bottom
ten rankings. So start at number ten and move to
number one. Number ten is what he calls Florida. Duh
duh Flri. I hyphened da Florida DA one and two,
and he said, have y'all peeked Florida's schedule. It's the
scariest thing I've seen since that time. My family visited

(01:02:14):
a Florida truck stop and my daughter bought what she
thought was a souvenir rubber gator.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Within a few miles down the road, it dipped. The
dog on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
The waiting list is the do you know the way
to San Jose State North worstern My Hammy of Ohio
Western not Eastern or Central Michigan, Kennesau Mountain Land of
state on Novada, the team that barely beat Nevada baller state.

(01:02:43):
We're not in Kansas state anymore. Replay reviews that may
long field drafts quit. So those are then the others
receiving votes, so to speak. Number nine, state of Kent.
Remember they were number one. They got a win, though,
so the Golden Flashes in the Pan lived up to
that name, constructing a twenty one play, ninety three yard

(01:03:04):
twelve plus minute drive to take a twenty eight twenty
four lead over the Buffalo Bulls not Bills with two
thirty eight remaining, and then surrendering seventy six yards on
eight plays in a minute twenty nine, the loser.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Twenty four straight FBS game.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
There's seventeenth straight MAC game and they're eleventh straight conference
game at home.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
That's NC seventeen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
It says, shout out to a year ago when the
flashes upcoming visit in Florida State would have been the
pillow fight of the week. True number eight is acrimonious.
Oh to three, of course, about Akron, he says, I
don't want y'all to get too excited, but I am
looking at the schedule and on back to back Tuesday
nights in November weeks twelve and thirteen, Akron hosts you
mess as he calls you mass and State of Kent.

(01:03:45):
That rapid clicking you heard was me checking on hotels
and flights and then emailing the game day hanchos to
convince them to do shows from Akron with me for
seven straight days. That's one solitary click you heard was
them hanging up on me. Number seven is Oregon Trail State.
Oh no, since you've died of this inariot oh and three.

(01:04:06):
This is tough because I've got a good friend who
went to Oregon State lives out in Oregon. Full disclosure,
I'm currently riding this in a hotel room in Corvallis,
where I'm working on a college Game Day feature, a
feature about the Platypus Trophy that the Beavers and Ducks
will play for this weekend. I am pretty sure they're
messing with the hotel WiFi. Keep me from filing this story.

(01:04:27):
Number six is Virginia Tech. Nookis and okies, they're oh three.
Virginia Tech spent the off season having its roster rated
like a rum runner boat boarded by Jack Sparrow. Lost
a game to the son of its legendary coach, got
run over by Vandy, got blown out by supposed to

(01:04:48):
the little brother in state school Old Dominion, and fired
its head coach so early in the season that the
players who were left from the first transfer portal. Raid
could start their own transfer portal exit if they want
by pal. Marty Smith hasn't been this upset since I
accidentally spilled Swiss miss.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
On his White Air.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Jordan diors tough times in Blacksburg and exit Sandman.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Yeah, no doubt. Number five.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
The Notre Dame biting Irish, he says, See this is
what I mean about tongue being in cheek. We know
Notre Dame, even at O and two, is not one
of the ten worst teams in the country, but he adds,
since their dramatic run to the College Football Playoff national
title game, the Irish are owing three.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
It's not an ugly owing three.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
It's owing three against three ranked teams by a combined
fifteen points. That includes the national championship game, by the way,
against Ohio State last year. They're owing two this season,
and the two losses this season are by a combined
four points. But with no conference championship at their disposal
and only one ranked opponent remaining on their schedule, the

(01:05:52):
Irish CFP safety net is thinner than the margin of
whether Rudy was or wasn't on off side. In other words,
they're there's every real possibility they're not going to make
the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Number four is the U c l A boens, as
he calls it, and he's got the U the CNDA
in lowercase in the l capitol as in losing the
U c l A boins who are oh and three.
In related news, sources are also telling us that after
firing head coach to Sean Foster, U c l A
officials attempted to see if the NCAA would let them

(01:06:25):
return to the PAC two, but their calls getting kicked
the voicemail because the nc lines were tied up with
all the UCLA players ringing the transfer portal hot line
number three. Eastern Michigan University EMUs there because it's EMU.
The the EMUs there. There are currently eleven oh and

(01:06:47):
something teams in the FBS and five reside in maction.

