Are you ready to uncover the excitement and anticipation that comes with Texas and Oklahoma's debut at SEC Media Days? Join us as we explore how the Texas Longhorns are gearing up for this new chapter, showcasing the poised and professional demeanor of key figures like Steve Sarkeesian, Quinn Ewers, Kelvin Banks, and Jadae Barron. We'll break down Texas' stellar roster depth and leadership, and highlight the evolution of the team’s culture and competitiveness over the recent seasons. Also, Quinn Ewers shares his personal insights and anecdotes about the renewed rivalries with Oklahoma and Texas A&M, including the intense atmosphere expected at Kyle Field.
As SEC Media Days come to a close, we reflect on the event's organization and extend our excitement for the Austin media covering it. Don't miss our shoutout to the excellent work of Austin media that you should be following on Twitter. Plus, get ready for our next episode featuring two friends from Oklahoma—a media veteran and former OU quarterback—who will join us to continue the SEC Media Days coverage in Dallas. This episode promises a deep dive into the optimism and high expectations as Texas embarks on its SEC journey.
Are you ready to uncover the excitement and anticipation that comes with Texas and Oklahoma's debut at SEC Media Days? Join us as we explore how the Texas Longhorns are gearing up for this new chapter, showcasing the poised and professional demeanor of key figures like Steve Sarkeesian, Quinn Ewers, Kelvin Banks, and Jadae Barron. We'll break down Texas' stellar roster depth and leadership, and highlight the evolution of the team’s culture and competitiveness over the recent seasons. Also, Quinn Ewers shares his personal insights and anecdotes about the renewed rivalries with Oklahoma and Texas A&M, including the intense atmosphere expected at Kyle Field.
As SEC Media Days come to a close, we reflect on the event's organization and extend our excitement for the Austin media covering it. Don't miss our shoutout to the excellent work of Austin media that you should be following on Twitter. Plus, get ready for our next episode featuring two friends from Oklahoma—a media veteran and former OU quarterback—who will join us to continue the SEC Media Days coverage in Dallas. This episode promises a deep dive into the optimism and high expectations as Texas embarks on its SEC journey.
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Speaker 1:
well, I appreciate you staying up late for this edition of stories inside the man cave podcast. Let's talk about it. It's a series as part of Stories Inside the man Cave podcast. Of course, sec Media Days. The first for both OU and the Longhorns OU. Their day was Tuesday and the Longhorns today, on Wednesday, and it all wraps up tomorrow on Thursday. But you know a lot of questions for Steve Sarkeesian, kelvin Banks, quinn Ewers and Jadae Barron. They all arrived in style. I mean, would you expect less? Quinn Ewers even had a 10-gallon Texas hat and he was rocking it. The Longhorns first ever SEC media days. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2:
I felt like we've had a football team that has been obsessed with wanting to get back and that obsession has led right into hard work, has led right back into who we are culturally and pouring into that has led right back into highly competitive workouts and practices. But yet this close-knit bond that I've been super impressed with and I credit our leaders on our team and a lot of times yeah, I've got these three leaders here today, but I'm thinking about guys like Jake Majors, gunnar Helm, baron Sorrell, ethan Burke, alfred Collins, jalen Gilbo. I mean there's so many guys in our program that have been through it with us that it's not just the high, high-level guys that we all see. The leadership we have across the board is probably more consistent than we've had in my time here.
Speaker 1:
You know that is telling of Steve Sarkeesian's program. As they enter, he enters his fourth season as UT's head coach. I know you've heard it and I agree with a lot of the people who are saying it. Texas could not be constructed any better than they are entering their first season as a member of the Southeastern Conference. I mean, if you look at across the board on the two deep, offensively, defensively, they're stacked. I mean I still will stand by a wait and see approach and see how Texas is on the defensive front. But everywhere else seasoned veteran talent and they have the size, especially up front on offense and on the bookends, on the defensive ends, texas has the guys, they have the horses, so to speak, and the talent and experienced talent. But if you look at today Texas, I think from the outside, looking in, you could say you know what they walked into their first SEC media days composed and also just handled everything like veterans, like pros. But it is just another media days. You put SEC in front of it. It adds a new meaning to it as their slogan. It just means more for the SEC. That's their slogan and it does mean more in this conference and those of us including myself, you, the fan, coaches, players, anyone with ties to any program in the SEC, especially Texas and OU. This year it's new, it's different. The Big 12, there's no slight on the Big 12. That was good football, but this is going to be a lot different, a lot different, and you heard Sark talk about it and the new additions.
