Longhorn Monday: Texas Left Out of CFP, Citrus Bowl vs Michigan, CFP Controversy, Cowboys Breakdown & NFL Weekend Recap

Today is "Longhorn Monday," it's official, the College Football Playoffs games are set, and Texas did not receive an invite as they are now set to play the Michigan Wolverines in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, on December 31 at 2 PM. We discussed the controversy surrounding the CFP, who we felt should've been included, and who should've been left out. Texas Women's Basketball team dominated the Prairie View A&M University Panthers 101-42 behind a big game from Junior Forward Breya Cunningham. This week in the NFL had some close games, with the Buffalo Bills' comeback victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The Houston Texans defeated the Kansas City Chiefs; The Cleveland Browns gave it to the Tennessee Titans. The Texas Men's Basketball team gets set to play the Southern Jaguars tonight. The Longhorn football team loses players to the portal. A "Hardge Knocks Life" and "The World's Strongest Take!" Plus, Tommy Yarrish of DallasCowboys.com will talk about the Cowboys' loss to the Detroit Lions and upcoming game against the Minnesota Vikings. You can hear it all here on "The Morning Kickoff Show!"

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We have a lot of discussions to get into today,
but none bigger than the college football playoff rankings show

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that happened yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
And let's just say a lot of.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Folks were not happy Texas wasn't in the conversation. Some
teams got in from some conferences that a lot of
people are trying to figure out why, how, and what
are we doing? But the biggest story out of it
all was the fact that Notre Dame got jumped by

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Miami to be in the college football playoffs after being
behind Miami, being behind Notre Dame all the way through
the process, and the story that was told to us
by Hunter Yerechek talked about, well, all the games were

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played after Saturday, and I'm like, but those are two
teams that weren't playing at all, and if you're gonna
take consideration into head to head, why are you waiting
till the final verdict to do that? Because Miami beat
Notre Dame early in the year, but Notre Dame was

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behind Miami the entire time. I mean, Miami was behind
Notre Dame the entire time, and now all of a
sudden you can flip them because all the games were played.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
What does that even mean? Mark?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I have no idea, but I'll tell you what did
you see Dick Vattel, who is a Notre Dame guy, his.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Dicky ve was very up said.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
And he basically said, what you just said, why does
that happen?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And then he explained that the.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Committee, all of them wanted skin in the game. The
reason that you have a James Madison, that you have
a Miami, that you have a two lane is because
the only way that they agreed to add more than

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four teams to the playoffs is if those conferences that
those jurors, if you will, represented, had their conference champion
got to.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Play in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well, if that's the case, so if they changed the rule,
then they could change it again. I expect that next
season there to be the rules is gonna change. It's
gonna be the best teams, not the best conference team.
Because we all know we're not children. You can't tell

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us that, hey, you gotta go to bed because something
big is gonna happen at midnight. I'm gonna leave it
right there. We're not children. We know what's going on,
so you cannot. It's against the ethics of sports to

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allow James Madison to play in front of probably twenty teams.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
They don't put that many in front of them.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I would say there's twenty teams that are better
than that. Same thing with James Madison. Tulane, like every
team in the SEC, could beat them. The team that
came in did last will beat James Madison.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well you should blame Virginia lose to lose into Duke.
Every team in the SEC would beat Virginia.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, but the conference champions or the Big four four
conferences get an automatic bid, right unless they have a
lower seed than a group of five. And that's pretty
much what it was is James Madison and Tulane had
a high seed than Duke, which wasn't even seated, and

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that's the reason why both of them got in instead
of just one.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, the thing about Duke is Duke shouldn't have been
in the game. The AAC or whatever their conference or
the ACC's conference tiebreakers are what messed that up. There
shouldn't have been that. Duke should have never been in
that championship game. They got five losses. They have five losses.
That's why Duke couldn't get into the College football playoffs,
regardless if they wanted the conference.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
So the AG that's what I'm saying all of this is, yeah,
it's dumb.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
This whole thing is broken down in a way that
it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Make any can I can I bring something to light
to you? So you got Texas out and yeah, I'm
a homer, and you start laughing because you know.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Would you bet your house that James Madison would beat Texas?
It would beat them though, on Twulane, on Miami or
No the Dame, none of those teams. Not betting my
house on those three.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
But on those other two I would, But it would
be a It would be a hard small wager because
I would call one.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Of your curs.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like everybody knows that watch sports knows that that's a
better team. I would say the same thing about Vanderbilt
Handy Bill will rake the coals with them Cats.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Same thing. Man, there's about Oh Miss.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Despite Lane Kiffin being Lane Kiffin, they have a pretty
good team.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, like they have a chance. They can't.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
None of those teams could beat them, none of them.
You come into the season and there are ten teams
that could probably win the national championship and then maybe
two surprises.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
That's your twelve.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Eighty five other teams that are so called elite teams
in college football, big money donors, great facilities, schools are
in the vying process for a national champ You know
that it's only twelve, really ten? Back you have a

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chance out of the eighty five. They have to change
the rules. And look what the eyeball tist with the
statistics and used analytics.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Do we use analytics for everything else, but we can't
use it for football.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, here's the thing with the analytics told us the
BCS was a problem, so that people were upset about
the BCS.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
So they ended up changing it.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
We get into a four team playoff, they end up
or we get into the BCS was two teams. You
get into the fourteen playoff. Now we got to add
more teams. Now we're up to twelve. Now we're going
to go to sixteen. It's a never ending cycle. But
the thing that you said, and Wifey was telling me
the exact same thing. She said, the problem with all

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of this is there's a human element that is still involved. Favoritism,
there's Homerism, there is I gotta make sure that my
team from my conference gets in there because there's money
that is involved. When you look at James Madison, I
was one of the guys that was big for the

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little guy. What if these G five, what if all
these other teams can get in and maybe shock the world.
What I realize is this is not basketball. Basketball is
where you get the Cinderella story. Basketball is where you
can get a Loyola of Chicago to make a go
a run with Sister Jean Rip, Sister Gen. You get

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those opportunities in basketball because it's more of a level.
This is not apples to apples when it comes to football.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Football is a physical sport.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
And yes, there are guys that are talented enough that
once they go to a small G five they can
go and play at a big D one, but they
ain't taking the whole team with them.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
The whole team is not coming up to that level.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So watching a game like James Madison in Oregon, how
do you think that's gonna go's gonna score?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I don't know what the line, but I would give
the score to be forty eight to seven. So forty
eight to three. And here's the other part of this.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
James Madison's coach is flying to California right now to
do an introductory press conference for UCLA and then he's
flying back to try to coach his team. Same thing
with Tulane's head coach. How focused is he He's trying
to get a recruiting class figured out.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
We're gonna continue these conversations. Old miss is in without
Lane Kiffin, and we'll hear from Coach Sark because Texas
has their bold destination. Start packing, folks, you might get
to see Disney right here on the morn the kick
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joins us to break down what happened in Detroit and
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but they.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Can go on a run and get into the playoff.
Maybe maybe you.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Like that because it's uphill battle when we got people
not doing what they supposed to be doing.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, we know who that is. But you know what,
I think it'll be together this week. We'll see we'll see.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
We'll continue those conversations at the top of the hour
and in our number two. But let's get back to
college football because Texas will now face University of Mission Michigan.
Excuse me and the cheeze it bawl. We were talking
about it last week. We were talking about the fact
that we believe that's what's gonna happen if Texas does

