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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello Wednesday, Momday, yat Rock Wednesday. Hope your day is
going well. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone, from where
you can always listen to us absolutely free of charge
on the iHeartRadio app. My name is Craig Wait. Thanks

(00:22):
so much for joining us. I start off Wednesdays with
the hope, with the wish that if today is indeed
your hump day, your Wednesday, hopefully we can get you
over the hump gets you on the down.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
He'll run to the weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
For those of you for whom Wednesday is the end
of the week for you, you get the next couple
of days off. Good on you, good for you. Hopefully
you get it off to a good start this weekend.
And for those individuals, and there are some I know
some people who for whom Wednesday is actually the start
of their work week. They go Wednesday through Sunday and

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they get Monday and Tuesday off. Hey, hopefully we get
you off to a good start and things go well
for you. We're with you from two to five each
and every weekday afternoon by King b Cave. We'll follow
at five o'clock the producer of the program is Jay
Carmon your day off and running okay.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Today, Yeah, early start, got up, got some errands done,
some Olympics on, some prep done for some fun games
this weekend, and came in here, got ready for.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
The show, attired in your Walsaw Woodchucks polo shirt from
north Woodsleake.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, yes, north Woodsleake.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
That's the one.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I thought of my friends up there earlier this morning
because they two they being my host family for two
summers in Wasaw, were a mixed doubles curling team.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Really because I got a curling thing in inconceivable. Okay, So,
but explain to folks a little bit about this and
and I've heard some about how this works, but I'd
like you to expand on a little bit. You mentioned
host families. Summer Wood back college baseball leagues. Cape Cod

(02:17):
League is probably at the top of the heap. North
Woods Lewis League is a good one. Santa Barbara. There's
there's several different ones. Coastal Plaine League in the Carolinas
where I was. The Shenandoah Valley League is another one,
so they have a but a lot of these guys
are from college and in many cases, they might be
small Division one or in some cases Division two programs. Now,

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if you're at the Cape, chances are you're probably a
well producing D one player that gets invited to play
in the Cape Cod League in the Cape. But they
have these host families and apparently, I guess it works
for the broadcasters as well.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
It worked for you.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
It did.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
The The PA announcer and his wife were generous enough
to uh to host me for for my second summer
up there after we got to know each other. The
first summer they don't typically do host families for broadcasters.
They put us up in the dorms at one of
the local technical colleges.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh okay, but that.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Second summer I was able to get the host family experience.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
It changed everything.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, so let me let me see if I got
this straight. You did this two years I did. And
the first year you were in a dorm at a
technical college.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
But you know what, there were lots of lots of
the out of state interns were there. We made the
best of it, but yeah, it was it was. There
was no kitchen, It was less than ideal.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
What what college? This was?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
North something something NTTC Okay. There was a disc golf
course next to the dorm. That was the best feature
of it.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Okay, all right, so you did that one late one season,
and you did Walsaup both times.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yes, Okay.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Second year you go back and you're living in a
dude's house.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, a couple and their six their six month old baby. Okay,
and they now have a second baby who was the
age that their first son was when I was there last,
So it was fun to catch up with him.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, all right, So you were just kind of living
and living with him up there, so I mean, and
there's no issues with sharing a bathroom or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
That all went.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Okay, they've got an extra bathroom in that basement.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
So I had my old they had you down in
the basement.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
I was uncomfortable bed, okay, little cold, yeah, but great hosts.
Amazing to be able to come home after after road
trips and after home games to often a fire pit
or barbecue on the grill, and it was the best experience.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Did it ever cross your mind during that summer, especially
maybe probably right out of the gate earlier, You're like,
I'm living in the dude's basement I'm living in a
couple's basement here.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Were chasing the dream?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
What am I doing with my life? Yes, chasing the dream?
It's it's one you bring that up because last night
I was a guest speaker speaking at my alma mater,
the University of North Texas. So I drove up to
Denton and spoke to the sports broadcasting class, and they
have a good sized class uh in there, and there

(05:16):
was a lot of that conversation about chasing the dream
and how you put together your resume and your demo
reel and all those things in the art of the
interview and visiting, you know, and and you know all
those kinds of things that go into it because there's
a lot of people that are not much younger than you,

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but a little bit younger than you, who might be
juniors or seniors. This is an upper level class and
they're starting to think about that next step and what
they do and when. And for folks who didn't know,
of course, Jake is a University of Texas graduate, but
he's from the Washington, DC area. So as you were
going through your junior and senior year, I mean, you

(05:58):
kind of knew what you wanted to do. But the
question was how to get from point A to.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Point B right right, And the answer was experience and reps.
So I worked at seventy two game schedule, doing radio
on the road and TV and radio multicast at home, Okay,
and it was a terrific experience. The day after I graduated,
I went in the fountain with my friends. The morning
after got on the road to Wasaw because I had

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to make it in time for opening day.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
So how did was it de termine that you would
be assigned to Wasaw?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Because how many teams are in the.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Northward League eight There's a lot of teams really, Okay,
I think it's up past this now. When I was
in the league, there were twenty fourteen, Wow, and one
of those teams was playing a road only schedule. But
it's grown and grown and grown out west into North
Dakota now. I applied to any teams that I could
find openings for, oh Okay, came out with two offers,

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team from Walsaw on the team in Wilmer, Minnesota, Okay,
ended up going with the Woodchucks.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Okay, So you apply to the league.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I applied to individual teams in the league right, okay,
and then you heard Bag say oh yeah, yeah, we'll
take you on that. Okay, all right. The guys who
did the road only team, where did they live?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, the team itself, they were just based in the
Twin Cities, okay, known as the Minnesota mud Puppies. They
didn't have a broadcast team. Oh okay, okay, because in
the league, the home team controls the feed for both broadcasts.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, sow.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Not every team even travels a road broadcast.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
So when you were doing Warsaw, you were doing home.
You did the road games, but on the home games
you would be supplying a bipartisan broadcast.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
That's how it worked in my second year up there. Okay,
first year there was a separate TV announcer named Cameron Mitchell.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
She was great. Okay.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
The part of the draw of Walsaw was.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Getting the ability to travel and the ability to do
both a radio style and a TV style.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, you don't have to give me a number, but
I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Did it pay.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
There was a there was a stipend attached o going much. Yeah,
I start say the keyword there is stipend. Okay, all right,
But the main thing.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
This was about getting experience and getting stuff for your
demo reel, right exactly. Yeah, that's that's what I was
kind of talking about that last night to the class
in ord Texas has said, do not be afraid to
work for very little or even in some cases no
money at all. If it'll give you experience and something
to add to your demo reel or whatever, you might

(08:33):
want to seriously consider it that sort of thing. So anyway,
that was crossing my mind, especially when I saw you
wearing your Walsaw woodchucks in anybody famous come out of
Walsaw the two years you did it.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh the years that I was there. Nobody has reached
the majors yet. From those teams. There's a couple of
top prospects including Geno Groover's of the Diamondbacks organization Okay,
and Ryan Lobis, who I think is pitching in I
want to say Frisco.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
At the moment, Yes, Okay, Roughrider.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
A few prospects that are on their way and I'm
always trying to keep track of that. You know, see
who my debut when Kate Ditton another good pitching prospect
in the Rockies organization. But Ben Zoebers was a Woodchuck
Paul DeYoung. These are obviously decades before I was there.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Sure, okay, all right, well that was that was the
curiosity part of the reason I mentioned at baseball pitchers
and catchers are reporting this week at various and sundry day.
Now we have some baseball notes that are going to
come out of that, a couple or some bad news
situations for fans of a couple of teams.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
We'll get to all of that coming up.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
We're going to hear from both the Texas men's and
women's basketball coaches, Sean Miller, and also from Vick Schaeffer.
The Texas women leave today for Nashville. This is a
quick turnaround. They played Monday night travel wins. They play Thursday,
come home late Thursday night, travel Saturday, play Sunday in

(10:05):
Knoxville at Tennessee. So this is three games in seven
days for the number four team in the country against
three ranked opponents number eighteen Kentucky, whom they defeated on
Monday night. Then they get fifth ranked Vanderbilt tomorrow night
at Memorial Jim Nay's him exactly one week to the

(10:26):
day they beat the other The prior fifth ranked team
LSU at home. They play fifth ranked Vanderbilt tomorrow night,
and then on Saturday they are Sunday they'll play Tennessee,
who's ranked as well, So they've got three games against
ranked opponents. They're in a stretch right now where they're
going to play. Six of the eight games that they're

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playing in the stretch are against ranked opponents. So it's
a grind here during these dog days leading up to
mid February, and then it starts to head downhill, so
to speak, to the end of the regular season and
getting ready for postseason afterwards.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
So we'll hear from Vick Schaefer.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Also we'll hear from Sean Miller Longhorns with the unique
situation of not having a game in the midweek. There
are SEC games tonight and we'll run down those, but
Texas is not playing until Saturday. They travel on Friday
to Columbia, Missouri, and they'll play on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
For folks who have.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Asked, and there are quite a few, I usually either
get an email, a Facebook message, on Twitter, and sometimes
just a text from some people know me well, want
to know what my schedule is this week because they
understand the overlap, overlap, as I call it. Roman numeral
two begins with Long Horn Baseball, beginning on Friday night