Speaker 4 (01:06:52):
They got to play each other soon.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Sources have told Bottom ten George Center that those teams
have all asked Ohio if they can have the contact
info for West Virginia's scheduling.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Guys, Yeah, how about that. Let's host big twelve teams
at home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Number two.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
You know them, they'll be here in town this Saturday.
Number two is called Sam Houston. We have a problem three.
The Bearcats couldn't with a K, and because Bearcats his
spell with the K, so every time he writes something,
he uses the K where a C would normally go in.
So it says the Bearcats couldn't enjoy the bye week
on their calendar again with K because they still couldn't

(01:07:32):
cover the spread against open date U. Now they will
combat Texas and quarterbacking conundrum arch Manning. And then finally
number one is what he calls you miss if you
mass for Dan Weinzel, Yeah, says well. The Amhurst Handlers
fell to three via forty seven to seven loss at Iowa,
which was also Kirk Ferrence's two hundred and sixth victory,

(01:07:54):
making him the winningest coach in Big Ten Conference history.
It was a fitting coincidence considering that Ference took the
Hawk guy's job while the original minute Men were still
in Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
It's been around a while, no doubt about it. So
there it is. There's your bottom tend for this week.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
All right, Coming up, we'll hear from Longhorn's head coach
Steve Sarkesian start from the SEC teleconference. That's next when
we continue here on this yacht rock Wednesday afternoon on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and where you
can always listen to us for absolutely free.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Of charge, the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
You know that Glenn Campbell had a yacht rock tune
or two. Same can be applied to the Grateful Dad here,
but this is one of those.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Maybe you should have used it yesterday since his birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
You know that song is Touch of Gray and I
do carry the nickname with guys like Cedric Golden and
the Austin American Statesman a couple others of Gray Way.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
And that goes back to an.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
NCAA basketball tournament game. I was broadcasting nc women's game
involving Texas and Oral Roberts in two thousand and five.
Jerry Finkbeiner was the coach of the O r U
Golden Eagles, and I had requested to see if I
could get an interview with him to use and I
was told yes, and so like about an hour and

(01:09:10):
a half before tip, I'm visiting with coach Finkbeiner, and
clearly he had forgotten my name because he called me
Greg on the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
But then I think he knew in his mind that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
That wasn't correct, and so he called me gray at
one point, the Great Blah blah blah, or maybe he
called me gray first and then thought God's name can't
be gray and then changed it to Greg or whatever.
But after that, when it came to several people, it
became great Way. So that was still so touch of gray,
highlighting the yacht rock Wednesday offering there from the Grateful Dead,

(01:09:47):
which conjures up images of Bill Walton.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
And I didn't realize that fell under yacht rock. The
definition is growing, and my opinion is maybe in a
slowly come around as he continue to work on this program.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
As I've always said, it's kind of a state to
mind and a state of rhythm, and it can go.
It can It's a little bit more expansive than folks realized.
Not all of Grateful Dead's you know, tunes or yacht rock,
there's no question about that, just as not all of
the Doobie Brothers are yacht rock or Steely Dan. But

(01:10:19):
there's enough in the respective catalogs that they might have
a tune or two shot a very little of hers
as yacht rock, but Smooth Operator is, so there's there's
some of that. And there's one hit Wonders, you know,
like Looking Last but Brandy that's early seventies that predates
the yat rock era, but that slot, that song slops

(01:10:41):
right into it. Same thing with Ride Captain ryde blues Image,
same deal or early seventies, but for that one hit
wonder that was a yacht rock too, so same thing
with touch It great works that way. I don't think
Sarka has any great here yet. If he does, it's
just maybe around the temples.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Notice that my mental gray hair from stress.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
He wears it well.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
He does pretty god good job, and he does a
good job of the media as well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
So here it is.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
This is longer and head coach Steve Sarkisian from today's
SEC teleconference.

Speaker 12 (01:11:14):
Yeah, honestly excited to be back at home at dk R,
you know, first night game at home, seven o'clock. I
know it'll be a great atmosphere. Our turnout has been
amazing for our first two games. Over one hundred thousand
sold out for our first two. This be our third one.
As I said of the night game, looking forward to
another opportunity to continue to improve as a team in

(01:11:35):
all three phases.

Speaker 13 (01:11:36):
And it should be a great night.

Speaker 9 (01:11:40):
For questions for coach used the race and function, and
we'll begin with Mike Griffiths of the ajac Hey Coach.