(13:10):
not get in to the college football playoffs. Well, they
did not get in there, and it was difficult listening
to all that. My man Mark Henry went to social
media yesterday to express his disdain for the fact that
the Horns aren't in it. But Notre Dame's not in
it either, and Notre Dame decided to opt out. I'm

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taking a ball and I'm going home. And they were
one of a bunch of teams to decide to opt
out of the opportunity to play in these ball games.
And yet coach Shark decided, Hey, we're gonna stay in.
But he was asked if he considered opting out of
the bowl game.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, you know, I think a couple of things.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
One, No, we did not, you know, we felt like
if we didn't get into the CFP being right on
the tust, we'd have an opportunity to go to a
really good bowl game.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
And you think about the long standing.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
History and tradition of the Citrus Bowl, with a real
good quality opponent being in Michigan coming out of the
Big Ten, that this was this was going to be
a great opportunity for us, for our players, for our team.
You know, when you when you really look at our
guys last year, we didn't get the bowl experience at all.
When when you go to the to the playoffs coming
right out of the SEC championship game, Uh, we didn't

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get the bowl experience. And I think part of that's
part of playing college football is getting some of that
bowl experience. If we could have earned a buy, we
could have got a.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Little different experience, but we didn't. And so, you know,
I want.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Our guys to enjoy this, and I feel like it's
the right thing for us to do for a lot
of reasons. I don't know about the ripple effect for everybody,
you know, I think, you know, we all have goals
and aspirations of winning conference championships and being national champions
at least we do. But I also think that there's
an experience factor on all this. There's there's growth in

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all this, there's development and all this, there's camaraderie, there's
there's there's so much that goes into this that sometimes
a Bowl game is about celebrating a season, uh and
finishing a season the right way. And like I said,
you know, I don't I can't speak for everybody else.
You know that that may change some as we evolve
potentially into more teams. I don't know, you know, I

(15:24):
think we all can agree we've got a flawed system
right now that needs to be really vamped, needs to
be looked at, needs to be looked at from a
lot of different angles. Where it goes from here, I
don't think anybody really knows. And so you know, the
point being, I don't know what the effect is going
to be down the road. I just know for us,
this is an opportunity to play another game. And it's

(15:45):
a really good team, uh, in a great game, a
great bowl game, and and we're gonna chair ship. We're
gonna put our best foot forward and and and try
to go win this game.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
And a thing good, all the right bangs. But did
you hear what he's said? The thing That just made
me laugh. He is a high level coach, right, one
of the top five coaches in college football, and he said,
I don't know what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
He has no clue as far as the.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
As how this bowl season stuff is working out well,
and you have no clue, And that's horrible.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
If anybody should know, he should know, well, I don't.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't think he should know. I don't because because
the system is flawed. We just talked about it. We
talked about how this system is so bad. This is
the top the top eighty coaches should know?

Speaker 2 (16:41):
What do you all of these teams the top eighty,
as you say, they say.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
There's one hundred and twenty eight one three, one.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Hundred and thirty three teams, really eighty or elite?

Speaker 3 (16:54):
That's that's that's kind of like where what I what.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I've what I've gathered from the conversation that I've had
with two high level coaches.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Eighty Yeah, I mean that.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Where they how much money they put into the program,
how much money football brings in and pays for everything
else on their university.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Those teams, I don't even think there's that.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I mean, I don't think there's that many There's there's
no way that there are eighty teams.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
I don't even think all the teams in the Big
four conferences are all on that level spend money like that.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
They can't, they don't have the they don't have the
bandwidth for that. But to your point, I mean, look,
the system is, so let's just let's get into this.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Because there were seventeen flips, glasses on and off. I
saw that.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I saw that well because look, there's some teams that
were used to there were some teams that were going
to go to a bowl game with a five and
seven record. You should not be going to bowls like
this should be this should be nothing that you can't
have this. This is an embarrassment for college football. This
is where we are. So if we're going to be

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in these types of situations where teams are now declining opportunities,
Florida State, Auburn, UCF, Baylor, Kansas, Rutgers, and Temple are
teams that are five and seven that are now being
told that now told the bulls we're not going.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
To accept the bid. Going about your boy, that's a.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Five hundred thousand dollars fine for these schools. Five hundred
thousand dollars for a Baylor in K State for declining
an opportunity to go into a ballgame. Then you look
at what's going on with the coaching changes. So now
you're looking at teams Case State is out, Iowa State

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is out, and Notre Dame all decline to not go
to bowl games. Now you're starting to look at all
these other teams that have qualified for bulls that don't
want to play in them because number one, they got
to get on recruiting. Number two, they got to make
sure that these guys aren't going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
You gotta stay ahead of it.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
The cycle of signing day has ruined it because coaches can't.
They got to leave their teams that are now in
the playoffs right now, they're leaving to go somewhere else.
And now they're trying to shuffle that, so they're running
two households and you can't do that. It's too difficult
to handle that. And then you're trying to have another

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group of people come in again to try to say, hey,
I know we want you to schedule these games because
it's great for college football, but we're gonna penalize you.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
For scheduling these games.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Because if you don't win them, you lost, so it
looks like a loss on your record.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Your numbers don't add up.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So in a system that we are trying to fix,
and I will give them credit because they have adjusted
along the way, we need to go to a system
almost like the NFL. Well, no matter your record, no
matter what's going on, well you have to matters your record.

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But when you put yourself in a position of success,
and we're gonna talk in the field in just a minute,
we got teams that are seven and six that are
still trying to get it. Mathematically, they're still in it.
So you're like, wait, how are they still got a chance? Well,
there's a percentage on there. Okay, going back to your
analytics talk, that's where we are. But as a whole,

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when you look at college football and the fact that
we are now in a bowl a playoff system and
we're still having a debate about who should be in
and who is out, there's there's got to be a
flaw to remember.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
So when we were young, there weren't that many bowls.
There was probably like, what.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
There's a lot of money involved in all these? Now
there's way too many. I used to love waking up
and getting ready to watch the Blue Bonny Bowl because
I knew it was in Houston.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
And also the bowls were all on on New Year's.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Right now we're playing, we're getting ready to start playoffs.
Neckt we start a bowl. The Cricket Bowl starts on
the thirteenth, and.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
PV is in it. Though PV is in it, I
saw them boys this weekend win a.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Championship, so now it's PV in South Carolina State will
kick off the bowl season. So we'll start on the
thirteenth and run through January the second. The last bowl
game will be the Trusting Will Holiday Bowl with Arizona
and SMU on January the second.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
And don't sift the ball and don't.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Forget about that Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl with RICE
in Texas State. That's what I'm talking about. Here we
go again. We're lined back up. We're continuing these conversations.
Coming up next in the Hards Knox Life, I'm gonna
give more thoughts on the committee, but I want you
to hear from Kirby Smart, SEC champion Kirby Smart and

