The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Exciting Weekend For Texas Sports!... Except For The Aggies. Demeco speaks today.

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

Exciting Weekend For Texas Sports!... Except For The Aggies. Demeco speaks today.

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10-01 in H-town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross from Salt Lake City. This is Sports Talk 790. Ain't nothing but a good time unless he went to school in College Station, Texas. Ross, Villarreal, I know you had a good time in Austin, Texas this weekend. Yeah. Or if you drove all the way to college, all the way to Austin from College Station, and then got a hotel, and then paid for some very expensive tickets,

and then went to the game, and it was misty and cold, and then you just had to get that belt to ass. oh that would be such a shame if that happened well the Aggie in my life that's a love song by by Michael Jackson correct? I believe yes it was going to be covered by Belbiv DeVoe coming up here in the next couple of years

oh man The Aggie in your life what now? Sorry Yeah he went to the movie he didn't want to be apart That is smart You know what? Only thing you can do in life is learn from your mistakes and improve, and I'm glad he's learning. He just, and again, I love him for so many things.

He's one of the sweetest kids you'll ever know, very polite. He is very sweet, extremely intelligent, nice. Yeah, really, really, and just can't handle the Aggies losing. And so he has decided that he's not done forever, but he's done for a little bit. Yeah, they're 11 and 1. Come on. Yeah, I mean, they're going to the playoffs. Buck up, son.

Yeah, he's going to have a home playoff game. So, I mean, you know, it won't be a buy, but it'll be definitely a chance to go back to Kyle Phil one more time. Oh, what a day. And this is what I wish we were back in here because there's so many things I want to get to. We got a lot going on. We got the local stuff going on. We have the amazing drama that is what's happening in Baton Rouge and Oxford, Mississippi. And look, we've got to get to the Texans opening up.

And I've, of course, here in Salt Lake with Rockets, put belt to ass on the Utah Jazz. My God. I mean, the jazz. Oh, okay, that's another issue. I'm obsessed with watching people at the Oxford County Airport booing Lane Kiffick getting on the plane to go to Baton Rouge. That's pretty crazy. MFing him.

And then Charlie Weiss, Jr., I believe, is the offensive coordinator going with him to LSU, too. They're MFing him. Get a grip on life. if you're showing up to the airport to Boole coach. I mean, my God. You can be mad, and I would be mad, and it's fine. We're going to get into that, but, I mean, dude, go spend time with your family. Don't go to the airport.

Seriously, it's Thanksgiving weekend. Go hug me, Ma. Don't be a scream at Lane. Yeah, you know what? Go get that one last helping of turkey, because you're not going to eat it at Thanksgiving. I mean, at Christmas time. Just, oh, man, it was, well, it just shows you college sports, carry a passion like no other. I mean, I don't.

I mean, look, University of Houston's had people leave over the ears, and I get that, but we don't want to hobby to tell Tom. Well, you might want to wear your Kevlar. That's just a little more dangerous. You mean a hobby? I don't disagree with that. Love you, hobby, but a little rough over those streets. What's the main road go?

Broadway. And the airport. And don't break down on Broadway. Yeah, you'll be all right. You'll be a part of that. All right. So, let me be... Cracket's going to be very helpful for a couple bucks.

That's right. Full disclosure, we had an afternoon game here in Salt Lake yesterday. Yes. The last hour and change, as I'm getting ready for the game and then calling it, I've got the game on my phone, but I can't ultimately watch every intricate detail. I did watch expanded highlights this morning, so I have a pretty good grasp of things, but I did look at your timeline, Ross, so you've got a firm grip on what was a game yesterday. on the Texans not knowing the rules of football?

How many different rules did they break? I mean, how many illegal formations? Three. I don't know if I've ever seen that in a college, in one quarter. I don't know if I've ever seen three illegal formations in one quarter in college or high school or middle school. This is the national football league, the pinnacle of football. Yeah. What are we doing here, folks?

No, we are obviously lacking discipline. But did you think that Nick Cayley opened the playbook up a little bit? The end around the Nico Collins was a pleasant surprise. Yeah, but as somebody aptly pointed out on Twitter, if that didn't work, what would be saying? Nick Cayley's getting too cute. Why would he do that?

It almost got blown up in the backfield. We would have all been screaming, like, what is the deal? And the same thing with Sarkesey, and he did a tight end to end around in the red zone or in the goal to go. And I said, I was like, man, what a brilliant play call. But then I'm sitting there saying to myself, you know what if that didn't work i'd be calling him an idiot yeah that's just how it works i mean

that's nick caley's job yeah but a win is a win yes i have also you know i've been staring at these old miss booing people at the oxford airport i've also been staring at that extra point by camie fairbaird i think it went in where are we on that but forgetting about your battle advice did it go in or did it go out i mean come on what is the rule ruling did somebody had the other end zone view and it looks good from the other end zone view so i mean i'm to be honest with you, why can't, you know me, I love instant replay. I can't get enough of it. Now, I know it's going to delay people, but it's a once a week and I get the call right. Why can't that be reviewed?

I don't know. Because they're saying, because maybe angles are different, I would assume, well, here's the thing. They only put end zone cameras in one side of the stadium. And if I'm the NFL, first thing I'm doing is I'm putting end zone cameras in both sides the state. I don't know, I don't know the rules behind it. It curves out by the time it hits the net, but as it crosses, as it crosses the upright, it's in. Yeah, again, from the naked eye watching the view that CBS gave us, it looked, like it, it was a little out, but it'll look, we're watching it on television. I mean, we don't have the firmest view of things.

Yeah, when they put, they did it on the broadcast, so they paused it as it's crossing the upright, and it looks good. Yeah. Not by much, but it was good. Oh, yeah, by a hair. But I'll say this. The guy, Bennett Salvatore, whoever is it? No, it's not a... No, Gene Salvatore.

Sorry, Gene. Yeah, Gene is explaining, like, if it's even the ball is on to the outside, when it's over it, if the ball is inside the outside edge of the upright, it's good. So, and I think it was. It's very close, though. Yeah, the reason why I can't come on it, Ross, is because there's only one math class in my entire life I failed, and it was geometry. Gene Stereator. Bennett Salvatore is an NBA guy, right?

Yes. Decent guy. Gene Sterator, not Bennett Salvatore, sorry to both of your families. That's fine. Gene Sterator, a college basketball ref and an NFL referee at the same time. So he was booted by two different fan bases. And I will also say this, though. Gene Sterator generally agrees with the referees when it's close.

Well, you're going to kind of have to, because you don't want to get out of group texts and stuff. Yeah, you know what? That didn't appear in the extended NFL official highlights either, because I watched them, too, after the game. Yeah. when I got home. It's funny how the past interference that was with the ball way out of bounds didn't appear. It's funny how they protect the shield in these little ways. It is.

Yeah, we have these guys that are going to give you the unbiased viewpoint. 90-a-a-a-a-a-a-fus of the time they go. They usually side with their fraternity mates. All right. Look, we got so much to get to today. I hope we get some people calling it in. I mean, do we? Are we on today?

