August 20, 2024 • 14 mins
Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian joined The Dan Patrick Show on Monday to preview the Longhorns 2024 season, the transition into the SEC, how to keep Arch Manning happy, and if he's going to purchase a Burnt Orange suit for Gamedays.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we mentioned, we brought you some sound from Steve
Sarkisian's media availability yesterday. Also yesterday he appeared on the
Dan Patrick Show, and there were some other topics that
two got into other than just the nuts and bolts
of coming off a practice yesterday. So here was the
conversation that Sarka had yesterday with Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
He's the head coach of the Texas Longhorn. Steve Sercusian
back on the program. Do you feel like you're in
the SEC now or is there still part of that
Big twelve hangover?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I think once you go to league meetings in the
spring down there in Destin, you definitely feel like you're
part of the conference.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You know, the SEC.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Does everything big and then naturally with the media days
and doing media days in Dallas, you could feel the
energy of the excitement and so but we'll find out
more when the season comes around. We got to start.
We gotta start playing these games week after week.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Take me back to when you took the job. Did
you know at the time Texas was going into the SEC?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I did not, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I took this job with the under the impression of
we would be in the Big twelve. You know, I
took the job because it was University of Texas, right,
and the history and tradition, the great players, coaches, teams
that we've had here, uh, and what an unbelievable university
in the city of Austin, all those great things. And
then after it had been on the job for a
(01:26):
little while, then I got notified of the potential and
then nationally it all came to fruition.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So, you know, I think it's.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
A great opportunity for us and and us continuing to
build this program and and in the state of college
football where it's headed and so much has been made.
I think of conference realignment about you know, people losing
rivalries and and some of the.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
History of college football.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We're actually gaining two back, you know, for the opportunity
for us to play A and M again, the opportunity
for us to play Arkansas a game, and some of
those great games with with with coach.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Broyles and and Darryl O.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
K Royle and and just what that that that rivalry
meant over the years for us. We're kind of gaining
some rivalries back as as well as going into my opinion, uh,
you know, the best, the best conference in the country.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Which SEC stadiums have you never coached or played in?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Wow, you know, I've never been to the Swamp. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know I've never been to you know, coached and
I've been there. I've never coached there. I've never coached
at Georgia.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I think just about everywhere else I've been.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You know obviously, you know been and Bryant Denny been, LSU,
I've been to, been to College Station, so been a
lot of those stadiums are great environments. The fanfare. I
think that's what makes this conference so great, right. I mean,
a there's elite coaching, there's elite players. Uh, there's there's
a reason the SEC has more NFL draft picks than
any of their conference every year. But the fan engagement
(02:52):
and in the way that they commit to their teams
and the love they have for their programs, uh, in
my opinion, is second to none.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But this is a soap opera. This is like reality TV.
When you're in the SEC. It's just different than any
other place. And I don't even know how you prepare
for something like that, aside from getting your team ready,
but really it's its own soap opera.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, I think the challenge is, you know, having been
in that league, you know, three different years with Bama
in twenty sixteen and then in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
That we all are aware.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Everybody's aware of the physical challenge that it takes, you know,
the physicality of the SEC and things of that nature.
To me, it's the mental intensity that you have to
have week in and week out to get prepared. And
I think that's going to be probably one of our
challenges that I have to help navigate our team through
and manage through. That's my job to do that because
week in and week out when you go on the road,
(03:52):
the environments are the environments.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Even our home games.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The SEC fans travel really well, and they're going to
want to travel to Austin. It's going to be a new,
you know, new place for them to come play. And
so we've got to do a great job from a
from a mental intensity standpoint of making sure that we're
dialed in not just on Saturday on game day, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We're talking to Steve serkese in, Texas head coach, who
scheduled at Michigan for week two. You know how long
has that been scheduled.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That game was scheduled before I got here. I don't
know I'm able to do that. And clearly you haven't
looked at our future schedule either, because the next year
we go to Ohio State. So we'll go three straight
years at Alabama, non conference, at Michigan, at Ohio State.
