The Latest On Texas Sports, NFL Combine

Guest host Andrew Zimmel talks about the latest in Texas Men's and Women's Basketball, Texas Baseball, and the NFL Combine. Craig Way even pops in for a bit on his "eponymous" show. It's all right here on The Craig Way Show!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zibbil hanging
out with you on a Thursday edition of the Craig
Way Show. I am on the road as well. In
our studios in Austin, Texas. Is our main men producer
Ronald making sure we sound pretty man. Do we have

(00:20):
a jam pack show for you today? ChRI Cam is
on the road. He's in Starkville, Mississippi, as number one
Texas women's basketball and their head coach, Vick Schaeffer take
on Mississippi State. Craig will be on the program here
in about seventeen minutes so we all can set our
watches to it and to talk about last night's overtime
loss by the Texas men's basketball team eighty six eighty

(00:42):
one in ot We'll hear more from head coach Roddy
Terry here in a moment. We have inconceivable coming up
later this hour, and is it inconceivable for the Philadelphia
seventy six ers to turn it around? Well, podcast p
Paul George thinks that they can. He said, you know what,
I'm gonna cut the podcast and I'm going to focus

(01:04):
on trying to get my team to the NBA finals,
we'll talk about the likelihood of that.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
We'll also probably.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Make some fun of Paul George for thinking that the
podcast is the reason that his team is struggling. NFL
Combine starts today, obviously, and the debate now rages on
as Abdul Carter as a stress factor in his foot.
What does that mean for the likely number one overall
pick to the Tennessee Titans. They bok now at the

(01:32):
edge rusher out of Penn State. But we have to
talk first about the breaking news that came down the
line right before we went on the air, and that
is from the San Antonio Spurs and their head coach
Greg Popovich. Now, he put out a statement via the
Spurs earlier today about thirty minutes ago. Quote, I've decided
not to return to the sidelines of this season. Mitch

(01:54):
Johnson and his staff have done a wonderful job, and
resolve and professionalism the players have sticking together during a
challenging season has been outstanding. The head coach wrote, I
will continue to focus on my health with the hope
that I can return to coaching in the future. So
that ends any sort of speculation and debate. Greg Popovich

(02:14):
the Santonio Spurs head coach not returning to the sidelines
this season. I think a lot of people would have
assumed that they could have guessed that, as there's only
about twenty games left and the phena in Victor Wembinyama
as well shut down for the season with a blood
clot in his shoulder. So no Popovich, no Victor wembin
Yama for the remainder of the season for the Spurs.

(02:38):
This does not, by any means mean that Papovich is
done coaching at the NBA level. Anybody who was eulogizing
the career of one of, if not the greatest NBA
head coach of all time, I thought that it was
premature when we started having those conversations earlier this past week.

(02:59):
Now he puts it to bed. He says, I'm going
to try to come back next season. I do want
to remind everyone, though, that before Greg Popovich pat Riley
Phil Jackson, there was one Greg Arbach, who is the
GM and head coach of the Boston Celtics where they
were winning banner after banner after banner in the nineteen sixties.

(03:21):
And I remind everybody about Red Arbach. Even if Popovich says,
I'm not going to be on the sideline day to day.
I'm not going to do the forty one road trips
this season that it takes to be a head coach
in the NBA. He still will be very much a
member of the San Antonio Spurs organization, and he will
probably have his fingerprints all over the organization until he

(03:42):
doesn't want to have his fingerprints all over the organization anymore.
So the idea that it was just going to be
some sort of mutual disappearing now that never was going
to happen. I didn't understand it. Why everybody was trying
to act that way. He puts it to bed. The
statement from the Spurs reads pop not returning to the
sideline this season, focusing on his health may return in

(04:05):
the future.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Speaking of head coaches, Texas men's basketball last night, Rodney
Terry spoke to the media after what was a very
disappointing loss. Needless to say, as the Texas men's basketball
program comes just short in overtime loss, a five point
loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks Ian Fayetteville eighty six eighty one.

(04:29):
Guard Tray Johnson sept the University of Texas a freshman
single game scoring record, had thirty nine points. The mark
the first matchup between the two former Southwest Conference opponents
since twenty ten. Johnson broke the previous freshman single scoring
mark of thirty seven set by Kevin Durant in the
six seven season. He reached the thirty point mark for

(04:52):
the third time this season. He ellipsed his previous season
high of thirty two that he had against Kentucky. I
was talking earlier this week as we geared up for
that game against Arkansas, and I didn't want to bring
it up on the air because I did not want
to jinx the Texas long Corns. But in games where
Trey Johnson had scored thirty or more points, the Long

(05:13):
Runs were two and out. So now they fall to
two and one in games that he scores more than
thirty points. Rodney Terry opened up his press conference last
night with this remark, well, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Like to commit my guys for great effort. Tonight I've
beat at a high level. Even when we got behind,
we knew we were going to have opportunity to still
stay in the game and have an opportunity to win
the game. We were riding position to do that. I
thought we got it really hard. Thought they made a
couple of big shots down the stretch. It's a difference
in the game. They got to the foul line thirty
one times. We got there thirteen times fourteen at the

(05:49):
half of them. But again, you know, I committed. My
guys were playing really hard tonight. Put forth a great effort.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
That was head coach Rodney tis Now. The Arkansas Razorbacks
last night shot nine of seventeen from downtown the university.
Texts did a good job of preventing three pointers for
falling for Arkansas, and the question was asked for Rodney Terry,
how do you prevent the threes in the second half?

(06:19):
Text died a very good job of preventing Arkansas from
knocking down threes in the second half. How did that happen?

Speaker 4 (06:25):
I mean, he has a lot of re pack. He's
one of the best players in this league, you know,
and sometimes he doesn't get protected that way. He treated
that way when he's shooting the basketball, trying to attack
the basket. You know, late in the game, we're gonna
put the ball in his hands and give him opportunity
to go win the game for uce. You know, he's
either gonna get fouled or why he's gonna make the

(06:45):
winning shot, you know, But he's a special talent.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
We knew that when we signed him.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
He was number one player in his class for a
better part of his career in high school to Cooper
flag reclassified.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
But Tray's top, I.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Mean he's top picks one, top.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
Players in.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I was talking about Rodney Today's Rodney Terry talking about
Trey Johnson, the all around incredible freshman talent and projected
top five pick in this year's NBA draft class. But
what did you do to fight back in both games?
As Texas was able to rally back in that second half,

(07:24):
outscored Arkansas by twelve points in the second half, only
to come up short in overtime, what did it take
to fight back in both games?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Coach? This is RT five. I thought we got it
pretty hard.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I thought, I guys, again, really good effort on the
defensive end of the floor. We started finishing possessions, and
then we did a good job attacking the paint offensively,
scoring in the paint.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Andrews im Will filling in for Craig Way on The
Craigway Show on Sports Radio am thirteen hundred the zone. Now,
did Arkansas do anything different in this one, Coach Terry,
did they do anything different to jump out to the lead?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
That they did?

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Well, they just put his down to drive and you know,
hope that again that you follow him and put him
at the file line and stuff. And they got there.
They got to the file line. We bailed him out
on a couple of shots that they had no chance
of making. So, no, they didn't play any different, rent
and they played the last time. They put the ball
inside a few times more this last time.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, it was a question coming into this one if
Arthur Kaluma would be able to even suit up and play,
and Rodney Terry said before the game that he appeared
that he was going to be available. He finished with
his seventh double double of the season, thirteen points and
a game high eleven rebounds in the thirty seven minutes
of action that he was able to play last night.

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Now ut comes back to the Moody Center. They host
Georgia Saturday, March first, which is this Saturday. Tip is
at seven pm. I'll be on ESPN two and long
the radio, your Longhorn Radio network as well. But this
is one of those games that the first time these
two teams matched up, Arkansas and Texas, you wanted to
have it back at the end that Texas was able

(09:14):
to fight back at the end to make the score
a little bit closer, but you would thought, oh, that
was one that might have got away from us. And
then last night to battle back the way that they
did is very important and it's going to be a
calling card for this team as they continue to move
forward into the SEC Tournament. But coming into last night's matchup,
both Arkansas and Texas were essentially presented as bubble teams

(09:39):
and this game, we said beforehand was not a must
win for the long Horns, but it was a you
sure like to win it. It would make life a
lot easier if you want it. Now the road for
the Longhorns to not only get a seed come March
Madness time, that will give you an easier path to
your eventual goal, which of course is to get deep

(10:00):
into March Madness. But this makes the trip just that
much more difficult. You have to be excited though, for
a guy like Trey Johnson and for Longhorn fans that
came into this season with high expectations and high hopes
for the freshman guard. I feel like there's no way
that you can present this as not a outstanding success

(10:22):
of a season for Trey Johnson. Now, he probably wishes
that the wins were kind of piling up a little
bit more for his idea. Probably single season on the
forty acres as he's probably gonna go in the draft
in the NBA draft is a lottery pick and a
high one of that. You would hope that the wins
would kind of pile up. But every game he has

(10:42):
gotten a little bit better, which is exactly what you're
looking for out of a five star freshman like Trey Johnson.
When we come back, Craig Way names on the show.
He will join us to talk about last night's loss
and preview some of that UT baseball action as they
travel out to Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Classic.
All that coming up. Andrew zim will fill in for
Craig Way on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

(11:06):
Sports Radio thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zimmile filling in
for Craig Way. But we have a treat. We have
the guy's name who's has his name on the show.
It's Craig Way, Craig, how you doing today?