I want to make sure. baby was so okay that's good makes me happy we get makes me happy happy to be here 713 212 5 790 so but again that extra point miss would have couldn't clearly change things towards the end i mean field goal time extra you know going overtime yeah so it was a it was a relatively huge not relative it was a huge part of the contest but the texans win and uh unlike some people on twitter they still don't control their own destiny but they're getting closer to controlling it they still don't control it. We'll get to that. We will get to the college football slate as your beloved Longhorns get the win.

Aggies? I mean, you could have killed two birds with one stone. The little brother syndrome you've lived with for most of your life, that could have been a race largely. You probably would have gone to your first SEC championship. I mean, everything was there and you just couldn't do it. No, it's just such a shame. And how many, by the way, on this one,

how many plays on third down and six, did the Aggies get five? It felt like they were consistently running a yard or two short on these crucial third and long plays. Well, they couldn't have done it without my crowd noise help, Matt. I lost my voice for a little bit on Friday. Recovery by now. Can we live vicariously through you? Tell us about the entire day when we come back?

Sure. We'll get to that. Texans win. I want to hear from you guys. We've got to tell the truth coming up today at 1230 because at 1115 we're going to hear from Tomiko Ryans. Rockets annihilate the jazz last night. Lane Kiffin leaves Oxford for Baton Rouge.

And what else we got going on? Oh, my Cougars got a ninth win too, so that's all. Oh, a very good weekend except for the Aggies. Who, by the way, again, life is not lost. You're going to the playoffs. Oh, by the way, how much arguing did you do with your? people in the world that you live in with by Texas getting into the playoff? Very little.

Okay. But we can talk about that. It's, I mean, quite frankly, it's one of those, what do you always call it, Matt, where you can just argue both sides. Yeah, you could. I mean, I could, if you wanted to in the first hour, give it to me that Texas gets in, I could buy it. If you're a bad radio show that forced things, you would come to me

before and say, hey, Ross, argue for Texas through and through, and I'm going to argue against, and we'll make a bit out of it. But we're not. We'll call ourselves. Yeah. first take yes and i'd be like okay i can do that by the way uh steven a screaming about the old miss situation is is it is it makes me dumber and that's the only negative about doing the show in the in the hotel is that i i've limited television access i can't watch you know i should just turn it off i've been telling you that's basically saying that you know you know

you know you can't win it ever win in in in oxford because it's still a racist town i'm I mean, come on. We've got to get past that. We've got to get past that. And I just was just like, I mean, there's arguments against. Is LSU a better job at Ole Miss? Yes, it is. I'm sorry, Ole Miss fan, the three of you that may be out there.

It's a better job. But there are reasons for that. It's not because Oxford, Mississippi is a place you can't get kids. Kids have been going there for years. In decades, and they win. They don't win as much as LSU. That's the reason why Glenn's going there. 10-14.

Matt Thomas Show and Ross here in Salt Lake City. This is Sports Talk 790. Continue to instill confidence in all our guys. I believe in each and every one of our players. I believe no matter what the situation is, we're going to put them in the tough spots because I know they can make the plays. I trust the training that they put in, the work that they put in behind the scenes. I know what they're capable of.

And so I love these guys, trust what they're doing, and I'm proud to be their coach. No question that D'Amico is a player's coach, and he's rallied him. That was a big win yesterday. It won the prettiest thing. There were things that you were shaking your head about, but Rossi, they're not all going to be the prettiest things out there for 60 minutes. I thought it was beautiful.

You know, wasn't there this talented, handsome, wonderful, extremely smart radio host who called it upset for the Texas Longhorns and the Houston Texans? What station does you work for? I believe it's sports talk 790 I don't know I thought Matt Jackson left this year ago I mean to call it upset for both

of them man that's a great call where that guy is he deserves some kudos I just look at the vacation schedule he won't be around much much through a few weeks Yeah you know what he's earned that time off

Can I tell you something Drop it all this knowledge on everybody Can I go Aaron Andrews on you for a minute? Go ahead This is awful So the NBA really screwed the Rockets. Uh-oh.

With not, we didn't advance to the NBA Cup round, which sucks. What happened? Well, we lost to,

uh, who we'd lose to? Denver, that was what, that was what numbed us. That's fine. It'd be golden state, so that was good.

Uh, so we're playing, you know, the NBA then assigned you two more games. Mm-hmm. Within the group. No, no, no.

It can be anybody you want. Oh, is anybody? Is anybody who didn't make it? I thought it was within the group. Go ahead. No, no, There's people that have teams that didn't make. Right.

We are playing one team outside the group, Los Angeles, in Houston. We're only going to L.A. once a year. That would have been the logical place. Clippers or Lakers? Clippers. Okay. Then we're going to Denver to play them in Denver for the third time. So here's the bit.

Now that did you, look, the clippers sucks, so that's not bad. But Denver's not fun to play. I'm going to be, they got one of the 15-gradest, players, maybe Everettus playing the NBA to play. He's climbing that list. Honestly, we've got to start having these discussions soon. He is insane. Maybe after the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's fine. But so

the schedule comes out, we have to play Denver on a Monday. This is in a week from today. No, not a week from today. Two weeks from today. Uh-huh. Then we play at New Orleans on Thursday. So the question

was, do you come home for literally 30 hours? then go on a plane to go to New Orleans. And then after the New Orleans game... It's like a one-hour flight. Sure, come home. After that, then we're going back to Denver to play them again. Hmm.

So I think, and I've not heard definitive order, I think we're going to be on the road the whole time, which means that'll be away from home 16 days. And that's my Aaron Andrews moment. Seriously, okay, hold on. Can we talk about this? Because, now, for those of you don't know what Matt and Matt is referencing to, there was this post from awful announcing

with quotes from Aaron Andrews talking about if you want to come through up in this business you're going to have to miss some holidays. And so those were regular in context. She wasn't complaining. She didn't have tears streaming down her face. She didn't say, I wish I'd never got into this godforsaken business.

This is the worst job ever. She was just speaking the facts, which, Matt, you've had to miss Christmases and Thanksgiving and New Year's. I've had to miss Christmas and Thanksgiving and New Year's. And it is a fact of this business. You're going to make no money and you're going to miss holidays. and you've got to make sacrifices. Correct.

So then everybody took it as this. It's time for me to take shots at Aaron Andrews and talk about how many sacrifices. My dad delivered milk in the 1960s during a blizzard, and he didn't make millions of dollars on Fox broadcasting. Okay, that doesn't have anything to do with what she said. And it's this thing that we run with

and we all want to get our feelings hurt and take shots at Aaron Andrews and act like she's the, um she's the devil right and all she did was say you had to make some sacrifices in this business which is true yeah sacrifices i wouldn't change it for the world though many businesses absolutely same yeah i'm gonna be working if you do what you loves no job is perfect with all that being said i hope somebody else is doing rockets wrap on christmas day but it's probably gonna be i love the little thing at the very end all right so enough about the point being is that it's just

NBA I love you for so many things but you really didn't do us any favors it was just it sucks all right let's get to back to the more important thing that Houston Texas and by the way if you're out there and let's be brutally honest we're trying we've been doing this for almost a year now Rossi we're still trying to build the 10 and 12 crowd

I don't want where that is but it's okay if you're out there hi hello hello hello 713 212 5779 if you want to chime in 713-212-1-2-5-7-9-0. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90.

