August 5, 2025 • 30 mins
After a historic 35-4 season, a Final Four appearance, and a share of the SEC title, excitement around Texas Women’s Basketball is at an all-time high. In this episode, Head Coach Vic Schaefer joins Craig Way to talk about the buzz surrounding the program — including record-breaking season ticket sales and what makes this year’s roster so special. From international summer competition and portal additions to returning stars like Madison Booker and Rory Harmon, Coach Schaefer gives an inside look at how the Longhorns are preparing for another title run. Plus, hear his thoughts on a brutal SEC schedule and why he believes fans are witnessing one of the greatest eras in Texas Women’s Basketball history.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When you have a season like the Texas women's basketball
program had last year thirty five and four and going
to the Final four, winning a share of the SEC Championship,
you can expect that there will be a positive response,
certainly from the fan base. But this has been going
on ever since Vic Schafer's been a year and now
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there are over five thousand total season tickets sole It's
most I can ever remember, and closing in on two
thousand new season ticket holders. This is about to be
my twenty seventh year coming up on calling Texas women's basketball,
and I can tell you the excitement around the program
has probably never been higher. We're very pleased to have
the head coach join us here for a few minutes
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on the hotline. Vick, I appreciate it. How's your summer
gone so far?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And good to hear for Imy Craig's great day to
be a long horn not doing good.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Summer's been busy, you know, You've had lots going on, and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's you know, with us going to Toronto next week
to play you know, Canada and Brazil and Puerto Rico,
and then you're going to play one more game against
one of those teams. Again, our kids have have really
had a good summer.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ten days of practice to get ready to go over there,
so it's been been a good summer.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I That's where I wanted to start with, because I
know some people might have heard about this trip to
Canada for this Global Jam coming up, but others might
not be familiar with it. I'm I'm curious to get
your thoughts not only on what you're going to encounter,
what your program is going to deal with when you're
up there and playing these games against these national teams.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
But also.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How you know the good that it does, if there's
if there's any downside to playing real, heavy duty competitive
basketball games as the Texas Longhorn in August before you
really get into the practices that will lead up to
your season opener coming up in November.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, it's yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, again, my team, our program, our players, my staff,
our philosophy has always been if we're keeping score and
the clocks weren't running.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
We're going to try to win. And so you know,
we we take that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Approach in practice, in preparation, and you know, this group,
we do have so many we have you know, four
new players that all are projected to be, you know,
impact our program and our team this year and so
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and potentially two more in Lavisa who's not here, she's
playing for her country.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Right now at U twenties.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then Grace who's playing for Ireland.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
She had twenty seven before last. So you know, it's
a great time.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But our kids have worked really hard this summer because
our idea to go to Toronto is to.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Go for and try to win.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How challenging is it for you and the staffick with
I remember a couple of weeks ago when we were
over there when we were obviously visiting with Madison Booker,
were visiting with Jordan Lee coming off their national team experiences.
And then when when we got a chance to visit
with you, you mentioned about just then starting to get
close to the full collection of your roster together to
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start working. So for folks that don't understand, you know,
how do you and the staff go about getting the
other guys prepared, getting your other ladies prepared for this
international competition, even when you don't have your full compliment
players together in the world. Work that goes on to
individually get these players ready to go before you can
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even get them together collectively to get ready to go.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, so the rule is we get ten practices before
we go over there. The other rule is in the summer,
each week, you're limited to four hours on the court
with the basketball with me in the gym, and four
hours in the weight room with us in the weight room.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So we're very limited.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
In how much we can do and what we can
do with our with our players, and so we have
a lot of individual work going on, especially when you
got Jordan Lee and Leah Krump at you nineteen Trials,
you got Booker at the America's Cup, and so you're
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not having team workouts, per say, you're.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Doing a lot of individual work and things of that
name nature.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And so then when we start trying to get prepared
to go to Canada, these ten practices, we've got eleven
players right now here minus Grace from Ireland and Levisa
from Sweden. So you know, we're That's how a summer
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looks for a basketball player, a men's or a women's
basketball player. It's not like we're having full fledged practices
every week because you can't.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But you can have them in the gym.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Four hours with a ball with coaches and you can
have them in a weight room four hours, So we
take full advantage of that. Our kids are in summer
school as well, and.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So you know, we.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Really feel like, you know, the summer is important. My
staff does an incredible job, and I tell you, the
culture of our program and our.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Kids is really really special.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And our kids want to be in the gym, they
want to be getting shots at, they want to work
on their game, and it's really really cool to have
kids that want to do that, and then they want
coaches in the gym with them.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Visiting with Vic Shaffer, Texas women's basketball coach here on
thirteen hunder the Zone, I want to give you a
chance to tell folks a little bit about these newer
faces that you come in. Let's start with your two internationals,
because it's the end of the yang, isn't it. You
have a five eight garden, a six six post, so
let me get your thoughts. Starting with Lavisa asbrink Jose,
who is, as you mentioned, playing for her national team
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in Sweden right now, tell folks about Levisa and what
she brings to the party for you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Has played one year over here in college at Florida
Atlantic and you know, she's a we look at her
as a project.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, we're hopeful to red shirt her this year.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
If we can get Kyla and Brea to really embrace
their role and and and be able to handle it,
it'd be nice to red shirt her. And and that's
kind of the plans when we recruited her. And I
think she's you know, obviously she's accepting, uh and open
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to that, but you never know, and she does have
some college experience, but that's our plan with her. And
then Grace is a little more problematic, and that she's
trying to graduate from high school in a it's just different.
