Longhorn Victory Monday: Texas Tops A&M, Playoff Push Begins, Lane Kiffin to LSU & Cowboys Edge Chiefs

Today is "Longhorn Victory Monday," the Texas Longhorns win another rivalry game, 27-17, over the Texas A&M Fighting Aggies. We discuss their playoff chances and the challenges that might prevent them. Head Coach Steve Sarkisian talked after the victory about how proud he was of the team's resiliency. He also gave his input on whether the team did enough to make the playoffs and to navigate the gauntlet of the SEC. The Aggies were upset at Texas celebrating after the game. Lane Kiffin makes it official and becomes LSU's new coach. Ole Miss moves on, promoting DC Pete Golding to permanent head coach. We give our opinions on the moves and how they affect the college football landscape. We come up with new rules for college football. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-28 with a big day from Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb. The Texas Longhorns Women's Basketball team continue to roll with an 81-63 victory over Penn Quackers. A "Hardge Knocks Life" and "The World's Strongest Take!" Plus, we talk to Tommy Yarrish of DallasCowboys.com to talk about the Cowboys' win. You can hear it all here on "The Morning Kickoff Show!"

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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Jared Circle to try to get the Aggies on the board.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Here, good snap and.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hold the kick all the way. It's black wild Horns
Brocket Manny with a snap play action looks pumps, pressure coming,
he can.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Run and he throws and Steffanie its wide open plot
touchdown Texas, Ryan we go, how do you like that?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And the Longhorns are back in front. Manny turns first down,
hands the ball around the left, touchdown Nick Townsend the
freshman Nick Townsend a little tight.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
End around in for the score.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Arch has it, turns and looks to throw. On second down, Manning,
with some time sends it over the middle.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Injuries that cats at the aggy thirty five to the thirty.
Let's defer until the twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Pooh the twenty pull the gin too, the five head
inside the aggy five yard line, Jack Edrey's down to
the Texas A and M move yard line.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Arch has the snap design run, goes straight up the middle,
first down the.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
More March wakes three say good night to this one.
Marks Manning touchdown Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
First and ten at the long horn. Eighteen read fires.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Over the middle, intercept it picked up Michael's tab. How
about the senior intercepts inside.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
The five yard line.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Marcel Reid has the snap back to throw, looks still
look swings it out left side ball.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Intercepted to be black. How about that.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
March has the snap, He'll put down the knee and
that's gonna do it. They don't have to snap it again.
In what a sweet moment this is gonna be and
the clock runs, Texas will not have to snap it again.

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What a response, What a way to end the regular season.
The log Warns become the first team in six years
to beat three top ten teams in the same season.
Not only that, they wind up beating all three of
the rivals from a second straight year. It's final Texas Hen,

(02:38):
Texas A and M.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's first loss.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
The log Worns win the Cotton Holdings Lone Stars Showdown
Final score Tonight Texas twenty seven, Texas A and M seventeen.

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handle the Chiefs and now focus on the Lions. Texas
men and women's basketball enjoy big tournament wins, and Texas
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Speaker 1 (04:37):
Will Mark Texas.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
A and M came in undefeated and left with that
one in that al column. And now their hopes and
dreams are now been changed, and the playoff rankings are
now moved around, and we'll continue to have those conversations
because tomorrow night we'll find out exactly where Texas is
at that particular time. But the ap pole came out

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yesterday and Texas moved up. They are number fourteen and
the AP and number thirteen in the Football Foundation rankings.
And that's right on that cusp where there's some things
that could happen that might sneak them in there.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, they have as good a chance as anybody's ever
had with three losses because of the schedule, the strid
the schedule, And you know, coach Sark made such a
compelling argument when he talked about that's what they call
that compelling. It was compelling when he started. If you
weren't a Texas fan, it was not good. You ain't back.

(05:37):
I ain't pull when he started talking. Yeah, but if
it was, if it was an other side, I have
to leak back.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
But I was. I leaned in.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
And the fact that Texas has done something since no
team since Joe Burrow. That team was the last team
to win the national championship. That phased three teams in
the top ten in one all three. Well the interesting
part about that, and they lost to two teams that

(06:09):
they should not have lost to Texas. You can argue
they lost bad to Georgia, but no, not a lot
of people expected them to beat Georgia in the first place. Yeah,
you didn't pick them.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
There's a lot of people didn't pick them, but they
should have.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
And everybody's going to go back to, well, don't schedule
Ohio State in that first game, play play Florida International. Yeah,
that's your fault. You knew the rules. That's what that's
one of the outside. The other argument also handle business.

(06:47):
You were supposed to beat Florida. Yeah, that's what I
was just about to say. We didn't lose to Florida.
But hey, LSU went undefeated that year.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
That was my point, like, it's great that they beat Texas,
they beat Florida, they be Auburn, they beat LSU, I
mean Alabama, but they went undefeated throughout that season, so
it's not it's not apples to apples. So when people
say that true, I'm always like, well, wait, they were undefeated,
so that that that's a totally different argument. But in

(07:19):
the same respect, coach Sart is correct. Those numbers don't lie.
They went and did what they needed to do. But
people are still I'll take os, I'll take Ohio State
out of the equation, I take them out of it. Great,
I'm glad, I'm glad you did that. I'm glad you
played them. You would be sitting at ten and two.

(07:39):
We should not have lost to Florida. And the way
that that game unfolded against Georgia at the end, that's
where people were like, oh my god, it was a fourteen.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
It was a close game. It was a close game.
That fourth quarter was just boom. Let me hit you
with that third one and that third one. Texas has
the advantage over two teams that are in Texas has
the advantage over.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
They beat them head to head and with the byproduct
of the fact that Texas beat Vanderbilt, another team that
was ranked in the top ten, like they should have
the leeway between Florida, Like who did they play? And

(08:33):
you might even look at Notre Dame. Notre Dame doesn't
play in the conference. They play like three games the
entire year.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Lindsey would be one agreements with you about that Notre
Dame stuff like that is the team. If there is
a conversation to be had about anybody else, it would
be about Notre Dame. That would be the one team
that looking at them. I can't use Oklahoma because Oklahoma
only lost two games, right, you know.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
I can't look at what Vanderbilt is doing. I can't
look at that. I'm looking at Notre Dame. Would be
the argument that people should look at not being in
a conference you play, you lost to Texas A and M,
which Texas beat. You look at who you lost to

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their second game and coach Sark talked about it.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Last year Notre.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Dame got in the playoffs and they lost to Northern
Illinois at home at home, and they got into the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
So it's going to be interesting.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
I'm excited that this is going to be the first
Tuesday that I actually am looking forward to the college.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Are you gonna if they say Texas thirteen? Are you
gonna just throw something at the TV? Or are you
just going to TV's costs money? Bro?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
So you value now? I get you.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
What do you think about the other argument of who
the other teams beat?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Like, oh you beat Alabama? Well not, but oh you
and Alabama are both going to be in as of
right now. Right That's what I've seeing. A question though,
here's the question.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Are they going just like these games right like this
game where we're talking about the Ohio State in Texas
game early in the season. Are they gonna put some
value on this championship matchup these week this weekend, because
if Georgia goes in and beats Alabama, now Alabama's.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
A three lost team, that's true, So are.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
They going to value it that way or is there
another conversation that is going to be had when it
comes to how are you ranking these teams?

