August 8, 2024 • 6 mins
Texas Longhorns football coach Steve Sarkisian is an advocate of more NFL rules in College Football, including an injury report similar to what NFL teams are required to release each week.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the Craig Wag shot with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Craig all right, thanks again, Greg Chamber, Managing editor Dave
Campbell's Texas Football Magazine for joining us on the program.
Craig Way, Cameron Parker with you here on the eventful,
busy Thursday afternoon. Lots of stuff that happened in the
(00:32):
Olympics today, including that air tight victory for the US
men's basketball team, which found itself down thirteen points in
the fourth quarter, trailed by as many as fifteen in
the game. They were still down twelve with seven minutes
left and rallied back to win ninety five ninety one.
Steph Curry had the bigger, the biggest of the games,
(00:55):
thirty six points in the contest, but Lebron James had
a triple double in the game, Joel Embiid had a
big game, and Kevin Durant scored seven of his nine
points down the stretch of court. And you found a
quote from kd that kind of sums it up about
Team USA in the State of the United States.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Katie was asked about playing for his country, playing
for the USA and his quote was, there's a lot
of bs that happens in our country, but a lot
of great things happened to It's a great quote from
Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And if I know Kevin, he didn't use the initials. No,
he did not, but he's right, you know, for all
of the kind of goofy things that can happen in
their country, it's great. It's great when things like that
happen because it does kind of bring people together. Logwarts
had football coach Steve Circuisan's trying to bring his team
together and get them ready for the coming season, and
(01:53):
of course you go through some adversity like what they
did with the loss of Cedric Baxter, so CJ. With
the knee injuries out for the you'll have to have surgery.
He'll miss the entire seasons, entire season. Sark talked about
the guys that have to step up and do their job.
He also mentioned, and this is from the department of
(02:14):
keeping it real, he also mentioned he goes, he goes.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but this is probably
not going to be the only injury we're gonna have
to deal with. UH doing that, So they have to
you know, get ready across the board, no matter what
happens for that. And he was sark a lot of
(02:34):
times when when you talk to him about the way
that not just the rules, a lot of guidelines that
are laid out in policies and procedures about how college
football is administered, you'll get some interesting thoughts from him.
(02:58):
And sometimes he invokes the National Football League, where he
was an assistant. Obviously he's been an assistant at a
couple of places in the NFL, and he says, there's
some things about the NFL that just you know, there
are a lot of things about the NFL that are
not applicable to college football, but there are some things
(03:20):
that are. And one of the things that he was
asked about in his media availability this morning is the
injury report, because if you have, you know, in the NFL,
they have probable, questionable, doubtful out that kind of thing,
although we have found over time that it's kind of
(03:41):
a sliding scale and there's a lot of gray area
that but Sarkas asked, is he in favor of that
kind of thing where you could just say so and
so was probable, or so and so was questionable and
not have to go into a grand a great deal
of explanation about the level of injury that the student
athlete had.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I am in favor of it. I just think, like
the the UH in college football, there's so many cat
and mouse games. You know, not that there isn't in
the NFL, but but the NFL, like I say it
all the time, like they've done the studies, They've done
the research. They understand, you know, whether it's headset communication,
whether it's instant replay, whether it's two minute warnings, like
(04:21):
they do all that stuff for a reason. And so
there's a reason that they have the injury report right
and whether that's for the opponent, whether that's because now
we don't have to worry about leaks out of our building.
And as it pertains to this new idea of online
gambling and all the stuff that's going on out there,
like hey, this is where we're at, here's who's out,
(04:41):
here's who's questionable, here's who's probable, and and we go
from there and and and again, and if you don't
do it the right way, then then find us. You know,
then that's on us as coaches that we're not disclosing
what needs to be disclosed.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Just go ahead and you know,
put it on us to put them in the proper
category probable, questionable, doubtful, out, you know whatever. And then
if we don't go by, if we don't abide by
that rule, and then come after us, find us, deal
with us. So, if we were to extrapolate that out further,
(05:15):
if we were to take it a step further and
go beyond the injury element and injury report, would start
be in a position where he would want to see
college football adopt more even other rules that come out
of the NFL rule book.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, you know all those things. I just think we're
closing the gap on that, and I think in a
weird way, sometimes they're closing the gap on us too.
I think they're doing some different things in the NFL
that is coming a little closer to the college game.
There are definitely a lot of rules and some intricate
rules that are very different. The screen game is very
different of when you can engage in blocks punt game.
(06:00):
You know, you can't release downfield until the ball has
been punted naturally two feet in bounds. You're not down
until you get touched, you know, there's a lot of
different rules. Again, all I'm saying we as we start
to say, hey, we want to go down a certain
path that then could look similar to the NFL at
that point, then I say, why don't we just adopt
(06:21):
what the NFL is doing, because they've already done the
research on this stuff and they know if we're not
concerned about going down that road, then keep our game
the way it is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Interesting, all right, interesting thoughts from Sark. We'll hear more
from him tomorrow and more long worn player comments as well.
And like we said, Texas heading a little bit closer
toward their first scrimmage of the training camp, and that'll
be Saturday morning inside of DKR Texas Memorial Stadium with
close scrimmage there. All right, We'll be back to wrap
up today's edition of the program right here on sports
(06:52):
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and on the iHeartRadio app.