But that's you know, for me, I think that that's
it's actually a really good thing, especially now more than
(04:42):
ever with the expanded playoff. The fact that that you know,
we get to go play these early non conference games
get a little bit of a of a of a
of a barometer of where we're at as a program.
But I think the beauty of it is that those
games early in the year really aren't going to define
your season. You still have to go play well in
your conference. You if you don't win, you still can
(05:04):
maybe a four to loss or two or maybe even
three and get into that playoff. Gives it a little
bit more of that NFL feel that way, to where
you know, you can really test your team early in
the season, see where you're at, where do you need
to improve to get ready for conference play.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
How do you think Nick Saban's going to do. As
a member of the media.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I think he's going to do great.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Man, you know, he I've seen him a few times,
and I saw him obviously at SEC media Days. I
watched him covering the NFL Draft. He's so knowledgeable, right,
and he's got so much more personality than people probably
give him credit for. But his insight is really incredible
and I could sit there and listen to him all day.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
And so I think he's going to do great.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think I think fans are really going to gravitate
to wanting to hear him speak on games and strategy
and different things that come up with the ball games.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You had Roger Clemens in the building.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I should had we had the rocket in. Man, it
was awesome, great story behind this, you know. So two
years ago we were playing BAM at home and the
Who's Who were on the sidelines right like you'd imagine,
and then there's Vince Young, there's Kevin Durant and second quarter.
I looked down, I said, holy crap, that's Roger Clemens,
you know. And I grew up a huge Red Sox
fan when I was a kid. So it's a TV timeout,
(06:20):
So I go down there. I said, Hey, Roger's great
to meet you. I love having you here. I said,
I'm a huge fan. And so that next week I
get a package and he sends me a jersey, you know,
and it says, you know, rocket Roger Clemens, seven times
cy Young, two time World Series. And then he puts
in quotes tough all day. And I said, what a
great saying. And so we've actually adopted what was his mantra,
(06:43):
was tough all day. And so we had him come
speak to the team last Friday, and it was awesome,
you know, and to put to put it into perspective,
we got a lot of young players that never saw
Roger Clemens pitch. But when you think about you know,
forty six hundred strikeouts, you know, twenty strikeouts in a
game twice uh seven side youngs.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I mean, those are incredible numbers.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And so and then you realize he's sixty two years old,
and he looks like he's about forty five, looks like
he can still get on the mound and throw about
ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, but you're facing Alabama and it's a TV timeout
and you have to go say a load to Roger Clemens.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yoh yeah. But that's but that's kind of who I am.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You know, I appreciate that one thing about me, Dan,
you probably know this. I love college football. I love
the pageantry of college football and all that comes into
it in those big games. I think part of that
even was with my time at SC with Pete with
with Pete Carroll and he looked down the sidelines and
they're Snoop Dogg or there's there's Will Ferrell, or there's
(07:45):
you know, Marcus Allen, whoever it was, and just watching
him engage with them, I think it almost gave us
a sense of confidence. Like coaches in a great frame
of mind, we should stay in a great frame of mind.
He's he's he's loose, he's confident, and so I kind
of evolved into that myself, and so I do try
to touch base with the people on our sidelines, you know,
whether it's in pregame and sometimes during a TV timeout,
(08:08):
just to kind of give him a high five or
a fist bump and let them know I appreciate him
being there.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Do your players know you played quarterback?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I think they do, you know, I think nowadays with
YouTube and I think they like pulling up all my
bad plays but.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They do know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Unfortunately I can't throw like I used to, but I
think they're aware.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
How do you keep Arch Manning happy? Content positive?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, you know, the one thing with Arch that has
been and I think I really credit his family, his
mom and his dad, you know, his grandpa, obviously, his uncles.
