July 8, 2026 • 33 mins
Greg Abbott begins the final hour with Shannon Bream, who breaks down recent Supreme Court immigration rulings, including asylum rules, temporary protected status, and presidential authority over independent federal agencies. Bream also discusses whether Justice Samuel Alito is expected to remain on the Court. Senator Tim Scott joins to discuss the 2026 Senate map, Graham Platner in Maine, Mike Rogers in Michigan, John Sununu in New Hampshire, John Husted in Ohio, and Michael Whatley in North Carolina. Abbott and Scott argue that Republican control of the Senate is essential to advancing President Trump’s agenda. The hour closes with Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian discussing the Longhorns’ team culture, summer preparation, Arch Manning, Cam Coleman, and the upcoming Ohio State matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. I am Texas
Governor Greg Abbott and I'm your guest host today and
I am so excited about our next guest, Shennon Breen
with the Fox News station. I got to tell you something.
So I'm a former practicing lawyer, former Texas Attorney General,
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and I argued a case in won a case at
the United States Supreme Court, and I got to tell
you that there's nobody ever who's done a better job
of covering the United States Supreme Court and their opinions
than Shennon Breem. And she was so busy the last
few weeks as the Supreme Court was issuing his final
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decisions for the last session, and many of them were blockbusters,
especially on immigration policy, which is very important to Texas.
One was a case where migrants were waiting for Solomon
Mexico and claimed they had full rights of Americans. Well,
didn't turn out too well for them. So, Shannon, if
you would tell us how the United State Supreme Court
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ruled in that case and what is the effect of
that decision on the Trump administration immigration policy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, Governor, it is great to be with you and
listen anybody who can go and argue a case at
the Supreme Court might have will.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Always be off to you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It looks like one of the most terrifying things in
the world for attorneys. So I love that I just
get to cover it and hopefully break it down in
a way that folks at home will understand what it
all means to their lives. And no one understands this
border issue probably better than you do, having dealt with
this in Texas in the very real world ways that
it impacts the people that you serve. And this decision
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about asylum was essentially the court saying, listen, what the
statute says is, you don't trigger all these protections for
filing for asylum and pursuing that status if you haven't
arrived in the US. Those were the words arrived in.
So the policy of kind of metering the Trump administration
has said, if you're still in Mexico, that doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
As a in the US.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You don't trigger all those protections. So it really shut
down one of the pathways that people who are trying
to get you know, folks into the US illegally would say,
come with me, we're going to get you there. Whether
it's a coyote or a cartel, and we're going to
have you claim asylum whether it's true or not, whether
you have any real fear. And so what the Supreme
Court is said is now that doesn't count if you're
on that side of the border. You've not quote arrived.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
In the US.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And this administration can use that tool to stop the
flood of people coming into border to.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A big time help, and to be honest, it's just
common sense. Well, listen, there's another one that may have
been an even bigger one, and that is when the
Supreme Court allowed President Trump to end temporary protected status
for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. In that case, it was
a huge win for the Trump administration, but it maybe
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is larger than that. So what did the court decide
and what does it mean for migrants who are here
under temporary protected status.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, you're exactly right, another big win for the administration.
So that status, you know, is temporary for reason, I
mean by design, that's what it is. For people who
have terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Situations in their home countries, whether.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's war or the devastation of a natural disaster, what
they can do is get this temporary protect the status
here in the US, but it's supposed to have a
limit on it, and essentially the Department of Homeland Security,
the Secretary the decides does that get extended, do we
renew that repeatedly? How many times? What has happened in
the home country? Is it okay to lift that status now?
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And what the court found is again they're looking to
the statutory language which says that decision lists and lasts
only with the Department of Homeland Security. They're the only
ones who get decided and it's not for a court
to overrule that decision. So it's a secretary, Department of
Homeland Security, and that's under a Biden administration, a Trump administration,
any president. If they say, okay, the statue has given
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us guidance, we've resolved that at home, it's safe for
them to return. In our estimation that the court doesn't
have the power to review that decision. So essentially said,
the Secretary's got the power to decide TPS status.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So let's say let's say the Trump administration applies that
about how many people do you think would be removed
from the United States.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, our understanding with this case was brought, as you said,
specifically to Haitian and Syrian immigrants who were here under
that TPS status. That was several hundred thousand, but we
have estimates that there are more than a million people
who are currently in the US under that status, and
that ruling from the court seems to say, DHS, you know,
they're the final decision maker on when that status should end.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Interesting, well, listen, one last case real quick, and a
case that President Trump said was his biggest win of
the Supreme Court. He said, maybe ever was the court's
decision giving the president the authority to fire heads of
independent federal regulatory agencies at will. So what is the
consequence of that decision.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, the administration was very excited about this win because
essentially the case dealt with an FTC board member and
essentially said, you can get rid of this commissioner in
the way that you can because you're the executive You're
the head of the executive branch. All of these agencies,
and there's so many of them, you know this, They're
all the alphabet agencies. There are scores of them. I mean,
these are unelected bureaucrats who have a lot of decision
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making power over regulatory framework and all of these different
things from the EPA to OSHA and everywhere else in between.
And essentially the Court says, yes, the president, as the
head of the executive branch, has the right to make
decisions about this, and he can tell them it's time
for them to go they don't line up with what
his strategy is as the executive I believe there was.
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Chief Justice Roberts wrote this the sixt' three opinion, and
he said, neither the courts nor Congress should be able
to saddle a president with people with whom he cannot work.
So if you're going to be working within the executive
branch and carrying out his agenda, his strategy, and again,
so win for President trumpet, it's a win for any
president in the future. They are able to dismiss these
folks who don't line up, they think, with their mission
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for the work.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now, you know, there was a companion.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Case that dealt with the said and the Court treated
that one a little bit differently, said, that's an independent
agency quasi independent, and there's got to be some due
process there. Not that the president can't dismiss a board member,
but it's got to be dealt with some due process.
