September 13, 2024 • 12 mins
Hear from Steve Sarkisian during his Longhorn Weekly Coaches Show with Craig Way as they discusses the challenges UTSA will pose.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I figured today, fire me up Friday. It was
announced sometime this week that Kendrick Lamar will be the
hattime announcer or halftime announcer good Lord halftime music act
for Super Bowl five hundred and thirty. Whatever we're at
right now, So figure, you know, let's come back with
a little katok Kenrick Lamar that I know will get
my generation excited.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, all right, fair enough, very good? All right.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
As we mentioned, Texas is getting ready for UTSA and
the and yes, yes they are getting ready for UTSA.
That's the importance thing is taking every opponent seriously and
understanding the importance of preparation and the mental mindset. Well,
don't you don't have to hear me tell you about it.
(00:47):
This is from last night or yesterday afternoons airing of
Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark and we as I may
bring you one portion of that show on Friday, the
segment where we talk about the opponent to have it
(01:08):
at its fresh as time, and so we have that.
This was again a show that we record on Wednesdays
at Pluckers there twenty to twenty two Rio Grand they're
the West Campus location. And then the show itself airs
on Thursdays normally at seven o'clock, but because we had
a Round Rock Express game last night, it aired at
five o'clock this afternoon, so in case you missed it
(01:29):
or if you need review, this was the segment of
the program where we take a look at the opponents.
As we brought to the program last night talking about UTSA,
the UTSA Roadrunners come in, and you made a point
in the news conference on Monday to talk about some
of the most dangerous teams in football are the ones
that come in wounded and in this case, in talking
(01:52):
to Coach Trailer yesterday, also having to get past the
shock and all of what happens. Only anybody expected what happened,
and then they lost in lopsided fashion. Well, good Texas
State team, but they lose by that margin and just
have it get away from him in the first half.
And you've discussed how that's a dangerous team.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Coming in, very dangerous team.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I think that you know a ton of respect for
coach Trailer and the job that he's done there and
the pride that they have in their program, and prideful
teams don't like getting beat the way they got beat,
and that they've won a lot of football games the
last four or five years, and so for that game
to go the way that it went last week in
Texas State kind of got on a roll and made
some big plays and on both sides of the ball.
(02:34):
That's when teams are dangerous, when they're when they're kind
of backed into a corner and they got nowhere.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Else to go but to fight back. That's what we have.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We have to get ourselves ready for this week that
we're going to get the best version of the UTSA Roadrunners.
We're going to get their best schemes. We're gonna get
the most physical, the most speed they have, and we
have to make sure and ensure that they get our
best shot.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Too, because that's what's going to be needed. Well.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To your point under Coach Trailer, they're forty and fifteen
in the four prior seasons plus the first two games
of this year, so it's a it's a team that's
had a lot of discipline instill and and also some playmakers.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
They've definitely have had playmakers over the years, and this
year is not a whole lot different. Their white house
can can go make plays on the ball. They've got
a tight end who I feel like has been there.
He's like he's like, he's like, they're Jake Majors. You know,
guy's been there forever. Then he's a lot of the
glue of what they do. And they're multiple person and
personnel groupings and similar to us in that fashion, they'll
(03:27):
get in some twelve, getting some eleven. And you know,
the last name of the quarterback makes sense to a
lot of people to owen theccount.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So they've got a good program.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
They've got a really veteran defense, uh with with some
veteran players up front on the interior defensive line. They've
added some nice players off the edge. I think they're
getting a couple of players back. So this is a
don't let the record fool you, don't let the helmet
full you.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
This is a good football team. Safe to say that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You've probably been asked more than once about Trade Moore
going up against his former school.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah yeah, uh, unique, I think, but but unique, but
yet almost like.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
This is going to start to become the norm. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
And I'm really I'm you know, I'm so happy for
Trey because I think, you know, he made this move
for opportunities, Like last week, right to go to Michigan
and to have to play a physical brand of football.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And you know, and a lot of times.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
People look at edge players and they think where the
sacks and this and that.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
But what he's putting on tape.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
And the way he played the run, the way he
affected the quarterback not all the times maybe you know,
getting the sack against power for opponent, you know, in
that in that arena, that's creating value for himself.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But he's also creating value for us.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
We've got a quality player, a great individual that you know,
I know, had a great career at UTSA and and
you know, we get to reap the benefits of that
right now.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So that's long Orange Head coach Steve sarkishan and talking
about Trey Mooren talking about UTSA getting ready for this
matchup with the Roadrunner second eating all time between the two.
