September 23, 2024 • 16 mins
Steve Sarkisian visited with the media on Monday and updated the health status of quarterback Quinn Ewers along with the play of Arch Manning. Sark talked about the post-game conversation he had with Manning, the performance of the wide receivers, and his message to the team ahead of Mississippi State.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We're back.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Vane broadcaster
and voice of the Texas Long Hawks.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Craig Way.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You know, when I was talking about the projectile vomiting
there on the sidelines and the b y U pump returner,
I got a text from our good friend, the voice
of the San Antonio Spurs, my former co host.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Bill Schoning.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
He said, Hey, an emo's alternative lounging tomorrow night is
fire Hose Projectiles. That was the name of a band
back in our days when we would do a live
music update. There used to be some funny names. Knife
in the Water and they'll know us by the Trail
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they said, Greg, I've seen one hundred and forty six
games at DKR that Louisiana and the road team is
the worst team I've seen on that field. Really, I've
seen worse. Trust me, I've seen worse. There was a
Sam Houston team that came in in two thousand and
six that had to get added onto the schedule because
I think it was Minnesota dropped off. And that was
(01:46):
the year the NCAA was going to the twelve game
regular season schedule, and all Texas could find was an
FCS opponent, and I think Texas took beat them fifty
six to not thing and really took it easy on
them in that contest. It could have been far worse
than that. Texas has not played an FCS opponent since,
(02:07):
and that Uelman Rod team came into and know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They had beaten UAB, So.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It was you know, obviously the long words are really good,
but you know a lot of folks are more ready
to talk about the opponent, whether they were better or worse,
than they are about Texas. Then somebody else says we're
number one, So it doesn't really matter what anyone says.
At least all the AP and the others say we're
pretty dang good. Yeah, and Sarcas said the same thing,
(02:36):
So it doesn't matter, you know, it really doesn't matter
what anybody else has to say. It's up to them
to show what they can do, to prove what they
can do on a weekend, week out basis, and they'll
get that opportunity on a weekend, week out basis, they'll
get a chance. The next one on the list is
Mississippi State because they start now you know, conference play.
(03:01):
In case you're wondering, by the way, the last time
the Texas and Mississippi State played, you know when that
was came mm m.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Phil stills is nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yep, January first, nineteen ninety nine to be exact, Ricky
Williams's final game Cotton boll end of Mac Brown's first
season the Cotton Bowl. Texas won that thirty eight to fifteen.
That was a real feel good time because Texas had
just come out of the you know, the four and
seven season with John mcavig, and fan interest was way
(03:34):
down low. I think the season tickets were something they
had like thirty eight thousand season ticket holders. And Matt
came in and said, yeah, come early, stay light, be loud,
where burn orange with pride. Then all of a sudden,
he started seeing all the all of burn orange in
the stands. They got the season ticket holders up to
sixty three thousand, and they played really well. They ended
Nebraska's forty seven game home winning streak that year. Had
(03:58):
had some big moment beat Texas A and M, who
won the Big twelve title that year, and they beat
them on a walk off field goal by Chris Dockman.
And then the Aggies ended up beating a heavily favorite
Kansas State team to win what to this date is
their last conference championship. They've not won a conference title
in any league since then nineteen ninety eight of the
(04:19):
last one that they won. But Texas went to the
Cotton Bowl and on New Year's Morning on a ten
am kickoff, beat Mississippi State thirty eight to fifteen. Ricky
Williams had a great final collegiate game that day in
the Cotton Bowl. All right, let's hear some more from
log Worn's head coach Steve Sarksha. He was asked about
his wide receivers and the difficulty factor if there is
(04:42):
a difficulty in the system of getting comfortable within the system.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I think the challenge is this.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You know, we have an NFL offense, you know, and
I think that's part of the reason it was attractive
to them to want to come to play in this
system so that they would be ready to go play
in the NFL. And I'm I'm watching the NFL yesterday
and I see all three of those guys are playing
and contributing to their teams and which is which is amazing.
