April 8, 2025 • 27 mins
Join Craig Way and Cameron Parker for an abbreviated show on this Texan Tuesday! They hear from Texas Longhorns football coach Steve Sarkisian after spring practice No. 7. Sark discusses the latest positional changes, Arch Manning's play, and more. Plus, Ty Harrington joins Craig to talk about Texas baseball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Normally I say third and final hour of the program.
Here in the case of today, i'll say first and
final hour of the program. We popped on just a
few minutes ago because of the length of the Round
Rock Express game. It did not go well for the
Express this afternoon. They lost at home to the Oklahoma
City Commets sixteen to two, but they can.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Began the home stand.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It'll continue tomorrow night seven o'clock Dollar Hot Dog Night
out there, so it'd be a great night for baseball there.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's a great night for baseball here as.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The Texas Longhorns will be in action against the Huskies
of Houston Christian University, So that'll be coming up tonight
and you'll be able to hear that contest here on
thirteen under the zone six fifteen of the pregame start time.
The first pitch at six point thirty, Keith Morret a
little joining for the call of that. Cameron Parker's are
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producer back in the studio. Can you might have got
a kick out of this during the break here at
the top of the hour, and they were rolling through
some things on the video board here at the ballpark,
and one of the things was video of Jique Stewart
his home run on Saturday, So obviously that was your call.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So your call was booming through the ball Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, you said something. I think you said that
ball is gone or something like that. Yeah, I think
said that's out of here. Okay, that's out of here.
That's what it was, and that ball was out of
here and it was just it was just booming throughout
the ballpark there. So your voice is being heard this afternoon,
even though even if you can't be here this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's that's awesome to hear that day.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Speaking of voices, let's hear from long orange Head football
coach Steve Sarkeshan. I had a media availability this morning
with spring practice underway. Let's first ll bringing the opening
statement from coach sark.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Missed.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
You guys can see you. You know, this is a
this is a fun time of.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Year for us right now is a program in that
we just finished up practice number seven, so this actually
halfway through spring practice. And to watch the growth of
a lot of players in the program. You know, we
challenged everybody, you know, who we were a year ago,
isn't going to be kind of acceptable? Who are going
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to be this year, and so everybody has to take
their game to another level. And it's easy to point
to the twenty two high school kids who are here
midyear and where they need to grow to, but it's
also looking at players that are going from year two
to year three and it's not just their play, but
maybe it's their leadership. And so everybody's got growth and
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so to watch that evolution here seven practices in UH
has been has been a lot of fun for me.
You really feel like we're we're drilling back into a
lot of teaching. Obviously, we've got some new faces on
the coaching staff as well, and so personalities have adjusted,
have shifted, where's the energy coming from on the staff,
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all those types of things, And I think that's the part.
You know, you go into year five and it's like
it's never rinse and repeat, you know, it's never just no,
let's just do the same thing all over again, whether
that's schematically, culturally, you know, how we motivate the players,
how how we teach who's responsible for what.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And so from a head coach's perspective, that's that's the
fun part.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And it all you know of watching everybody grow, watching
the personality, this team start to come to life. And
there's been some really good positive things that have that
have occurred so far. There's been areas where we definitely
need to improve, and that's understandable. You know, when you're
when you're seven days into spring practice, you know there's.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
A plenty of room for growth right now.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But but I can ever question the work ethic, uh,
the passion, how hard our guys are going right now
and so uh. But but we're a far, far, far
ways away from a finished product right now.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Naturally, a lot of the questions in a spring practice
are going to be about freshmen or red shirt freshmen
or even transfers, but young guys in the program. And
Sark was asked, is there room for say, a young
guy on the roster to have a no so so spring,
you know, not just off the charge, not awful, but
it's so so spring, and not worry about losing his
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spot on the team.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Yeah, you know, I think the biggest thing we're looking
for in spring right now is is growth. Like I said,
I don't expect anybody to be a finished product at
the end of spring practice. And these are these are
really valuable reps that a lot of young players are
getting right now and we're forcing it on them and
we're really you know, we have we've we're not too
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spotting anything right now.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
We're on one field.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I get a chance to see every player, every snap,
every play.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But as long as there's incremental growth.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That that gives you, that gives a little foresight into
the future of of kind of the learning curve, the
the the physical makeup of the game, the speed of
the game, things of that nature. And just because a
guy maybe doesn't show at all right now, doesn't mean
that he can't.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
In the fall. And maybe it's going to take a year,
right And we.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We've had plenty of players who have been developmental players
in our program that has taken a year or two
that have grown into really good.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Players for us.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
But that's that's where the evaluation is so critical right
now of assessing maybe what a projecting what a player
can be down the road. And sometimes we're not getting
the best of their physical ability right now either because
there's so much going on right there's learning, there's what's
happening on defense or what's happening on offense. There's you know,
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the wheels can can turn pretty good right now to
where that inhibits some of the physical ability to expose
itself to So just try to be mindful of all
those things. But you know, clearly some young players are
going to have to play for us as fall, and
it's managing the expectations of who those might be.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And it's very early right now. Maybe guys that aren't
going to be there.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
In week one, but we're going to need in November
and December too, right, And so I think we would
be making a grave mistake to, you know, cast just
on anybody right now. Right it's it's staying focused on
growth and are we getting better from one day to
the next at some real small fundamentals, some small details,
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some things that you know they can they absorb installation
and then go out and apply it, and then here
comes another installation. Can they apply that but also go
back to that previous installation and still apply those things.
So there's a lot we're evaluating on a lot of players.
