The Craig Way Show
Steve Sarkisian previews Saturday's game against UTSA
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Qualify Tenants, check. Rent Collection, check. Maintenance Coordination, you got it. Go to runnerswarehouse.com for a free rental analysis to find out how much your home can rent for. Or call 303-974-9444, because from now on, the only thing you need on your to-do list is to call runners warehouse. So I figured today fire me up Friday, it was announced sometime this week that Kendrick Lamar will be the halftime announcer or halftime announcer. Good Lord, halftime music, act for Super Bowl, 530, whatever we're at right now. So figured, you know, let's come back with a little K-DOT, Kendrick Lamar, that I know will get my generation excited. Okay. Fair enough. Very good. All right, as we mentioned, Texas is getting ready for UTSA and yes, yes, they are getting ready for UTSA. I think that's the importance of taking every opponent seriously and understanding the importance of preparation and the mental mindset. Well, don't, you don't have to hear me tell you about it. This is from last night's or yesterday afternoons airing of Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sartre and we, as I mentioned, bring you one portion of that show on Friday, the segment where we talk about the opponent to have it at its freshest time. And so we have that. This was, again, a show that we record on Wednesdays at Pluckers, their 22-22 Rio Grande. They're the West Campus location. And then the show itself airs on Thursdays, normally it's seven o'clock, but because we had a round Rock Express game last night, it aired at five o'clock this afternoon. So in case you missed it or if you need review, this was the second of the program when we take a look at the opponents as we brought to the program last night talking about UTSA. The UTSA Road Runners come in and you made a point in the news conference on Monday to talk about some of the most dangerous teams in football or the ones that come in wounded. And in this case, in talking to Coach Trailer yesterday, also having to get past the shock at all of what happened. Because I don't think anybody expected what happened to them when they lost in the lopsided fashion. It was a good Texas state team, but to lose by that margin and just to have it get away from them in the first half, and you've discussed how that's a dangerous team coming in. Very dangerous team. I think that a ton of respect for Coach Trailer and the job that he's done there and the pride that they have in their program and prideful teams don't like it and beat the way they got beat. They've won a lot of football games the last four or five years. And so for that game to go the way that it went last week in Texas State kind of got on a roll and made some big plays on both sides of the ball, that's when teams are dangerous. When they're kind of backed into a corner and they got nowhere else to go but to fight back, that's what we have to get ourselves ready for this week, that we're going to get the best version of the UTSA Road Runners. We're going to get their best schemes. We're going to get the most physical, the most speed they have. And we have to make sure and ensure that they get our best shot too because that's what's going to be needed. Well, to your point, under Coach Trailer, they're 40 and 15 in the four prior seasons plus the first two games of this year. So it's a team that's had a lot of discipline and still and also some playmakers. They've definitely have had playmakers over the years and this year is not a whole lot different. Their wide outs can go make plays on the ball. They've got a tight end who I feel like has been there. He's like they're Jake Majors, you know, you guys been there forever. Then he's a lot of the glue of what they do and they're multiple personnel groupings and similar to us in that fashion, they'll get in some 12, get in some 11 and the last name of the quarterback makes sense to a lot of people too, all in the count. So they've got a good program, they've got a really veteran defense with some veteran players up front on the interior defensive line. They've added some nice players off the edge. I think they're getting a couple of players back. So this is a don't let the record fool yet, don't let the helmet fool you, this is a good football team. Safe to say that you've probably been asked more than once about Trae Moore going up against his former school. Yeah. Yeah. Unique, I think, but unique, but yet almost like this is going to start to become the norm. Yeah. And I'm really, you know, I'm so happy for Trae because I think, you know, he made this move for opportunities like last week, right, to go to Michigan and to have to play a physical brand of football. And you know, a lot of times people look at edge players and they think where are the sacks and this and that. But what he's putting on Tate and the way he played the run, the way he affected the quarterback, not all the times, maybe, you know, getting the sack against power for opponent, you know, in that, in that arena, that's creating value for himself, but he's also creating value for us. We've got a quality player, a great individual that, you know, I know had a great career at UTSA and, and, you know, we get to reap the benefits of that right now. So that's long, Warren's head coach, Steve Sarkisian in talking about, uh, Trae Moore and talking about UTSA and getting ready for this matchup with the road runner, second meeting all the time between the two Texas one, two years ago, the first meeting. And that was the game you may remember where UTSA actually jumped to a 17, seven lead. They led the game, 17, seven in the second quarter. Sark mentioned this, I think yesterday in the media