But for those guys to come in, it takes. It
(05:14):
takes real work, you know, it's much. There's one thing
to have the physical ability and that get you know,
rapport with Quinn, but it's another to know what to do.
Because when you know what to do, you can play fast.
If you don't know what to do, that's when you're hesitant,
unsure and you don't play as fast as you are.
And that group has got real speed that I think
we're playing fast. And then the other side that I
think I want to give them a lot of credit for,
(05:36):
Like I touched on those linebackers. You know, we're playing
all those guys and in each week, you don't know
which one is going to be the guy that's going
to have that impact, you know, I mean, Wingo steps
in the game and the other day and it's bang, bang,
he's got two catches and a touchdown you know where.
And then next thing you know, Isaiah catches a deep ball,
and next thing you know, Golden catches a deep ball.
(05:57):
Next thing you know, it's it's Silas with a fingertip
catch that gets reversed for a deep ball.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So they're all taking turns, and that's you know.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
That gives us the ability to rotate them. That also
gives us the ability to withstand when a guy gets
nicked up and I don't have to force the guy
back out there. DeAndre Moore gets a hit pointer, I
don't have to I have to, I don't have to
force him back out there because we've got these five
other guys that can play at a high level. So
it's a it's a really good luxury to have, but
it takes the right mindset from those guys to to
(06:25):
embrace that and understand how long this journey is that
we're on right now.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Next, Sark was asked for injury updates in specific for
Quinn viewers. Obviously with the abdomen oblique strain and also
DeAndre Moore suffered a hit pointer in the game, and
then also with regard to the expectations for the offense
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We really haven't had to change it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And I don't know, to y'all's naked eye of watching it,
I don't I don't know if it feels so differently
to to our style of play. You know, I think
we've challenged our backs, you know, when CJ went down
or Chris went down. Like we believe in running the football,
we believe in running between the tackles. Naturally, when you
have a veteran quarterback you have you may might have
(07:09):
a little more confidence in in Quinn to maybe play
pitch and catch and get completions and some obvious rundowns
to where a team's committed to the run and you
can get completions and get the ball on the perimeter.
But at the end of the day, we're doing all
that we like to do. I would like our screen
game to to pick up a little bit. We've we
just missed some opportunities. We had one off of Blues
fingertips the other night. But you know, that's something that
(07:31):
we take a lot of pride, and so we're always
looking for areas of improvement. But I don't think schematically
we've changed a whole lot. We've added some wrinkles like
we would every year, but but nothing has really dramatically changed.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Uh, Quinn practice today.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
You know, I would say if if again, if I
had to put a report out, he'd be questionable for Saturday.
But we'll see how he goes throughout the week and
monitor how he responds to tomorrow coming off of today's
practice and DeAndre Moore practice today as well.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
By the way, the the first for of the SEC
mandated injury reports will come out or it's submitted by
like five o'clock Wednesday afternoon, so we'll learn Thursday morning
with regard to the injury report. But you heard Sark
say if he had to guess right now, he would
still list Quinn yours as a question. Well more about
(08:18):
Quinn in a moment, but with regard to the guy
who's playing the quarterback right now, Arch Banning, of course
leads the team. And there was an our football like
Q question asked of Sark about whether Arts sometimes tries
to do more than he's capable because he can be
a perfectionist, and how much he and how quick a
(08:38):
study he's been over all of.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
This, I mean, he he loves the game of football.
He studies it and you know, he works at it.
I think one of the challenges is is, you know,
we're trying to get him to point is making sure
that when the ball snap that he plays football because
it's still a game and you still have to play it.
