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TexAgs Live - GO Hour with Nuño & Ryan Brauninger + Charean Williams : 08.04.26
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The Go Hour with Nuño and Ryan Brauninger, today they talk about how Lane Kiffin will adjust to running a higher profile sports program at LSU + Sports Writer and former Aggie Charean Williams joins the show to talk about NFL training camps and the...
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Well, well, well. Another day of Brian Broninger here on the Go hour, presented by the warehouse at CC Creations. It is Tech Sags Live. Hello, Bronnie. Good morning, sir.
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B
Good morning, David. I have a question. When you go places with your kids, probably not now with the twins because they're old and grown and they're probably past this phase of their life, but maybe your daughters, do they call you Cringe?
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No.
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No, never.
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I'm sure there's been a time or two, but no, for the most part, no.
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I sat next to. They're very well next to them a couple of pkos ago.
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A
Yep. The girls or the boys?
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B
The girls. Okay. And while you were on stage attempting to do stand up routine, your standup routine, which often starts at 8 o' clock Monday through Friday on this radio show.
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It's actually my partner who does more of it.
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B
Olen's like, more slapstick comedy and, you know, perhaps walk the line of the fcc. You are very much. I get it. My dad was this way, very much like dad humor, cringe humor. And Isla, on one of the. One of your jokes, she like, turned and looked at Annelise and was, oh, she does that.
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If anyone's gonna do it, it's Isla. Yeah, for sure.
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She made this, like, face at her. Like, did dad really just do that? I'm so embarrassed.
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It happens to all of us. It'll happen to you.
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B
I can't wait.
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Yeah. Like, I used to listen to my brother do dad jokes. I'm like, it'll never be me. And the other day the kids told me, go, dad. You do a lot of dad jokes.
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B
Just lean into it. Right?
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I am who I am.
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B
You know what? But Quinn Buchanan's dad jokes were probably a lot different than Christian and Cruz Nunoz.
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Yeah, they're a little different. A little different. I want to start a topic based on something Paul Feinbaum said. Okay. He says it's college football playoffs are a minimum for Lane Kiffin this year. And I used to not think that way, but I was talked into it. And then the follow up to that is, who else? Who else in the sec, Bare minimum expectation to make the college football playoffs is A and M in that category. We can discuss.
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Well, makes me think of the conversation that I saw on social media yesterday between Brandon Walker and Josh Pate about Alabama and Kaylin DeBoer. And they were talking about what 8 and 4 means at Alabama this year. And Brandon Walker was of the opinion that that would get Kaylin DeBoer fired and Josh Pate was like, under no circumstances Alabama firing Caleb. And I think that people, we talked about this a little bit yesterday. I think people view Caleb DeBoer through this lens of Nick Saban.
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Yeah.
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Unfairly. And it goes back to the old saying, you never want to be the guy that follows the guy.
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Yeah.
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And that's what Calum DeBoer did. And nobody was going to be able to maintain what Nick Saban had done at Alabama. But I also think that's crazy that if they would fire him after not, you know, after making the playoffs and winning a game last year, if they go 8 and 4 and don't make it with a huge question mark at the sports most important position, I think that's way beyond the pale of rational.
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And when I asked this question, I'm not saying like fireball. I'm just saying in general, the, the bare minimum expectations are a playoff or it's a bad year. I think Alabama does fall into that category though.
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Yeah. I would think that they would say, oh, it's a disappointing season if we don't make the playoff. I think that if you phrase your question like that, I think we have a little bit more of a genuine discussion about it because I think for coaching expectations for like Lane Kiffin, if Paul Feinbaum said that the minimum expectation is that LSU makes the playoffs, boy, they had to get a lot of stuff right in this offseason with the amount of player movement that they had. And regardless of whether you think those players are talented or not, we won't know until the games are being played. We also don't know. I mean, again, like my brain always fires in the baseball realm.
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Yeah.
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We just saw Jay Johnson do it. Tried to replace a bunch of guys out of the transfer portal that were from varying levels of program, whether it be like a mid major or coming in from a P4 school. And it didn't work out. And they had the number one rated transfer portal class going into the last baseball season. And LSU had a really highly regarded football transfer portal class. But you don't know. Like Sam Levitt, you don't know. You don't know. I think he's a good player.
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That's conventional thinking. That's like the absolute like, right way to think about it. The way I believe it was Jordan Rogers who said this on their show. Maybe Nick can look it up. Was Lane Kiffin. This is what he does. He takes a brand new roster every year and makes them playoff worthy. Last year was a new roster. The year before that was a new Roster, that's what he does. So if he leaves Ole Miss with less resources and gets everything in the world that he wants at lsu, the expectation is this team should be in the playoffs year one. That's how Jordan Rogers described it. I didn't listen to all of fine bombs thing, but I understand that thinking. Like, hey, hey, you got to the semi, your team got to the semifinals without you with the roster you made at Ole Miss, with really your second choice at quarterback, you have everything you want here and more. This is lsu. We expect the playoffs every year. Like, for Coach Elko, of course, it's a disappointment if they don't make the playoffs. That's every year, right? If you were one of the big spenders in college football, it's a disappointment. I don't think it's the bare minimum. I think the bare minimum that people would be, you know, it was a good year. Is nine and three.
