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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before we hear from Vernon, Broughton wanted to let folks
know that the University of Texas has announced its Hall
of Honor classes for both men's and women's athletics. The
seventieth Men's Hall of Honor class includes Reggie Freeman, who
played basketball from ninety four to ninety seven. Two time
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first Team All Conference election, still number four on the
all time scoring list at nineteen hundred and fifty eight points.
Marquise Goodwin football and track and field, one of the
top wideouts and kick returners who played has played ten
seasons in the NFL. Saw a two time NCAAA log
jump champion, a guy we talked about quite a bit yesterday,
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Colt McCoy, his number twelve, is retired to Texas. One
of only three two time winners of the Waltercamp National
Player of the Award, two time consensus First Team All
American Heisman Trophy finalists, Big twelve Offensive Player of the Year,
finished his career as the nca IS all time winning
his quarterback at that time at forty five and eight
before he played thirteen seasons in the NFL. Just yesterday
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and so his retirement. Alex Okafour all American Devents have
end Alex a great guy and he's going to be
part of k xa n's pregame coverage of Long Corn
football with their special pregame show. Omar Kintania, great infielder
for the Longhorns, certainly the real anchor of the two
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thousand and two NCAA National Championship infield for Texas played
eight seasons in the majors and special selection. John Fields,
Texas men's golf coach who's got the men's golf program
to a pair of ncaaighteen titles in twenty twelve and
twenty twenty two and runner up showings in twenty sixteen
and twenty nineteen. He's developed a couple players who've gone
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on to be number one in the world, Jordan Spieth
and Scottie Seffler. The twenty fifth Women's Hall of Honor
class includes Julie Cooper Blimel from swimming and diving, a
twenty seven time All American that's all the different events
she's in, and seven time nc Relay champion Farley Taylor
Lansing tennis ninety four to ninety seven, three time ITA
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All American nineteen ninety six, Southwest Conference Player of the Year,
Miratopic Loser volleyball two thousand and one to two thousand
and four, who was a three time All American and
the two thousand and four Big Twelve Player of the
Year in the first team All Big Twelve selection, outside
hitter Lexi Bennett Skaggs, who played softball from two thousand
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nine through twenty twelve, first team All American, three time
First Team All Big Twelve selection at second base. Also
Karen Nelson Walters from track and field eighty five through
eighty eight, standout sprinter, jumper and relay performer who represented
Canada at the eighty four LA Olympics special selection. Kerry Graves,
the first ever rowing coach at Texas from ninety eight
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to twenty fourteen, also selected the three US Olympic teams
and built the Texas rowing program from the ground up.
The newest members of the Hall will receive a special
salute during the Texas football game at home against U
al Monroe on Saturday, September twenty first. So congratulations to
the brand new class of twenty twenty four for Texas
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Athletics All of Honor long Ward Football team. Eleven days
away from kickoff. Vernon Broughton is one of those guys
that the microscope landed on simply because Vernon, alongside Alfred Collins,
stepped into the interior of that defensive line which has
been so productive most recently obviously Byron Murphy into Vendre
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a sweat mora Ojamo in there and then obviously going
all the way back to Puna Ford in this most
recent incarnation of the defensive line. So this morning, right
after practices happened this morning, Vernon Broughton was meeting with
the medium.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Bran Starts talked about just how the defensive taxes this
life given a different approach to than l murphon sweat.
How would you describe one of you and Alfred means
your church.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Last year honestly because Swad and Murph have said a
standard standard here and uh and just years before.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Them co burning all them.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We decide to like keep that going and just keep
that same mentality of like being dominant and.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Just do what we gotta do. Yeah, where's your game
taking live this death? Since last year, I'm just taking
like just.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A mental breaking just learning that one this is my
last year and too.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
God has blessed me to play this game, and I
have to. This last year is basically for him and
my teammates and my family.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So I gotta do what I gotta do. So yeah, how.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Would you just scrapped the littention? I got a lot
of bodies in the side. Uh, how snaps you think
the stars would play out? Many guys con Man I.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Be this copation.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Honestly, we're pretty deep. Honestly on rotation wise, I do
not know. We have to aks coach Baker, but we
are deep. He is constantly rotating us in but exact
number I do not know.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Can you speak to some of those guys and just
how their aphromatic guys like Jermaine and Deal and.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, yes, son, those great guys love being here. They
work really well.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We have gotten really close, I'll say, for dudes that's
coming in to transfer and in usually they want to
like like stick by theirselves, but we have gotten real
close with them dudes, and like they're good teammates.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Him work really hard. If you're gone, that gets to
say James Mangers and actors.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know, he's not the biggest guy, but what makes
him effective is impart.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Honestly, what makes him effective is his willing, his work
work ethic every every day and uh, he comes with
it every day and knowing that like like where we
want to go, we have to like bring that same energy.
So yeah, what makes coach takes a different cause Baker hun,
I'll say he's more he's not as like mmm, I'll
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say he's more technical, like I just I'll say like hands, footwork,
he's more technical. H he never lets that give by,
but he I say technical, he's more technical in any case, So,
how's the runs gonna be this year? I should be good.