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I think the praise you were searching for was eponymously named.
I think that's what I was going when they named
the show with my name on it, because before I
came back to iHeart, I've never done a show that
actually had my.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Name on it.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I was, you know, and it went by different names
across town. And when I was iHeart the first time,
and when I was up in Dallas, did a lot
of different shows, just didn't have my name on it
until they decided to.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
Do that when I came back.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
But you know, you go with it. Hey.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
They tell me that if your name's in the show,
that you're doing something right. So you must be doing
something right.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Craig.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
All right, let's talk about last night's game, man, Longhorn.
As they come up just short, they battled back in
the second half, they dropped one to Arkansas eighty six
eighty one.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
You were on the call. What's your main takeaway here?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
That the most difficult part of all of this for Texas,
and this has happened on four or five occasions that
there are eleven loss or twelve losses this season, is
digging themselves a hole from about the ten minute mark
of the first half to the ten minute mark of
the second half. And that's what happened against Texas A

(12:31):
and M, both at home and on the road. They
couldn't recover. Actually they were tired with the Aggies in
College Station at the happen They got dominated on the
glass in the second half.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
In the home game, they fell behind by.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
As many as twenty two with fourteen minutes ago and
came back and won. They've had other games where they
got behind and rallied back. They could not recover against
South Carolina, and it looked like they had recovered as
Arkansas that were down fourteen with ten minutes ago, came

(13:04):
all the way back and Trey Johnson's heroic efforts helped
them actually take a two point lead and then one
point lead, and then it winds up going overtime, and
they had the lead two or three occasions in the
first couple of minutes of overtime, but.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Couldn't finish it after that.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
And so digging a hole is the issue for this
basketball team. If they can prevent that from happening, I mean,
they put themselves in a position down the stretch to
be able.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
To win these games.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
You talk about Trey Johnson, he braced the record that
Kevin Durant said. I talked to some people around the
NBA crack today, some of my people who are big
into the scouting, and they think that he's the best
guard now coming out of this year's draft.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, he's certainly trending up. He's continuing to play better
and better now. Trey will be the first to tell
you he felt terrible about the turnover there and overtime,
but you know, I think that's a product of how
much the long words.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
Have had to lean off him. He was exhausted when
it was over.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
And you know, he had a couple of difficult moments
trying to guard Carter Knox of Arkansas, who got some
straight line drives to the bucket doubtless drench in the
second half, but he was more than make it up
for it with what he was doing in shooting and
driving and then finding some other guys available to hit

(14:31):
some shots. And then he had the turnover there and
over time, and he could just tell, because we were
sitting right beside the bench a look on his face.

Speaker 7 (14:38):
He felt terrible. And I know Arthur Gloom and went over.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
To don't worry about him, man, let's go, and there
they were with an opportunity. They had a shot. It
worked out that way. But it wasn't for his lack
of trying. He had a great effort.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
So the universe wy of Texas last night. Craig in
the second half.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Really really did a good job on the perimeter making sure.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Arkansas couldn't knock down those threes.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Did it feel like there was an intensity coming out
of the locker room?

Speaker 7 (15:07):
There was.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
And here's the other thing about this, zim Arkansas was
seven to twelve beyond the arc in.

Speaker 7 (15:15):
The first half.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
They shot fifty eight percent from three point range in.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
The first half. In the first six or seven.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Minutes of the second half, they didn't even really try
to shoot. They had built the lead and then they
kind of went half court and that kind of played
in the Longhorn's hands to fight back. And then they
started launching some threes. The missing some threes, but they.

Speaker 7 (15:38):
Hit two in the second half. Meanwhile, was the Longhorns
to turn their three.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Point fortunes around in the second half. That helped them
climb back into the game. But as Rodney Terry poured
out who just paired the comment. Free pro shooting was
a big difference as well. Algworns hit some down the stretch,
but Arkansas really front loaded a lot of free pros
in the first half and building the other legend league.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Did you feel like they just were getting the calls, Craig,
That's kind of what it felt like with Rodney Terror
was hinting at that they just were getting calls.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
Well, let me put it to you this way, Zim.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I had somebody tell me a couple of folks with
the University of Arkansas kind of smile when you were
chatting on my way out of the arena getting to
the tunnel to go up, and they kind of smiled
and said, you got Bud Walton to night, meaning home
court officiating, low home boocket thing. I don't think let

(16:36):
me let me be honest about this. I don't think
that the officials were you know, biasked or anything like that.
But I'm also here to tell you that was not
a good crew. That's a bottom level crew. The lead
official is a pretty good number three official, and the.

Speaker 7 (16:59):
Other two got one guy didn't make.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
A call the other night, and the other gentleman flat
out missed call after call.

Speaker 7 (17:07):
He's also the one.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Who teed up Rodney Kerry's well, Rodney Finley just had
enough because there was a shot of his face looking
quizzically when the ball went out of bound, said he
called it off Texas.

Speaker 7 (17:21):
It was clearly off the message of Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
And that's when Rodney started to loose it at that point,
and Rodney asked another offis who was seating right nearby,
why didn't he help him out there? And the official
told Rodney that's not my call. What do you mean,
it's not your call?

Speaker 7 (17:40):
He could help.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
We see it happen all the time, you know, to
overturn the call and say no, it goes back the
other way. But let me say this, the officials didn't
lose Texas the game. It's just to work some key moments, like,
for example, after that ruling that the ball went out
of bounds off Texas when it didn't, Arkansas came down

(18:01):
and hit a three point and it pushed a eight
point lead. Do an eleven point lead makes a difference.
It makes a difficdult to rally back. But in the
second half, I will also tell you that this proved
missed some calls two or three calls against Arkansas should
have gone.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Against Texas and did not.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
So if you say, okay, well they were equally bad
on both sides, maybe pretty close, you just hate it
to me that way. You want them to be, you know, compliment.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well you what you don't want is you don't want
to give them an option. You want to put yourself
in a position that the refts can influence the game
like that.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I think that's really what it comes down to.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
I know before the game the coach you staff wasn't
really thrilled when they saw it was gonna appreciate because usually,
and the way this thing works is they'll put one
really good official, one decent, and one who's kind of
lesser experience in the fruit for any specific SEC games.
I've already seen the list of officials for Saturday nights

(19:09):
team against Georgia, and they follow the script to that
there's a really good official still kind of learning and
things so that he's like the number three. Well, they
put three number three on the game last night, so
they didn't help didn't help either side for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
So Texas plays Georgia. You you hinted to that this
is another team that's in the same win area as Texas.
Arkansas was in the same win conference record as Texas.
What do you feel about this game on Saturday, Craig.

Speaker 7 (19:42):
We are now in we must win territory.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Got a They absolutely, I think, short of winning the
SEC tournament, and all you're asking him to do there
is win five games and five nights, which is not
practically impossible. But it's happened twice, Spikey's I think with
yukon Syracuse. It happened in the ACC with Virginia Tech

(20:07):
a couple of years back.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
But it's a really hard.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Thing to make happen, to try to win five games
and five nights because your legs just go after about
the night. So that's why it hasn't happened in the
Big twelve.

Speaker 7 (20:19):
So they're in a position.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Where they've got to win the two home games Georgia
on Saturday and in Oklahoma on Senior Night the following
Saturay for a couple of reasons. One first and foremost,
they need to win. But the other thing is those
are two teams, desperate bubble teams, and they can knock
them off the bubble if they've win those games. Now

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the game in between is in Startfille against Mississippi State.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
If they were to win that and.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Sweep the last three games, I think they're.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
In the field.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
If they don't win that, and that's gonna be a
tough assignment in Startfield, then they're probably looking at needing to.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
Win at least one game in Nashville.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
So they absolutely have to win the two home games,
I think too, and then maybe with one more game,
whether it's a Start Bills or in Nashville to get
into the field.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
And I spoke to our mutual friend Cameron Parker earlier
today and he wanted me to ask you about your
travel story. So before I let you go, what's what's
the travel story that I need to hear, Craig.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Everything was pretty sedate going to Arkansas.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
You know, it's a pretty quick flight up.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
Now.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
We were back late late last night.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Listen, I hope he.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
Told you about his travel story.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Have you heard about them having the dinner at Big
Shaker's Bar?