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Yeah, nine and three. That would at least get you in the discussion for the playoff when you lose those three games would obviously play a big factor in that. But to go back to your point about LSU and Lane Kiffin, that's a valid point. If Jordan Rodgers, I understand what he's saying there, but I would also turn it around and say, okay, like, if you've been running a business that has done well, and maybe it's a local business, maybe you're running a business that's successful in Bryan College Station, and then you go get headhunted by one of the big dogs, and maybe you're in energy or oil and gas, whatever, and one of the big dog in Houston says, all right, we want you to run our company. Are your practices and methods the way that you ran them in Bryan College Station going to be able to be. Is that those same practices going to make you efficient on a bigger, much larger scale? Just because you have more stuff, that doesn't mean you know how to use it all.
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No.
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Whereas, like Mike Elko, one of the things that made me bullish about him leaving Duke and coming to Texas A and M was like, I know the guy. Like, I know how savvy he is. I know how smart he is. I know how kind of regimented he is to his organizational structure and how things are supposed to work. I thought if you give that guy these facilities, these resources, he could turn it into something. I don't know enough about Lane Kiffin to say that yes, he can, or. Or, no, he can't, but it is to your, like, on your side of the ledger or Jordan Rogers side of the ledger, it's understandable. Like, oh, he's done it at a lower level. Now you're giving him even more. It makes sense. But I would also go, that depends on the human being that's making those decisions.
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But let's again, realize who. Whose expectations are we talking about? There are same people that are probably hiring folks that are like, you know what? We need to give him two years to develop his system, who, whatever coach it is. And then there's fans. And I think even fans at A and M at all places look at things differently. So when we talk about expectations, I think talk show host and fan expectations are probably different than decision.
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I think some that sometimes they're one and the same. They're melded together. And I think there are a lot of people that sit in front of microphones across the country each and every week, especially as we get into football season, that are passion merchants. And they. And they. They live off of the highs and lows of the emotions of fans. Yep. And we try not to do that. But there are people in the country that make a good living by doing that. I've gotten in really into soccer and some soccer podcasts. That's a massive deal in Europe and in England is you just have these fans that start these channels, these fan channels that they make, all of their clicks, all of their views come on being passionate merchants off the fans, like, whatever people are angry about, they're going to highlight it and accentuate it to make it bigger and as more motion as possible. For here, though, like for LSU or for Texas A and M, I think, well, those are two different camps, but you're looking at an A and M fan base right now that's been very pleased with how the football program has progressed. And I think Mike Elko's got a ton of goodwill built up. So outside of absolutely tanking this year, I think people are going to go, he's still the right guy for the job, without question.
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Oh, outside of tanking? Yes. I even think, like a year that we would be like, what the heck happened? Just for hypotheticals, if they went 7 and 5, but there was a reason why they went 7 and 5. Somebody gets hurt, whatever. Okay. Just like for Lane Kiffin, I don't think he's going to lose his job if they make the playoffs or not, but if Sam Levitt is not good or he gets hurt, I think there's going to be a different way that we look at that season for them.
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Yeah.
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But if A and M Had a rough year because of whatever reason, I think people are going to be like, all right, next year, reset. It's a reload. They had new quarterback. Excuse me, new offensive line, new defensive line. Let's see what it looks like next year. He has built up that cachet. Caleb DeBoer, different situation, doesn't have that cachet. If he did what he did at Alabama, at. Give me a school, Arkansas, maybe throwing a parade for him.
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Sure.
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Well, and another thing with Lane Kiffin is he's built up this bravado around him in Oxford, Mississippi. What? How, like, how. How strong can those pillars that he's. He's put up around himself as a human being? How strong are they in the face of real pressure in Baton Rouge, where it only ratchets up, you know, ten times? We'll see. Like, there's also that element to. This is like Lane Kiff. And this is. You've never had more eyeballs on you than now. And most people would say that's what he lives for. That's why he handled himself the way he did during the Ole Miss exit. Every time he gets a chance to be on television, every time he gets a chance to be in front of a microphone, he says something that makes you believe this is how he wants to operate kind of on the borderline head coach troll and get everybody talking about him and all the eyeballs. But those people across the Sabine river, it's different. It is different. And so how does he. Let's say they. They start three and three. What does that feel like? What does that sound like? And how does he combat that with so many eyeballs on him?
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So.
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And I also think it's one of the more fascinating. LSU is fascinating this year.
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Yeah.