And I don't want him to get one paralysis by
(09:01):
analysis because you can over prepare to some degree too,
where you start chasing you know what I thought was
going to happen because this is what I saw. Hey,
the other team can make mistakes too, and you've got
to be able to react to the things that happened. So,
you know, he works really hard and I think that,
but we've created I think that type of environment in
the quarterback room that that you know, we want to
(09:23):
be the fastest mental players on every snap, and to
do that, you have to prepare, you have to work
at your craft, and Arch does it just like the
rest of the guys all.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Right now with regard to the types of conversations he
has with Arch coming out of that and where he
wants to see him get better, but by the same token,
play within his capabilities.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
One thing that he did really well Saturday where and
I know I talked about it Saturday night, but a
year ago after that pick that might have taken a
minute for him to rebound from, and I thought that
I thought he responded really well mentally. I thought his
poison composure was really good Saturday, even after the pick
(10:07):
at the end of the first half. To come back
in the second half and play the way he did
in the third quarter, I thought was impressive for me
just from a maturity standpoint of how far that he's grown.
Art Arch believes in his ability and and so he's
going to try to take some of these shots and
and we reaped the benefits of it. Like I said,
I just rattle off four plays of guys making down
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the field. As he continues to grow, he's going to
learn the value of some of these explosive plays on
the perimeter on checkdowns, and you know, he got one
to Ryan Niblett and some different things. But I think
there's gonna be some other throws for him out there.
But I've just been impressed for me, for a guy
early on in his career, the way he rebounded. And
I've seen a lot of young quarterbacks have a have
(10:50):
a rough start and then that rough start turns into.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
A rough game. And it was a little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Of a rough start for him, but I thought he
rebounded and did some nice things for us.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now, some more about Quinn, you were, and as he
tries to bounce back, Sark was asked about, you know,
what does he need to see from Quinn h being
a veteran whatever to feel good about him going, And
then he was asked furthermore about this SEC mandated injury
report very much like the NFL, and so I got
(11:18):
a pretty interesting response to his take on why that
injury report is the way it is.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's got to do enough to show him he can play.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I know that that's probably not the answer you wanted,
but that's what I mean, Like, I don't know, it's
not you know, we've got a game plan. Can he
execute the game plant? I hate to, you know, pare
it down to that, but that's really the truth.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Again, I want to make sure he's hell to try
not to get into a tie. And so if you
think of it that way, like this is a vital
game for us this Saturday, when you when you're talking
about trying to get into that championship game.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, that makes sense certainly. Now with regard to the
Mississippi State's offense. He was asked about Jeff Levy. Of course,
the first year head coacher, been the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma,
he'd been basically the padawan learner, the pupil to Art
Brill's and Waco Baylor. He's from Texas high school football
coaching family, all of those things going into that offensive
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mind at Jeff Levy.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Well, it's difficult because you don't see it all the time.
You know, it's a little bit unconventional that way. And
coach Levy, you know, he's he goes all the way
back to his time with coach Brill's at Baylor at
the inception of this thing, and so he's really good
at it and he's now more than ever changing his tempos.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There's times that are going really fast.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
There's times when they're sugar huddling and speed breaking out
of the huddle and getting it snapped. You know, they
they'll they'll utilize the quarterback run and then they'll try
to isolate you on matchups and go attack your dbs
if they can find that. And then when when he
gets you into a formation and he can keep you
in it and go really fast, then he can get
you on your heels that way too. So, like I said,
(12:58):
I've got a ton of respect for him, and they've
got the players on the perimeter that can hurt you.
And then obviously depending on the quarterback and how they
utilize him, that's something we're gonna have to monitoring game.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Okay, all right now.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He was asked about the fact that you know, here
it is the SEC. But of course the log Woards
with ran through after the Oklahoma game last year and
won the rest of their contest in the regular season,
in the Big Twelve championship. So was there a moment
when he felt like, because of what they did in
the Big Twelve that they were indeed SEC ready.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, there's definitely big, big people in this conference.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
That the toll that this that this conference can take
on you over an extended period of time, you know.
And so he got eight conference games, and so you
know what that looks like from week to week and
making sure that your team's healthy enough and can perform
at a high level. I think that's why the depth
is so important in this league. But also in this
league is the skill players on the perimeter. It's very
(13:58):
fast and so you kind of have to build your
team that way so that you can attack it accordingly.