She has a lot of it's almost like taking a
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lot of oh, it's like taking a test to try
to place out of a class in college. She's trying
to take some tests to place out and graduate, you know,
from high school so she can get here.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
You know, we had the issue with the.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I twenties and the and and the such that that
our US government had imposed some restrictions on that since
been lifted just here recently. So we're trying to get
her here, you know, for the start of school and
get her eligible right away. But we still have some
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work to do.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
In that area.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think folks who heard what was the situation last
year and saw what Aliah Crump was doing at the
high school level and the McDonald's all American and all
the stuff that she brings in. How about her game
and the excitement that you were expecting her to be
able to provide to your roster.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yes, like Booker, you know, a big two guard three
player that can really shoot it, plays the game extremely hard,
and you know, I'm hopeful that she's gonna you know,
it's really hard as a pressureman. You know, it's just
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it's you know, it's a different game, different speed. You're
you're going against people four and five years older than
you sometimes, so it's a big challenge. But uh, this
is a kid that works extremely hard. I need her
to be able to help us. Uh, just like with.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Any young player.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, you're you're teaching the same things. You got
to take care of the ball, You've got to be
able to guard somebody, and uh, you know, it ain't
about shots, it's about mates, and so you know, just
uh and realizing you're you're not you know, you're playing
with a lot of really good players now and and
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we've got some you know, we've got some really good players.
We've got all Americans on our team. And those kids,
you know, they need they need shots, they need looks
before anybody else on the.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Team does, right.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And and so you know, we've got great inside players
and you know they need they need looks as well.
So I think that's the learning curve, right for any
new new player that comes in to play here at Texas,
they have to realize, even our portal kids, they have
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to realize, man, we've got some really good players. They've
got some really good teammates, and they don't have to
carry the load, you know, we've got we've got people
that can do that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They just need to take.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Care of the ball, you know, and not turn it over.
Got a garden, defend a little bit, play really hard,
and you know it'd be nice if you make a
shot when nobody's guarding.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
As a visit with Vic Shator, Okay, the portal was
where I was going to go next with you, Vic,
because I was reminded of a quote from the great
baseball coach we had here, the late Augie Garrido, talked
about when he got junior college transfers, and he said
sometimes sometimes, and.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
This was junior college players, but he.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Said sometimes it was a little more difficult transition for
them because they had been leaders and big producers when
all we need them to do is settle into a
role and not try to be everything to the team.
And while it's different certainly with a portal with players
who've had experience playing in Power four leagues or Power
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five leagues, that sometimes I know that that goes in there.
With that in mind, I will want to ask you
about your portal transfers. Let me start with with Ashton Judd,
the guard coming in from Missouri, and what you like
about her game?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Thanks, First of all, just a common denominator with all
three they all came from Power four schools. So our
transfer kids they weren't good, you know, men, major players,
They were really good Power four players. Ashton was really
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good at Missouri, played the three and the four.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
What a great kid.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Has an incredible motor, beautiful shot, She's a physical kid.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
She's tough.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So and played for a coach that I have a
great deal of respect for, so I'm just really excited
about her. She again can play the three, and the
four and give me some minutes. You know, where Madison
needs a break, we can we can play her at
the three.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
A little bit. And so really excited about her. Then
you go to Taya Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Taya is the all time leading scorer in the history
of Utah high school basketball and you know started at Utah,
then went to Boston College two years.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
But man, what a motor.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Rebounds the ball extremely hard, plays the game hard, and
both her and Ashton can both stretch the floor, shoot
the three. Both of them are probably four players first
Ashton can move to the three, but both of them
wanted to come to Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Knowing both of them were coming.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I think that speaks volumes to who they are and.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
What's important to them.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And so both those young ladies, man, they bring a
lot to the table, and super excited about them. And
then the third one was bray At Cunningham, the kid
that I finished second on. She was the number two
player in the country coming out of high school. Ended
up going to Arizona was there two years, three, six,
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four or five player that you know, again had a
great and on visit with the family. Really felt good
about her, thought we were gonna get her we didn't,
but that's okay. Sometimes those things happen. And when I
saw she went into portal, man, I couldn't wait to
call her mother. And her mother answered the phone, Coach Schaeffer,
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And so I said, well, you say my number? She said, absolutely,
I saved your number. You never know when things might happen.