Speaker 1:
As far as for these veterans and it is key to have a veteran team with a significant amount of leadership they didn't have that leadership in year one. They went five and seven. They go to eight wins in year two. And then last year you know 12 and two Big 12 champions and the leadership stepped up because there were some close games in which this team could have lost, but they didn't, because the leadership and the culture were maturing and progressing. And now you have a team including a quarterback, where Quinn Ewer is three years in the system, all right, and you have good depth with Arch Manning back there.
Speaker 1:
A lot of people are saying you know what is Texas going to do at running back? They're going to be just fine. They're going to be just fine Because you have, when you have, solid leadership in numbers in which a team is policed by a team, by its own players, excuse me, where you don't have to have those coaches involved. The sky and I know this is cliche the sky's the limit. You have the combination, the recipe, so to speak, for a championship-level program on the national stage.
Speaker 1:
Texas lost to Washington last year in the semifinals of the CFP, came down to one pass, an incomplete pass, and you've got a lot of these players are looking forward to display their hunger against the best in the country. Let's face it, the SEC is heavy with tremendous talent. You don't need me telling you this. And you've got also the fact that new rivalries, new rivalries which are old and mean something and you know, I venture to say I would ask you which means more to you on the Texas rivalry front, ou, or now that the Texas A&M series resumes for the first time since 2011,. Which of those rivalry games mean more to you? Well, quinn Ewers had a history lesson about the Aggies rivalry from his own father and I found this interesting and I can't agree more than with Quinn's dad.
Speaker 3:
My dad actually said that he thinks that him growing up he believed that the A&M game was bigger than the red rivalry game. So I'm excited to'm excited to to have that game back and it's going to be a cool experience, especially going to Kyle field. You know Thanksgiving weekend and I know that place is going to be rocking. So we're all pretty. We're all pretty fired up for it.
Speaker 1:
As are the fans and myself. I want to go ahead and put this out there Kyle field is the loudest football stadium on any level I have ever been to. I've been to three games there as a fan. Media games don't count, in my opinion. Games attending to work as a media member they don't count. But three games there as a fan, the loudest place, and that Texas and A&M game is special, even in Austin, but at Kyle Field I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait to see how this team responds.
Speaker 1:
I know on the other side of it, the Aggies, it's going to be a special event, no doubt about it, but there's a lot of things to look forward to. But again, you've got the OU game, the Red River rivalry, the Lone Star Series showdown with the Aggies back on the schedule, and now you've got Arkansas back and I'm just going to go ahead and say and I think some other people have said that they hate Texas more than they like their own team, the Razorbacks. I experienced it 2021, and I'll say it again I went to that game three years ago. That is the worst I've ever been treated at any stadium in America and that is a compliment to Razorback Nation. I was treated poorly outside of my family members who are season ticket holders up there in Fayetteville, but a great environment and that has been a heated rivalry. I know it's been one-sided Texas I mean the Texas A&M Series has been one-sided toward Texas. But since 1984, it's a lot closer and I think A&M may have the lead in the series since 84. That's when Jackie Sherrill turned around the Aggies.
Speaker 1:
But SEC media days, almost over with it, wraps up tomorrow with the last quad, so to speak, with Arkansas, texas A&M, Auburn with U3s and Mark Stoops, the brother of Bob Stoops and Kentucky will wrap up SEC media days up in Dallas and I heard nothing but great things from the meals to all the events, how everyone's treated, really excited for my fellow former media brothers, fraternity if you will. But they bought the all the Austin media around the state done really good work. Go ahead and follow some of those people on Twitter because they've done some really good work. But you know, next episode, which will be episode 385, a couple of friends of mine from Oklahoma, one of which is a media veteran and a former OU quarterback, will join us on the next episode of Stories Inside the man Cave podcast. It's all part of SEC Media Day's coverage in Dallas. So whenever in doubt, if the subject of SEC Media Day's and the Longhorns and Sooners, and even the Aggies and Razorbacks, it's always good to talk about it.