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I also think Oklahoma is fascinating because Oklahoma is getting a lot of love. And John Mateer has been, for the most part, around where Marcel Reed is being ranked in these preseason quarterback rankings in the sec, which I think is funny. But. And I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I got real questions about Oklahoma. The ability to put the ball in the end zone consistently, I think is going to be a major question mark, even if you believe their defense is really, really good. And I do, especially with Brent Venables. You got to go back. Think about the Houston Texans defense last year. People were calling them historically good. They lost five games in the regular season. Like, you've got to be able to put the ball in the end zone. So, like, Oklahoma, to me, is one of the more volatile teams, because if they have One turned ankle or one pulled hamstring at the wrong spot. I think they could really, really struggle.
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I want to go back to expectations for a moment before we get into 25 and 25. I think it depends on your history too. Right. Like we spoke about Alabama in soccer, a world that you're very familiar with. My team, if they don't make it to the final two or win at all, it's a disastrous year and people get fired. Arsenal had a great year this year. Right. For them and I think they have had a proud history as well for them. I wouldn't say it's the exact same kind of barometer, but getting into the final four of a Champions League is considered success.
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Well, there's be some people pissed this morning that were drawing comparisons to the English Premier League or La Liga team. No, no, but what I'm saying is for Arsenal right now, Mikel Arteta has been their coach for six years. They were patient with him and they let him build it the way he wants to build it. And they finally, they were second, second, second three years in a row. And people were getting upset and I'm like, man, you're this close. Like the guy is showing that he can put you in contention and he finally got over the hump last year. And so like I get this microwave society that we live in, the player movement makes you more viable to flip your roster and be competitive in year one. But I still think in terms of like, if you've got a guy that's really trying to implement a culture and the way things are supposed to go, like A and M does across the street right now, like Kaylin DeBoer is trying to do. Yeah, I think Kaylin DeBoer is trying to implement his culture. It's probably very different than Nick Saban, but I think you've got to allow that. Unless. Unless the practices of said culture are completely non congruent with winning. Like you allow guys to show up late, you don't make them do stuff like that's not a culture. But if that's kind of what you're harvesting, then yeah, you can probably make a move before you let the guy really settle in. But I would like to. I think Kalyn DeBoer is pretty good. I'm not convinced that he is going to win a championship at Alabama, but I think he can keep them in contention to do so.
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Sometimes he can be really good and it's just not the right place for you for whatever reason, timing the people around you and. But they did Just give him an extension. So I don't think he's going anywhere, regardless.
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Well, I think the extension is. They can get out of it. It's not like stone cold lead pipe. He's here for a long time. I think there was some, some writing in there that can get them out if they need to get out of it. But you look around around the league and I would say that the more intriguing, some of the more intriguing programs, especially with playoff expectations, I wouldn't have LSU there right now.
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Yeah. By the way, this is the Go hour presented by the warehouse at CC Creations here in the Rollo Insurance studio. It's time for 25 and 25 presented by Paragon Financial Advisors and Aggie owned independent fee only fiduciary serving families and business owners nationwide. Visit paragon-adv.com Number 19, ladies and gentlemen,
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is Trevon Ball, transfer offensive lineman out of South Carolina, who when the Aggies were going through their options in the transfer portal. I remember making phone calls about Trovon Ball whenever we heard that A and M had some momentum. And I actually talked to an NFL scout that had seen South Carolina play a few times and then obviously was watching some of their guys in preparation for the NFL draft. And so he had poured over the tape for South Carolina offensively and he said this, this has come from a, from a guy that really knows football that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. He's like, if you believe that Adam Cushing is really good at his job, and why wouldn't we believe that based off the evidence that we have? If you believe that Adam Cushing is really good at his job, then Trovon Ball is a guy that you should get excited about because there are attributes on tape. And the guy walks in our office, physically, he looks like a million bucks, like just big, strong dude. And there's stuff on tape that makes you excited. And he's just playing with some inconsistencies in his game at South Carolina. Could that have been a product of the environment or the coaching? Who knows? But all I know is that if you get him or getting him under the same roof as Adam Cushing with Mike Elko, I think could lead to his best football and put him in a position to be not highly sought after, but at least on the NFL radar, if he plays well this year and so much like Mark Nabu yesterday, I think all of these guys, the offensive lineman, each and every one of them are going to be massively important for this Texas A and M football team because of the turnover that they experienced at the position.
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We'll have a lot more on Trevon Ball when Billy joins us here later on in the program. If you want to be a part of the conversation this morning, multiple ways to do it, you can call us up on the Buffy's Catering and Bartending Hotline, that number, 979-693-1150. Or you can text that number on the Catalyst. Pure performance energy. Text line 9796931150 we go around the room, we go left, the right, we go behind the glass through the television. We say hi to Nick Savage. Nick, good morning, buddy. Howdy.
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Good morning, y'. All.