And so I really felt like her. You know, they
wanted her here, and so you know, Brea averaged I
think eleven and nine and the big twelve as a
sophomore for Arizona, and we're gonna need her to to
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really come in here along with Kai and continue the
two headed monster that we've always had and give us
that inside presence that we really need. So those three kids, man,
are really special out of the portal Yeah, and veterans, no,
you know, I think they all have a you know,
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I love I love Taya and Ashton's motor like it
runs full go every day. I call Taya smiling. The
kid's never not got a smile on our face.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
That's always good to have.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Just a wonderful, wonderful thing. And so anyway, those kids.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Are all going to help us win well, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And I didn't even get to ask you yet about
your returning veterans, and you look at at a kid
like and it was so impressive to hear Brianna Preston
when she was there a couple of weeks ago, talking
about how she's been working on her game.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
And this is a kid who's a sophomore.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So you think of veterans, you think of the grizzled
old veterans, the upper class, and the four maybe five
year seniors. But I know brie is somebody that you're
really going to be counting on this year. In addition,
what everybody is looking forward to seeing from Rory back
on the floor this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Year, Well, yeah, and we're gonna play those two together,
and I think that'll really give us a unique one
two punch to go along with Madison. But I think
both of them will be be really fun to watch
defensively hopefully and then in transition.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So but yeah, Bray.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Brie Iss, she looks like she should in my opinion,
and that she's improved. The most you improved in your
college basketball.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Career is between your freshman.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And sophomore year, in my opinion, and she's certainly improved,
gotten better. I think she's worked hard on her game,
has to continue to take care of the ball good,
you know, and not turn the ball over and be
somebody that's accountable in that area.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But man, love love having her again.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I've got fast and Rory, and I've got electric and
breathe and the boy, the kid is just all that
and then something. So looking forward to her being able
to play, you know, quite a bit more and play
multiple positions well.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And continuing along that theme what you've said about the
most improvement coming between the freshmen and sophomore seasons, I
know you're expecting more out of Justice this year. Who
folks may have forgot about Justice Carlton and what she's
capable of producing for you well.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And the thing is is, I think this, if we
had to say something this summer, Justice might be the
most you know, improved kid coming back from last year.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She's made big strides in my opinion, and looks good,
looks like the kid that we were recruiting her year
before she got hurt.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And h So I'm really, really again excited about her
and what I think she can bring to the table
for us.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
At four.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm remiss if I don't. If I don't at least
ask you coming off the national team work that Madison had,
how how she feels. I know, that's a lot of
work for a young lady. She's done it back to
back years now and then coming back here for the
junior year as well, and how she's held up even
even going through the grind to playing on a national
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team the past couple of years.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
She looks great.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And you know, the kids won four medals, four gold medals,
and she's nineteen, and just that's a special She's a
great kid. She's a special talent, special young lady, special player.
I know they've had some great ones here at Texas.
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I think she's she's going to be when she's done,
going to be the all time greatest to ever play here.
And I think she's going to go on and have
obviously a great career in the w But the kid
is just again, she's a great example of the game
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is real fair. You get out of it what you
put into it, and she has poured into her game
and she's you know, obviously benefited from that. But the
kid works extremely hard and you know, just like today,
got done with practice and then comes over here wants
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to get up more shots. And so it's it's I
want our fans to understand. You know, we we think
we're always going to recruit great eight and get great players,
and we will to an extent. We always will have
great players. But every once in a while you get
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that great, great one and you know, Rory Harmon, you
can throw her in there with with Madison in that
Rory's already set the record for what twelve hundred points
and seven hundred assists, and any other.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Player ever done that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Booker is going to have a chance to be the
all time leading scorer, all time you know, score in
the history of the University of Texas. Get she brings
so much more to the table. So you're talking about
two great guards that when you look across the country
not to you know, I don't know of anybody that
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can say they've got a Madison Booker and a Rory
Harmon on their team. And I want our fans to
understand that and embrace that and realize when they come
out and watch our team play, they're looking at two
of the greatest to ever play here, no doubt, no doubt. Again,
not taking anything away from you know, the players that
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have been here before.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But in the modern era of what we you.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Know women's basketball today. Man, it is really a special time.
And you know, we had Shay Holly who set the
record for most games played in in the history of
the university. And so it's it's really cool right now
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to have the team we have, the young ladies that
we have and realize, Man, when you come to watch
us play, you're you're looking at some of the best
to ever play here. And again, I really, I really
feel like when it's all said and done, you know,
those two in particular, will have etched their names in
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the history books here.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
In several areas. Then we're lucky that we've had them.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The last thing I want to ask you about, Vick,
is the SEC released the conference schedule game. Now, this
is following on the heels of a pretty unique non
conference schedule.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
You have, if I if I.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
May suggest that, I mean, you have obviously every basketball program,
certainly every successful one, has what are called the bye games.
And you've got that in Incarnate Ward, in Louisiana LAFAAD,
and in Texas, Southern and Northwestern State and Southeastern Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
But you've got these.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You have the home at home on the back end
at home when you had to go on the road
to play Richmond and James Madison last year, and you've
got both of them at home this year, and you
have been at home. But then you've got some other
unique things you've got. You've got Penn at home. You
have the acc SEC Challenge.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Game at home against North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You have a trip back to the Rio Grand Valley
to play UTRGV. You have Baylor in Fort Worth at
Dickey's Arena.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And then and you've got a trip to.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Brooking, South Dakota to play South Dakota State. That's before
you even get in the conference play on New Year's
Day against Missouri. You've got a road trip to South
Carolina home and home with LSU. You've got a road
trip to Tennessee, a road trip to Vanderbilt. You've got
some pretty interesting challenges on your schedule, both non conference
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and overall.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Would you think, Craig, you just and you missed the
two other games in November out in Vegas. Oh yeah,
we're going to UCLA and Duke or or South Carolina.