Speaker 6 (10:46):
Another thing is Miami's not playing in the ACC Championship.
Somehow Duke is in a ACC championship that could have
that could have led to an.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Opportunity for Texas. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
So you start looking at these ap poles and how
it's breaking down and.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
What's going on with these particular.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Teams, and you're like, wow, well be in there might
be a way.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
And so you're saying there's a chance.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't know how big the number is, but there
is definitely definitely a chance. I'm like, I just don't know,
I don't know what that nuver gonna look like, but
I'm definitely excited about how this final part of the
season is going to break down.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
We'll continue the conversations on a long Horn Monday edition
of The Morning Kickoff. When we come back. We'll hear
from coach Sark. We'll hear from a couple of the
players and we'll continue the conversation should they be in
and of course Lane Kiffin, we got to talk about
right here on the Morning Kickoff on Sports Radio AM

(11:52):
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Welcome back to the Morning Kickoff right here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. It's a long horn
Monday edition of the Morning Kickoff. Texas football team defeat
the Aggies twenty seven to seventeen. Texas women win yesterday

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against Penn and of course the men had their fun
in Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Now they are back and they will be playing in
the acc SEC Challenge this week.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
We'll hear from coach Sean Miller today and be able
to bring it to you tomorrow. But right now, I
want you to hear from coach Sark opening statement after
his big victory versus Texas A and m You know.

Speaker 7 (12:41):
I'm very proud of our football team. I said this
earlier in the season. I've never been prouder of a team,
and I think now I'm more proud of this team
than I was earlier in the season.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know, when we were these guys are so resilient.

Speaker 7 (12:55):
And you know, every team takes on a personality and
characteristics of their own, and this group has been through
a lot. And you know, I think that when we
lost in Athens a few weeks ago, you would have
thought most people, most teams.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Would have laid down and have been dead and gone.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
And they answered the bell, and they answered the bell
in round eleven, and they surely answered the bell in
round twelve, and then round here we call rounds eleven
and twelve the championship rounds. And these guys responded, and
they responded at halftime when we challenged them with the
with the fight that they need to have in the
second half, and surely they did that in the.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Third quarter.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
Trey Weisner was an absolute warrior tonight again, Michael taff
with an interception his final game in dk R like that,
these are storybook stuff that we're talking about. But you know,
at the end of the day, to do something that
has been done around here since nineteen sixty nine and
nineteen seventy, sweeping all three of our arrivals in back
to back seasons, that's pretty historic stuff. And so proud

(14:04):
of this team, proud of the effort. I'll say this
to Longhorn Nation. They were phenomenal tonight. You guys were phenomenal.
You were with us on every play. You guys were
in the stadium early. It's the best environment we've had
here in five years. Is incredible, and I'm just I'm humbled,
honored and fortunate to have you know, to be your
head coach and uh and to be part of something

(14:26):
so special like it was tonight.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah, he was excited about that, and obviously, you know,
one of the main concerns about his team is do
you feel like this team has done enough to make
the college football playoffs, especially going nine and three.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
I think we're an absolutely a playoff team. I'm glad
you asked, as I didn't want to have to be
part of my opening statement.

Speaker 8 (14:52):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (14:52):
There's a couple of things in here that to me
are really telling. Stats. Okay, we're the first team since
the twenty nineteen national champion LSU team to beat three
top ten ranked teams in the same season during.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
The regular season. So let's just chew on that for
a second.

Speaker 7 (15:11):
There's been a lot of great football teams that have
played over the last six years, but we're the first
team since LSU to beat three top ten ranked teams
in the same season during the regular season. Okay, I
think we have the number five ranked toughest schedule in
the country. We've played the number one, the number three,
and number four ranked teams in the country. Okay, we

(15:33):
went on the road to Ohio State in Week one
and lost to them on a one score game, and
we have the ball at the end of the game.
We outgained him by nearly two hundred yards, and no
one else has been close to a one score game
against them. But I think more importantly it's the message
that what do we want to send to the head
coaches and the athletic directors around the country.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Do you want us not to schedule Ohio State?

Speaker 7 (15:59):
Because if we're at ten two team right now, this
isn't a discussion. We're in the playoff, but we were
willing to go up there and play that game. And
so now, when you play five top ten ranked teams
in the regular season and you go three and two,
you beat three of them, and you schedule in Ohio
State out of conference play, I surely don't think we
want to punish us to do that, because what are

(16:20):
we all gonna do. We're all gonna get out of
those games, just like a lot of other teams in
the country have done. And they've got nice, pretty records
right now, But they didn't. They weren't willing to go
play these games at a conference. We're willing to go
play those games. I just hope we don't get punished
for doing that. And this whole idea that, hey, well
you lost to Florida. Well, the team that played for

(16:41):
the national championship last year lost to Northern Illinois at home,
So we're not gonna put for are gonna punish us
and you don't want to punish them. But yet they
still they were good enough to go play for a
national title. So I have no doubt in my mind
that the team we have in that locker room downstairs
is a playoff football team and worthy of an opportunity to.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Play for a national chamchampionship. Shots fired, shots bank, bank Bank, Hey, listen,
don't leave no bullets in the gun. If they break
in the house, five everything, you're gonna hit something like
Predator to shoot out there amongst them.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
He like I said, it was compelling, but at some
point you talk in the circle and you you know,
you know what it is. He brought it up, like
everybody keep bringing up we lost to Florida. Okay, well,
other teams lost.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
The people that.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
They maybe they maybe they shouldn't have less lost too,
And that was pointed out in that whole statement, and
I thought, come out, y'all, they caught us, they got us,
and he did it, and I find it amusing. Yeah,

(17:59):
yeah I do. I mean, y'all can be mad at
me if you want to, but yeah, sometimes when you
get caught, you just have to be like, hey, they
got us, y'all, come on out.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Hey, who who lost to Florida State earlier in the
year that's in the playoffs right now.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Miami, No, not Miami, Alabama? Alabama? Yeah, that was their
first game of the year.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
And who did who did Florida State just lose their
last game too?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Who? Florida?