(22:04):
his thought about what the SEC is about to do
and how they're going to be penalized once again, right
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Speaker 3 (22:27):
I wanted to give my.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Thoughts on the committee and what can happen next. As
we've talked about numerous times and we continue to look
at ways to work this out. One of the biggest
problems that we've seen throughout this is the rankings and
how they are being distributed. When you come up with

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the rules and say we are going to go with
head to head, and we're gonna go with strength of schedule,
and we're going to go through all these different things,
but yet you wait to the last minute to decide
to flip a team because all of the games are
being played are been played. That is the weakest argument

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that you can possibly have because of the head to head,
Because the same way you moved Texas last week ahead
of Vanderbilt because they beat Vanderbilt. Now you're saying, oh, yeah,
we waited til the last minute on Notre Dame and
Miami because that was the final game that was played

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of the day.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
I'm still confused about it.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
And as Texas fans, we're gonna move forward to next
season in the SEC, and now we're on the board
of talking about possibly dropping a certain game against a
big name opponent because it's all going to change. Well,
Kirby Smart got on his soapbox and talked about how tough.

(23:58):
I know a lot of people keep saying SEC. He's
not that tough. A Big Ten is catching up, No,
they're not. The SEC weekend in week out has to
go to battle at the top. Yes, you have your
top teams in the Big Ten, but throughout the conference,
if we were to match them up, it would be
a long day for a lot of teams. And now

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the SEC is going to the model of nine conference games,
and Kirby Smart talked about the nine conference games and
what this last weekend show.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
I'm gonna jump on a soapbox now, becuse I'm gonna
take your question and run with it. But I want
to give you a hypothetical. Okay, that was a ninth
game of our SEC schedule, right, so now just imagine
that that was the ninth game of the season for
everybody in the SEC, and everybody played another SEC game.
I'm not saying it was on this week. I'm saying
it was on the previous week. So that's eight more losses, right,

(24:53):
sixteen teams. It's eight more losses in our league. So
one team, two teams to say that last weekend there
was Oklahoma and Old miss or whoever hadn't played yet.
They played, and they got losses, and then they're gonna
go to the SEC Championship and play another game. Those
two teams were beat up tonight and that was the

(25:13):
ninth game of the year, and we're looking at next
year having another game. I mean, the coaches in our
league are concerned about it, very concerned about it. And
I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't speak
my piece and say that it is concerning because because
if that game.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Affects Alabama, I don't know if it will or not.
I have no say so in it.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
And I've sat in those shoes many times where that
game costs you an opportunity. But hypothetically, every team just
played another game in their ninth game. So there's eight
more losses who just dropped out, right, and then there's
another game SEC Championship. It's tough. It was physical out
there tonight and they were wounded. We were wounded. I
got a lot of respect. Noah Thomas tried to go,

(25:55):
he had back spasms. He wasn't able to really go.
We were without multiple guysigning. I mean, you just beat up.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
And the thing about it is it is going to
continue to be that way. When you start to look
at how these things are being broken down and you
look at where we are in this quote unquote playoff scenario,
it is going to be a difficult find because of this.

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When you also look at coach Sark yesterday was asked
would you consider doing a playing game to get into
the college football playoffs?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
I'd be interested in a lot of things, you know,
But again, I think we just can't rush to let's
go over here and do this if we don't, if
we don't look at the unintended consequences of doing something
like that. And I think some of the things with
us going to the twelve T playoff, with some of

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the aqs and some of the formatting of how teams
we're gonna get evaluated, and what was the criteria and
the principles of teams getting elected to play. I think
that needs to be evaluated first before we start talking
about more teams, before we start talking about playing games.

(27:15):
Who's playing in How do you earn those opportunities? Like
those are the things because I think there's unintended consequences
that come with everything, and we have to drill all
the way down on this stuff because we're finding out
there were some unintended consequences with this format that they're
going to. They're gonna have to work themselves through, and
so there's a lot of work to be done, and
we've got some great people working on this stuff. Don't

(27:36):
get me wrong, the leadership is really good. But we
can be better, just like we can be better as
a football program. I think the CFP can be better,
and I think we all can probably agree on that.
But I think what's important is not just to rush
to judgment. Let's take our time, Let's get it right,
or at least let's get it better than next time around.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Those are gis a great politician as well. I mean
he's he he's optimistic too. He speaks from a standpoint
of guys, let's just get along, and there's a the
world needs more co Sarks and less Mark Henry Is
because if it was left up to me, I.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Would be like, look, the eyeball test is good with me.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
I know what I see. I'm not blind. You're trying
to you're trying to pull the wool.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Over my eyes. We know who's good enough to win
and who's not, and we're not.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Doing it because we don't want to hurt nobody's feelings.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
But how everybody get a trophy.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
But how do you how would you consider it hurting
people's feelings?

Speaker 3 (28:43):
The reality telling you.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I'm gonna tell you, James Madison, you're not good enough.
You can't beat Texas, you can't beat No to Dame,
you can't beat Alabama. I'm sorry, you just you just
don't meet the criteria. Well, but we won more game. Yeah, okay,

(29:06):
they said this beginning of the season. Your strength of schedule,
schedule somebody good and beat them. Yeah, you're gonna have
losses on the way. Sometimes your quarterback might not play,
you're kicking shank one. Stuff happens. But you know, harsh

(29:27):
in your heart of hearts that know the Dame was
good enough, that Texas was good enough. James Madison is
not Coastal Carolina is not Texas beat Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Oklahoma beat Alabama.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Should Alabama even been in in the first place?

Speaker 3 (29:50):
You see what I'm saying, like the who beat who?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
And the strength of schedule should beat this deciding factor?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
You said, should Alabama being in the first place? And
I would say yes, let me tell you why, because
they shouldn't have been able to play they there shouldn't
have been a championship game. That is the solution. Don't
play anymore. Take them out, take all the championship games
out of there, and you.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Just go by the record to figure out who the
champion is. There you go.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm with it because now it creates this monster of
all these other things. The big thing is named the
champions But money agree, But how much money is really
being made? That's the money. Ain't good money? Domino's turn

(30:37):
it over? Coming up next, let me read them. Coming
up next, We're gonna close out our number one. But
Texas women basketball handle their business and we're gonna let
you hear about it right here on the morning kickoff
on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred, The Zone and always
free on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 7 (30:55):
App Hartman with a Steel speaking of point guards. Here's
Rory off in the steel. She'll lay it in to
the left side with its lee stutter step, dribble down
the lane, dumped it underneath the cutting Amy stores across
the floor to Grace Printer. Here's Printer driving down the
lane and Runner off the glass. Two for great. Rory
right side drives for the baseline, bounce pass to the
cutting nut cutting am who gets the bucket and one