We're gonna play UCLA and then we're gonna either play
the winner or the loser of duke South Carolina, so
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we could potentially play South Carolina again twice for a
duke team that was in the either Sweet sixteen or
Elite eight. So we've got plenty of schedule. Of course,
the SEC doesn't do us any favors. We've had to
open now back to back years twy. You know, we
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have home and home with South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
A year ago.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Now I've got a home and home with LSU. The
only difference is last year, at least, when I had
South Carolina home and home.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I got LSU at home. This year, I got a
home at home with LSU.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And I'm at South Carolina, I'm at Tennessee, I'm at Vanderbilt,
I'm at Alabama. I mean, all those schools are picked
top six in our conference. So I don't know, I
don't quite understand it. I don't think it's fair because
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this is how it will be every year. Now, every
other year we're gonna we're gonna end up. Every other
year we will have this schedule.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Good gree at.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Vanderbilt, at Tennessee, at South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
At LSU. That is a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Nobody else in our league has that. Nobody I've been
through it, but it is what it is, you know,
so we'll just have to do.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
The best we can.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We navigated last year pretty hard, pretty well, you know,
and what I felt like was a very difficult schedule,
and you know, we'll have to do it again this year.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Also, Florida had a solid team last year. You got
to go to Gainesville. You would expect that eventually, Arkansas
is going to get back in a good rhythm. You
got to go to Fayetteville, and like I said, you
open on New Year's Day in Columbia against.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The solid Missouri program.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I guess, you know, all of all of those things
had up to to what makes this thing as challenging
as it does.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It's the SEC there's no off days, there's no off games.
You don't play well on given night, you won't get beat,
you'll get embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
And that's just the nature of the Beast. So we've
got to try to navigate the best we can. Again,
it's it's the hand we're dealt with. And I think too,
you know what we've done with our non conference schedule.
I mean, you're gonna open with two top.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You know, potentially two top ten teams, top twelve teams,
got to go to a top twenty five South Dakota State.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
They're always in the nca Tournament. I'm gonna have to
play Baylor. They'll be in the top twenty five up
in Dickie's.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
They've got a hell of a team coming back and
got some new transfer kids, some new portal kids.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Obviously gonna have to play North Carolina at home. They're
always in the top fifteen. So it's it's it's not
a very friendly schedule in my mind.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, and that's why I mentioned at the top. You
have over five thousand total season tickets sold. You're closing
in on two thousand new season ticket older. That's what
you want, that's what you envision. I've heard you say
this before when you came here, and in the going
on twenty seven years of calling the games, I can
scarcely remember too many crowds until you got here, of
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even five thousand fans total, and sometimes that was visiting
fans like for Baylor or Tech or whatever. I know,
you've got to be pleased with what you have, even
as you're wanting even more to get season tickets and
show up this year.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
For sure, I mean, part of building your programs building
your fan base, and that's been the part that's been
really you know challenging here. You know, Mississippi State we
averaged ninety five hundred to night in a twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Five thousand person community.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I felt like, coming here, two million people right here
close by, you know, we could do the same thing.
And we've certainly had some great crowds, no question about it.
We've had some you know, big crowds over ten thousand,
you know, four or five, six times a year, but
just trying to build that consistency. It's not about who
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I'm playing. You're not coming to see North Carolina play.
You're coming to see Texas play. And that's I think
the philosophy that's kind.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Of hard to get through to our fan base.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You're not buying season tickets because I've got Connecticut on
my schedule. You're buying season tickets because the University of
Texas is a top ten team, a top ten program,
and you want to come support them. It doesn't matter
if we're playing Connecticut or some three named directional school.
And that's that's the mindset that sometimes is a challenge
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to change. But you know, I think we're getting that again.
To me, it all has to do with the product
you put on the floor. And the better, the better
your team you have, the more accessful they are, the
better kids that they are, the better support you'll have.
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And I think that's where we've we've really been good.
We've we've got great kids. They work extremely hard, they
played the game the right way, and they're.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Fun to watch and and so I think that's that's
how you do it.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You can have all the promotions on, you know, whatever
you want, but at the end of the day, those things.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Aren't worth more than three, four or five hundred people.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's it's the kids themselves. It's their style of play,
it's how hard they play. That's what truly builds your
fan base, builds your season ticket foundation, and then builds
your walk up. And so I'm proud of our kids.