Texas won two years ago the first meeting, and that
was the game you may remember where UTSA actually jumped
to a seventeen to seven lead. They led the game
(05:10):
seventeen to seven in the second quarter. Sark mentioned this,
I think yesterday in the media briefing media availability, the
Zoom availability. He said we had a hard time getting going,
and he said, and then getting the running game going,
he said, and then got Bijeon got going, and that
was a big part in turning that game around. From
(05:32):
down seventeen to seven in the second quarter, they caught
him by halftime at seventeen. I think they ended up
beating in forty one to twenty. I believe it was
the final score on that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I think I was in dick yr for for that
game watch and that was a real tough first half.
It was a really weird game, and I think what
really flipped it was a Jeannie Baron who had had
a pick six and Texas got some momentum when in
the halftime holding on the lead, and then the second
half kind of put it on. But a lot different,
(06:01):
a much different UTSA team this season. And Jeff Traylor,
who you spoke to earlier on on this on this
show earlier earlier this week, talked about, you know, in
that game, we had the we had returning quarterback and
returning center and returning punter, and we don't have that
this year.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Texas does.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And and the way he talked about it, it's kind
of made me believe that. Okay, uh, he's still figuring
out who this UTSA team is. Meanwhile, I feel it
feels like Texas out of last week knows exactly who
they are.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, and of course they do have a new punter,
the long Warns doing Michael Kerrn the freshman, but everybody
else is a known commodity. As you mentioned, Bert Auburn
the kicker preseason all SEC kicker, Will Stone good kickoff
man Lance Saint Louis the deep snapper again. And it's funny,
you know, we just heard that segment from Longhorn Weekly.
(06:51):
But also during the show, Uh Sarks football managers came
to the show, so they did. They were sitting in
the back and Sark was really pumped up about those
guys showing up, and they submitted questions because when you
come to the show you have the opportunity to submit questions.
(07:12):
What you do there's these you know, big white index cards,
I think they're five by seven inches whatever, and you
just write down what's your question. Now, obviously we hope
that it's an intelligent question something like that. If it is,
and it's not going to get asked. But if you
ask a question of some intelligence, then you know, then
(07:36):
we'll do our best to try to work it in
as many questions as we get.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But those managers asked questions, and one.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Of the questions they asked was who would win in
a seven on seven game? And it was the equipment
guys or the specialists meeting the kickers and punters and
stuff like that, who would win a seven on seven game?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And Sark said, I will tell you. He said, Will
Stone's a heck of an athlete.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And Michael Kerrent and lendsy Lewis and Burt Aubreny said,
those guys are good, he said, but probably he would go.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
With the managers in that case.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Now, I don't know if he just said it because
they were there and he, you know, wanted them to
feel good about it. But but he he's seemed convinced
enough about it that it was going to happen that way.
So we'll see how it goes for Texas tomorrow evening
against UTSA. And it would be very easy for folks
(08:36):
to draw the conclusion that because of the lofty betting
line in excess of thirty points, that Texas is going
to have a cake walk and say, and it may
very well turn out to be that way. But there
have been surprises as well, and Sarka has talked about
wanting to see the maturity level of his football team
in terms of the preparation, their attention to detail, the
(08:58):
not taking anything lightly, and he was encouraged by everything
he saw during the course of the week what they
had done. So that's, you know, that's important because UTSA
is definitely a better football team than they showed last
weekend getting blown out in San Marcus by Texas State.
(09:20):
But Andy Everett also pointed out they jumped out. I
think it was a twenty one nothing lead on Kennesaw
State and twenty one nothing lead against Kennasaw State, and
then he looked up in the fourth quarter, it's twenty
one sixteen. UTSA did score one final touchdown and went
(09:42):
it by twelve, but it was just a twenty eight
sixteen ball.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Game in that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Here's another oddity too for folks who like these these
weird things that come out. The road Runners of UTSA
will set a Division one FBS record this year by
playing every Division one ORBS FCS, FBS or f CS
(10:12):
team that has it's its mascot, the Owls.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
They huh.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They start off with Kennesaw State, they play Rice, who's
a conference opponent, they play.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Temple, who's a conference opponent. And who am I leaving out?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
They've got four owls, four sets of owls on the
schedule this year, and the fourth one.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I want to make sure I don't misspeak. I want
to make sure I pulled this up correctly. Here it
is the fourth set of owls that UTSA will face.
Will be.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, I'm looking at and not seeing it. I thought
it was, Oh, Florida Atlantic. How can I forget Tom Herman? Yeah,
that's how about this? Florida Atlantic, Temple, and Rice are
all owls. They are also all conference schools. They're all
(11:25):
in the American Athletic Conference. So in addition, they play
an FCS opponent who they already defeated, Kennesaw State. So
four sets of owls, it's the way that that's gonna go.