Speaker 14 (01:11:47):
I've been asking a lot of other coaches today on
the teleconference about managing expectations, and I guess you would
know a little something about that. What is the theory
the approach for you know, you have your teams on expectations,
but managing external expectations and not allowing that to interfere

(01:12:07):
with your program or your.

Speaker 12 (01:12:08):
Kids, well, I think that's always one of the challenges
right in this day and age.

Speaker 13 (01:12:16):
You know, there's so many pundits.

Speaker 12 (01:12:18):
First of all, you know, whether it's on television, on
the Internet, on Twitter, whatever you want to call it,
on podcasts, and there's a lot of opinions. I don't
think there's more than opinions, more opinions than their work before.
There's just they're just now being heard because of all
the different platforms that they can be heard. And the
hard part for our players is human nature is that

(01:12:38):
they're on Twitter, they're on these platforms, they watch TV
and they can see so much of what people say.
And I think it's just important to make sure that
that we're messaging things the right way within our own building,
within you know, our own coordinators and inside our own
position meeting rooms of what our expectations are. And one
of the key expectations is is consistent growth. And I

(01:13:02):
think to do that, especially early in the season, in
the first month of the season, to think any player
or any aspect of our team as a finished product
probably wouldn't be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:13:11):
The goal for us is to continue to improve, continue
to get better, to continue to develop our players in
our program, whether they're fourth or fifth year seniors or
true freshmen.

Speaker 13 (01:13:20):
You know, are they getting better from week to week
to week?

Speaker 12 (01:13:23):
Are they working on the things that we're asking them
to work on and that are we playing cohesively as
units and as a team where we're starting to grow
and improve, And so I think that's what we continually
look for. You know, naturally, you want to be at
your best when your best is needed, and then that's
what we're striving for.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
Thank you, coach.

Speaker 9 (01:13:41):
Yeah, Next to be Steam Moulton to eas easy end.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Hey goaj. Always appreciate the time.

Speaker 10 (01:13:51):
Hope you're doing well today, sir, Yeah, sir you as well,
Thank you coach. I wanted to ask, there's there obviously
a lot about the quarterback room, but tell me what
you think about the run game in particular of where
that is right now and what the next step is
for your run game.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Coach.

Speaker 12 (01:14:08):
Yeah, you know, I really felt like, you know, we
ran the ball really well in week one. You know,
I'm gonna going back here a little bit against a
quality front in Ohio State. I felt like that was
the strength of our offense in that game. Unfortunately, we
couldn't we couldn't tie it together with the passing game
when we had some opportunities to do so. But I
thought we were physical. I thought we moved the ball

(01:14:29):
against a very good front from Ohio State. We came
back in week two and you know, we were creating
explosive plays in the past game, and we were just
too choppy in the run game.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:14:40):
Last week I felt like, you know, there was some
opportunities for more yards. You know, we were we were
playing with three younger backs and I think their ability
to recognize where some of those runs were going to hit.
I think there's great learning lessons from the last two
games for our runners to learn from of where we can.

Speaker 13 (01:15:00):
Ro you know, but the run game takes all eleven
you know.

Speaker 12 (01:15:02):
I think we can improve at the line of scrimmage
without question, especially against some of the movement that we've
seen the last two weeks. I think we can improve
our blocking on the perimeter where we can we can
you know, create some more explosive runs there. I think
utilizing the quarterback's legs and holding people accountable to where
they have to honor the quarterback is going to.

Speaker 13 (01:15:20):
Help that as well.

Speaker 12 (01:15:22):
So we've got we've got room for improvement definitely there.
We've made some incremental progress, and I love that our
younger backs have gotten a lot of carries the last
two weeks and they're going to get more carries this week,
and so hopefully we can play a little more cohesively
as a unit.

Speaker 13 (01:15:36):
When it's blocked really well, the.

Speaker 12 (01:15:38):
Young runners can hit it the right way where it's
supposed to be hit, and that our receivers are finishing downfield.
But we've definitely got to block the movement better than
we have over the last two weeks.

Speaker 10 (01:15:48):
How how important of a piece is that four quarterback
development And I know so many people want to focus
on arch of just that piece in particular. How much
does that a fact what you can or can't do
in a quarterback room coach?

Speaker 12 (01:16:04):
Well, I think I think at the end of the day,
you know, when people are almost daring you to run
the ball, you know that means they're deploying people coverage
wise where you got to run the ball to where
people are saying, hey, we got to stop the run.