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, but Florida State is terrible. Florida State is an
awful football that's not even gonna make a ball game.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
That is kind of my point. Alabama lost to Florida State,
but that was at the beginning of the season and
every day and the.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Florida State was ranked at that time but that's why
we have a Chris.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
That's why I'm saying, you start looking at all of
these games and all.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Of these teams, I wouldn't want to be on the committee.
I'm just putting like that because it's gonna make you
use to answer, make a stance that you may not
be ready to absorb the energy that come from making
that stance. Because I'm gonna tell you right now, if
you let Texas in with three losses and those next

(19:18):
four teams are like, no, this is garbage. This is
not what y'all said. This is not it's got to change.
Something's gotta change. Agree, And if they if Texas don't
get in now you say, hey, schedule cupcakes, schedules Walmart
University and and let's let's hit uh Deep Eddie Vodka

(19:41):
and Technical School. We're gonna play them at least play
the spy. What where's the deal? And I'm glad that you.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Brought that up, Mark, because Texas's future schedule next year,
Ohio State is coming here on the twelfth.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
They play Texas State.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
The first game, they play Ohio State the second game,
and then they play Utsa the third game.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
All at home.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
So if if some butts here we go.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Are you going to look at this game and say,
all right, we're gonna We're gonna drop this Ohio State game. No,
I want Ohio State to come here. Did you see
the home schedule that we had this year. We weren't
even home for a month. Texas was not home for
a month. So when you start to look at how

(20:33):
this is being played out, and I'm with everybody, trust me,
I want the Texas Longhorns in the College Football Playoff.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
That gives us another week of work. We'll be doing
it for.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Some pregame shows no matter what. We got one at least,
we got one more at least. But for me, if
Texas can get into this playoff as the best three
lost team. And this is.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Something that I've talked to multiple people about. Their resume
says put them in, yeah, but their record, their record
is keeping them out. And to your point, I do
not envy the College Football Playoff Committee when it comes
to this, because one side is saying one thing and

(21:22):
the other side has to make a decision on the other.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I know it can't happen.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
The only way that it can happen is if you
create an algorithm for Texas to play against all those
teams that are ranked ten to sixteen. Let the computer
figure out the variables and let the coaches figure it out.
But I guarantee if coach, if coach Syracuse says, listen,

(21:49):
if we don't get in, we'll challenge any team. I'm
just challenge.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
I'm challenging you to any time.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Any nobody wouldn't take it. Listen to me, nobody would
take it from ten at Oklahoma play them again, No, survile.
I'm gonna tell you man to Bill want to play
him again? And tell you what Coach Sarks always says.
I don't deal in hypotheticals. He does say that I
don't do what. I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
You know you can do it now.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Now he's gonna come out of Ah. We have ai games.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, we'll continue these conversations and so much I've nerved
this thing out. Coming up next in my Hard Knox life,
I'll talk a little bit more about this college football playoff,
and of course we got to talk about Arch Manning
and what he's been able to do right here on
the morning kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
This is all I came into the season going Texas
is gonna go ten and two. That was my thought.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
That was my journey that I was looking forward to.
But some of those games I thought that we had
a great shot at Ohio State came up short, and
then Florida happened for us, and then all my expectations
kind of went a little bit crazy. But what I
got a chance to see was a football team, which

(23:16):
coach Sarcus pointed out, is one of the youngest in
college football, let alone the SEC. And they went out
there and got better and better and better and better
to the point that they are now in the conversation
where national pundits are having these discussions about whether or

(23:38):
not this Texas football team deserves to be in the
college football playoffs. The one thing that we all understand,
and Mark, you've been in competitive sports all your life,
you never ever want to leave anything up to the
judges or the committee.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
And that is where Texas is at this point point.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
But for years we've heard about the mighty gauntlet of
the SEC.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
You want to play an SEC is gonna be.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Tough weekend and week out, and coach Sart talked about
going through the SEC gauntlet.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, I just think about. It's week in and week out,
you know.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
And and that's that's one of the things when you
when you look at our schedule and you and you
look at the teams you play.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Everybody's good. Everybody's really good.

Speaker 7 (24:30):
And and I know it sounds like, well, well, you
shouldn't have been close in that game, or you shouldn't
have been close to that. Everybody's playing close games. You know,
sometimes the scores look a little different at the end,
but they're all hard, they're all tough. And and the
Southeastern Conference, Okay, I wish I had that stat right
in front of you of the number of players that

(24:51):
are in the National Football League right now from the
from the Southeastern Conference, more than doubles the next conference. Okay,
So that just speaks to the qual player that's in
this league, the quality of coaching, the environments. Go play
on the road at night in this conference, right and
see what that's like. So this conference is incredible. Like

(25:12):
I said, there's great teams, there's great coaches. And you know,
I think our record now in two years in the
regular season, we were seven and one last year, we
were six and two this year.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
So I'm very proud of that.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
And they've worked their behinds off to get to that point.
But one of the reasons why Texas is where they
are right now is because of the resiliency of one
Arch Manning. He's the most scrutinized player in college football.
But that thing has gotten real quiet.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
A lot of.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
People still hating, but they're not watching the games the
way that we watch the games. They're watching stat lines
and thinking that certain players didn't perform. But if you
watched any football all season long, you saw a person
get better and better at the quarterback position. And now
Sark expresses what he thinks about Arch.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
Yeah, no, I mean, I'm so proud of Arch because
of you know, a you know, you go into a
season and all the all the hooplah and all the
stuff surrounding him, and then you know, he's he's playing
like a first year starter and he's getting beat up
from every angle and he never he never lost like
his work ethic or his focus. And a credit to

(26:26):
his teammates for for for being there for him throughout
this journey and without Arch Manning, tonight's not tonight the
way that it is because we needed him there for
about a month when we weren't running the ball very
good and we had to throw it and he stood
in there in some real fire in some games, and
so tonight.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Really wasn't much different.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
It got hard, the wind was probably more of a
factor in the first half than than we were anticipating,
and and you know, he worked his way through it.
He used his legs on third down. I thought that
was a huge part of the game tonight. But I
think as much or more than anything with Arch, he's
grown into a really cool leader. You know, these guys

(27:06):
respond to his fire, to his energy, to his work ethic.
Nobody works harder, nobody prepares more. I mean, the blitz
packages that A and M has is elite.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's NFL level.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
And this guy managed our protections at the line of
scrimmage beautifully, did a fantastic job. And so all in all,
you know, I think you know, to him, for him
to cap it off with a touchdown run was a
pretty cool moment there on third and three.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
And not only that, this is my favorite part when
you play against your rival. Everybody, including some people at
the Universe not at the University of Texas that covered
the University of Texas, thought that A and m was
going to come in and win this game.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I talked to him.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
There was a lot of those oh man, I mean
I talked to a few. Yeah, and they.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Tried to cover it up, but they were like a
him just has too much And if you look at
the paper you thought it was the same. But in
the reality of it all, Texas came out to play
and they played.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
So well that my guy Mike Elko, who.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Looks like my boy John Persinger so much, looks just
like it looked just like per Singer.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Every time I look at I call him per Singer.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
He was so distracted after the game because of the
celebration that he got upset.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
We didn't play the way we needed to.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Can we close the door and run a professional press conference?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Please?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
My gosh, Mark, can you pull up ply?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
He mad mad?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Because I'm gonna tell you something hard. It was not
the fact that they were not running a professional frisk.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
The fact was they lost and he was mad, and
he wasn't the only one that was mad.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Is everything from the game last season that's stuck with
you from a Gripings standpoint, Maybe that you guys were
able to do or uh few things, but we're gonna
get it handled.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I don't want to speak on nobody happen anymore.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Players stomping on the field after the game. Yeah, you know,
couch do a couch h you're talking about when fifty
five said that what's his name?

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Your six years?

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Did you guys take it short or talks? You know,
he's a loser, So there's no we.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Don't pay attention to the you know.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Six he is six year?