And a way to answer those charges.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, again just common sense. So applying this, who do
you think maybe on the chopping block?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's a great question. I think if I was, you know,
in one of these bureaucracies, I would be thinking very
carefully about whether or not I line up with the
president's mission and again business for any president now and
for future. So for those who say, oh, this court
is just a rubber stand for President Trump, he lost
you know, some big decisions this term. The court shows
its independence with you know, striking down tariffs and other things,
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birth bright citizenship. So I think what the Court did
is give him, you know, framework.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
For a lot of things that they believe line.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Up with constitutional interpretation.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
He's going to win some, he's going.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
To lose some.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But when it comes to that decision about dismissing federal
board members and federal agency officers, everyone should know that
they outside of the Fed, the President's got a lot
of power to end your job, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Well, listen, one last question. We have only a minute,
but a lot of people are playing the guessing game
right now. Is Justice Alito going to stay? Is he
going to go?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I go ahead, Yes, it's one of our favorite parlor games.
You know, if you cover the court, it's our you know,
the Supreme Court predcur does a lot of debating about this,
But I have been assured that he has no plans
to go. He's hired his full compliments of clerks, and
he's just not ready to go. And I think this
tends to be the case with a lot of justices.
The more you push, probably the more they dig in
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their heels. He's got a brand new book coming out
in October.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That I think we'll explain a lot about his.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Philosophy at the Court and about sticking around, and from
everything I've been told, he's not leaving anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, for the future of America, for the future of
the Supreme Court, for the future of the rule of
law in America, I sure hope that Justice Alittle stays.
He is one of the if not the best justice
on the United States Supreme Court, and Shannon, you are
the very best. Thank you for coming on the Hannity
Show today. All right, We're gonna take a quick break
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and then be right back with the great Senator Tim.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Scott transmitting to over seven hundred radio stations. Wow, Wow,
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Speaker 1 (09:02):
Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. This is Texas
Governor Greg Abbott and I am your guest host today
and I am excited about our next guest, the Senator
from the beautiful state of South Carolina, Tim Scott, and
I got to tell you at this moment in time,
there may be no more important person to talk to
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than Tim Scott. I'll tell you why. He is the
head of the NRSC this cycle, which is in charge
of winning Senate races for Republicans across the entire country.
And as we've been on the show today, there's been
breaking news about the status of the Democrat nominee in
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the state of Maine, and that is Graham Platner. What
he's going to do, what's going on in his life,
is he going to stay on the ballot or not?
What's that going to do to the race for the
Senate in Maine. And we got the person best situated
to answer all of those questions, and that is Tim Scott.
Senator Tim Scott, Welcome onboard. How you doing Tim.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Well, Governor. I'm doing really well. It's good to hear
your voice again. Thank God that you're doing such a
good job in Texas, one of the great states in
the South that we all celebrate. So thank you for
taking your time to host this show and keep doing
a great job in Texas.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'll get to Texas in a second and talk about
the Taller Rico race. But tell me what's going on
with Graham Plattner and how that will affect the race
for the United States Senator in Maine.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
You know, he still has not yet dropped out governor,
and so my perspective is a simple one. The Democrat
Party in this candidate in Maine will either be an
alleged rapist with a nat Nazi tattoo or someone he
hand picks with the same values and vision. I believe
Susan Collins is not only the best candidate to continue
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to represent Maine, she's the only person. Senator Collins must
be re elected. And there's no question Graham Platner if
he drops out, He's already said using his own verse,
he will pick someone with his values and his vision
for America that is out of step with Mainers, out
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of step with Americans, and frankly out of step with
common sense and anything else in our universe.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Are you got your spot on there. You know, when
you look at his values and really his life, he
has a checkered history of sex scandals that would make
Bill Clinton blush. He is an example of truly the
radical socialist candidas and candidacy. This litter with character flaws,
and what I can't figure out, Senator Scott, is why
in the world are all these Democrats coming up with
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these Democrat nominees that are so brought in to a
socialist agenda. This really contrary to where the mainstream of
the United States of America is and having them adopt
those policies. How easy is it going to be able
to defeat them at the ballot box in November.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
It's going to be incredibly expensive. It's one of the
reasons why when I'm on Seawn's radio show or TV
I remind Americans they can go to defend Themajority dot
Com to chip into our candidate so that we can
hold the Firewall of America also known as the United
States Senate. Keeping it in the hands of the Republican
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Party is how we make sure that President Trump's last
two years in office are his best two years in office.
For the Democrats are bound and determined to turn the
page to socialism today and communism tomorrow. These candidates reflect
not who we are and not who we want to be,
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who we should never be. It's what you see coming
out of Michigan with l said, it's what you see
with Roy Cooper in North Carolina, and is exactly what
you see. You can't even hold your knows to get
rid of the stinch coming out of Maine named Graham Platner.
It's just uncontinable that the Democrat Party now is represented
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their poster children onsideed of course from Michigan, James Tallerico
from the Great State of Texas and Graham Platner from Maine.
Their values, their vision and frankly they're a morality is
a stint. All.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Let's talk about that Michigan race for a second. You
mentioned the person who likely will be the Democrat nominee,
and to me, he looks like he would be eminently beatable.
But what are the fact show on the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
We are in better shape every single day. Mike Rogers
is doing a fantastic job. He's rocking and rolling. He's
knocked on over four hundred thousand doors in Michigan. He
has a strong ground game. He has President Trump's endorsement,
no primary. He has all of his energy and his
efforts targeting the Democrats who are cuckoo for cocoa puffs
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in Michigan, which gives us a great opportunity to pick
up Michigan for the first time in nearly three decades.
I'm excited about Mike's candidacy, really excited about his integrity,
and I look forward to us picking up Michigan and
adding it to the R column. R.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
For 'll tell you what looks like Senate would be
getting more and more red. And you know, as you
pointed out earlier, that's essential for President Trump to have
any success in the last two years of this current term.
We'll bring us up to spade what's going on in
both New Hampshire and Ohio.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
We're excited in New Hampshire. I'll tell you what. We
could not have chosen a better candidate than Johnson Neunew.
His name is certainly universally known in the great state
of New Hampshire, live free or die, their independent state.