(11:48):
at UFCU just fark Field. I've mentioned this before that
this is not only a unique time for long Worn fans,
it is for me as a broadcast as well, because
you know, I try my best to do his many
broadcast of those four sports football, men's basketball, women's basketball,

(12:12):
baseball is possible. Andrew Haynes, of course handles our broadcast
of Texas softball they play this weekend. He's got the
game tomorrow night, I believe, against Hapling Christian.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Then he.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Is with a family celebrations, not a family emergency or
anything like that. He's got a grandfather turning ninety years
old and that is worth celebrating. So he's going to
be out of the weekend traveling I think, to the
West Coast for his grandfather's ninetieth birthday celebration. So in
his place from our stable, Cameron Parker will call the

(12:48):
doubleheader Friday at UFCU macombs Field, and then and then
Jake will do the Saturday double header, and then Cam
will be back for Sunday. And you're saying, what about
your situation well, we have Long Worn Weekly to record

(13:12):
with Sean Miller tomorrow, so Roger Wallace is going to
stand in for me on the weekend road trip to
the Volunteer State. He'll do the women's game tomorrow night
against Vanderbilt. I have Sean Miller show, I have Long
Worn Weekly, which will air after the women's game tomorrow night,
so we record that Tomorrow. Friday is the season opener

(13:36):
for Long Worn Baseball and they'll be playing the Aggies
of UC Davis and Keith Morlan will join me for
the vast majority of the games broadcast this season. So
Keith will join me on Friday for the season opener.
That's a six thirty first pitch in a six fifteen
airtime and here on the zone. And then on Saturday

(13:58):
Saturday morning, I'll fly up to Club be A, Missouri
to call the men's basketball game Saturday night at Missoo.
Cameron will stand in for me on the baseball broadcast
on Saturday afternoon, and then I'll be back to call
the baseball game on Sunday. So and Cameron will be
back over something that again as I mentioned on softball

(14:19):
as he will be on Friday, and Jake will on Saturday.
So to Jake's point about a busy, a busy time, yes,
it is that when you get to the second overlap
portion of the season. So that's that's all a part
of it, and we manage as best we can. It's
it's also, let me tell you, it's it's it's a

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little bit of a mind scrambler to make sure we've
got the appropriate equipment distributed out for all of these
broadcasts and that we can all get through it, get
through a lot of the overlap stuff. So but it's
a fun time. It's it's an exciting fun time for that,
all right. Also this hour we do have Inconceivable. Yeah,

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there's an Olympic theme to some of it, and then
just as always, the bizarre. So there's that, and as
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Speaker 4 (17:17):
Have had some comments now, oh yeah on Facebook? Yeah,
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Speaker 3 (17:24):
And x Clint said, have the ladies passed the men
in attendance in basketball?

Speaker 4 (17:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
It is the word, but I will tell you this,
there's not a lot of difference between the two. In
an arena that seats, I think the actual seating capacity
is listed at ten seven hundred and sixty three. But
as we know, what they do for the students with

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the corral is it's two hundred and seventy degree seating
around and it leaves one side one one side of
it there for you know, season ticket holders and others
who have tickets. The rest of the two hundred and
seventy degrees is the students in the corral. And then
in addition to that, once the corral is filled, they

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have what they call the Upper Corral. It's kind of
if you walk in there and you look upstairs. It's
kind of like a catwalk up there on that landing
upper deck up there, and students get up there. It's
called the Upper Corral. I liken it always to that
scene from Mad Max beyond Thunderdome where everybody's looking down,
you know, into the Thunderdome for the big battle there.
But folks can get up there and do it. The

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only reason why I say I know the women's attendance
has passed the men is largely because of the student attendance.
The women have a season ticket base of over six
six hundred, which is absolutely mind blowing to me when
I think about this is my twenty ninth year of
calling women's basketball, and I remember some years late nineties

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early two thousand's really good teams, including the final fourteen
to O three, where the attendance was somewhere between twenty
five hundred and four thousand on that sometimes even less
depending on how the season is going stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
In the frank Erwin Center, of all places in.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
The Irwin Center, so it was a clubber one, as
people say, area like you know, it was kind of
like a mausoleum, you know.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
So it was.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
So what Vick Schaefer has done with this program has
been nothing short of amazing with what he's done. And
the season ticket base is over six six hundred and
then most not all of the games are sellouts, but
most are pretty close and the walk up crowd quite
often takes it above it. The men's basketball all tickets

(19:44):
already sold as a sellout all the way. Now, obviously
the secondary ticket market comes into play on some of that,
but that's.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
What I mean about. The men have a larger.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Sold ticket base, but it's pretty close and the actual
attendances at those games is very very close, so which
is great. It's great to see. Same thing will happen
with Long Worn baseball. They have a great season ticket
basis and we're in the forty five hundred and five
thousand rains something like that. That's just crazy for college baseball,

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but they do have it. But that's what this program
is all about, what it's been built on as well.
So there's that, and we know Macombs has always sold
out and the seating capacy has a lot to do
with that. Only seats about twelve hundred, but there are
plans on the board for big expansion and.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Renovation and things like that as well.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
All right, coming up, we'll start hearing from the coaches
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Speaker 1 (20:54):
Douse me the late great Bill Withers on a yacht
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invite you to use us for your sports, oral entertainment
and in information. A long time ago, I had a

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program director say to me, you know, don't feel like
you have to talk about sports that much. I'm like,
it's a sports talk show and they're like, well, well, yeah,
but there's other thing. And I was like, you know,
we want to be entertaining us that there's entertainment through
the information, but there are ways of presentation that can
make it a little more entertaining, so we do do

(21:39):
that absolutely. Let's hear from Vick Shaffer, Texas women's head coach,
who can be pretty entertaining his own right. So he's
talking about how his team has to defend two tremendous
guards tomorrow night. Michaelib Blake's is all SEC. Anyway, she
was tremendous as a freshman, scored fifty three points in

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the game last year for Vanderbilt, and she looks all
Conference again. Aubrey Galvin is a freshman this year. She
had thirty points the other night Blake's had thirty four.
So Vic was asked, you know, how do you defend
both of those high producing guards.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
You know, when you're when you're gardening people, you know,
averaging twenty nine points a game in the SEC, and
it doesn't matter what position they are.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
That's a challenge. You know.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
Blake's is really good, really special. She's been doing it
now for a couple of years and she's having a
heck of a year. She really obviously makes them go.
I think the thing that gets your attention right away
is and they can they can make they can make threes.
You know, her and and Galvin are both kids that

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can really make shots. Pasat can make shots, and and
then they've got some some toughness inside. So I just
think you've got to You've got to really handle them
on the perimeter, and then you gotta go you got
to handle them at the other spots too, because they're

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they're you know, they scored one hundred and two points
last night. Come on, I mean that's a lot of
points against an SEC team, and and they've been doing
it all year. I mean they lead the SEC eighty
two points a game, and you know they're also leading
SEC and points off turnovers. They'll turn you over some

(23:35):
if you're not careful. So we got to go in
there on the road to have great concentration. I turn
the ball over and we got a guard.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know. Yeah, that's an important thing. Now.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Vic made a comment in his opening comments about I
wish the game was on television. It is televised, it's
just not on like national over the air TV. It's
on SEC Network Plus. But he was asked about that
about the if he understood why the game was on
SEC Plus rather than on quote unquote regular TV.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
The league sends out a questionnaire every year wanting the
coaches to rank the league. I'm assuming they do that
for TV as well as scheduling equity. But obviously my
opinion of the league is way different than all the
other coaches, or they don't look at it.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
I don't have the answer to that, but you know,
it's a I don't have any idea, Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
And then Justice Carlton had a game high seventeen points.
Vick even said in the postgame press conference on Monday night,
they probably don't win the game without her contribution. She
scored twelve in the first quarter, but only five the
rest of the way, and her minutes were kind of
cut down from that, and so he was asked about
the disparity in the minutes played from the first quarter on.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Well, I think she got tired and then took her out.
She has to come out, and so I took her out.
And then when we got her back in, I think
in the second half, obviously she she did some good
things and played well in certain areas. Again, it's it's
a work in progress with her. She offensively, certainly she

(25:19):
is really really special at times and can do some
really big things for you. I think the thing that
you know again, She's a work in progress. She's just
a sophomore, and you know, coming off a knee injury
in her senior year of high school.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Last year was the.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
Same kind of year that Rory had as far as
getting her health back, getting comfortable with her knee. You know, again,
I think the kids just scratching the surface of the
player she can be. It's it's also though, playing on
the defensive end too, And I think when you get
in a game like last night, understanding that and you're

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really struggling, your own offense is really struggling. Your man
offense was really struggling. So we may have to grind
this out and guard a little bit. So finding that
happy medium between who's your better defender, who can go
get you a bucket?

Speaker 5 (26:15):
All that is just kind of.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
You know, it's all problematic for a head coach, and
you just you know, you're you're.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Hoping again with Justice Man.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
She made a big three, no doubt, and she had
seventeen points last night and played really well, and she's
coming defensively, she's getting better. But again, I just think,
you know, growth is hard learning, and you know when
you're in high school and this is for all my players.