But but you know, this is the most young players
we've ever had at one time in spring practice, so
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it's it's been a little bit different for us.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
There's some thoughts from Logrn's head coach Steve Sarkis and
we're gonna hear some more from Sark coming up again
a little bit later on this hour, Ty Herron Kennell
join me. We'll talk from college baseball, but we'll continue
from UFCU dish fault field. I'm thirteen hundred the zone
to the text line where somebody asks, is Share related
to coach Sark For those of you didn't know Share
(06:53):
the you know, iconic music singer, star actors share. Her
last name is sarkis Uh. The answer to the Texters
question is no, they are not related. That that is
a question that has been asked of Sark in the past,
and they are not related. But she does have the
same name, Uh, Sarkisian. Speaking of which, let's hear some
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more from coach sark Uh. This from this morning's media
availability following the spring practice EI. There's seven practices in
and we talked about the transfers coming in that includes
along the defensive front, where he was asked if he's
seen so far what he has wanted to see from
his defensive tackle transfers.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, they've they've been been really nice additions for us.
You know, I think you know, I think Cole. You
can feel his experience. You know, he's a really stout
guy inside. He's played a lot of football. You know,
I think I think Travis, you know, we're kind of
monitoring him.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I don't want to overdo it.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
You know, he's had a knee that that has lingered
throughout his career some, so we're working him in and
Hero has been a great addition, you know. So I
think those three guys have been really nice additions for us,
along with the young players that have been in there.
So a lot of new faces to go along with,
you know, the growth of an Alex January and a
Melviyn Hills, So a lot of new faces in there.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Coach Baker's done a really nice job of kind of
integrating them all, you know, with some guys moving on
and what that looks like. And so but again they're
they're like the rest of the team, you know, they're
not a finished product yet. And there's you know, there's
some schematic things that then some of the new transfers
are learning. For the younger players, there's fundamentals, there's technique
and scheme going on. So again, we're definitely fighting for
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more consistency across the board up front, but you see
the flashes of what I think we can be down
the road.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, from defense to offense. Remember what the long
worms are losing at receiver, losing Isaiah Bond and obviously
losing Matthew Golden as well. So there's a lot of
younger guys getting a chance to improve. And Sark was
asked what he is seeing right now from those younger receivers.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, you know, with with Dre and and Ryan being out,
it's created an awesome opportunity for some young for some
young players, and where they're running with the ones and
the twos. You know, whether it's it's Jamie, it's Callique,
it's Parker, it's it's Dylan McCutcheon, and and these guys
are getting some just like I said, valuable valuable reps.
(09:20):
You know, Uh, Dre and Ryan are working themselves back
kind of into it. But again I'm I'm not in
a real rush. I know who DeAndre Moore is. You know,
I know what he's made of.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You know, he's had.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Good rapport with Arch from last season when Arch played.
I know who Ryan Wingo is. He was having a
really good spring before he kind of tweaked his hammy
and and he'll be back. I'm not concerned about those
two guys. Jordan was off to a good start. Unfortunately,
you know, how had a collarbone issue that we'll get
back here. You know, bones take what they take to heal.
You know, it's not a it's not a ligament issue
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or anything like that. So it's gonna take a minute.
But again, that's created an opportunity form Winston to get
more reps, you know, Spencer Shannon to get more reps,
and so you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
All part of it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
That's why we have to continue to recruit towards depth.
As much as we're trying to recruit high level players,
we're trying to recruit towards depth knowing what.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
The season entails.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You know, I think we got a real taste of
that last year with playing sixteen games. It would have
taken seventeen to win the whole thing. We need to
make sure that we are really solid or as solid
as we can be one through three on a depth
chart at any position.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And so whether it's receiver.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Right now or tight end right now, that some of
these guys are maybe getting a few more reps especially
with their group, maybe up from where they would normally be.
It's a good thing, you know. I really look at
it that way, that we're finding out a lot about guys.
We're finding out their competitive spirit, We're finding out about
their retention of information. We're finding out about how they
respond to adversity that maybe we would have to wait
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for some of those growing pains in season.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We're kind of getting in the front now with spring prack.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh hey, think about this.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Now we are one opening statement and three full questions
into a media availability before anyone even asked Sark about
Arch banning.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We'll stand by because here it comes.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Somebody's asked about or asked Sark about Arch's competitive spirit.
You know, when he knew he was going to be
the backup and was in there being competitive even as
Quinn yours was the starting quarterback. How does that alter
or adjust or modify now that he knows he's the
starting quarterback going yet?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
No, I think Arch is a naturally competitive guy, you know,
and I've said this before, He's got a very infectious personality.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I think people gravitate to him.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
And one of the things I see right now is,
you know, naturally you know, he's leading a group of
maybe some younger players, especially the skill spots, you know,
at the wide out spot. His confidence I think helps them.
His understanding, his ability to connect to those guys in
between series and talk to him has been helpful. But
I also see a competitive spirit affecting the defensive side
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of the ball. I think they like competing against Arch.
I think they know, you know, he's gonna talk a
little smack to him, He's gonna have fun with it.
And I think that's bringing out some you know, kind
of some personality in an Anthony Hill or a Manny
Muhammad or a Michael Taff, some guys who have played
a lot of football, and they're thinking, here comes another
spring practice and wins the next game. And it's not
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for months down the road, but yet every day is
a game. Every day is competitive because they know sixteen's
going to bring it and if he gets him, he's
gonna let him know about it.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And what more about Arch?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And this has to do about everything that surrounds being
Arch Manning, the you know, the fame, the family, the name,
all of the other stuff that surrounds that, and has
Sark had to have any conversations with Arch about handling
all of that peripheral stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
The boo the booze, because the boos are gonna come
here pretty soon too.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I love our fans, They love the they love the
backup quarterback, but they hate interceptions, so that those are coming.
