August 22, 2024 • 16 mins
Hear Chris Del Conte's comments on the revival of the Lone Star Showdown and what it means going forward between Texas and Texas A&M. He answers questions about the future of the rivalry, where it will be played, the introduction of a new sponsor, and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Vain Broadcasting Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
From down here in Houston. We bring you the program
from our sister station, the group of stations here. iHeartMedia Houston.
Glad to be here with you today. All right, let's
jump right into this again. The announcement made this morning
that the University of Texas and Texas A and M
are restoring the restoration, if you will, of the lone
(00:35):
Star Showdown rivalry series between the two, which is about
more than just the football part of it. They'll be
points awarded with basketball, baseball, all sports really, Men's and
women's athletics will factor into the point system for this.
And so the news conference took place today where Pete Bell,
(00:57):
the founder and CEO of Cotton Holdings, talked about it,
their commitment to it, and the two athletic directors trev
Alberts of Texas A and M and Chrystal County, the
Vice president and athletics director at the University of Texas.
After the press conference reached his conclusion, there was a
breakout portion, if you will, where the media got a
chance to gather around the two ads separately and have conversations.
(01:21):
So this is what you're going to hear. Here is
a media session with several media clustered around Crystal Conti.
I've got a couple of questions in there. You hear others.
You'll hear Kirk Balls. If you listen very carefully, you'll
hear Crystal Contie at one point playfully refer to Kirk
as a television detective from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
If you listen closely, you might hear that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But here, here's the media session with CDC after the
press conference here in Houston this morning. What's the most
exciting thing about this being restored, about this getting going again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think it's a means to the state college football.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
A Texas playing and for a lot of think about
our last memory. All you think about is who's on
a bended knee? Was coach Sherman on a bended knee?
And here it comes, you know, Justin comes out and
kicks that field goal. That emotion of that game has
lived in lower of the state forever. To get that
back and go back to college station and have a
(02:21):
chance to play that game again, it just tells you
means everything to the state. So I think for us
to restore that, and I made no bones about it
when I hired, that was we got to play this game.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A rival game is important for us, it's important to
the state.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And from the moment my press conference when we were there,
we talked about playing this game and it's a reality today.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Was it a dream of yours from the time you
took the job at Texas to do whatever you could
to see that this game was restored.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't know if it was a dream, but I
felt it was important to that when I was a
TCU and not playing Southwest Conference games, and I remember
I made the comment I really appreciated Baylor at the
time when Texas teaching was not in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They continue to play in that game has been meant
so much to both schools. It was a shame that
this game wasn't being played and for it to be back.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's you grew up watching this game, you know, and
this is the most important game in the state and
first to be here to now it's.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Chris is just going to be like the state Farmville was,
where there's a points system.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, there's gonna get points and every game will matter.
You know, I just dusted off the old trophy and
saw it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Man, I found it like there it is, So it's fantastic.
After you finalized the deal with pay And who was
the first person you called?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, I think when we joined the Southeastern Conference, we
knew the game was coming back, So it really wasn't
the first.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Person I call.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's that uh when we when we joined the league,
we knew that the game was back. It's just a
matter of today is really about the corporate sponsor being
a part of that game.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But we knew the game was going to be in
uh being held.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
If you have a preference for Thursday or Friday for
this game for football.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I mean you always want to go back to how
it was. We all think that. I think Thanksgiving game.
I've heard it from everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That was great. We all I ate, But you know,
the reality is a Thursday game.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It used to be US and the Cowboys now and
I think Detroit had a game.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But there's three NFL windows.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So for me, if it was up to my brothers,
I'd like to play it on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Be great, unencumbered.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You're the only game, the only show you think about
from Coast to coast Friday night game with the spectActor.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But this year we get to play on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm looking forward to sneaking to the college.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Station and be a good time.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Why from the sec about maybe future.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Dates not yet year of the year, you know, but
it's just important that we celebrate this year.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It also have to go to nine games for be
assured of it permanently, correct.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know, let's just worry about this year. But Columbo,
you're always on the ninth game to all the games.
