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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And we're back to the Craig Way Show. Have a
message for Craig, share it by using the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio WHI.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thursday afternoon here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundreds. Right away,
Cameron Parker talking about good times in radio. Over the years,
I've often heard this described as the best job in
the worst industry.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
In the country.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Can be that way, but fortunately we're comfortably ensconced with
our iHeart family. We're talking about in the past some
other things from Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkasian. Okay, the
College Football Playoff, Frankie, Now, nobody, to my utter amazement,
yesterday on the SEC teleconference asked sark and again, we're
(01:09):
talking about like fourteen hours after the first unveiling, the
first release of the College Football Playoff or the first reveal,
whatever you want to call it, from the CFP committee,
where Texas is number five. But if the regular season
ended today with those exact same rankings, that actually slided
(01:31):
into the sixth position, because you would have to have
the BYU rising up from nine to four to be
in to draw first round by so nobody asked sark
about it on the SEC teleconference totally flummengst me. And
(01:51):
so I was going to ask Sark about it on
Longhorn Weekly, which we recorded last night.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Again it comes up a couple hours from now at
seven o'clock. Well, it didn't even get to me. Having
asked Gene, one of the big the biggest of big
Longhorn fans, who's there, miss Gene, I asked, you know,
on the question cards that get sent out, what are
your impressions of the first CFP rankings? And I brought
up the fact that nobody asked him about and telegovery.
(02:17):
He laughed about that, and he said, you have to
ask me about like injuries and like, you know, we're
gonna release an injury report tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, I waste a question on that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But then he did address it, and he addressed it
in a very similar fashion when he was asked about
it this morning in his media zoom.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna answer that,
but I think this is important. You know, what was
that Tuesday night they did that the CFP rankings came
out and we were actually having dinner as a staff
at that time. We can always get together, you know,
Monday and Tuesday nights, just to kind of get out
of the monotony of looking at film, and.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We watched it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It just happened to be when we were eating and
the show was kind of on and you could hear
and I was kind of watching even our staff talk
about this team, that team, and so on and so forth.
And what it hit me with is the popularity of
college football right now is at an all time high.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I mean, it is.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Incredible that we're talking about a twelve team playoff ranking
system that with brackets in November, at the start of November.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You know, I was thinking myself, so, are they gonna
do brackets like they do for March Madness? Is that
what's gonna happen now? Are people gonna be doing this
in college football? And you know, whether it happens or not,
but to think, like, so, we're gonna play Alabama in
the first round of the playoffs and dk R, you know,
like how exciting that is? And I don't know if
(03:44):
that's how it's gonna play out. Probably not, there's so
much football to be played. But on the flip side,
that next morning, I came in to talk to the
team and I kind of said, give me a show
of hands.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Who watched the CFP show last night.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And it was a spattering of like maybe the room
if that like, because I think so many of our
veteran players know, I don't even know where we were
ranked last year in the first CFP rankings, and then
the result was we ended up being ranked third and
we made a fourteen playoff, And so I just think
(04:17):
so many of our older players know this is way
too early to worry about where our ranking is.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
What we need to worry.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
About is what we do, and we need to focus
on our preparation. We need to focus on the way
we play. And that is the value of having John
Day and Jake and Kelvin and gunner Helm and so
many of these guys that have been through it now
to think, like, guys don't worry about what they're saying.
We need to be worried about what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No doubt. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So Sark was then asked about the athletic department at
the University of Texas and fact that so many teams
are experiencing success.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Of course, Botherball's a two time national champion and.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They're ranked soccer will play Arkansas tonight in the SEC
Women's Soccer Tournament semifinal round. Texas is the number three
seed there. We know about all the other teams that
have had so much success, you know, going back over
the past year, and he was asked what it's like
to have his program and to think of the fight
(05:20):
as part of a thriving athletic department in the role
that Chrystal Conti, CDC, the athletic director, has had in
all of this.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it's been incredible.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You know, I've been speaking on this since the day
I got here four years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Of just.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'm inspired every day by the other sports and the
other teams that we have on the forty acres. We
go on a head coach's retreat once a year, and
to think I'm sitting in the room with some of
the greatest coaches in the sports history that they coach,
never mind current time, and so to be able to
pick the brains of them, to be able to watch
(05:56):
and support our teams has been something I'd love to
do in my time here and will continue to do.