And I think we've tried to do that. But to me,
probably the biggest thing about this conference that is it
really should be important in every conference, but in this
league it seems like it's even more important. Is the
mental intensity needed to compete every single week, because if
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you just look at the logo on a helmet or
a ranking or something, you think, well, man, we better
play really good in this stretch here. It's every week
and you know, I mean you look up in Missouri's
and overtime at Vanderbilt last week. Okay, you look up
the week before that, and George's in a dogfight with
Kentucky down to the very end. And so this league
is challenging that way from top to bottom that you
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have to have the right mental intensity throughout the week
and your preparation so that you can put your best
foot forward on every Saturday.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Which means coming in that journey off of the Big
twelve into the SEC is all the more accented.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Didn't know when I took the job that that's what
we were going to do. So when you when you
find out, you're like, okay.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
All right, Let's that's a little bit of a shift,
But it wasn't that big of a shift from the
from the idea of what we thought we needed to
do to be a championship team here at Texas because
if you just looked at the history of the College
Football Playoff, the SEC is competing or winning the national championship,
it felt like almost you.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Know, year in and year out.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
And so the thought was we had to build a
roster and a team that could go beat the best
team in the SEC anyway if we wanted to be
a national champion.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And so when the announcement came, it was.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Kind of like, well, we just kind of need to
execute the plan now because that's what's going to be
needed moving forward here in a couple of years when
when it all comes to light.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So it's been it's been a heck of a journey.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I'm honestly, I'm really proud and glad we were able
to win a big twelve championship on our way out
the door. I think that was really important. But I
think now more than ever, you know, the the SEC slogan,
it just means more, you know, matters. But I feel
like at Texas. When you take this job, it just
means more here too. You know that when you there's
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a standard here that is very high, and there's an
expectation of performance. And it's not just in football, it's
at every sport. But for us, like whether it was
the Big Twelve or the SEC, there's an expectation that
we're going to compete for a conference championship year in
and year out, and there's an expectation that we're competing
for a national championship. And so the conference may have changed,
(16:31):
but our standard and our expectations really have.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It all right.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There's some more from Logarn's head coach Steve Sarkisian. We'll
hear more from sart coming up next hour gets some
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We're back.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Vane broadcaster
and voice of the Texas Long Hawks.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Craig Way.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You know, when I was talking about the projectile vomiting
there on the sidelines and the b y U pump returner,
I got a text from our good friend, the voice
of the San Antonio Spurs, my former co host.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Bill Schoning.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
He said, Hey, an emo's alternative lounging tomorrow night is
fire Hose Projectiles. That was the name of a band
back in our days when we would do a live
music update. There used to be some funny names. Knife
in the Water and they'll know us by the Trail
of Dead and anyway, there were some other ones there.
Our text line is open if you'd like to join
(01:01):
in the conversation of the text All you have to
do is text the word Texas follow by your question
or comment to eight one five to three zero. So
that's the word Texas, follow by your question of comment
to eight one to five three zero. Standard messaging and
data rates may apply among those coming in today. So
(01:23):
they said, Greg, I've seen one hundred and forty six
games at DKR that Louisiana and the road team is
the worst team I've seen on that field. Really, I've
seen worse. Trust me, I've seen worse. There was a
Sam Houston team that came in in two thousand and
six that had to get added onto the schedule because
I think it was Minnesota dropped off. And that was
(01:46):
the year the NCAA was going to the twelve game
regular season schedule, and all Texas could find was an
FCS opponent, and I think Texas took beat them fifty
six to not thing and really took it easy on
them in that contest. It could have been far worse
than that. Texas has not played an FCS opponent since,
(02:07):
and that Uelman Rod team came into and know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They had beaten UAB, So.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It was you know, obviously the long words are really good,
but you know a lot of folks are more ready
to talk about the opponent, whether they were better or worse,
than they are about Texas. Then somebody else says we're
number one, So it doesn't really matter what anyone says.
At least all the AP and the others say we're
pretty dang good. Yeah, and Sarcas said the same thing,
(02:36):
So it doesn't matter, you know, it really doesn't matter
what anybody else has to say. It's up to them
to show what they can do, to prove what they
can do on a weekend, week out basis, and they'll
get that opportunity on a weekend, week out basis, they'll
get a chance. The next one on the list is
Mississippi State because they start now you know, conference play.