I'm looking good working for the Chronicle right now, I
see it.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, today games you get one permanent arrival. There's
always room for debate. But not playing this game is
not an option.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Not playing this game is not an option. We got
to play this game, right yeah, okay, So this is
the sponsorships for all the sports, so that the trophy
will be the cotton holdings will be the trophy for
each sport, you know, So we just the points system
like it was before. I have that uh Drew Drew Martin,
who I worked with, found the trophy the other day
and we had that bad boy displayed in the office,
(05:18):
saying all right here it is so we.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Know we have the last trophy and now we'll we
look forward to our success this year on the field.
We were talking at Stark on Monday. We were talking
about the roster limit of one hundred and five. Any
decision that made about what that might look like in
terms of football. Not yet.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean, we're still working through all that, but one
hundred and five rosters seems appropriate to me.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Walking.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, we don't know that yet, but it's just about
what We're still in the process of doing all that.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But to me, you.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Got eighty five scholarships, you have the roster of one
hundred and five. There's plenty of mud chachos out there
to practice with.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
There's no way that Cotton was the only company that
reached out to y'all want to do this.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So how many companies would you.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Say that was wasn't involved with that. I was just involved.
Here's who we have, like all right, and then when
I read about him, like that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
We got a registration. Yeah, it's awesome, we get the
rest of it. Nobody tried to grab it for a neutral.
I wasn't part of that at that time. No, by
the way, that's just the Twitter follower, isn't that great?
They're moving on? Like, where do they get this from?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No, it was just the fact that that's why I
said we're moving in.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It was a joke. You joke about the football game
moving off campus.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Any chance that any other sports actually could be neutral
did no tacking on their respect.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That game means something completely different.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So the Red Rivery, the Red River rival to shootout.
That game has been played there forever. I don't think
Norman has not set foot in Austin since nineteen twenty two.
We're not moving that game from the Cotton Bowl. And
that's going to be our historic game.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
To play this game on each other campuses.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's uh, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Baseball used to do like one in Austin too. In
post we get sutify you know what I don't. I
don't know, but I love that.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know, when you can go down if you've had
a three game series. But right now, we'll we'll we'll
welcome the Aggies this year to dish Falk for three games.
But down the road, if that becomes something that.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You can do, you could as a little easier.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
In the Big twelve Whale was set up back in
the way and you always had that was ingrained in everybody. Oklahoma,
O Colohena State, they did it that way. But we
haven't had that discussion.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
When you do slows through the opening coin toss, when you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Have it as easy, buddy, let's just start with we're
we're at today. Okay, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Asked if we'd like to do that so yet.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Well Man his salary for his first two years of
the contract one million even.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Is that related to his buyout for.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Me and m ah No, It's just related to it
felt like we had to do. We made a decision
and I just said, look, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
How we're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Constructed the contract to make sure it works for Texas
and for Gym.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You feel like y'all have a huge advantage in this
showdown sin jump on the director's.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Last four years, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I mean, I'm really excited about what we've done all that,
but it starts new.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
As I told our coaches the other day when we had.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Our head coaches retreat, we wanted to leave the Big
twelve in the right fashion. We had twenty sports, so
we sponsored we won fifteen to twenty championships. Our goal
is to win twenty going to the Southeastern Conference.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Our same goals won't change.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We want to win conference championships and every sport we sponsor,
we want to win national championship ey Spore we sponsor.
That's the ultimate goal, right But this coming year is new.
Starts with soccer. Last week we're two and zero. We
got volleyball starting up, we got football, so we're I
think we're well positioned in every sport to compete for championships.
That's that's why you play the game.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I did a pep talk for the volleyball teams that
they are going to kick this off.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Jared needs no pep talk.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
His assistant coaches the former assistant coach as the head
head coach.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
At A and M, so they know each other well.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Jared has an incredible volleyball program, back to back national
champion so we're excited about what he has.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But every one of our sports has positioned very.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Very well right now. I'm excited for the opportunity.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
There's a lot of talk about Texas wanting to run conferences.