You know, I think they understand the process and so
many times. You know, we're in this world now of
instant gratification, right, whether social media or the five star
recruit comes in, it starts right away. But if you
(08:57):
really look back at the history of eli and and Peyton,
they didn't start their freshman year. You know, it took
time as they developed because I think the one thing
that the Mannings understand is when it's your time to play,
that they want to play really well, right.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
They don't want to be learning on the job.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And so we've got a pretty good history and tradition
of developing quarterbacks over the last twenty or so years,
going all the way back to Carson Palmer and all
the guys that we've coached, and I think we've seen
an immense amount of development in Arch. We feel very
comfortable if and or when he gets in the game,
he's going to.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Play good football for us.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But I also think they understand the process of developing
himself to be a championship caliber quarterback in the SEC
and on the national stage, but also preparing and putting
himself in the best position for the National Football League.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Who's the best quarterback you've ever been around?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Oh? Man, don't do that to me.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I've been around some really really good ones, I mean,
and I can rattle them off from obviously, you know,
from what you know Carson was, you know, Matt Castle
Will a backup with us that whole time and gets
drafted in the NFL, to John David Booty, to Mark Sanchez.
You know, we had Jake Locker for a couple of
years at Washington to to you know what. You know,
(10:12):
even when I got into the NFL, Matt Ryan had
a couple of great years with us, to Tua to
mac Jones and now we've got Quinn and they're all
They've all different, you know, everybody's got a different skill set,
you know, strengths and weaknesses, and trying to train them
the way we think they need to be trained, but
also play to their strengths to do the things that
they do well.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So I've been the.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Best quarterback you've coached against.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Ooh man, that's another tough one.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
That's tough in college football.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
One of the better games I've seen played, at least
one of the better drives I coached against, was in
twenty sixteen. You know, I called the National championship game,
but one game coach Saban had me call it, and
it was Bama against Clemson and that that that final
drive by Deshaun Watson to go win the national title.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
It was a pretty tremendous drive.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But I'm gonna say the best one ever was Vince
Young And in the National Championship game, we said in
our locker room, the guy was Superman that night. And
you know what he did for Texas in that game
and ultimately that final drive fourth and five twenty six
seconds to go to go make that play on that stage.
(11:25):
He beat us, you know, and you know, I know
their team was really good, but it really just felt
like Vince Young beat us that night.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Do you have a full suit, like a burnt orange suit,
like pants, jacket and tie.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I don't have that yet. I'm gonna go with yet.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You know, I I definitely will will sometimes step outside
the box with some of the suits that I wear,
and a full burn orange suit sounds like it's something
that I'm supposed to be wearing.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
So maybe maybe this year I will get something like
that done.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know, you get white belt, white shoes. But I
would wait until like after the Georgia game, maybe after
a win. Then then maybe after the game, put on
after the game, yeah, or for the next week, maybe
the next week. Who do you play after Georgia? You
got to play a Cupcake after Georgia, I have no
hold on, hold on, let me see, all right, you
(12:16):
got so you got Oklahoma, and then next week the
following Georgia, you're at Vandy.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't know if I don't know if the orange
suit in Nashville is like I feel like I should
be on orange shoot at home for a home game.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, how about uh Florida, Maybe maybe we'll look into that. Yeah,
that that'll be somebody make that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I don't think you can just go down to your
local your local mall and pick up.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So if you beat.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Georgia, you'll have people waiting in line to make you
an orange jumpsuit there. Uh, well, good luck. And I
know how many times have you said to your team, Hey,
we got Colorado State. Let's not be thinking about Michigan
because he opened up the Colorado State.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Here's the thing I've been doing.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I've been reminding him of that game by practicing at
two thirty in the afternoon. That game is August thirty first,
at two thirty in the afternoon, so it'll be about
a one.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Hundred and so degrees temperature.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It'll be probably about one hundred and I don't know
thirty or forty on our turf. So putting him in
the sun reminds him every day of that. We play
August thirty first against Colorado State.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Good to talk to you again, coach. We'll hopefully catch
up with you during the season. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Thanks, Dad, appreciate it, Buddy. Hook them all right there.
It is Sark with on the Dan Patrick Show yesterday morning.