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How are you? I'm good. And Bronnie, this is maybe you can help me fill in some blanks here. But no MLB trade deadline yesterday came and went. A few Aggies got dealt. AJ Minner got traded from the Mets to the Twins a little bit earlier before the deadline yesterday. And in a deal between the Giants and the Yankees, Kaden Kent got dealt to the San Francisco Giants. So he's already changing teams there. But I think that's it in terms
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of Brooks Rayleigh got traded, got traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. Really quick Brooks Raley story. Great dude. He's only like a year younger than me, so it makes me feel I'm holding on to whatever youth I have left. I'm not fully unk until everybody that I grew up with and played against is out of Major League Baseball and retired. But Brooks Raley, 38, 39 years old, still playing. And whenever I moved here to College Station to get my master's degree and started coaching with 12 baseball, Brooks Raley was coaching with us kind of in the off season. Brooks Raley got traded yesterday for a kid named John Spikerman who's from Montgomery and played at Oklahoma against Texas A and m in that 2022 College World Series semifinal. John Spikerman was on that Oklahoma team. He was a lifelong 12 player as well. So yesterday we had Brooks Raley get traded, a former 12 coach for a former 12 player. And John Spikerman, he was part of that swap deal with the Phillies in the New York Mets. So it was a very, very much a first time deal for us as an organization. But yeah, Brooks Raley, Kaden Kent and AJ Minner all get dealt at the deadline.
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All right, let's go to the Angry Elephant News and Social Center. Carson Stein called in from the bullpen. What's up, buddy?
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Morning.
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How are you guys doing today? Good. Buddy, what's going on with you? Nothing much.
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I just wanted to get into.
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We got a text message about that first topic you guys were talking about from Joe Orsak. He says, I believe two coaches that
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absolutely have to make the playoffs are
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not only Lane Kiffin, but Steve Sarkeesian. Oh yeah, he's got the boy prodigy in Texas and all the money in the world behind him.
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There's no excuse for him not to
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make it this year if they didn't make the playoffs. He's not getting fired Broning, but that go.
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The Heat goes way up.
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The Heat goes way, way, way up for sure.
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And that's where maybe Kaylin DeBoer is in the same seat. If they don't make the playoff, the heat goes way up.
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But if you go two years in the. I don't care what coach you are. Well, hear me out. If you go multiple years back to back years, not making the playoffs, if you're in the SEC in the upper tier, I believe the Heat goes way up.
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So how much time does John Sumrall get to make the playoffs?
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Depending on the situation. He's just. I think he gets at least two or three years to develop his program. I think it depends on what step. Let's say established coaches in the sec.
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Okay.
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And when I say Heat, it goes back to where we're talking about. Huh? Drink. Ooh.
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See like putting a hard line on it is difficult. Like you can't be black and white with every discussion. There's nuance to all this, right? Like. But to say like John Sumrall, I think by year three they need to be very much in the discussion. They had such a long way to go.
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Let's.
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Let's talk about upper tier sec. Okay. If Hypo goes back to back years, not getting into the playoffs, does the Heat start going up?
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Yes. And I, but I don't know. Josh Hypo, they're a really interesting team this year too. But I get to your. Yes, you're correct there.
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If A and M went back to back years. Yes, it's hot. It's not like you're fired. It's just like, oh, people are just questioning. Same thing for Tennessee, A and M Oklahoma. They made it last year. But if they went back to back years and didn't make it, well, they're also.
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There's also talking about a 12 team playoff, right? What if that expands to 16 or even more? Then, then the discussion goes okay, like getting in the playoff, whatever. You got to win games. So even that's a moving target.
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All right.
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From the future.
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From the future on third.
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Actual story from the future, Nick.
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Yep. On Thursday. We have a big wig from Houston coming up. Works for a company that we might do TV on. Okay. He said, let's go to lunch. I'm going to highly suggest we go to 1775 because when I go out to lunch, I like to go to 1775. I don't go out often, as you know. And when I do, I like to go to 1775. So this fictional character that I made up that's actually coming on Thursday, we're going to go to 1775. If you're watching the show right now, they're open Thursday through Saturday, 11am until they're sold out. 8203 Raymond stops from Parkway in College Station. Call them up. 979-492-6241. It's 1775. Txbq.com the money machine. The money machine is open now. Let's go@sony1150.com or you can enter through the zone newsletter to win $5,000. Come on. We're back here on Tech Sags Live. Typically, we're hanging out over there in the holistic planning cool zone. We're here at the studio right now. We're at the studio desk. It's time for the knockout performer of the week brought to you by TKO Equipment. Rent, sell, lease or rent to buy TKO equipment, which is your trusted source for used and heavy equipment. Ron, do you have anybody you want to nominate or do you want me just to start throwing them out?
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Well, we kind of talked about the trade deadline. Trade deadline, guys, which I thought was really interesting and really cool. I would say Jace Lavalette, but the kind of run he's been on. And for the guardians in Lake county, for the captains and I know we've used Braden Montgomery. So I don't have a great answer for you.