Speaker 7 (21:40):
No, there, I've seen pictures.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
See.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
He threw me off the set. I should have gone
after their travel story, Craig.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
That was on me.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Oh, listen. Roger Walla sent me photos. I asked Cam to.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Do it, but I think he was too busy eating
the sumptuous meal they laid out, because you and I
know campam packed away the groceries.

Speaker 7 (22:03):
Eddie Rine says he's.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
On the old knife and fourteen, so he might have
been too busy eating to take photos.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
But Rogers sent me photos and that.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Was a really impressive place what Vick Shaper had the
entire team there for their teen meal last night, and
it was a really impressive site. And hopefully it works
out well and they're ready to go tonight in their
matchup at Mississippi State.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yes, sir, we will start highlighting some of that later
in the show. His name is Craig Wag's the voice
of Longhorns. His name's on the show and he's a
good buddy of ours. Craig, thank you so much. We'll
talk to you tomorrow as you head to Vegas.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Hey, yeah, we're gonna tell people a couple of things.
Longring Weekly Tonay with Robbie Terriot Pluckers at six o'clock,
So we'll have that and then I race to the airport.
A touch of Black the Vegas and I'll check on
d tomorrow from Las Vegas as the Longmoort baseball team
prepares to play Washington.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Perfect. Thank you so much, Craig.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Thanks Jim.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
All right, we'll have more coming up next on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Good afternoon, Austin Andrews,
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(23:33):
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(23:54):
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as well on that free iHeartRadio app. Our Number two
of the Craig Waves show continues as UT men's basketball
loses a tight one in Arkansas last night eighty six

(24:15):
eighty one. We'll hear from head coach Rodney Terry. Will
also hear from assistant coach for the Razorbacks, Kenny Payne,
who gave a lot of love to freshman phenom Trey Johnson.
Johnson broke the Kevin Durant freshman single games scoring record
last night with thirty nine. And everybody I'm talking to
across my network of people when it comes to NBA

(24:38):
draft stuff, I'm a big draft nerd in that way.
Everybody's telling me that Trey Johnson is continuing to climb
up on all of their mocks. The question then turns
into who ends up with the lottery pick that gets him.
Cooper Flag is the consensus number one overall pick. But
if you know how these things work, every year, when
we get closer and closer to draft time, we want
to make the argument, well should we get this guy

(25:00):
this guy? So don't be surprised if you see some
mock drafts when we get closer to the NBA Draft
they have Trey Johnson going top two, top three. I'm
just saying, don't be shocked. It's a quarterback battle at
the NFL Combine. One guy's throwing, one guy isn't our
guy is. Queen Ewers will be throwing, and according to
reports yesterday, spoken with the Dallas Cowboys, which is kind

(25:23):
of interesting when you think about what the Cowboys organization
is trying to do. Obviously, the Cleveland Browns signed Deshaun
Watson to an awful contract that is now rippling through
their organization to the point where Miles Garrett doesn't want
to be there anymore. What is the Dallas Cowboys doing
talking to Queen Yours? Is that the move in the

(25:45):
first round? Do they think they'll fall or are the
Cowboys going to be strategically aggressive like Stephen Jones has
hinted towards. Are they gonna be strategically aggressive and go
after Quinn? Could you see the Cowboys trying to trade
up for multiple first round picks? Is Micah Parsons on
the trade block? All these things swirling around As Day
one of the NFL Combine continues today, we hear from

(26:07):
Vic Shaffer later as well, the head coach of the
women's team. He gives us an inside angle at his daughter,
Blair Schaeffer, her career to this point and is she
going to be a head coach one day we hear
from the head coach with the women's basketball program, but
let's talk baseball. UT baseball, huge win the other night

(26:28):
against Incarnate Word. They continue to roll at home. They're
now going on the road, taking on the Las Vegas Classic.
It's a big ten sandwich, we're gonna call it because
we have Washington at to start Illinois on a Sunday,
and in between it's Texas Tech. Now head coach Jim
shlast Angle. He knows his way around UNLV. He started

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his career there and he was asked yesterday during media availability,
what does he remember about UNLV.

Speaker 9 (27:03):
Well, I'm not as familiar as Vegas. It's been a
long time since they've been back there. It was a
much different city even in two thousand and two and
three than it is today.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
But awesome memories of first head coaching job.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
And inheriting an awesome group of players and a group
of really young players from right there in Vegas that
had one estate championship at Silverada High School and they
all decided to go to UNLV and we had an
awesome transformation. First year we were thirty and thirty and
the next year I think you're like forty seven and
fourteen or forty seven and seventeen something like that, won

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two conference championships, played in regional final, and just have
incredible relationships with those kids to this day.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
So Jim Slashtangle very humble when a coach. You know,
oh maybe I remember, maybe I don't. The record. They
remember the record. Everybody remembers your first head coaching job
UNLV and your number one, thirty and thirty, which was
a step up from the year prior UNLV three.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
He believe it's been twenty years.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
O three, forty seven and seventeen gets them to the
NCAA Region and that is when regionals, and that is
when his career really takes off. If you remember, he
jumps from UNLV to TCU and was the head coach
when the Frogs transitioned from the Mountained West Conference into
the Big Twelve where they went to not one, not

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to but four consecutive College World Series. Yeah, then goes
to Texas A and M, and there is a College
World Series runner up last year before going to Texas.
Now there is James Sloshnengles resume. Obviously, if you're a
fan of the Texas baseball program, you know that already.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Though what did you.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Learn in your first two years though coach your first
head coaching job at the Division one level?

Speaker 5 (28:54):
I mean I learned a lot.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
You know.

Speaker 9 (28:56):
The beauty of that versus today's world is, you know,
you you get to screw up a lot when you're
at your first job, and not too many people pay
attention to it, and not you know, people weren't recording
every single thing that happens, like happens at a place
like Texas or A and M or TCU. So just
really learned how to run a program from a thirty

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six thousand foot view. I had watched my mentor at TWU,
Lane Rick Jones do it, but to do it yourself
is a whole nother thing. And then had the luxury
of working for he just passed away. But coach John Robinson,
he was a great coach at USC Hall of Fame
football coach.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
He was my athletic director. He was the football coach
and the AD.

Speaker 9 (29:41):
So just to have awesome stories with Coach rob But
then just learn you know how to run a program
and everything that goes with it.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Andrew's a little filliated for Craig Way. We're listening to
a head coach from Slowsnagle from media availability yesterday as
a University of Texas gets ready to travel to Las Vegas,
Nevada the City of sin as they take on the
Las Vegas Classic, which would be Washington, Texas Tech Illinois
in that order of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Now, Ethan

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Mendoza has been the talk of the forty Acres this season.
Early this year, the sophomore has been kind of all
over the lineup for Texas, goes from the ninth spot
all the way to leading off in that win against
Incarnate Word. Oh and by the way, hit his first
home run of the season in that win against Incarnate
Word as well. Are you going to stick with him

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their coach batting high in the order at number one,
or is he going to be somebody that you moved
back in the order during this Classic.

Speaker 9 (30:42):
I we'll probably stick with it for a little bit
and see what happens. I think, you know, it's a
constant juggling act, trying to figure out who can do what,
who's comfortable where. We have some guys that are certainly
capable of performing, you know, at a higher level than
they are currently in.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Terms of results.

Speaker 9 (30:59):
The the work ethic and all of that has been amazing.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
If anything, we just need him to relax a little
bit and play. But yeah, I just.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
Try to take a little pressure off shooter, give him
a chance to watch the game a little bit, slide
a few guys.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
Mendoza's getting on base.

Speaker 9 (31:16):
He's the player that he showed up here as the
player that really we really want him to be.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
He's really buying into that.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
And as.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
I watch him evolve, then.

Speaker 9 (31:30):
You can see what he's capable of, which is hitting
the lead off on a potentially good team.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, through nineteen and bats this season, Mendoza batting four
twenty one with two home runs and a cup four
RBIs as well, So not too shabby for the south
leg Carol Alump, Now, how important coach is it to
have players that you can move around in the order.
You can get a guy like Mendoza and put him

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in the ninth spot, or you can move him up
at number one.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
How important is that?

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Well?

Speaker 9 (32:02):
Ideally, ideally, well, hopefully they're interchangeable in a good way.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
But ideally you would want that.