They're talking about and like I said, there's some other
overdew things they get into. Like I don't know that
Sark has been asked about having a burn orn suit
in his.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Closet or something like that. He is a jacket for sure,
he does. He does.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
In fact, good I interviewed him in Big Tel Media
days when he was wearing that jacket, So he's got
some other ones, and he's got lots of different outfit
combinations for sure. All right up next, we have Inconceivable
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As we mentioned, we brought you some sound from Steve
Sarkisian's media availability yesterday. Also yesterday he appeared on the
Dan Patrick Show, and there were some other topics that
two got into other than just the nuts and bolts
of coming off a practice yesterday. So here was the
conversation that Sarka had yesterday with Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
He's the head coach of the Texas Longhorn. Steve Sercusian
back on the program. Do you feel like you're in
the SEC now or is there still part of that
Big twelve hangover?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I think once you go to league meetings in the
spring down there in Destin, you definitely feel like you're
part of the conference.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You know, the SEC.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Does everything big and then naturally with the media days
and doing media days in Dallas, you could feel the
energy of the excitement and so but we'll find out
more when the season comes around. We got to start.
We gotta start playing these games week after week.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Take me back to when you took the job. Did
you know at the time Texas was going into the SEC?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I did not, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I took this job with the under the impression of
we would be in the Big twelve. You know, I
took the job because it was University of Texas, right,
and the history and tradition, the great players, coaches, teams
that we've had here, uh, and what an unbelievable university
in the city of Austin, all those great things. And
then after it had been on the job for a
(01:26):
little while, then I got notified of the potential and
then nationally it all came to fruition.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So, you know, I think it's.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
A great opportunity for us and and us continuing to
build this program and and in the state of college
football where it's headed and so much has been made.
I think of conference realignment about you know, people losing
rivalries and and some of the.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
History of college football.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We're actually gaining two back, you know, for the opportunity
for us to play A and M again, the opportunity
for us to play Arkansas a game, and some of
those great games with with with coach.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Broyles and and Darryl O.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
K Royle and and just what that that that rivalry
meant over the years for us. We're kind of gaining
some rivalries back as as well as going into my opinion, uh,
you know, the best, the best conference in the country.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Which SEC stadiums have you never coached or played in?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Wow, you know, I've never been to the Swamp. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know I've never been to you know, coached and
I've been there. I've never coached there. I've never coached
at Georgia.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I think just about everywhere else I've been.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You know obviously, you know been and Bryant Denny been, LSU,
I've been to, been to College Station, so been a
lot of those stadiums are great environments. The fanfare. I
think that's what makes this conference so great, right. I mean,
a there's elite coaching, there's elite players. Uh, there's there's
a reason the SEC has more NFL draft picks than
any of their conference every year. But the fan engagement
(02:52):
and in the way that they commit to their teams
and the love they have for their programs, uh, in
my opinion, is second to none.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But this is a soap opera. This is like reality TV.
When you're in the SEC. It's just different than any
other place. And I don't even know how you prepare
for something like that, aside from getting your team ready,
but really it's its own soap opera.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, I think the challenge is, you know, having been
in that league, you know, three different years with Bama
in twenty sixteen and then in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
That we all are aware.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Everybody's aware of the physical challenge that it takes, you know,
the physicality of the SEC and things of that nature.
To me, it's the mental intensity that you have to
have week in and week out to get prepared. And
I think that's going to be probably one of our
challenges that I have to help navigate our team through
and manage through. That's my job to do that because
week in and week out when you go on the road,
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the environments are the environments.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Even our home games.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The SEC fans travel really well, and they're going to
want to travel to Austin. It's going to be a new,
you know, new place for them to come play. And
so we've got to do a great job from a
from a mental intensity standpoint of making sure that we're
dialed in not just on Saturday on game day, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We're talking to Steve serkese in, Texas head coach, who
scheduled at Michigan for week two. You know how long
has that been scheduled.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That game was scheduled before I got here. I don't
know I'm able to do that. And clearly you haven't
looked at our future schedule either, because the next year
we go to Ohio State. So we'll go three straight
years at Alabama, non conference, at Michigan, at Ohio State.
But that's you know, for me, I think that that's
it's actually a really good thing, especially now more than
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ever with the expanded playoff. The fact that that you know,
we get to go play these early non conference games
get a little bit of a of a of a
of a barometer of where we're at as a program.