I think the good thing for Arch is he's been
exposed to a lot. You know, it's no secret who
his family is. It's no secret who his uncles are,
who his grandpa is, who his dad is, you know,
I mean they. I think he's been exposed to a
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lot and handling himself in a way I think is
important to him, you know, finding a tight knit circle
of people that are that that is his crew of
guys to hang with, and people to hang with that
he can trust. I think that's important that you don't
overly expose yourself. But in the end, I think, you
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know what a benefit he's had of just growing up
and seeing it in real time of of kind of
how to handle himself, how to conduct himself.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
All right, there's some more thoughts from Longhorn's head coach,
Steve Sarkisian talking about Art there. We have more of
that coming up, and we'll talk from college baseball Here
at usc U dish Fogg Field. It is Texas and
Houston Christian six fifteen pre games, starting time six thirty,
first pitch Keith Morton a little twenty for the call,
and you'll hear the game right here on thirteen under
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the zone.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I was thinking about you the other day because something
came up about music and I left out one of
my all time favorite singers. Yeah yeah, Bob Zeer, Absolutely yeah.
And you know what I missed out. He was in
Austin two years ago, his last show and we got
tray and I missed it.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And I took Linda to that show and she had
she knew about Bob Seeker, but she had, and then
she was like, yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Whatever's you going to? She said, Oh I know this song?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, Oh I know this song.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So she wound up having a good time there.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It was absolute rock and roll, legend, rock and roll
Hall of famer as well. All right, I wanted to
jump into this and get your thoughts on several things.
She worked the Texas Series of the week in against Georgia.
I asked Jim Schlasnagel, and we're gonna hear from Schloss
in the pregame talking about this this whole dealing with
prosperity thing, and you've been around it and you coached it.
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And when your team comes off a big weekend like
they had, uh, you know, how do you go back
to the business in hand? And asked him, you know,
do you and your coaching staff kind of watch your
guys in terms of the body language and all that
sort of stuff?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And he said, yeah, And obviously you would.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Rather have that than come off losses to that, But
it's yet another piece of the coaching thing, isn't it,
to deal with your guys dealing with a success.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And you know what, when I was young, a younger coach,
it was harder because I got caught in it too.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
You don't know it, but all of a sudden you are,
and you do, and your staff is the same way,
and so you have to keep Now they're not. I'm
just saying early in my career, I found myself once
I had a chance to reflect on it. So point
being to your question, yes, one of the hardest things
to do is to come back. How do you repeat
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the emotion that you had on Friday night?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
In front of who knows how.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Many people and how many people were watching on TV,
how many people were listening to you, how many total
people were interested in that game Friday Saturday, and then
to end it with what happened on Sunday, the crescendo
of it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, that's a great way to put it. I don't.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
That's the part about coaching that starts to separate other
coaches in my opinion, and that says after again, this
is a reflection time for me over the last couple
of years on my career other coaches, and then watching
successes of current coaches and how they do things.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
And I think the ones that are most successful are.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
The ones that really push even as hard when moments
like this after you've had success, to keep for lack
of a better word for, to keep the fire burning right,
to keep you How do you do that right? That's
the motivation of you know, it used to be some guys,
would you know, some coaches would create some kind of
drama that didn't even exist. Like I said, once in
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a while, when we were doing really good, I would
create some kind of drama that didn't even exist, say
something like, well, the other team, I know the coaches
from the other team, and he said that some of
else and guys that y'all knew, and even the coach
told me some stuff about, oh, you guys think y'all
are better than everybody else. Y'all walk around, so you
just make up stuff flat out. Well, I would call it,
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we call it a lie. We'd call it a fabrication,
a fabrication of a motion.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
But but the other piece of it is and that
that starts, you know, plays this point. But I think
the way, you know, Jim is our coach. Last thing,
I'm sorry, has been successful. And I think part of
it is he understands how to keep the fire burning.
I think the part about this season that makes it
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a little bit different. They're new, the teams, because the
coaches are new, so everything's new. So that kind of
keeps it going, you know, on down the road. You
know that then it maybe even you know, challenges yourself
even more, you know, after you've had more success and
it becomes a little more common.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, and there's another element too, And I brought this
up and he said, I couldn't agree with you more
that a lot, not not at all, maybe not even
the majority, but there are there is there is a
number of Texas fans out there going, man, this is great.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We got the two out of three from LSU and
the road sweeps at at Mississippi State in Missouri and
then beat number three Georgia.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Swept up here.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
If we could just only get Tuesday nights cleaned up
and he said, I totally get it with losses to
UTSA and Texas State, and yeah, it's not what your
weekend guys, although your run although in both of those
cases they ran into weekend guys for both.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And would do it again tonight. Yeah, if it presented.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It so right, So he said, yeah, there's the you
want to make sure you're winning those games too. So
that adds another, I guess another edge. As a coach,
you could say, hey, look, we've done a great job
in conference series and we're gonna have to do it
again when we go to Lexington this weekend. But let's
hay into our business first here on a Tuesday, which
we hadn't done a couple of times lately.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
You know you've heard you've heard the players say this, right,
they don't play to the scoreboard or I play to
the standar they play to the standard. That's right, and
that's something they're they're earning, and that's something that they're learning.
And when you start looking at that, what the standard
is and that is to Windows games and the Tuesday
games the same.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But all but remember this.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
To're not going undefeated. You're not doing it, and it's
not happening, and you're more than likely gonna lose a
Tuesday game if your competition is good on Tuesdays. Some
people choose not to play very good programs on Tuesday. Fortunately,
in the Great State of Texas, thirty miles down the road,
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sixty miles either way, one hundred and fifty miles either way,
and you're gonna bump into possibly top twenty team.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Right, so you can do all you can do all
that on the bus ride.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
You have a transit schedule where they can get to
you and you can get to them. And that's just
the way this is. But and look in the in
the grand scheme of it. Yes you want to win
all of them. Yes they want to win tonight. Yeah
they want to you know, I think if you go
back to last Tuesday against Texas State or the value
of defense created some opportunities for their opponent Texas State. Right,
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it was a strange game even for you know Texas
State that early in the games and things. It was
just a strange offensive game for both teams. But the
Tuesday games are something everybody puts a lot of value
in and creating your depth. What you hope for in
the end is an explosion and a meaning. Your staff
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is ready, your depth is ready, your you know, into
the you are prepared in every way, You're ready, and
you've done well enough to host.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You've done well enough to be you know, we'd like
to hope your hope a national seat.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
There's a lot of things that start to go in
in the month of May that you know that you
watch this glos Yeah, yeah, and it is true. But
the reality is is that these Tuesday games are are
to win. If you're you're going out there and you're
playing to win every game, playing to the standard, right,
playing what the excellence or what this this program deserves
and what it wants and what it excels at. But
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in the reality is, there's gonna be some hiccups along
the way. You're not gonna put you know me teams.