So anyway, there's a propos of very little, but that's
a that's one oddity of the schedule. To be the
first FBS team to play four sets of owls in
(11:48):
the same season, all right, coming up, maybe that should
be inconceivable.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I don't know, But we do have our regular inconceivable.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We have a full plate on that coming up next
when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the ir Radio
So I figured today, fire me up Friday. It was
announced sometime this week that Kendrick Lamar will be the
hattime announcer or halftime announcer good Lord halftime music act
for Super Bowl five hundred and thirty. Whatever we're at
right now, So figure, you know, let's come back with
a little katok Kenrick Lamar that I know will get
my generation excited.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, all right, fair enough, very good? All right.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
As we mentioned, Texas is getting ready for UTSA and
the and yes, yes they are getting ready for UTSA.
That's the importance thing is taking every opponent seriously and
understanding the importance of preparation and the mental mindset. Well,
don't you don't have to hear me tell you about it.
(00:47):
This is from last night or yesterday afternoons airing of
Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark and we as I may
bring you one portion of that show on Friday, the
segment where we talk about the opponent to have it
(01:08):
at its fresh as time, and so we have that.
This was again a show that we record on Wednesdays
at Pluckers there twenty to twenty two Rio Grand they're
the West Campus location. And then the show itself airs
on Thursdays normally at seven o'clock, but because we had
a Round Rock Express game last night, it aired at
five o'clock this afternoon, so in case you missed it
(01:29):
or if you need review, this was the segment of
the program where we take a look at the opponents.
As we brought to the program last night talking about UTSA,
the UTSA Roadrunners come in, and you made a point
in the news conference on Monday to talk about some
of the most dangerous teams in football are the ones
that come in wounded and in this case, in talking
(01:52):
to Coach Trailer yesterday, also having to get past the
shock and all of what happens. Only anybody expected what happened,
and then they lost in lopsided fashion. Well, good Texas
State team, but they lose by that margin and just
have it get away from him in the first half.
And you've discussed how that's a dangerous team.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Coming in, very dangerous team.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I think that you know a ton of respect for
coach Trailer and the job that he's done there and
the pride that they have in their program, and prideful
teams don't like getting beat the way they got beat,
and that they've won a lot of football games the
last four or five years, and so for that game
to go the way that it went last week in
Texas State kind of got on a roll and made
some big plays and on both sides of the ball.
(02:34):
That's when teams are dangerous, when they're when they're kind
of backed into a corner and they got nowhere.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Else to go but to fight back. That's what we have.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We have to get ourselves ready for this week that
we're going to get the best version of the UTSA Roadrunners.
We're going to get their best schemes. We're gonna get
the most physical, the most speed they have, and we
have to make sure and ensure that they get our
best shot.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Too, because that's what's going to be needed. Well.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To your point under Coach Trailer, they're forty and fifteen
in the four prior seasons plus the first two games
of this year, so it's a it's a team that's
had a lot of discipline instill and and also some playmakers.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
They've definitely have had playmakers over the years, and this
year is not a whole lot different. Their white house
can can go make plays on the ball. They've got
a tight end who I feel like has been there.
He's like he's like, he's like, they're Jake Majors. You know,
guy's been there forever. Then he's a lot of the
glue of what they do. And they're multiple person and
personnel groupings and similar to us in that fashion, they'll
(03:27):
get in some twelve, getting some eleven. And you know,
the last name of the quarterback makes sense to a
lot of people to owen theccount.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So they've got a good program.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
They've got a really veteran defense, uh with with some
veteran players up front on the interior defensive line. They've
added some nice players off the edge. I think they're
getting a couple of players back. So this is a
don't let the record fool you, don't let the helmet
full you.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
This is a good football team. Safe to say that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You've probably been asked more than once about Trade Moore
going up against his former school.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah yeah, uh, unique, I think, but but unique, but
yet almost like.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
This is going to start to become the norm. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
And I'm really I'm you know, I'm so happy for
Trey because I think, you know, he made this move
for opportunities, Like last week, right to go to Michigan
and to have to play a physical brand of football.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And you know, and a lot of times.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
People look at edge players and they think where the
sacks and this and that.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
But what he's putting on tape.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
And the way he played the run, the way he
affected the quarterback not all the times maybe you know,
getting the sack against power for opponent, you know, in
that in that arena, that's creating value for himself.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But he's also creating value for us.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
We've got a quality player, a great individual that you know,
I know, had a great career at UTSA and and
you know, we get to reap the benefits of that
right now.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So that's long Orange Head coach Steve sarkishan and talking
about Trey Mooren talking about UTSA getting ready for this
matchup with the Roadrunner second eating all time between the two.
Texas won two years ago the first meeting, and that
was the game you may remember where UTSA actually jumped
to a seventeen to seven lead. They led the game
(05:10):
seventeen to seven in the second quarter. Sark mentioned this,
I think yesterday in the media briefing media availability, the
Zoom availability. He said we had a hard time getting going,
and he said, and then getting the running game going,
he said, and then got Bijeon got going, and that
was a big part in turning that game around. From
(05:32):
down seventeen to seven in the second quarter, they caught
him by halftime at seventeen. I think they ended up
beating in forty one to twenty. I believe it was
the final score on that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I think I was in dick yr for for that
game watch and that was a real tough first half.