(26:50):
This is for all the players.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
On any team.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
When you're in high school and all you've been told
is you're the next best thing since sliced bread, and
you can go turn it over eighteen times and.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
And not block out and.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
And let your person catch it all that and nobody
says anything to you. And then all of a sudden
you get to college and you know what. Blocking out
is important. Not turning the ball over is important, Taking
good shots is important. You know, It's it's different, but
that's being held accountable. That's coaching. But you know it's

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part of the growth process for every player that every
comes to college. Rory Harmon is still learning. She's still
being held accountable. Sometimes she takes it better than others,
but that's true with any any any of our kids,
and so that's just part of growth. But I do

(27:51):
think Justice is getting better defensively and certainly from an
offensive standpoint. And she is a load. She is really
hard to deal with and we need that at that
fore position. For sure, this isn't the first time she's
gotten us off to a good start in again. And
you know, again, I don't know that I would have

(28:12):
taken her out last night except my bench told me
she was tired and wanted to come out. So again,
it's just part of what's going on over there a
lot of times that sometimes people don't know. But like
I said in the press room, we probably don't win
the game without Justice Carleton last night. And so again,

(28:34):
I love the kid. She's getting better and it's just
a process right now. I mean, she's finally obviously, she's
out of that brace, she's healthy, she's really having what
should be her freshman year now in my opinion, So
her upside's way up there, all right.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Next, how we're gonna hear some more from Vick Schaeffer,
including his thoughts on his former player who's now playing
for Vanderbilt. Up next Inconceivable here on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app. Second hour

(29:18):
of the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
the Zone, Craig Way alongside the producer Chack A'm glad
to have you with us to come your way this
afternoon and get you ready for the weekend to come,
because it's going to be pretty busy on starting tomorrow
really Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
It's going to be busy all four days.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's all going to be that.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Plus the other Olympic sports are that involve University of
Texas are going on, like swimming and diving and track
and field, those things on the indoor side for track
and field, and then of course the Olympics themselves are ongoing.
Jay Carman was just pretty excited there because you saw

(30:10):
what the American team win in curling.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, the men's team got a victory in the tenth end,
the final rock.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's like a walk off home run.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Tenth rock from the Sun, you might say. Also, we
have a pair of tickets to in fact, we have
a couple of pairs of long worn baseball tickets to
give away for all three games of the weekend series.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
We're going to give away.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
One pair in the four o'clock hour all three days. Today,
will give away two pairs. We'll give away t two
pairs in the four o'clock hour for Friday's season opener
against UC Davis. Tomorrow, will give away two pairs for
Saturday's second game of the weekend series. And then on Friday,

(31:14):
when I'm actually over at UFCU, dish faud Field, so
I'll be at the ballpark on Friday prior to the
season opener. Will give away two pairs for Sunday's finale
of the season opening three game weekend series against the
Aggies of UC Davis, So we're going to do that,
so obviously stay tuned for that, so we'll give away

(31:36):
some tickets. Also, Jim Slas Nagles announced starting rotation for
the weekend and we'll hear more over the next forty
eight hours from Schloss and from long win players as well,
but he's announced his weekend rotation for the season opening
series Friday. Rugari Ojas will start for Texas on Saturday,

(32:03):
Louke Harrison, He's got a couple of seniors there, and
then coming back on Sunday, Dylan Valantis moves from closer
to starter, so it's interest going to go right left
left to start off the season there with his starting arms.
So that'll be to open the weekend series six point

(32:23):
thirty Friday, two o'clock Saturday, one o'clock Sunday. So anyway,
that's that's coming away here on the zone throughout the
course of the weekends. We look forward to bringing you
all of that. Also, we're going to hear from Sean
Miller coming up here in a few minutes to talk
some long worn basketball. Speaking of basketball, the disciplinary action

(32:48):
has come down from the NBA as a result of
you could almost call it really a brawl. I mean
it had a lot of guys involved. That's better than
what you called it yesterday. He said he was giving
him a noogie. Well one guy was given the other
as Isaiah Stewart was and he was given noogies. You

(33:08):
know that's that's that's an old Saturday Night Live thing,
you know, the old noogies when he just you know,
bopping him on the head. The brawl encompasses several different players.
In fact, there were a total let's see won two, three, four.
It looks like four players players got suspended. So here's

(33:30):
the deal. Isaiah Stewart, he's the center for the Pistons.
He got seven games. He's the one delivering the noogies.
Wasn't he with what he was doing?

Speaker 4 (33:38):
When it's Stuart I think it was, or he left
the bench.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
He's the one that left the bench. But he's also
been involved in something like this before. Yeah, so he
got seven games.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Miles Bridges and Mussa Diabate each got four games. This
is the Pistons Hornets fight a couple of nights agoing.
Charlotte Piston center Jalen Duran got two games for initiating
the altercation and the fighting, which is entering. That would
come as a surprise to JB. Bickerstaff, the coach the Pistons,

(34:08):
who said they started it. Their guys initiated it, The
league said. Duran, who plays for the Pistons, got two
games for initiating the altercation and fighting. Now, the heaviest
penalty went to Stewart. What Jake just told you, the
league saying it was based in part on his repeated

(34:29):
history of unsportsmanlike acts.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
I'd like to have that attached to you.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
You have a repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Well reminds me a little bit of Tom Wilson, who
will play for Team Canada in hockey tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
But you can overcome that reputation.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I mean, he was a guy talking about the Capitals
forward that was suspended time after time after time. Early
in his career. He built up that reputation. But he's changed.
Players can change.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, hockey is more given over to fistic Though the
Boston Bruins lead the NHL and penalty minutes by a
long shot, it's part of the reason why they've struggled
and are just kind of right on the cusp of
being a wild card team or not so the suspensions,
the league said that obviously Stuart left the bench area, aggressively,

(35:19):
entered on on court altercation, and fought during the game
on Monday night. The suspensions begin immediately. Stuart and Durham
will miss Tonight's game against the Raptors. Bridges and Deabate
will be out Wednesday night with the Hornets hosting the Hawks.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
How about that, Charlotte, You what, you just won nine
in a row. Now you're without two big players.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, four games.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Stuart, by the way, has now been suspended five times
to Jake's point, including ones for an altercation with Lebron
James that was back but almost five years ago. He
got suspended twice last season, including last April in an
altercation with the Minnesota Timberwolves that spilled into the stands.

(36:01):
Is that is that qualify for some anger management there?
You know, maybe even some counseling sessions about that. He's
probably been asked to do that in the past. Now said,
can you kind of control your anger a.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Little bit, play on the edge without going over it? Exactly,
it's not. It's not the easiest thing to do. No, apparently, no,
don't cross over all right, But hey, it's got us
talking about the NBA in February.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Speaking of dog days of the league. At least it's
leading up to the All Star Game and then after
that it's just crickets for a while until you get
to the postseason.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
I had a local blackout last night. I couldn't watch it,
but I was My phone was blown up about wemban
Yama and what he did to the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Why would you have a local black Do you do
you have? I'm trying to think why.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
You I don't have access to NBA TV on direct
TV stream.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I think it's because of in market and it was
a San Antonio game. Not exactly sure how it all worked,
but I couldn't watch the Spurs last night.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
And I've been a direct TV customer for twenty seven
years now, and there's sometimes there's some things that are
just mystifying, but quite often what I have found in
those cases of what you just described as the game's
on Like KBVO.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
It's on channel fifty one.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Whi's on fifty four KMVA, which is owned by next Star,
which owns k XA and Roger Wallis's station. Uh, they
have a package where they of spurs games. I think
so that might that might be. It might have been
invent But you can't get KBVO unless you have either
DirecTV or cable right. Well, you have to have that.

(37:51):
If you're just watching off YouTube TV, you won't get it.
That's that sort of thing. So there's there's different things
that happen off of that. What do you you just stream, uh,
you know, like YouTube TV or something. What you gather
your television?

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Well, it's kind of a mixed bag because I have
the direct TV app to stream some things, but then
some of these apps I go directly and use the
direct TV log in that I'm still on my parents
for Thanks Mom and dad.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
By the way, just for the record, my kids all
use my log.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Hey it's expensive, man, you know, I get it. But
sometimes I go direct to the app. So my ESPN,
I'm just on the ESPN app. But if I want
to watch say the Wizards or the Capitals, I can
just go to my DirecTV stream and get it that way.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Okay, all right, so you're able to do that.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
If you want to watch the Capitals without having the
NHL Center Ice package, you can still just watch it
on the on what is it on the direct TV
app through ESPN?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Is that the deal?