Speaker 13 (01:16:18):
And when they when they have to.

Speaker 12 (01:16:21):
Make that conscious decision to stop the run, that's create
more opportunities down the field.

Speaker 13 (01:16:26):
Maybe that's less people in coverage.

Speaker 12 (01:16:27):
Maybe they're running some some run stunts to stop the
run and blitzes to where there's more voids in the defense,
or creating some one on one matchups, maybe a little
more man coverage. And then that's where that that's where
the passing game can really can really be effective. And
so you know, the key for us is to get
those two aspects of our game working well together, and
we just haven't been able to do that here.

Speaker 13 (01:16:49):
Throughout the first three weeks.

Speaker 12 (01:16:51):
We kind of went run game week one, past game
week two, kind of fell back into the run game
in week three, and so now you know, the the
goal is this Saturday that we kind of tie the
two together and that we play a little more cohesively
as an offensive unit.

Speaker 9 (01:17:08):
Thanks to is Terry Midlton have gone illustrated.

Speaker 15 (01:17:12):
Coach says, always a good afternoon, thank you for being
with us. So I just arch on Monday if when
he is looking at tape, if anyone ever sets a
timer for how long the offensive line gives him in
the pocket. I've counted five to six seven seconds sometimes.
But I'm curious from your perspective, I mean, is that
really how long do they give him? Because they seems

(01:17:34):
like they have a good long time of production for him.

Speaker 12 (01:17:38):
Barry, If we're getting five six seven seconds, we got
one hell of an offensive line. But I would say
on average it's about two and a half seconds, sometimes three.
You know, quite frankly, if you're getting two and a
half to three seconds, you've got a good pocket. You've
got ample opportunity to see the field and make throws
down the field.

Speaker 13 (01:17:57):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:17:57):
Sometimes when people are only three man you, that number
may go up and you're allotted, allotted a little bit
more time to hold the ball. And that's recognition from
a quarterbacks perspective that hey, it's a three man rush,
you're gonna have a little bit more time to survey
the field. There's gonna be moments when they're blitzing you
and you might have one point eight one point nine

(01:18:18):
seconds and the ball's got to get out of your hands,
and so, uh, I think that's a feel thing. There's
a bit of a rhythm to that of feeling that
rush and knowing the alloted time that you have. I
don't in the moment you start looking at the rush,
you get yourself in trouble. And so I think it
varies per play, But I would say if you're getting five, six,
seven seconds, that's extreme.

Speaker 13 (01:18:38):
I don't think you can rely on that much time.

Speaker 15 (01:18:41):
Okay, I'm counting too fast, and I'll bring a timer
next time.

Speaker 13 (01:18:44):
All Right, you got it? You got it.

Speaker 9 (01:18:48):
Next is Joe cooka inside Texas Steve.

Speaker 16 (01:18:52):
We saw Mason take the kickoffs against you, tep.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
What was the reason for that? Is there something up
with Will?

Speaker 16 (01:18:59):
And then at the same time, how do you feel
like your kick coverage team has been this year? And
I guess by asking that, are you fine with it
being a touchback centric unit this year?

Speaker 13 (01:19:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:19:09):
Will's back was tight, and so we went with Mason. Obviously,
He's more than equipped to do.

Speaker 13 (01:19:15):
That as well.

Speaker 12 (01:19:16):
And I thought, although maybe his kicks weren't out of
the end zone, his ball placement was really good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:19:22):
All those kickoffs were kind of pinned into that corner,
and that allows our coverage lanes to really be tight
and to squeeze the returns. Y'all be honest with if
you ask our kickoff coverage unit, they wish more people
would run them back out. These guys are running down
there as fast as they can, and they're taking on
blockers and things, and you know, as of right now,
a lot of people are shutting their returns down and

(01:19:44):
I think that's that's a little bit of a credit
maybe to last year's coverage unit. We're really challenging this
unit to be even better and and to cover the
right way, with the right intent, with the right discipline
of squeezing lanes and squeeze and returns. But they haven't
gotten a lot of opportunities, you know, just not a
lot of people have brought them back, and we're anticipating

(01:20:05):
them to do so.

Speaker 13 (01:20:05):
We challenged them on one late in the game to
run all the way.

Speaker 12 (01:20:08):
Into the end zone just to continue the habits and
not get lulled asleep on fair catch after fair catch
because sooner or later somebody's going to bring it out
on us.