We've We've got We've got a couple of new faces
now on staff and looking forward to watching them and
compete with their teams. But it's a great challenge because
we also know at the University of Texas we're gonna
get everybody's best shot every time that we take the
court or the field, and so I think learning and
(06:19):
being inspired from one another has been huge for us.
So again, wishing everybody the best of luck on their
journey here this season. You know, some of us are
already in the middle of it, some of us are
just getting started, some of us won't start until spring.
But we've got a great athletic department that CDC has
done a fantastic job of assembling, and he's assembled the
(06:40):
best coaching staff in the country in my opinion. You know,
from top to bottom twenty one Sports and those coaches
then have assembled some of the bag the best teams
in the country and the best staffs in the country.
So but it starts at the top, you know, obviously
with with Chairman l Type and President Hartzell.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But you know they've they've handed the.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Keys to to Christo and he's done an amazing job
and we couldn't be more fortunate.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And then finally one other question for Sark, and it
was about the fact that this Saturday, there's a couple
of things being recognized. First and foremost, it is Military
Appreciation Day, and again Nate Boyer is our special guest tonight,
so if you join us for that, you'll hear more
on that. That's one thing. And Sark was in his
in his Camo Longhorn hoodie last night for the program.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So that's one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then the other thing is this Saturday, they're celebrating
the one hundredth anniversary of Daryl K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Now,
it's really close. It's not exactly one hundred years to
the day. I think that was Thanksgiving of nineteen twenty
four against Baylor. I think was the first game with it.
(07:50):
But it's one hundred years. It's been around. It's all
most to the day, one hundred years. And Sark was
asked for his thoughts on that.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yeah, it's an amazing arena, amazing building. You know, when
you when you have a programs like ours University of Texas,
and you think about the great teams, the great players,
the great coaches that have that have you know, competed
in the middle of that field, that have walked those sidelines.
(08:20):
That's kind of what I do every Saturday when I
show up to games. I don't know if you all know,
but I go for a walk and it's just to
kind of get get myself to be where my feet are,
and I have moments of reminiscing and like to think
about Darryl k Royle on this sidelines, or A or
A mac Brown or or v Y or you know whomever.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I could go on and on and on, but the
point is like, how fortunate we are to be part
of this this team, to be part of this university,
to be part of this program knowing the greatness that
was here before. I mean, I think about what was
it like. I didn't get to see, you know, Earl
Campbell run. I didn't get it. I didn't get to
(09:05):
see Ricky Williams run. But what was it like? And
how electric was the stadium for some of those moments.