Speaker 7 (38:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (38:54):
I can also watch it through ESPN Plus. So I
guess that was a bad example.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Okay, because every year great TV minis will love me.
I mean, I just go ahead and I just automatic
let them auto renew my NHL Center Ice packets.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
So I watched the Hurricane, So I watched the Bruins.
So I watched.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Anybody that want to watch really, you know, I like,
I like watching Austin Matthews play. So I don't mind
watching the Maple Leafs from time to time or uh,
you know, if I'm watching or watching the Capitals, or
you know, we're just watching some of the best players
in the league. There's something that something that do. But
a lot of times I watch just to watch the

(39:31):
Carolina Hurricanes play or or maybe the Boston Birds. The
Bruins were my team when I was little, and then
when Carolina got a team, then they kind of gravitated,
especially because they played the first I think what three
seasons in my hometown Greensboro, and I knew that was
gonna be the last time a major pro sports team
would play its home games in Greensboro. I mean, if
you go back to the ABA, I want to see
the Carolina Cougars play a lot. But then of course

(39:54):
that franchise moved to Saint Louis that didn't get picked
up in the NBA merger, and so it went off
into the into the.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Nether Regions annals of history.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, and then when the Hartford Whalers moved to Carolina
became the Hurricanes. Then you know, I said, while they're
actually playing, there's a major pro sports team playing its
home games in my hometown. So I actually flew up
there a couple of times to see the Kanes play,
including the last ever regular season game that they played
there in the Greensboro Coliseum. So of course they're played

(40:25):
Raleigh now at the Lenovo Center and but I but
I watched them, and then I watched some of the
other things. But like you say, it just depends on
which package that you have.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Hurricanes are stars for you nowadays, Craig, Oh, Hurricanes, I
was going.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
To say, I don't, I don't listen. I'm not down
on the Dallas Stars. I like the Dallas Stars and
I watch them especially. You know, they're available for free
on Victory Plus, so you can watch it on that.
And I like obviously Texas Stars here in the area.
I was a season ticket over the first couple of
years of the Texas Stars, and then I didn't use
them that much, so you know, go on occasion. But

(41:00):
but a fan of the Texas Stars and of the
Dallas Stars, just not against the not against the Canes.
That's that's the only that's the only team I roote,
you know, against them. Otherwise I'm all about the Stars.
So anyway, all right, up next, we'll hear from Shawn Miller,
Texas men's basketball head coach when we continue on sports

(41:21):
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 8 (41:31):
Too much fun of me, too much for the man.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
He's in another life.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
I think I was one of the pips.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
He's come to me.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Maybe love to have been one of the pips.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Right here he's.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Going, he said, he's going back to.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Back, going back to bid.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
You know, one of the great Saturday at Life skids
from the early days the world.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
That's the musical guest the Pips.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Gladys Knight wasn't there, and so they did their all
time most painting the song this one Midnight trained at Georgia,
and so they did all of their parts with no
gladys Knights, and all of a sudden you'd hear them go.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
Go back to find.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
She didn't they plan to have her and she had
a conflict.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Uh no, I know you would.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
I don't know if she agreed to do it or whatever,
but it was it was funny that they had the
Pips on and Gladys Knight, by the way, was tremendous
at the Grammy Awards when she led the tribute to
when they were doing the memorial of those who had passed,

(42:55):
the one for ROBERTA.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Flack.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Oh that's my favorite part of the Pips right here.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
But he didn't get fucked anyway. And this this when
they balance the don't always come true.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
No anyway, it sounds like you should do some This
is a good karaoke song for you.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah, yeah, right, I have to do the Pits part
than somebody else do the Gladys Knight parts.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Linda you're up.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah right, she could see she was. She was a
voice major pros. She could see me not so much anyway.
As all, he said, I can carry it too, and
I just don't know where to drop it. We'll drop
this and move forward anyway. Gladys nine the pits. They're
part of the yacht Rock Wednesday. Here, I'm thirteen under
the zone. Let's hear from Sean Miller, Texas men's basketball

(43:41):
coach as he starts to get his team ready going
through this week with a midweek open date on the
schedule before their next action Saturday night in Columbia at Missouri.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
Well, you know, I.

Speaker 8 (43:53):
Think our bye week obviously comes a little bit later
than some other teams in the SEC, but I think
it comes at a really good time for us. You know,
I think that the last week and a half prior
to our break, you know, we pushed the limits a
couple back to back road games, three games in a
short period of time, and being that we're in February,

(44:15):
this week gives us the opportunity to, you know, mentally
and physically be fresh for what I think is the
stretch run of the season, and also at the same
time balancing that with getting better, you know, having the
opportunity to have four or five practices and not necessarily

(44:35):
getting ready for the next game as much as getting
our team better and then obviously later in the week
really pushing and getting ready for a very good Missouri team.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Excuse me, remember when the Loghorns defeated Alabama when they
beat him in Tuscaloosa, The Crimson Tide did not have
Charles Bettioco, the post player who had left early for
the NBA draft, did not land on an NBA roster,
per se, did not appear in an NBA game, played

(45:09):
in the G League, then came back, got a temporary
restraining order to be allowed to compete in what was
it three games, four games, five, five games.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
Only because the snow pushed back his hearing.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, and let me just say this, I watched parts
of I think just about all those games. To me,
wasn't that big a factor. I mean, he was in there,
but I didn't think he was. I mean, they lost
games with him playing, so it wasn't like he was
a huge factor. Well, the ruling came down from the

(45:42):
judge a couple of days ago that he's ineligible, that
he can't that he can't continue to play now. I
did not see anything else that said anything along line
to Alabama had to forfeit the games or anything like that.
I don't think that was part of the deal. But
he's ineligible. We can't play anymore after the ruling. So

(46:03):
Sean Miller has asked for his thoughts on the ruling,
his response to that, and what the implications of this
might be going forward.

Speaker 8 (46:12):
Yeah, you know, I wasn't as familiar when it first happened.
You know, why he was eligible versus why he wasn't,
et cetera, et cetera. But I just think that moving forward,
for the greater good of college basketball, it makes a
lot of sense to start to look at ways to
help young people who are leaving high school enter the

(46:35):
college space with the real opportunity to develop and create
what's been created in college sports forever, and that is
moved towards college degree and at the same time pursue
their professional basketball aspirations right developing both on and off
the court. And I think the danger of not just

(46:56):
this one case, but as we start to allow people
that have been gone from college for a couple of
years who made a decision to leave to now be
able to return. You know, it's just you're really opening
up a lot of different avenues that I don't think
would be good for the game, and also I think

(47:17):
would really hinder and hurt the development of the high
school player coming into college as a freshman. So I
think that in the big picture of things, it was
an important case, and I think for the betterment of
college basketball, I think that the ruling on the case

(47:39):
will help us become better.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
So do you think this could really shut down the
any impetus you know, going forward to let seeing this
happen again.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Yeah, I don't know, Kirk.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
If I could say that this one thing or this
individual case will shut things down, I will tell you
that I think that it will really slow down. What
would have happened if he would have been ruled eligible.
I think you would have seen, almost in a bizarre way,
you know, players from all different sets of circumstances wanting

(48:13):
to return to college sports, creating so many more court
cases and things happening in the middle of the year.
And I think that's also the thing that's important. You know,
we're all preparing, trying to become the best we can be.
Developing the team that we have to be a part
of March madness and to have great conference seasons. You know,

(48:35):
it's difficult right in the middle of all that happening,
where you know one team is able to add somebody
and nobody else really can, and how are you able
to do it, you know, through through a court system. Again,
I think it's the danger of this past case that
it would just have opened up so many many others

(48:56):
and for example, in the next couple of weeks, or
in the spring, or next year and beyond. So I
do think that that ruling was a good thing for
the big picture of college basketball.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Okay, so here's a team that's now won three in
a row. There's six and five in the league as
they get ready to go back on the road again.
And in a league like YESA it almost sounds like
the movie. In a league like the SEC, in a
world where it just means more, Yeah, how does he tell?
How can he tell if his team is hitting its

(49:31):
stride and what does he see with this particular group.

Speaker 8 (49:35):
I would say that where you really get the feeling
isn't on game day.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
It's in between games.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Because the monotony of practice, the same old, same old,
you know, doing like we're in practice above and beyond eighty,
but we're really above and beyond one hundred one twenty
when you consider that we came together in early June,
so we've been together for a long stretch, as all
teams have. And you get into Super Bowl Sunday the

(50:03):
middle of February, some teams they will no longer improve,
and some of it is because of circumstances, injuries, talent,
et cetera. And then I think those other teams that
it's just it's difficult in between games to continue to
get them to practice. And it's not just getting ready
for the next game, it's how can you improve? How

(50:24):
can you get better individually collectively? How can we sharpen
this one area of our team up in the days
between game twenty three and twenty four.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
That's not as easy as it once was. There's no
freshness to this.

Speaker 8 (50:37):
So I think what you really look at is the
leadership of your group and what it feels like on
days like yesterday, for example, for us, where we have
a whole week, we don't have a game, it is February.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
You know, how alert was our team?

Speaker 8 (50:51):
How did we attack practice, What was the competitive spirit?

Speaker 5 (50:55):
What was the attitude? Were we able to be good
at the end of practice?

Speaker 8 (50:58):
So a year ago, to answer your question, the team
that I had was super super hungry to finish strong.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
We had a lot of older guys.

Speaker 8 (51:05):
This was their last chance in college, and they were like,
we're not going out any other way than the best
way we can. And practice became everything. We practiced as
well in February as we would have in November, as
a matter of fact, in some areas better. So to
answer my own question about our team, I see that
with our group, I feel like we have some older
guys that want to finish strong. Like I had mentioned,

(51:29):
there was a couple of guys that won their third
conference game of their career for the in a row
for the first time ever. And and you know, I
think that we're hungry and determined to be the best
we can be down the stretch.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
So we had a good day yesterday.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Hopefully I'll feel the same way here today, all right,
So they continue their work next. He was asked about
the six time power forward for Missouri, Mark Mitchell, the
one time Duke Blue Devil.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
He transferred in last year.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
He's in he's a senior now, he's in his second
season and he's leading the Tigers and score. He's averaging
eighteen points and seven boards per game. So he was
asked about the development he's seen of Mitchell since the
transfer from Duke and what he's doing at Missouri.