He's doing very well. We need to continue to fund
his race. As he continues to have the resources to
be successful. He will be another ad to our Senate
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number two, and I mean number two. He'll be the
second Republican in all of New England, Susan Collins being
the only Republican today. We can double our numbers in
New England by electing John to in New Hampshire. Also,
you think about Ohio, where we have another John, John Houstad,
a man of integrity and great faith who's served the
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state statewide for a number of years now as a
United States Senator, John is doing really well, but don't
forget he's running against Shared Brown, who's anestheticals and everything
it means to be an American as a politician. Here's
the guy who always votes for tax increases, always votes
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for open borders, and always voted with Joe Biden. It's
not the kind of person we want representing Ohio. That's
why we are gung ho and buried about the candidacy
of John Houston and Frankly Togethernor if we turn it
to the south, Michael Wattley is doing a great job
in North Carolina, running against the former governor Roy Cooper
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who let fourth criminals out thirty five.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, this is very, very promising. I got to tell
you Center Scott. We appreciate your leadership and it looks
like we should look forward to some great results in November.
Thank you very much for joining the Sean Hennedy Show today.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Listen to this show one time and you're handitized. Sean
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Speaker 1 (17:04):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. This is Texas
Governor Greg Abbott, your guest host today, and we're going
to begin this segment with another first for the Sean
Hannity Show. It's going to be the first time this
music has ever played on this show. Cut one five. That,
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of course was the As of Texas and there's no
better way to introduce uh the coach of the University
of Texas Longhorn football team, coach Steve Sarkisian Sark.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
How you doing, Governor Abbitt.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
You're a natural one here. Thanks for having me on.
Sounds great.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Did you have a did you have a big hook
him up?
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Better entry?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You know, like our singing, But I didn't know if
I was if I was getting I was still on
air or not. But you always see when I hear
that of Texas, I always like instantly think to like
some of the special moments we've had in the.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Five years we've been here so far, and I got I.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Always I instantaneously go back to last year's A and
M game here. I go back to A and M
at Kyle Field two years ago. I go to the
Red River Robbery. I just go to some of the
I remember seeing the eyes at Bryan Denny Stadium when
we beat Alabama, and just it goes right to the
special wins, I think. And that's that's one of the
cool things of when I hear that song, the pride
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that that Longhorn Nation has and singing it at at Michigan.
We beat it at one at Michigan, and so a
lot of pride when I when I hear that song,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I'll tell you what somebody who's really met it special
is you and the coaching job that you've done, the
recruits that you brought in, But it's really the culture
that you've developed. You know, as as many people in
Texas know, I graduated from the University of Texas and
so it's a program at Kennidley. I began following before
the nineteen sixty nine national championship, and I've seen the
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ups and downs of longhorned teams. But I got to
tell you, when you came on board, you really brought
a new culture to the entire team and to the organization.
And it seems like over time that culture has really
brought great results. So tell us a little bit how
you you inculcate that culture into your team and what
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it is you're trying to achieve with them.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Yeah, you know, one thing, going through the interview process
and when I was at the time we were we
were still in COVID and and I just remember, you know,
being on Zoom with with Chairman L Type at the
time President Hartzel, and then with Chris del connye athletic director.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You know, one of the things that.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Was important to me was us.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Being united and us being aligned from.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Top to bottom. And that obviously started, you know, with
with with Chairman L Type and worked its way all
the way through CDC into me. And that when I
felt that alignment, I said, now if I could take
this alignment and and put it into our locker room,
and how are we going to do that?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And you know a.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Couple of things that we just we won't we won't
cut corners on and we have a simple adage, who
you are some the time is who you are all
the time, and so one of the things we're probably
most proud of. Like we've seen the wins go up
from year to year to year, we've seen the draft
picks go up from year to year to year, but
we've seen our team GPA go up from.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Year to year to year.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I think when we got here we were like a
two point three team GPA and we haven't had a
year we've gone backwards. We're now up to a three
point three sixteen GPA.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So wow.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Being that when we bring these young men into our program,
I don't want them just to be great football players
and we all want them to and believe me, every
Saturday in the fall, we want them to play great
and play great football. We want them working all off
season long. But I want them to understanding the value
of the degree from the University of Texas. I want
them to understand what it's like to be in the
city of Austin, the capital of this great state, and
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them representing this flagship program as the University of Texas,
but also knowing, hey, we don't have pro sports in
the city and we have to serve our city through
community service, and so all those factors coming together, those
are the things that I guess make me proud.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
But that's all also a credit to the young men
we're bringing into the program.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
And another simple adage in recruiting that that we pour
into is we never sacrifice character for talent. We understand
we're going to recruit highly talented young men here, whether
they're alignment receivers, quarterbacks, defensive backs, but we want really
good people and we've got the support and resources in place,
as I said from from Chairman l Type now President
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Davis and chryst o'connie, to support our guys so that
they can go achieve the things that they're that they're
capable of achieving, but doing it in a way that
makes us all proud. And I think that that's what
we've instilled in our culture, and the culture just continues
to get better and better because now we've got players
that have grown up in this culture and they do
they do a much better job now today than maybe
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you know, four or five years ago. Of instilling that
into the young or and or new players that maybe
come to us through the portal.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's awesome. It creates such a firm foundation. Well, let's
you know, we're less than six I'm so sorry, eight
weeks away before kick off. Help us understand what the
team is doing between now and the first game.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
So we are in the dog days of summer, as
I like to refer to them, you know, we we
lift and run, you know, basically four days a week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
and the NCAA now allows us to be on the
field and work with our players for a couple hours
a week of some skill development things. They're just finishing
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up the first you know session of summer school this week,
and so we've got that, but then July really hits.
And I really think in the summers where teams really
become teams because it's hot, it's hard. We run them
in the afternoons at four in the afternoon, the hottest
time of the day and off, and that's where we
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develop the resiliency. That's where you develop the grit. That's
where we develop not only the physical toughness, but the
mental toughness. That's where you that's where you find out
about the level of commitment and and what that looks
like and and ultimately that's what we're doing, and that's
what we'll do now, you know, finish up this week.
We'll have three more weeks to go, and then we'll
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take a few days off and then we'll start training
camp in August. And so it's ramping up quick for everybody.