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Right now I picked a couple Aggies that are pitching. Michael Waka on Friday had six strong innings on one run, five hits and no walk, seven strikeouts. It was a tough luck loss though. They lost, but I guess he had had some really rough stretches in between and. But he was doing really well there. So. Shout out to Michael Walker. Can I almost trade it by the way, where they talked about it?
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Can I just give a shout out then to Michael early for the summer he put together. We're getting ready to start a new semester and he's got his roster finalized with kind of waiting to see what happens with this five for five. And does Ethan Darden get another year of eligibility? Because I think that Ethan Darden would be another guy. They would bring back another left handed veteran out of the bullpen. But when you look at what they had to go do in the, in the transfer portal, what they were tasked with with replacing Graham at Copian and Sorrell and Bear offensively and even Jake Duer, I think that was going to be like, you're not going to replace them like for like, right. But you got, they got pretty close, man. Like, I don't know that this team's going to hit 120 homers this year. They might. But to go out and get Nate Savoy and Jack Bell and Lane Arroyos and Alec Blair and Tyler Minick and Dylan Schlegel, like they went a long way to trying to at least replicate what they've done so well offensively. But where they had to go and make the biggest impact was on the pitching side. And they completely flipped and overhauled the pitching staff to the point where you're looking at it now and getting Clayton Fresh corn back is a massive part of this. But you're looking at the pitching staff here on August 4th way ahead of really anything officially happening. But you're looking at it and going, okay, that's clearly better. That's clearly better. And if they're healthy, if all of these guys that missed last year are coming back are going to be a full go, then you're looking at probably a top five or six pitching staff in the entire sec. It's a huge jump from one to another.
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And then offensively it'll look different obviously with all that pop leading. So how do you think they look offensively?
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I still think that they're going to have some thunder and you go, you got to have development out of Nico Jorian and Boston Kelner and we don't even know what the incoming freshmen are going to be what do like veterans now and Blake Benderup and Terence Keel bring you. But you could sit there and you could go through and make a lineup that has no freshman impacting it, which inevitably will happen with the amount, the quality of players that they brought in and how they navigated the draft. But you can make a lineup that you're going to go, okay, like that, that'll play in this league, like big time play. Key X factor for me with what they're going to do next year is the health of Tyler Minick, the transfer from UConn. He's had two surgeries on his shoulder since the end of the season, and his numbers took a dip in 2026 after being one of the best hitters in the country in 2025. Do those surgeries get him back to his old self? Because if they do, you're looking at one of the bigger impact bats out of the transfer portal that nobody talked about. Michael early went completely under the radar to recruit the kid. He went completely under the radar to get him on campus for his visit. And then whenever he committed and nobody knew about it and every I talked to a scout, an American League scout and a National League scout about the kid. And if he's healthy, he is going to hit right in the middle of that order. And it will. It would make A and M one of the premier offenses in the league.
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I think it's kind of hilarious just hearing it out loud, you saying TK And Blake Benderup is veterans. Because I mean, Benderup's been here for a while, but in my head I still think of them as the young players. And now TK Is entering his third year. Third year.
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And Bendy's in his fifth.
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Fifth. Right.
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And I'm going to tell you this. If Blake Benderup had gone onto the open market in the transfer portal, I bet a SEC or a Big 12 team probably would have gone on him because his OPS last year was over 1100 in above 80 at bats. So you just got a lot of fall ball to do. But I'm excited about this roster. And if you were grading Michael early summer from roster additions and talent acquisition to also coaching acquisition.
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Absolutely.
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You'd have to give him an A. Yep.
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Give it to me. Give it to me. The Louis Bellina show.
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It's awesome. The Louis Balina show where impossible is not a fact. That's impossible. Listen in weekdays 11 to 2 in the zone. We're back here on Tech Sags live here on the Go hour presented by the warehouse at CC Creations. Let's go to the Bupes catering bartending hotline, joined by our dear friend Shereen Williams of Pro Football Talk, the Aggie hall of Famer. Sherene Good morning. How are you?
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I'm fantastic. How are you guys doing today?
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Doing great, doing great. Let's start off with a little bit. Well, fall camp starts here tomorrow, so we're excited about that. But I know training camps have already started around the country. Devon a chain. He's got some big aspirations this year, doesn't he?
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He does. He wants to win the rushing title. He finished fifth last season, a little over 1300 yards his first thousand yard rushing season. Got paid handsomely in the offseason. Hopefully Texas A and M sees some of that money. But he, he wants to win the rushing title and I think it's a good goal to have. You know, my boss texted, you know, we put stuff on the text string, you know, I'm getting. And I said I'm getting. Devon, 18, wants to win the rush title. He said, I really wish guys would focus on team goals. Well, number one, if he's having a good rushing year, that probably means that the Dolphins have probably maybe had a had a better year than expected. But number two, they're not very good and they're not going to win very many games. And it's just like Miles last season having the sack title late in the year. And that's what he said. What did the sack title get the Browns? Well, at least it got them something at the end of the year that they were playing for late in the year, like people watched the Browns, were interested in the Browns, wanted to see what Miles was going to do. There was no other reason to watch the Browns. So I think that's what it does, if it does anything. But yeah, he has a chance to win the rushing title. The Dolphins aren't very good. They probably aren't going to go very far. But you know what that's going to mean. More carries for him, hopefully. And their offensive line is not horrendous. They have the best center in football, one of the best centers in football. I guess you could argue that Creed Humphrey is as good or better, but one of the top two centers in football. I think he's got a chance to do it this season. It's going to be fun to watch.