Speaker 8 (52:11):
Yeah, I mean he is meaningful to Missouri. He is
a one man wrecking crew. I'll call him a bully,
and the most kind and good way I can. I
mean that in a sports specific way, like he just
imposes his will on the opponent, rebounding physicality, drives living
into free throw line, playing both the five and the four,

(52:33):
you know, using his quickness at the five, using his
physicality at the four. And the other thing about him,
Eric he's an excellent passer. So when you try to
bring help double team, he sees the game and he
finds his teammates. And his teammates are very, very skilled,
so a lot of I think they're great three point
shooting nights, a lot of it.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
You know, he's right in the middle of it.

Speaker 8 (52:55):
I believe he leads their team and assists, so kind
of like Dalan Slain to our team.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
He does.

Speaker 8 (53:01):
He has a lot of great meaning with his versatility,
and he's gotten better. Missouri has done a great job
developing him.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
And one other players asked about his own team is
Manus Fokotitis, who comes off a twenty seven point contest
the other night, and the whole notion about modest, learning more,
getting better and playing smarter.

Speaker 8 (53:21):
For working with Madus to learn how to go vertically,
like you know, straight up in the air, hands behind
his head, where he can use his length and his
size to our advantage defensively but yet not foul. It's
a different way of protecting the rim that doesn't necessarily
mean you're going to block the shot, but it's really
just protecting that area that has been unkind to us

(53:43):
so many games where it drives and shots around the
basket do us in. And I thought that he did
that more often without fouling than he had done recently.
I thought his conditioning just being able to run on
offense and defense, and then you know, on offense he
was more settled. It wasn't always like in a scruff

(54:04):
with the defense. And we've tried to explain to him,
like he's big enough and strong enough where sometimes he
can just hold his position and catch the ball. They
will continue to foul him, but I don't think he
has to like act out the foul as much as
sometimes he would have done earlier in the year, and
I thought he did less of that against Ole miss

(54:24):
He focused on playing, and look, his results speak for
themselves in the game that we played.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Big game on Saturday night for Texas, both the Loghorns
and the Missouri Tigers right at the bubble, right on
that kind of cut line. Whether you're last four in
or first four buys or first four out, you're right
there on the cut line.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Both of them are right now.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
So it's an important game Saturday night than Miszoo Arena
will have it for you here on thirteen Under the
Zone and on ninety eight point one FM Kvets seven
o'clock airtime thirty tip off from mid Missouri, as they
like to say, up there all right. Up next, we'll
hear from women's head coach Big Shaffer, whom we continue
on thirteen Under the Zone.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
When you talk to me.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Now, we were just talking about the immortal ROBERTA. Flack,
who was memorialized the Grammys by the Great Gladys Night.
That was really cool, and this was one of the
songs that Gladys same was I feel Like Making Love.
Not to be confused with the Bad Company song feel
Like Making Love. It's a little bit different song, sung

(55:36):
a little differently, done a little differently. A completely different song,
by the way, but very cool. Nevertheless, since we're talking
about female performers, why not give you an opportunity to
be eligible to win a pair of tickets to see

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Ella Langley at Moody Center on Thursday, August thirteenth. The
way you do that is you, if you haven't already
done it, download very free and the easy to download
iHeartRadio app. Then you search AM thirteen hunder the zone.
It'll pop right up, and then you'll see a red

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button with a white microphone on it. You tap that
button and leave us a message with the keyword you
heard on this program. All I have to do is
say I was listening Gradway show. I'd want to be
in the drawing for the Ella Langley tickets, and the
keyword is jack.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
I looked into this. I don't know why it's that.
I have to ask antone, Okay. I was looking for
the meaning. Usually I'm good at finding it. If it
was in a song or a lyric or album or whatever.
Jack would be that that's the keyword to be eligible
for that, So that would be off the talkback feature.
And we do have people weigh in on the on

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the talkback feature from time to time.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Right yep.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
And you know I can play an example from a
couple of folks from yesterday charity using our keyword which
was dandelion.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
Well, yeah, the keyword today is dandelion.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
She would like to go to that concert.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Thank you all very much.

Speaker 7 (57:15):
For what you guys do.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
See that's pretty simple. That's an easy way. And then
there's you got another sample of that.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Yeah, it doesn't have to be as long as that.
You don't have to use all thirty seconds, as this
one shows you.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Hey, Craig, the keyword today is dandelion.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Interested in those tickets? Thank you? There it is. See,
that's that's all you have to do.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
If you do that, you're in the drawing and it
really helps you bypass a lot of the other folks
as well when you do it that way. So know
the keyboard you'll have a chance. And today's keyboard is Jack.
So even those who who called in yesterday and did dandelion,
you can do it again today with the keyword jack
and that increases your chances to win, as simple as that.

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All right, let's hear from Vick Schaefer a little bit.
You know, when you've been coaching as long as Vick
has forty one years of coaching, twenty one as a
head coach in a sixth season at Texas, chances are,
in this day and time of the transfer portal, you're
going to encounter some players you used to coach.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
We're on your team.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Even prior to the portal being what it is today,
he would go up against some of his former players,
but especially now, and that includes Jockelinga went in Tonda.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
It took me two years to get her name down right. No,
does no one think of the play by play announcers.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
No, And Jaquelina was a South Dakota high school player
of the year.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
She was playing high school ball when you were up
in the Dakotas.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Yeah, I wish I had to cover more South Dakota teams. Yeah,
she was the South Dakota player of the year. And
she played a couple of seasons at Texas three years
to be in fact, to be in fact true, And
so Vic was asked about after coaching jack Olinga went
in Todda what he thinks that situation will be like, you.

Speaker 6 (59:14):
Know, I love jacque Linga, really enjoyed our time here
with her.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
She grew each and every year.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
Certainly you're disappointed when you invest in people over a
period of.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
Time and.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
Knowing that you know, maybe that junior and senior year
are their best years. And let's face it, in today's
world with a portal, those those times are getting fewer
and farther between where parents and the kids themselves will
allow their kids to grow, to get better, to be coached,
to be held accountable. And so I really enjoyed coaching

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her for the three years that she was here. Certainly
disappointed that she chose to lead, but that's her choice
and wish her nothing but the best, love her family,
loved her mother, people that I always enjoyed visiting with,
and glad to see her where she is having the
success she's having. She's doing a great job for Vanderbilt.

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I know they're glad to have her and she's certainly
making an impact there just as she made here at Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
So really happy for the kid.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Okay, and so the follow up to that is. You know,
he goes are pretty hard. The coaching staff worked with
the coachter three years and now she's at Vanderbilt. Has
he seen improvement in her game.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
I think the kids obviously playing well for them. She
does what she needs them to do, they need her
to do. And you know, when you're playing with other
great players like she is and like she did here,
you know, sometimes it can really make your job that
much easier if you really embrace the role that you have.

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And I think that was you know, when she was here.
She may have wanted a little bigger role, but we
had so many really good players that we just needed
her to star in her role.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
And I think that's what she's doing there.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
She is starring in her role at Vanderbilt and doing
a great job. I mean, I'm really impressed with her
and with coach and how she's developed her and brought
her along and continued to I mean, I feel like
we really we had her for three years and I'm
proud of the development that we brought to her and
her game.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
And again, she's.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
Somebody that I have, you know, nothing but fond memories
of and during her time here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Yeah, it's funny, that's become kind of a catch phrase
starring in my role, And we heard Justice Carleton mentioned
that the other night when I had the postgame interview
with her, and he was just.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Talking about that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Jack Alinga is averaging eight points per game and three
rebounds per game. Michatil Blake's and Aubrey Galvin have been
the stars of that team. Blake's is averaging twenty six
a game, Galvan is averaging thirteen. They both had over
thirty points or Galvin had thirty and Blake's at thirty
four the other night and went over Oklahoma. So she

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has a role. And I saw her knock down a
couple of threes, and I saw a rebound and things
like that. So she's progressed as a player.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
And that balance, Craig is part of the reason why
Vandy over their last ten games, has the most efficient offense.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
In the country.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Yeah, yeah, maybe an awesome strength on strength matchup here
with Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Right, And Jock, by the way, is already a grad student.
She played three years in Texas, but she has already
earned her a diploma and is working on the master
She's a psychology major. And it was a great kid
gave a lot of fun if it with but as
he pointed out, as Big pointed out, that happens in

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the course of the day and age of the transfer portal.
You know, she was hoping to have a larger role.
It looks like she has a very similar role, maybe
a little larger than what she had at Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
And I was.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Listening to the Oklahoma broadcast because that game tip off
right after the Texas Kentucky game ended, and I was
driving home, and I was flipping back and forth between
the Kansas Arizona men's game and the Oklahoma Vanderbilt game,
and I was listening to the Oklahoma broadcast and I heard,
I think it was Tyler Neils her analysts say, you know,
Joquelina winning Tonnah's good, good players. She just kind of

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got lost in the depth chart, as he said, you
know at Texas, and who wouldn't with that very talented
team that they have. And I mean, she ended up
starting a lot of games, but she had a role.
She has a little bit larger role with Vanderbilt, but
it's not an immensely larger role, but she is playing
well for them. All right, We'll be back to wrap

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up hour number two. I'm thirteen under the Zone, third
and final hour of the program here on sports Radio
AM thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Hundred The Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Did you wonder if there was any symbolism there at
the start when Billie Joel says two three four, like
the two o'clock hour, the three o'clock hour, and the
four o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
Huh, I have been here?

