October 16, 2024 • 10 mins
One of our listeners asked Craig Way if he enjoyed broadcasting the Texas Longhorns NIT run in 2019. His answer may not surprise you as Hour 2 begins!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig Way and the producer Cameron Parker alongside, and glad
to have you with us, and we're with you up
until five o'clock this afternoon, and a reminder at six
o'clock we'll be recording Long Worn Weekly with Coach Sark.
That'll be the program out at Pluckers and the West
(00:24):
Campus location at twenty two twenty two Rio Grand, So
we'll be out there for that and hopefully if you
are interested, you can come on out and we do
allow you to ask questions if you'd like to. But
the way you do it is we have these question
cards and you fill those out, you write them in
(00:45):
the questions we get some entertaining ones. Sometimes, like last week,
somebody asked him m Jay or Lebron, just MJA or Lebron,
and I knew his answer before you can say. He said, well,
you know where I'm going to go. It's at Kobe. Yeah,
lots of and and of course as a West Coaster,
he's gonna definitely, I mean, Lebron's on the West coast now,
but his roots are not in the West coast there.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What about you all the way? M J all the way?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Okay, Well, I wouldn't have any argument with that. I mean,
and of course both of us grew up in Michael
Jordan's home state.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
If you're gonna say Kobe, now I know where it
starts coming from. But there is no Kobe Bryant without
Michael Jordan. So for me, you gotta take m J.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, Yeah, that's that's fair enough. I And you know,
if I remember, when Kobe was still on this earth
with us, he gave a great deal of respect and
admiration for Michael Jordan, saying that my career would not
(01:54):
have been as you know, successful as it's been without
without Michael Jordan's competition, without his influence, all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And mj spoke at Kobe's funeral and gave a just
a fantastic guilogy to remember Kobe Bryant. It's still one
of the best things. It's tough to get through because
it's so sad, but you could tell the respect that
MJ had for Kobe Bryant. You know, there's a lot
of mj impostors, and you know, the way Jordan has
(02:28):
dealt with him has been very differently, but you could
tell how much respect he had for Kobe Bryant all
the way through his career and afterwards that MJ does
not always give to a lot of players in this league,
past or present.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Absolutely a no doubt about it. Our thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
By the way, Scott Howard, to play by play voice
of the Georgia Bulldogs, was home with us last hour.
If we missed the conversation, certainly you can listen to
it on our podcast page at AM thirteen hundred The
Zone dot com, so you can do that as well.
Coming up in a few minutes, we're going to hear
from log Oorne's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. There were a
couple of things we didn't get to the other day
that I want you to hear, and then from the
(03:05):
SEC teleconference there are other things that we'll get to also.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
By the way, Cameron, I.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Have a newly minted log in and password now for
our Texas I was using one that had been passed
along by a now former employee, and I just kept
using it, using it, and then when I had to
switch laptops because I had a laptop just go belly
up on me the other day. You know, when I
(03:31):
purchased that laptop during the NI t in twenty nineteen. Wow,
when Texas was in because I put it into play
in New York in the n I T Final four,
when Texas beat TCU and then beat Lipscomb in the
championship game there at Madison Square Garden, and I had
(03:53):
I've had folks ask me over the years, was that
just awful doing the n I T. And I said,
let me tell you something. Is the oldest college basketball tournament.
He was older than the NCAA Tournament by one year.
It used to have a much more prominent place than
it holds now. Having grown up in a state where
(04:13):
college basketball is revered like North Carolina is, and the
n I T.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Grew a great deal of respect.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
If you couldn't get into the NCAA Tournament, that sort
of thing, I said, let me put it to you
this way. I am glad to have been able to
broadcast an n I T. I'm even more happy that
I was able to broadcast five games in the n
(04:40):
I T and that Texas won that n I T.
Having said that, I hope never to have to be
able to broadcast an n I ever again. Hopefully they're
in the NCAA Tournament every year. And I had I
had a coach tell me one time that the thing
about the n I T is it's one of two things.
You either won to win the whole thing or go
(05:02):
out in round one. You don't really want the in
between because if you go out round one, then you
know they're hitting the road recruiting and they're doing all
this other stuff and trying to prepare for the next season.