And by the way, I think I looked it up
last week, and I can't remember the exact number. There
were five to twenty five teams that got beat last Tuesday. Yeah,
So I mean it's not like it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It is.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, explain the fans and and and Schloss will have
his own thoughts on it as well, come out of
the pregame. But explain the fans what a coach is
looking for out of a midweek Tuesday starter, and and
the the vibe I get is it extrapolates, because what
you're looking for is a guy who can give you
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some innings, give you some innings, give you some consistency,
but ultimately you're going to need that force starter. And
down the road you're kind of projecting when you're looking
at him, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
If your fourth starter comes into play in conference tournament play,
he comes into play and regional play, if you get
into the losers bracket, he comes into play and super
regional play occasionally as the back end guy, and definitely.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
A hundred in Omaha.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
So that all these twelve weeks, thirteen weeks of trying
you want to develop that fourth starter. Here's the second
piece of that God forbid this happens, right, you know
what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Somebody goes down, Sure, and.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
How many years do you get through a season without
a picture going down. It's rare, it really is. I mean,
in all honesty, you hate to say that, but it's true.
So you're developing that person along the way for the
immediate success, the future success of the season at the
end or postseason, and then you're you're developing it for
what is going to be his success over the next
If it's a young possibly FORGECT you want to have
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that fourth starter for so many reasons. And the other
piece of this is weather comes into play. You start
crunching games together. There's just a lot that goes into
that one hundred percent, and then all of a sudden
you're you're looking for arms and fresh arms. And what
you would love, what every coach would really love to
do is have a Tuesday start. They go out there
and you ate up six innings, eight up, six innings,
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and then you use.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Three guys are one guy, two guys.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Rested their way out and they get their development, they
get their their their moment and there because really you're
you don't know what you don't you don't know something
until you know it. That means you got to get
out there and let them see it, experience it, and
do it on consecutive based meaning pictures different arms and
so I think for them to develop, whether it's Floors
and some other guys along the way, would be huge
for their overall success. Remember this, You don't just snap
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your fingers and say we're going to Omaha and we're
winning the national championship. It's a developed process that takes
time and a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
One more thing, uh that you all also still working
on the telecast at Texas State. They look like they
flipped things a little bit, had a big win here,
but took two out of three in a series that
they had to have against Louisiana. There are two games
back in the conference standings, but they've looked like they've
got new.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Life, got some guys back healthy. They got two or
three guys back. They'll get another one.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Back this week. I think Eaton will come back this week.
If he didn't, I don't think he threw it. At the
end of the weekend, he'll come.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Back on the mount. He's back hitting for.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Him, and then they've got two other hitters Galloway or
hopefully come back. So they're starting to get they they
had three starters out before they do a pitch in
the season, so they're trying to get some of those guys.
People don't understand the next guy up. There's the reason
why he was the next guy up and not the
guy right, And so they had to go and they
kind of started the season limping injury wise, and so
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hopefully they're replacing some of those guys and even getting
healthier on the mountain.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Are you enjoying this TV thing? You're good at it?
I mean, are you enjoying it? Yes?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I do, because its you know me. I like to
talk so and I like to talk about something. I
feel like I know something about, not everything, but something
about and this past weekend was a blast, and I
would tell you this, Yes, I enjoy it. I enjoy
the conversating about it. I enjoy truthfully, as you know
this about me. I enjoyed the stimulation about it. And
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I see the game differently today than I saw the
game even my last ten years as a coach, and
maybe even closely in my last five years as a coach.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I see the game better.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And I see it with a different lens and ever,
so I don't have people hanging over me telling me
why did you win and lose?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I don't have people.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I mean I have a different view of it than
I did, a clearer picture now than what I did.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
And then I watch other coaches. I mean I look
at it once in a while and go, Godly, yeah,
look at that. Yes, that's yeah, that's that's you know,
that's that's how you do it. And then you know.
And I want to say one thing about this past weekend.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I learned.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I didn't learn.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
I mean I knew it, but it really came fruition
this past weekend. Texas is a really opportunistic team. They
create opportunities and when they get opportunities, they take advantage
of it. It's something different and somebody creates it, gives
you an opportunity, but you do nothing but sit on it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
They do nothing but act on it.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
In this past weekend, I mean, you think about the error,
You think about the walks, you think about all those
things that you as a coach, you preached that you
you don't want to do it, you don't want to
have happened. Right happened, and but you got to take
advantage of it. Jylen Forest still has to come up
with a hit, you know, Gasprino Still's got to come
up with a double. All those things and in the end,
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and the reality was, hey, man, Valantis had to come
in and shut him down. Hold them right, everybody takes
it for granted. My god, that's one of the best
offensive teams in the country that he was facing. He
had to shut him down to take him at roling
the Galvan a chance.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And then the word was when Galvan was at the play,
Valandis was in the bathroom and he was gonna come
out and pitch to the left handed in and that.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Was gonna be it. But he was in the bathroom.
He's on the toys.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah, And I'm gonna tell I'll tell you this all
the way down to the last pitch got rolling. Galvan
created the opportunity for him because he didn't swing at
the edge pitch and the pitch that was elevated to
create that hitting count, which he has done so good
over the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And man, did he land on that ball.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Thanks for stopping by and enjoying the telecast today.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Always joy Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Ty Harrington with us we'll be back to wrap up
today's program.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm thirteen under the zon
Normally I say third and final hour of the program.