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Shereen, a lot of Aggies in new places this year. Which one has got your attention most? Is it Miles? Is it Mike Evans? Christian Kirk was on the move. Who you think is the most intriguing of these former Aggies in new homes?
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I think it's probably the two you mentioned. Obviously, Miles going to the Rams is exciting for the Rams. You know, I think it makes them the best team in the NFL if they weren't already. If Matthew Stafford stays healthy and then Aaron Donald's likely going to come back and join that. I just think it's going to be a lot of fun to watch Miles and Aaron Donald, and I think Miles might have even more sacks than he did last season when he set the NFL record. Just because Aaron Donald is going to take some of those double teams away. He's just playing on a really good team, a really good defense, and I think that's only going to make him better. He's not going to be the focal point. And so. Well, maybe he is still going to be the focal point, but he's not going to be the only focal point on that defense. So he's going to have more opportunities, I think, for some one on one. So I think that's exciting. And then Mike has a chance to survive his career in San Francisco. Now the problem for him has been staying healthy and he hasn't been able to do that. Last year at his first surgery, just had some soft tissue injuries and here we go again. He's out of camp with a little quad injury right now and they say it's not serious. But again, he just has a history of these recently. So it is a concern, I think, that, that he has another soft tissue injury so early in training camp. Got Time to heal. But he's got to make sure that thing completely heals. At his age. He is showing signs of his age just because of the injuries. But with that offense, with that quarterback, if he stays healthy, we keep saying if he stays healthy, but if he stays healthy, I just think it's going to be another thousand yard season. Last year he didn't get there because of the injuries. I think he's back there this season if he stays healthy.
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Sherene, compare the expectations in Dallas to the expectations in Houston this year. Because just in taking some social media stuff over the last couple of days since training camp has started makes me believe that there is a quiet confidence in Houston that they can get over the hump. Not necessarily win the super bowl, but the defense is going to be good enough to get them to the big stage. Is there that same amount of optimism in Dallas?
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Well, I think the difference is Houston quietly goes about its business. And you know, it's not the Cowboys, it's not America's team. Spotlight's not always on them and that's sometimes a good thing. They're going to be very good. That defense is going to be perhaps historically good. It's going to be better than last year. And I thought last year was just dominant. I mean, teams just couldn't score against them. It was impossible. So they're going to keep the Texans in every single game and it's going to come down to how C.J. stroud and that offense plays. They do have a better running game this season with David Montgomery and that's going to be key. I think they'll be better in the red zone. They were horrendous in the red zone last season. They'll be better at that. But the Cowboys to me are talking too much noise. You know, Olin asked me, I don't know, a week or two ago about the Cowboys talking all the super bowl hype and Zach wearing his Super Bowl T shirt showing up at the training camp and that. And I was fine with that. And now we're the greatest offense there is, you know, and talking a lot of other noise. Just get to work. Like, you know, filling a line from Jason Garrett. It is a process and it is a day to day thing and you have to go work and be good at it. You can't just talk the talk. And to back that up, you need to just get your mind focused on what the task is. And the task is getting better today. It's not about winning the super bowl in February. Right now you can't do that today. You can't win a Super bowl today. You can lose a Super bowl today, you can lose a Super bowl tomorrow. How your preparation is, getting ready for the season and being ready when that first game comes and then going game to game. So I just think they're talking a little too much, you know, pushing their chest out and flexing their muscles for a team that hasn't been to the NFC Championship game, much less the Super bowl, since 1995, which is the longest drought in the NFC. Having said all that, I think both of them have a chance to go to the Super Bowl. They're that good. Cowboys that good on offense, and is Texas that good on defense?
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Talking to Sherene Williams here on Texas Live. Sherene, I saw that Mark Cuban is interested in a minority stake in the Cowboys and that Jerry Jones might be even interested in it.
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Yeah, you know, it's become a way that teams can get more money as if they don't have enough. And a lot of teams have sold minority stakes in their teams. And Jerry is considering that with, I think Mark Cuban, he mentioned Mark Cuban's name. Cuban would be interested in that, I think. Does Cuban have enough money to do that? We'll see. It's going to be very, very expensive. He was talking about his equity firm. I don't think they would do that. I don't think the NFL would do that. It would have to be Mark Cuban himself doing that. So does he have enough money himself? I think he probably does, but it's going to be a lot. I mean, the Cowboys are the, you know, worth more than any other franchise in the world, sports wise. So it's going to be in the billions for sure. But it is a way for Gary to make more money. We know how much he loves money.