(31:18):
off to Harmon in the corner. Lee A good look
for three and it's there the first three point shot
to go down for Texas today. Shields on the right
side can't get around Harmon down to two and then
Rory blocked her shot, pulled down by Booker. Lead pass
to the cutting Jordan Leu's scores ten on the Shotlock
trying to drive on Booker and then Madison blocks he shot,

(31:40):
takes it away. Here's book three on two. Booker dumps
it underneath Sidbury scores the five to shoot Allan drops
it off. Wilson glances to the shot clock and all
knocked out of her hands by Harmon. Another steal from Rory.
Lead pass Booker going one on one step through and
around Wilson to score off the glass out to Grace
Printing printed with a bounds passing him one more time

(32:01):
of the drop steps. She scored thirty for Brea, one
o one for Texas. Mick Schaeffer says, that's enough, So Longhorns,
we'll get to ten and oh and what to day
today For the Longhorn post, Kyla hol Day cread seventeen
points in the fourth quarter, but Brea Cunningham a career

(32:25):
high thirty to go with the rebounds. Final score this
after the Texas one oh one and Perriview A and
M forty two.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Purview A and M came in and got their check
and then they were out of there. Texas had seventy
points in the paint, Seventy of their one hundred and
one points were in the paint, and they were led
by Breia Cunningham with thirty points and fourteen rebounds.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
And she met with Craig Ray after the game.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
Now, when we last visited a couple of weeks ago,
you said always seemed to come up one point or
one rebound short at the double double. You took care
of that relatively early. I wanted to get you to
discuss how that game was really coming to you early
on today.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
Yeah, I think I'm just getting the flow for the game,
getting used to like how fast we play and stuff.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
I think I struggled earlier.

Speaker 8 (33:21):
In the season with like getting in the way of
like the plays and stuff and knowing where I'm supposed
to be. So I think just us playing together and
we were playing more like a team, Like right now,
our cohesiveness is really good, So I think that's Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
Do you like the pace of play and once you
adjusted to it?

Speaker 8 (33:34):
Yeah, it took a while those first couple of games.
I was kind of lost, but once we started playing
well and playing as a team and playing hard, it
kind of came easy.

Speaker 7 (33:44):
So now you and Kyla have spelled each other nicely.
But it was really cool to see the both of
you out there going the two of you combine for
forty seven a day. Is that something that the two
of you like when you're both out there together.

Speaker 8 (33:53):
Yeah, we were talking about that andhoot around to day.
When he said that he's gonna play us both together,
we were excited. So hopefully he lets us do that more. Yeah,
I think I think we just have fun when we
were both out there at the same time.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
So I always feel compelled to ask somebody after they
finished their first fall semester at Texas, how'd everything go
for you? Not the classroom, everything your first semester?

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Oh pretty good. I made it out.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
Okay, So that's the main thing. You made it out, okay, right,
all right? Thanks pray for thank you good.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I love that, man, I love you. Like there are
some players that just play better together. And I remember
hearing Magic Johnson talk about even though Kareem was the
best player that he ever played on a team with.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
He said that the relationship that he.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Had with James Worthy was like they didn't think they
just existed great together. It was impossible to stop both
of us.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yep. And I think that's.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
What you get with old Acre impressed they just have
a bond.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, they're gonna get, They're gonna get They're gonna get an.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Opportunity to.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Find out exactly how good they are when they continue
their schedule and go up against some of these tougher teams,
especially when you get back into the SEC. Brian Cunningham
and Kylo Oldacre combined for forty seven as you heard
from Craig Way, and they combined for twenty rebounds. So
that's putting in work. You got Madison Booker who had

(35:31):
a double double again thirteen points, twelve rebounds, and your
girl Roy Harmon had ten assists, mark and two steals,
so she continues to play high level basketball. She actually
had nine rebounds too, so she was close to a
triple double.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
It takes the pressure off of the elite players on
the team when you have performances like that, Yeah, because
now you gotta go to sam study and you're working
through your and the coaches like, hey, we really got
to stay close to this thirty right here, and we
got we gotta make sure that the point guard is

(36:08):
accounted for. And then you have that happen where Oldacre
and Preston go for forty seven points and you just go,
wait a.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Minute, yeah, what do we do now? Right?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
So it's great to have that problem for coach Vik.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
So on Wednesday they travel to ut RGV. They go
down to Edinburgh, Texas to go take on ut RGV.
But then on Sunday the fourteenth, they have their biggest
matchup against Baylor at the Dickeys Arena in the Sprouts
Farmers Market espn W Invitational. That game will tip off

(36:47):
at noon on Sunday, which is going to be a
big game for them because the Baylor Bears are playing
some really good basketball right now, and you know, there's
always a battle when it comes to Texas and Baylor,
so that will be a big matchup for them. Tonight,
we have Texas Basketball Texas Men's basketball that could be
heard right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The

(37:11):
Zone and on ninety eight point one KVET with the
voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig Way. You can also
listen to Craig Way this afternoon for The Craigway Show
from two to five with Heat and Jake Herman as
they break down everything. I'm sure Craig's going to talk
about Texas and what's going on with Texas and how

(37:31):
Texas is dealing with the thought of not being in
the college football playoffs. We're going to continue those conversations,
but coming up at the top of the hour, we
will have our interview with our guy Tommy Yarsh of
Dallascowboys dot Com as he breaks it down on the Cowboys.
But I wanted to bring this up too before we

(37:52):
go to break and go into hour number two.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Texas volleyball.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Texas Volleyball handled their business as they swept Florida A
and M. And then they swept number twenty five Penn State.
Penn State was swept by Texas at the Moody Center,
not Moody Center, Gregory at Gregory Gym. And now they
have advanced again to the next round and they will

(38:17):
be hosting the Sweet sixteen here at Gregory Gym again
and they will face Indiana in the third round. Indiana's
number fifteenth ranked in the nation and Texas continues their
quest to get back to.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
That national championship.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Dominated absolutely, this is where the money count right. This
is they were, Hey, they can lose some games here
and there.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
They lost that game.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
To Kentucky for the championship of the SEC. But now
it's time to go to work, and that's exactly what
they did. Your boy Marcus Spears was in the stands
crazy as always. Our number one is in the books,
Our number two is just around the corner.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Dallascowboys dot Com.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Tommy Yars joins us to talk about what happened in
Detroit right here on the morning kickoff on sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred to Zone and always free on the
iHeartRadio App. Welcome back to our number two of the
morning Kickoff right here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
to Zone and always free on the iHeartRadio app and

(39:22):
our number one. We talked about the debacle of the
college football playoffs. They got it right, but did they
really get it all the way right? We also talked
about the champions and I gave my thoughts on what
we've seen in eight seventeen. We'll talk more NFL, but
right now we're gonna go up to Dallas and talk
to our guy, Tommy Yars of Dallascowboys dot com. You

(39:44):
can follow them at tommy Underscore Yards and Tommy, what
exactly did we see on Thursday in Detroit as the
Cowboys came up short forty four to thirty in a
game that everyone thought was a must win situation for
both teams.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
Well, we saw them finish negative three in the turnover margin,
and that's never a good thing, much less against a
team like the Detroit Lions. They can be very explosive
on offense. We saw the Lions really respect Dallas's interior
run defense because they were getting their guys in space
and they were doing everything they could to produce offense

(40:27):
outside of their between the tackles running, and we saw,
you know, just an unfortunate series of events that ultimately
led to Dallas losing that game. They just didn't play
their best ball whatsoever. You can't put the ball on
the ground three times and turn it over twice on
fumbles and excuse me once on fumbles, and then you know,

(40:50):
the two interceptions were a great either you lose tde Lamb,
who was on his way to another pretty high day,
another one hundred yard plus game already, but it looked
like he could have gone for two hundred. And you know,
it just wasn't their night, and on a night where
it needed to be there night, So that was what
made it all the more unfortunate for them.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
It looked like that the Cowboys ran into just a
better team.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
And sometimes you just you just have that.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Do you feel like that the Cowboys are still a
year away now or that they just had an off night?