Your team won a gritty game. Yes, they did. You know what? Daniel Jones was, I thought, way better than I thought he was going to be. I thought basically he was going to be after the game in a wheelchair. Yeah, what happened? They shot him up with the good stuff. He was moving better than he wasn't in that practice video.

You're kidding me? He didn't feel a thing. He didn't even know where he was for 80% of that game. But Jonathan Taylor was bottled up. He just was. beautiful this is the number and i said this last week and this is why i picked the texans this is a super bowl winning defense right now like if people go down if will anderson or deniel hunter or even you know petri or bullock or stingley or whatever if they miss a piece a key piece or two

i will back off of that but as comprised and healthy this is a super bowl winning winning caliber defense but as you say that though you have to say can the defense be so amazing amazing that it can overcome, let's be brutally honest, and average at best offense. That's the thing. Can they be right? As you know, we've invoked the names of the 2000

Ravens, I don't know, the 2002 2002, the 2005 bears, okay, put it this way. How many Super Bowls have there been? 50 something of them, right? No, I've been that many. Has there? 60, yeah. Okay. So, in the 60 years of the Super Bowl,

there are what three that have this game-changing defense for the ages and 57 them usually are pretty deep to the offenses. I would put the 15 Broncos in that category when Peyton Manning's arm wasn't even working and they still won the Super Bowl. How about the Buccaneers with Brad Johnson? Brad Johnson Buccaneers are on that list.

The Giants, when they won with Jeff Hostetler, was all defense at that point. Okay. But it's a short list. Yeah, it is a short list. So all I'm saying is that can you be one, Can you be the sixth Super Bowl champion team out of 60 that had amazing defenses and mid-offices? Well, they already have a better offense than like the Trent Delford, but their defense isn't as good.

So, yeah, it's a matter of finding the medium. Can the offense be good enough? Right now, I mean, two weeks ago, we would be talking about the AFC favorites, and we would be naming the bills and the Colts. And the Texans just beat them both in a row. And you got a little, you got a little, you're a question of you, Matthew. I told you popped into my head. when Stephen A. Smith was talking about AFC champions, I was like, it popped into my head, too.

It is possible. Don't say that. No, you've lost credibility with me immediately. I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's possible. I'm not saying their favorites. I'm not saying they're going to win at all. I'm saying it's possible.

All right. Well, I'm going to give you some more reasons why it's possible. And I'm going to look at the AFC ladder. We'll talk more about that in a moment. 1029 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in Salt Lake City. We would love to hear from you. If you are out there and would like to visit,

with us, we don't do monologue radio, we'd like to talk to y'all. So if you're around and you have a heartbeat and your phone works, 713, again, I guess the main thing would be if you're out there, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, Ross,

I'm going to perhaps share in your optimism over can a superior defensive team Make it late a super run towards the plows, but again, the number one thing is they got to get in. Here's the thing. I look at the conference standings. Denver 10 and 2. Did you see Denver had to win on a two-point failed conversion to beat the commanders last night?

It went to overtime, and honestly, I was tired from my weekend in Austin, and I went to bed. I got you. Yeah. I mean, Denver just doesn't. I mean, they've won, what, nine consecutive games. I mean, credit, there goes where credit is. people in Denver are like man this is amazing

and meanwhile we in Houston are like you're your bo-nick sucks meanwhile people in Denver like well C.J. Stroud and the offense sucks so every city right now has their hesitation okay there ain't nobody beating their chest right now New England 10 and 2

they play tonight they've won nine consecutive games Drake May is having an MVP type season they're to me the most well-rounded offense and defense in the NFL but it's also going to be their first foray in the playoffs with this at with his leadership. So, the issue there.

Yeah. Rable's been to an AFC championship game, right? Yes, he has. But this is a new team with them. But again, they're not been there, done that. Jacksonville, how in the hell of eight and four? I don't know, because they suck.

I'm sorry. They do. But, again, you are what your record is. They've won three straight. Baltimore looked, I mean, how do you let Cincinnati? And now, Grant, I know that Joe Burrell played his first game, but Lamar Jackson, I know I'm talking to the vice president of Lamar Jackson

fan club, he was terrible, Rossi at 3rd tonight. He was, to me, he was terrible. He's not, there was some video, some people were showing of him moving around. Like, he's had a hamstring injury, a knee injury, and an ankle injury. He's not moving well at all. I don't know.

And it's affecting his touch and his throws, by the way. I can't tell you what percent he is out there, but it ain't close to 100. He's trying to play through some stuff, and if, yeah, if he doesn't round into shape, they've got no shot. Chargers won yesterday. Herbert broke his non-throwing hand.

That'll be fun for the next month or so. He's going to play, though, apparently, through it. The Colts are showing some signs of regression, for sure. They're no longer even the top team, the AFC South. And Buffalo has no offensive linemen, apparently healthy, but they got a couple to go in there. They were down at the half to Pittsburgh before they woke up and played. and then you've got Houston at the 8th spot

they're the first team on the outside looking in I think Pittsburgh is under free fall Aaron Rogers and his wide receivers are grumpy towards each other and then you got Jonathan's Kansas City Chiefs at 6 and 6. Mine, you're not going to claim you're 6 and 6? I'm just saying he had them losing to the Cowboys

he did he did so tell me the most dominant... Okay, so if I was to literally ask you, and I'll give you my answer first, the two most well-rounded teams in the NFL, in the AFC side of things,

I would say are the New England Patriots, and when they want to, the L.A. Chargers. How can you go to bat for a charger team that's typically won and done in the playoffs? It's like the Texans. I mean, they're the Texans of the West Coast, frankly. Yeah, it feels like the Patriots are clear favorites. I would have said Colts.

a couple of weeks ago. I mean, I guess you just got to give to the... The Broncos won nine in a row. I mean, they don't look like world beaters, but nine in a row in the NFL is nine in a row. And again, playing January games in Denver and will not be fun for anybody. And they have, by the way,

the Broncos have an incredible defense. But when they came to Houston, you weren't sitting there saying, wow, this team is like an AFC favorites. I think if C.J. Stroud finishes that game, the Texans win, but, you know, we never know. That's correct. Yeah.

So I'm just saying, if you want to be optimistic you're allowed to do it it's okay even though if the playoffs were to begin today the Texans would be on the outside looking in I'm optimistic because I just saw this defense close out on the road against a Colts

and a week before that they closed out may make Josh Allen look like a rookie Josh Allen. Yeah, all right we got some people that want to say hi to us and we really appreciate that 713-212-5-790 we'll start with Oscar on the Matt Thomas show at Ross Oscar thank you for holding and good morning Good morning

So I want to ask What do y'all think about the Hell Mary at the end of the half? I think I should have gone with Kaimi But But I didn't like Demiko's vanilla answer either But it is what it is Yeah I thought that they should have kicked the field goal as well I didn't know

Did they say how much that would have been Like a 64 yarder or something like 64 yards is what they would have said A 61? I think you're right man I think 61 is his career long. I don't understand why they didn't kick that either. I mean, were they too worried that it was going to get blocked and taken for a touchdown the other way?