Because clearly, if you're in the niit the season did
not go the way you wanted it to go. You
wanted to be in the NCAAA Basketball Tournament, totally understand that.
But once you're in it, are you in it to
(05:23):
win it? And that's that's the deal. So I'm glad
it was done for those people who have snided the comment,
what do you do hang a ban or they didn't hang.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
A separate banner for the NIT.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just like most basketball programs, they'll hang banners up showing
all a list of all the NCAA tournament appearances. There
is one banner that shows NIT championships. I think maybe
even total appearances, but championships they won two nineteen seventy
eight when A. Lemons was the coach, and then of
course in twenty nineteen. Those were Those were the two
(06:00):
and that's it, and hopefully never had to do it again.
But anyway, I had a newly purchased laptop and it
finally gave up the ghost the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I was working pretty well but finally died out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So I had this other laptop that Linda had given
me for Christmas and said, you need to put this
in the plane.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I had not, so the months had gone.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
By, had not intended to do it, and then finally
it did it. It went under and I had to
do it, and to press it in the service. Well,
that meant re establishing passwords and you know, easy shortcuts
to things, documents, all that other kind of stuff. So
but I do now have my own specific password which
brings me to the text line, and you're certainly welcome
(06:44):
to text the program like these folks did. For example,
we were talking about Jerry Jones earlier and somebody called
him Jerryatric He is eighty two, turned eighty two on
Sunday and somebody else. As much as I don't like
Jerry Jones, I just hope he doesn't have the same
(07:05):
downhill spiral like Vince McMahon did. Considering these two have
very similar personalities. Vince McMahon, I think it was a
little more aggressive. Alpha had to be that alpha dominant
personality because of WWE and all that other stuff and
UFC and all all of those things. So anyway, that
(07:29):
or Vince McMahon what the XFL also was his other
big thing. So then and then somebody else said the
Oregon coach talking about Dan Landing kind of gaming the
system using that twelve minute on the field thing because
it ran time off the clock, so it ran four seconds,
(07:50):
so it left him with six seconds, so that by
the time Will Howard slid to the turf, time ran out.
So yeah, they gained the system on that, and then
it got changed today by the NCAA. Somebody elsead the
Oregan coach reminds me too much of vodka Tom, and
I may or may not be saying that because I'm
a Buckeye fan.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Help me. I'm vodka Tom.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Tom Herman was vodka. I never saw Tom Herman have
a vodka. I never saw that. Okay, and then somebody
else said, hey, your alma mater also won the n IT.
Yes they did. North Texas did under Grant Maccastle, who's
now the coach of Texas Tech. They did. They won
(08:32):
also a CBI. A CBI Texas playing in the CBI once.
That's one I could say, I hope never happens again,
and probably never.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Would of it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't know that Texas would accept the reason they
did in twenty thirteen. It was the only time in
his whatever sixteen years that rig Barnes ever missed the
NCAA tournament. And the reason they accepted it that year
in twenty thirteen was he had I think seven freshman
and he wanted them to play and said, these guys
need experience. Well, the Irin Center had all kinds of
(09:07):
date conflicts, so they couldn't play any home games, at
least they were not. They were going to have to
play two on the road at Houston, and if they
won that, they were going to have to go to
James No, George Mason and play there before getting a
chance to host I think a semifinal. Well, they didn't
get that far because they lost on a tipping at
(09:29):
the Buzzer to Houston seventy five to seventy year or
seventy three seventy one.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Anyway, they lost.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
At what is now the what is it for Tita Pavilion. Yeah,
we were there last year and it was it was
rather it was not good for Texas. Houston's a good
basketball program, but anyway, they lost that night to that
and that was the only time they've been in the CBI.
(09:54):
And this Texas men's team is picked. It's ranked nineteenth
in the preseason Bowl pick seventh in a very competitive SEC.