I'm proud of my staff for what we've been able
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to do in five short years.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
No doubt about it. Hey, I appreciate you taking the
time to do this.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I know things are really really busy right now as
you get ready for this Canadian trip, but I thank
you for taking a few minutes to let everybody know
what's coming down the road and how to continue to
jump on board and be a part.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Of this thing, and I'm thankful to you. Thanks so
much for doing this todayvic.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh, thank you having us on and your love and
support of our program. We appreciate you more than you know,
so thanks again.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Everybody, have a great day. Praise the Lord and Hook
of Morns.
When you have a season like the Texas women's basketball
program had last year thirty five and four and going
to the Final four, winning a share of the SEC Championship,
you can expect that there will be a positive response,
certainly from the fan base. But this has been going
on ever since Vic Schafer's been a year and now
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there are over five thousand total season tickets sole It's
most I can ever remember, and closing in on two
thousand new season ticket holders. This is about to be
my twenty seventh year coming up on calling Texas women's basketball,
and I can tell you the excitement around the program
has probably never been higher. We're very pleased to have
the head coach join us here for a few minutes
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on the hotline. Vick, I appreciate it. How's your summer
gone so far?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And good to hear for Imy Craig's great day to
be a long horn not doing good.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Summer's been busy, you know, You've had lots going on, and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's you know, with us going to Toronto next week
to play you know, Canada and Brazil and Puerto Rico,
and then you're going to play one more game against
one of those teams. Again, our kids have have really
had a good summer.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ten days of practice to get ready to go over there,
so it's been been a good summer.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I That's where I wanted to start with, because I
know some people might have heard about this trip to
Canada for this Global Jam coming up, but others might
not be familiar with it. I'm I'm curious to get
your thoughts not only on what you're going to encounter,
what your program is going to deal with when you're
up there and playing these games against these national teams.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
But also.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How you know the good that it does, if there's
if there's any downside to playing real, heavy duty competitive
basketball games as the Texas Longhorn in August before you
really get into the practices that will lead up to
your season opener coming up in November.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, it's yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, again, my team, our program, our players, my staff,
our philosophy has always been if we're keeping score and
the clocks weren't running.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
We're going to try to win. And so you know,
we we take that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Approach in practice, in preparation, and you know, this group,
we do have so many we have you know, four
new players that all are projected to be, you know,
impact our program and our team this year and so
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and potentially two more in Lavisa who's not here, she's
playing for her country.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Right now at U twenties.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then Grace who's playing for Ireland.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
She had twenty seven before last. So you know, it's
a great time.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But our kids have worked really hard this summer because
our idea to go to Toronto is to.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Go for and try to win.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How challenging is it for you and the staffick with
I remember a couple of weeks ago when we were
over there when we were obviously visiting with Madison Booker,
were visiting with Jordan Lee coming off their national team experiences.
And then when when we got a chance to visit
with you, you mentioned about just then starting to get
close to the full collection of your roster together to
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start working. So for folks that don't understand, you know,
how do you and the staff go about getting the
other guys prepared, getting your other ladies prepared for this
international competition, even when you don't have your full compliment
players together in the world. Work that goes on to
individually get these players ready to go before you can
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even get them together collectively to get ready to go.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, so the rule is we get ten practices before
we go over there. The other rule is in the summer,
each week, you're limited to four hours on the court
with the basketball with me in the gym, and four
hours in the weight room with us in the weight room.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So we're very limited.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
In how much we can do and what we can
do with our with our players, and so we have
a lot of individual work going on, especially when you
got Jordan Lee and Leah Krump at you nineteen Trials,
you got Booker at the America's Cup, and so you're
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not having team workouts, per say, you're.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Doing a lot of individual work and things of that
name nature.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And so then when we start trying to get prepared
to go to Canada, these ten practices, we've got eleven
players right now here minus Grace from Ireland and Levisa
from Sweden. So you know, we're That's how a summer
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looks for a basketball player, a men's or a women's
basketball player. It's not like we're having full fledged practices
every week because you can't.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But you can have them in the gym.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Four hours with a ball with coaches and you can
have them in a weight room four hours, So we
take full advantage of that. Our kids are in summer
school as well, and.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So you know, we.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Really feel like, you know, the summer is important. My
staff does an incredible job, and I tell you, the
culture of our program and our.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Kids is really really special.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And our kids want to be in the gym, they
want to be getting shots at, they want to work
on their game, and it's really really cool to have
kids that want to do that, and then they want
coaches in the gym with them.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Visiting with Vic Shaffer, Texas women's basketball coach here on
thirteen hunder the Zone, I want to give you a
chance to tell folks a little bit about these newer
faces that you come in. Let's start with your two internationals,
because it's the end of the yang, isn't it. You
have a five eight garden, a six six post, so
let me get your thoughts. Starting with Lavisa asbrink Jose,
who is, as you mentioned, playing for her national team
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in Sweden right now, tell folks about Levisa and what
she brings to the party for you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Has played one year over here in college at Florida
Atlantic and you know, she's a we look at her
as a project.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, we're hopeful to red shirt her this year.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
If we can get Kyla and Brea to really embrace
their role and and and be able to handle it,
it'd be nice to red shirt her. And and that's
kind of the plans when we recruited her. And I
think she's you know, obviously she's accepting, uh and open
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to that, but you never know, and she does have
some college experience, but that's our plan with her. And
then Grace is a little more problematic, and that she's
trying to graduate from high school in a it's just different.