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Do you wonder about that?

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
I've been here for six months now, and I didn't
wonder about that once. I can't believe it's scaring me
right in the face.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
I missed it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
No, No, you didn't miss it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
I just thought of it about about thirty seconds ago.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
How long starts?

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
How long have you been using that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
I used it the first time I was here, and
then I used it across town. It never crossed my
mind because he actually when he doesn't in concert, he
says one, two three four, but on that recording there
and uh, you know, and and that song, by the way,
is off the storm Front at LP it's called that's

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not her style, and uh, but he just says two
three four. Well, we do the two o'clock hour, the
three o'clock hour, and the four o'clock hour, so it fits,
if the shoe fits, you know, but no, I just
thought of it before it was coming on.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
I thought about that. You didn't miss anything.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
You just you know, getting your couple. You're filling your
water and that's that's what pops in your head.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
I went down to filling a water bottle, came back
in it's and it's Populo two three four.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
We did the two o'clock hour, of three o'clock hour,
and the four o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Glad to have you with us here. In the four
o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Coming up, we'll hear more from Vick Schaefer and more
from Sean Miller. The two basketball coaches getting their teams
ready for road games, big road games for both for
different reasons. For the Texas Women, it's a top five
matchup again, fifth time this year.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
I can never remember.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
In twenty nine years of calling the play by play
for Texas Women and twenty five years of calling the
play by play for Texas and thirty four years total
on men's past broadcast, I was the analyst for the
first nine seasons working with Bill Shooning, So thirty four
seasons of being on the broadcast for men's basketball, twenty
nine for women's basketball. I can't remember either side playing

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as many ranked opponents in the top ten and certainly
now the top five. This will be the fifth game
where both teams are ranked in the top five. That's
just kind of nuts thinking about that. And the long
wards are three and one so far in the first four.
They beat South Carolina, They beat UCLA and then South
Carolina in the tournament over Thanksgiving holiday in Las Vegas.

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Came back and played at South Carolina, lost by three,
then beat LSU here when LSU was number five, LSU
was able to jump up in large manage, so they
went for number twelve to number six when they won
the game in Batan Rugee for Texas. Then just kind
of inched up to number five and then Texas beat them,
so you know that was that was last week, and

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so now they're going to play at Vanderbilt, who has
moved into the number five spot. LSU dropped down a
little bit after Texas beat them, so they moved up
after they beat Texas and moved back down after Texas
beat them. For those of you who are wondering, hey,
why is UCLA still ranked ahead of Texas? South Carolin
don't make a case for it. They've split two games,
even though the game the game Cock one was on

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their own home floor, wasn't on a neutral site. And
in the case of UCLA that's the only game they've
lost was to Texas. True, so they've only lost one.
The Long Runs have lost two games, albeit two road games,
to two really good ranked opponents. But here's another one
playing at fifth rank Vanderbilt tomorrow night. Roger Wallace will

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have the call with Kathy Harston tomorrow here on the Zone.
Six fifteen pregame start time in six point thirty is
the tip off from Memorial Gymnasium in Vanderbilt. I have
warned Roger of what to expect on the site lines,
or rather the lack thereof calling the game.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
You're kind of low, right, low, fall.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Back and blocked is a good way to describe it.
You know, not that people care the south end of
a rat about this, but this year has been a
little bit more challenging, to say the least, difficult for
some folks, for the broadcasters in the SEC for basketball

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because of an initiative that was passed like in the
spring meetings or Athletic directors meetings or president whatever, it was.
It was an initiative past that allowed the member institutions
of the Southeastern Conference to move their radio broadcasters off
the floor in order to sell more premium seating.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
I totally understand that, and.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
And and kind of saw it coming really So, I mean,
it's happened in the NBA for some time. Bill Schoning
finished up his time the Spurs up in the arena
a bit, Chuck Coopersteen, who calls the Mavericks games on radio,
up in the arena a bit. And it's I think
there's only two, maybe three arenas in the se in

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the NBA where you're still on the floor most everywhere
else you're up in the SEC there are I think
six or seven and that includes being on the second
row of press row, and I would include that there
you're still on the floor. But I think that's even
going to change next year because teams were given I

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think our schools were given like two years to implement
this to fix the seating in that manner. So you know,
we're moved up to different areas. I've had a lot
of people, I said, he so you're on the floor
at Moody Center, we're at the top of the lower level.
We still have good site lines. We have the effects feeds.
Who get the net mics and all that stuff. They

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give us a they give us the video monitors for replay,
so we're not lacking in any of those types of things.
And uh, we're supposed to get that in every SEC arena.
I think in every SEC arena we've gotten the effects feeds.

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We have not gotten monitors video monitors in every area.
There's another guideline that says you're they're supposed to put
the radio broadcasters between the baselines. That's not the case.
Everything South Carolina is one of those places that does that.
But maybe you'll eventually adjust to it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
I don't know, Hey, you're supposed to put the coaches
between the baselines, But at the Memorial Coliseum they say
the hell with that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Yeah, yeah, they're on that on that baseline there, So
it's it's it's a different world. Memorial Gymnasium is an
old auditorium basically an opera was a nickname for a
theatrical type of auditorium, and they put the floor there
kind of like on the stage.

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
So you're right, we're a little bit below.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
If you've ever seen the broadcasters at an NCAA basketball
tournament in a dome, a final four. They're kind of
low angle and back. It's kind of like that. That's
one thing. It's a challenge. That's not that big a deal.
What makes it more of a challenge and Vanderbilt is
they have signage, you know, electronic signboards, and that kind

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of blocks the from the floor up to your waist
view of one of the baskets. And then on top
of that, what was added this year is the guys
who mop up the perspiration from the floor, as they
call them at Vanderbilt, the mop boys. Those guys they
sit to the right of that sign now, so it
blocks even more vision. But such as the way of

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life on the art so anyway of Warren Roger and
Kathy Harston. But the Kathy is coached in that building,
but she of course was never privy to what goes
on for the broadcast or say, now you can see
how the other half lives down in that deal. So anyway,
that'll be the case, and you can hear the game
tomorrow here on thirteen hundred. The Zone and Longhorn Men,

(01:12:13):
of course will be on the road to play at
the Missouri Tigers, and we'll hear some more from Sean
Miller coming up on that. Also tomorrow we're going to
hear long Horn Baseball, we'll hear from head coach Tim Schlastego,
who did announce today his starting rotation for the weekend
season series. Season opening series weekend series against UC Davis

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Rugari Ojas will get to start Friday night in the
six thirty game. The Saturday afternoon game will be change Harrett,
Lou Harrison, excuse me, and then and then on Sunday
it'll be Dylan Valantis.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Shut the rotation now officially.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Yeah yeah, so uh yeah, and that was everybody I
think expected that. So that'll be the case for the
weekend series. And again we'll hear from uh Schloss and
players tomorrow here. Also, as somebody put on the text

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one battle tested. Clearly, the basketball teams will be battle
tested understatement of the show today. Yeah, yeah, it's it's uh,
it's gonna happen and uh and that does Uh, that
is something that you'd expect, uh, in this league to
have happened, is to see these teams battle tested.

Speaker 6 (01:13:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
There's also softball this weekend coming up actually beginning Tomorrow.
Andrew Haynes, who you know is the play by play
voice for Texas Softball. We'll call the game Tomorrow evening
against Hapling Christian. But then on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
it's split between Cameron Parker and Jake Carmon because as

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it stands, Andrew Haynes will be out over the weekend
as he is celebrating his grandfather's ninetieth birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
That's a really cool thing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
So you know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
You've got two games on Saturday, right, That's right? Which
are the games you have?

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Ohio State and Syracuse?