How do you approach interacting with the other schools and
making collective decisions as you entered the SEC.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That's news to me.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I don't think our goal is tould be a great
partner like we've always been. I think that's internet fodder
to say that someone's running something.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The issue is that you come.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
In and if you're successful and you win and you
do good job, I think the chips to fall where
they may. But our responsibility is to the University of
Texas and to the sixteen members of the SEC, and
we're excited to be a part of that conference.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's as safe to say that what we were talking
about earlier, this rivalry it's different. It's different than Oklahoma,
is different than other rivalries.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's different because it's in the state, you know, and
that's the difference. I think that forever you either grew
up and you grew up alongharn yet house divided, the
water cooler conversations, those have been steeped in the tradition
of the state. And they're the two big, big institutions.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Of the state.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Obviously Texas the flagship of the state. We are the
University of Texas and Texa A and M is a
tremendous school ninety miles south. An't group, great ad, great president, chancellor,
and both schools are poised and excited about that. But
I've met so many people with house divided, you know,
and that's what makes it great. When you're at Oklahoma Nebraska,
(10:29):
two different states' us and oh you means different, but
when it's in the state, it just means different. Anything
Sarkisian needed any motivation at all after this happened.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Did he say anything to you or did you say
anything to him? Not?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Because I think at the end of the day, when
we joined the Southeastern Conference we were one of the
things we were talking about was the games you played.
Whether this year we welcome Georgia, we got Florida, come in.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We have we play Oh, we go to Arkansas, we
go to A and M we got Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's going to be fantastic brands that we get to
play home and home, and those are exciting things. But Steve,
when we joined the SEC, he understood what was about
and the robbery was part of it. He's super excited
about that because he played at BYU, had the Holy
War with Utah, right, he'll talk about that game and
what it meant to those alumni bases in there, and
(11:14):
he coached at USC against UCLA, so he understands the
gravitas of the game.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Christ from a big picture of perspective, Director's Cup Champs
fifteen titles last year. What I can't imagine a better
way for this program to be going into a new conference.
Is there anything that you say, I wish we had
done this better or that better.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Or just overall?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
How do you feel about the state of the state
of the Union right now?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I mean, you know, I try not to live in
the past too much, but when I got here, we've
set out goals that we wanted to achieve, and I
think where we're at right now, and I always say
Texas is a reckoning is because we have a tremendous
leadership from chairman of the board, our president that are aligned.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And when you're aligned, right, we've.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Had before I got it, we had four ads, four
football coaches, four chances. The whole goal is we need
to unite our fan base, unite our family, and if
we're united, great things will happen. And Coach Royle had
the saying, when the bbs are the box, right, it's
tough to put them back in.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
The BB's are in the box.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And I think that because we're aligned in how we
are you see great things happening.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And real quick on that too.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I mean, I know you talked about that a lot,
but I don't think I don't think the average fan
understands the importance of Kevin being on board, Jay being
on board with all the decisions that.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Are made many Well, how do you express that to
the delayed plan of how important that really is?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, when you look across the country and you see
people making constant changes, they're not aligned. When you're aligned
with leadership, there's there's a values there. They understand the process,
they understand what you're doing, they understand the.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Things that happen.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And that alignment flipped over to our coaches because they
saw everyone was rowing the boat in the same direction.
And you can see the success we're having across the
board is because we're aligned and with one on one
mission and Hearts always talks about harnessing Texas and I
think you see it being played out with M. D
Anderson coming to Austin. You see it play out with
(13:08):
the chips that come in to Austin. You see it
play out with UH the investments being made on campus
for research.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's because we're.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Aligned in this idea that the University of Texas is
the state's flagship school and we should be responsible to
the citizens in the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Spect relationship likes your relationship, like with relationship by yes
on Monday, I flew down and picked him.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Up and took him to UH to the SEC meetings
and dropped him off. So we have a great relationship.