She has a lot of it's almost like taking a
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lot of oh, it's like taking a test to try
to place out of a class in college. She's trying
to take some tests to place out and graduate, you know,
from high school so she can get here.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
You know, we had the issue with the.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I twenties and the and and the such that that
our US government had imposed some restrictions on that since
been lifted just here recently. So we're trying to get
her here, you know, for the start of school and
get her eligible right away. But we still have some
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work to do.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
In that area.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think folks who heard what was the situation last
year and saw what Aliah Crump was doing at the
high school level and the McDonald's all American and all
the stuff that she brings in. How about her game
and the excitement that you were expecting her to be
able to provide to your roster.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yes, like Booker, you know, a big two guard three
player that can really shoot it, plays the game extremely hard,
and you know, I'm hopeful that she's gonna you know,
it's really hard as a pressureman. You know, it's just
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it's you know, it's a different game, different speed. You're
you're going against people four and five years older than
you sometimes, so it's a big challenge. But uh, this
is a kid that works extremely hard. I need her
to be able to help us. Uh, just like with.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Any young player.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, you're you're teaching the same things. You got
to take care of the ball, You've got to be
able to guard somebody, and uh, you know, it ain't
about shots, it's about mates, and so you know, just
uh and realizing you're you're not you know, you're playing
with a lot of really good players now and and
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we've got some you know, we've got some really good players.
We've got all Americans on our team. And those kids,
you know, they need they need shots, they need looks
before anybody else on the.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Team does, right.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And and so you know, we've got great inside players
and you know they need they need looks as well.
So I think that's the learning curve, right for any
new new player that comes in to play here at Texas,
they have to realize, even our portal kids, they have
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to realize, man, we've got some really good players. They've
got some really good teammates, and they don't have to
carry the load, you know, we've got we've got people
that can do that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They just need to take.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Care of the ball, you know, and not turn it over.
Got a garden, defend a little bit, play really hard,
and you know it'd be nice if you make a
shot when nobody's guarding.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
As a visit with Vic Shator, Okay, the portal was
where I was going to go next with you, Vic,
because I was reminded of a quote from the great
baseball coach we had here, the late Augie Garrido, talked
about when he got junior college transfers, and he said
sometimes sometimes, and.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
This was junior college players, but he.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Said sometimes it was a little more difficult transition for
them because they had been leaders and big producers when
all we need them to do is settle into a
role and not try to be everything to the team.
And while it's different certainly with a portal with players
who've had experience playing in Power four leagues or Power
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five leagues, that sometimes I know that that goes in there.
With that in mind, I will want to ask you
about your portal transfers. Let me start with with Ashton Judd,
the guard coming in from Missouri, and what you like
about her game?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Thanks, First of all, just a common denominator with all
three they all came from Power four schools. So our
transfer kids they weren't good, you know, men, major players,
They were really good Power four players. Ashton was really
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good at Missouri, played the three and the four.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
What a great kid.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Has an incredible motor, beautiful shot, She's a physical kid.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
She's tough.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So and played for a coach that I have a
great deal of respect for, so I'm just really excited
about her. She again can play the three, and the
four and give me some minutes. You know, where Madison
needs a break, we can we can play her at
the three.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
A little bit. And so really excited about her. Then
you go to Taya Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Taya is the all time leading scorer in the history
of Utah high school basketball and you know started at Utah,
then went to Boston College two years.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
But man, what a motor.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Rebounds the ball extremely hard, plays the game hard, and
both her and Ashton can both stretch the floor, shoot
the three. Both of them are probably four players first
Ashton can move to the three, but both of them
wanted to come to Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Knowing both of them were coming.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I think that speaks volumes to who they are and.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
What's important to them.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And so both those young ladies, man, they bring a
lot to the table, and super excited about them. And
then the third one was bray At Cunningham, the kid
that I finished second on. She was the number two
player in the country coming out of high school. Ended
up going to Arizona was there two years, three, six,
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four or five player that you know, again had a
great and on visit with the family. Really felt good
about her, thought we were gonna get her we didn't,
but that's okay. Sometimes those things happen. And when I
saw she went into portal, man, I couldn't wait to
call her mother. And her mother answered the phone, Coach Schaeffer,
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And so I said, well, you say my number? She said, absolutely,
I saved your number. You never know when things might happen.