And so we try to create a great atmosphere for
our fans. We try to play football the right way
to where they're proud of the way that we play
the game. We're not gonna win them all every week,
but we try to play in a way that our
(09:26):
fans and those that are in attendance, are proud of
the way we play and that we're representing Longhorn Nation.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The right way.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay, and by the way, I did.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Do some research on this and it looked at it
and it was against Baylor, and it is almost one
hundred years to the day. It was November eighth of
nineteen twenty four, which the one hundredth year anniversary would
be tomorrow, so it's certainly close enough. As it was
(10:00):
November eighth, nineteen twenty four.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It was a Saturday, and they and.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They lost that day to Baylor, their first ever game
in the stadium.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
They lost twenty eight ten.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
They got the first win, but if you're going to
get your first win a m on Thanksgiving on November
twenty seventh of nineteen twenty four, they went five to
three and one that year, and yeah, but that was it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
The one hundredth anniversary of that first ever game at
dk R Texas Memorial Stadium was that day.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
program on AM thirteen under the Zone
And we're back to the Craig Way Show. Have a
message for Craig, share it by using the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio WHI.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thursday afternoon here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundreds. Right away,
Cameron Parker talking about good times in radio. Over the years,
I've often heard this described as the best job in
the worst industry.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
In the country.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Can be that way, but fortunately we're comfortably ensconced with
our iHeart family. We're talking about in the past some
other things from Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkasian. Okay, the
College Football Playoff, Frankie, Now, nobody, to my utter amazement,
yesterday on the SEC teleconference asked sark and again, we're
(01:09):
talking about like fourteen hours after the first unveiling, the
first release of the College Football Playoff or the first reveal,
whatever you want to call it, from the CFP committee,
where Texas is number five. But if the regular season
ended today with those exact same rankings, that actually slided
(01:31):
into the sixth position, because you would have to have
the BYU rising up from nine to four to be
in to draw first round by so nobody asked sark
about it on the SEC teleconference totally flummengst me. And
(01:51):
so I was going to ask Sark about it on
Longhorn Weekly, which we recorded last night.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Again it comes up a couple hours from now at
seven o'clock. Well, it didn't even get to me. Having
asked Gene, one of the big the biggest of big
Longhorn fans, who's there, miss Gene, I asked, you know,
on the question cards that get sent out, what are
your impressions of the first CFP rankings? And I brought
up the fact that nobody asked him about and telegovery.
(02:17):
He laughed about that, and he said, you have to
ask me about like injuries and like, you know, we're
gonna release an injury report tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, I waste a question on that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But then he did address it, and he addressed it
in a very similar fashion when he was asked about
it this morning in his media zoom.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna answer that,
but I think this is important. You know, what was
that Tuesday night they did that the CFP rankings came
out and we were actually having dinner as a staff
at that time. We can always get together, you know,
Monday and Tuesday nights, just to kind of get out
of the monotony of looking at film, and.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We watched it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It just happened to be when we were eating and
the show was kind of on and you could hear
and I was kind of watching even our staff talk
about this team, that team, and so on and so forth.
And what it hit me with is the popularity of
college football right now is at an all time high.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I mean, it is.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Incredible that we're talking about a twelve team playoff ranking
system that with brackets in November, at the start of November.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You know, I was thinking myself, so, are they gonna
do brackets like they do for March Madness? Is that
what's gonna happen now? Are people gonna be doing this
in college football? And you know, whether it happens or not,
but to think, like, so, we're gonna play Alabama in
the first round of the playoffs and dk R, you know,
like how exciting that is? And I don't know if
(03:44):
that's how it's gonna play out. Probably not, there's so
much football to be played. But on the flip side,
that next morning, I came in to talk to the
team and I kind of said, give me a show
of hands.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Who watched the CFP show last night.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And it was a spattering of like maybe the room
if that like, because I think so many of our
veteran players know, I don't even know where we were
ranked last year in the first CFP rankings, and then
the result was we ended up being ranked third and
we made a fourteen playoff, And so I just think
(04:17):
so many of our older players know this is way
too early to worry about where our ranking is.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
What we need to worry.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
About is what we do, and we need to focus
on our preparation. We need to focus on the way
we play. And that is the value of having John
Day and Jake and Kelvin and gunner Helm and so
many of these guys that have been through it now
to think, like, guys don't worry about what they're saying.
We need to be worried about what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No doubt. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So Sark was then asked about the athletic department at
the University of Texas and fact that so many teams
are experiencing success.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Of course, Botherball's a two time national champion and.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They're ranked soccer will play Arkansas tonight in the SEC
Women's Soccer Tournament semifinal round. Texas is the number three
seed there. We know about all the other teams that
have had so much success, you know, going back over
the past year, and he was asked what it's like
to have his program and to think of the fight
(05:20):
as part of a thriving athletic department in the role
that Chrystal Conti, CDC, the athletic director, has had in
all of this.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it's been incredible.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You know, I've been speaking on this since the day
I got here four years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Of just.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'm inspired every day by the other sports and the
other teams that we have on the forty acres. We
go on a head coach's retreat once a year, and
to think I'm sitting in the room with some of
the greatest coaches in the sports history that they coach,
never mind current time, and so to be able to
pick the brains of them, to be able to watch
(05:56):
and support our teams has been something I'd love to
do in my time here and will continue to do.