And we're gonna hear from Rodney Terry tomorrow on the
program about that. And we're also gonna hear from Vic Schaefer,
the Texas women's head coach, because they've been at SEC
basketball media days, so we'll hear from them about that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Up next, we'll hear from Long Words head football coach
Steve Sarkisian from the SEC teleconference and a couple other
things that he had to offer on Monday that we'll
get to as well when we continue here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
Craig Way and the producer Cameron Parker alongside, and glad
to have you with us, and we're with you up
until five o'clock this afternoon, and a reminder at six
o'clock we'll be recording Long Worn Weekly with Coach Sark.
That'll be the program out at Pluckers and the West
(00:24):
Campus location at twenty two twenty two Rio Grand, So
we'll be out there for that and hopefully if you
are interested, you can come on out and we do
allow you to ask questions if you'd like to. But
the way you do it is we have these question
cards and you fill those out, you write them in
(00:45):
the questions we get some entertaining ones. Sometimes, like last week,
somebody asked him m Jay or Lebron, just MJA or Lebron,
and I knew his answer before you can say. He said, well,
you know where I'm going to go. It's at Kobe. Yeah,
lots of and and of course as a West Coaster,
he's gonna definitely, I mean, Lebron's on the West coast now,
but his roots are not in the West coast there.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What about you all the way? M J all the way?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Okay, Well, I wouldn't have any argument with that. I mean,
and of course both of us grew up in Michael
Jordan's home state.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
If you're gonna say Kobe, now I know where it
starts coming from. But there is no Kobe Bryant without
Michael Jordan. So for me, you gotta take m J.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, Yeah, that's that's fair enough. I And you know,
if I remember, when Kobe was still on this earth
with us, he gave a great deal of respect and
admiration for Michael Jordan, saying that my career would not
(01:54):
have been as you know, successful as it's been without
without Michael Jordan's competition, without his influence, all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And mj spoke at Kobe's funeral and gave a just
a fantastic guilogy to remember Kobe Bryant. It's still one
of the best things. It's tough to get through because
it's so sad, but you could tell the respect that
MJ had for Kobe Bryant. You know, there's a lot
of mj impostors, and you know, the way Jordan has
(02:28):
dealt with him has been very differently, but you could
tell how much respect he had for Kobe Bryant all
the way through his career and afterwards that MJ does
not always give to a lot of players in this league,
past or present.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Absolutely a no doubt about it. Our thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
By the way, Scott Howard, to play by play voice
of the Georgia Bulldogs, was home with us last hour.
If we missed the conversation, certainly you can listen to
it on our podcast page at AM thirteen hundred The
Zone dot com, so you can do that as well.
Coming up in a few minutes, we're going to hear
from log Oorne's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. There were a
couple of things we didn't get to the other day
that I want you to hear, and then from the
(03:05):
SEC teleconference there are other things that we'll get to also.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
By the way, Cameron, I.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Have a newly minted log in and password now for
our Texas I was using one that had been passed
along by a now former employee, and I just kept
using it, using it, and then when I had to
switch laptops because I had a laptop just go belly
up on me the other day. You know, when I
(03:31):
purchased that laptop during the NI t in twenty nineteen. Wow,
when Texas was in because I put it into play
in New York in the n I T Final four,
when Texas beat TCU and then beat Lipscomb in the
championship game there at Madison Square Garden, and I had
(03:53):
I've had folks ask me over the years, was that
just awful doing the n I T. And I said,
let me tell you something. Is the oldest college basketball tournament.
He was older than the NCAA Tournament by one year.
It used to have a much more prominent place than
it holds now. Having grown up in a state where
(04:13):
college basketball is revered like North Carolina is, and the
n I T.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Grew a great deal of respect.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
If you couldn't get into the NCAA Tournament, that sort
of thing, I said, let me put it to you
this way. I am glad to have been able to
broadcast an n I T. I'm even more happy that
I was able to broadcast five games in the n
(04:40):
I T and that Texas won that n I T.
Having said that, I hope never to have to be
able to broadcast an n I ever again. Hopefully they're
in the NCAA Tournament every year. And I had I
had a coach tell me one time that the thing
about the n I T is it's one of two things.
You either won to win the whole thing or go
(05:02):
out in round one. You don't really want the in
between because if you go out round one, then you
know they're hitting the road recruiting and they're doing all
this other stuff and trying to prepare for the next season.