We talk all the time. I respected administrator. It's going
to do great things for raight now. Not going back
to snoke anytime soon, but I understood that.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I mean he left his arm or mater to.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Go to to to go to A and M. Coaches
make decisions the best for themselves and that's a that's
a decision.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
There's the Paul.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
My last question at SEC media Days, it really stood
out to me, Greig Saor, you can look around and say,
these are truly our peers.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I think you have great brands in the SEC. You
can look at from Florida.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
To Alabama to to A and M.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You got every school in the conference brings something unique
to the conference and that's what's exciting about it. And
you get to play big brands at home and away.
Having Georgia coming in, this is going to be fantastic.
I mean, these games are so big to the psyche
of the nation and for us to be in that
conference is exciting.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
There it is the words from Crystal County University of
Texas Vice President, director of Athletics. Some really salient things
in there, not just about this loan star showdown, because
the media we're taking the opportunity to ask him about
Jim Schlost Angeles contract. You heard Kirk Bowles kind of
joking and say, hey, you're gonna have him, you know,
(14:55):
go out for the coin toss or something, and.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
He's like, hey, easy, easy.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And he he also you heard him at one point
where Kirk was asking, don't you have to go to
nine conference games in order to guarantee more than one
permanent rival? And he was trying to say, look, everything
is up for debate, but then he said, you know,
listen Colombo from taking it from the old TV detective
(15:19):
series of the seventies as well, So there was a
lot of those things involved in it, and some other
things with regard to the SEC. So good stuff from
the athletic director. If you missed part of that, we're
going to reair during the four o'clock hour as well.
Coming up at the three o'clock hour. By the way,
Greg Tepper, managing editor Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, will
(15:40):
join us for a weekly conversation. We'll talk from college
football and yes, also we'll finish up our state Awad
high school previews. We'll look at one A the six
man level. We'll do that and also my one on
one conversation with Trev Alberts, the Texas A and m
athletics director in the three o'clock hour. Up next, inc
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(16:03):
hundred The Zone
It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Vain Broadcasting Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
From down here in Houston. We bring you the program
from our sister station, the group of stations here. iHeartMedia Houston.
Glad to be here with you today. All right, let's
jump right into this again. The announcement made this morning
that the University of Texas and Texas A and M
are restoring the restoration, if you will, of the lone
(00:35):
Star Showdown rivalry series between the two, which is about
more than just the football part of it. They'll be
points awarded with basketball, baseball, all sports really, Men's and
women's athletics will factor into the point system for this.
And so the news conference took place today where Pete Bell,
(00:57):
the founder and CEO of Cotton Holdings, talked about it,
their commitment to it, and the two athletic directors trev
Alberts of Texas A and M and Chrystal County, the
Vice president and athletics director at the University of Texas.
After the press conference reached his conclusion, there was a
breakout portion, if you will, where the media got a
chance to gather around the two ads separately and have conversations.
(01:21):
So this is what you're going to hear. Here is
a media session with several media clustered around Crystal Conti.
I've got a couple of questions in there. You hear others.
You'll hear Kirk Balls. If you listen very carefully, you'll
hear Crystal Contie at one point playfully refer to Kirk
as a television detective from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
If you listen closely, you might hear that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But here, here's the media session with CDC after the
press conference here in Houston this morning. What's the most
exciting thing about this being restored, about this getting going again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think it's a means to the state college football.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
A Texas playing and for a lot of think about
our last memory. All you think about is who's on
a bended knee? Was coach Sherman on a bended knee?