We've We've got We've got a couple of new faces
now on staff and looking forward to watching them and
compete with their teams. But it's a great challenge because
we also know at the University of Texas we're gonna
get everybody's best shot every time that we take the
court or the field, and so I think learning and
(06:19):
being inspired from one another has been huge for us.
So again, wishing everybody the best of luck on their
journey here this season. You know, some of us are
already in the middle of it, some of us are
just getting started, some of us won't start until spring.
But we've got a great athletic department that CDC has
done a fantastic job of assembling, and he's assembled the
(06:40):
best coaching staff in the country in my opinion. You know,
from top to bottom twenty one Sports and those coaches
then have assembled some of the bag the best teams
in the country and the best staffs in the country.
So but it starts at the top, you know, obviously
with with Chairman l Type and President Hartzell.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But you know they've they've handed the.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Keys to to Christo and he's done an amazing job
and we couldn't be more fortunate.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And then finally one other question for Sark, and it
was about the fact that this Saturday, there's a couple
of things being recognized. First and foremost, it is Military
Appreciation Day, and again Nate Boyer is our special guest tonight,
so if you join us for that, you'll hear more
on that. That's one thing. And Sark was in his
in his Camo Longhorn hoodie last night for the program.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So that's one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then the other thing is this Saturday, they're celebrating
the one hundredth anniversary of Daryl K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Now,
it's really close. It's not exactly one hundred years to
the day. I think that was Thanksgiving of nineteen twenty
four against Baylor. I think was the first game with it.
(07:50):
But it's one hundred years. It's been around. It's all
most to the day, one hundred years. And Sark was
asked for his thoughts on that.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yeah, it's an amazing arena, amazing building. You know, when
you when you have a programs like ours University of Texas,
and you think about the great teams, the great players,
the great coaches that have that have you know, competed
in the middle of that field, that have walked those sidelines.
(08:20):
That's kind of what I do every Saturday when I
show up to games. I don't know if you all know,
but I go for a walk and it's just to
kind of get get myself to be where my feet are,
and I have moments of reminiscing and like to think
about Darryl k Royle on this sidelines, or A or
A mac Brown or or v Y or you know whomever.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I could go on and on and on, but the
point is like, how fortunate we are to be part
of this this team, to be part of this university,
to be part of this program knowing the greatness that
was here before. I mean, I think about what was
it like. I didn't get to see, you know, Earl
Campbell run. I didn't get it. I didn't get to
(09:05):
see Ricky Williams run. But what was it like? And
how electric was the stadium for some of those moments.
And so we try to create a great atmosphere for
our fans. We try to play football the right way
to where they're proud of the way that we play
the game. We're not gonna win them all every week,
but we try to play in a way that our
(09:26):
fans and those that are in attendance, are proud of
the way we play and that we're representing Longhorn Nation.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The right way.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay, and by the way, I did.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Do some research on this and it looked at it
and it was against Baylor, and it is almost one
hundred years to the day. It was November eighth of
nineteen twenty four, which the one hundredth year anniversary would
be tomorrow, so it's certainly close enough. As it was
(10:00):
November eighth, nineteen twenty four.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It was a Saturday, and they and.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They lost that day to Baylor, their first ever game
in the stadium.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
They lost twenty eight ten.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
They got the first win, but if you're going to
get your first win a m on Thanksgiving on November
twenty seventh of nineteen twenty four, they went five to
three and one that year, and yeah, but that was it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
The one hundredth anniversary of that first ever game at
dk R Texas Memorial Stadium was that day.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
program on AM thirteen under the Zone
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