Because clearly, if you're in the niit the season did
not go the way you wanted it to go. You
wanted to be in the NCAAA Basketball Tournament, totally understand that.
But once you're in it, are you in it to
(05:23):
win it? And that's that's the deal. So I'm glad
it was done for those people who have snided the comment,
what do you do hang a ban or they didn't hang.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
A separate banner for the NIT.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just like most basketball programs, they'll hang banners up showing
all a list of all the NCAA tournament appearances. There
is one banner that shows NIT championships. I think maybe
even total appearances, but championships they won two nineteen seventy
eight when A. Lemons was the coach, and then of
course in twenty nineteen. Those were Those were the two
(06:00):
and that's it, and hopefully never had to do it again.
But anyway, I had a newly purchased laptop and it
finally gave up the ghost the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I was working pretty well but finally died out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So I had this other laptop that Linda had given
me for Christmas and said, you need to put this
in the plane.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I had not, so the months had gone.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
By, had not intended to do it, and then finally
it did it. It went under and I had to
do it, and to press it in the service. Well,
that meant re establishing passwords and you know, easy shortcuts
to things, documents, all that other kind of stuff. So
but I do now have my own specific password which
brings me to the text line, and you're certainly welcome
(06:44):
to text the program like these folks did. For example,
we were talking about Jerry Jones earlier and somebody called
him Jerryatric He is eighty two, turned eighty two on
Sunday and somebody else. As much as I don't like
Jerry Jones, I just hope he doesn't have the same
(07:05):
downhill spiral like Vince McMahon did. Considering these two have
very similar personalities. Vince McMahon, I think it was a
little more aggressive. Alpha had to be that alpha dominant
personality because of WWE and all that other stuff and
UFC and all all of those things. So anyway, that
(07:29):
or Vince McMahon what the XFL also was his other
big thing. So then and then somebody else said the
Oregon coach talking about Dan Landing kind of gaming the
system using that twelve minute on the field thing because
it ran time off the clock, so it ran four seconds,
(07:50):
so it left him with six seconds, so that by
the time Will Howard slid to the turf, time ran out.
So yeah, they gained the system on that, and then
it got changed today by the NCAA. Somebody elsead the
Oregan coach reminds me too much of vodka Tom, and
I may or may not be saying that because I'm
a Buckeye fan.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Help me. I'm vodka Tom.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Tom Herman was vodka. I never saw Tom Herman have
a vodka. I never saw that. Okay, and then somebody
else said, hey, your alma mater also won the n IT.
Yes they did. North Texas did under Grant Maccastle, who's
now the coach of Texas Tech. They did. They won
(08:32):
also a CBI. A CBI Texas playing in the CBI once.
That's one I could say, I hope never happens again,
and probably never.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Would of it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't know that Texas would accept the reason they
did in twenty thirteen. It was the only time in
his whatever sixteen years that rig Barnes ever missed the
NCAA tournament. And the reason they accepted it that year
in twenty thirteen was he had I think seven freshman
and he wanted them to play and said, these guys
need experience. Well, the Irin Center had all kinds of
(09:07):
date conflicts, so they couldn't play any home games, at
least they were not. They were going to have to
play two on the road at Houston, and if they
won that, they were going to have to go to
James No, George Mason and play there before getting a
chance to host I think a semifinal. Well, they didn't
get that far because they lost on a tipping at
(09:29):
the Buzzer to Houston seventy five to seventy year or
seventy three seventy one.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Anyway, they lost.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
At what is now the what is it for Tita Pavilion. Yeah,
we were there last year and it was it was
rather it was not good for Texas. Houston's a good
basketball program, but anyway, they lost that night to that
and that was the only time they've been in the CBI.
(09:54):
And this Texas men's team is picked. It's ranked nineteenth
in the preseason Bowl pick seventh in a very competitive SEC.
And we're gonna hear from Rodney Terry tomorrow on the
program about that. And we're also gonna hear from Vic Schaefer,
the Texas women's head coach, because they've been at SEC
basketball media days, so we'll hear from them about that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Up next, we'll hear from Long Words head football coach
Steve Sarkisian from the SEC teleconference and a couple other
things that he had to offer on Monday that we'll
get to as well when we continue here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
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