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Talking to Shereen Williams here on texags Live. Shereen, I wanted to get into Dan Campbell for a minute because I know your colleague Michael David Smith wrote a really cool article. Dan Campbell set a standard. If you don't meet it, you're not a Detroit Lion. And just I want you to talk a little bit about that. But also I feel like even though they do it differently, that's how Coach Elko's running Texas A and M. Yeah.
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And I think that's important. I think you do have to have the culture now. That doesn't mean that all your guys walk the line all the time. You do have to have some bad. I mean, look at what the Cowboys did under Jimmie Johnson, you know, John Roper falls asleep in a team meeting, and Jimmy immediately cuts him. Do you think he would have done that if Michael Herman had fallen asleep in a team meeting? Absolutely not. You know, he let him get away with all sorts of things. We know about the White House and the drugs and the prostitutes and everything else that they had going there. So it's not necessarily having all guys that walk the straight line all the time, but it is about a culture and an environment that breeds winning. And I think that it's something that Dan has done in Detroit, despite their lack of a history of winning. He's got that going, that mindset of, we can beat anybody. We're going to go out and do it. Now, I don't know if they're as good as they were two years ago. I think they've lost some parts offensively and defensively, that I don't know that they're quite as good as what they were two years ago when they had the best record in the nfc. But that culture of we can go out and beat anybody is going to serve them well if they're not quite as talented. Just working together and having that mindset of, you know, we can get this done together if we do it as a team. And I think you're right. I think that is what A and M is building under Mike Elko. I think they do have that. And I do think, you know, character is important. Again, you don't have to have all, you know, you can have some bad guys on your team as long as the culture is good and the good guys keep them in order and it's not distractions off the field. Like, you know, Terrell Owens, to me, was a distraction in the locker room for the Cowboys. When he was there, and I was in that locker room, I just think he was a distraction. So there are guys like that, and he's not necessarily a bad guy. He's not a bad guy off the field. But inside that culture, inside that locker room, that's what's important. Are you with me? Are you against me type mentality? And I think Elko is building that at A and M. I mean, you just see it, see that they're convinced that they can beat anybody.
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Sherene, in your estimation, or. I would like for you to tell me which of these three is the most important for Texas A and M going into this season, in your opinion, Marcel Reed's development, the offensive line or the defense?
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I think I'd have to go the offensive line. I mean, they. They just. They've got to get it done, they've got to give Marcel time. They've got to open holes for the running game. And I just, you know, I go back to the old Bill Parcell saying of if your offensive line and defensive line are good, you're going to have a good team. And so if the offensive line is good, I think A and M is going to have a good team. And if the offensive line is not good, I don't think the offense is going to be very good or mediocre or not as good as they need to be to get it done. You got to score points. You know, it's just like what we were talking about with the Texans. Like your defense can be all world, but you still have to score points at some point and especially against good teams. And A and M saw that late this season. That's Texas saw it in the playoffs. You got to be better on offense and you got to be better than what C.J. stroud and Marcel Reed were at the end of last season if you want to go win a championship.
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Shereen, last thing for you. Jadavian Clowney coming back to the Texans. Does he have any game left? I think he's been injured the last couple years. I know he played a little bit for the Cowboys, but does he have anything left?
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Yeah, he was their best pass rusher last year, had eight and a half sacks. He's still looking for his first double digits sack season, but eight and a half sacks. He's always been better against the run than the past. I just think he adds to that defense. I mean that's why I think they can be historically good. This season is all the depth that they have and the pass rush rotation and he's going to be in on rundowns. I just think they're going to be really fun to watch on defense. They're going to generate a lot of turnovers, frustration for the offense. I just think it's going to be great to watch. And you know, back to A and M, I just think that secondary at A and M is going to be fun to watch. You can get a generate a pass rush to go along with that. I think that secondary is so good. Maybe the best secondary A&M's ever had, which is saying a lot when you consider the Aaron Glenn and Ray Mickens and all those guys who played for that D Kevin Smith pup who played for that defense way back in the day of the Wrecking Crew. But if they can generate some pass rush, I think that secondary is going to be legendary.
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Sherene, great stuff as always. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon.
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Thank you, guys.