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah? Yeah, oh my god, Like what what what are
you saying? Yeah, you can call it.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
You can keep it, man, you keep a moving he
who is in Yeah, exactly exactly, and that you know,
Colin Simmons gonna let you know. And I got some
good things to say about Colin Simmons. But the reality
of it is, this Texas football team in the clutch moments,
have shown up for the from uh midway through the season.
After like he said, after that Georgia loss, you come

(30:20):
in and playing against two of your rivals and you
were able to be all three in the same year.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
Once again, that is something to be impressed about. Texas
should where you know their pride right now. I know
that a lot of Texas.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Fans walked out of that stadium looking at them.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Aggies and just was like, just go ahead, jingling them keys,
Start the car, Start the car. And that to me
was more rewarding. It was it was supposed to be
a dog fight, and it was not a dog fight.
It was a serious business being put on there by
this Texas football team.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Is this your king?

Speaker 5 (30:58):
Yeah, it looks like they figured out that Texas was
here to play. Now, let's see if they get into
the college football playoffs.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
When we come back.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Somebody that is in the college football playoff decided to
put it in the win and I'm not excited about that.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
We'll talk about it.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Lane Kiffin on the Move right here on the Morning
Kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome
back to the morning Kickoff right here on sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred The Zone. At the top of eight o'clock,
we will talk to Tommy Yarsh of Dallascowboys dot Com as
the Cowboys handle business on Thanks hand good and now, Mark,

(31:38):
I guess you might be able to say it's time
to put some dirt on them. That was a good
game by Kansas City. But I was pulling for my Cowboys,
of course, but.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I was wondering about that during the game.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, do you know I thought about it, don't.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
I had to pull for the Cowboys as well, exactly.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
I mean, I mean, I'm a couch. It was like
it was nasty. It was nasty, Kansas City chief you
know what.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
But you had to beat the chiefs to help me
out there because I'm a Texas fan, so you know
you had to help me out.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
But I had to roof for the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Thank you, just man that I chose.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I lost the course, but I chose Indianapolis over the Texans.
I ain't anger over that.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
I got a.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Dub on that one. Well, let's get into it.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Lane Kiffin on the move going to h LSU after
the governor said that we ain't got enough money.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, it seems like they had enough money to go
get Lane.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Big billionaires want to spend all that kind of money.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
No problem. But if I got to go find fifty
three million dollars.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
From KEM, it's not going to be a pleasant conversation then.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
And now you're gonna have to figure it out because
now you went out and got a coach that has
he's a history a history of leaving places in a
short period time.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Now, I don't miss he did a great job.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
He's got his team in a position to be in
the college football playoff. He's got a chance to win
this whole thing. But yet he decides to leave. And
he was asked, why did you decide to leave?

Speaker 8 (33:23):
I understand you didn't attend the meeting today.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Why not?

Speaker 9 (33:27):
You know, again, I totally respect Keith's decision.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
So that was his decision.

Speaker 9 (33:32):
Yeah, yeah, he asked me not to come to the
meeting and said I can come, but which I totally understand.
You know, I don't know that I necessarily agree with that.
You know, we're trying to find a way, you know,
to make this work and coach the team and give
the team the best chance to win. But I also
you know, he's got a job to do, and like
he said, he has to live here. So, like he said,

(33:52):
maybe all the national people understand why you should let
me coach, but he has to live here and it's
a little different than they do.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
So totally respect that.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
And Keith has been amazing to us over the six years.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
So let me ask you this, as somebody who has
left companies before, as someone who has made moves, why
would you think that you would be able to stay
and wreck up the whole thing that is happening at
Ole Miss.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
You don't.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
You made a conscious effort when you started talking to
an administrators and to hire the people at the top,
and you said, listen, don't worry, I'm coming. Well what
what skin in the game do we have? That's what
I'm guarantee you.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
No, I won't. I want this, I want this. I'll
signed that. I will take that.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
And the factor they had to have an arrangement already, well, there's.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
No there's no going back to that. You just said that.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
You're taking You just took my offensive coordinator with you.
You're taking people from my staff. Therefore you're gonna try
to stay. You know what that does? That gives them
more time to talk to you. That gives them more
time to be around you. That gives everybody an opportunity
to say, you know what, I do want to go
to LSU.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
What if you're and that linebacker at Old Miss and
your coach does what Kiffin said, Look, I'm going to
the plane. I'm not asking nobody or telling nobody they
got to get on the plane with me. But basically,
you need to get on the plane with me.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Well here's the other thing.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
There's gonna be transfers from that that school. So now
you're gutting a school that you helped build for six years.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
You're gutting it.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, that running back, they gotta get him. He's gone.
You know what I'm saying, Like, those are the types
of things that you have put these coaches in. And
I told Marcus this this morning.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
I said, the reality of college football today. We have
to have a Commissioner of college football.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
We have to have rules and regulation in place.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
That regulates all of this on the nonsense in which
this is. I understand that job. You you deserve to
get fired.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
So what you can do and what you can't do
absolutely when you can do it absolutely needs to be
iron plans. My biggest problem is you have built this
program to where it is a college football playhoff contender.
You have a chance to win the national championship at

(36:44):
Ole Miss.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
He went in and just threw a grenade in the room.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
And walked out and said, I hope everybody survives like this.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Is this is like people blaming it on on the university.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
It's not the University's not the University exactly what he
was doing.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Lane knew exactly what he was doing. And look at
all the other places that he burned down, Like people
are still mad at Tennessee. People are still angry at
the way that he left Tennessee. And that's just one
of those situations that is going to continue to follow him.
And everybody can talk about he's a change guy. He

(37:24):
is the exact same person that he was when he
got fired by the Raiders on a projector they put
him on.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
He was that thing you used to do your homework
on and they would put it on the projector. But
I forgot what his call man Golly, but overhead projector
that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
But you sit there and you look at this. My
man got left on a tarmac.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Why because you're the same person that's there. So all
the skeletons that are in his closet are following him.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, I think the you know hijack in it saying listen,
I'm leaving, and he ain't talk. I'm sure he didn't
talk to everybody, but he talked to enough people that
it got back to other coaches that weren't going, and
it got back to administrators.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Now going to LSU. Man, LSU is LSU. They gonna
have some talent that is gonna be there. You gonna
you're gonna recruit good you got Now you got some opportunities.
How much more money did they give you than LSU?
I mean than Old Miss to help with you're recruiting?
Where's that at?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
So? If you is it more about.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
He would not have left. I guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Look, Kevin winnt have left because he knows what's at stake.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
He leave Old Miss and go there LSU. Look, but
do you think he cares? I don't think he's a
person that cares.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
He don't care about Old Miss. He cares about where
he's going. LSU has said, Okay, we're gonna give a
lot you this amount of money for player. Both of
those coaches, both of those states are like low funded states,
like I don't understand. But the billionaires will come up
with it. That's walk in the room with twenty dudes

(39:10):
and in that area and say, hey, what are we doing.
Soon as I got my check, I will gone, that's
what we got. That's where is that coming up?