Speaker 9 (41:28):
No, I think you're right, Mark, I think they did
run into a better team. You know, a year all,
you know, to the year off question, I would say
a year off from from what from being a playoff
team or from being a yeah, I think so. I
think so. I don't think this is going to be
a playoff team this year. Had they started the year
with Quinn Williams, I'd probably say this is the playoff team,

(41:50):
But since that was a midseason acquisition, I don't think so.
And you know, I think that's okay. I think that
you go in. The reason they made that train was
for the present and the future. So they're starting to
see a little bit of what is to come and
now it's all right, what do they supplement this roster

(42:11):
with in free agency and in the draft to be
able to make a playoffs run next year and try
to achieve their goals.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
We're talking to.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Tommy Yards of Dallas Cowboys dot com. You can follow
him at Tommy Underscore, Yars and Tommy I. I'm looking
at this team in a different light because the opportunities
were there. I do not think that Detroit was a
better team. They were reeling, They were having a tough,
tough go about it. The Cowboys, as you said, lost

(42:40):
ceedee Lamb. But we had a mysterious way that George
Pickens was playing the other night. There was a ball
that was thrown deep. If he catches that that changes
the game. He didn't even make an effort for it.
Some of the slant routes, he didn't seem like he
was being aggressive.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
To the football.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
What I mean, what happened with Pickens in that game,
because normally when CD goes out, he steps up.

Speaker 9 (43:05):
Yeah, I still think it was his night. You know,
I think Detroit did a good job of covering the slants,
and you know, one of the one of the interceptions
came on that plant route because they doubled it and
then figures just couldn't hold on it popped in the
air and they get an interception. And then the deep ball.
I never really got a good view of it. I didn't.

(43:25):
I didn't. I didn't know if that was one where
he just pulled up on it or what it was.
But once CD went out, they started clouding Dickens. So
that's why Ryan Floy goes out and has a one
hundred plus yard game for the second time this year.
So it was a mixture of a lot of different things.
But yeah, I think George Dickens would tell you it
probably wasn't his best game. And Dak Preston I was

(43:47):
saying it after the game I don't know if it
was as much effort. I know that's what a lot
of people were talking about, and certainly Pickings had some
thoughts on Instagram the other day that Richard Sherman and
the likes of that. But look, if that was George
Pickens's worst game, and you look at the whole body
of worder he's put up this season, I think you

(44:08):
can live with it.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Well, I'm y'all talking about the offense and thirty points
should be enough to win. The Cowboys had no answer
for I'm around Saint Brown, and they also had no
answer for the running game. The defense failed miserably against
the droit who. I felt like they had two awful

(44:34):
games and they needed to bounce back. And the pride
of the coach being a former Cowboy, he really had
them up for the game.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:47):
Absolutely, I mean this is a This has kind of
started to become a rivalry a little bit in the NFC.
I think after.

Speaker 10 (44:53):
That that game in twenty twenty three where the Lions
lost it on the controversial call, and I mean, look,
Dan Campbell's activate coach, guys, and that offense is unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (45:06):
I think Jamier Gibbs is the best running back in
the NFL. He's, you know, the fastest players certainly had
his position in the league. And just what he can
do in space, the agility that he has, the cuts
that he can make, is it all put together is
just beautiful to watch. And so when you have that

(45:28):
combined with Alan Ross, Saint Brown, and Jamison Williams, this
is a fast team and Dallas just didn't have a
lot of great matchups for it. I mean, you saw
that crossing route of Williams on that late third down
in the fourth quarter that essentially stopped all the Dallas's momentum.
They just it seemed like every time the Cowboys had

(45:49):
a CounterPunch, I'm sure it was able to land another one.
And so ultimately that's what I think led to those
forty four points. But yet it wasn't their best right
at all defensively. I think that's the line take advantage
of some of their weaknesses on the defensive side of
the ball.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
So let me ask you this, Tommy, because the Cowboys
now will take on the Minnesota Vikings another Sunday night game.
They're prime time Cowboys taking on the Vikings. They got
the Chargers the Commanders and the New York Giants. The
Commanders are dealing with the injury with Jay Daniels. We'll
figure out what's going on with the Chargers tonight as

(46:26):
we watch them go up against Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
But the Minnesota Vikings big win.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yesterday or played well yesterday with JJ McCarthy, what are
your thoughts on where the Cowboys can finish up if
they can win all of those games.

Speaker 9 (46:43):
Well, if they can win all those games, they're going
to be praying that Philadelphia is losing a lot of
these games down the stretch because that's their only chance
right now. I think at the half the playoffs. I mean,
you just look at the NFC yesterday and the Bears
are the number one seed in the NFC at the
start of the day and they dropped to the final
spot in the wild card after losing a one thrower

(47:06):
game of the Packers. That's just how loaded it is.
Ten to eleven wins and you somehow might not make
the playoffs in the NFC this year. So if you're
the Cowboys, You're road of the playoffs now is winning
a division and that means you're going to root for
Philadelphia to lose tonight. And I'm sure for Cowboys fans
root for that every week, but you especially root for

(47:27):
that tonight, and then Dallas basically needs to win out
and have Philadelphia drop. I think it would be one
or two more so they could overtake them in the division.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
That'll be unbelievable if they can do that.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
But like you said, we'll have to see what Philadelphia
looks like tonight if they lose that, it's still not
a divisional game. But they have been struggling a little bit.
When you look at this secondary for the Dallas Cowboys,
obviously there were some guys being exposed last week, and
just when you thought that they were playing better, there

(48:00):
were still.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Some flaws that were in there.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Do you see the Cowboys going for a defensive back
in the draft or possibly in free agency?

Speaker 9 (48:10):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely than you know. They've been banged up
at the position all year. They need depth there. That's
absolutely a place where if Dallas wants to spend one
of their two first round picks, I wouldn't be surprised
at all. There are a couple of guys that I
really like in this draft process already, and Mansieward Delaine
is probably my favorite guy. At the position right now
at LSU. I think that would be an excellent pick,

(48:32):
but there's going to be their fair share of guys
in the first round a corner that could make sense.
It's one of the better position groups in this year's class,
I think, And it absolutely is the spot. You know,
they paid Herron Bland. You know, who knows what's gonna
happen with Trey von Diegs. Is that a guy that
maybe they move on from after this year? And then
you know, I think Sivione Rebels looked pretty good to

(48:54):
start out the year.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
I didn't.