Speaker 9 (32:08):
You know the best teams, I've our best offenses I've
ever coached, you could or been around coach, and you
can flip them upside down and you feel good about
it on that day.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
But I think when we're right, which.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
Like every every coach sees at least, I see the
best in our players and I envision the best in
them every day. So I'm cool with the lineup in
any direction. But we have to live in reality, and
guys have to continue to get better and right now,
Ethan be up there at the top.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
In that win against in Carnate where the Longhorns were
able to throw a couple of arms at the Cardinals,
they pitched four pitchers, starting with Jason Flores, who did
an incredible job in his first collegiate start, was able
to go three up, three down twice and then got
an ending double play. Do you expect the rotation to same,

(33:00):
stay the same coach this weekend?

Speaker 5 (33:04):
I do.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
I don't see any reason why we would change it.
Having Cat's felt fine since throwing, and less something pops up,
we'll leave it the same way.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, you gotta love that University of Texas plays in
the Las Vegas Classic this weekend. You can hear those
games right here on the zone. Our man Craig Way
will be on the call. He's all over the place
doing Pluckers tonight on the West Campus location, talking to
head coach Rodney Terry for the Coaches Show, then jumping
a flight and heading out to Vegas. And I'm not

(33:38):
glad that we're gonna get Craig on the calls. If
you've listened to the station, you hear the promos playing
for a University of Texas baseball. He has an incredible
home run call. We need to get a couple more
of those in the can. I want to play one
more clip here, Ronald, our incredible producer back in Austin.
I want to ask about Ethan and Die because Max

(34:00):
Grubbs got a good answer yesterday when asked, this is
Grubbs two.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Yeah, and you can expect more of it.

Speaker 9 (34:09):
I think he's a really good player, and I like
the way that he plays the game.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I'm really glad to have we have a team on
the forty Acres that already seven games in feels very connected,
which is very important when it comes to the game
of baseball. Anybody will tell us play the game at
the highest levels will tell you that the locker room camaraderie,
having all those guys on the same page, it's not easy.

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It's not something that you just wake up one morning
and everybody loves each other.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
And it takes time.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
When head coach Jim Slosnegel came from A and M
to Texas, yeah, you talk about all of the success
he's had everywhere else, but you talk about the locker
room culture that he has been able to build at
every stop he's had along the way. That is one
of those intangible things that you get out of your
head coach. When we come back speaking of head coaches,
Vic Schaeffer Women's backasketball head coach Spoke gives us a

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little insight on what we can expect tonight as the
women's basketball team travels so Starkville to take on the
Mississippi State team. We'll have that for you next right
here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Sports Radio AM thirteen.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Hundred The Zone Andrew zim will taking you on your
cattle drive as we work our way through the work
week together and tonight big matchup University of Texas number
one overall team currently in women's basketball. They have that
number one next to their name for the first time
in almost twenty years, and it's very important for this

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team to continue to take that momentum that they've already
shown that they've had and keep it moving. That is
the number one thing right now for the or i
should say, for the longest time, the women have been
chasing the number one. Now they are going to be
the team that gets chased, which is big. Texas women's
coach Vick Schaeffer. He was named as the Name of

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Women's College Coach of the Year watch list this week.
He's a twenty eighteen National Coach of the Year after
leading teams to the Elite Eight in six of seven
years and ten seasons of twenty five or more wins.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Coach Schaeffer had his media availability yesterday and spoke about
the matchup tonight against Mississippi State.

Speaker 10 (36:26):
Well, just really proud of our team last night.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
You know, it's always.

Speaker 10 (36:30):
Hard on the road, you know, lots obviously lots going
on and lots of potential distractions, and yet they were
able to go in there and persevere on a night
when we didn't shoot it that well. For three quarters,
shot sixty four the fourth quarter, but first three quarters
were a bit of a grind.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
But our defense was elite.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
And once you all think about this now, they went
in there and held the home team in the Southeastern
Conference on their home floor to twenty six total points
for forty minutes.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
For two hours.

Speaker 10 (37:05):
They absolutely grinded and defended at an elite level, and
I am so proud of them.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
To be able to do that.

Speaker 10 (37:17):
I don't think I've ever had a team do that
in a conference game, and so and much less do it,
you know, on.

Speaker 6 (37:25):
The the opponent's home floor.

Speaker 10 (37:26):
So you know, sometimes on the road, y'all those things happen,
you don't shoot it quite as well. But that's why
we always talk about defense travels. You got to have
an inside game, and we did. I thought Kyla and
Taylor were much better in the second half. We weren't
very good first half. They were two for seven at halftime,
but came back and ended up ten for nineteen. So

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again I thought we had some kids really step up
play well. I think, you know, we just sometimes it
takes that. And again, when you're not maybe not making shop,
you know, house, can you help me win? I thought
we also had some kids do that. So it's a
great win for us again some uncharted territory waters for

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you know, for these kids, and uh, to be able
to go out and function and play.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
I was really proud of them.

Speaker 10 (38:18):
So now we've got to get ready and go on
the road and have another road game. Only have basically
a day back here and we leave out tomorrow. Got
to play a really good Mississippi State team, a team
that's going to be in the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
Play them on their home floor. I'm sure they'll have
a great crowd.

Speaker 10 (38:41):
Those Bulldog fans are so special and uh, you know,
they love their Bulldogs, and so I'm sure they're going
to create a great atmosphere and home court, you know,
advantage for their team. And so we're gonna have to
go in there and play well. It's a team that
has a great size inside, have great guard play, veteran guards,

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fifth and six year guards.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
So they're a wise old.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
Team and so we're gonna have to really go in
there and execute and play extremely well. So, you know,
excited about the opportunity, excited for our team. We're now
down to in my mind, a two game season, and
we've just got to do what we've done all year,

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which is being the present, be where your feet are.
The most important thing is today. The most important practice
is today's practice. Can we get one percent incrementally better
today than we were yesterday? And at the same time,
we've got to prepare with intentionality, which we've done a
great job of, and get ready to play a really

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good Mississippi State team in their gym.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Sports Radio Am thirteen hundred the zone. That was head
coach Vic Shaeffer talking about the lead up this game
and then playing tonight against Mississippi State. Now it's a
family affair tonight. As of course, Schaeffer play or coached
for a number of years at Mississippi State, but his daughter,
Blair Schaeffer, also was a member of that program. In fact,

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one of the largest most important classes ever was her class,
part of the winning's class in program history. As a
senior class posted a one, twenty six, and twenty two
record over the four years. There were a national finances
in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, and they made the
NCAA Tournament every single year. She also helped leave Mississippi

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State to the first trip to the final four national championship.
Your role expanded as a senior started all thirty nine games,
was a three point specialist. She was of course all
academic honor roll. She then went to ESPN, the se'sc network,
before now coming back to Austin to be part of
this program. Now, head coach Vick Shaeffer's spoke about Blair's

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want to be a head coach.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
This is Shaeffer number eight.

Speaker 10 (41:06):
Yeah, I think there'll be a day when when I
decide to not do it, there'll be a day when
she'll want to be a head coach. But I think
she embraces her role right now. She really loves recruiting,
She loves the kids, she loves spending time with them and.

Speaker 6 (41:22):
Pouring into them.

Speaker 10 (41:23):
And she's, you know, just as my entire staff is.

Speaker 6 (41:26):
They're all really good at that.

Speaker 10 (41:28):
And so but yeah, I think that, And again I
think I think she'll be a great one.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Andrews, I will fill in for Crags.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
So when we go through Vic Shaeffer's career before his
final stop hopefully for his career at Texas, and I
want him to coach here as long as humanly possible
for the success that he's had at in the forty era.
On the forty acres you go through and look at
his time at Mississippi State one twenty two and sixty
two in that time more multiple runner up up here,

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multiple multiple NCAA appearances, a tournament and Elite Eight appearance.
All of that being said, So when you talk about
somebody like this, what do you expect the reception to
be after leaving Mississippi State after the twenty twenty season,
what do you expect the reception to be?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Coach?

Speaker 10 (42:23):
Well, I don't know how it's I don't know if
you'd call it excited.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (42:26):
I don't get too fired up by going on the
road in the SEC. But you know, obviously we have
so many special friends there still to this day, and
you know, such fond memories.

Speaker 6 (42:38):
You know, I've said this a lot.

Speaker 10 (42:40):
Those eight years that we spent there, the eight best
years of the Shaeffer family's lives. Both of my kids
are graduates Mississippi State.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
They're bulldogs. You know.

Speaker 10 (42:50):
We just had so much great fun, great success there
and again still have so many good friends there. And
it's not just the people at Mississippi State, it's that
state in general, y'all, like that is the most genuine, caring,
loving state.

Speaker 6 (43:09):
The people from.

Speaker 10 (43:12):
North Mississippi, Olive Branch, all the way down to the
Delta and all the way down to Biloxi and Gulf.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
Port, I mean, anywhere you go.