Speaker 9 (39:20):
Next?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
We're gonna talk about somebody that got.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
A lot of money.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones about with our guy Tommy
Yarsh of Dallascowboys dot com. Our number one is in
the books, Our number two is just around the corner
right here on AM thirteen hundred The Zone and always
free on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Welcome back to our number two.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
Oh the more they kick off right here on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone, Mike Harballhart's World Strongest
Man WW Hall of Famer d Mark Henry, and of
course we've got Marcus behind the boards and our number one.
We talked about why or why not the Texas Longhorns
should be in the college football playoffs, and the conversations

(40:02):
will continue, But first we got to talk about the
Dallas Cowboys in their victory against the Kansas City Chiefs
on Thanksgiving Day, And what better way to talk about
it than bringing on our guy Tommy Yarsh of Dallascowboys
dot com. You can follow him at Tommy Underscore, Yars

(40:23):
and Tommy the Cowboys keep finding a way to get
it done thirty one to twenty eight against the Kansas
City Chiefs. And let's just say George Pickens continues to
show up and show out.

Speaker 10 (40:37):
Yeah, he sure enough, guys, and he's making himself a
lot of money, whether it be in Dallas or somewhere else.
But the Cowboys are certainly hoping that it is in
Dallas because he is completely revitalized their offense demastretch here
in early all season compared to last year. Obviously, the
last year they didn't have Dak, so that's pretty easy

(40:59):
to revitalize by bringing him back. But he has been
what they wanted him to be and then some and
so the Cowboys are certainly reaping the benefits of that,
and so is George Pickens.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
It's been a while since the Cowboys had an identity
of We talked about that maybe three or four weeks
ago when we thought that Dallas was ready for the
Toilet Bowl rather than the Super Bowl. We talked about
the fact that this team didn't have an identity like

(41:33):
we knew what the teams before had. But now the
offensive running scheme that coach Shottenheimer runs has gave them
a foundation for Dak to be able to have that
play action success.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Right.

Speaker 10 (41:49):
Yeah, absolutely, and you know it stretches beyond bron Shanheimers.
The offensive coordinator Clayton Adams, who you know, they brought
him from Arizona because of his run game scheme, teams,
and you know what he's able to do from a
from an x's and O standpoint to open things up.
And you know, Javonte Williams is forty five yards away

(42:09):
from being a thousand yard rusher this year, and that
certainly is has helped. You know, we talk about the
impact of George Pickens a lot, but man Javont Williams
has really helped this offense too, because, like you said, Mark,
he opens things up on play action for Dak Prescott,
which is you know, where.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
He's at his best.

Speaker 10 (42:25):
So it's it's it's kind of all the pieces of
the puzzle fitting fitting together. And like I said, you know,
the Cowboys offense is all the better for it, and
they've been able to win three straight games because of it.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
The Dallas Cowboys have done some things on the defensive
side of the ball. Jadavian Clown he probably had his
best game as a Dallas Cowboy to Marvey and Overshawn.
Being back, being able to man the middle of the
field and bringing in Quinnon Williams.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Has shown to be a huge effect.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
What the Cowboys have been able to do on the
defensive side the ball.

Speaker 10 (43:01):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. You know that that Quentin
Williams trade I think is going to be looked back
on like the Amari Cooper trade in twenty eighteen. Not necessarily,
you know, I don't know if they're going to make
the playoffs like they did that year, but just the
night and day difference that you saw in Dallas's defense
before when you know that they couldn't stop a nosebleed

(43:24):
and now you know they're being able to put up constant,
timely stops.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
You know, I wouldn't say there's still.

Speaker 10 (43:29):
A perfect group or anything like that, but they're helped
in the team with football games and that's exactly what
you want them to do. And we set at the
start of the year, you know, this offense is so
good that you don't need a great defense to win games.
You just need an average def a good defense, you know,
above average defense to be able to win you football games.

(43:51):
And I think you're seeing that right now.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
We got we got a couple of things that we
got on defense. One Donvin Ozarak, who not a heart
beat away from being a defense rookie of the year
and then yesterday, Uh, to my.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Depression.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Uh, Treyvon Diggs comes back within the twenty one day window,
and h can you tell us about you know, what
you feel about Donovan as well as Diggs coming back?

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (44:24):
Well, I'll start with as a rakkup. You know, this
is a guy that just continues to get better and
better every week. I think the staff is really pleased
with how he's coming along and how he's playing.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (44:37):
He hasn't been the you know, the sack productions guy
like he was in college when he led the nation
in sacks last year, but he has been really really
good against the run and they've asked him to do
a lot of that stuff. They've been kind of refining
how he rushes, and so I think this is going
to be a really good player on this defense for
for a long time to come. And then as far

(44:58):
as Trayvon Diggs goes, Yeah, he's he's he healthy again.
He feels like his knee is back to full health.
He spoke to some reporters yesterday and said that there
was some swelling in his knee and that that swelling
has gone away and he's feeling much better, better than
he did before the start of the season, So we'll
see how much of that holds true, and we'll see
if the medical staff clears him to play on Thursday.

(45:20):
Jerry Johnson on the radio last week that he wanted
to play against the Chiefs, but they wanted to give
him that extra time and allow him to try and
come back this week. So we'll see if he's on
the field Thursday.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
In Detroit.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
We're talking to Tommy Yarish of Dallascowboys dot com. You
can follow him at Tommy Underscore yars. I want to
get back to the offense because you mentioned it earlier.
Dak Prescott is playing some of the best football that
he's played since he's been a Dallas Cowboy, probably going
back to his rookie year. But what is it about

(45:54):
Dak and his calming voice for what he's been able
to see with this team and making it all work
with these weapons that he's had.

Speaker 10 (46:04):
Well, I think Number one, he's a great leader. If
there's if Dak Prescott is anything, he's an unbelievable people
person and leader of men. You know, I've learned that
about him, the way that his teammates respond to him
and the way that his teammates rally around him is
evident in everything that they do. And then he's just

(46:25):
a really good football player.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Man.

Speaker 10 (46:27):
Like you know, if you're a wide receiver, you want
to play with Dak Prescott. You want to play in
this offense because you know, they they throw the ball
a lot, they throw the ball out and they play
action passing game. They throw the ball a lot in
the screen game. They get a lot of guys involved,
and they let their receivers get touches and try to
utilize all their guys in all kinds of different ways. Everybody,

(46:50):
everybody benefits from it. You know, you see George Pickens
and the CD Lamb, but Jake Ferguson is having a
big year. Ryan Flinoy is getting involved and he's having
his best in the NFL so far. So everybody gets
involved in it. It's a skill position player friendly offense.
And when you've got a veteran quarterback like Dak Prescott

(47:10):
who has ten years under his belt, he's you know,
not like some of the quarterbacks we see today, where
there's a lot of work behind the line of scrimmage
or within the five to ten yards of the line
of scrimmage. He's he's willing to layer passes, he's willing
to throw the ball downfield and into traffic and make
tight window throws. And it's really fun to watch and
it's I can imagine it's pretty fun to play for

(47:32):
it too.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
No doubt, the Cowboys are in this stretch where they
played the Eagles, they got the win there, played the Chiefs.
Now they've got the win there. But now they have
a Lions team in Detroit that is coming off licking
their wounds, so to speak, on Thanksgiving Day. So now
this is another part of that tough stretch that the
Cowboys are headed to. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Absolutely.