And here it comes, you know, Justin comes out and
kicks that field goal. That emotion of that game has
lived in lower of the state forever. To get that
back and go back to college station and have a
(02:21):
chance to play that game again, it just tells you
means everything to the state. So I think for us
to restore that, and I made no bones about it
when I hired, that was we got to play this game.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A rival game is important for us, it's important to
the state.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And from the moment my press conference when we were there,
we talked about playing this game and it's a reality today.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Was it a dream of yours from the time you
took the job at Texas to do whatever you could
to see that this game was restored.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't know if it was a dream, but I
felt it was important to that when I was a
TCU and not playing Southwest Conference games, and I remember
I made the comment I really appreciated Baylor at the
time when Texas teaching was not in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They continue to play in that game has been meant
so much to both schools. It was a shame that
this game wasn't being played and for it to be back.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's you grew up watching this game, you know, and
this is the most important game in the state and
first to be here to now it's.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Chris is just going to be like the state Farmville was,
where there's a points system.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, there's gonna get points and every game will matter.
You know, I just dusted off the old trophy and
saw it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Man, I found it like there it is, So it's fantastic.
After you finalized the deal with pay And who was
the first person you called?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, I think when we joined the Southeastern Conference, we
knew the game was coming back, So it really wasn't
the first.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Person I call.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's that uh when we when we joined the league,
we knew that the game was back. It's just a
matter of today is really about the corporate sponsor being
a part of that game.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But we knew the game was going to be in
uh being held.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
If you have a preference for Thursday or Friday for
this game for football.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I mean you always want to go back to how
it was. We all think that. I think Thanksgiving game.
I've heard it from everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That was great. We all I ate, But you know,
the reality is a Thursday game.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It used to be US and the Cowboys now and
I think Detroit had a game.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But there's three NFL windows.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So for me, if it was up to my brothers,
I'd like to play it on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Be great, unencumbered.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You're the only game, the only show you think about
from Coast to coast Friday night game with the spectActor.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But this year we get to play on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm looking forward to sneaking to the college.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Station and be a good time.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Why from the sec about maybe future.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Dates not yet year of the year, you know, but
it's just important that we celebrate this year.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It also have to go to nine games for be
assured of it permanently, correct.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know, let's just worry about this year. But Columbo,
you're always on the ninth game to all the games.
I'm looking good working for the Chronicle right now, I
see it.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, today games you get one permanent arrival. There's
always room for debate. But not playing this game is
not an option.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Not playing this game is not an option. We got
to play this game, right yeah, okay, So this is
the sponsorships for all the sports, so that the trophy
will be the cotton holdings will be the trophy for
each sport, you know, So we just the points system
like it was before. I have that uh Drew Drew Martin,
who I worked with, found the trophy the other day
and we had that bad boy displayed in the office,
(05:18):
saying all right here it is so we.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Know we have the last trophy and now we'll we
look forward to our success this year on the field.
We were talking at Stark on Monday. We were talking
about the roster limit of one hundred and five. Any
decision that made about what that might look like in
terms of football. Not yet.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean, we're still working through all that, but one
hundred and five rosters seems appropriate to me.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Walking.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, we don't know that yet, but it's just about
what We're still in the process of doing all that.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But to me, you.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Got eighty five scholarships, you have the roster of one
hundred and five. There's plenty of mud chachos out there
to practice with.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
There's no way that Cotton was the only company that
reached out to y'all want to do this.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So how many companies would you.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Say that was wasn't involved with that. I was just involved.
Here's who we have, like all right, and then when
I read about him, like that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
We got a registration. Yeah, it's awesome, we get the
rest of it. Nobody tried to grab it for a neutral.
I wasn't part of that at that time. No, by
the way, that's just the Twitter follower, isn't that great?
They're moving on? Like, where do they get this from?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No, it was just the fact that that's why I
said we're moving in.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It was a joke. You joke about the football game
moving off campus.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Any chance that any other sports actually could be neutral
did no tacking on their respect.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That game means something completely different.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So the Red Rivery, the Red River rival to shootout.
That game has been played there forever. I don't think
Norman has not set foot in Austin since nineteen twenty two.