It's the Craig Wag shot with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Craig all right, thanks again, Greg Chamber, Managing editor Dave
Campbell's Texas Football Magazine for joining us on the program.
Craig Way, Cameron Parker with you here on the eventful,
busy Thursday afternoon. Lots of stuff that happened in the
(00:32):
Olympics today, including that air tight victory for the US
men's basketball team, which found itself down thirteen points in
the fourth quarter, trailed by as many as fifteen in
the game. They were still down twelve with seven minutes
left and rallied back to win ninety five ninety one.
Steph Curry had the bigger, the biggest of the games,
(00:55):
thirty six points in the contest, but Lebron James had
a triple double in the game, Joel Embiid had a
big game, and Kevin Durant scored seven of his nine
points down the stretch of court. And you found a
quote from kd that kind of sums it up about
Team USA in the State of the United States.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Katie was asked about playing for his country, playing
for the USA and his quote was, there's a lot
of bs that happens in our country, but a lot
of great things happened to It's a great quote from
Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And if I know Kevin, he didn't use the initials. No,
he did not, but he's right, you know, for all
of the kind of goofy things that can happen in
their country, it's great. It's great when things like that
happen because it does kind of bring people together. Logwarts
had football coach Steve Circuisan's trying to bring his team
together and get them ready for the coming season, and
(01:53):
of course you go through some adversity like what they
did with the loss of Cedric Baxter, so CJ. With
the knee injuries out for the you'll have to have surgery.
He'll miss the entire seasons, entire season. Sark talked about
the guys that have to step up and do their job.
He also mentioned, and this is from the department of
(02:14):
keeping it real, he also mentioned he goes, he goes.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but this is probably
not going to be the only injury we're gonna have
to deal with. UH doing that, So they have to
you know, get ready across the board, no matter what
happens for that. And he was sark a lot of
(02:34):
times when when you talk to him about the way
that not just the rules, a lot of guidelines that
are laid out in policies and procedures about how college
football is administered, you'll get some interesting thoughts from him.
(02:58):
And sometimes he invokes the National Football League, where he
was an assistant. Obviously he's been an assistant at a
couple of places in the NFL, and he says, there's
some things about the NFL that just you know, there
are a lot of things about the NFL that are
not applicable to college football, but there are some things
(03:20):
that are. And one of the things that he was
asked about in his media availability this morning is the
injury report, because if you have, you know, in the NFL,
they have probable, questionable, doubtful out that kind of thing,
although we have found over time that it's kind of
(03:41):
a sliding scale and there's a lot of gray area
that but Sarkas asked, is he in favor of that
kind of thing where you could just say so and
so was probable, or so and so was questionable and
not have to go into a grand a great deal
of explanation about the level of injury that the student
athlete had.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I am in favor of it. I just think, like
the the UH in college football, there's so many cat
and mouse games. You know, not that there isn't in
the NFL, but but the NFL, like I say it
all the time, like they've done the studies, They've done
the research. They understand, you know, whether it's headset communication,
whether it's instant replay, whether it's two minute warnings, like
(04:21):
they do all that stuff for a reason. And so
there's a reason that they have the injury report right
and whether that's for the opponent, whether that's because now
we don't have to worry about leaks out of our building.
And as it pertains to this new idea of online
gambling and all the stuff that's going on out there,
like hey, this is where we're at, here's who's out,
(04:41):
here's who's questionable, here's who's probable, and and we go
from there and and and again, and if you don't
do it the right way, then then find us. You know,
then that's on us as coaches that we're not disclosing
what needs to be disclosed.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Just go ahead and you know,
put it on us to put them in the proper
category probable, questionable, doubtful, out, you know whatever. And then
if we don't go by, if we don't abide by
that rule, and then come after us, find us, deal
with us. So, if we were to extrapolate that out further,
(05:15):
if we were to take it a step further and
go beyond the injury element and injury report, would start
be in a position where he would want to see
college football adopt more even other rules that come out
of the NFL rule book.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, you know all those things. I just think we're
closing the gap on that, and I think in a
weird way, sometimes they're closing the gap on us too.
I think they're doing some different things in the NFL
that is coming a little closer to the college game.
There are definitely a lot of rules and some intricate
rules that are very different. The screen game is very
different of when you can engage in blocks punt game.
(06:00):
You know, you can't release downfield until the ball has
been punted naturally two feet in bounds. You're not down
until you get touched, you know, there's a lot of
different rules. Again, all I'm saying we as we start
to say, hey, we want to go down a certain
path that then could look similar to the NFL at
that point, then I say, why don't we just adopt
(06:21):
what the NFL is doing, because they've already done the
research on this stuff and they know if we're not
concerned about going down that road, then keep our game
the way it is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Interesting, all right, interesting thoughts from Sark. We'll hear more
from him tomorrow and more long worn player comments as well.
And like we said, Texas heading a little bit closer
toward their first scrimmage of the training camp, and that'll
be Saturday morning inside of DKR Texas Memorial Stadium with
close scrimmage there. All right, We'll be back to wrap
up today's edition of the program right here on sports
(06:52):
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and on the iHeartRadio app.
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