Speaker 9 (48:55):
I don't think he had his best game against Detroit,
but I think he's going to be promising once he
continues to get healthy and continues to get stats under
his belt. So they are some guys there, but we
certainly want to build a little bit more depth, especially
considering the injury history that you have there. But absolutely, yes,
that's that's definitely a spot they need to hit, whether

(49:16):
it be in the draft or free agency for both
A right.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
I laugh when you said absolutely because heart as the
question do you think that they should go in the
draft or free agent?

Speaker 3 (49:29):
You said absolutely, they should do both.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
This secondary is depleted and they need to do something.
What would what do you think about moving up to
get downs as safety?

Speaker 9 (49:44):
God, I think it depends how far you move up
and what you give up. If you send your other
first round pick, I don't think it's worth it. And
the Cowboys don't have a second or a third round
pick this year, I don't believe if I'm remembering correctly.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
So no, they have three fifth rounds.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
There you go. So if you're going to pack your
something together, what would you said? And that would be
my question. You know, taking a safety in the top
five that's probably not great, top ten even so, just
pushed to hit. And I'm a big downs fan, but
I think there are other guys that last. You can
get a safety that can't get the job done for

(50:24):
it to give that certainly is another position where I
think Dallas can take a hard look at this offseason.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Yeah, they going to take a hard look at a
lot of different things. Because my nerves are getting bad
and it's hard for me to stay up every weekend
watching this knowing that they had an opportunity to close
the gap on the Philadelphia Eagles and the rest of
the NFC.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
As always, Tommy.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Man, We appreciate you taking the time and we look
forward to hopefully having a better conversation next week after
that game against Minnesota.

Speaker 9 (50:59):
All Right, I appreciate you. A good day, you.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Too, You too, Tommy Yars of Dallascowboys dot Com. Keeping
it one hundred when it comes to what's going on
with the Cowboys. Coming up next, we're gonna talk about
the NFL. Some guys did some things yesterday and there
is a conspiracy going on in the NFL that may

(51:22):
need to be investigated.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Oh yeah, and it happened.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
And guess where it happened at I'll tell you right
here on the morning Kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred the Zone and always for you on the iHeartRadio app.
Welcome back to the morning Kickoff right here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred to Zone. Shout out to our God,
Tommy Yarsh of Dallascowboys dot Com. You can follow Matt
Tarmi underscore Yars as he breaks it all down. We

(51:49):
talked a lot about college football, will continue those conversations
throughout the week because there is a lot to break down.
But right now we're gonna go to the NFL. The
NFL was hot and heavy yesterday, and Mark, I want
to get your thoughts on what you saw from Shador
Sanders in his game against a Believe against his partner

(52:16):
cam Ward, quarterback for the Titans. Titans get their second win,
thirty one to twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
That's expected.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
A lot of people are looking at it and saying, oh,
two bad teams. We even talked about it on the
way out. But you sat here and you understood that
this was going to be a matchup for the ages.
For the ages, it went to Shador Sanders three hundred
and sixty four yards passing three touchdowns, one rushing, most
by any rookie quarterback, first rookie quarterback to go for

(52:42):
over three hundred yards in the game. He was doing
everything he could to battle to get his team back.
They go for the touchdown and get the touchdown, great
perfect pass from Shador, and then they decide to run
one of the dumbest trick plays on the goal line.
In a situation where your quarterback is on fire and

(53:02):
you take him out on the opportunity to tie the
ball game up is step Kevin Stefanski still working this morning.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Did his key card work this morning well, well, I'm
gonna go buy it right now.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Say that you asked me a question and I'm supposed
to answer without cursing.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Well, yeah, don't cuss, man, don't cuss? Okay, well I
won't cuss.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Kevin Skafans, however you say his name is rotten. He
is intentionally sabotaging Shader Sanders. It's blatantly obvious their own fans.
All you gotta do is pull up the Cleveland Browns
and go to their fan pages, and everybody.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Is going, what are we doing? And you knew, you
know what they're doing already.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
You know, even the media, like they asked him questions
to incite a riot.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
It's like he's in a bad place. I wish you
think it's to inside the riot. It's like, what are
you doing? What answer? What is he going to say?

Speaker 2 (54:16):
You know that he's he's a he's a coach's kid.
He's not gonna say something inflammatory.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Oh you talking about they're asking, they're asking, I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
But they need to ask him.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
They need to ask him because he said that he
was handing over the play calling duties.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Uh to the o C.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
And yet when the guys in the media ask him
who made that call?

Speaker 3 (54:45):
He said me, that was on me.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Why is he making calls if somebody else's is job,
their job to do it.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Why unless he's a head coach. Well, well he's.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
The head coach, but he also I'm gonna make the
call on this.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
This is what we.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
That is completely unfair for Shaderra Sanders. If you don't
want him, then then get rid of him. Well not
only that, man, the bottom line, get rid of the
coach and go forward with trying to advance a winning
culture in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Do your job coach him. You're the head coach. Coach him.
I don't care if you want him or not. Coach him.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Have you seen the videos I've watched all he comes
off the field, he walks to Stefanski and he's like
looking for a direction.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Yeah, and he's not giving him anything.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
He won't even make eye contact with the dude right.

Speaker 7 (55:47):
Right.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
The offensive coordinator did not come to him and say, hey, look,
you need to tighten that throw up or you need
we're gonna go with this, like just get everybody ready,
we're gonna run this and you know, let's let's go tempo.
They didn't coach him at all. An assistant came over
and patted him on the shoulder and was trying to

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encourage him. Yep, you're gonna send the guy out there
with a hey man, keep your head, all right, good luck.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
That's all you get. Yes, Stefanski's terrible.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
He's been terrible, and I know a lot of people
were sitting there saying at first they were trying to
defend him.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
He didn't do.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Listen, I don't care. Don't care that you don't like somebody.
Work with them, y'all. Don't have to be best friends.
You do your job, do what you're supposed to do.
When we leave here, we ain't got to talk at all.
But while we in here, we gonna work. We're gonna
get it done. That's what Stefanski needs to be doing.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Even though everybody don't know that. I try to hug
you every day. Just tell the truth.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
I wasn't talking about us, Mark, Okay, I thought they
was talking about.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
I'm talking about working and how you gotta get it
there and get it done.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
And now they're isn't it done?

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Tell me how absurd it is. Yeah, it's embarrassing to watch.
It's embarrassing to watch two weeks in a row. Three
since he's been there three weeks since camp. You tried
to put him all the way down on the depth chart.
Didn't want them, Okay, showing that every when you're listen,
what do they always say, players know the locker room. No,

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players know, and they always are gonna ride for the right.
They ain't gonna know. He already got traded. He was
the one that was parting. He's a picket's gone.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
All the players need to show up and have a
coaches meeting.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
They need to be like no tore Dame and just
dropping there and saying we're not playing.