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All right, that's the great Sherene Williams on the Bupies catering and bartending hotline. We'll hit a break, come back with a final segment here on the Go Hour presented by the warehouse at CC Creations. Let's talk Heritage Films. Farming and ranching families think differently. They think about yesterday, they think about tomorrow because they think in these cycles. And if you have a ranch and you want to make sure that you pass on all the wisdom from your land to the next generation, reach out to Chance McLean and his team. They do these two hour documentaries for farming and ranching families. They do it for everybody. Really. Like that's not the only thing that they do. But this is going to be the wisdom that your grandkids and their grandkids are going to need. Let them capture it in a two hour documentary form that will be empowering for your entire family. You got a grandfather you want to tell his story or your grandmother, your wife, whoever it may be. Let Chance and his team take care of you at Heritage Films. The website is YourHeritageFilm.com YourHeritishFilm.com Call them up. 7138-9383-4171-3893-8341. It is Heritage Films. You can hear Aggie football online@radioagiland.com Final segment of the Go Hour. As a reminder, the final segment of the program is brought to you by Double Dave's. That's at 1050, but right now call our number, 1299693. 1150. We're going to hook you up with your choice of a dozen pepperoni rolls or a large one topping pizza from Double Dave's. They've been serving Aguiland since 1984 with your favorite pizza and of course those world famous pepperoni rolls. Reliable in house delivery, bringing piping hot goodness straight to your door. Just click on Doubledaves.com and your favorites are on there.
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Dude, did you see the eye contact there, Nick? This guy doesn't need to look at his prep. You read that. You looked right into the camera the entire time and got it spot on.
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It's muscle memory. I've done it 2,632 times.
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I don't know how you read any of the stuff on your rundown with it all being different colors. It makes different strokes for different folks. I'm not hating and I know you're sensitive. I'm not hating you can hate.
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No, you're not hosting the show. Right.
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So David will send me the rundowns whenever I'm guest hosting. And the color coordination, how your brain sees that and organizes it, I will never understand. He's got, like, half of a read is in yellow, the other half is in green. The next thing is in blue with pink writing.
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Well, let's color code for the family. I think Nick is more like you, but he has adopted my style. Correct. I've just gotten used to reading it. Yeah, but I delete a lot of stuff off the rundowns that you make for me. Light blue is video. Okay. So if somebody in the back needs to know what they need to cut, boom. Light blue. Yellow is a live spot. Green is not a live spot.
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Okay.
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Green is a spot. Segment. Spot.
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This all makes sense in your brain.
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Yeah. Any other colors that we just start scrolling.
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You got the rundown open?
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Yeah. At the end of the hour, I like to have red. Yeah.
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Boom.
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End of the hour. I think organization is the key to life.
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Oh, that's the key to life.
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What's the name of the lady who organizes? Mary Carmon. What's her name?
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You know what this is? This goes into. This all is like into that life optimization thing that you.
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You.
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And I'm an optimizer.
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Yes. There's definitely a community afternoon.
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You. Sorry, that's a dad joke. I did it again.
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That's pretty good.
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Yeah, but that's what I do. I like to optimize. I like to, like. I actually have a checklist to make sure that I do certain things in a day. Like. All right, I gotta have my. Nevermind.
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You know, there's rumors. There's rumors going around that probably true. The 1775 barbecue spot. Like, the only reason how y' all came to terms on a partnership is because they agreed to keep a scale out there for you only.
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Oh, I. I've traveled measure your food. Actually, if they sold a credit card scale, because I think they do, but I think it's super expensive that I could take with me to restaurants, I would do it.
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A credit card scale?
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Yeah, it fits into your. Your.
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Oh, you just put it on the
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table and then you're like, all right, here's your chicken. Six ounces. Great. Let's go. The only thing it can't account for, Bronnie, is the. The butter that they cook with. That's. You know.
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Have you heard the Roger Clemens butter story? No, you just go. It's kind of. I can give you the highlighted version. He Wins a Cy Young. He's pitching for Boston.
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Yeah.
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The awards ceremony is with a bunch of legends in New York City. He can tell some of the waiters aren't big fans of his because he's been pitching for Boston. Yeah. It's his first year. He doesn't know anything. He just kind of wears it. He said, but I got screwed on my food, like, and I wanted some more butter for my baked potato, and they let it go cold, all this kind of stuff. He goes, the next year, I win the Cy Young again. I go back to New York City for the award ceremony, and now I feel like I'm at home, and I got a little bit more cachet to my name, and I'm more confident. And he asked the waiter, same waiter that was there the year before that was eyeballing. He was like, hey, man, I need some. I'd like another. Some butter from baked potato. And waiter goes around and walks by him again and just doesn't bring him any butter. And about the third time I stopped him say, hey, man, like, I'm trying to get some butter. My stuff's getting cold here. He goes, do you know who I am? And he said. The waiter goes, yeah, I know who you are, but you must not know who I am. And Roger Clemens goes, I don't know who you are. He goes, I'm in charge of the effing butter. Turned around and walked off.
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I know it's not popular on Texas. I love Roger Clemens. I have a working relationship with him. He was always great to me, so I appreciate him. He was very nice and funny.
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Do you have any other relationships with the members of University of Texas baseball program? Current, past, future?
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Not that I can recall. Okay. Not at all.
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Nolan Kane's back.
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That's a good one. That was a great one to get back. I was on my way to Florida when that happened. Thank you, Bronny. When we come back, Connor o' Gara talking a little sec. Next on Tech SAGS Live.