Here in the case of today, i'll say first and
final hour of the program. We popped on just a
few minutes ago because of the length of the Round
Rock Express game. It did not go well for the
Express this afternoon. They lost at home to the Oklahoma
City Commets sixteen to two, but they can.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Began the home stand.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It'll continue tomorrow night seven o'clock Dollar Hot Dog Night
out there, so it'd be a great night for baseball there.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's a great night for baseball here as.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The Texas Longhorns will be in action against the Huskies
of Houston Christian University, So that'll be coming up tonight
and you'll be able to hear that contest here on
thirteen under the zone six fifteen of the pregame start time.
The first pitch at six point thirty, Keith Morret a
little joining for the call of that. Cameron Parker's are
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producer back in the studio. Can you might have got
a kick out of this during the break here at
the top of the hour, and they were rolling through
some things on the video board here at the ballpark,
and one of the things was video of Jique Stewart
his home run on Saturday, So obviously that was your call.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So your call was booming through the ball Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, you said something. I think you said that
ball is gone or something like that. Yeah, I think
said that's out of here. Okay, that's out of here.
That's what it was, and that ball was out of
here and it was just it was just booming throughout
the ballpark there. So your voice is being heard this afternoon,
even though even if you can't be here this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's that's awesome to hear that day.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Speaking of voices, let's hear from long orange Head football
coach Steve Sarkeshan. I had a media availability this morning
with spring practice underway. Let's first ll bringing the opening
statement from coach sark.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Missed.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
You guys can see you. You know, this is a
this is a fun time of.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Year for us right now is a program in that
we just finished up practice number seven, so this actually
halfway through spring practice. And to watch the growth of
a lot of players in the program. You know, we
challenged everybody, you know, who we were a year ago,
isn't going to be kind of acceptable? Who are going
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to be this year, and so everybody has to take
their game to another level. And it's easy to point
to the twenty two high school kids who are here
midyear and where they need to grow to, but it's
also looking at players that are going from year two
to year three and it's not just their play, but
maybe it's their leadership. And so everybody's got growth and
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so to watch that evolution here seven practices in UH
has been has been a lot of fun for me.
You really feel like we're we're drilling back into a
lot of teaching. Obviously, we've got some new faces on
the coaching staff as well, and so personalities have adjusted,
have shifted, where's the energy coming from on the staff,
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all those types of things, And I think that's the part.
You know, you go into year five and it's like
it's never rinse and repeat, you know, it's never just no,
let's just do the same thing all over again, whether
that's schematically, culturally, you know, how we motivate the players,
how how we teach who's responsible for what.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And so from a head coach's perspective, that's that's the
fun part.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And it all you know of watching everybody grow, watching
the personality, this team start to come to life. And
there's been some really good positive things that have that
have occurred so far. There's been areas where we definitely
need to improve, and that's understandable. You know, when you're
when you're seven days into spring practice, you know there's.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
A plenty of room for growth right now.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But but I can ever question the work ethic, uh,
the passion, how hard our guys are going right now
and so uh. But but we're a far, far, far
ways away from a finished product right now.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Naturally, a lot of the questions in a spring practice
are going to be about freshmen or red shirt freshmen
or even transfers, but young guys in the program. And
Sark was asked, is there room for say, a young
guy on the roster to have a no so so spring,
you know, not just off the charge, not awful, but
it's so so spring, and not worry about losing his
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spot on the team.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Yeah, you know, I think the biggest thing we're looking
for in spring right now is is growth. Like I said,
I don't expect anybody to be a finished product at
the end of spring practice. And these are these are
really valuable reps that a lot of young players are
getting right now and we're forcing it on them and
we're really you know, we have we've we're not too
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spotting anything right now.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
We're on one field.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I get a chance to see every player, every snap,
every play.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But as long as there's incremental growth.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That that gives you, that gives a little foresight into
the future of of kind of the learning curve, the
the the physical makeup of the game, the speed of
the game, things of that nature. And just because a
guy maybe doesn't show at all right now, doesn't mean
that he can't.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
In the fall. And maybe it's going to take a year,
right And we.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We've had plenty of players who have been developmental players
in our program that has taken a year or two
that have grown into really good.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Players for us.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
But that's that's where the evaluation is so critical right
now of assessing maybe what a projecting what a player
can be down the road. And sometimes we're not getting
the best of their physical ability right now either because
there's so much going on right there's learning, there's what's
happening on defense or what's happening on offense. There's you know,
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the wheels can can turn pretty good right now to
where that inhibits some of the physical ability to expose
itself to So just try to be mindful of all
those things. But you know, clearly some young players are
going to have to play for us as fall, and
it's managing the expectations of who those might be.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And it's very early right now. Maybe guys that aren't
going to be there.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
In week one, but we're going to need in November
and December too, right, And so I think we would
be making a grave mistake to, you know, cast just
on anybody right now. Right it's it's staying focused on
growth and are we getting better from one day to
the next at some real small fundamentals, some small details,
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some things that you know they can they absorb installation
and then go out and apply it, and then here
comes another installation. Can they apply that but also go
back to that previous installation and still apply those things.
So there's a lot we're evaluating on a lot of players.
But but you know, this is the most young players
we've ever had at one time in spring practice, so
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it's it's been a little bit different for us.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
There's some thoughts from Logrn's head coach Steve Sarkis and
we're gonna hear some more from Sark coming up again
a little bit later on this hour, Ty Herron Kennell
join me. We'll talk from college baseball, but we'll continue
from UFCU dish fault field. I'm thirteen hundred the zone
to the text line where somebody asks, is Share related
to coach Sark For those of you didn't know Share
(06:53):
the you know, iconic music singer, star actors share. Her
last name is sarkis Uh. The answer to the Texters
question is no, they are not related. That that is
a question that has been asked of Sark in the past,
and they are not related. But she does have the
same name, Uh, Sarkisian. Speaking of which, let's hear some
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more from coach sark Uh. This from this morning's media
availability following the spring practice EI. There's seven practices in
and we talked about the transfers coming in that includes
along the defensive front, where he was asked if he's
seen so far what he has wanted to see from
his defensive tackle transfers.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, they've they've been been really nice additions for us.