What did Domingo Ryan say about that? Domingo's like, you know what Domingo said? Do you know what he said? We get the ball to open up the third quarter. We're fine. What does that even mean? He's just an Uber conservative game caller. And there's no evidence that says otherwise.

There's very, okay, I wouldn't say no risk. There's very little risk. kick the ball it's the end of the half three more points is three more points indoors too indoors this is one of the this is something that does scare me come playoff time when you know it's week 13 or whatever against the colts it's fine but in the playoffs and everything is on the line and you're having these procedural penalties and you're fumbling timeouts and you're not kicking when you should and you're not going for it when you should. Those little things matter,

and that's where I am worried about D'Amico Ryan's as a head coach, within the thin margins that exist in the NFL week to week, and then especially in the playoffs. Look, we know the book on D'Amico Ryans. Terrific Motivator. I know. A fantastic assessment of defensive talent, guys buy-in.

He is a below. average in game coach not horrible yes but certain not even average and he's just not it worries doesn't use a challenge flag well no um uh again i don't even know if nick cayley was i i i feel pretty confident telling you nick cayley was not a dameco ryan's hire so i'm not going to put that on him although you know if you're part of his staff you are that yeah i mean you go with him he's on the staff it is what it is it is so i mean maybe ross we are just because we have the microscope on a particular coach that maybe every NFL city that does a radio

show says, our guy just doesn't do something very well. I mean, for years, and I know Andy Reid's gotten better, but there have been times in Kansas City for Andy Reid, oh my God, what is he doing with the timeouts? How does he handle the two-minute drill? Now, that gets covered up when you win Super Bowl, so that's, you know, and you've got Pat Mahomes.

Yeah, and it was bad clock management before that non-kick, by the way. Yeah. I don't know. we're finding ourselves in both college and professional football we just don't trust the men that have the headsets on it's like they need an you need like a human being not a not a headset a guy next to you that's literally got a play card it says okay here's what the time's left here's the time out literally like a like a live metrics person right next to you that's what you have to do because it feels like week after week after week we are questioning what Tamiko's doing in a particular situation. Now, again, the end result is wins. So he can tell you to shut your bum ass up.

But you're right, Ross. What's it going to be happening in a close, tight playoff game when you don't want to leave points on the board at halftime when you're sitting there playing XYZ team in January down a field goal? Yes. I mean, I understand his unquestioned belief in the defense and we're going to get it done. That's good.

You want to be confident in your defense. But it's a little bit too a fault, I would say. Yeah, I don't You can't be great in everything True If you worry you'd be doing a 10 to 2 show Not every coach checks every ball A box

If you do If you do You're Andy Reid Or Bill Belichick Or one of the literally Five greatest coaches of all time Correct Because let me tell you something

D'emico Ryans I think is a really good human being Vince Lombarnie is widely considered one of the best coaches in the history of the football. He was probably, it was probably a hushol. Was he a scumbag? I didn't come across as overly pleasant. He's like kicking old ladies in the shin and stuff? I'll tell you what, who probably checked all the boxes more than anybody else.

This is a little old school. Maybe Bill Walsh checked all the boxes. One of the greatest masterminds of offensive coaching in the history of football and came across a pretty decent dude. Dick Vermil seemed like a nice guy. Yeah, but he burned. Yeah, and he didn't, he's not one of the all-time greats. Bill Parcells, A-Hole. Bill Belichick, A-Hole.

A-Hole. Laine Kiffin? A-hole. Which we got to get to that, by the way. Why are we acting like Lane Kiffin is like the toast of college football? What is he, if Mr. Chris Gawaddy comes on here and says sarcasm-on-one... Oh, my God, I'm serious. If he says Sark hasn't won anything, what is Lane Kiffin won?

Preach. He hated Lane Kiffon 40. days ago. Now he thinks he walks on water. Back on the phones, Tony and Yankees, Keith, will get to you next. 1043. Sports Talk 790. We're going to hear from D'Amico. He speaks to the media. Ross, number of bootlicking questions

that C.J. will get between 1115 and 11.30. Let's put the number... Two and a half? I'm going to take the over. Okay. So we need to write them down. So as you listen, we're going to write down the bootlinking question. Okay.

That's anything that would be a way to just say, hey, I love you long time. Like, how was the turkey after the game, stupid stuff like that? I just set up for vanilla stuff. Yeah. What do you want to say to the fans who you went on the road and that kind of crap like that? So I got the over two and a half of the bootlicking questions. Let's go to the phones and talk to the nice people of Houston, Texas. Tony with his son, 790.

Hello, Tony. Good morning, guys. So initially I was just going to talk about the AMUT game, but I want to throw my quick two cents about the Texans. You know, it's funny. Everybody's talking about, you know, we're talking about Domeco. They've obviously done a good job the past couple of weeks with going against the bills and the Colts. but the huge gauge will definitely be this Sunday

against Andy Reed and Patrick Holmes in Kansas City. Then we'll see how they handle themselves. So that'll be a huge gauge for them. But what I wanted to talk about was this A&M UT game that just went through. I am an Aggie via my daughter. Obviously, my kid went there and I've been a fan since. And I know it's always UT wants to beat A&M, A&M, and wants to beat UT.

But the A&M fans, even though they lost, and UT played probably the best day. the end game of the season they had this year, this year, against A&M. But A&M, these did sit back and realize that they have three weeks to get healthy, three weeks to prepare for the playoffs, and three weeks to refocus and realize, you know, maybe they weren't all that, and they need to get their poop together. So anyway, it's just the A&M fans, don't fall to the wayside knowing that even though you lost UT, you've got the playoffs coming up and you're going to be healthy and see what happens

from there. But anyway, U.T. played a hell of a game. That's all I got. They did. Thank you for the phone call, Tony. Yeah. Look, I'm with you, Tony. I'm an Aggie through my son, so Texas just played better. I don't even know, Ross, that the game was on a neutral side. It would have been any different. I thought just Texas had a much better game plan. I thought some of the play calls late in the game. Marcel Reed

was out of sorts. And look, Arch, I mean, passing-wise, far from spectacular. He can run, and speaking in the running game, where has that Texas running game been all season long? Yeah, Quintravian Wisner has gotten a lot better. The offensive line has gotten a lot better as the season has gone along. Wisner is, his patience and vision has improved greatly as the season has gone along to where I felt like he was just, I will say, just a guy to the level of where Texas is and where you would like them to be, where they have. They have NFL guys, you know, Bejan Robinson and Rocheon Johnson and other guys.

who were in the NFL. Like, Trey Weisner, I never felt was up to that level. But he's gotten a lot better. The offensive line has gotten a lot more cohesive. And that was the big key to me was how was the running game going to go? Because the Longhorns, they struggled against a running quarterback and run game against Arkansas. The same thing happened in that Florida game with Lagway in the Florida running game. And I was worried about that with Marcel Reed and his capability running and the A&M rushing game.

which had been very good. So the key to me of why the Texas won was they were able to run, and for the most part, they were able to bottle up the run of the Aggies. I have not done a deep study on if you put Texas in who gets kicked out. Do you know the answer to that question? It's basically six teams vying for two spots. It's Texas, Vandy, Notre Dame is in that mix.