It was a really weird game, and I think what
really flipped it was a Jeannie Baron who had had
a pick six and Texas got some momentum when in
the halftime holding on the lead, and then the second
half kind of put it on. But a lot different,
(06:01):
a much different UTSA team this season. And Jeff Traylor,
who you spoke to earlier on on this on this
show earlier earlier this week, talked about, you know, in
that game, we had the we had returning quarterback and
returning center and returning punter, and we don't have that
this year.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Texas does.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And and the way he talked about it, it's kind
of made me believe that. Okay, uh, he's still figuring
out who this UTSA team is. Meanwhile, I feel it
feels like Texas out of last week knows exactly who
they are.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, and of course they do have a new punter,
the long Warns doing Michael Kerrn the freshman, but everybody
else is a known commodity. As you mentioned, Bert Auburn
the kicker preseason all SEC kicker, Will Stone good kickoff
man Lance Saint Louis the deep snapper again. And it's funny,
you know, we just heard that segment from Longhorn Weekly.
(06:51):
But also during the show, Uh Sarks football managers came
to the show, so they did. They were sitting in
the back and Sark was really pumped up about those
guys showing up, and they submitted questions because when you
come to the show you have the opportunity to submit questions.
(07:12):
What you do there's these you know, big white index cards,
I think they're five by seven inches whatever, and you
just write down what's your question. Now, obviously we hope
that it's an intelligent question something like that. If it is,
and it's not going to get asked. But if you
ask a question of some intelligence, then you know, then
(07:36):
we'll do our best to try to work it in
as many questions as we get.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But those managers asked questions, and one.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Of the questions they asked was who would win in
a seven on seven game? And it was the equipment
guys or the specialists meeting the kickers and punters and
stuff like that, who would win a seven on seven game?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And Sark said, I will tell you. He said, Will
Stone's a heck of an athlete.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And Michael Kerrent and lendsy Lewis and Burt Aubreny said,
those guys are good, he said, but probably he would go.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
With the managers in that case.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Now, I don't know if he just said it because
they were there and he, you know, wanted them to
feel good about it. But but he he's seemed convinced
enough about it that it was going to happen that way.
So we'll see how it goes for Texas tomorrow evening
against UTSA. And it would be very easy for folks
(08:36):
to draw the conclusion that because of the lofty betting
line in excess of thirty points, that Texas is going
to have a cake walk and say, and it may
very well turn out to be that way. But there
have been surprises as well, and Sarka has talked about
wanting to see the maturity level of his football team
in terms of the preparation, their attention to detail, the
(08:58):
not taking anything lightly, and he was encouraged by everything
he saw during the course of the week what they
had done. So that's, you know, that's important because UTSA
is definitely a better football team than they showed last
weekend getting blown out in San Marcus by Texas State.
(09:20):
But Andy Everett also pointed out they jumped out. I
think it was a twenty one nothing lead on Kennesaw
State and twenty one nothing lead against Kennasaw State, and
then he looked up in the fourth quarter, it's twenty
one sixteen. UTSA did score one final touchdown and went
(09:42):
it by twelve, but it was just a twenty eight
sixteen ball.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Game in that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Here's another oddity too for folks who like these these
weird things that come out. The road Runners of UTSA
will set a Division one FBS record this year by
playing every Division one ORBS FCS, FBS or f CS
(10:12):
team that has it's its mascot, the Owls.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
They huh.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They start off with Kennesaw State, they play Rice, who's
a conference opponent, they play.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Temple, who's a conference opponent. And who am I leaving out?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
They've got four owls, four sets of owls on the
schedule this year, and the fourth one.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I want to make sure I don't misspeak. I want
to make sure I pulled this up correctly. Here it
is the fourth set of owls that UTSA will face.
Will be.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, I'm looking at and not seeing it. I thought
it was, Oh, Florida Atlantic. How can I forget Tom Herman? Yeah,
that's how about this? Florida Atlantic, Temple, and Rice are
all owls. They are also all conference schools. They're all
(11:25):
in the American Athletic Conference. So in addition, they play
an FCS opponent who they already defeated, Kennesaw State. So
four sets of owls, it's the way that that's gonna go.
So anyway, there's a propos of very little, but that's
a that's one oddity of the schedule. To be the
first FBS team to play four sets of owls in
(11:48):
the same season, all right, coming up, maybe that should
be inconceivable.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I don't know, But we do have our regular inconceivable.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We have a full plate on that coming up next
when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the ir Radio
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