Speaker 10 (43:22):
They just really embraced me, my family, my team, and
so there's so many fond memories of our time there,
and obviously it's a place that we still hold.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
Dear to our heart.

Speaker 10 (43:34):
I still have my farm there where we built our
dream home. I've additionally bought another farm thirty minutes from there.
That's beautiful country, and so it's a place that's still
we still en dear to ourselves, and it's so special
to us and it will always be that for us

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because again, we still have so many wonderful friends there.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews and we
will fill you in for Crag now. He talks about
how nice of a vibe it is, how is excited
to go back, how connected he is to the community
community in Mississippi. Coach, do you expect to shed any
tears tonight?

Speaker 10 (44:19):
You know, I'm sure it'll be emotional, But for me,
I've got I've got a heck of a team that
I got to go in there and try to win
a road game.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
You know, that's that's it for me.

Speaker 10 (44:29):
I've got to I've got to go in there and
we my team's got to go in there, and we
got to be tough. You know, it's going to be
I'm sure it'll be a really good environment. It's a
heck of a team we're gonna have to play and
certainly we we've got a lot of fond memories there
and there's no dispute in that. But at the end
of the day, it's a business trip and you know,
I'm going in there with my team, with the number

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one team in the country, and we got to try
to find a way to win a word game.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
That is correct six point thirty Tonight, you can hear
the game on the iHeartRadio app on one O three
one FM, Starkfield, Mississippi. Cameron Parker will be on the
call for that is number one Texas travels to Mississippi State.
When we come back, they're telling us it's a two
quarterback draft. Is it really just between cam Ward and

(45:16):
schidor Sanders or could Texas's quarterback quin Viewers slip in
there as well.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
We'll talk about that next. Craig Waits show continues.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
In a moment, Andrew Zim will fill in for Craig
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zim will filling in for
Craig Way as we work our way through the workweek twogether. Well,
they're telling us that it is a two quarterback draft,
at least that's what mel Kiper Junior Field yates, all

(45:46):
of the muckety MUCKs, all the draft experts are telling
us it's a two quarterback draft, but it could end
up being a larger QB draft do in part because
there are quarterbacks in the NFL that the teams are
not very happy with, starting with Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis. Now,
last year you heard the story about him quitting on

(46:08):
his team. He was exhausted, he was out of shape,
out of breath, and the colt said, you know what,
We're gonna sit you down and we're gonna play a
veteran quarterback ahead of you. Was not the best look
for Anthony Richardson. Well, Chris Ballard at the Combined earlier
this week, the Combine begins today with guys actually doing things.
The underwear Olympics is what it's called by some Chris

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Ballard spoke about where Anthony Richardson isn't what the team
is thinking about.

Speaker 11 (46:41):
We drafted Anthony Hie knowing it was going to take
some time, all right, and we knew there's going to
be some hiccups along the way. And it's you know,
I know, we all want to finish product right now.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I do you do?

Speaker 8 (46:55):
Fans?

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Do we all do?

Speaker 11 (46:57):
But I think as he continues to progress in his
young career, US adding competition, I think will help up
everybody's skin.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Which would make me very nervous if I was a
Colts fan, because what do you mean you want to
add competition to what is already a young QB room. Now,
Richardson's twenty two years old, so you would imagine that
they probably are thinking about adding somebody a little older.
But I would not put it out of the realm
of possibility that the Colts maybe trade back or maybe

(47:29):
trade for an older QB. It seems like Indianapolis has
turned into the home of the old guys, the retirement
home four quarterbacks. You think about what Philip Rivers, Joe Flacco.
The list goes on and on about guys who at
the end of their career, the tail end at least,
are trying to, you know, maybe make one more run

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at this thing in Indianapolis. It makes me a little
nervous if I was a Colts fan again that a
twenty two year old quarterback who we love does not
seem to have the right work ethic or the right
love of the game. So the reason I bring all
this up is it makes sense for quarterbacks to go

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very quickly in this draft. We see it happened last year.
I didn't wasn't in love with the quarterback draft last year. Now,
Caleb Williams and Jade and Daniels both turned out to
be very good, but Michael Pennix didn't really play, but
Nick's surprised some people. And James McCarthy was injured in
the preseason, so the jury is still out on last
year's quarterback draft. But they went very quickly and very high.

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But then you talk about the top two qbs, cam
Ward and Shador Sanders now Field Yates pretty much said
it's a two quarterback competition at the combine this year
for the guys he was speaking with.

Speaker 12 (48:44):
Yeah, the first three picks in the draft are going
to be busy with quarterbacks. I believe cam Ward ends
up as a Cleveland Brown number two overall. Reminder that
Shaun Watson is going to be out for almost certainly
the entirety of this year, and then in twenty twenty six,
his money is nothing more than a lost cause. Cam
Moore to Cleveland, and then Shador Sanders, who won't have
to wait a whole lot longer, going to the New

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York Giants who owned the pick. The third pick overall,
we've talked about the possibility of Matthew Stafford trade. I
still believe the Giants need to think about a young quarterback.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Long and hard. He goes to the Big Apple.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
So if Yates has cam Ward going number one or
number two, I'm sorry to the Cleveland Browns and Chador
going number three to the New York Giants. And then
Mele Kuiper has something similar. He says that war goes
number two to the Browns and number seven the New
York Jets select Shador Sanders. So either way, Chador is
playing in the Big Apple. But then you go through

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the rest of the quarterbacks Jackson Dart, Dylan Gabriel, Quinn Eewers.
Some of these guys are going to end up going
in the first round and it's going to surprise a
lot of people. And I am putting my flag down now.
I'm planting it today that Quinn Viewers will be the
quarterback that surprises the most people come combined time now
and come NFL Draft in April. That this is a

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guy who, according to reports, played the entire season with
torn oblique Okay, when we talk about the throws that
he was able to make this season being banged up
and injured. Last year he dealt with an ankle injury.
This year is dealing with a core injury, and the
way that he still was able to compete, there's no
question at this point. There's no question about his work ethic,

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about his try and his drive. We love to hear
stories about guys who played through injury. Right, There's a
difference between being injured and hurt. Every single coach will
tell you that if you're hurt, you can play through it.
If you're injured, we need to put you on the IR.
I think in oblique injury for most would put them
on the ir not quin Yours, who, according to reports,

(50:41):
torres oblique in the Michigan game first game of the season,
played the entire rest of the year with a banged
up corps and was able to make incredible throws throughout
the end of the season the SEC championship game. And
then you think about the playoffs. I am very high
on what we are going to see out of Quinn.
And then you go through the list of teams who

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might need a quarterback, and all of a sudden, it's hey,
how happy are the Dallas Cowboys with their quarterback situation?
The Las Vegas Raiders? How were happier they at their
quarterback situation? Now you saw earlier this week that Tom
Brady and Matthew Stafford just happened to be skiing with

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each other, just just happened to see each other on
the slopes. If you are buying that, I have a
bridge to sell you. There's no way that any of
this just happens by happenstance. But the Raiders are a
team that could be looking for a quarterback. How happy
are the Cardinals? How the list goes on and on
and on. There are going to be teams that think
to themselves when you see the quarterbacks available, When Shador

(51:46):
and camp borderre off the board that talk themselves into
some guys, do not be surprised. Do not be surprised
when you see the reports that continue to come out
that there are going to be teams who were going
to be drafting a quarterback. And I'm telling you Quinn
will be the guy who jumps the highest on these boards.

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Mel Kiper currently has him as QB nine after the
combine going into next week. Do not be surprised if
he's as high as QB three. Let's talk Philadelphia Eagles now.
Jeremy Fowler reported earlier this week about a team that's
already rich at the defensive position going after maybe the

(52:28):
best defensive player ever to go on the market.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
This is Jerry Fowler Garrett.

Speaker 13 (52:32):
Let's hear it connecting some dots here, admittedly, but this
is a conversation that some people in the league have
had that the Philadelphia Eagles, one of the most aggressive,
if not the most aggressive teams on the trade market,
will be looking for a pass rusher Josh Sweat and
the Super Bowl likely or close MVP could be out
the expectations that he will sign elsewhere, So they're going
to have a need there Miles Garrett. They would not

(52:55):
want to see him go to the Washington Commanders, for example,
if that was to gain traction, Roseman would likely step
in try to make a deal that is too hard
for the Cleveland Browns to refuse. Keep it in mind here,
the Browns are a hard no. They're still telling teams
they have no interest in trading Miles Garrett. If you
were to become available, several teams will be in that.
Maybe the Eagles will be won.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
So Howie Roseman might have to step in and make
a deal, a godfather offer to make sure that Miles
Garrett doesn't end up somewhere else But if you're the
Cleveland Browns, you have the number two overall pick. Maybe Garrett,
how bad does he actually want to get out? The
Combined is the beginning of the NFL season. It's not

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the NFL Draft. The Combined is where the deals are made.
There's GMS all over the place, assistant GMS, media reporters.
I'm telling you this is where the deals are getting done.
If Garrett does end up getting moved, it's going to
be a deal that began discussion this week in Indianapolis
on Sports Radio and thirteen hundred of The Zone Sports Radio.