I'm trying, I'd have to go pull it up. But I don't think Texas gets in. They didn't get any of the help that they needed. They needed OU to lose to LSU. They needed some other thing. They needed maybe Bama to lose to Aubur. But now Bama's in the SEC championship game. And they could get a third loss if they lose to Georgia, correct?

So, and by the way, Bama's losses are to OU who Texas beat and Florida State, who Florida beat. Like, why is Bama? Why is, and I'm not going to say that Texas deserves to be in and all this stuff, but the counter argument that Texas, if they were 10 and 2, they would be in. I mean, I think I'd buy into that. But also don't lose to Florida. I understand that.

I think to me, and again, I don't mean to overly simplify this. Oh, BYU is in the mix. I'm trying to pull this up. Sorry, go ahead. BYU's not getting in. Come on. I look, I like the Big 12, but it's not going to happen. Unless now, if BYU beats TAC in the Big 12 championship game,

that's going to really muddy things up. That's going to really kick out on that large for sure. 3510 was not good to Georgia but look there have been a lot of really good football teams that are gone to Athens and lost by four touchdowns I mean that's not a three plus touchdowns the number one thing if I'm in the committee room and the door is shut I can't let a team in the playoffs

that has multiple losses that one of them is to Florida who won three games right and but I mean that to me is the fate of complete I get it and then the counter argument of course is they have three there are only 10 teams in the top 10 and beat three of them. It's crazy. So, yeah, I understand.

It's not going to be, they didn't get the help that they needed. There are many Longhorn fans who were like, this is the worst thing ever, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's not. And, you know, I'm on a group text with me and a couple other people. We all root for the Longhorns.

And we all agree. We all agree. Because I want some people to know there are rational Longhorn fans out there. That we are all on the same page. It would have been nice if they were able to get, get some help and get in, but this is not some tragedy if Texas doesn't make it. This is not some grand slight.

Don't lose to Florida. And oh, by the way, don't lose the joy. If Texas says we're big boys, we're top tier of college football, then go and beat Ohio State on the road. Go and beat Georgia on the road or don't lose to Florida. I mean, very simple. Win any one of those three games, and it's no question. Yeah, because Georgia's human this year. By the way, I know I don't want to slight Florida.

They got their fourth when they beat Florida State up the week. and they've had a very difficult SEC I've been seeing all these things you know it's a lot of Longhorn stuff of course on my 4U it's like oh when you break down when you break down Florida schedule look at the look at how difficult this was like alright relax go win the game

can I just give you some friendly advice yes don't play Ohio State week one I mean I'm serious I we all tease about the Sam Houston UTEP run add one more I wouldn't know I know what you want to do I don't care play the big games play the big games

I love it. I know. Ohio State's coming, but they shouldn't have done it the way that they did this year. This year it was week one. Next year, it's a Texas State, you know, interstate rivalry, Matt, big rivalry with Texas State week one. And then it's Ohio State. Like, get a tune-up, please. Don't just go on the road to Ohio State.

Set yourself up. All right, let's go before we get to the top of the hour. Let's talk to Jared on 790. Jared, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, I'm a fan of Texas Tech, so I got to watch a watch. really good defense on Saturday, and then I got to watch my Texans who have also a terrific defense on Sunday. So I'm curious what you guys think, which of those two teams has the best

chance of making a championship, tech and football or the Texans for the Super Bowl? Boy, well, that's a weird A or B. Thank you, Jared, for the phone call. I would say probably odds-wise, it's tech. I, oh, man. I don't think either one of them scratched 25%. I would say, actually, I'd lean towards the Texans. Because, again, we just described a few minutes ago how, I mean, I don't think anybody's, I mean, you could go to play Ohio State, but I don't think anybody would meet in Ohio State.

I'm not sold on Alabama. I'm not sold on Ole Miss. I'm not sold on Tech. I mean, I'm crediting how good they are, but I'm saying that I think one is significantly better than everybody else. Or I can't say that in the AMC. So I would say by just that analogy, I would go with the Texans of a better chance of going to the plane for a championship than Texas Tech does. Texans are 25 to 1 to win the Super Bowl. Tech is 11 to 1 to win at all.

Just saying, just fine Vegas. It doesn't mean everything. I know. Who's the second favorite behind Ohio State? How about you guess? It surprised me a little bit. I'll give you a hint. That's a hint.

Because I would have guessed Georgia, and that is incorrect. Oh, man. Indiana. It's Indiana. That's okay. It's the Hoosiers. Yeah. Interesting, right?

Yeah, see, I think the drop off from one down the two is pretty dry. I mean, look, I respect the hell on Indiana, but that big, that big, that Big Ten schedule is far from, I mean, I think we're going to see, let me tell you, let me see what Indiana can do in this Big Ten championship, and then maybe I can read it, readdress this in a week from now. But I think Ohio State rolls for everybody. I just do. All right, we got the Damiko Ryan's press conference in 15 minutes.

If you'd like to join the conversation before then, we'd love to have you. It's good talking to y' all. We'll talk to Yankees Keith about the Texans. I always forget about what, what surname he goes by these days. He was Texans, Keith, but he's off the bandwagon. We need them back. Are you ready to welcome him back with open arms? Yes.

All right, 713, 212-5-790. I know you want to welcome some open arms for the folks at Synergenics. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 1103 Sports Talk 790 coming up in about to 12 minutes from now. We're going to hear from Tobico Ryan. So let's be a little bit of a shorter segment than normal. Real quick, I want to welcome all of you into the second hour of the program. if you'd like to be a part of the show.

713, 212.5.790. 7132.5.790. I'm here in Salt Lake City, where the Rockets are going to try to finish off a two-game sweep of the Utah Jazz. Stephen Adams, did you see the play last night? The block on one end and the throw it on the other sports RV? Yes, I did.

I was driving back from Austin. I caught, well, most of the second half. I don't think I listened to the end of the fourth quarter. No disrespect to you, Matthew. None. You were probably disrespecting J.D. Davis Jeff Green and J. Sean Tate? Well, actually, the second I heard the name J.D. Davidson is when I turned the broadcast off.

That's rude. Nice kid, too bad. I stayed through J. Sean Tate and the others, but once I heard J.D. Davidson, that was the... Oh, man. That's what I was like... I'm going to tell him. You said that. It's time to tap out. The human victory cigar came in. I was like, this bad boy's over. Really quick. Keante George is a kid out of Baylor, for those of you, their college basketball fans. And it's And it has a nice little career set up here in Utah. He had one of the first games I have ever seen. Now, he was sick, apparently, is what I was told right after the game.