You know, oddly enough that I think a conference has
already started their media days this week. We've got ours
in a couple of weeks, and so it's coming, it's
coming quick.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
But we also know the value of every day.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
And we're just trying to squeeze every ounce of juice
as we can at every day to help each one
of the guys on our roster improve.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So when they're doing that lifting and running and when
they're sweating through the heat, uh and get ready for
the season, knowing that other teams are doing the same thing, UH,
what is it? What's your secret, sauce?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
To keep them inspired? Uh, to keep them going to
to make sure that what they're doing is doing it
at a level that's going to be superior to what
the competition may be doing. How do you get them
to do that?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
We reprece that quite a bit, myself and Tory Beck
and our strength and conditioning coach that We're not unique
in that we go on the field and run every day.
We're not unique that we're in the weight room, you know, squatting,
power cleaning, bench pressing. That that doesn't make us unique.
What makes us unique is the intentionality of which we
go about each day. And so our focus is on today.
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We use a saying around here, today is the most
important day, and we really try to focus on the
task at hand. We try not to look down the
road of what's in front of us, and we try
to be really intentional. You know, I meet with every
player coming out of spring practice at one at a time,
and they come into my office and I've got a forum.
We fill out the position coach, fills out strengths, weaknesses,
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things to work on, his academic advisor, the strength coach,
you know, our.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Trainer, myself and I go through with every player.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Here's where you're at today in the program. Here's how
we think you can improve over the next two months
when we come back in June and July to get
ready for August for training camp. To put yourself in
a better position to contribute to the team toss in
the fall, but also just become a better player. Become
a better human being, whatever that looks like. And so
we really focus on being intentional on those things where
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they can improve their own game, where they can improve
being a better teammate, being a better leader, whatever those
things look like for them. And then we keep using
the work be intentional, Be intentional because the moment you
just go through the motions, because a lot of guys
can go into these workouts and just survive, and we're
not trying to survive. We're trying to dominate those workouts.
We're trying to dominate our ability to improve individually so
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that we can improve collectively. And we keep coming back
to it. But I think more importantly it's the leadership.
And each year we have to develop new leaders. You know,
we're not the NFL where I've got players signed the
long term contracts.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
You know, a fourth year senior is about the max
of what we get for a lot of times, a
lot of our leaders are third year players, sometimes second
year players in the program that have to assume those roles,
and so it's a big summer for them as well
of feeling comfortable being leaders. And sometimes it's leading through demonstrations,
sometimes it's leading through having those tough conversations with a
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player about what's accessible what's not. But that's all that
we're doing now. And I just keep using the word
being intentional with the staff, with our players, with our
strength and conditioning staff. If we stay intentional, we focus
on the task at hand of what we're trying to
do today, we'll make the incremental progress that we need
to make that I think ultimately will be the difference
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maker in some of those tight games when the fall
rolls around.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, listen to applying that and knowing you the way
I to do. I know that the most important game
for you is the next game. But hang with me here,
because let's talk about the second game. Second game is
against the Ohio State University. And we know that you
guys had a very close game up in Columbus last year.
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We know they're going to be coming down here. It's
probably going to be about one hundred and thirty five
degrees on the field something like that. It's going to
be hot, and you guys are going to be ready.
Give us a feel for what that game looks like.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Well, I would tell you right now, and you know
me well enough to know I love college football I
just got goosebumps with you talking about it.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Well, imagine, you know, imagine.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Our players on that game the moment, you know, they
wake up in the morning and I'm sure College Game
Day will be here, and it's on the TV, and
we show up to the stadium and we get our
suits on, and we go through Bevo Walk and there's
all the sea of burn orange, you know, people screaming
and yelling and supporting our guys and then taking the
field for pregame war of them. So I think one
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of the keys for the players on game days like that,
for games like that, is trying to, you know, manage
some of the performance anxiety, trying to manage your heart
rate early I'm talking two hours before the game, so
that you don't waste too much energy because we know
we're going to need all our energy for four quarters
in a game like that. But I always remind our
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players take a moment and enjoy this, because they've worked
way too hard not to enjoy moments like that. And
DKR is going to be very special that night. It's
going to be a great outing. Ohio State's got a
very good football team. Got a ton of respect for them.
We've been in two just absolute wars with them the
last two years. I expect you know, this is kind
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of the trilogy here it comes the third time around.
But I do expect us to play better. I felt
like the last two years we played them, we've missed
some opportunities. And when you play teams like Ohio State
in games like that, when the entire country's watching. I
think last year, I think twenty million people watched that game,
which was the most watched first game of any college
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football season ever. So imagine over twenty million people watching
this team play. We're going to make sure we perform
and that we play well. And as much as I
want them to feel the crowd, feel the emotion, respect
the opponent, let's focus on what we needed to put
our best foot forward to perform so that you know,
when our best is needed, we're able to put our
best out there to perform and to play well.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Sure, and that's the one thing that will likely be
very important to that game as well as to the
entire season, is going to be what the chemistry looks
like between Arch Manning and your new wide receiver Cam Coleman.
How's that progressing?
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Yeah, it's been tremendous. You know, I'm always you know
in the portal.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
We have not been the.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Most aggressive program when it comes to taking transfers. You know,
we believe in our culture. We believe in developing young
players and them growing up in our culture and getting
better one year to the next to the next. But
when you go to the portal, how quickly can you
try to figure out what type of a player are
we getting? But two what type of person are we getting?
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And from the first phone call I got on with
Cam Coleman, I thought this guy's too good to be true.
I almost didn't believe it. I thought he was almost acting.
And then the second phone call, then he's on a visit,
and then he you know, he joined our program in January.
And as a coach, one of the things you always want,
you want your best players to be your hardest workers.
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And we were in winter conditioning and we were running,
and we were running a lot, and we were running
gassers or half gassers, you know, kind of across the
field and back, and then they had to hit a
certain time and a certain percentage on their catapult. And
Cam Coleman won.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Everyone, and he won everyone a lot.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And at that moment, I said, Okay, here's one of
our best players. We think he's going to be, but
here's you know, he's he's working the hardest. And then
that rapport with he and Arch. You know, Cam's got
an infectious personality. Cam's got a great personality. They've hit
it off. But I think a lot of credit to
Ryan Wingo as well to embrace camp point right, because
we really have two really good receivers that way, and
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I think the rapport with all those guys. But Cam's
a great teammate. He's obviously very talented, but it all
starts with his work ethic, It starts with his rapport
with the guys, and that.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
He never for a second came in thinking, you know,
I'm the man.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
You know, just just throw me the ball and things
like that, which we've had to deal with some of.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That in the past.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
That's awesome. Well listen, coach, We're gonna have to take
a break here, but listen, I want to thank you
for coming on the show. Good luck this upcoming season.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
This is Texas Governor Greg Abbott. It has been my
pleasure to guest host today on the Sean Hennity Show.