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Okay? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
And Cam has two games on Friday, correct, same two teams,
same two teams.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Okay. And then on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
Sunday, the Longhorns play Northern Illinois.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Okay, Cam, we'll be back on that one on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
That's a noon.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Cameron will sit in for me on Saturdays Baseball broadcast
with Keith Moreland as I am will be in Columbia,
Missouri with men's basketball for the game Saturday night at Missoo.
Keith Morland to be with us throughout the whole weekend.
Keith will join me on the show on Friday from
UFC just shwont Field will bring you the game from
the ballpark. Speaking of the ballpark, Tomorrow morning market now,

(01:15:06):
tomorrow morning eight am, Jim Slosnigl will be on with
the morning kickoff guys. He'll be on with Mike Hardball
Harje and also the World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry. So
I'm glad Hearts reminded me that. He also reminded me
he's calling the games for SEC Network Plus. Yeah, Hards,
I'm not mentioned that we want people to listen to
the radio. You know how that worked. I couldn't even

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say it with a straight face.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
Take that hard No.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
Harts is actually working with a friend of mine, Chris
mikek Hoski on the telecast on SEC Network Plus this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
So that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
So those two guys will be on that on the
telecast for SEC Network Plus and of course the radio
broadcast here on the Zone. So obviously, very very busy weekend.
Lot happening, A lot going on all right, up next
more from Vick Shaffer, the Texas Women's head coach. When
we continue on thirteen hundred of the Zone and the
IHR Radio appe The Immortal One and only Chuck Mangioni

(01:16:02):
on the theme from Cannonball Run here on the yacht
Rock Wednesday. Yeah, this falls slots right in to the
yacht rock genre. There the theme from Cannonball Run there. Okay,
we're going to give away two pairs of tickets to

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Friday's season opener for the Texas Long Worns against the
Aggies of UC Davis at UFCU Dish fark Field. It
is a six point thirty Friday night first pitch. So
we're gonna give away a pair of tickets and we're
gonna do it. So that's promise. I'm gonna do this

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on the text line because somebody asked earlier can we can?
Can we win things on the text line and I
said yes, usually with concert tickets like what we're doing
with Ela Langley. It has to be through the talkback
feature by downloading the iHeartRadio app, which.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
Is free, easy, and then you do the search fring
in thirteen hundred zon.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
It pops right up, and then you tap that red
button with a white microphone and give us the keyword.
And today's keyword we figured out the meaning of jack,
so today's keyword is jack.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Yeah, and you are exactly right, Jake.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
We had to ask Antone as he calls himself our
resident promotion kid, and he is our musical expert. He
puts together those keywords. And Jack was what from her
song choosing Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Yep, which we heard on Monday, the line drinking Jack
all by myself, He's choosing Texas, I can tell.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Yeah, there it is. So Jack is today's keyword. Now
here's the question for winning a pair of tickets to
the Long Run.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Last year, as we know, great season under Jim's law,
great first season. They won the SEC regular title. In
his first season at they Home. Had a disappointing ending
as they lost at Home in the regional, knocked out
by UTSA, who went on to the Super Regional and
lost to UCLA, who went on to the College World Series.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
You talk about former Woodchucks top of the show. Norris McClure,
Oh okay, yeah, there you go. So Texas got knocked
out by UTSA. What I want to know? And you
would text it on the text line. You text your response. First,
you text the word Texas, then your response. It's important

(01:18:34):
to do it in that order. Text the word Texas
and then your response to eight one five three zero.
So you text the word Texas followed by your response
to this question to eight one five three zero, As
I said, Texas lost to UTSA. Name me the other
two teams who are in the regional. That's what I

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want to know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Who were the other two teams in the Austin regional
other than Texas and UTSA. First two correct responses on
the text line, we'll receive a pair of tickets to
Friday's opener.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Do they need both? Do they may need both? They
need both?

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
They need both?

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
You know why, because these are knowledgeable, long worn baseball
fans a lot. I'm we'll be able to pop right
in with it. I'm sure so. And if you don't
win the day, no worries. We're gonna give away two
for Saturday tomorrow, and we're gonna give away two for
Sunday on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
So you're going to do that. So all right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
In the meantime, let's hear from Vic Shaeffer, Texas women's
head coach, and he was asked, uh, you know about
the very large implications of this Texas Vanderbilt game, And
in true Vic Shaeffer fashion, he gave us a very
large answer.

Speaker 6 (01:19:44):
Well, I mean, you know, certainly having to go on
the road again against the top five team. Uh, you know,
we certainly have that experience, and uh, you know, I
have a lot of confidence in my team, have a
lot of confidence in my kids.

Speaker 5 (01:19:59):
I believe they'll be really locked in today.

Speaker 6 (01:20:02):
I think they'll be locked in tomorrow, and I think
they'll be locked in Thursday night. I don't think anybody's
played a tougher schedule than we have and had the
success that we've had. You know, we did beat South
Carolina on a neutral floor. We had to play them
on the road. We didn't get to play them at home,

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and we lost by three I think on the road.
And then obviously we played LSU home and home and
so and you can throw in all the other games
that we've had throughout the course of the year, and
you know, Kurty, it brings up really an interesting, an

(01:20:43):
interesting conundrum for me, an issue for me going forward
because our conference is so tough and sometimes you have
more mature teams than others. Sometimes you have that can
handle those things better than others. It really brings into

(01:21:04):
light are we playing too much of a non conference
schedule because I'm sitting here in game twenty five last night,
top fifteen matchup, and my kids just seem to be
a little flat.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
And again it's to be expected.

Speaker 6 (01:21:21):
We've just came off of two very emotional games with
the Oklahoma and LSU, both in the top ten, by
the way, and so it's really hard to get them up,
you know, to get team.

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
I mean, think about your football team.

Speaker 6 (01:21:39):
What if they were out there playing the schedule we
played night in, night out more than you know how
many times they have to do it during the course
of the season.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
We've had to do it a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:21:51):
I mean, when you talk about a thirty one game season,
to play the games we have, and then the teams
that might not be in the top twenty five or
the top twenty but still can knock you off if
you're not ready to play. I mean, it's not like
we have some three named directional school in our league.
They're all good, they're all well coached, and they all
got really good players. So you know, the game Thursday night,

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it's another one. It's another obviously game against a great opponent,
a great coach and staff, you know, But man, I
love my team. I love them. They may not play
like I want them to play all the time. But
you know what, they've found a way to right now

(01:22:37):
be twenty three and two against the toughest schedule I
think anybody's got and and we've really navigated a really
difficult schedule. And so you know, Thursday night will be
another another step in that process, as will the next
game on Sunday, as will the following game on the road.

(01:22:59):
On that goes on and on and on. So we
just got to find a way to really lock in.
And if we'll go in there and play like I
want us to play, we're gonna be Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:23:10):
Does that mean you're contemplating less challenging non conference schedule
to deal with all this?

Speaker 6 (01:23:17):
I think you have to really evaluate it, Kirk, to
be honest with you.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
And you know, for me, I'll play.

Speaker 6 (01:23:24):
You know, we're playing in those difficult games because they
have in nil opportunities for our kids. So I'm trying
to enhance their life and help them by playing those
difficult games. But again, is that really benefit our team

(01:23:46):
the success of our team, versus enhancing them financially? You
know that's a I think that's that's where you're at
when you're contemplating these things. It's hard for me to
turn down the opportunity for us to go do those
those games. And I don't foresee me doing that, you know,

(01:24:09):
I think for us, for me, I would be someone
that in the future would be interested in. I've heard
this set a million times in head coaches meetings. When
we go to the conference meetings, I don't need help
with my schedule. And that was coaches talking about these
challenge games, you know, us versus another conference.

Speaker 5 (01:24:33):
You know, I've heard that from legends in that room.

Speaker 6 (01:24:37):
So I think now, with what we have and the
opportunities we have to play in these these big games,
regarding NIL.

Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
I think that that may need to be a topic of.

Speaker 6 (01:24:47):
Conversation down the line for us as head coaches in
the SEC, because it really becomes in my mind, you know,
it's it can not only where on you, but it
limits your opportunity to play some of your young kids early.
And I think that's what coach Molchy at LSU. You

(01:25:09):
can knock at all you want, but she got to
play a lot of those young kids early, get them
a lot of experience, and that was important to her.
That's how she evaluated where she was in her program.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
I don't disagree with that thought process.

Speaker 6 (01:25:28):
And you know, I'm going to have five freshmen next year,
potentially maybe six.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Those kids are going to need to.

Speaker 6 (01:25:35):
Play and they're gonnaed to get they're gonna need to
get their feet wet, and so, you know, I just
think it's something to contemplate. I'm not saying that we're
making any drastic changes, because certainly I want to do
everything I can to enable our kids to uh reap
the benefits of of n IL, no question about it.

(01:25:58):
But it's it's part of running a program right now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
You know, at this level, it's an interesting conundrum, if
you will. And Kirk Bowles asked that question, so do
you schedule less demanding in the non conference? But he said, hey,
there's an NIL component. You know what the NIL component
is for those of you who don't know, it's a
one million dollar component per school when they when they

(01:26:25):
play in that event in Las Vegas, it required I
think a two year commitment to it. In Texas is
playing in it again next year on that for that
one million dollar per year commitment to the program, the
NIL that goes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Into that fund.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
So there's that not only that, and Vic did touch
on this. I just mentioned the fact they're about to
play their fifth game against a top five opponent. And
I don't ever remember in my years of calling women's
and men's basketball that being the case. But that happens

(01:27:02):
both with the non conference person sheet of the season
and the brutal night in, night out grind in the SEC.
They all know that, the coaches all know that, and
they accept that that's that's just part of the deal.
He was also asked about trying to get a little
more bench and normally gets that, but there were some

(01:27:23):
deficiencies in the Monday night went against Kentucky.

Speaker 6 (01:27:26):
I think when you look at that, I think, again,
we had some struggles at at at four, Taya came in,
did a good job defensively, was two for three, but
didn't have a.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
Rebound, but did a did a decent job.

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
Ashton struggled a little bit, missed a couple of free throws,
had another air ball, and and and and then obviously
crump with her three turnovers in four minutes, and and
I think she came off of a shooter once. But
just you know, again, we can't this is not this

(01:28:08):
is a rough time of year to be trying to
play through mistakes like that in a short period of time.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
And and so Crumb's been playing.