(03:01):
In case you're wondering, by the way, the last time
the Texas and Mississippi State played, you know when that
was came mm m.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Phil stills is nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yep, January first, nineteen ninety nine to be exact, Ricky
Williams's final game Cotton boll end of Mac Brown's first
season the Cotton Bowl. Texas won that thirty eight to fifteen.
That was a real feel good time because Texas had
just come out of the you know, the four and
seven season with John mcavig, and fan interest was way
(03:34):
down low. I think the season tickets were something they
had like thirty eight thousand season ticket holders. And Matt
came in and said, yeah, come early, stay light, be loud,
where burn orange with pride. Then all of a sudden,
he started seeing all the all of burn orange in
the stands. They got the season ticket holders up to
sixty three thousand, and they played really well. They ended
Nebraska's forty seven game home winning streak that year. Had
(03:58):
had some big moment beat Texas A and M, who
won the Big twelve title that year, and they beat
them on a walk off field goal by Chris Dockman.
And then the Aggies ended up beating a heavily favorite
Kansas State team to win what to this date is
their last conference championship. They've not won a conference title
in any league since then nineteen ninety eight of the
(04:19):
last one that they won. But Texas went to the
Cotton Bowl and on New Year's Morning on a ten
am kickoff, beat Mississippi State thirty eight to fifteen. Ricky
Williams had a great final collegiate game that day in
the Cotton Bowl. All right, let's hear some more from
log Worn's head coach Steve Sarksha. He was asked about
his wide receivers and the difficulty factor if there is
(04:42):
a difficulty in the system of getting comfortable within the system.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I think the challenge is this.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You know, we have an NFL offense, you know, and
I think that's part of the reason it was attractive
to them to want to come to play in this
system so that they would be ready to go play
in the NFL. And I'm I'm watching the NFL yesterday
and I see all three of those guys are playing
and contributing to their teams and which is which is amazing.
But for those guys to come in, it takes. It
(05:14):
takes real work, you know, it's much. There's one thing
to have the physical ability and that get you know,
rapport with Quinn, but it's another to know what to do.
Because when you know what to do, you can play fast.
If you don't know what to do, that's when you're hesitant,
unsure and you don't play as fast as you are.
And that group has got real speed that I think
we're playing fast. And then the other side that I
think I want to give them a lot of credit for,
(05:36):
Like I touched on those linebackers. You know, we're playing
all those guys and in each week, you don't know
which one is going to be the guy that's going
to have that impact, you know, I mean, Wingo steps
in the game and the other day and it's bang, bang,
he's got two catches and a touchdown you know where.
And then next thing you know, Isaiah catches a deep ball,
and next thing you know, Golden catches a deep ball.
(05:57):
Next thing you know, it's it's Silas with a fingertip
catch that gets reversed for a deep ball.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So they're all taking turns, and that's you know.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
That gives us the ability to rotate them. That also
gives us the ability to withstand when a guy gets
nicked up and I don't have to force the guy
back out there. DeAndre Moore gets a hit pointer, I
don't have to I have to, I don't have to
force him back out there because we've got these five
other guys that can play at a high level. So
it's a it's a really good luxury to have, but
it takes the right mindset from those guys to to
(06:25):
embrace that and understand how long this journey is that
we're on right now.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Next, Sark was asked for injury updates in specific for
Quinn viewers. Obviously with the abdomen oblique strain and also
DeAndre Moore suffered a hit pointer in the game, and
then also with regard to the expectations for the offense
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We really haven't had to change it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And I don't know, to y'all's naked eye of watching it,
I don't I don't know if it feels so differently
to to our style of play. You know, I think
we've challenged our backs, you know, when CJ went down
or Chris went down. Like we believe in running the football,
we believe in running between the tackles. Naturally, when you
have a veteran quarterback you have you may might have
(07:09):
a little more confidence in in Quinn to maybe play
pitch and catch and get completions and some obvious rundowns
to where a team's committed to the run and you
can get completions and get the ball on the perimeter.