But I think the beauty of it is that those
games early in the year really aren't going to define
your season. You still have to go play well in
your conference. You if you don't win, you still can
(05:04):
maybe a four to loss or two or maybe even
three and get into that playoff. Gives it a little
bit more of that NFL feel that way, to where
you know, you can really test your team early in
the season, see where you're at, where do you need
to improve to get ready for conference play.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
How do you think Nick Saban's going to do. As
a member of the media.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I think he's going to do great.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Man, you know, he I've seen him a few times,
and I saw him obviously at SEC media Days. I
watched him covering the NFL Draft. He's so knowledgeable, right,
and he's got so much more personality than people probably
give him credit for. But his insight is really incredible
and I could sit there and listen to him all day.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
And so I think he's going to do great.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think I think fans are really going to gravitate
to wanting to hear him speak on games and strategy
and different things that come up with the ball games.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You had Roger Clemens in the building.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I should had we had the rocket in. Man, it
was awesome, great story behind this, you know. So two
years ago we were playing BAM at home and the
Who's Who were on the sidelines right like you'd imagine,
and then there's Vince Young, there's Kevin Durant and second quarter.
I looked down, I said, holy crap, that's Roger Clemens,
you know. And I grew up a huge Red Sox
fan when I was a kid. So it's a TV timeout,
(06:20):
So I go down there. I said, Hey, Roger's great
to meet you. I love having you here. I said,
I'm a huge fan. And so that next week I
get a package and he sends me a jersey, you know,
and it says, you know, rocket Roger Clemens, seven times
cy Young, two time World Series. And then he puts
in quotes tough all day. And I said, what a
great saying. And so we've actually adopted what was his mantra,
(06:43):
was tough all day. And so we had him come
speak to the team last Friday, and it was awesome,
you know, and to put to put it into perspective,
we got a lot of young players that never saw
Roger Clemens pitch. But when you think about you know,
forty six hundred strikeouts, you know, twenty strikeouts in a
game twice uh seven side youngs.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I mean, those are incredible numbers.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And so and then you realize he's sixty two years old,
and he looks like he's about forty five, looks like
he can still get on the mound and throw about
ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, but you're facing Alabama and it's a TV timeout
and you have to go say a load to Roger Clemens.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yoh yeah. But that's but that's kind of who I am.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You know, I appreciate that one thing about me, Dan,
you probably know this. I love college football. I love
the pageantry of college football and all that comes into
it in those big games. I think part of that
even was with my time at SC with Pete with
with Pete Carroll and he looked down the sidelines and
they're Snoop Dogg or there's there's Will Ferrell, or there's
(07:45):
you know, Marcus Allen, whoever it was, and just watching
him engage with them, I think it almost gave us
a sense of confidence. Like coaches in a great frame
of mind, we should stay in a great frame of mind.
He's he's he's loose, he's confident, and so I kind
of evolved into that myself, and so I do try
to touch base with the people on our sidelines, you know,
whether it's in pregame and sometimes during a TV timeout,
(08:08):
just to kind of give him a high five or
a fist bump and let them know I appreciate him
being there.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Do your players know you played quarterback?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I think they do, you know, I think nowadays with
YouTube and I think they like pulling up all my
bad plays but.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They do know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Unfortunately I can't throw like I used to, but I
think they're aware.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
How do you keep Arch Manning happy? Content positive?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, you know, the one thing with Arch that has
been and I think I really credit his family, his
mom and his dad, you know, his grandpa, obviously, his uncles.