Speaker 11 (57:52):
Just dropped there like Rudy, Yeah, oh that would be
so good. Turn it in this this is this is
he can take my spot. Yeah, get up out of here.
This is that gets done because it's it's blatantly obvious.
It's a it's a it's a really it's a black
eye on the NFL.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
And I think it's time for the league to step
in because well.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
You can't have that happen because then that that will
be that will be overstepping the boundaries of what the
league is there for give.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
The league should give the ownership the opportunity to fix it.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Hey, we have five games left, four games left. Four yeah, we.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Got four games left. I need you all to fix
this before we do.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
The ownership has the ability to fix it, they don't
want to.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Well has them.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Has to do something because you gotta do something because
you finally got the fans back on your side.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
The fans are back with you because you got your door.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
In the game and they're back. They're back because of
we're back. Yeah, so you start looking at that. I
don't know, I mean, this is kind of crazy to
continue to think that this guy has a job doing
the things that he's doing.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
And you know, there's cameras everywhere.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
They see everything, and they're seeing how bad of a
person this guy has turned out to be.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I can't believe him walking to the sideline and the
coach gets completely if all of y'all at home that
are looking at the feed, he completely turns his shoulder
and starts talking to one of the coordinators and will
not talk to his quarterback.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Wow, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
As from a guy that loves football and that wants
to win like his father has to be like really
biting his tongue.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
You know, we've ever heard a word from d n right.
He was there yesterday, he was there the last two starts.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
He showed up to watch his son start a game
and he's not saying anything. This is proof that it
can be done right. So the ownership has to be
able to say, hey, look, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
You see what's going on. We see it too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Somebody said Dion had him in a full Nelson in
the locker room. I don't believe that's true. I don't
believe that's true. But breaking news, breaking news. Pete Thammil
of ESPN posted Texas tailback CJ. Baxter intends to transfer.
He will enter the portal. He was the Big twelve
player Newcomer of the Year in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Did we see this coming?

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
We didn't, but with the injuries, maybe the writing was
on the wall.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
CJ.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Baxter got all these young backs coming in. Yeah, plans
to enter the transfer portal. We'll have sad I like
me too, me too, We'll see more. I'm trying to
figure out where we got some other guys locally that
are talking about that, and we'll discuss it in a minute.
But coming up next, we got the world's strongest man,

(01:01:09):
bringing you the world's strongest take right here on on
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred to Zone and always free
on the iHeartRadio app. You heard the beat drop, So
that can only mean one thing. WWE Hall of Famer
and World's Strongest Man, Deep Mark Henry brings you his

(01:01:30):
world's strongest.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Take, Mark Mark something. You know what what time is it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
It's time for the world's strongest take by the world's
strongest man. My guess back then they didn't know. Now
we hide, they all own us.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Guys. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
I don't normally do this, but I'm gonna take it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
My take today is not just for our listeners.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
It's not just for you guys, because you know, a
lot of times I try to inform you guys, just
how I'm thinking, how I'm feeling about what I see
in sports. This is directly to Coach Sark. This is
directly to his team and all the administrators, our friends

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and enemies here in Austin.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
On utub bandwagon.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
We have to go into this game and be different
than Coach Sark has been in years past. He is
a benevolent leader, He is a respectful coach, to the game.

(01:03:06):
The difference between Coae Sark and other dominant coaches is
they don't mind how they look when they put their
foot in people's throat. Coach Sark has tacked. He has
a certain level of elegance to him, and he doesn't

(01:03:28):
come across as a domineering figure. He comes across as
a well respected almost preacher, like like a Joel Oldstein,
and that comes with a level of respect and you
know who he is. My take is this Cole Sark

(01:03:52):
is gonna have to drop that against Michigan. He's gonna
have to like get his team ready to play. And
if you can score fifty, what you say half a hundred,
score half a hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
Do not leave one bullet in the gun.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
We talked about this, all gas, no breaks, and there's
still some gas in the car. I suggest that we
use it hard. And my message to co Sark and
everybody is don't get mad at him when he asks

(01:04:35):
out of character. He's doing it because the system has
pushed him and gave him no alternative to where he
can go. They tell you one thing, but they do another.
So if they're not going to buy by the rules,

(01:04:57):
co Sark neither should you. My take is this, you
go into that game and he's so calm. I think
he needs to go off. I think he needs to
have this team fighter. Listen, guys, I know I normally
come across this way, but this is what we're kicking
them in the face today.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
We're kicking them while they're on the ground too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
This is and I guarantee you there's two or three
guys on that team that are gonna respond to that
way more than the discipline and respect. I'm not saying
go out there and fight. I'm not saying go out
there and be dirty. I'm saying, go out there with

(01:05:43):
the intent on imposing your will.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
What'll say you?

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
I've been saying it the whole time. I don't think
you need to let up. I don't think you need
to slow things down and try to make sure everybody good. No,
blow them out, blow them out every single step of.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
The way you use to prevent No. Never, thank you.
I mean no. I just think that you know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
You get a twenty point you get a twenty point lead,
do you start running the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
No, you play your game, play your game.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Not your job to slow down for other people is
for other people to try to figure out a way
to slow you down. And that is the way that
I was always taught. That's what we were led to
believe for such a long time of where it's like, Hey,
here's what we're gotta do. We are all gas, no breaks.
What does that mean? I need to understand what it meant,

(01:06:40):
because what I thought it was we're gonna score, We're
gonna continue to score, and we're gonna stop you from scoring.
Is it all gas, no breaks. We're gonna dominate in recruiting?
Is it all gas, no breaks. We're gonna continue to
bring in the best. All that is great, But when
you step on the field and you got an opportunity
to put your foot on somebody's throat, don't hesitate to
do that, because that is where the separation of a

(01:07:02):
dominant team or just a good team is shed to light.
And it's because of the fact that you're playing all
these great teams that you don't give them the opportunity
to come back in a ball game. There is no
reason why Diego Pavia and their team should have been
even that close to the way that you were dominating
loss easily minimum And I understand yes, and he was

(01:07:25):
talking about it against some more guys out there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
The game was still in control.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
No, it wasn't stop, couldn't stop stop, get it in
the fourth quarter with three You know what you said,
You mentioned a word of recruiting.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
You know who I want him to recruit.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
I don't care how what his talent level or if
he even started for De Soto.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
Did you see Bishop he would show respect.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
He went and shook the hands after they lost the
game because his team did not want to go and
shake hands to the team that eliminated them from the playoffs.
He went and did it anyway, and I was like, good,
that's a great kid. But you know what, there was
a kid on the Soto he said, take.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Your sorry losing Rerian out of our.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Soilde line, get out of here, ring him off. Recruit him.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
That's who I want. I want some dogs. What you
need him at? One footwear hey.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
One foot in college and one foot in the penitator.
I want some killers, not literally, not literally figuratively.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
I want said guys that's willing to take your soul?
Ain't that school up north?