You can be assured that we will keep fighting for
sanity in the great state of Texas. You can find
me online at Greg Abbott Underscore t X. God bless
you all, God Bless America, and God bless the grace
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out of Texas.
Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. I am Texas
Governor Greg Abbott and I'm your guest host today and
I am so excited about our next guest, Shennon Breen
with the Fox News station. I got to tell you something.
So I'm a former practicing lawyer, former Texas Attorney General,
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and I argued a case in won a case at
the United States Supreme Court, and I got to tell
you that there's nobody ever who's done a better job
of covering the United States Supreme Court and their opinions
than Shennon Breem. And she was so busy the last
few weeks as the Supreme Court was issuing his final
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decisions for the last session, and many of them were blockbusters,
especially on immigration policy, which is very important to Texas.
One was a case where migrants were waiting for Solomon
Mexico and claimed they had full rights of Americans. Well,
didn't turn out too well for them. So, Shannon, if
you would tell us how the United State Supreme Court
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ruled in that case and what is the effect of
that decision on the Trump administration immigration policy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, Governor, it is great to be with you and
listen anybody who can go and argue a case at
the Supreme Court might have will.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Always be off to you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It looks like one of the most terrifying things in
the world for attorneys. So I love that I just
get to cover it and hopefully break it down in
a way that folks at home will understand what it
all means to their lives. And no one understands this
border issue probably better than you do, having dealt with
this in Texas in the very real world ways that
it impacts the people that you serve. And this decision
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about asylum was essentially the court saying, listen, what the
statute says is, you don't trigger all these protections for
filing for asylum and pursuing that status if you haven't
arrived in the US. Those were the words arrived in.
So the policy of kind of metering the Trump administration
has said, if you're still in Mexico, that doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
As a in the US.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You don't trigger all those protections. So it really shut
down one of the pathways that people who are trying
to get you know, folks into the US illegally would say,
come with me, we're going to get you there. Whether
it's a coyote or a cartel, and we're going to
have you claim asylum whether it's true or not, whether
you have any real fear. And so what the Supreme
Court is said is now that doesn't count if you're
on that side of the border. You've not quote arrived.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
In the US.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And this administration can use that tool to stop the
flood of people coming into border to.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A big time help, and to be honest, it's just
common sense. Well, listen, there's another one that may have
been an even bigger one, and that is when the
Supreme Court allowed President Trump to end temporary protected status
for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. In that case, it was
a huge win for the Trump administration, but it maybe
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is larger than that. So what did the court decide
and what does it mean for migrants who are here
under temporary protected status.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, you're exactly right, another big win for the administration.
So that status, you know, is temporary for reason, I
mean by design, that's what it is. For people who
have terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Situations in their home countries, whether.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's war or the devastation of a natural disaster, what
they can do is get this temporary protect the status
here in the US, but it's supposed to have a
limit on it, and essentially the Department of Homeland Security,
the Secretary the decides does that get extended, do we
renew that repeatedly? How many times? What has happened in
the home country? Is it okay to lift that status now?
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And what the court found is again they're looking to
the statutory language which says that decision lists and lasts
only with the Department of Homeland Security. They're the only
ones who get decided and it's not for a court
to overrule that decision. So it's a secretary, Department of
Homeland Security, and that's under a Biden administration, a Trump administration,
any president. If they say, okay, the statue has given
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us guidance, we've resolved that at home, it's safe for
them to return. In our estimation that the court doesn't
have the power to review that decision. So essentially said,
the Secretary's got the power to decide TPS status.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So let's say let's say the Trump administration applies that
about how many people do you think would be removed
from the United States.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, our understanding with this case was brought, as you said,
specifically to Haitian and Syrian immigrants who were here under
that TPS status. That was several hundred thousand, but we
have estimates that there are more than a million people
who are currently in the US under that status, and
that ruling from the court seems to say, DHS, you know,
they're the final decision maker on when that status should end.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Interesting, well, listen, one last case real quick, and a
case that President Trump said was his biggest win of
the Supreme Court. He said, maybe ever was the court's
decision giving the president the authority to fire heads of
independent federal regulatory agencies at will. So what is the
consequence of that decision.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, the administration was very excited about this win because
essentially the case dealt with an FTC board member and
essentially said, you can get rid of this commissioner in
the way that you can because you're the executive You're
the head of the executive branch. All of these agencies,
and there's so many of them, you know this, They're
all the alphabet agencies. There are scores of them. I mean,
these are unelected bureaucrats who have a lot of decision
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making power over regulatory framework and all of these different
things from the EPA to OSHA and everywhere else in between.
And essentially the Court says, yes, the president, as the
head of the executive branch, has the right to make
decisions about this, and he can tell them it's time
for them to go they don't line up with what
his strategy is as the executive I believe there was.
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Chief Justice Roberts wrote this the sixt' three opinion, and
he said, neither the courts nor Congress should be able
to saddle a president with people with whom he cannot work.
So if you're going to be working within the executive
branch and carrying out his agenda, his strategy, and again,
so win for President trumpet, it's a win for any
president in the future. They are able to dismiss these
folks who don't line up, they think, with their mission
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for the work.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now, you know, there was a companion.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Case that dealt with the said and the Court treated
that one a little bit differently, said, that's an independent
agency quasi independent, and there's got to be some due
process there. Not that the president can't dismiss a board member,
but it's got to be dealt with some due process.
And a way to answer those charges.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, again just common sense. So applying this, who do
you think maybe on the chopping block?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's a great question. I think if I was, you know,
in one of these bureaucracies, I would be thinking very
carefully about whether or not I line up with the
president's mission and again business for any president now and
for future. So for those who say, oh, this court
is just a rubber stand for President Trump, he lost
you know, some big decisions this term. The court shows
its independence with you know, striking down tariffs and other things,
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birth bright citizenship. So I think what the Court did
is give him, you know, framework.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
For a lot of things that they believe line.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Up with constitutional interpretation.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
He's going to win some, he's going.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
To lose some.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But when it comes to that decision about dismissing federal
board members and federal agency officers, everyone should know that
they outside of the Fed, the President's got a lot
of power to end your job, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Well, listen, one last question. We have only a minute,
but a lot of people are playing the guessing game
right now. Is Justice Alito going to stay? Is he
going to go?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I go ahead, Yes, it's one of our favorite parlor games.