You know, I think you know, I think Cole. You
can feel his experience. You know, he's a really stout
guy inside. He's played a lot of football. You know,
I think I think Travis, you know, we're kind of
monitoring him.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I don't want to overdo it.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
You know, he's had a knee that that has lingered
throughout his career some, so we're working him in and
Hero has been a great addition, you know. So I
think those three guys have been really nice additions for us,
along with the young players that have been in there.
So a lot of new faces to go along with,
you know, the growth of an Alex January and a
Melviyn Hills, So a lot of new faces in there.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Coach Baker's done a really nice job of kind of
integrating them all, you know, with some guys moving on
and what that looks like. And so but again they're
they're like the rest of the team, you know, they're
not a finished product yet. And there's you know, there's
some schematic things that then some of the new transfers
are learning. For the younger players, there's fundamentals, there's technique
and scheme going on. So again, we're definitely fighting for
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more consistency across the board up front, but you see
the flashes of what I think we can be down
the road.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, from defense to offense. Remember what the long
worms are losing at receiver, losing Isaiah Bond and obviously
losing Matthew Golden as well. So there's a lot of
younger guys getting a chance to improve. And Sark was
asked what he is seeing right now from those younger receivers.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, you know, with with Dre and and Ryan being out,
it's created an awesome opportunity for some young for some
young players, and where they're running with the ones and
the twos. You know, whether it's it's Jamie, it's Callique,
it's Parker, it's it's Dylan McCutcheon, and and these guys
are getting some just like I said, valuable valuable reps.
(09:20):
You know, Uh, Dre and Ryan are working themselves back
kind of into it. But again I'm I'm not in
a real rush. I know who DeAndre Moore is. You know,
I know what he's made of.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You know, he's had.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Good rapport with Arch from last season when Arch played.
I know who Ryan Wingo is. He was having a
really good spring before he kind of tweaked his hammy
and and he'll be back. I'm not concerned about those
two guys. Jordan was off to a good start. Unfortunately,
you know, how had a collarbone issue that we'll get
back here. You know, bones take what they take to heal.
You know, it's not a it's not a ligament issue
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or anything like that. So it's gonna take a minute.
But again, that's created an opportunity form Winston to get
more reps, you know, Spencer Shannon to get more reps,
and so you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
All part of it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
That's why we have to continue to recruit towards depth.
As much as we're trying to recruit high level players,
we're trying to recruit towards depth knowing what.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
The season entails.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You know, I think we got a real taste of
that last year with playing sixteen games. It would have
taken seventeen to win the whole thing. We need to
make sure that we are really solid or as solid
as we can be one through three on a depth
chart at any position.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And so whether it's receiver.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Right now or tight end right now, that some of
these guys are maybe getting a few more reps especially
with their group, maybe up from where they would normally be.
It's a good thing, you know. I really look at
it that way, that we're finding out a lot about guys.
We're finding out their competitive spirit, We're finding out about
their retention of information. We're finding out about how they
respond to adversity that maybe we would have to wait
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for some of those growing pains in season.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We're kind of getting in the front now with spring prack.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh hey, think about this.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Now we are one opening statement and three full questions
into a media availability before anyone even asked Sark about
Arch banning.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We'll stand by because here it comes.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Somebody's asked about or asked Sark about Arch's competitive spirit.
You know, when he knew he was going to be
the backup and was in there being competitive even as
Quinn yours was the starting quarterback. How does that alter
or adjust or modify now that he knows he's the
starting quarterback going yet?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
No, I think Arch is a naturally competitive guy, you know,
and I've said this before, He's got a very infectious personality.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I think people gravitate to him.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
And one of the things I see right now is,
you know, naturally you know, he's leading a group of
maybe some younger players, especially the skill spots, you know,
at the wide out spot. His confidence I think helps them.
His understanding, his ability to connect to those guys in
between series and talk to him has been helpful. But
I also see a competitive spirit affecting the defensive side
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of the ball. I think they like competing against Arch.
I think they know, you know, he's gonna talk a
little smack to him, He's gonna have fun with it.
And I think that's bringing out some you know, kind
of some personality in an Anthony Hill or a Manny
Muhammad or a Michael Taff, some guys who have played
a lot of football, and they're thinking, here comes another
spring practice and wins the next game. And it's not
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for months down the road, but yet every day is
a game. Every day is competitive because they know sixteen's
going to bring it and if he gets him, he's
gonna let him know about it.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And what more about Arch?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And this has to do about everything that surrounds being
Arch Manning, the you know, the fame, the family, the name,
all of the other stuff that surrounds that, and has
Sark had to have any conversations with Arch about handling
all of that peripheral stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
The boo the booze, because the boos are gonna come
here pretty soon too.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I love our fans, They love the they love the
backup quarterback, but they hate interceptions, so that those are coming.
I think the good thing for Arch is he's been
exposed to a lot. You know, it's no secret who
his family is. It's no secret who his uncles are,
who his grandpa is, who his dad is, you know,
I mean they. I think he's been exposed to a
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lot and handling himself in a way I think is
important to him, you know, finding a tight knit circle
of people that are that that is his crew of
guys to hang with, and people to hang with that
he can trust. I think that's important that you don't
overly expose yourself. But in the end, I think, you
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know what a benefit he's had of just growing up
and seeing it in real time of of kind of
how to handle himself, how to conduct himself.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
All right, there's some more thoughts from Longhorn's head coach,
Steve Sarkisian talking about Art there. We have more of
that coming up, and we'll talk from college baseball Here
at usc U dish Fogg Field. It is Texas and
Houston Christian six fifteen pre games, starting time six thirty,
first pitch Keith Morton a little twenty for the call,
and you'll hear the game right here on thirteen under
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the zone.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I was thinking about you the other day because something
came up about music and I left out one of
my all time favorite singers. Yeah yeah, Bob Zeer, Absolutely yeah.