Speaker 10 (47:55):
You know, if you would have told me going into
the bye week he they're going to beat the Chiefs
and the I would have told you were it's saying,
because this just wasn't a good looking football team. And
you know, this is the toughest stretch of the year
by far. So the fact that they're two and zero
is really impressive, and you know, you credit Brian Schottenheimer
and his staff for getting them there. But this, I

(48:18):
think is is probably the biggest test of the bunch
because not only is Detroit just an unbelievably talented team,
but their backs are against the wall. Like you said,
you know, these are two teams now with their backs
against the wall. Not a lot of margin for error
in terms of the playoff. You think about the NFC North,
the Barris and Packers are playing for number one in
that division next week, and even the Lions are in

(48:40):
third place, and they've been at the top of the division.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Here, shouldn't be so go ahead?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Shouldn't the Cowboys be thinking about revenge? Though after the
whooping they took last year.

Speaker 10 (48:52):
I always think that's that's a sour thought. Yeah, I
would think that sits in their minds.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
You know.

Speaker 10 (48:58):
At the same time, though you don't you can't lean
back on that too much. If anything, you just use
his motivation and try to win your game, because look,
he's I mean, this is this is one where if
you look down the stretch and around the NFC here,
the Cowboys basically the best option you've got is to
win out and hope you can win the division. More

(49:18):
than likely you're going to need Philadelphia to drop two
or three games if you want to get in the playoffs.
So they've just got to take this thing one game
at a time and try to get back into that picture.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Yeah, it so definitely a tough run.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
They got the Detroit Lions, then they play the Minnesota
Vikings on Sunday Night Football. Then they host the La Chargers,
who's having their own problems with the thought process of
Herbert having a surgery today. So there's a lot going
on and a lot in favor of the Cowboys. So

(49:51):
when you look at Detroit and what they've been able
to do, obviously it goes back to Jared Goff, But
are they going to be with Amara Saint Brown and
you got contain Jair Gibbs.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
Well with aman Ra, you know, this is a guy
that is unbelievably tough, and no matter what the injury is,
you know, you obviously hope he's okay, and you probably
lean towards him finding a way to push to play.
That's the player that he is. And you know, if
he doesn't play, obviously that is a that is a huge,

(50:25):
you know, advantage for Dallas and a big loss for Detroit.
But then you remember that they've got Jamier Gibbs and
David Montgomery in the backfield, and you're kind of brought
down to earth a little bit. You know, in my
personal opinion, I think Jamier Gibbs is the best running
back in the NFL. And he is just unbelievably fun
to watch. His speed, his quickness is h his playmaking

(50:46):
ability in space is unreal, and uh he is he
is a pure, pure, pure elite talent. And then you've
got the bruiser in Montgomery, who you know they haven't
used as much this year, but he's still well we're
six indred yards rushing and he gets from the end
zone and they compliment each other really well. And you
know Dallas has improved against the run here the last

(51:08):
three weeks. That's going to be their biggest test. If
they can show that they can stop Detroit's run game,
they're gonna have a real chance in this game and
it would probably be their most impressive showing of the season.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
Well, we definitely are looking forward to it, and we're
definitely looking forward to talking to you again next week,
hopefully after a victory in Detroit.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
As always, Tommy.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
We appreciate you bringing time many thanks for taking the time.

Speaker 10 (51:34):
All right, guys, thank you, hope you all have a
great Thanksgiving you.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Too, Man appreciate you when we come back. We're going
to continue the conversations. I was going to go to
the NFL, but I want to get back on this
Lane Kiffin situation because not only did Lane make moves,
other teams had to make moves, including oh miss SEC football.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
We're here, folks, We're here for it right here.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
On the morning kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen, Hundre
The Zone, Great stuff by Tommy Yarsh of Dallas Cowboys
dot Com. The Cowboys continue to find ways to get
it done, and now they travel to the Motor City
to take on the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
I got Jared Goff, Jamier Gibbs, Jamison Williams. We'll see
if Amara Saint Brown's gonna be able to play. Don't
forget they got Aiden Hutchison on the edge, So the
Cowboys are going to truly be tested this week. I
want to go back to this Lane Kiffin situation because

(52:36):
it did create a I'm not gonna call it a firestorm,
but it did create multiple reactions across college football. And
maybe my beef with the situation is just because Lane
Kiffin seems to always do that type of deal, but

(52:56):
where he just decides he's gonna up and leave and
go out for greener pastors or wherever he thinks that
may be. But there has been a domino effect when
it comes to the SEC, the coaches, and the changes
that have been made within the SEC.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
As of yesterday, there was a lot of moves. A
lot of people have gotten fired there.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
This morning, the SEC now owes fired coaches over one
hundred thirty seven million dollars in buyouts this season, just
this season, because just a minute ago, Mike Stoops has
just been relieved. Not Mike Stoops the coach for Kentucky.

(53:46):
He's not Mike.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
I belive it was Mike.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
No, that's his assistant coach. That's the that's the big bro.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Got ye whatever Stoops? This is he gone?

Speaker 1 (53:58):
He gone?

Speaker 5 (53:58):
Yeah, he's in the win. I can't believe. I just
Mark Steops. That's his name, Mark.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (54:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
There's a lot of Stuffs coaching. But now he is gone.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
And he had been the coach at Kentucky for thirteen seasons.
Now Kirby Smart is the longest tenured coach in the SEC.
But you start to look around and you see all
of these changes that have happened within college football.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Now you have a new Auburn head coach.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
He came from the University of South Florida, Alex Golish.
The new Arkansas head coach is Ryan Silverfield. He has
just come from Memphis. Then you look at Tulane lost
their head coach. Now he's the head coach at Florida,
John Sumraw, which changes the way that Tulane.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Will be looked at if they are.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Left out of the college football playoffs because of not
having their head coach. Of course, you got Lane Kiffin
going to h L s U. But L s U,
I mean Ole miss decides, you know what we're gonna do.
We're gonna stay within the locker room and we're gonna
promote Pete Goldie.

Speaker 8 (55:11):
But when it came right down to it, we have
someone that is a leader of men, that can lead
you guys, and that man is Pete Goldie.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Y'all playground about that, damn bad.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
We're gonna play right, and that's gonna be the same.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Thing in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
We ain't playing scare, We ain't coaching scared. That ain't
what you're used to, That ain't.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
What you want.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
That's what you gotta get to. That's where he is
right now.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
He is the head coach of Old Miss leading them
into the playoffs. And the thing that drives me nuts
is some of these coaches now are putting themselves in
this awkward position because it's not just them, it's the
administrations for all of these schools because if you think

(56:20):
about it, these guys have put in the work to
build their programs up. Now as an administration, you need
to be willing to do more to keep those guys.
And what do I mean by that? Everything goes back
to nil. Everything goes back to being able to create
a recruiting budget for those schools to be able to they.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Obviously they're winning.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
All the coaches that have now been promoted are coming
from programs that they turned around and are now winning.
But it looks as if those programs that they're leaving
the Sunbelt conferences, the smaller conferences, the American Conference, they're
leaving those conferences because they want to compete at the
next level. But you gotta be able to spend the

(57:09):
money to be able to compete at that level of
high level college football.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
This is where we are now.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
If your marketing budget is not worth it, then your
team is not going to You're not going to be
able to keep your coaches.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
That's great, that's great. But also there's guys that already
made it. They already have high profile jobs, just like
Lane Giffen and you have won already.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
But did they spend enough money on the marketing budget
to go get more nil players?