You know, if you cover the court, it's our you know,
the Supreme Court predcur does a lot of debating about this,
But I have been assured that he has no plans
to go. He's hired his full compliments of clerks, and
he's just not ready to go. And I think this
tends to be the case with a lot of justices.
The more you push, probably the more they dig in
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their heels. He's got a brand new book coming out
in October.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That I think we'll explain a lot about his.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Philosophy at the Court and about sticking around, and from
everything I've been told, he's not leaving anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, for the future of America, for the future of
the Supreme Court, for the future of the rule of
law in America, I sure hope that Justice Alittle stays.
He is one of the if not the best justice
on the United States Supreme Court, and Shannon, you are
the very best. Thank you for coming on the Hannity
Show today. All right, We're gonna take a quick break
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and then be right back with the great Senator Tim.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Scott transmitting to over seven hundred radio stations. Wow, Wow,
this is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. This is Texas
Governor Greg Abbott and I am your guest host today
and I am excited about our next guest, the Senator
from the beautiful state of South Carolina, Tim Scott, and
I got to tell you at this moment in time,
there may be no more important person to talk to
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than Tim Scott. I'll tell you why. He is the
head of the NRSC this cycle, which is in charge
of winning Senate races for Republicans across the entire country.
And as we've been on the show today, there's been
breaking news about the status of the Democrat nominee in
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the state of Maine, and that is Graham Platner. What
he's going to do, what's going on in his life,
is he going to stay on the ballot or not?
What's that going to do to the race for the
Senate in Maine. And we got the person best situated
to answer all of those questions, and that is Tim Scott.
Senator Tim Scott, Welcome onboard. How you doing Tim.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Well, Governor. I'm doing really well. It's good to hear
your voice again. Thank God that you're doing such a
good job in Texas, one of the great states in
the South that we all celebrate. So thank you for
taking your time to host this show and keep doing
a great job in Texas.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'll get to Texas in a second and talk about
the Taller Rico race. But tell me what's going on
with Graham Plattner and how that will affect the race
for the United States Senator in Maine.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
You know, he still has not yet dropped out governor,
and so my perspective is a simple one. The Democrat
Party in this candidate in Maine will either be an
alleged rapist with a nat Nazi tattoo or someone he
hand picks with the same values and vision. I believe
Susan Collins is not only the best candidate to continue
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to represent Maine, she's the only person. Senator Collins must
be re elected. And there's no question Graham Platner if
he drops out, He's already said using his own verse,
he will pick someone with his values and his vision
for America that is out of step with Mainers, out
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of step with Americans, and frankly out of step with
common sense and anything else in our universe.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Are you got your spot on there. You know, when
you look at his values and really his life, he
has a checkered history of sex scandals that would make
Bill Clinton blush. He is an example of truly the
radical socialist candidas and candidacy. This litter with character flaws,
and what I can't figure out, Senator Scott, is why
in the world are all these Democrats coming up with
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these Democrat nominees that are so brought in to a
socialist agenda. This really contrary to where the mainstream of
the United States of America is and having them adopt
those policies. How easy is it going to be able
to defeat them at the ballot box in November.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
It's going to be incredibly expensive. It's one of the
reasons why when I'm on Seawn's radio show or TV
I remind Americans they can go to defend Themajority dot
Com to chip into our candidate so that we can
hold the Firewall of America also known as the United
States Senate. Keeping it in the hands of the Republican
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Party is how we make sure that President Trump's last
two years in office are his best two years in office.
For the Democrats are bound and determined to turn the
page to socialism today and communism tomorrow. These candidates reflect
not who we are and not who we want to be,
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who we should never be. It's what you see coming
out of Michigan with l said, it's what you see
with Roy Cooper in North Carolina, and is exactly what
you see. You can't even hold your knows to get
rid of the stinch coming out of Maine named Graham Platner.
It's just uncontinable that the Democrat Party now is represented
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their poster children onsideed of course from Michigan, James Tallerico
from the Great State of Texas and Graham Platner from Maine.
Their values, their vision and frankly they're a morality is
a stint. All.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Let's talk about that Michigan race for a second. You
mentioned the person who likely will be the Democrat nominee,
and to me, he looks like he would be eminently beatable.
But what are the fact show on the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
We are in better shape every single day. Mike Rogers
is doing a fantastic job. He's rocking and rolling. He's
knocked on over four hundred thousand doors in Michigan. He
has a strong ground game. He has President Trump's endorsement,
no primary. He has all of his energy and his
efforts targeting the Democrats who are cuckoo for cocoa puffs
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in Michigan, which gives us a great opportunity to pick
up Michigan for the first time in nearly three decades.
I'm excited about Mike's candidacy, really excited about his integrity,
and I look forward to us picking up Michigan and
adding it to the R column. R.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
For 'll tell you what looks like Senate would be
getting more and more red. And you know, as you
pointed out earlier, that's essential for President Trump to have
any success in the last two years of this current term.
We'll bring us up to spade what's going on in
both New Hampshire and Ohio.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
We're excited in New Hampshire. I'll tell you what. We
could not have chosen a better candidate than Johnson Neunew.
His name is certainly universally known in the great state
of New Hampshire, live free or die, their independent state.
He's doing very well. We need to continue to fund
his race. As he continues to have the resources to
be successful. He will be another ad to our Senate
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number two, and I mean number two. He'll be the
second Republican in all of New England, Susan Collins being
the only Republican today. We can double our numbers in
New England by electing John to in New Hampshire. Also,
you think about Ohio, where we have another John, John Houstad,
a man of integrity and great faith who's served the
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state statewide for a number of years now as a
United States Senator, John is doing really well, but don't
forget he's running against Shared Brown, who's anestheticals and everything
it means to be an American as a politician. Here's
the guy who always votes for tax increases, always votes
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for open borders, and always voted with Joe Biden. It's
not the kind of person we want representing Ohio. That's
why we are gung ho and buried about the candidacy
of John Houston and Frankly Togethernor if we turn it
to the south, Michael Wattley is doing a great job
in North Carolina, running against the former governor Roy Cooper
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who let fourth criminals out thirty five.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, this is very, very promising. I got to tell
you Center Scott. We appreciate your leadership and it looks
like we should look forward to some great results in November.