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Yeah, we definitely need to truly understand one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Of the people laughing right now, but I'm here.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
You start to understand what it looks like and how
it goes about because of the fact that these are
the moments in the breeding grounds of what you want
the school to be. When it comes to football. You
want people to fear playing University of Texas. You want
people to fear the fact.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
That, Yeah, I want to go to Orlando and give
them the pregame fight speech.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
You're just trying to get to Orlando. Yeah, I'm trying
to Hey man, put me on Friend Street. Hey Kate
playing Kae Kaye. My bad, My bad, My bad, my bad.
We're gonna close out the show to send you to Dan.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Patrick Texas Men's Basketball Texa on Southern and we've got
Monday night football. That's right, folks, we got a lot
to get into. We're just getting started on this week.
It's gonna be busy all week long because the conversations
are just getting started right here on the morning kickoff
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone and always free

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on the iHeartRadio app. The other great show kicking off
the week.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
A lot to cover.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
We'll continue to cover this all week long. If you
missed any parts of the show, make sure you get
over to the podcast page wherever you get World Podcast
and continue to follow us on all of our social
media at Harball Hearts at d Mark Henry and what's
is not a faker Marcus? Yeah, not a faker. Not

(01:10:14):
a faker on social media. But of course am thirteen
hundred the zone. So much to break down. Do want
to make sure that we get this out there? News
have been reported and now it's all over all of
our people that cover the University of Texas running back CJ.
Baxter will now be entering the transfer portal. His intentions

(01:10:37):
are to enter the transfer portal. So it makes me
wonder what exactly is going to happen as Texas gets
ready for this Bowl game. As Texas will take on
Michigan in the Cheese It Bawl in Orlando at the
Citrus Cheese Itt Bowl and that game will be December

(01:10:59):
the thirty. First game will kick off at two o'clock.
We'll give you all the information where we will be,
how will we be bringing it to you, and everything
else that is involved with this. So I want to
get into this mark because Texas men's basketball will be
taking on Southern tonight. You can listen to the game
right here with the voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig Way.

(01:11:20):
You can listen to Craig Way this afternoon as well
from two to five. But Texas men's basketball will play
Southern and then they are going on the road to
take on Yukon. Another big test for the Texas basketball
team coming up this week tonight. What are you expecting
to see from this basketball team that leads you to

(01:11:41):
believe that they'll be ready for that matchup against Yukon
after the.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Performance that they had, I'm looking forward to seeing them
come back and even I'm never gonna qualify with even
if you lose, I want to see effort. I want
want to see people diving out of bounds. I want
to see people playing. If you file out, you file out.
That's the reason that they have a limit. You're not

(01:12:08):
gonna fall file out. One play yep, like you got
you got six options? Like play like you like this
the last time you're gonna play.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
And the elite coaches.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
In the elite game, and I know coach Miller wants
to get.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
His team to adopt that philosophy because I've watched him
in his career. All his teams have always been like that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
They've been very scrappy, and and and and we just
said that about University of Texas football, Like, we gotta
stop being so respectful to everybody that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
It dummies us down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
That's the only way that I can I can, I
can equate it hard is we we we respect people
too much. And I want these players to go out
and represent their coach and go out there and represent
the University of Texas like they want to win and
like they.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Represent their family.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
You know, you got that speech when you used to
leave a house, when you used to go in the store, Hey,
don't embarrass me. Go in here and act like you
got some sense and don't start no trouble. That's great,
but when you cross the line, you need to drop
mama and daddy's philosophy and become a warrior.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
I want to see a warrior mentality from these guys. Well,
this is the time that we are looking at.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
And you know, Sean Miller, as you talked about, he's
one of those coaches that has had success everywhere he goes.
And the fact that he had mentioned about embarrassment, he
was ashamed and his team needs to lock in and
lock out just like Jordan Pope.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Jordan Pope said the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
He said, I'm disappointed for what we showed to our fans,
and they apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Apologizing is over, Yep, Now go do something.

Speaker 9 (01:13:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
You got to go out and play and execute the
way that you need to do it when you go
out there. And so we'll see what ends up happening tonight.
And then of course obviously you get a chance to
go to Yukon and take on those guys in a
big matchup.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
We got NFL football. We have the Eagles and the
Chargers tonight. The Eagles are a two and a half
point favored on the road as they get ready to
take on the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
The Chargers are a team that I don't know who
they are. I really don't know who they are.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
You go from thinking you figured them out and what
their expectations are to now you start to look at
them and say, all right, is Jim Harbaugh not getting
it done? What about what's going on with Justin Herbert?
They're the favorite quarterback? They are eight and four, and
I'm still confused that who they are are?

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
They are they good enough? Is the thing?

Speaker 6 (01:14:58):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Sometimes they play in a way that they look like
one of the best teams in the league, and then
those four losses they look like New Orleans, they look
like the worst team in the league.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
I know they won.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
It's crazy, especially being when they trying to lose exactly.
You know how you know how bad your coaches got
to be to lose to the team that's trying to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
You gotta be bad. You gotta be bad, a hard
man like. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
The Austin Sports Awards is coming up December seventeen. You know,
I'm one of the hosts. I'm gonna be you know,
making cracking jokes on people in the crowd. It's gonna
be fun night. There's still tickets available. They're still tickets available.
I want people to go out, go to Austin Sports
Awards dot com. Myself and the great ut legend friend

(01:15:52):
Harris will be the two hosts. And you put both
of us in the room together, it's gonna be a
good night. So show up, guys. Go on, go on
the Austin Sports Awards website, the social media is and
get those tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Come out and see us, and we want yall to.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
See what Austin's greatest athletes and moments look like I
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
So it is what day, December, December seventeen. That's a
big opportunity for a lot of people that are out there.
We were in the voting. We don't know what's gonna happen.
You know, I'm gonna have to go sit down in
the crowd when when the category comes up best TV
Sports Show in Austin and best Radio show in Austin.

(01:16:40):
I'm gonna leave Friyan on stage and go come sit
out in the crowd with you so you can go
back in there and pick it up. Yeah, because I'm
gonna walk down this so I could walk back.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Yeah, It's gonna take you a while to get down
and be oh wow wow, is that true.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
I'm gonna take my medicine. Yeah, please do. Are you
gonna do a scarface speech? Say good night to the
bad guy, say good night to the back guy. How
did your event go this past weekend? It went great, man,
Like the first time my wife went to a show.

(01:17:17):
So we had a good time. In Miami, art battle
is going on, so like it was, Miami was a zoo,
nice nice Well least that's hey, no problem, man, We're
gonna make sure all this stuff continues.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Make sure you tune in to the Craig Wait Show
this afternoon starting from two to five, and of course
make sure you tune in to Texas Men's Basketball versus
Southern with the voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig Wegg
and Eddie Orn and of course our guy Cam Parker
will be on site. Monday night football Chargers and the

(01:17:53):
Eagles come on. Chargers beat the Eagles, so to be
a little bit closer for the Cowboys that might be
able to go there. For Mark Henry, for Marcus, I'm
harball hard and just remember this, don't believe everything you see,
because even salt looks like shpar Peace,