(54:00):
I am thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews and will fill
in for Craig Way. All this week is Craig travels
about Tonight he will be at the West Campus Locallycation
Pluckers for the Coaches Show with Roddy Terry. That is
happening tonight, go over there, check it out. And then
tomorrow travels to Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, as the

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Texas Longhorn baseball team has the Las Vegas Classic on
the schedule, taking on Washington Friday, Texas Tech Saturday, and
then Illinois on Sunday. It's nice sandwich of Big ten teams.
Now he really Washington Illinois still hard to put rep
your head around, still hard to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
And now Texas.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
State knocks off number one Texas A and M earlier
this week, and I'm hearing more and more chatter. People
are talking about, Hey, could Texas taco to the zombiefide
PAC twelve? Could that be something that's on the radar?
Oh brother, nothing like watching PAC twelve after dark? Am
I right jam packed? The final hour of the Craigway show,

(55:09):
Travis Hunter speaks from the combine says that he wants
to play both ways.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Is that gonna happen?

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Is it likely? Kind of depends on what team drafts him.
And then the Las Vegas Raiders. Ever since the signing
of minority owner Tom Brady, they've made some big moves.
But are they legal? Is Tom Brady taking his cheating
ways out west? We'll talk about it next, But first,

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UT women's basketball traveling to Mississippi State tonight as the
number one ranked team in college basketball does battle on
the hardwood. It's gonna be a good one. It's the
final of the road games of the regular season for
the women's team Starkfield tonight and then on Sunday they

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finish up the regular season at home against Florida. Now
Florida not a team to play around with, but Texas
has been on a roll since that loss on Super
Bowl Sunday to the South Carolina game Cocks in Columbia.
They are I'm sorry, since that loss in January not
Super Bowls in January. They have rolled off some very

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impressive wins fourteen to zero at home, eleven game winning streak.
But don't tell head coach Vick Shaeffer about that he
wants to be focused in on his team. He wants
to continue to keep pushing the game plan now. In
that win against Georgia earlier this week on Monday, a

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fifty seven to twenty six win against the Bulldogs, Texas
held Georgia to the lowest points that they have scored
as a program in over a decade. It was twenty
fifteen the last time they scored that few points. But
in that game, it came down to the Fords Vic
Shaeffer's ability to get the players who manned down low,

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and it was Taylor Jones who was the player of
the game seventeen points, sixteen rebounds, and five blocks. He
had his media availability and he was asked about what
goes into games? What do you go what goes into games?
Do you think about what you need out of certain positions?
This is shape for four.

Speaker 10 (57:20):
I went to it thinking we need this from this position,
and then you go with who's playing well that night,
you know, and you know last night Taylor got a
really quick file and typically I take her out and
put Kyla in immediately, but I didn't and tried to
let her play through it a little bit didn't really
play that much better, went with Kyla.

Speaker 6 (57:40):
Neither one of them.

Speaker 10 (57:41):
Like I said, we were two for seven and a
half and I really thought we were kind of getting
out tough down there a little bit, to be honest,
and so challenged them in the locker room at halftime.
Second half they were so much better and our guards
were really good about giving them a ball to we
turned them down still like that. I'm going to show
them the day in film where we turned them down.
And you know, we don't need to turn those two down.

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When they get two feet in the paint, they got
somebody buried, we need to give them the ball.

Speaker 6 (58:06):
So, you know, something we continue to work on.

Speaker 10 (58:08):
If you come to practice, like we have a drill
every day, we start with this triangle passing and you
know we work on it every single day. So again,
and you give Georgia credit. They were doing some things
the first half Dublin and really not letting them operate
with very much space, and so we didn't handle every
I mean, we had twelve turnovers at halftime and we
only ended up with sixteen total. But you know, when

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you're not shooting well, twelve turnovers is a nightmare. And
we all said it with twenty three offensive rebounds, and
you think about all those extra possessions when you're shooting
thirty percent, and those extra possessions are critical. And so
to get the twenty three offensive rebounds was really big.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
I think Taylor had nine of them, Book had five
of them.

Speaker 10 (58:51):
I mean those are critical second and third chance points
that you're getting on a night when you're not shooting
it that well.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
So again of our kids and finding a way to win.

Speaker 10 (59:02):
And again you look at the game and you're like, stang, boy,
you didn't play very good. You know, we didn't play
very good when won by thirty one. I mean, it's
just crazy. You held a team to twenty six total points.
That's absurd in the Southeastern Conference to do that is
like crazy.

Speaker 6 (59:20):
But that's how locked in and how hard.

Speaker 10 (59:23):
Our kids played last night, and I'm just extremely proud
of for that.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Acordable head coach Vick Shaffer talking about media availability and
kind of recapping a little bit of what it looked
like earlier this week against Georgia thirty one point win.
Holding a team to twenty six points. Now, if you
go through the raw or you go through the box scores,
and you look at low scoring games for the University

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of Texas this season. Now fifty seven is scraping the
bottom of the barrel. You don't want to score fifty seven points.
But you go through that loss again South Carolina January
in a Columbia, South Carolina. He's sixties, having fifty loss. Okay,
against the number two ranked team in the country at
that point, the game cocks. Your ability to win low

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scoring games, especially in the SEC, helps you later down
the road. This is something that has been proven over
and over and over again that you want if you
are going to have low scoring games doing the regular
season a get those experiences under your belt. He spoke
about low scoring games and how it helps. This is

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shape for six.

Speaker 10 (01:00:35):
Well, I certainly think it's probably something that they can
fall back on.

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
It's not very good from my heart.

Speaker 10 (01:00:42):
But at the same time, I think, again, any experiences
where you can really go through some adversity and you
can come out on the other side in a positive way.
I mean, that's what life's all about, y'all. It's about
adversity and how you handle it. And I think these
kids have had adversity throughout the course of the season,
We've been on the road a lot, been pretty some
days in some games, but yet they continually find a

(01:01:04):
way to win. And so, you know, I think it's
it's certainly beneficial and certainly something that they can draw from.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Andrews.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
I will fill you in for Creig Way on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone. No, it's a family
affair tonight for the University of Texas As. It's almost
like a homecoming for Vic Shaffer coached eight years at
the Mississippi State and I essentially built that program up
and got them to that national recognition that they've been

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looking for ever since. To be completely honest, what do
you expect the reception to be like tonight, Vic Shaeffer, Well.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
I don't know how.

Speaker 10 (01:01:48):
I don't know if you'd call it excited. I don't
get too fired up by going on the road in
the SEC.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
But you know, obviously we have so many.

Speaker 10 (01:01:57):
Special friends there still to this day, you know, such
fond memories. You know, I've said this a lot, those
eight years that we spent there, the eight best years
of the Shaeffer family's lives. Both of my kids are
graduates Mississippi State. They're bulldogs. You know, we just had
so much great fun, great success there, and again still

(01:02:21):
have so many good friends there. And it's not just
the people at Mississippi State, it's that state in general, y'all.
Like that is the most genuine, caring, loving state. The
people from North Mississippi, Olive Branch, all the way down
to the Delta and all the way down to Biloxi

(01:02:41):
and Gulf Port, I mean, anywhere you go. They just
really embraced me, my family, my team, and so there's
so many fond memories of our time there, and obviously
it's a place that we still hold dear to our heart.
I still have my farm there where we built our
dream home. I've additionally bought another farm thirty minutes from there.

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That's beautiful country, and so it's a place that still
we still endear to ourselves and it is so special
to us and it will always be that for us
because again, we still have so many wonderful friends there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
So Shaffer went on to explain understanding why they left
for those Bulldog fans, that's Shaeffer three.