Speaker 16 (01:20:17):
And then kind of along those lines, you've you've added
some more younger players to those units. It seems like
in the past couple of weeks, namely guys like jj
R and Jonathan Cunningham, for those guys to you know,
get those opportunities and be guys on multiple teams so far.
How they earned that, How they earned that trust to
get on the Jeff Banks side of the ball.

Speaker 12 (01:20:39):
Yeah, I think a lot of that trust is earned
in practice, and then they earn more trust when they
get their opportunities in game.

Speaker 13 (01:20:46):
And I thought jj.

Speaker 12 (01:20:47):
R and and you know, I call them Deuce Cunningham,
but douce. They both have had good games for us
on special teams last week, you know, on punt return,
on kick coverage. Uh, And there's more guys that and
and again that the key is the more guys that
we can trust to be on kick coverage, to beyond
punt return, to beyond kicked off return. You know, that's

(01:21:09):
that's a few less reps for you know, the Michael
Taffts of the world. The the the the Jelani McDonald's
of the world that you know, with those guys that
are playing a lot of reps forts on defense, you
know that's taking you know, five, seven, ten reps off
those guys a game.

Speaker 13 (01:21:25):
If some of these younger guys can continue to step up.

Speaker 9 (01:21:29):
Thanks for the Devin Ecker of the alsin American States.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
Steve, appreciate the time.

Speaker 7 (01:21:34):
Yes, sir, just want just wanted to check real quick
if you expect to have uh, Trey, Alex and DeAndre
on Saturday.

Speaker 13 (01:21:44):
Uh, I expect to have a couple of those guys
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Coach.

Speaker 9 (01:21:48):
It's gonna be all your time this week.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:21:51):
All righty y'all, thank you. Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
There's long Ones head coach Steve Sarkasian from the SEC
teleconference to tomorrow we'll hear from sark with the local
media availability, the zoom availability there, and there'll probably be
some more pointed direct questions, not just the injury thing
that you just heard there, but some but some other
questions as well. All right, up next we'll hear from

(01:22:18):
a long warn player conversation there coming up here with
hero Canoe.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
That is no way, no, no, no, we already had.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Eric, Yeah, we're gonna hear from Leongola foul. Excuse me,
it's Leongo la foul. That's next here. I'm thirteen hundred
to that category as well. Hey, before we hear from
Leongo la foul. A college football note from Heather Dnich
of ESPN, and I think this is a cool deal.
The Army Navy game, which for so many years that

(01:22:50):
was the last college football game you would get before
the ball games. You know, maybe if you were following
fcs back then known as one Double A or Division
two or D three, you would see some playoffs, but
on the national major college football scene, it's always happening that,
like second Saturday in December, it was always the last

(01:23:10):
college football game because in those days, in the sixties seventies,
the Service Academy did not participate in the bowls, not
often anyway, And then it started up again later in
the seventies and on into the eighties and so on
and so forth. And of course now it's had to
take place in an odd situation. They're outside of conference

(01:23:36):
championship games, like when both teams were unbeaten last year.
For a while, there was all this this speculation that
Army and Navy could wind up tying atop the American
Athletic Conference standings playing a conference championship game. You get

(01:23:56):
a winner who wins the cover and then they play
the next week. It ended up not happening that way.
But the game itself is going to be honored as
the recipient of the twenty twenty five National Football Foundations
Distinguished American Award. They give one of those awards out
of year, and it's very, very cool the game itself
is being honored that way in conjunction with the College

(01:24:18):
Football Hall of Fame. It usually recognizes an outstanding person
or entity who has maintained a and this is in quotations,
a lifetime of interest in the game and over a
long period of time, has exhibited enviable leadership qualities and
made a significant contribution to the betterment of amateur football

(01:24:43):
in the United States. I think that's the best way
to describe the Army Navy game. It's a great game,
great great And did you now, I mean you grew
up in the DC or did you ever go up
to Baltimore to see that game?