And he had been probable throughout the course of the game, but apparently he played through sickness. Can I give you his box score from last night? Go ahead. And we'll get back to the football. Oh, I just pulled it up. Go ahead. 19 minutes and 8 seconds, okay?

He went 0 for 6 from the floor. 0 for 1 from 3 He had one rebound Two assist Yeah, okay One foul Okay Eight turnovers

Woo He was a minus 27 Now that's again For those who don't know what a plus minus is And it's a very small very minor stat It's when if you score on the floor Your team scores you get a plus the points If you give up the points on your floor, it's a minus.

So he was a minus 27. For context, Reed Shepard was a plus 33. He wasn't the only one. Jabari Smith was a plus 33. Kevin Durant was a plus 28. Stephen Adams, a plus 24. Stephen Adams went 9 for 10 from the free throw line. He had a double double of 13 points and 12 rebounds,

and he had two field goals to get the double double. Beast. And that, again, we played this. the highlight last year we'll do it again in the noon hour but the block the comeback and the get the hell out of my way slam dunk i mean there were children in the stands crying ross yeah who was that new zealander hurting them are our favorite little jazis they thought the rapture was coming oh lord they were going down to their wine well i was going to say wine cellars they're cold their uh food storage place they don't call see wine cellars in in utah or

they store food in case the angel moroni comes home yeah i was seeing that on the drive from Austin and all the small towns. A lot of bomb shelters being sold out there. You ever had freeze-dried food, by the way? You've had it before you said. I do it. I take it camping. It's good.

I had, yeah, I do, what is it called? I can mountain meals or something like that. The beef stroganoff, delicious. I did commercials for them when I lived here in Salt Lake City. Yeah, you can get what, you can get like pad tie and what, like biscuits. It really has diversified. It used to be just beef stew and benigni. You can get chili, pat-tie.

The tried and true is our casserole S-type things. But essentially, you just put hot water on these freeze-dried things, and they just naturally cook, which sounds a little odd. But, I mean, I wouldn't go out and say, I wouldn't open up a restaurant, like Matt and Ross's freeze-dried cafe. I wouldn't do that. No, it's not, no. But when you're in the woods and you can make it with just boiling water, it's great.

Yeah. Great's the relative term. No, it's great for the camping. Back in the day. you know, they're like scrowning you're eating pine cones and stuff, man. You can get some beef strogan off. It's out of middle of nowhere. It's great.

Some poison ivy bark or freeze dry, I'll go freeze dry in the wind. Yeah, you want beef lasagna or you want tree bark, Matt? Pine straw. All right. So, yeah, so congratulations to Kianti George having one of the worst box scores I've ever seen a human being having an NBA game. Watch them go for like 35 tonight. Yeah, you can get some biscuits and gravy or, you know, all your favorites. Mac and cheese.

By the way, I saw your biscuits and gravy tweet. Yes. And then my favorite thing about your tweet was everyone's asking, where'd you get that from? And you put it actually in the tweet itself. See, now you're making me mad. I know. I thought I did it for. 2025.

Can we just, can't read it? It's not like I wrote three paragraphs. It's not a thousand words. It's literally 10 words in the tweet, and we can only read up the four of them. world's going to hell matt oh god world is going to hell and it's only getting worse no it's not okay we're just we're just having a good time Yankees Keith on 790 YK what do you got today

good morning how are y'all doing good doing great okay I got some opinions but I don't you know you don't necessarily have to agree with them I'm thinking there's going to be four maybe five teams that finish at 10 and 7 including the Texas. I think that in the north, I think the Ravens will win with a 9-and-8 record.

I also think that the Rockets will win at least 60 games when they get Benny Smith back and Tari back. There's a lot of bad teams in the NBA. There's no way that we shouldn't win at least 60 games. And then yesterday's game, I watch yesterday's

game, and I can tell you that D'Amico Ryan's is coaching scared. He's scared of his own. He's scared of his own offense. They had like almost two minutes left, two timeouts, and they didn't try to do nothing. And if you can kick a 61-yard field goal, you can short-kick a 64-yard field goal. He didn't even try it. He's coaching scared. He's scared of his own office. He's coaching his defense, and he really scared of his own office. That's my opinion. I think it's the opposite. I think he wants to win with defense because he's a defensive-minded

coach and they have a great defense. I don't think it's coaching scared, Keith. You know what it is? That's just who he is. I don't think that's how he was built. That's defensive coaches 101. They want to run the ball and play with defense. It just is what it is. I wish it were different, but it's just his, it's coaching defense, it's coaching NFL

defensive coaching 101. I don't think there's too many coaches in the NFL. What they think is a good quarterback, have the ball with almost two minutes left and two timeouts and don't even try nothing. Who does that? Defensive minding coaches.

Yeah. Super conservative. I mean, it would be him and probably, I'm trying to think of others around still to this day. I mean, it's kind of very old school. No, it's not even, yeah. I mean, 20 years ago you could find it. Yeah.

My Tomlin is very conservative. Dan Campbell is not. Dan Campbell actually does too much of it, I think. I disagree. Well, I know for us we enjoy it, but I think he does put his team behind the eight ball sometimes because of maybe a little over-exertion of the fourths. I think when they get fourth downs and it works, we don't remember. For example, the bills did it in two big instances, and Tony Romo and Jim Nance were questioning it both times.

It was fourth and two, they got a touchdown. They don't say a word afterwards, and there was a fourth and one that they got, and Tony Romo's like, I would kick the ball here, and then they don't say anything afterwards. We forget when they get, when they're aggressive and they get it, we don't really. remember and then Mike Floreo and the boys when Dan Campbell misses a couple of of them, oh, this is egregious and he's costing his team to win.

Mute. Yeah. I mean, I had, because he's, he's the best NFL aggregator and, you know, I like to keep on top of NFL news, so I still follow him, but when he, right, when he injects his personal opinions, it's horrible. But just give me the news, pal.

Sorry, you got that right. Domingo's up next, 1112 on Sports Talk 790. And Jonathan will let us know when D'Amico starts speaking. We have the over-under on... Endless stupid questions to two and a half. So we'll see how that goes. 7-13-2-1-2-2-5. Do we have the bell?

Do we have the bell? You want to go with it? Who's going to decide that? Is that you? That's going to be you that makes that call, right? You're going to make you pay attention? Yeah, it's going to be that. That's for you because I had to play the... Put over my computer.

Oh, yeah, we can't hit that, yeah. So that's up to you. Oh, duh. Let me find, let me find this. All right. We've got to pump your Instagram or something. At SportsMT. Would you like to follow my Instagram account?

It is approaching. Oh, there you go. That's Jalen Rose. I miss Jailen Rose. When did we do that? Was that one during Casario press conferences when he would give you this relationshipally long words-out answers? I don't know the old.