We're not moving that game from the Cotton Bowl. And
that's going to be our historic game.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
To play this game on each other campuses.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's uh, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Baseball used to do like one in Austin too. In
post we get sutify you know what I don't. I
don't know, but I love that.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know, when you can go down if you've had
a three game series. But right now, we'll we'll we'll
welcome the Aggies this year to dish Falk for three games.
But down the road, if that becomes something that.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You can do, you could as a little easier.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
In the Big twelve Whale was set up back in
the way and you always had that was ingrained in everybody. Oklahoma,
O Colohena State, they did it that way. But we
haven't had that discussion.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
When you do slows through the opening coin toss, when you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Have it as easy, buddy, let's just start with we're
we're at today. Okay, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Asked if we'd like to do that so yet.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Well Man his salary for his first two years of
the contract one million even.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Is that related to his buyout for.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Me and m ah No, It's just related to it
felt like we had to do. We made a decision
and I just said, look, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
How we're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Constructed the contract to make sure it works for Texas
and for Gym.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You feel like y'all have a huge advantage in this
showdown sin jump on the director's.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Last four years, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I mean, I'm really excited about what we've done all that,
but it starts new.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
As I told our coaches the other day when we had.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Our head coaches retreat, we wanted to leave the Big
twelve in the right fashion. We had twenty sports, so
we sponsored we won fifteen to twenty championships. Our goal
is to win twenty going to the Southeastern Conference.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Our same goals won't change.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We want to win conference championships and every sport we sponsor,
we want to win national championship ey Spore we sponsor.
That's the ultimate goal, right But this coming year is new.
Starts with soccer. Last week we're two and zero. We
got volleyball starting up, we got football, so we're I
think we're well positioned in every sport to compete for championships.
That's that's why you play the game.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I did a pep talk for the volleyball teams that
they are going to kick this off.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Jared needs no pep talk.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
His assistant coaches the former assistant coach as the head
head coach.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
At A and M, so they know each other well.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Jared has an incredible volleyball program, back to back national
champion so we're excited about what he has.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But every one of our sports has positioned very.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Very well right now. I'm excited for the opportunity.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
There's a lot of talk about Texas wanting to run conferences.
How do you approach interacting with the other schools and
making collective decisions as you entered the SEC.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That's news to me.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I don't think our goal is tould be a great
partner like we've always been. I think that's internet fodder
to say that someone's running something.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The issue is that you come.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
In and if you're successful and you win and you
do good job, I think the chips to fall where
they may. But our responsibility is to the University of
Texas and to the sixteen members of the SEC, and
we're excited to be a part of that conference.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's as safe to say that what we were talking
about earlier, this rivalry it's different. It's different than Oklahoma,
is different than other rivalries.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's different because it's in the state, you know, and
that's the difference. I think that forever you either grew
up and you grew up alongharn yet house divided, the
water cooler conversations, those have been steeped in the tradition
of the state. And they're the two big, big institutions.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Of the state.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Obviously Texas the flagship of the state. We are the
University of Texas and Texa A and M is a
tremendous school ninety miles south. An't group, great ad, great president, chancellor,
and both schools are poised and excited about that. But
I've met so many people with house divided, you know,
and that's what makes it great. When you're at Oklahoma Nebraska,
(10:29):
two different states' us and oh you means different, but
when it's in the state, it just means different. Anything
Sarkisian needed any motivation at all after this happened.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Did he say anything to you or did you say
anything to him? Not?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Because I think at the end of the day, when
we joined the Southeastern Conference we were one of the
things we were talking about was the games you played.
Whether this year we welcome Georgia, we got Florida, come in.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We have we play Oh, we go to Arkansas, we
go to A and M we got Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's going to be fantastic brands that we get to
play home and home, and those are exciting things. But Steve,
when we joined the SEC, he understood what was about
and the robbery was part of it. He's super excited
about that because he played at BYU, had the Holy
War with Utah, right, he'll talk about that game and
what it meant to those alumni bases in there, and
(11:14):
he coached at USC against UCLA, so he understands the
gravitas of the game.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Christ from a big picture of perspective, Director's Cup Champs
fifteen titles last year. What I can't imagine a better
way for this program to be going into a new conference.