You know, I think they understand the process and so
many times. You know, we're in this world now of
instant gratification, right, whether social media or the five star
recruit comes in, it starts right away. But if you
(08:57):
really look back at the history of eli and and Peyton,
they didn't start their freshman year. You know, it took
time as they developed because I think the one thing
that the Mannings understand is when it's your time to play,
that they want to play really well, right.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
They don't want to be learning on the job.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And so we've got a pretty good history and tradition
of developing quarterbacks over the last twenty or so years,
going all the way back to Carson Palmer and all
the guys that we've coached, and I think we've seen
an immense amount of development in Arch. We feel very
comfortable if and or when he gets in the game,
he's going to.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Play good football for us.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But I also think they understand the process of developing
himself to be a championship caliber quarterback in the SEC
and on the national stage, but also preparing and putting
himself in the best position for the National Football League.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Who's the best quarterback you've ever been around?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Oh? Man, don't do that to me.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I've been around some really really good ones, I mean,
and I can rattle them off from obviously, you know,
from what you know Carson was, you know, Matt Castle
Will a backup with us that whole time and gets
drafted in the NFL, to John David Booty, to Mark Sanchez.
You know, we had Jake Locker for a couple of
years at Washington to to you know what. You know,
(10:12):
even when I got into the NFL, Matt Ryan had
a couple of great years with us, to Tua to
mac Jones and now we've got Quinn and they're all
They've all different, you know, everybody's got a different skill set,
you know, strengths and weaknesses, and trying to train them
the way we think they need to be trained, but
also play to their strengths to do the things that
they do well.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So I've been the.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Best quarterback you've coached against.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Ooh man, that's another tough one.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
That's tough in college football.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
One of the better games I've seen played, at least
one of the better drives I coached against, was in
twenty sixteen. You know, I called the National championship game,
but one game coach Saban had me call it, and
it was Bama against Clemson and that that that final
drive by Deshaun Watson to go win the national title.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
It was a pretty tremendous drive.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But I'm gonna say the best one ever was Vince
Young And in the National Championship game, we said in
our locker room, the guy was Superman that night. And
you know what he did for Texas in that game
and ultimately that final drive fourth and five twenty six
seconds to go to go make that play on that stage.
(11:25):
He beat us, you know, and you know, I know
their team was really good, but it really just felt
like Vince Young beat us that night.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Do you have a full suit, like a burnt orange suit,
like pants, jacket and tie.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I don't have that yet. I'm gonna go with yet.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You know, I I definitely will will sometimes step outside
the box with some of the suits that I wear,
and a full burn orange suit sounds like it's something
that I'm supposed to be wearing.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
So maybe maybe this year I will get something like
that done.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know, you get white belt, white shoes. But I
would wait until like after the Georgia game, maybe after
a win. Then then maybe after the game, put on
after the game, yeah, or for the next week, maybe
the next week. Who do you play after Georgia? You
got to play a Cupcake after Georgia, I have no
hold on, hold on, let me see, all right, you
(12:16):
got so you got Oklahoma, and then next week the
following Georgia, you're at Vandy.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't know if I don't know if the orange
suit in Nashville is like I feel like I should
be on orange shoot at home for a home game.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, how about uh Florida, Maybe maybe we'll look into that. Yeah,
that that'll be somebody make that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I don't think you can just go down to your
local your local mall and pick up.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So if you beat.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Georgia, you'll have people waiting in line to make you
an orange jumpsuit there. Uh, well, good luck. And I
know how many times have you said to your team, Hey,
we got Colorado State. Let's not be thinking about Michigan
because he opened up the Colorado State.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Here's the thing I've been doing.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I've been reminding him of that game by practicing at
two thirty in the afternoon. That game is August thirty first,
at two thirty in the afternoon, so it'll be about
a one.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Hundred and so degrees temperature.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It'll be probably about one hundred and I don't know
thirty or forty on our turf. So putting him in
the sun reminds him every day of that. We play
August thirty first against Colorado State.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Good to talk to you again, coach. We'll hopefully catch
up with you during the season. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Thanks, Dad, appreciate it, Buddy. Hook them all right there.
It is Sark with on the Dan Patrick Show yesterday morning.
They're talking about and like I said, there's some other
overdew things they get into. Like I don't know that
Sark has been asked about having a burn orn suit
in his.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Closet or something like that. He is a jacket for sure,
he does. He does.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
In fact, good I interviewed him in Big Tel Media
days when he was wearing that jacket, So he's got
some other ones, and he's got lots of different outfit
combinations for sure. All right up next, we have Inconceivable
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