Thank you very much for joining the Sean Hennedy Show today.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Listen to this show one time and you're handitized. Sean
handed is back on the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. This is Texas
Governor Greg Abbott, your guest host today, and we're going
to begin this segment with another first for the Sean
Hannity Show. It's going to be the first time this
music has ever played on this show. Cut one five. That,
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of course was the As of Texas and there's no
better way to introduce uh the coach of the University
of Texas Longhorn football team, coach Steve Sarkisian Sark.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
How you doing, Governor Abbitt.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
You're a natural one here. Thanks for having me on.
Sounds great.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Did you have a did you have a big hook
him up?
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Better entry?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You know, like our singing, But I didn't know if
I was if I was getting I was still on
air or not. But you always see when I hear
that of Texas, I always like instantly think to like
some of the special moments we've had in the.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Five years we've been here so far, and I got I.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Always I instantaneously go back to last year's A and
M game here. I go back to A and M
at Kyle Field two years ago. I go to the
Red River Robbery. I just go to some of the
I remember seeing the eyes at Bryan Denny Stadium when
we beat Alabama, and just it goes right to the
special wins, I think. And that's that's one of the
cool things of when I hear that song, the pride
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that that Longhorn Nation has and singing it at at Michigan.
We beat it at one at Michigan, and so a
lot of pride when I when I hear that song,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I'll tell you what somebody who's really met it special
is you and the coaching job that you've done, the
recruits that you brought in, But it's really the culture
that you've developed. You know, as as many people in
Texas know, I graduated from the University of Texas and
so it's a program at Kennidley. I began following before
the nineteen sixty nine national championship, and I've seen the
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ups and downs of longhorned teams. But I got to
tell you, when you came on board, you really brought
a new culture to the entire team and to the organization.
And it seems like over time that culture has really
brought great results. So tell us a little bit how
you you inculcate that culture into your team and what
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it is you're trying to achieve with them.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Yeah, you know, one thing, going through the interview process
and when I was at the time we were we
were still in COVID and and I just remember, you know,
being on Zoom with with Chairman L Type at the
time President Hartzel, and then with Chris del connye athletic director.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You know, one of the things that.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Was important to me was us.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Being united and us being aligned from.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Top to bottom. And that obviously started, you know, with
with with Chairman L Type and worked its way all
the way through CDC into me. And that when I
felt that alignment, I said, now if I could take
this alignment and and put it into our locker room,
and how are we going to do that?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And you know a.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Couple of things that we just we won't we won't
cut corners on and we have a simple adage, who
you are some the time is who you are all
the time, and so one of the things we're probably
most proud of. Like we've seen the wins go up
from year to year to year, we've seen the draft
picks go up from year to year to year, but
we've seen our team GPA go up from.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Year to year to year.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I think when we got here we were like a
two point three team GPA and we haven't had a
year we've gone backwards. We're now up to a three
point three sixteen GPA.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So wow.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Being that when we bring these young men into our program,
I don't want them just to be great football players
and we all want them to and believe me, every
Saturday in the fall, we want them to play great
and play great football. We want them working all off
season long. But I want them to understanding the value
of the degree from the University of Texas. I want
them to understand what it's like to be in the
city of Austin, the capital of this great state, and
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them representing this flagship program as the University of Texas,
but also knowing, hey, we don't have pro sports in
the city and we have to serve our city through
community service, and so all those factors coming together, those
are the things that I guess make me proud.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
But that's all also a credit to the young men
we're bringing into the program.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
And another simple adage in recruiting that that we pour
into is we never sacrifice character for talent. We understand
we're going to recruit highly talented young men here, whether
they're alignment receivers, quarterbacks, defensive backs, but we want really
good people and we've got the support and resources in place,
as I said from from Chairman l Type now President
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Davis and chryst o'connie, to support our guys so that
they can go achieve the things that they're that they're
capable of achieving, but doing it in a way that
makes us all proud. And I think that that's what
we've instilled in our culture, and the culture just continues
to get better and better because now we've got players
that have grown up in this culture and they do
they do a much better job now today than maybe
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you know, four or five years ago. Of instilling that
into the young or and or new players that maybe
come to us through the portal.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's awesome. It creates such a firm foundation. Well, let's
you know, we're less than six I'm so sorry, eight
weeks away before kick off. Help us understand what the
team is doing between now and the first game.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
So we are in the dog days of summer, as
I like to refer to them, you know, we we
lift and run, you know, basically four days a week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
and the NCAA now allows us to be on the
field and work with our players for a couple hours
a week of some skill development things. They're just finishing
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up the first you know session of summer school this week,
and so we've got that, but then July really hits.
And I really think in the summers where teams really
become teams because it's hot, it's hard. We run them
in the afternoons at four in the afternoon, the hottest
time of the day and off, and that's where we
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develop the resiliency. That's where you develop the grit. That's
where we develop not only the physical toughness, but the
mental toughness. That's where you that's where you find out
about the level of commitment and and what that looks
like and and ultimately that's what we're doing, and that's
what we'll do now, you know, finish up this week.
We'll have three more weeks to go, and then we'll
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take a few days off and then we'll start training
camp in August. And so it's ramping up quick for everybody.
You know, oddly enough that I think a conference has
already started their media days this week. We've got ours
in a couple of weeks, and so it's coming, it's
coming quick.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
But we also know the value of every day.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
And we're just trying to squeeze every ounce of juice
as we can at every day to help each one
of the guys on our roster improve.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So when they're doing that lifting and running and when
they're sweating through the heat, uh and get ready for
the season, knowing that other teams are doing the same thing, UH,
what is it? What's your secret, sauce?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
To keep them inspired? Uh, to keep them going to
to make sure that what they're doing is doing it
at a level that's going to be superior to what
the competition may be doing. How do you get them
to do that?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
We reprece that quite a bit, myself and Tory Beck
and our strength and conditioning coach that We're not unique
in that we go on the field and run every day.