Is there anything that you say, I wish we had
done this better or that better.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Or just overall?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
How do you feel about the state of the state
of the Union right now?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I mean, you know, I try not to live in
the past too much, but when I got here, we've
set out goals that we wanted to achieve, and I
think where we're at right now, and I always say
Texas is a reckoning is because we have a tremendous
leadership from chairman of the board, our president that are aligned.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And when you're aligned, right, we've.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Had before I got it, we had four ads, four
football coaches, four chances. The whole goal is we need
to unite our fan base, unite our family, and if
we're united, great things will happen. And Coach Royle had
the saying, when the bbs are the box, right, it's
tough to put them back in.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
The BB's are in the box.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And I think that because we're aligned in how we
are you see great things happening.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And real quick on that too.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I mean, I know you talked about that a lot,
but I don't think I don't think the average fan
understands the importance of Kevin being on board, Jay being
on board with all the decisions that.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Are made many Well, how do you express that to
the delayed plan of how important that really is?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, when you look across the country and you see
people making constant changes, they're not aligned. When you're aligned
with leadership, there's there's a values there. They understand the process,
they understand what you're doing, they understand the.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Things that happen.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And that alignment flipped over to our coaches because they
saw everyone was rowing the boat in the same direction.
And you can see the success we're having across the
board is because we're aligned and with one on one
mission and Hearts always talks about harnessing Texas and I
think you see it being played out with M. D
Anderson coming to Austin. You see it play out with
(13:08):
the chips that come in to Austin. You see it
play out with UH the investments being made on campus
for research.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's because we're.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Aligned in this idea that the University of Texas is
the state's flagship school and we should be responsible to
the citizens in the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Spect relationship likes your relationship, like with relationship by yes
on Monday, I flew down and picked him.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Up and took him to UH to the SEC meetings
and dropped him off. So we have a great relationship.
We talk all the time. I respected administrator. It's going
to do great things for raight now. Not going back
to snoke anytime soon, but I understood that.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I mean he left his arm or mater to.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Go to to to go to A and M. Coaches
make decisions the best for themselves and that's a that's
a decision.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
There's the Paul.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
My last question at SEC media Days, it really stood
out to me, Greig Saor, you can look around and say,
these are truly our peers.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I think you have great brands in the SEC. You
can look at from Florida.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
To Alabama to to A and M.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You got every school in the conference brings something unique
to the conference and that's what's exciting about it. And
you get to play big brands at home and away.
Having Georgia coming in, this is going to be fantastic.
I mean, these games are so big to the psyche
of the nation and for us to be in that
conference is exciting.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
There it is the words from Crystal County University of
Texas Vice President, director of Athletics. Some really salient things
in there, not just about this loan star showdown, because
the media we're taking the opportunity to ask him about
Jim Schlost Angeles contract. You heard Kirk Bowles kind of
joking and say, hey, you're gonna have him, you know,
(14:55):
go out for the coin toss or something, and.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
He's like, hey, easy, easy.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And he he also you heard him at one point
where Kirk was asking, don't you have to go to
nine conference games in order to guarantee more than one
permanent rival? And he was trying to say, look, everything
is up for debate, but then he said, you know,
listen Colombo from taking it from the old TV detective
(15:19):
series of the seventies as well, So there was a
lot of those things involved in it, and some other
things with regard to the SEC. So good stuff from
the athletic director. If you missed part of that, we're
going to reair during the four o'clock hour as well.
Coming up at the three o'clock hour. By the way,
Greg Tepper, managing editor Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, will
(15:40):
join us for a weekly conversation. We'll talk from college
football and yes, also we'll finish up our state Awad
high school previews. We'll look at one A the six
man level. We'll do that and also my one on
one conversation with Trev Alberts, the Texas A and m
athletics director in the three o'clock hour. Up next, inc
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