We just like we gotta see I mean, we've been
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busting our ass. But but yeah, burning.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yesterday, coach Tarkasan talked about he laughed phone conversations because
Bill Belichick Andy read McVeigh from the Rams just to
you know, how did he how does he become a
better coach than his coaches stee me or something like that.
Knowing that Circassian's getting influenced from the NFL, what does
what does that does?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Does that resonate with few?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
And what does that look like on the field to
know that you guys are getting some top notch coaching
getting ready.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
To go in there? Repeat that question one more time. Sorry, Yes,
so coach.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Tarks and yesterday that coach coach Turkeys and talked yesterday
he will get on the phone with Bill do Okay,
can they need to read you to talk coaching? You know?
How could he coaches to be better? And when you
hear something like that, does it resonate with you? And
what does that look like on the field to know
that your coaches aren't preparing you guys for another level
of way? Yeah, coming right from him?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Mm one, it just shows uh, coach Rocking how much
he cares about what he do as a coach and
just shows that like he cares about us. So obviously
me listening to me hearing that, I just wanna like
show that, like prove myself to him that like, hey,
like since you scratched my back, i'ma scratch you up.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know what I'm saying. So yeah, for instance, this.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Program has changed radically since you got here in the
many everywhere.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Okay, what what's been your.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Take on how this thing has evolved in your time here?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Trying now, but how do.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
You tell people about what way it is now?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Like, uh, I'll say, well, I'm not been here like
through different coaches.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
All right, I.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Say football wise, I say the locker room has gotten
like I say more mm hmm, more mature, like I say,
like as like as a team, like as years and
years go by, like from my my year of being
first year be handing out like like everybody's like way
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maturity is locked in as a unit the approach the game.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yes, that's definitely yeah cool.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Where have you seen Alphad Collins take the business step?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Mental? Mental and football? I mean obviously football, but just
I mean he's he's changed. I mean we all, like
the whole media, ac the Holy Line has changed overall
since last year thanks to coach Baker.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
But I just overall everything.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So you think people are you know, people are like,
oh my gosh, what are they gonna do without sweat
and Murphy? Do you feel like we'll be just fine
or how would you characterizeic?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Honestly? And I don't pay attition to that. So, I
mean that's cool. I know what we got. Yeah, we're
going we have to do what we gotta do. So
but yeah, you talked about coach Baker. You do up
technically if you do, you have like make an example
of something. Maybe, yes, I say for work. Like let's
say I'm a three tech and I stopped. I'm a
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right shade bright three tech and I stick with my
left foot first, Like, he will coach all that my
hands is my hand night and it's just or outside
the pad. He coaches all that, which I love because
I needed that and that's like improved my game so
much and I appreciate him for that.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
But but yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, last year jailing jailing forward, you're gonna leader for y'all.
St defense feels they have more.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I'll say a couple of people, I mean, like d Line.
It's not really like everybody like explaining this really really
like all the like starting on the defense, we are
hold each other to a standard.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So it's not really just one person. I'll say, like
Ac and all of them like, but we all have
to hold each to a standard.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Joy like everybody like started whatever, But we just we
were holding each other to a standard.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Because you tell yourself getting more vocal, getting senor everything.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yes, most definitely I have to especially like with younger
cats are coming in, I have to show them that, like, hey,
this is the standard and this is what we gotta do.
Especially playing the line, you have to be vocal, especially
like working with linebackers.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Just so you talk about the stands, the standard.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, go with the standards.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'll say is working hard and like what you're like,
what you're what you're playing for every day, Like what
I played for every day is one of my Lord
and Savior because he has blessed me to play this game.
So I would like want to work hard, especially like
for my teammates, but family all that. So I mean,
just come out to work every day, do what you
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gotta do, y'all.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
What did you see.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Man?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Spring?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yes? I did game, Yes I did. I got married
in Dallas text to.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
My beautiful wife Camille Broughton, which I loved dearly.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
But yes, talking about what kind of wanted that decision,
I know that was kind of one of the day
talking points around the Yeah, so congratulations, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Before spring my I was planning to get married to
my beautiful wife Camille after the spring game, but two
months in advance before they announced the spree game. We
didn't like obviously I didn't know, but we was like
planning on to have.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
The wedding before after the spring game. But yeah, so,
which is good, which is crazy, But that was a
business decision.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah exactly, and I was, yeah, she's gonna kick my
butty in I.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Went to that spring game, So yeah, exactly. What about
last one? Guys?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
What what can we expect from Anthony Hill?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Anthony Hill.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Vocal and just feeling like filling gaps honestly because he
this passed on spring bar and not spring Bar farg camp.
He's been on top, like honestly because us taking on
double team D line filling in gaps.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So yeah, he's he's been doing his thing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
He's been doing his thing, Anthony so is Vernon brought
good stuff from the senior Vernon Broughton, who what we
call it? And and uh, you know, I was mentioning
those inside guys, obviously Byron Murphy, obviously to Andre Sweat
he brought up also KeAndre Coburn. I can't leave him
out as well. So these past few years has been
this steady line of descendancy down on. Whoever has stepped
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into the middle of that defensive front has been called
upon to really register. And now it's Burning Broughton's turn,
and it's Alfred Collins turn. By and large, they've got depth.
But those would be the two upfront. Guys, we have
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