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
You know, it's a huge regret of mine that I've
never been to an Army Navy game. I had three
pretty good friends from high school, all graduating Naval Academy,
all currently serving, and it's yeah, it's a bucket list
item for me. I know somebody with the sports information
staff at Army. He told me everything you've heard about
the game is true if you're involved in it. It

(01:25:13):
is the number one rivalry in any sport on the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
The game was first played on November twenty ninth, eighteen
ninety and remains one of college football's oldest and most
storied rivalries. The official recognition is December ninth, during the
sixty seventh National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner presented by
Las Vegas. That's at the Bellaggio.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
So there. So that's that's really cool, and I'm glad
to see that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
Navy. By the way, in case you want to leads
the all time series sixty three point fifty five seven.
The game is going to be in Baltimore this year
at the Brigade of Midshipman and Corps of Cadets COOD.
I the rivalry on the second Saturday of December. I'm
opposed by any FBS or NFL game, So yeah, it's
really cool and it's good to see.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Let's uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
And by the way, my alma mater, North Texas plays
at Army this week. They put their three and ozer
record on the line.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Yeah, it's not an easy prep.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
No, and figure this out. Army loses at home to
Tarlton State, then goes to Kansas State and beats Cape
State in Manhattan. So go figure that out, right, Mean,
Green will try to get to four and out when
they go there. All right, let's let's hear from the
long wornes outside linebacker Leonge la Foule sitting down with
our Will Matthews.

Speaker 6 (01:26:26):
We're gonna talk a little bit. Of course, we'll talk
about football.

Speaker 7 (01:26:29):
But the thing I'm most excited about being a guy
from a huge family, your family being here, your family comes.

Speaker 6 (01:26:36):
To the games, on the data around. Talk about that
experience with.

Speaker 17 (01:26:40):
I mean, other than football, the biggest, you know, joy
that I get is just being around my family. I've
grew up in, you know, a loving family. Obviously, I
have three brothers and my two parents back home. But
be from HOOI in a tight, very tight knit community.
It's just like everyone's family. So like I have visitors

(01:27:03):
every weekend who are blood related, but also some that
are and they're just from the community and I call
them family as well. So when they come, I'm just
very proud to represent them and I'm happy they can
come out.

Speaker 6 (01:27:15):
And enjoy someone's family around.

Speaker 7 (01:27:18):
What do y'all do to create that family feel and atmosphere?

Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
Do you have any like cool traditions that you do.

Speaker 17 (01:27:26):
I mean, we just hang out, you know, have some
enjoy our time together. Basically, we just kind of like
a pot look style. My mom will make some food,
maybe my dad will get on the grill here and there,
or we'll just you know, we'll enjoy a bill together
and we'll just talk.

Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
And if people are coming from Hooi, we'll just catch.

Speaker 6 (01:27:46):
Up because coming from Hawaii regularly.

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:27:50):
Yeah, every weekend a different different set of people who's coming.
And so yeah, we just we just like to enjoy
our time together.

Speaker 7 (01:27:59):
So here, my mom came to every single practice, So
your people like that or they're like everything, like I'm
gonna show up all the time.

Speaker 17 (01:28:06):
Yeah, any chance they get. My dad, he tries to
come to practices. I tell him, like, it's not like
high school. You guy should come to the practices. But
you know, they they're just you know, obviously they're very
proud of me, and I'm very proud to represent them,
and so they show up anytime they can, and I'm
very thankful for them because it just makes me feel

(01:28:28):
like I'm at home every time I see them.

Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
So everyone ever play my mom had this high pitch yell.
You can scream from the stands. Can you hear and
feel your people from the stand I.

Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
Mean, I kind of just I can hear. I already
know what my dad is gonna say.

Speaker 17 (01:28:44):
I'm very thankful for the Texas fans because they're loud.
But in high school I used to be able to
hear my dad every single play, you know, like if
I did something wrong, if I did something right.

Speaker 5 (01:28:55):
So I kind of really know what he's gonna say.

Speaker 17 (01:28:57):
So you know, after certain plays, I hear his voice
even though without hearing, you just knowing what he's gonna say.

Speaker 7 (01:29:03):
And as you being a leader on this team, you've
really developed immaturity in that space. Are you seeing those
budding things of family inside of this this team that
you're playing with?

Speaker 17 (01:29:13):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I feel like we're becoming a family.
We're doing a good job of you know, hanging out
outside of football, you know, talking about other things other
than football.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
How's your guys family doing, how in school? You know?
Just and that's how that's really how we just you know,
get closer.

Speaker 18 (01:29:34):
Together and become a family, which which is what we
want to become. You know, at the end of the day,
we're we're not only football players, know, we're just we
love each other and we treat each other like brothers
and are we we want a relationship that isn't just
throughout the season, and it lasts for a lifetime.

Speaker 6 (01:29:52):
Thank you so much, Good luck this week, have a
good one.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
Bro, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Will y'all go without sitting down with our will map
all right, we'll be back to wrap up today's edition
of the program right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone.

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