And so I really felt like her. You know, they
wanted her here, and so you know, Brea averaged I
think eleven and nine and the big twelve as a
sophomore for Arizona, and we're gonna need her to to
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really come in here along with Kai and continue the
two headed monster that we've always had and give us
that inside presence that we really need. So those three kids, man,
are really special out of the portal Yeah, and veterans, no,
you know, I think they all have a you know,
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I love I love Taya and Ashton's motor like it
runs full go every day. I call Taya smiling. The
kid's never not got a smile on our face.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
That's always good to have.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Just a wonderful, wonderful thing. And so anyway, those kids.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Are all going to help us win well, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And I didn't even get to ask you yet about
your returning veterans, and you look at at a kid
like and it was so impressive to hear Brianna Preston
when she was there a couple of weeks ago, talking
about how she's been working on her game.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
And this is a kid who's a sophomore.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So you think of veterans, you think of the grizzled
old veterans, the upper class, and the four maybe five
year seniors. But I know brie is somebody that you're
really going to be counting on this year. In addition,
what everybody is looking forward to seeing from Rory back
on the floor this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Year, Well, yeah, and we're gonna play those two together,
and I think that'll really give us a unique one
two punch to go along with Madison. But I think
both of them will be be really fun to watch
defensively hopefully and then in transition.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So but yeah, Bray.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Brie Iss, she looks like she should in my opinion,
and that she's improved. The most you improved in your
college basketball.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Career is between your freshman.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And sophomore year, in my opinion, and she's certainly improved,
gotten better. I think she's worked hard on her game,
has to continue to take care of the ball good,
you know, and not turn the ball over and be
somebody that's accountable in that area.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But man, love love having her again.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I've got fast and Rory, and I've got electric and
breathe and the boy, the kid is just all that
and then something. So looking forward to her being able
to play, you know, quite a bit more and play
multiple positions well.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And continuing along that theme what you've said about the
most improvement coming between the freshmen and sophomore seasons, I
know you're expecting more out of Justice this year. Who
folks may have forgot about Justice Carlton and what she's
capable of producing for you well.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And the thing is is, I think this, if we
had to say something this summer, Justice might be the
most you know, improved kid coming back from last year.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She's made big strides in my opinion, and looks good,
looks like the kid that we were recruiting her year
before she got hurt.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And h So I'm really, really again excited about her
and what I think she can bring to the table
for us.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
At four.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm remiss if I don't. If I don't at least
ask you coming off the national team work that Madison had,
how how she feels. I know, that's a lot of
work for a young lady. She's done it back to
back years now and then coming back here for the
junior year as well, and how she's held up even
even going through the grind to playing on a national
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team the past couple of years.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
She looks great.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And you know, the kids won four medals, four gold medals,
and she's nineteen, and just that's a special She's a
great kid. She's a special talent, special young lady, special player.
I know they've had some great ones here at Texas.
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I think she's she's going to be when she's done,
going to be the all time greatest to ever play here.
And I think she's going to go on and have
obviously a great career in the w But the kid
is just again, she's a great example of the game
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is real fair. You get out of it what you
put into it, and she has poured into her game
and she's you know, obviously benefited from that. But the
kid works extremely hard and you know, just like today,
got done with practice and then comes over here wants
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to get up more shots. And so it's it's I
want our fans to understand. You know, we we think
we're always going to recruit great eight and get great players,
and we will to an extent. We always will have
great players. But every once in a while you get
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that great, great one and you know, Rory Harmon, you
can throw her in there with with Madison in that
Rory's already set the record for what twelve hundred points
and seven hundred assists, and any other.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Player ever done that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Booker is going to have a chance to be the
all time leading scorer, all time you know, score in
the history of the University of Texas. Get she brings
so much more to the table. So you're talking about
two great guards that when you look across the country
not to you know, I don't know of anybody that
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can say they've got a Madison Booker and a Rory
Harmon on their team. And I want our fans to
understand that and embrace that and realize when they come
out and watch our team play, they're looking at two
of the greatest to ever play here, no doubt, no doubt. Again,
not taking anything away from you know, the players that
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have been here before.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But in the modern era of what we you.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Know women's basketball today. Man, it is really a special time.
And you know, we had Shay Holly who set the
record for most games played in in the history of
the university. And so it's it's really cool right now
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to have the team we have, the young ladies that
we have and realize, Man, when you come to watch
us play, you're you're looking at some of the best
to ever play here. And again, I really, I really
feel like when it's all said and done, you know,
those two in particular, will have etched their names in
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the history books here.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
In several areas. Then we're lucky that we've had them.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The last thing I want to ask you about, Vick,
is the SEC released the conference schedule game. Now, this
is following on the heels of a pretty unique non
conference schedule.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
You have, if I if I.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
May suggest that, I mean, you have obviously every basketball program,
certainly every successful one, has what are called the bye games.
And you've got that in Incarnate Ward, in Louisiana LAFAAD,
and in Texas, Southern and Northwestern State and Southeastern Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
But you've got these.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You have the home at home on the back end
at home when you had to go on the road
to play Richmond and James Madison last year, and you've
got both of them at home this year, and you
have been at home. But then you've got some other
unique things you've got. You've got Penn at home. You
have the acc SEC Challenge.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Game at home against North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You have a trip back to the Rio Grand Valley
to play UTRGV. You have Baylor in Fort Worth at
Dickey's Arena.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And then and you've got a trip to.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Brooking, South Dakota to play South Dakota State. That's before
you even get in the conference play on New Year's
Day against Missouri. You've got a road trip to South
Carolina home and home with LSU. You've got a road
trip to Tennessee, a road trip to Vanderbilt. You've got
some pretty interesting challenges on your schedule, both non conference
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and overall.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Would you think, Craig, you just and you missed the
two other games in November out in Vegas. Oh yeah,
we're going to UCLA and Duke or or South Carolina.