Speaker 6 (01:28:14):
So good, and there's no doubt my mind should play
good again.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:28:18):
It's just it's part of being young and and and
learning and growing through through some of that. So I
don't worry about that. My bench has been really good
all year. You know, Uh, the thing that you have
to you know, you with Taya being injured, Crump being injured,
ashting out, you know, we we developed some really good

(01:28:41):
chemistry and a really good rotation during that time, even
though we were limited, and and so you develop a
there's a trust factor that goes into hey, you know,
we won a lot of games now, and you know
a lot of times those kids that played, they did
play through mistakes, but then they played played to some
good things and so you know, you have a little

(01:29:03):
more confidence in trust sometimes in certain situations. But my
confidence and trust in Eliah Krump has not diminished one bit.
She just had had a game last night that you
know what a lot of freshmen have.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
You know, she just.

Speaker 6 (01:29:21):
In it hasn't played you know, a full schedule, and
so she's still in the.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
First half of her season.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
I mean, think about it, she's in the first half
of her season, but the first five were against.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Nobody's other than Richmond.

Speaker 6 (01:29:39):
The next five had been in the SEC, the biggest,
baddest conference in the country. So there's going to be
some ebb and flowing up and down, and that's to
be expected. But I'm not worried about her. I'm not
worried about it at all. She'll bounce back today. I'm
sure she's going to practice well. I know she'll come
in and get shots up and she'll be ready to
go on the third die and she better be because

(01:30:02):
I'm gonna call her number. So we need her, we
need her to be to be the player that she's been.
I mean, she's playing. I think she's averaging almost seventeen
minutes a game in the five games back. She's averaging
over twenty minutes game is during her during the entire season.

(01:30:22):
So she's been been doing well.

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
But again, it's it's everything. It's not just one thing.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
When you play in the game, You've got to be
able to function everywhere. And you know, Taya's finally back healthy.
She's doing some good things for us, and so it's
it's just we'll go off of the next two days
and that's who's going to get to play on Thursday's.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
As simple as that. And by the way, the team
is just touched down.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
In that in Nashville, I got the text from Roger
will always keep every keep each other informed when the
team's up and down and when they get to the
gym and the workout and all that kind of stuff.
It helps both of ours development. This will be the
first conference game that Rogers called this season. Normally I've
had more schedule conflicts.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Not this year.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
I've called every single conference game and all but I
guess three of the non conference. So it's been a
busy time, a good time to be around this basketball
team that's twenty three and two going in. But they
have two more ranked opponents, this time on the road,
both in the Volunteer State Tomorrow night against vanderbil at
six thirty six fifteen pre game Star time here on

(01:31:34):
the Zone, and then Sunday they play Tennessee number twenty
two Tennessee. So it will be six ranked opponents when
they get done with that over an eight game stretch,
six of them will be ranked two in the top five,
three in the top ten, so it's pretty impressive stuff

(01:31:56):
off of them all. Right, before we break, just to
let you know, we've had one correct answer so far
in our question to try to win a pair of
tickets to the season opener on Friday for the Texas
Long Worn Baseball team, as Long Worn Baseball will host
UC Davis. We've had one correct answer so far, so

(01:32:18):
that means we've got one pair of tickets left if
you can correctly answer the question Texas, of course last
year lost UTSA. Who won the regional? Name me the
other two teams who were in the Austin Regional. Do
that by texting it to us. Text it to us
on the text line. You check your name, yes, give
us your name. That helps in getting you the tickets,

(01:32:41):
first and last name. So text the word Texas follow
by your answer to the question who are the other
two teams in the Austin Regional with Texas and UTSA
last year? You text the word Texas followed by that
answer to eight one, five three zero. So we've had

(01:33:03):
one correct response. The next correct response we'll get the
other pair of tickets. More from Sean Miller coming up
on thirteen under the.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
Zone, but you didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
It wasn't like Grover Washington Junior and or even featuring
Bill Withers.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
It was just Grover Washington Junior.

Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
So you'll hear Grover right here coming up on the
saxophone right here, and it's.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
A great arrangement. It's just weird that you didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
You know, when it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
Came out what people are knew what Bill Withers sounded like,
but it didn't register with me for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
It was the name of Grover Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Thought Grover's on the sacks, and then it's been Withers.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
Yeah, so it's been a day of musical revelations.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Yeah, some of that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
We're still looking for the revelation of the other. Correct
response to our question to win a pair of tickets
to the Long Worn baseball season opener on Friday against
UC Davis at six thirty at UFCU Dish falk Field.
The question to win a pair of tickets was in

(01:34:12):
the Austin Regional.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Last June.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
The Long Orange were eliminated by UTSA, who went on.
They were then eliminated by UCLA in the College World
Series or in the Super Regional, and UCLA went to
the College World Series. The question was, what who are
the other two teams in the Austin Rue We have
one correct response. Maybe a lot of long worn baseball

(01:34:38):
fans have kind of blocked that out of their mind.
I'll give you a hint. They're the two teams that
Texas beat in the regional. It stands the reason it
lost twice to UTSA, so they had to get two
other wins and they did to get over to that
regional final. Who were the other two teams in that region? You,
if you know it, text or response to us along

(01:35:02):
with your name. You text the word Texas along with
that answer to eight one five to three zero. So
you text the word Texas followed by that answer to
eight one to five three zero. Include your full name
on that standard message, and data rates may apply a

(01:35:23):
little more. From Sean Miller, Texas long worns head coach,
the men's basketball coach, he was asked about Jordan Pope
and Simeon Wilcher. Of course they're you know, they both
run the point and Wilcher comes off the bench for Pope,
and they both had a lot of experience. Pope first
at Oregon State, then at Texas Wilter at Saint John's

(01:35:46):
and now at Texas, and Sean was asked about the
experience factor they bring in hitting the big threes that
they hit. In fact, Pope's was a four point play,
got found knocked down a three, and Wilter got a
late three to put Texas up. How that factor's in
even when both guys might have had a tough first
thirty five minutes of the game.

Speaker 8 (01:36:07):
You know, I think experience really cultivates that moment for
a player. Obviously, confidence, you know, we have great confidence
in them. I believe they know that and they do
it every day. They don't do it just on game night.
They do it every day, and I think that's really
important building those habits. But you know, Jordan Pope's been
through a lot of experiences, failure, success, big shots, bad nights,

(01:36:33):
and he's been a part of it. And you know,
I think he can really just be calm in the moment.
I think he knows what a good shot is for him,
and I think he has great confidence in himself. But
his shot from the left corner which became a four
point play, and then sim shot in front of our
bench maybe a minute or so later, you know, those
two really sealed the victory for us, and I was

(01:36:56):
equally happy for both. In Jordan's case a night that
he hadn't played well stepped up big at the end,
and just in Sim's case continuing to play really well
the last three games and give our team even more
firepower on the offensive end.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
So there was that, and then one more from Sean
Miller about Sime and Welter. He's kind of been a
bit of a late bloomer for Texas coming on, and
he was asked about Wilchaerir and the mental toughness he
brings to the floor.

Speaker 8 (01:37:28):
Yeah, I mean, sim Is, you know, he's a winning player.
I think that his experiences are very unique in that
he's been playing basketball his entire life, comes from a
basketball family, where you know, the topic of conversation is
about the game itself. He loves the game, and you

(01:37:48):
see that love of the game with how he approaches
practice and game days. And it's been interesting and it's
also been I think fascinating just to watch him the
highs and lows of the season, both for our team
and for him. And the one thing that's never waivered
is his consistent work ethic, and I think at the

(01:38:10):
end of the day, I very seldom advice seen that
not went out for a player. And what you're seeing
now is that you know his habits and his consistency
every day, you know, has allowed him to get over
maybe a couple of games where his shot wasn't falling,
or maybe he wasn't as confident, but you could tell
he's got his confidence back. He's playing good basketball. It's

(01:38:31):
not just shooting, you know, like you said, it's taking
care of the ball, making clever passes, doing a great
job defensively.

Speaker 5 (01:38:39):
He's playing better defense without fouling.

Speaker 8 (01:38:42):
I know he ended up with four fouls against Old Miss,
but I would put some of the fouls he had
in an Old Miss game in a different category. It
wasn't lack of concentration or being alert or wrong place.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Wrong time, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
Some of it was just a guy competing in a referee,
you know, in a fifty to fifty situation, called foul
on him.

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
So we'll take those fouls. We'll live with those fouls.

Speaker 8 (01:39:04):
But I see sim hitting his stride, improving, and he's
really helped us win the last three games. A big
reason that we've been able to beat Oklahoma on the road,
make the comeback that we did get through the South
Carolina game, and then obviously get to the finish line
against Ole miss Is because of Sim's quality play.

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Absolutely, we'll hear more from Sean Miller tomorrow, and Long
Worn Weekly with Sean Miller is coming up tomorrow night
following the Texas Women's game, six thirty tip off, six
fifteen pre game start time here on LA Zone.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
So busy tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
Today Texas and O's comes your way tonight at seven
o'clock to let you know that and we do have
a winner and that other pair of Long Worn baseball tickets.
We'll be back to wrap up today's program. I'm thirteen
under the Zone.

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