Speaker 3 (57:39):
That's the question. That's the thing.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
You're one of to percent in the right agreement to
feel that way. We know that there are excuse me,
that there are programs. They have it, but they don't
want to do it. You know, you look right down
the street, your boy Dibo. They have money, they have

(58:04):
a great network around their school, but they he doesn't
want to be a part of the negoty negotiation of
paying players. I support my players. I want them to graduate.
I want them to have, you know, good relationships with
the alumni so they can get jobs. That's great, coach,

(58:24):
you do realize that they paying the quarterback four million
dollars over there, we have to do the same to
get one like him. Yes, they got a running back
that's getting getting three fifty? Can we can we come
up with three hundred and and just negotiate.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Hey, you're going to.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Start like what what I don't. I don't blame the
guys for going to other schools. It's just how they
do it and in the time frame that they do it.
I have a problem with that's it. And you you
you said it best. Can we can we get a
committee twelve it was twelve disciples. Let's find twelve football men.

(59:10):
One thing that can help is pushing back the recruiting
deadline date.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
Well, that's something that coach Shark has talked about most
of the talk top of the list. Well, because this
is what this is what he was looking at as
of right now, he's laying saying, I'm up against the
clock because National Signing Day is Wednesday. You start to
look at all of these different dates that are in play,

(59:35):
and National Signing Day is right around the corner.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Well, you fix most of it by saying, okay, coaches
cannot take another job until January first, when the bowl
game is over, when the championship game is over. Then
we start the coaches to be able to have that negotiation.
It should be a short period, just like the NFL season.

(01:00:01):
Ye man, you got you got two weeks to figure
this out and then we're on to the next thing.
And then you got two more weeks and we got
this thing come up. That's what they need to do
with college football. So you got a two week window.
If you're gonna negotiate a deal with with these with
another team, and it's gonna be after this, and you

(01:00:22):
cannot all players cannot be negotiated with touch talk agents,
You're gonna get your player suspended or a year taken
away from their career.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
I firmly believe that we are with you, you have
to put these guardrails. I'm all for people being able
to move around to a certain extent, stick to the like.
If a coach is leaving like this, he can leave,
but you can't go with them. I think that should
be where it's at. If a coach leaves, he can

(01:00:57):
take his quarter, you cannot take no players with them.
Go elsewhere. Go kick around somewhere else. Go find out
how good you really are by recruiting some other players.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Don't take the players that you already know. Okay, just gutted, Marcus.
Write that down, Write that rule down. We're gonna we're
gonna make the rule. When we're making the rule, we.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Got the world's strongest bed bringing his world's strongest tape
right here on the morning kickoff on sports radioho Am
thirteen The Zone. We're making the rule. You heard the
beat drop. That could only mean one thing. W W
Hall of Famer and world's strongest Man, Mark Henry brings
you his world's strongest take.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Take it away, big fella. Yes, you know what time
it is? What timas It's time for the world's strongest
take by the world's longest the world's fingers man. Yo.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
I guess back then they didn't know. Now I'm hot,
they all on me. Well, I just said it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
I'm scrapping my world's strongest take as it related to
the NBA. We only have so much more college football left,
and we're getting close to Christmas time, and that Christmas
time you know what that means, It's NBA time.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
But we're not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
We're gonna scrap it today. We're gonna stay the football
while we got football. And we just figured out we
can't rely on college football to do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
So we're gonna do it right now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
We are gonna set the top rules that college football
should be governed by, and I'm gonna start with mine
because it's the world's strongest take and I'm going first.
Number one, no football business. Until after the national Championship

(01:02:59):
has been played twelve o'clock in the morning, you can
start negotiating, calling, speaking to other coaches, speaking to other administrators,
telling other players, Hey, I want you to come play
for me. I'm about to take a job at this place.
That's when it should start harsh. What's the next rule?

Speaker 5 (01:03:21):
I think my biggest rule will obviously be if you
are going to leave, you cannot take any of the
players with you, not your quote, not your linebacker, not
your running back, nobody that was on your previous team.
Because obviously you didn't think that team was good enough,

(01:03:43):
So why do you want to take.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Any of them with you? Well, not allowed to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
Not allowed to do it. I like that. There's number two.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Let's got to make an amendment to that rule, and
that is coaches either And Marcus made an amendment to
the amendment, and he said that unless you are getting
a promotion as a coach, you cannot go with that coach. Now,
if you're gonna go, and if you're the linebackers coach

(01:04:12):
or the quarterbacks coach defensive line, you can't go just
to go and be that position holder. But if you're
gonna be the DC, then you can go with him. Okay,
number three, Number three, you're gonna be mad salary cap.

(01:04:33):
If you're gonna do free agency and you're gonna do
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Model salary cap.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Stay under the cap twenty five million a season. Every
All the boosters right now going, I like Mark Henry
because they want to keep the money under twenty five million.
No more paying the quarterback four million dollars high in college.
You got, you got a whole team to outfit. And

(01:05:00):
number four, every player that makes your eighty five man
roster should automatically get one hundred grand. The kicker, the punter,
the holder, the deep snapper, every position that touches the field,
every practice player, every walk on. If you're gonna get

(01:05:26):
eighty five, if you're gonna still need that's the other
that's my number five rule is we need to go
back to one hundred and five.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
You need to go back to one hundred and five.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
And maybe those those from eighty five players to one
hundred and five players they get fifty thousand, get half
of that, but they need something. You gotta pay for school,
Get them a car, pay for their they got the dorms.
I don't want not one player in any university that's
involved with the advancement or the development of the team

(01:06:01):
to have to ask their mom and daddy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
For a hundred bucks. Hey, I need a hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Well what you need?

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Books? Books?

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Now, they got my books. But like, you know, I
like that at this point, it's not it's not everybody's not.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Are you sure? Just Jacob's not asking you for extra bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Listen, Jacob is definitely asking me. Hey, dad, you got
that hundred dollar handshake? Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
was like, don't buy grills, don't buy nothing else. You
see that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Dude win bout grills.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Yeah, we saw. Oh I feel I had one of
my uncles saying, man, you know, we don't do that right,
And I'm said, man, you got to call Jacob, don't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
I hung up on it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
That boy was like cash money in But it brought
me a bunch of joy though, because you know, like
he got brotherhood, and I'm happy for him. You know,
I just like seeing like we got brotherhood. Were in here,
we go to the barbershop. You know, he in a
strange place, you know, like and that's another thing. All