Speaker 10 (01:03:31):
Yeah, I definitely think it would have been difficult a
year after. I think what happens over time is people
come to understand. You know, I think there was a
lot of people didn't understand when it happened. But I
think since we've left, I think they've come to have
a real clear picture of potentially why it happened and

(01:03:53):
the timing of it and those kinds of things. So
I certainly think that five years later was is way
better than going back that first year, because I do
think there were still some things that weren't very clear
as to what exactly transpired.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Texas is at the top of the SEC women's basketball
standing the thirteen to one in the conference, twenty seven
to two overall, Mississippi State, six and eight in conference play,
but nineteen and nine. It's not going to be an
easy task tonight, but don't expect pick Schaeffer to shed
any tears, as this is a business trip for the

(01:04:32):
Longhorns trying to continue to roll their way through eleven
game win streak on the line tonight. You can catch
that game on one oh three to one or on
the free iHeartRadio app as well. Cameron Parker will be
on the call for that one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
When we come back, the Las Vegas Raiders, the victims
of the tuck rule, well, they got the quarterback from it.
Tom Brady, now a minority owner, did he take his
patriot cheating ways out west? We will decide next on
The Craig Way Show. Andrew zim will filling in for
Craig on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred at the Zone.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Andrew Zimmel filling in for Craig this week as Craig
bounces all over, goes from Fabuel, Arkansas, back to the
capital city of Austin, does the Coaches Show tonight, then
goes to Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Classic. We'll
have the call for you right here on the Zone
at tomorrow. Washington, Texas Tech Saturday, Illinois on Sunday. So

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the big one happening right now as the NFL combine starts.
But the conversation is around a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
That would be Matthew Stafford, Texas's favorite son. He is
up in the air with where he's going to go.
He could stay in La and be a Ram for
the end of his career, or he could go somewhere else.

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And now the Rams do have a little bit of
leverage here if they wanted to trade him, could sign
and trade him. If they want him to go off
and do his own thing, they could just have him
do that. They have a little bit of leverage. Sean
McVay was on the Fitzgerald and I think it's Andrew,
the former offensive lineman for the Rams. It was on

(01:06:15):
a podcast. He was talking about Matthew Stafford and it
sounds like the head coach of the Rams wants his
QB to come back.

Speaker 14 (01:06:25):
I think the important thing was let's be clear, open
and honest.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
And this isn't that.

Speaker 14 (01:06:29):
We're trying to be able to figure out, you know,
what is the next right move, but let's at least
have all the parameters relative to you and Jimmy Sexton
being able to talk to teams that have called on you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Don't have to do anything in secret. Want to make
sure that we're all abreast of the.

Speaker 14 (01:06:43):
Situation, even though the first goal in mine is to
have you come back here as the quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
Yeah, so the number one goal for the Rams is
we want Matthew Stafford back. This is the guy who's
played five years there. He helped them win a Super Bowl,
and they feel like they're a team constructed to win
another one. Even with letting you know, Cooper Cupp look
for a trade partner, and even with Aaron Donald retiring
before last season, they feel like they have the infrastructure

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to compete. But don't get too comfortable because even though
you want to keep him, there sounds like there may
be a little bit of collusion here.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
And they'll get to that here in a second.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
I want to hear from Pete Carroll because Pete Carroll,
the former head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, the former
advisor to the Seahawks franchise, decided to be the next
head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Now, what does
Pete Carroll have? What relationship does he have to the

(01:07:45):
Raiders organization? I mean, he coached at USC, He was
a professor at USC before he took this job. Why
would he go Well, he made it abundantly clear yesterday
on why he decided to become the next Raiders head coach.

Speaker 15 (01:08:02):
It starts there when Tom wanted to do this and
he wanted to be part of this thing.

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
That changed my outlook on what could be possible.

Speaker 15 (01:08:11):
I've found out since how consistently he is a great
competitive mentality and spirit, and he passed it right through
to the rest of the ownership group that has been
incredibly fired up and Jack to do something special. Marcus
really found a tremendous group to represent. And then I
didn't know this either, but when I met John Spytech

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and get a chance to understand where he's coming from too.
He represents the competitive mentality that I know Tom lives
for and I live for, and so it's just such
a good it's such a good.

Speaker 6 (01:08:43):
Arrangement for us. It's really an exciting opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
So he is a competitor, Yeah, the greatest quarterback of
all time for sure. But we're getting into this very
weird area. You saw it happen during the Super Bowl
where Tom Brady. Okay, he's going to a chance to
look behind the scenes at the Chiefs and the Eagles,
two competitors of the Las Vegas Raiders. But he's a commentator,

(01:09:06):
so he should be able to get a behind the
scenes look. NFL doesn't have a problem with it. Their
broadcast partner, Fox doesn't have a problem with it. If
I was an owner, I'd have a problem with it.
If I was an owner of any of these franchises.
I have a little bit of an issue because it
sounds like when Coach Carroll says he is a competitor,

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always bring this competitive spirit to the owner. Because remember
Tom Brady is in the general manager, he is the
minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, and it sounds
like he has a pretty good chunk when it comes
to importance and sway over this franchise. So he brings
this competitive edge, which is a secret sauce word. It's

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a keyword.

Speaker 12 (01:09:50):
Four.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
He knows the loopholes. Remember what Tom was doing in
New England. He was with maybe the greatest cheater of
all time and Bill be it's not cheating if I
do this, it's not cheating if they were able to
bend the rules to almost breaking them. And he brings
that now to the Las Vegas Raiders. Is it cheating
to go seduce a coach?

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
No, Pete Carroll was a free agent. He could have
gone anywhere, could have gone to be the next head
coach of any organization. But it seems like Carol knows
something that the rest of us don't. It seems like
Pete Carroll has a little behind the scenes background info
on what makes Tom Brady such a good competitor, and
it's stuff like this. Ian Rappaport today was reporting about

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a just a chance encounter of Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 16 (01:10:40):
Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford did bumped into each other
at Yellowstone in Montana, apparently skied together.

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
That seemed to be the end of it.

Speaker 16 (01:10:48):
But we have known that the Las Vegas Raiders and
the New York Giants have had interest in matters sometime
and considering the fact that his age and Jimmy Sexon
does in fact have permission.

Speaker 6 (01:10:59):
To engage with these teams and.

Speaker 16 (01:11:01):
Just see what his value might be if there.

Speaker 6 (01:11:03):
Was in fact that trade.

Speaker 16 (01:11:04):
Not allowed to negotiate trade compensation, but is allowed to
discuss salary. So yeah, these are two teams that do
need it and that are interested. And actually the Las
Vegas Raiders do make a ton of sense for Matthew
Stafford if, for instance, he wanted to still live in Malibu.
It's a forty minute flight from California to Las Vegas.
It's a team where you could drop a quarterback in

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conceivably beginning the process of winning, which obviously is something
that want. We know that Brady has been aggressive and
the Raiders have been aggressive and trying to land a
starting quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
This makes sense.

Speaker 16 (01:11:35):
However, the Rams due all the cards, they can trade
him or not. They can decide whether they want to
pay Stafford or not. So this is not done yet
with Matthew Stafford in the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Ram, Matthew Stafford and the Rams, Matthew Stafford and the Raiders.
There's a lot of different options here for mister Stafford. Now,
the part that caught my attention, we're talking about making
a four Lady mane a flight from Malibu to Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
I look, I understand that it's close. I don't think
it's that close.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
I don't know if I if I'm the starting quarterback
of a team I'm wanting to jettison across it doesn't
matter what area, if it's even more than a two
hour drive, I don't know if I'm absolutely in love
with making that happen. The other thing is too and
I think that many people are already forgetting about this,
is that the last time one of these Hall of

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Fame caliber quarterbacks left their situation, that was pretty good
for another situation to try to chase after maybe one
more ring or a little bit more success, didn't work
so well. Talking about Aaron Rodgers with the New York Jets. Now,
Stafford and Rodgers are two different characters. They have different personalities,
and I understand that. But if I'm an organization like

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the Raiders, why would I not want to just go
in the draft and look for a young quarterback that
I can potentially mold and then make a run and
one of these other quarterbacks who are on the free
agent market now, Sam Darnold seems like the highest option,
feels like the best option when it comes to these
free Asian quarterbacks. I'm not absolutely in love with Zach

(01:13:14):
Wilson by any means. Jacoby Bursett, It's gonna be on
the market, guys that I'm kind of overlooking, to be
completely honest with you. But if I know I can
go get a young quarterback in the draft and it's
a stopgap guy, a person that I know is starting
for two seasons and then in year three, I have
my rookie come in or even shorter. Think about what

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the Falcons did with Kirk Cousins. They signed Kirk Cousins
to a multi one hundred million dollar deal and then
drafted Panix at number nine, so Kirk Cousins could potentially
be an option here for the Raiders as well. I
just don't know if I'm in love with the idea
of Stafford going to Las Vegas. It seems like he's
in love with the idea, and it seems like his

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wife's in love with the idea. I like brock Bowers.
I think that he Carroll's a very good coach. He's
going to help make that defense a lot better. The
running game. We'll see where that goes. But a lot
of these moves have to be made soon. There is
a timetable for all of these things to happen. But
the main takeaway I have from all of this is

(01:14:17):
that Tom Brady is taking his cheating ways from New
England to Vegas and the Kansasity Chiefs, who've had a
target on their back now for almost a decade. There's
a new competitor that has entered the chat, and it
is Tom Brady. If there was ever a guy who
could potentially inflict pain and change the way that legacies

(01:14:42):
are formed, it would be Tom Brady. Even from the
owner's box, think about this. Tom Brady is now trying
to set up a quarterback who could challenge Mahomes in
the AFC West. He's got his coach and Pete Carroll,
a Hall of Fame caliber coach, and he's got a
pretty good draft pick too this upcoming draft. There's a
world where the entirety of Mahomes' legacy, we're talking about

(01:15:06):
him potentially being the goat. There's a world where he
never gets back to being an AFC West champion. If
the way that Tom Brady sets his team up works.
Think about that. Michael Jordan is on a golf course
somewhere absolutely laughing and wishing that he had this idea
back in the day. If he was a way to
take over a team. Oh oh wait, he did own

(01:15:27):
a team and didn't work out so well. So maybe
Tom Brady's the goat of all goats. He's able to
do it on the field and off the field as well.
When we come back Travis Hunter, he spoke at the
NFL Combined he wants to be like his former head
coach Dean Sanders, wants to play both ways. Does it
make sense for him to do that though, we'll discuss next.