How did we start Jalen on that? No, I want to say it goes back to Bill O'Brien. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a bill, oh, yeah, it goes back years. We've been doing this show. I felt like the last time we went to it was during a Nick Casario Press conference. I think it was Jeff Fisher, actually. Man, that's it.

That is OG style. By the way, my Instagram account is thriving. It is. About to approach. Let me see the number here. You're getting the 3,100 yet? 41 away from 31. 100. Oh man, you are growing. This is bad.

I mean, great job, Matt. It's not bad at all. I put videos or photos of me and these sports venues I'm in. It's all good. Yeah, I posted one of me at DKR, if you want to check it out. My briskets review is dropping tomorrow at SportsRV. What's that? Where did you eat? Would you eat the brisket? Briscuits.

Oh, okay. I thought you were like. It was a Texas Monthly Top 50 joint. It's a little trailer in Austin and I had the it's, they call it brisket, it's genius. I'm actually, you ever come across something so genius you wish you would have come up with it? It's brisket on a biscuit and they call it briskets. This is genius. Yeah.

By the way, we used the dings when Dan Matthews uses dated movie lines in his show. Ding. Or some movie you've never even seen. It's like quoting Hot Rod. Like what? Ding. Yeah. Yeah. He's, uh, yeah. He Love you, Dan. He can pull a 1993

movie out of nowhere. straight to VCR. That's how old those movie references can go. All right. So why don't we do this? Why don't we kill a couple minutes? And we can certainly finish this up. Ross, explain your Austin weekend.

Oh, okay. Start to finish. And then whenever, if we get interrupted, we'll go back to it once Domeco starts talking. I mean, it wasn't. It was fairly uneventful. We drove to Austin, checked into the hotel, the Rorah. Good hotel or bad hotel? The Rarada Rinn.

What would you call that? It was fine. What was it again? Rarada Wren Rarata? Yeah I didn't even know they were still around

Oh yeah It's like 80 bucks a night The nice places are like $400 a night So And that wouldn't happen We just needed somewhere To hang our hats

We just went there to sleep It was fine Okay Then Ubered out to the tailgate We were able to find Everybody put a premium On the tailgates Normally like $50

Tailgates were $75 $20 tailgates We were 40. Like, it was ridiculous. We were able to find one for 20 bucks, though. Hung out there. Had some delicious lemon pepper wings. Then went to the game.

It was, honestly, when I was rocking around the tailgates, it was like 50-50 Aggies Longhorns. Like, I was worried. And then when we went to the stadium, it was more like 70-30. Then the game was great. It started to rain. I went and bought a poncho because I got worried. And I was screaming the whole game.

There were a couple of Aggies behind us. They were super nice. I never saw any incidents or anybody getting upset or anything like that. Everybody was cool. There was three Aggies to my right, two above us, and we were all just very cordial and chill. Screamed, lost my voice. They won. The in-stadium entertainment, by the way, is very good.

They got like drone shows and fireworks and all that type of stuff. Radio. Okay, go ahead. More of this coming up. Charles. During that series, we were driving the ball down, felt really good of how we were driving the ball. Honestly, on the first third down, I felt like we got it. I felt we had a really good movement, and I told the guys to do it again. Just being aggressive there, that's my call as the head coach. I'm aggressive, so, hey, it didn't work. That happened sometime, but it's not going to stop me from being aggressive.

What kind of factors into your aggressiveness? How much do you kind of do you kind of do? mean on, like, I guess, the advanced numbers and things like that niche, the percentages, and whatnot? I mean, there's always numbers, analytics, but it's also a feel. When I see our guys move the pile there on third and one like they moved it, I feel like we could have did it again. And so I don't, I don't, I'm not going back on that decision there. Was there any consideration of the challenge that spot? It kind of looked like he, like Stover had kind of got over in the past line.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, they said, but they already. already confirmed it, and so it was, I couldn't challenge it at that point. Jaylen Reed with the break there, do you feel like that season ending or do you, would you? Well, Jalen Reed, we'll see, you know, how he continues to progress with, with the arm injury. Don't think it's season ending, so we'll see how he progresses. And Jimmy Ward, do you have an update? Is there any, no update on Jimmy Ward. When you go back and look at the film from yesterday, all the different things that went on,

What's your biggest takeaway other than just you guys finished from yesterday's game? Yeah, my biggest takeaway is always. I'm excited that we got to win. But I think the biggest takeaway for me is we left so much out there, right? And there's still so many things where we can actually so many things we can do better. And I know it's tough to say that, but it is some small things. Some things I know we can do better, things we've worked, things we can clean up technique wise fundamental wise i just feel like we still left a lot of plays

out there and that's my challenge to our guys it's always how do you get better you know don't just rest on oh we won and be happy with winning it's all about continue to learn in a win or a loss what do you learn from it and how you keep pushing the envelope to get even better demico on one side you all haven't always been able to score touchdowns but on the other side you all have moved the ball kept the ball out of the other team's hands offensively, how do you put that into perspective? Does that give you optimism? Do you feel like you

still need, obviously you feel like you still need more, but how do you put that into perspective? Offensively, I feel like we've moved the ball really well. And of course we can still get better in the red zone and finishing with touchdowns, but I think we're moving it well. It always starts there.

You know, whatever you want to do offensively. You got to move the football. I thought we did a good job on first down, mixing in some of our play action. passes running the ball. I thought it was a good mix of plays on first down that gave us the advantage there. We were able to get some explosives on first down, passing the football. And so, you know, you keep pressing forward. You keep trying to get as many yards as possible, get in the red zone. And then that's what, you know, you try to strike and score points. There are two plays where the Colts, they say he, they don't let the drop back as he did.

But you guys, for the majority of the time, we're able to pick it up. How have you guys been able to progress so much to this point where, like, when team's simplest is that you guys, you guys are able to pick it up consistently now? It's credit to the coaches, starting with Kaylee and the offensive staff. They've done a really good job of really emphasizing and walking through the pressure looks that we'll see. And credit to the players, they executed the right way. I think Woody has stepped up and did a really nice job. You know, in protection, he's improved of picking up the blitzes that they were.

bringing and kind of got them out of some of those blitzes. And not just picking it up, I thought CJ did a great job of answering some of those blitzes, getting the ball to Nico on one down the field on a deep end cut. So it's collectively, coaches, players, everybody working well at it. But it starts how we practice, how guys are attentive to the details in their meetings and walking through to fix some of the issues that we had earlier with those. Please, you guys had some success with reverse and also with the pitch out. out to the Chuck. Do you feel like with the red zone that you guys are becoming more creative, finding

solutions there, like obviously early in the season, it was what it was, but where you're at now? Yeah, for us as a coach's style, we're willing to do whatever it takes to try to improve. We won't continue to do the same things. I feel like they've done a really good job offensively of, you know, adding some non-traditional type plays in the red zone to put us in position to score. Coach you talked about being aggressive early. Now you're getting ready to play a team that has a head coach there. You know, every series is 4' downs for him. When you're game planning for that,

do you go out with that mindset to match it as well? Or do you go and match it as far as the aggressiveness is concerned as far as going forward on 4th down and things like that? Really, for me, just looking at it 4th now is, I feel like we have in advance. Do I feel like we have plays that are good enough? to win on fourth down. So not just going in just because they're an aggressive team on fourth down, want to put the team in the best possible spot. And going back to our game, I felt like I wanted

to continue to drive down and end up scoring so we could have a two possession lead there and really put the game out of reach at that point because our office did such a great job of driving the ball down that those positive plays which they showed that allowed me to be aggressive because I felt like we would continue to move the football. A lot of Taylor's rushes were for three yards or less. How were you guys able to achieve that as a defense? And when you're having that

success, what kind of stress did you see that put on the Colts offensive game? And Taylor did a, and he's the tough back. I thought our guys did a really good job of tackle. That's what allowed us to really stop the run, not allowing those guys to get over 100 yards. It was how we tackle.

