The Craig Way Show
Sark on the development of Arch Manning
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On a Thursday afternoon, getting closer to the weekend. There is football tonight. High school football, college football. One week away from the start of the NFL. In speaking of the college football, Longhorns head coach, Steve Sarkisian, had his Thursday media availability today. And one of the players he was asked about was the corner, Derek Williams, and how his fall camp has gone. Yeah, I mean, Derek is a really versatile player. He's a guy that had a nice freshman year for us last year. He creates a lot of position flexibility for us, because although he plays safety, he really has the coverage skills of a corner. He's definitely an impactful player for us on special teams. He's rangey. He can run. He's got a high football IQ. So again, we expect him to have a nice season for us. Yeah, that's another one. Now, one of those curiosities that always comes up when you get ready for a season opener, the look at guys, a second team and even third team guys, especially if things go well, clearly. And that's a prerequisite. You have to have that go well to go deep into your bench. But Sarkis asked what he looks for when players who aren't in the starting rotation, get on the field. What's he looking for once he sees those guys on the field? And what are some of the things they can do to help give them a chance to move up the depth chart? Well, I think one, it's a it's a byproduct of practice and game. And there's, you know, are different. Some guys practice really well, they prepare really well, they play really well. That's the ideal formula for success in our book. You have other guys that can prepare really well, practice really well, and then don't perform well and maybe make some uncharacteristics in game. And then you have the other player that maybe isn't practicing great, but then you put them on the field and he plays pretty good. And so we're always trying to learn our players that way. And we have a lot of new players that we don't have all of that information on yet. And that's what games are for. And then if it is a player that is practicing great, preparing really great, but is making some uncharacteristic errors in game, well, now we're getting into maybe some sports psychology stuff that that's an area where we can help him throughout the weekend ready for a ball game. So everybody's different. We're looking for all those things and we're looking for the guys that are comfortable playing in that arena. For some guys, it's it's easy to play football when no one's watching. It's a little bit more difficult to play when there's 100,000 people in the stands and millions watching on television. And and when you get caught up in that, that a lot of times causes some of those uncharacteristic errors. When you just focus on 53 and a third wide 100 yards long, right? The hashes are the hashes and you play the plays. Generally, you're better served when you can stay in that frame of mind and not get too emotional with it. Okay. All right. On the quarterback's edge, right? No, no, not a question about Quinn, how the question about Quinn, yours. Question about archmanning and also Trey Owens, the backups. What has he seen in terms of their development as they get ready to back up when you were going into the season? Yeah, I would say for arch, I'd probably say light years ahead of where it was last year was time, you know, his understanding of what we're trying to do offensively, the nuances of the scheme, the timing of certain throws, the protections, all those things. And I just think his overall comfort level and confidence is much higher than it was a year ago at this time and very comfortable if arch goes in the game that he'll go in and operate and operate at a high level. I've been impressed with Trey. You know, again, he's a true freshman and there's days when I'm sure he's like, can I just get coach Sark and coach Millie off my back? And there's other days where he does some great stuff, but that's a little bit of the life of a first year quarterback in our system. But I think the one thing we've learned is that when the lights come on, he performs, you know, he's performed really well for us in every scrimmage. He performed well in the spring game. And I think we've got a pretty good idea of the things that he does well. And so if his number is called, I think we feel comfortable with calling the stuff that would put him in a good position to have some success. So there's some thoughts from Steve Sarkeesian. We're going to hear more from some are obviously coming up top of the hour. Long or in weekly, our season premiere edition of it with Sark and we'll hear some from that tomorrow as well in specific, taking a look at the opponent, the Colorado State Rams. Now, to basketball, as I mentioned, we heard some last hour from Rodney Terry, the long-orn men's coach also had a media availability today and you heard him talking about the learning curve of a freshman like a trade Johnson. So he was asked about the challenge that exists for the construction of a roster with so many new players. You know, I think anytime you put the team together, you know, you're trying to, it's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle in terms of all the pieces have to kind of match up and they have to compliment one another. Once you're able to identify who's coming back, along with the guys that you recruit the first part of the year, now it's about putting the right guys on one another. I think for us, we had eight weeks till summer. And summer has become really a major time for you because you're fighting time when you're putting a team together in the roster together, like we all are right now in college athletics for one year and you've got to max that roster out for one year. You know, you've got to try to really instill in your guys over the course into some of the importance of developing chemistry off the court. We're gonna spend time on the court, but we have to have really good chemistry off the court. And I think for us, we don't try to force feed that. We try to let it happen organically. We try to have, you know, some older guys take some lead with making that happen in developing that chemistry off the court. I think, again, I always say that guys, the best teams are player led, you know, obviously as coaches, we're gonna do our part to put you in the best position and to be successful. But when you invest as players and as a team, when you guys all come together and your great teammates and you love being around one another, then that chemistry carries over on the court, just like with the staff, you know, you have to have great chemistry with your staff and you guys gonna see if you have great chemistry with your staff that bleeds over into your team. So vice versa. But but I think our guys have done a great job of that this summer. They spent a lot of time off the court together. We spent time on the floor together. We still have a lot more time. We need to spend here in the fall together on the court. But I like what we've done what we've done to this point right now. I think our guys got a chance to get for me with each other a little bit this summer. And, you know, I like, I like what we all right now with that process. So. Yeah, so that's the process getting through that process. And that means establishing the chemistry they want. Does he have a specific example of the chemistry that he's seen so far from this team? Well, I think again, when you say something happens organically, you know, I know for us, you take it, you know, you take it for, you know, you may even take it lightly in terms of guys organizing things themselves, you know, and I know for us, I know our guys had a couple activities this summer that they did themselves. Unbeknownst to us, you know, that they we're gonna go out to the lake when it's been time out on the lake, you know, hey, at the end of the summer, it's so and so is birthday. We're all gonna meet up and we're gonna, you know, he's gonna have his birthday in Vegas. You know, that's again, guys don't do that when they have a chance to go somewhere else and or even for that matter, go home, but they're gonna go and still spend more time with each other together and stuff. So that, you know, that that opens your eyes in terms of these guys like being around each other. They like each other as a group. And that's gonna give us us a chance to be successful with the team. One more, were you invited to the Vegas trip? I wasn't invited to that Vegas trip, so I kind of fell left out a little bit with that. So I get enough of Vegas. I don't need to go out to Vegas. We'll be out in Vegas here in the first quarter of the year. So that's true. Season openers in Las Vegas on November 4th against the Ohio State. There for the one more question for Rodney Terry to get to here and we'll have some more of it tomorrow for you because it was a nice lengthy zoom media session. But here's one more. We've all been so accustomed to seeing Brock hunting him with the program. I mean, after all, they're six years, six years. So the question is Brock really gone? You know what, Brock did not leave him. I'm not mistaken. He left at the very tail end of July 1st. I believe it's 1st of August. He was still in the gym working out with our guys and preparing himself for his first professional season. But yeah, it's a little different not having Brock around. I think even for Brock, I think it was different for him not to be a part of the team this summer. And sometimes guys here at Over and Over, they hear Coach saying, "Well, you're gonna miss this now when it's done." And I think he sure went through some of that. He may not. He may not want to own up to it a little bit, but I think so. I mean, he's showing up every day just like he was still here and with no one telling him to do that. But yeah, we miss having O'Brock around. It'll be a different world. It's gonna be a different world. The SEC is going to be a different world with Longhorn basketball without Brock hunting him. We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the program on Sports Radio EM-13 under the zone. You slept through your alarm, missed the train, and your breakfast sandwich. Cool. 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