(01:15:48):
Andrews I will filling in for Craig Way on Sports
Radio Am thirteen hundred The Zone Sports Radio AM.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Andrews II will filling in for Craig Way on this Thursday.
I want to remind you, in case you missed it
earlier in the show, we gave you breaking news from
San Antonio. Statement from San Antonio head coach Greg Popovich
via the San Antonio Spurs quote, I've decided not to
return to the sidelines this season. Mitch Johnson and his

(01:16:18):
staff have done a wonderful job, and resolve and professionalism
the players have shown sticking together during a challenging season
has been outstanding. I will continue to focus on my
health with the hope that I can return to coaching
in the future. Lot to get into there, obviously, we've
been saying from essentially November when pop was sidelined due

(01:16:40):
to that mild health or mild stroke with major health
concerns with that that if this is the end, this
is the end, and he is one of the if
not the greatest head coach of all time. But this
statement makes me think that for everybody who was writing
them off, everybody who was saying, Okay, it's done, maybe

(01:17:01):
you did a little bit too much. Maybe it was
a little premature in the writing off of Greg Popovich
from the sideline. Sounds like he's not gonna come back
this season. I understand no Victor wembin Yama. There's a
little front court depth. We talked to Bill Showing yesterday
about the injuries that the Spurs have suffered this season.
There's really no reason to try to rush a comeback here.

(01:17:23):
If your Pop there's relaxed, take some time off, do
a little advanced scouting, maybe watch some Longhorn basketball games,
and start figuring out, Okay, what number is Trey Johnson
gonna wear?

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
I love Trey.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
I think that this is a guy who's gonna go
top five in the NBA draft. And the Spurs, they
continue to struggle the way they have in the past
couple of weeks, they could be a team that's drafting
the top five. They have their own pick. They have
the Atlanta Hawks lottery pick this year as well. The
Hawks kind of in the playoffs playing area. You'd want
the Hawks to lose some more games and you potentially

(01:17:57):
have two top picks trade up. Maybe you know, We'll
see what happens. But good news out of San Antonio
is pop is getting better. The health is a concern obviously,
but a ring endorsement of Mitch Johnson as well, a
guy who's guided a lot of a grief from Spurs
fans and you know, interim coach, man acting head coach
doing his best. We will continue to see how the

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Spurs progressed this year with him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
All right, let's.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Talk Travis Hunter as the Heisman Trophy winner goes to
the NFL Draft, unlike all of these other quarterbacks and
different players. Oh, this guy is not going to do this.
And the duel Carter now saying that he has a
broken foot. It turns into could Travis Hunter potentially be
the number one overall pick? He was projected as that

(01:18:43):
before the college football season. After he wins the Heisman
he was projected as at but now melkiper junior as
Abdul Carter going number one In his latest mock. Travis
Hunter spoke to ESPN earlier today at the Combine and
it was a rapid fire between him and Laura Roughlege,
I think was the interviewer.

Speaker 17 (01:19:02):
And this is what it sounded like, Tames that are
interested in you here, what's the feedback that you've got done?

Speaker 6 (01:19:08):
I did?

Speaker 8 (01:19:08):
I did very very good in my meeting, So I'm
excited to know that.

Speaker 17 (01:19:13):
What do you find these teams about the possibility of
playing on both sides of the ball?

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
A couple of teams they took me in as receiver
and a couple of teams took me in as DV.
So I think it's still up in the air.

Speaker 17 (01:19:23):
What was the feedback you got from teams looking at
you as a receiver?

Speaker 8 (01:19:27):
It's a lot of things I need to work on
on both both sides of the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
So what do you think you need to work on most?

Speaker 8 (01:19:34):
It's always you always work on technique, so I definitely
need to work on technique. And it's a couple more
small things.

Speaker 17 (01:19:39):
And then what do you think about the potential of
being an NFL player who plays both wide receiver in dB?
How important is that for you?

Speaker 8 (01:19:47):
That's super important to me. You know, I've been doing
it my whole life, so I would like for them
to let me give me the opportunity to do it again.

Speaker 17 (01:19:52):
There's a lot of conversation about you potentially the number
one overall pick. How do you manage all of that
as you go through this process.

Speaker 8 (01:19:58):
I kind of don't look at us if I just
look at fishing all day, so.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
What do you see on fishing?

Speaker 8 (01:20:04):
I just see people catching fish. I can't wait to
get back home and catch me some fish.

Speaker 6 (01:20:07):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
He gotta love that. You gotta love a guy who
he's not concerned about any of this other stuff. He's
not concerned about going number one. He's not concerned about
where he's going to play or what position he'll play.
He's concerned about fishing man. So then you think about, okay,
well where's the best fishing spot of the teams who
have high draft picks. Because the Jacksonville Jaguars trade up

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for a fishing superstar, Travis Hunter, it makes sense that
he wants to play both ways. I understand it, and
I can get behind that. I understand that he wants
to do that, and it would make sense for a
team like I don't know, the New York Giants, for example,
to do something like that. The Giants next year are

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going to be awful again. They still don't have the
quarterback position figured out. They're continuing to just throw money
at certain issues on the defensive line and defense side
of the ball. So if you have a guy like
Hunter playing the number one media market in the world.
You have a potential to sell a bunch of jerseys,

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and you can make this kind of like a sideshow,
to be completely frank, because that's what it would be.
If you have him playing both ways. All you're doing
is you're looking for the media attention at that point.
You're not trying to win football games. You're not trying
to be competitive in the NFL. Because I know people
have continued to bring up Deon Sanders, well, Dion did
it well. Devin Hester was a kick return spet. It's

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a different league today. The players are faster and bigger
and stronger. And if Travis Hunter does want to try
to play both ways consistently, and we're not talking about, oh,
we have the offensive package for him, well in defensive sets,
the nickel will play him in a nickelback position, and
he truly wants to try to play both ways, he

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won't be able to, not because of stamina, but because
of body type. You don't have the ability, the physical
way to run that many miles in an NFL game
and still be able to hit guys and tackle guys.
I watched Travis Hunter in the Almable. I watched him
play BYU I watched him a lot this season. His

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heis and winning season at Colorado. There are some times
where yeah, he's right, there are some technique things that
do need to get cleaned up. Is he the best
defensive back in this year's draft, maybe you can make
the case for him. Is he the best wide receiver? No,
he's not the best wide receiver. So if you're drafting
him as high as you are, you're drafting him for

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the defensive back purpose and for the teams that need
a defensive back at dB. Yeah, he would fit that
need for sure. But in five ten years, are we
gonna be talking about him like we talk about I
don't know, Jalen Ramsey. Are gonna be talking to about
him like we talk about Sauce Gardner even out of Cincinnati.
I'm not entirely sold. I think that there's a lot

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to like about Hunter, for sure. His willingness to play
both sides of the ball first and foremost, a guy
who's willing to put his body on the line for
his team, and a guy whose teammates absolutely adore him.
All of that can be true. But if I'm trying
to win football games at the highest level, playing it
both ways is not the way to do that. That's

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not a recipe for success at this level of the game.
I would love to see it happen, but I'd also
love to have a time machine because that's what it
would take for him to be successful. It would have
to take him back into the nineties when yeah, the
guys are still athletic, for sure, but it wasn't what
we have now. In a world where you're having to
play defensive back on say a guy like DK Metcalf,

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and then turn around and play against that secondary that
the Seattle Seahawks have, You're not going to win those
battles consistently enough to make you an impact player. It's
just point blank period. We will wrap up the Craig
Way Show. UT women's basketball plays tonight. Andrew zim will
filling in for Craig Way on sports Radio AM thirteen

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