But at the end of the day, we're doing all
that we like to do. I would like our screen
game to to pick up a little bit. We've we
just missed some opportunities. We had one off of Blues
fingertips the other night. But you know, that's something that
(07:31):
we take a lot of pride, and so we're always
looking for areas of improvement. But I don't think schematically
we've changed a whole lot. We've added some wrinkles like
we would every year, but but nothing has really dramatically changed.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Uh, Quinn practice today.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
You know, I would say if if again, if I
had to put a report out, he'd be questionable for Saturday.
But we'll see how he goes throughout the week and
monitor how he responds to tomorrow coming off of today's
practice and DeAndre Moore practice today as well.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
By the way, the the first for of the SEC
mandated injury reports will come out or it's submitted by
like five o'clock Wednesday afternoon, so we'll learn Thursday morning
with regard to the injury report. But you heard Sark
say if he had to guess right now, he would
still list Quinn yours as a question. Well more about
(08:18):
Quinn in a moment, but with regard to the guy
who's playing the quarterback right now, Arch Banning, of course
leads the team. And there was an our football like
Q question asked of Sark about whether Arts sometimes tries
to do more than he's capable because he can be
a perfectionist, and how much he and how quick a
(08:38):
study he's been over all of.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
This, I mean, he he loves the game of football.
He studies it and you know, he works at it.
I think one of the challenges is is, you know,
we're trying to get him to point is making sure
that when the ball snap that he plays football because
it's still a game and you still have to play it.
And I don't want him to get one paralysis by
(09:01):
analysis because you can over prepare to some degree too,
where you start chasing you know what I thought was
going to happen because this is what I saw. Hey,
the other team can make mistakes too, and you've got
to be able to react to the things that happened. So,
you know, he works really hard and I think that,
but we've created I think that type of environment in
the quarterback room that that you know, we want to
(09:23):
be the fastest mental players on every snap, and to
do that, you have to prepare, you have to work
at your craft, and Arch does it just like the
rest of the guys all.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Right now with regard to the types of conversations he
has with Arch coming out of that and where he
wants to see him get better, but by the same token,
play within his capabilities.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
One thing that he did really well Saturday where and
I know I talked about it Saturday night, but a
year ago after that pick that might have taken a
minute for him to rebound from, and I thought that
I thought he responded really well mentally. I thought his
poison composure was really good Saturday, even after the pick
(10:07):
at the end of the first half. To come back
in the second half and play the way he did
in the third quarter, I thought was impressive for me
just from a maturity standpoint of how far that he's grown.
Art Arch believes in his ability and and so he's
going to try to take some of these shots and
and we reaped the benefits of it. Like I said,
I just rattle off four plays of guys making down
(10:28):
the field. As he continues to grow, he's going to
learn the value of some of these explosive plays on
the perimeter on checkdowns, and you know, he got one
to Ryan Niblett and some different things. But I think
there's gonna be some other throws for him out there.
But I've just been impressed for me, for a guy
early on in his career, the way he rebounded. And
I've seen a lot of young quarterbacks have a have
(10:50):
a rough start and then that rough start turns into.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
A rough game. And it was a little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Of a rough start for him, but I thought he
rebounded and did some nice things for us.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now, some more about Quinn, you were, and as he
tries to bounce back, Sark was asked about, you know,
what does he need to see from Quinn h being
a veteran whatever to feel good about him going, And
then he was asked furthermore about this SEC mandated injury
report very much like the NFL, and so I got
(11:18):
a pretty interesting response to his take on why that
injury report is the way it is.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's got to do enough to show him he can play.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I know that that's probably not the answer you wanted,
but that's what I mean, Like, I don't know, it's
not you know, we've got a game plan. Can he
execute the game plant? I hate to, you know, pare
it down to that, but that's really the truth.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Again, I want to make sure he's hell to try
not to get into a tie. And so if you
think of it that way, like this is a vital
game for us this Saturday, when you when you're talking
about trying to get into that championship game.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, that makes sense certainly. Now with regard to the
Mississippi State's offense. He was asked about Jeff Levy. Of course,
the first year head coacher, been the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma,
he'd been basically the padawan learner, the pupil to Art
Brill's and Waco Baylor. He's from Texas high school football
coaching family, all of those things going into that offensive
(12:16):
mind at Jeff Levy.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Well, it's difficult because you don't see it all the time.