We're gonna play UCLA and then we're gonna either play
the winner or the loser of duke South Carolina, so
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we could potentially play South Carolina again twice for a
duke team that was in the either Sweet sixteen or
Elite eight. So we've got plenty of schedule. Of course,
the SEC doesn't do us any favors. We've had to
open now back to back years twy. You know, we
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have home and home with South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
A year ago.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Now I've got a home and home with LSU. The
only difference is last year, at least, when I had
South Carolina home and home.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I got LSU at home. This year, I got a
home at home with LSU.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And I'm at South Carolina, I'm at Tennessee, I'm at Vanderbilt,
I'm at Alabama. I mean, all those schools are picked
top six in our conference. So I don't know, I
don't quite understand it. I don't think it's fair because
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this is how it will be every year. Now, every
other year we're gonna we're gonna end up. Every other
year we will have this schedule.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Good gree at.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Vanderbilt, at Tennessee, at South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
At LSU. That is a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Nobody else in our league has that. Nobody I've been
through it, but it is what it is, you know,
so we'll just have to do.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
The best we can.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We navigated last year pretty hard, pretty well, you know,
and what I felt like was a very difficult schedule,
and you know, we'll have to do it again this year.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Also, Florida had a solid team last year. You got
to go to Gainesville. You would expect that eventually, Arkansas
is going to get back in a good rhythm. You
got to go to Fayetteville, and like I said, you
open on New Year's Day in Columbia against.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The solid Missouri program.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I guess, you know, all of all of those things
had up to to what makes this thing as challenging
as it does.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It's the SEC there's no off days, there's no off games.
You don't play well on given night, you won't get beat,
you'll get embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
And that's just the nature of the Beast. So we've
got to try to navigate the best we can. Again,
it's it's the hand we're dealt with. And I think too,
you know what we've done with our non conference schedule.
I mean, you're gonna open with two top.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You know, potentially two top ten teams, top twelve teams,
got to go to a top twenty five South Dakota State.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
They're always in the nca Tournament. I'm gonna have to
play Baylor. They'll be in the top twenty five up
in Dickie's.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
They've got a hell of a team coming back and
got some new transfer kids, some new portal kids.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Obviously gonna have to play North Carolina at home. They're
always in the top fifteen. So it's it's it's not
a very friendly schedule in my mind.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, and that's why I mentioned at the top. You
have over five thousand total season tickets sold. You're closing
in on two thousand new season ticket older. That's what
you want, that's what you envision. I've heard you say
this before when you came here, and in the going
on twenty seven years of calling the games, I can
scarcely remember too many crowds until you got here, of
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even five thousand fans total, and sometimes that was visiting
fans like for Baylor or Tech or whatever. I know,
you've got to be pleased with what you have, even
as you're wanting even more to get season tickets and
show up this year.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
For sure, I mean, part of building your programs building
your fan base, and that's been the part that's been
really you know challenging here. You know, Mississippi State we
averaged ninety five hundred to night in a twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Five thousand person community.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I felt like, coming here, two million people right here
close by, you know, we could do the same thing.
And we've certainly had some great crowds, no question about it.
We've had some you know, big crowds over ten thousand,
you know, four or five, six times a year, but
just trying to build that consistency. It's not about who
(28:20):
I'm playing. You're not coming to see North Carolina play.
You're coming to see Texas play. And that's I think
the philosophy that's kind.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Of hard to get through to our fan base.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You're not buying season tickets because I've got Connecticut on
my schedule. You're buying season tickets because the University of
Texas is a top ten team, a top ten program,
and you want to come support them. It doesn't matter
if we're playing Connecticut or some three named directional school.
And that's that's the mindset that sometimes is a challenge
(28:55):
to change. But you know, I think we're getting that again.
To me, it all has to do with the product
you put on the floor. And the better, the better
your team you have, the more accessful they are, the
better kids that they are, the better support you'll have.
(29:16):
And I think that's where we've we've really been good.
We've we've got great kids. They work extremely hard, they
played the game the right way, and they're.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Fun to watch and and so I think that's that's
how you do it.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You can have all the promotions on, you know, whatever
you want, but at the end of the day, those things.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Aren't worth more than three, four or five hundred people.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's it's the kids themselves. It's their style of play,
it's how hard they play. That's what truly builds your
fan base, builds your season ticket foundation, and then builds
your walk up. And so I'm proud of our kids.
I'm proud of my staff for what we've been able
(30:06):
to do in five short years.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
No doubt about it. Hey, I appreciate you taking the
time to do this.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I know things are really really busy right now as
you get ready for this Canadian trip, but I thank
you for taking a few minutes to let everybody know
what's coming down the road and how to continue to
jump on board and be a part.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Of this thing, and I'm thankful to you. Thanks so
much for doing this todayvic.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh, thank you having us on and your love and
support of our program. We appreciate you more than you know,
so thanks again.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Everybody, have a great day. Praise the Lord and Hook
of Morns.
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