And you know what I missed out. He was in
Austin two years ago, his last show and we got
tray and I missed it.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And I took Linda to that show and she had
she knew about Bob Seeker, but she had, and then
she was like, yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Whatever's you going to? She said, Oh I know this song?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, Oh I know this song.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So she wound up having a good time there.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It was absolute rock and roll, legend, rock and roll
Hall of famer as well. All right, I wanted to
jump into this and get your thoughts on several things.
She worked the Texas Series of the week in against Georgia.
I asked Jim Schlasnagel, and we're gonna hear from Schloss
in the pregame talking about this this whole dealing with
prosperity thing, and you've been around it and you coached it.
(15:12):
And when your team comes off a big weekend like
they had, uh, you know, how do you go back
to the business in hand? And asked him, you know,
do you and your coaching staff kind of watch your
guys in terms of the body language and all that
sort of stuff?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And he said, yeah, And obviously you would.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Rather have that than come off losses to that, But
it's yet another piece of the coaching thing, isn't it,
to deal with your guys dealing with a success.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And you know what, when I was young, a younger coach,
it was harder because I got caught in it too.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
You don't know it, but all of a sudden you are,
and you do, and your staff is the same way,
and so you have to keep Now they're not. I'm
just saying early in my career, I found myself once
I had a chance to reflect on it. So point
being to your question, yes, one of the hardest things
to do is to come back. How do you repeat
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the emotion that you had on Friday night?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
In front of who knows how.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Many people and how many people were watching on TV,
how many people were listening to you, how many total
people were interested in that game Friday Saturday, and then
to end it with what happened on Sunday, the crescendo
of it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, that's a great way to put it. I don't.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
That's the part about coaching that starts to separate other
coaches in my opinion, and that says after again, this
is a reflection time for me over the last couple
of years on my career other coaches, and then watching
successes of current coaches and how they do things.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
And I think the ones that are most successful are.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
The ones that really push even as hard when moments
like this after you've had success, to keep for lack
of a better word for, to keep the fire burning right,
to keep you How do you do that right? That's
the motivation of you know, it used to be some guys,
would you know, some coaches would create some kind of
drama that didn't even exist. Like I said, once in
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a while, when we were doing really good, I would
create some kind of drama that didn't even exist, say
something like, well, the other team, I know the coaches
from the other team, and he said that some of
else and guys that y'all knew, and even the coach
told me some stuff about, oh, you guys think y'all
are better than everybody else. Y'all walk around, so you
just make up stuff flat out. Well, I would call it,
(17:30):
we call it a lie. We'd call it a fabrication,
a fabrication of a motion.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
But but the other piece of it is and that
that starts, you know, plays this point. But I think
the way, you know, Jim is our coach. Last thing,
I'm sorry, has been successful. And I think part of
it is he understands how to keep the fire burning.
I think the part about this season that makes it
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a little bit different. They're new, the teams, because the
coaches are new, so everything's new. So that kind of
keeps it going, you know, on down the road. You
know that then it maybe even you know, challenges yourself
even more, you know, after you've had more success and
it becomes a little more common.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, and there's another element too, And I brought this
up and he said, I couldn't agree with you more
that a lot, not not at all, maybe not even
the majority, but there are there is there is a
number of Texas fans out there going, man, this is great.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We got the two out of three from LSU and
the road sweeps at at Mississippi State in Missouri and
then beat number three Georgia.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Swept up here.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
If we could just only get Tuesday nights cleaned up
and he said, I totally get it with losses to
UTSA and Texas State, and yeah, it's not what your
weekend guys, although your run although in both of those
cases they ran into weekend guys for both.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And would do it again tonight. Yeah, if it presented.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It so right, So he said, yeah, there's the you
want to make sure you're winning those games too. So
that adds another, I guess another edge. As a coach,
you could say, hey, look, we've done a great job
in conference series and we're gonna have to do it
again when we go to Lexington this weekend. But let's
hay into our business first here on a Tuesday, which
we hadn't done a couple of times lately.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
You know you've heard you've heard the players say this, right,
they don't play to the scoreboard or I play to
the standar they play to the standard. That's right, and
that's something they're they're earning, and that's something that they're learning.
And when you start looking at that, what the standard
is and that is to Windows games and the Tuesday
games the same.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But all but remember this.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
To're not going undefeated. You're not doing it, and it's
not happening, and you're more than likely gonna lose a
Tuesday game if your competition is good on Tuesdays. Some
people choose not to play very good programs on Tuesday. Fortunately,
in the Great State of Texas, thirty miles down the road,
(19:53):
sixty miles either way, one hundred and fifty miles either way,
and you're gonna bump into possibly top twenty team.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Right, so you can do all you can do all
that on the bus ride.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
You have a transit schedule where they can get to
you and you can get to them. And that's just
the way this is. But and look in the in
the grand scheme of it. Yes you want to win
all of them. Yes they want to win tonight. Yeah
they want to you know, I think if you go
back to last Tuesday against Texas State or the value
of defense created some opportunities for their opponent Texas State. Right,
(20:27):
it was a strange game even for you know Texas
State that early in the games and things. It was
just a strange offensive game for both teams. But the
Tuesday games are something everybody puts a lot of value
in and creating your depth. What you hope for in
the end is an explosion and a meaning. Your staff
(20:48):
is ready, your depth is ready, your you know, into
the you are prepared in every way, You're ready, and
you've done well enough to host.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You've done well enough to be you know, we'd like
to hope your hope a national seat.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
There's a lot of things that start to go in
in the month of May that you know that you
watch this glos Yeah, yeah, and it is true. But
the reality is is that these Tuesday games are are
to win. If you're you're going out there and you're
playing to win every game, playing to the standard, right,
playing what the excellence or what this this program deserves
and what it wants and what it excels at. But
(21:24):
in the reality is, there's gonna be some hiccups along
the way. You're not gonna put you know me teams.