We're not unique that we're in the weight room, you know, squatting,
power cleaning, bench pressing. That that doesn't make us unique.
What makes us unique is the intentionality of which we
go about each day. And so our focus is on today.
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We use a saying around here, today is the most
important day, and we really try to focus on the
task at hand. We try not to look down the
road of what's in front of us, and we try
to be really intentional. You know, I meet with every
player coming out of spring practice at one at a time,
and they come into my office and I've got a forum.
We fill out the position coach, fills out strengths, weaknesses,
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things to work on, his academic advisor, the strength coach,
you know, our.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Trainer, myself and I go through with every player.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Here's where you're at today in the program. Here's how
we think you can improve over the next two months
when we come back in June and July to get
ready for August for training camp. To put yourself in
a better position to contribute to the team toss in
the fall, but also just become a better player. Become
a better human being, whatever that looks like. And so
we really focus on being intentional on those things where
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they can improve their own game, where they can improve
being a better teammate, being a better leader, whatever those
things look like for them. And then we keep using
the work be intentional, Be intentional because the moment you
just go through the motions, because a lot of guys
can go into these workouts and just survive, and we're
not trying to survive. We're trying to dominate those workouts.
We're trying to dominate our ability to improve individually so
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that we can improve collectively. And we keep coming back
to it. But I think more importantly it's the leadership.
And each year we have to develop new leaders. You know,
we're not the NFL where I've got players signed the
long term contracts.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
You know, a fourth year senior is about the max
of what we get for a lot of times, a
lot of our leaders are third year players, sometimes second
year players in the program that have to assume those roles,
and so it's a big summer for them as well
of feeling comfortable being leaders. And sometimes it's leading through demonstrations,
sometimes it's leading through having those tough conversations with a
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player about what's accessible what's not. But that's all that
we're doing now. And I just keep using the word
being intentional with the staff, with our players, with our
strength and conditioning staff. If we stay intentional, we focus
on the task at hand of what we're trying to
do today, we'll make the incremental progress that we need
to make that I think ultimately will be the difference
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maker in some of those tight games when the fall
rolls around.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, listen to applying that and knowing you the way
I to do. I know that the most important game
for you is the next game. But hang with me here,
because let's talk about the second game. Second game is
against the Ohio State University. And we know that you
guys had a very close game up in Columbus last year.
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We know they're going to be coming down here. It's
probably going to be about one hundred and thirty five
degrees on the field something like that. It's going to
be hot, and you guys are going to be ready.
Give us a feel for what that game looks like.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Well, I would tell you right now, and you know
me well enough to know I love college football I
just got goosebumps with you talking about it.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Well, imagine, you know, imagine.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Our players on that game the moment, you know, they
wake up in the morning and I'm sure College Game
Day will be here, and it's on the TV, and
we show up to the stadium and we get our
suits on, and we go through Bevo Walk and there's
all the sea of burn orange, you know, people screaming
and yelling and supporting our guys and then taking the
field for pregame war of them. So I think one
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of the keys for the players on game days like that,
for games like that, is trying to, you know, manage
some of the performance anxiety, trying to manage your heart
rate early I'm talking two hours before the game, so
that you don't waste too much energy because we know
we're going to need all our energy for four quarters
in a game like that. But I always remind our
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players take a moment and enjoy this, because they've worked
way too hard not to enjoy moments like that. And
DKR is going to be very special that night. It's
going to be a great outing. Ohio State's got a
very good football team. Got a ton of respect for them.
We've been in two just absolute wars with them the
last two years. I expect you know, this is kind
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of the trilogy here it comes the third time around.
But I do expect us to play better. I felt
like the last two years we played them, we've missed
some opportunities. And when you play teams like Ohio State
in games like that, when the entire country's watching. I
think last year, I think twenty million people watched that game,
which was the most watched first game of any college
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football season ever. So imagine over twenty million people watching
this team play. We're going to make sure we perform
and that we play well. And as much as I
want them to feel the crowd, feel the emotion, respect
the opponent, let's focus on what we needed to put
our best foot forward to perform so that you know,
when our best is needed, we're able to put our
best out there to perform and to play well.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Sure, and that's the one thing that will likely be
very important to that game as well as to the
entire season, is going to be what the chemistry looks
like between Arch Manning and your new wide receiver Cam Coleman.
How's that progressing?
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Yeah, it's been tremendous. You know, I'm always you know
in the portal.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
We have not been the.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Most aggressive program when it comes to taking transfers. You know,
we believe in our culture. We believe in developing young
players and them growing up in our culture and getting
better one year to the next to the next. But
when you go to the portal, how quickly can you
try to figure out what type of a player are
we getting? But two what type of person are we getting?
(30:49):
And from the first phone call I got on with
Cam Coleman, I thought this guy's too good to be true.
I almost didn't believe it. I thought he was almost acting.
And then the second phone call, then he's on a visit,
and then he you know, he joined our program in January.
And as a coach, one of the things you always want,
you want your best players to be your hardest workers.
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And we were in winter conditioning and we were running,
and we were running a lot, and we were running
gassers or half gassers, you know, kind of across the
field and back, and then they had to hit a
certain time and a certain percentage on their catapult. And
Cam Coleman won.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Everyone, and he won everyone a lot.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And at that moment, I said, Okay, here's one of
our best players. We think he's going to be, but
here's you know, he's he's working the hardest. And then
that rapport with he and Arch. You know, Cam's got
an infectious personality. Cam's got a great personality. They've hit
it off. But I think a lot of credit to
Ryan Wingo as well to embrace camp point right, because
we really have two really good receivers that way, and
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I think the rapport with all those guys. But Cam's
a great teammate. He's obviously very talented, but it all
starts with his work ethic, It starts with his rapport
with the guys, and that.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
He never for a second came in thinking, you know,
I'm the man.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
You know, just just throw me the ball and things
like that, which we've had to deal with some of.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That in the past.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
That's awesome. Well listen, coach, We're gonna have to take
a break here, but listen, I want to thank you
for coming on the show. Good luck this upcoming season.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
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Speaker 1 (32:47):
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