September 10, 2024 • 8 mins
Texas Longhorns DB Andrew Mukuba visited with the media on to discuss his transfer to Texas and what brought him back to Austin and playing for Clemson. Mukuba's discusses playing alongside Jahdae Barron and Michael Taaffe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this Texan Tuesday, let's hear from a true Texan
kid who played at LBJ High School here in Austin.
Andrew mccuba played for Jamal Finner who was the head
coach at the time, and of course the coach Finner,
and it got him to the state finals in for
a Then mcoba went off to Clemson, spent three seasons,
(00:21):
was all acc played really well, but Andrew transferred back
to Texas now for one year of eligibility on this
So in the media availability with mccooba, who of course
had his first interception as along one last Saturday in
the win up at Michigan, mccooba was asked about that
decision and what went through his mind in deciding to
(00:44):
come home to Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, I feel like everything was right about this school.
I feel like the program changed, like the direction when
the program was hading obviously moving to a bigger conference
and really managed being close to the family home. I
feel that that's what I needed at that point of
my time in my life, and I felt like, you know,
the only thing I could lean on was family. So
I feel like coming home was the best thing I
(01:06):
could do.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
All right, So he came home. Was the decision to
leave Clemson after three years and come back home difficult?
Was it a tough call for him?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That wasn't very difficult making a move, To be honest,
I felt like everything was gonna go smooth. Just being
from here, obviously, that transition was so smooth. Just knowing
the place around here, knowing the people around here, and
just living here anything in my whole life. So that
kind of that part of that part of the transition
was easy for me. But as far as the football standpoint,
(01:35):
that was easy as well, because when I got here,
this coach here already speaks for itself. So me just
coming in and trying to fit in and bond with
the guys, know those cases, I feel like that was
off of smooth for me. So he just made everything
a whole lot easier for me.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know what else made it easier for him being
able to reunite with guys that he had known since
middle school inspecific Shade Baron, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Is his defensive backfield teammates.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Johne was in middle school there in Fluterville before going
to Conley, and of course Mcooba wound up at LBJ
and also Michael Taff who played at Westlake, but the
guys got to know each other through camps and through
workout sessions and things like that. So he was asked,
how much fun is it to be able to reunite
with those guys and play in the secondary alongside Taff
(02:22):
and Barren.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Pretty fun because we mean, like you said, we've been
knowing each other for a while since like the middle
school high school days, so just seeing us grow together
as football players and also being from Austin, Texas be
where where we're well known. It's just fun going out
though with those guys and just being on those guys
a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
When Andrew was on the postgame show with us after
the win at Michigan on Saturday, he was on and
we'd asked a couple of questions, and then Quinn you
were sat down and we were asking him a couple
of questions. But I'd had one more question I wanted
to ask Andrew, but he had already left once Quinn
came in sat down, and I think he was pulled
(03:01):
away for another media obligation, so I didn't get a
chance to ask Andrew mccooba this question. But it was
asked yesterday. I'm glad it was and that was the
influence of Coach Finner. Jamal Finner, of course was his
head coach at LBJ, but Jamal Finner is now the
director of high school Relations on SARKS staff. So he
(03:23):
was asked about being around Coach Finner and how that
helped ease the transition coming back into the Austin area
and rolling at UT.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Chris Finner is like a mentor.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I look at like a mentor guy lean on for
advice and just sort of those things when it's time
to talk about another guy that lean on. But just
having to here is amazing. Man as me and Coach Finner, obviously,
I was my high school head coach.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So we were pretty tight. So we tight to this day.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So he just made this makes everything easier for me
just having somebody I can talk to in the same
building as me every day. So if that's that's good
to have him around.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
There's there are many gifts that a dB can, uh
you know bring to the party. Uh speed obviously it
was the old thing that Coach Gush used to say,
Uh speed ain't ever had a bad day. Uh. So
there's speed. Uh, there's the football, I q uh high
(04:17):
pointing the ball, good hands, things like that. Another thing
is angles and taking the right angle. Now speed is
involved in that, but it's also the smarts to see
what's going on. So it's a combination of two or
three things. And Macouba clearly has and was asked about
his ability to take the right angle to try to
(04:38):
cut down play, come all the way across the field
like he did a couple of times on Saturday, and
be able to make the necessary stop.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, it's all about the angle you take, because
running Bay obviously got a two way to go with
the glenside and outside. So it taking a good taking
a good pursuit angle and taking your shote where.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You can't you got to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You gotta take them. Calculate the shots so when you
do take that shot and make sure you wrap up
and do whatever he says and get them down.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Okay, all right, So there's that and then one other
thing from mccouba.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
This was a question.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You know, during the training camp workouts, it became pretty
fashionable to hear the assembled media, be it writers or
fansite writers, sports writers or reporters or even photographers for
(05:28):
local sportscast or wherever assembled media asking a couple of
questions that continue to come up. The same question that
was about leadership and clearly also about the development of
quinn Ewers and his leadership skills. That was one of them.