And by the way, I think I looked it up
last week, and I can't remember the exact number. There
were five to twenty five teams that got beat last Tuesday. Yeah,
So I mean it's not like it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It is.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, explain the fans and and and Schloss will have
his own thoughts on it as well, come out of
the pregame. But explain the fans what a coach is
looking for out of a midweek Tuesday starter, and and
the the vibe I get is it extrapolates, because what
you're looking for is a guy who can give you
(21:58):
some innings, give you some innings, give you some consistency,
but ultimately you're going to need that force starter. And
down the road you're kind of projecting when you're looking
at him, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
If your fourth starter comes into play in conference tournament play,
he comes into play and regional play, if you get
into the losers bracket, he comes into play and super
regional play occasionally as the back end guy, and definitely.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
A hundred in Omaha.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
So that all these twelve weeks, thirteen weeks of trying
you want to develop that fourth starter. Here's the second
piece of that God forbid this happens, right, you know
what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Somebody goes down, Sure, and.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
How many years do you get through a season without
a picture going down. It's rare, it really is. I mean,
in all honesty, you hate to say that, but it's true.
So you're developing that person along the way for the
immediate success, the future success of the season at the
end or postseason, and then you're you're developing it for
what is going to be his success over the next
If it's a young possibly FORGECT you want to have
(23:01):
that fourth starter for so many reasons. And the other
piece of this is weather comes into play. You start
crunching games together. There's just a lot that goes into
that one hundred percent, and then all of a sudden
you're you're looking for arms and fresh arms. And what
you would love, what every coach would really love to
do is have a Tuesday start. They go out there
and you ate up six innings, eight up, six innings,
(23:24):
and then you use.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Three guys are one guy, two guys.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Rested their way out and they get their development, they
get their their their moment and there because really you're
you don't know what you don't you don't know something
until you know it. That means you got to get
out there and let them see it, experience it, and
do it on consecutive based meaning pictures different arms and
so I think for them to develop, whether it's Floors
and some other guys along the way, would be huge
for their overall success. Remember this, You don't just snap
(23:50):
your fingers and say we're going to Omaha and we're
winning the national championship. It's a developed process that takes
time and a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
One more thing, uh that you all also still working
on the telecast at Texas State. They look like they
flipped things a little bit, had a big win here,
but took two out of three in a series that
they had to have against Louisiana. There are two games
back in the conference standings, but they've looked like they've
got new.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Life, got some guys back healthy. They got two or
three guys back. They'll get another one.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Back this week. I think Eaton will come back this week.
If he didn't, I don't think he threw it. At the
end of the weekend, he'll come.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Back on the mount. He's back hitting for.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Him, and then they've got two other hitters Galloway or
hopefully come back. So they're starting to get they they
had three starters out before they do a pitch in
the season, so they're trying to get some of those guys.
People don't understand the next guy up. There's the reason
why he was the next guy up and not the
guy right, And so they had to go and they
kind of started the season limping injury wise, and so
(24:45):
hopefully they're replacing some of those guys and even getting
healthier on the mountain.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Are you enjoying this TV thing? You're good at it?
I mean, are you enjoying it? Yes?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I do, because its you know me. I like to
talk so and I like to talk about something. I
feel like I know something about, not everything, but something
about and this past weekend was a blast, and I
would tell you this, Yes, I enjoy it. I enjoy
the conversating about it. I enjoy truthfully, as you know
this about me. I enjoyed the stimulation about it. And
(25:12):
I see the game differently today than I saw the
game even my last ten years as a coach, and
maybe even closely in my last five years as a coach.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I see the game better.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And I see it with a different lens and ever,
so I don't have people hanging over me telling me
why did you win and lose?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I don't have people.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I mean I have a different view of it than
I did, a clearer picture now than what I did.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
And then I watch other coaches. I mean I look
at it once in a while and go, Godly, yeah,
look at that. Yes, that's yeah, that's that's you know,
that's that's how you do it. And then you know.
And I want to say one thing about this past weekend.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I learned.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I didn't learn.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
I mean I knew it, but it really came fruition
this past weekend. Texas is a really opportunistic team. They
create opportunities and when they get opportunities, they take advantage
of it. It's something different and somebody creates it, gives
you an opportunity, but you do nothing but sit on it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
They do nothing but act on it.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
In this past weekend, I mean, you think about the error,
You think about the walks, you think about all those
things that you as a coach, you preached that you
you don't want to do it, you don't want to
have happened. Right happened, and but you got to take
advantage of it. Jylen Forest still has to come up
with a hit, you know, Gasprino Still's got to come
up with a double. All those things and in the end,
(26:30):
and the reality was, hey, man, Valantis had to come
in and shut him down. Hold them right, everybody takes
it for granted. My god, that's one of the best
offensive teams in the country that he was facing. He
had to shut him down to take him at roling
the Galvan a chance.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And then the word was when Galvan was at the play,
Valandis was in the bathroom and he was gonna come
out and pitch to the left handed in and that.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Was gonna be it. But he was in the bathroom.
He's on the toys.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah, And I'm gonna tell I'll tell you this all
the way down to the last pitch got rolling. Galvan
created the opportunity for him because he didn't swing at
the edge pitch and the pitch that was elevated to
create that hitting count, which he has done so good
over the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And man, did he land on that ball.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Thanks for stopping by and enjoying the telecast today.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Always joy Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Ty Harrington with us we'll be back to wrap up
today's program.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm thirteen under the zon
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