(01:07:11):
these kids are going to these different places. Imagine you
from South Texas and you gotta go to Seattle, Washington
and play for the Oregon Beavers or something like.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
That's a long way.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
It gave us twelve different teams. Where did you say
you gotta go. Where'd you just say if.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
You're gonna go to the Oregon Beavers, m Washington, Washington.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
You gave us Washington, Oregon and the Beavers, Beavers of
Oregon State Washington and the Huskies and Oregon is the Ducks.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
So you didn't give us three matter of fact, or
any of those schools in Seattle. Lot. No, it's great,
I got great.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
It was I got dementia.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
He gave us all kind of dementia.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
You know, you know, think go the other way with it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
You're going from Houston or Dallas to one of these
schools that's in the middle of nowhere, like Minnesota or
Iowa wear snows.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
I just meant hard just talking about this. I left,
I left Austin, Texas and went to Colorado Springs. It's
three feet of snow on the ground when I get
off the plane. It's ridiculous. So like make it easier
on these college athletes men and women. I'm not just
talking about football, talking about I'm talking about volleyball and
gymnastics and you name a sport that's played like you

(01:08:34):
have to make it easier.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
But to get back to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
The rules, like we need at least those solid rules.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
That's that's only five.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
And there's a lot of football people that understand football
things a lot better than hardj and I, well maybe me,
Hard is very knowledgeable. He's Jedi Knight. But I'm I'm
I'm I want to get these guys in a room
and have them come up.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
It just took us. We just did that in ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Well, like they can take a couple of days a
week to be in the same city and go in.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Nine to five.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
By not nine to five, but go in like five
hours a day and hash this out.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
It's not gonna take a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
The bottom line is this, They gotta quit making this happen.
They have to quit figuring out ways to get this done.
They need a commissioner. The commissioner is the person that
needs to make sure all of this stuff is cleaned
up and perfect to do. Bottom line, get a commissioner

(01:09:36):
and all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
Mac Brown would be a good candidate.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
I think Greg Sankey would be a great candidate. I
think he would be perfect for it. We're gonna close
out the show send you to Dan Patrick basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
That's right, Mark wanted to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
He switched it up.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
But we gotta talk about the Texas women and of
course the Texas men and volleyball too. Right here on
the morning kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
What a way to start off the week.

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
Just want y'all to know that there is no press
conference today for coach Sark. National Signing Day is Wednesday.
The Playoff Committee votes tomorrow night they come out with
their information, so I'm sure that we will hear from
coach Sark by Wednesday, as there will be a lot

(01:10:28):
to go over. As I said, National signing Day starts
on Wednesday, and Texas is hoping to land quite a
few recruits and there will be some players that will
be in the transfer portal coming up pretty soon. With
all the changes that is happening in college sports, I
do want to get into the basketball conversation. Last night,

(01:10:51):
the Texas women handled their business after going to after
going to Las Vegas and doing what they do against
UCLA and then going out and beating South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
I want to give a shout out to Vic Schaeffer.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
Vic Shaeffer was on our pregame show right after they
got back from that big win against as I said,
UCLA and USC and Rory Harmon got MVP at the tirement,
started making all kinds of great shots, being clutch and

(01:11:30):
she had a twenty six point performance. And then they
played last night. They improved to eight and no. They
played yesterday afternoon, excuse me, they improved to eight and
no with an eighty one to sixty three win over
Penn and Madison Booker continued to do what Madison Booker does.

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
She had herself a double double.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
There was one sequence where Madison Booker I think she
got three rebounds in a row and it was impressive
to see. She finished with seventeen points and ten rebounds.
She was eleven for eleven from the free throw line.
As a team, Texas went twenty of twenty two. We

(01:12:12):
talked about their free throw shooting earlier in the year
and they were able to do it. Tell Sidbury, Sidbury,
excuse me, was thirteen and twelve in her performance.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
She too had a double double.

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
Jordan Lee continues to play at a high level, Justice
Carlton and Kyla Oldacre.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
But Mark, I know you have something to say.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
I can wait to talk to Danny day oh Man. Listen,
he's not being at Mark. We don't need we don't
need Rory scoring you know, twenty five points. We have
bigger problems. You know, that's kind of Madison Booker's deal. No, Danny,

(01:12:54):
you see what I'm talking about. I see the future,
and the future is Rory being an offensive threat and
her being healthy. And Coach Big said it talking about
her confidence in the fact that now she's playing without
the brace a year later and it's really Thriving's she

(01:13:17):
can get her own shot. It was like Jason Kidd,
when you're the ultimate point guard, you get that fifteen
to seventeen foot jumper all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
It's there for you. I think that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Now she found it, it's gonna be hard for teams.
And why is Texas not number one?

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Well, they haven't voted yet, so it'll probably be this
week they will. You be number number three and you
beat number two, you should go to one.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
I know it's mad now, but I'm just saying three
minus two is one, so you figure out a way
to get that done. So but yeah, I think they
will definitely be at least top two, if not number one,
they will be number two. They will be taking on
North Carolina this week, followed by Prairie View and then

(01:14:07):
ut RGV and then one more tough game on the
fourteenth against Baylor. So this team is getting ready for
SEC play. But the way that they've been playing over
the week, it has been something to see during that time.
Rory Harmon is now the all time Texas career assists
leader in that matchup and it was good to see.

(01:14:30):
And we got a chance to talk to Vic Shaffer
on our pregame show, and let's just say Vic was
probably the happiest that I've seen him in a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
He's very proud of his basketball team.

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
He's proud of the way that they have worked and
the way that they have shown up at weekend in
week out. And he's doing this without three of his
top players. Aliah Crump still is not back on the
court yet. Preston was still out as well. So starting
to see, Uh, this Texas basketball team kind of come

(01:15:04):
together as they were expected to be.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Yeah, and the depth helps, and the fact that when
you don't have your depth, the people that are playing
in that second role that come off the bench can
be starters. And you said this a few weeks ago.
A lot of the women that are playing on Texas
bench was started a lot of places and then they

(01:15:29):
just coach Vic just reloaded, y'all. I mean, for of
the best players in the country would be on the
bench next year if not starting. So I'm you got
a girl six' two that can take you off the
dribbling dunk.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
And she's done it in the, game you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Know So i'm, like, Man texas is this is gonna
be a long time that they're going to be in this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
SPOT i got top Five tepa.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
BABY i can't wait to see how they continue to
mature because you, know with the leadership Of rory and
the way That madison, plays the unselfishness in which they,
play the way that they can get their. Shots but
it's the part of bringing A Justice carleton off of
the bench and letting her do what she. Does he

(01:16:19):
was very complementary of what he's seen from, her and
that's the. Player he said that he thought they were
going to get when she committed to The university Of
texas and now with her being, healthy her not wearing
her knee brace at all.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Either it has been refreshing to see what this team can.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
Do AS i Said texas men's, basketball they find a
way to get it. Done they're part of the SEC
acc challenge that will take. PLACE i believe It's wednesday
night against Against. Virginia that game will be played at
The Movie center eight. Fifteen tip will hear from Coach

(01:17:00):
miller tomorrow as we have media availability with him, today
so we'll have all of it for. You make sure
you tune in this afternoon to The Craig Wave. Show,
Creig i'm sure he had to get some, sleep flew
back From, hawaii had to do the game That. Friday
they got back On, thanksgiving did the game That, friday.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Did the women.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
Yesterday So craig is well rested at this. Point so
tune in this afternoon For Mark, henry.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
For Marcus i'm harvall.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
Hard just remember, this don't believe everything you see because
even salt looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
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