And then the other thing is about the building of
(05:52):
a successful formula. Sark had been asked about it quite
a bit, the constructing of success, of a formula for
success so that they win.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So here are two games in the books.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Logren's impressive in both of those wins, the season opening
blowout at home, the shutout of Colorado State and then
going up to ann Arbor and beating Michigan in the
Big House and dominating the game. And Sark was asked
about it, and other players were asked about it, and
Makoopa was asked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Formula for success, meaning also his personal formula for success?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Fast and physical.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I feel like those two things really harp on really hard,
and we try to play like that. I feel like
we go out there and play fast and obviously played physical.
I feel like most of the time we're gonna come
out on top, and we executed the right way. We
definitely gonna come out on top.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He seems very very you know, relaxed and you know,
not not really put out of sorts in terms of
adjusting to everything. And I think a lot of that
has to do is coming back home. It's different than,
like you say, if someone is transferring in. Give you
(07:06):
an example, tsa AA coming in from Arizona. There's there's,
you know, something to be said for that getting adjusted
to everything. Another example would be Bill Norton. Bill Norton's
from Memphis originally but transferred in from Arizona. You know,
(07:30):
guys who go through the portal. There is, after all,
an adjustment period to go through.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So there's some of that to keep in mind that
some guys have to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We've seen a Germaine Lolay play a little more of
late big number ninety nine in the interior of the
defensive line. He's from Long Beach, California, but he transferred
in from Louisville. So you know, all of those things
I think factor into it. The just getting adjusted and
acclimated and adapting to everything around here, and when you
(08:04):
are from here and you have friends on the football
team in advance as Maccooba does, it certainly helps out
the situation, all right, Coming up next, and we'll hear
more from Andrew mccuba, both in the three o'clock in
the four o'clock hour, But up next we will bring
you today's edition of Inconceivable, and we continue on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
On this Texan Tuesday, let's hear from a true Texan
kid who played at LBJ High School here in Austin.
Andrew mccuba played for Jamal Finner who was the head
coach at the time, and of course the coach Finner,
and it got him to the state finals in for
a Then mcoba went off to Clemson, spent three seasons,
(00:21):
was all acc played really well, but Andrew transferred back
to Texas now for one year of eligibility on this
So in the media availability with mccooba, who of course
had his first interception as along one last Saturday in
the win up at Michigan, mccooba was asked about that
decision and what went through his mind in deciding to
(00:44):
come home to Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, I feel like everything was right about this school.
I feel like the program changed, like the direction when
the program was hading obviously moving to a bigger conference
and really managed being close to the family home. I
feel that that's what I needed at that point of
my time in my life, and I felt like, you know,
the only thing I could lean on was family. So
I feel like coming home was the best thing I
(01:06):
could do.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
All right, So he came home. Was the decision to
leave Clemson after three years and come back home difficult?