You know, it's a little bit unconventional that way. And
coach Levy, you know, he's he goes all the way
back to his time with coach Brill's at Baylor at
the inception of this thing, and so he's really good
at it and he's now more than ever changing his tempos.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There's times that are going really fast.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
There's times when they're sugar huddling and speed breaking out
of the huddle and getting it snapped. You know, they
they'll they'll utilize the quarterback run and then they'll try
to isolate you on matchups and go attack your dbs
if they can find that. And then when when he
gets you into a formation and he can keep you
in it and go really fast, then he can get
you on your heels that way too. So, like I said,
(12:58):
I've got a ton of respect for him, and they've
got the players on the perimeter that can hurt you.
And then obviously depending on the quarterback and how they
utilize him, that's something we're gonna have to monitoring game.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Okay, all right now.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He was asked about the fact that you know, here
it is the SEC. But of course the log Woards
with ran through after the Oklahoma game last year and
won the rest of their contest in the regular season,
in the Big Twelve championship. So was there a moment
when he felt like, because of what they did in
the Big Twelve that they were indeed SEC ready.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, there's definitely big, big people in this conference.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
That the toll that this that this conference can take
on you over an extended period of time, you know.
And so he got eight conference games, and so you
know what that looks like from week to week and
making sure that your team's healthy enough and can perform
at a high level. I think that's why the depth
is so important in this league. But also in this
league is the skill players on the perimeter. It's very
(13:58):
fast and so you kind of have to build your
team that way so that you can attack it accordingly.
And I think we've tried to do that. But to me,
probably the biggest thing about this conference that is it
really should be important in every conference, but in this
league it seems like it's even more important. Is the
mental intensity needed to compete every single week, because if
(14:22):
you just look at the logo on a helmet or
a ranking or something, you think, well, man, we better
play really good in this stretch here. It's every week
and you know, I mean you look up in Missouri's
and overtime at Vanderbilt last week. Okay, you look up
the week before that, and George's in a dogfight with
Kentucky down to the very end. And so this league
is challenging that way from top to bottom that you
(14:44):
have to have the right mental intensity throughout the week
and your preparation so that you can put your best
foot forward on every Saturday.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Which means coming in that journey off of the Big
twelve into the SEC is all the more accented.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Didn't know when I took the job that that's what
we were going to do. So when you when you
find out, you're like, okay.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
All right, Let's that's a little bit of a shift,
But it wasn't that big of a shift from the
from the idea of what we thought we needed to
do to be a championship team here at Texas because
if you just looked at the history of the College
Football Playoff, the SEC is competing or winning the national championship,
it felt like almost you.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Know, year in and year out.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
And so the thought was we had to build a
roster and a team that could go beat the best
team in the SEC anyway if we wanted to be
a national champion.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And so when the announcement came, it was.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Kind of like, well, we just kind of need to
execute the plan now because that's what's going to be
needed moving forward here in a couple of years when
when it all comes to light.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So it's been it's been a heck of a journey.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I'm honestly, I'm really proud and glad we were able
to win a big twelve championship on our way out
the door. I think that was really important. But I
think now more than ever, you know, the the SEC slogan,
it just means more, you know, matters. But I feel
like at Texas. When you take this job, it just
means more here too. You know that when you there's
(16:08):
a standard here that is very high, and there's an
expectation of performance. And it's not just in football, it's
at every sport. But for us, like whether it was
the Big Twelve or the SEC, there's an expectation that
we're going to compete for a conference championship year in
and year out, and there's an expectation that we're competing
for a national championship. And so the conference may have changed,
(16:31):
but our standard and our expectations really have.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It all right.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
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