briefing, um, media availability, the, the Zoom availability, he said, we had a hard time getting going and he said, and then, uh, getting the running game going. He said, and then Bijon got, Bijon got going, um, and that was, that was a big part of turning that game around from down 17, seven in the second quarter. They caught him by halftime at 17. I think they ended up being them 41 20. I believe it was a final score on that thing. I was, I was in DCR for, for that game watching. That was a, uh, a real tough first half. It was, it was a really weird game. And I think what really flipped it was a shot a Baron who had a, had a pick six and a half. I mean, Texas got some momentum when the half time holding on the lead and in the second half, uh, kind of put it on, but a lot different, a much different UTSA team this season and Jeff trailer who you spoke to earlier on, on the show earlier, earlier this week talked about, you know, in that game, we, we had the, we had returning quarterback and returning center and returning punter and we don't have that this year. Texas does. And the way he talked about it just kind of made me believe that, okay, uh, he still figure out who this UTSA team is. Meanwhile, it feels, it feels like Texas out of last week knows exactly who they are. Yeah. Um, and of course they do have a new punter the long ones doing Michael Kern, the freshman, but everybody else is a known commodity. As you mentioned, Bert Auburn, the kicker, a preseason, uh, all SEC kicker, Will Stone, good kickoff man, Lance St. Louis, the deep snapper again. And it's funny, you know, we just aired that segment from long one weekly, but also during the show, uh, SARC's football managers came to the show. So they were sitting, they were sitting in the back and, uh, SARC was really pumped up about those guys showing up and they submitted questions because when you come to the show, you have the opportunity to submit questions. What you do, there's these, you know, big white index cards, um, I think the five by seven inches, whatever. And you just write down what's your question? Now obviously we hope that it's an intelligent question, something like that if it isn't, it's not going to get asked. But if you, uh, ask a question of some intelligence, then, um, you know, then, then we'll, we'll do our best to try to work it in as many questions as we get, but those managers asked questions and one of the questions they asked was, who would win in a seven on seven game? And it was the equipment guys or the specialists, meaning the kickers and punters and stuff like who would win a seven on seven game. And SARC said, I, I will tell you, he said, Will Stone's a heck of an athlete, um, and, and Michael Kern and Lansing Lewis and Bert Arman, he said, those guys are good. He said, but probably he would go with the managers in that case. Now, I don't know if he just said it because they were there and he, you know, wanted them to feel good about it, but, uh, but he, he seemed convinced enough about it that it was going to happen that way. So, um, so, uh, we'll, we'll see, uh, how it goes for Texas tomorrow evening against UTSA and it would be very easy for folks to draw the conclusion that because of the lofty betting line and excess of 30 points that, that, uh, Texas is going to have a cakewalk and say, and it may very well turn out to be that way, but, uh, there have been surprises as well. And SARC has talked about wanting to see the maturity level of his football team in terms of the preparation, the retention to the tail, uh, the not taking anything lightly and he was encouraged by everything he saw during the course of the week, uh, what they had done. So, uh, that's, you know, that's important because UTSA is definitely a better football team than they showed last week in getting blown out in San Marcos by Texas state. Uh, but Andy Everett also pointed out they jumped out, I think it was a 21-nothing lead on Kennesaw State and, uh, 21-nothing lead against Kennesaw State, uh, and, uh, and then you looked up in the fourth quarter, it's 21-16. UTSA did score one final touchdown and went it by 12, but it was just a 28-16 ballgame in that. And here's another oddity too for folks who like these, these weird things that come out. The, the roadrunners of UTSA will set a Division 1 FPS record this year by playing every Division 1 or FBS, uh, FCS, uh, FBS or FCS team that has its mascot, the Owls. They, huh, they start off with Kennesaw State. They play Rice, who's a conference opponent. They play Temple, who's a conference opponent and who am I leaving out? We've got four Owls, four sets of Owls on the schedule this, this year, and the fourth one, I want to make sure I don't misspeak, I want to make sure I pull this up, uh, correctly. Here it is. The fourth set of Owls, that UTSA will face, will be, uh, well, I'm looking at it and not seeing it. I thought it was. Oh, Florida Atlantic. How can I forget? Tom Irvin. Yeah. That's it. How about this, uh, Florida Atlantic, uh, Temple and Rice are all Owls. They are also all conference schools. They're all in the American athletic conference. So in addition, they play an FCS opponent who they already defeated, Kennesaw State. So four sets of Owls. It's the way that that's going to go. Um, anyway, there's apropos of very little, but that's a, uh, that's one oddity of the schedule to be the first FBS team to play four sets of Owls in the same season. All right. Coming up, maybe that should be inconceivable. I don't know. But we do have our regular inconceivable. We have a full plate on that coming up next when we continue on sports radio AM 13 under the zone and the IR radio app. This iHeartRadio station is brought to you by vitamin water. 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