Was it a tough call for him?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That wasn't very difficult making a move, To be honest,
I felt like everything was gonna go smooth. Just being
from here, obviously, that transition was so smooth. Just knowing
the place around here, knowing the people around here, and
just living here anything in my whole life. So that
kind of that part of that part of the transition
was easy for me. But as far as the football standpoint,
(01:35):
that was easy as well, because when I got here,
this coach here already speaks for itself. So me just
coming in and trying to fit in and bond with
the guys, know those cases, I feel like that was
off of smooth for me. So he just made everything
a whole lot easier for me.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know what else made it easier for him being
able to reunite with guys that he had known since
middle school inspecific Shade Baron, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Is his defensive backfield teammates.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Johne was in middle school there in Fluterville before going
to Conley, and of course Mcooba wound up at LBJ
and also Michael Taff who played at Westlake, but the
guys got to know each other through camps and through
workout sessions and things like that. So he was asked,
how much fun is it to be able to reunite
with those guys and play in the secondary alongside Taff
(02:22):
and Barren.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Pretty fun because we mean, like you said, we've been
knowing each other for a while since like the middle
school high school days, so just seeing us grow together
as football players and also being from Austin, Texas be
where where we're well known. It's just fun going out
though with those guys and just being on those guys
a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
When Andrew was on the postgame show with us after
the win at Michigan on Saturday, he was on and
we'd asked a couple of questions, and then Quinn you
were sat down and we were asking him a couple
of questions. But I'd had one more question I wanted
to ask Andrew, but he had already left once Quinn
came in sat down, and I think he was pulled
(03:01):
away for another media obligation, so I didn't get a
chance to ask Andrew mccooba this question. But it was
asked yesterday. I'm glad it was and that was the
influence of Coach Finner. Jamal Finner, of course was his
head coach at LBJ, but Jamal Finner is now the
director of high school Relations on SARKS staff. So he
(03:23):
was asked about being around Coach Finner and how that
helped ease the transition coming back into the Austin area
and rolling at UT.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Chris Finner is like a mentor.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I look at like a mentor guy lean on for
advice and just sort of those things when it's time
to talk about another guy that lean on. But just
having to here is amazing. Man as me and Coach Finner, obviously,
I was my high school head coach.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So we were pretty tight. So we tight to this day.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So he just made this makes everything easier for me
just having somebody I can talk to in the same
building as me every day. So if that's that's good
to have him around.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
There's there are many gifts that a dB can, uh
you know bring to the party. Uh speed obviously it
was the old thing that Coach Gush used to say,
Uh speed ain't ever had a bad day. Uh. So
there's speed. Uh, there's the football, I q uh high
(04:17):
pointing the ball, good hands, things like that. Another thing
is angles and taking the right angle. Now speed is
involved in that, but it's also the smarts to see
what's going on. So it's a combination of two or
three things. And Macouba clearly has and was asked about
his ability to take the right angle to try to
(04:38):
cut down play, come all the way across the field
like he did a couple of times on Saturday, and
be able to make the necessary stop.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, it's all about the angle you take, because
running Bay obviously got a two way to go with
the glenside and outside. So it taking a good taking
a good pursuit angle and taking your shote where.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You can't you got to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You gotta take them. Calculate the shots so when you
do take that shot and make sure you wrap up
and do whatever he says and get them down.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Okay, all right, So there's that and then one other
thing from mccouba.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
This was a question.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You know, during the training camp workouts, it became pretty
fashionable to hear the assembled media, be it writers or
fansite writers, sports writers or reporters or even photographers for
(05:28):
local sportscast or wherever assembled media asking a couple of
questions that continue to come up. The same question that
was about leadership and clearly also about the development of
quinn Ewers and his leadership skills. That was one of them.
And then the other thing is about the building of
(05:52):
a successful formula. Sark had been asked about it quite
a bit, the constructing of success, of a formula for
success so that they win.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So here are two games in the books.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Logren's impressive in both of those wins, the season opening
blowout at home, the shutout of Colorado State and then
going up to ann Arbor and beating Michigan in the
Big House and dominating the game. And Sark was asked
about it, and other players were asked about it, and
Makoopa was asked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Formula for success, meaning also his personal formula for success?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Fast and physical.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I feel like those two things really harp on really hard,
and we try to play like that. I feel like
we go out there and play fast and obviously played physical.
I feel like most of the time we're gonna come
out on top, and we executed the right way. We
definitely gonna come out on top.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He seems very very you know, relaxed and you know,
not not really put out of sorts in terms of
adjusting to everything. And I think a lot of that
has to do is coming back home. It's different than,
like you say, if someone is transferring in. Give you
(07:06):
an example, tsa AA coming in from Arizona. There's there's,
you know, something to be said for that getting adjusted
to everything. Another example would be Bill Norton. Bill Norton's
from Memphis originally but transferred in from Arizona. You know,
(07:30):
guys who go through the portal. There is, after all,
an adjustment period to go through.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So there's some of that to keep in mind that
some guys have to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We've seen a Germaine Lolay play a little more of
late big number ninety nine in the interior of the
defensive line. He's from Long Beach, California, but he transferred
in from Louisville. So you know, all of those things
I think factor into it. The just getting adjusted and
acclimated and adapting to everything around here, and when you
(08:04):
are from here and you have friends on the football
team in advance as Maccooba does, it certainly helps out
the situation, all right, Coming up next, and we'll hear
more from Andrew mccuba, both in the three o'clock in
the four o'clock hour, But up next we will bring
you today's edition of Inconceivable, and we continue on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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