Everybody tackle really well from our safety to linebackers. D. Laman, and if one got missed, my guys were still there. We swarmed the football, did a really good job of tackling. Can you just talk about week 12, all the things that you guys have gone through to get to this point? And every week, your message has been the same. But how you get the team and the staff just to buy into that. Yeah, for me, you know, if your message is changing every week

and you guys may feel like you have to do something different, I feel like the game of football, you don't have to make something up. You don't have to do something different. All the work you put in in training camp, all the rules that you taught, all those things. It doesn't change. And so I don't make up things for our guys. I don't make it bigger than it is. It's continue to control the controllables, focus on exactly what we can do to put ourselves in position to win games,

focus on yourself as an individual, not staying status quo. how are you really pushing yourself to get better? How are you studying a little extra? How are you working a little extra in practice? How are you working a little extra in your recovery process? That's all that I appreciate the guys, and I'll continue to preach that because I know that's what truly matters when the game is on the line.

Go ahead. What was the goal at the end of the first half? Were y'all trying to get points? Were you all trying to kind of balance aggressiveness with maybe not aggressiveness? Yeah, we're trying to get points. We are trying to get points. We didn't execute how we wanted to execute at end of the half. If we get the first down, we're in a good spot there.

I want to finish vertical there. I thought Higgins did a great job of catching the football. Well, we got to finish vertical, get the first down there. Then we're in position to go ahead and try to get points. Coach, outside of the defensive line, we have a lot of players on that. What goes into the rotation as far as? you know, having them in and having them out. Because I know when you have players like, you know,

Danil and Will, they want to play the whole game. But what goes into, is there a script or is there a field? Coach Rod does a great job with the substitutions. That's up to him with the substitutions and how he's rolling the guys. And we take nine guys to the game. So the idea behind is we want those guys as fresh as possible when they're in there. We don't want our guys having to play, you know, full of 60 plays. When they're out there, we want them giving everything that they possibly have.

because we ask a lot of our D-Line. We put a lot on them. So to do that, you have to be as fresh as possible. So Coach Rod has done a really great job of rotating and mixing those guys in accordingly. It feels like Dalton and Woody have kind of been battling, but they've been there throughout, stayed on the field. When we talk about toughness, how much do those two guys kind of create the toughness that you want for this team? Yeah, for me, I feel like everybody has to be tough to play.

play here for me. And it's a toughness, first off, a mental toughness, right? To understand your assignments, what you have to do, but also a physical toughness to push through the nicks and bumps that you have. I expect everybody to push through those because that's what NFL football is about. With Jalen's recent injury,

and then, of course, you've got MJ, Jimmy. Do you anticipate having to go outside to find somebody and how do you handle it when you're kind of suffering at that one particular position? Yeah, we'll find a way. We'll find a way. Don't feel like we have to go outside to do that, but we'll find a way. Sting had that big pass break up at the end, and now he's allowed just three catchings over the past four games.

What can you say about the way that he's playing the game right now? Stingler's done a great job all year. He's done a great job of just handling his business, doing it the right way, working hard and practice, showing up in games, and his opportunity to make plays. He finds a way to make those plays. You're talking about aggressiveness and going for it, not going forward. There was some chatter about when to go for it. And that Eagles Bears game kind of want to get your take on like when you went forward

on two-point conversion or whatnot because I think they went a little bit early. Not sure, your philosophy, what's just kind of your viewpoint on? If you're down hypothetically by 8, you score, not by 8, but if you're down to possession, 15 and you go for it, it makes sense to go for it earlier or make sense to go forward at the end right um to kind of just kind of know where you're at in that position if you're down 15 you score on let's say five minutes before it's a big sense to go for it then or wait until the last time we get the ball back to you know try to see if you get forward with the two point aversions and I think every every coach

has 32 head coaches in the league and everybody has their philosophy of how they want to handle it That's why they're the head coach. Everybody else has an opinion about how it should be handled. Everybody feels like, hey, it's right. If it works, if it doesn't work, then, hey, you're an idiot for not doing it. So that's the nature of our job as head coaches, and I wear that burden, and now, you know, it's okay. It's all right. I got your question, though.

I got it. All right, there you go. did you count the list of boot-looking questions? I got two. I didn't know if you thought the Woody Marks is so tough. What does that mean for the team? I don't know if that was kind of borderline to me. He was on the edge.

He was on the edge. And he didn't answer the question just now because there has been a big debate by breaking out. Do you go for, if you're down 15, do you go for two first or you'd go for two second? Yeah, I was confused by the entire answer. It was poorly worded. So, yes.

The analytics nerds, well, not nerd, the more forward thinking, oh, how do I phrase this? Yeah. How do you phrase this? I think you should go for two first. That way, if you don't get it, then you're down nine. And you know, you can react accordingly. You can manage and massage the clock.

Some people say, oh, you don't do it until afterwards because you need to, if you miss it and you're down nine, the team needs to have the belief and stuff like this. It's been a big debate in the NFL circles over the weekend. What circles are those in? Are you in Twitter? Were you all breaking bread at Thanksgiving talking about this or what? Jay J.J. Watt was talking about it. All these NFL writers and reporters are talking about it.

Of course, Mike Floreo is talking about it. I don't count him. I would go, and we're going to get to break here, I would go for the two first. Because I want to know what's in front of me. Exactly. All right. We're going to finish your A&M story. Okay.

It's not that. It's not that sensational. It's not great, but it's just to wrap it up, because it was a great day for you. Oh, it's beautiful. Oh, can I please take one minute to explain why A&M, Texas is better than Texas, Oklahoma? Can I just have one minute and you can argue with me and disagree and say, Matt, I don't care what you think. Look, it's generational to me because Aggies and Longhorns are going at it in like the 80s and early 90s, and I was an infant. Like, for the majority of my adult life, they didn't even, not necessarily.

majority but for a huge chunk of my adult life they didn't even play i know but let me but well okay okay just give me a little space all the mask all right aggie matt we'll let you uh let's go ahead and make your argument 1135 it's a matt thomas show at ross we've got to tell the truth in less than an hour the news at noon in 25 here on 790 Ross v. Real with you and Matt Thomas. So the Matt Thomas show with Ross with you until 2 o'clock. Just brought you the... Sorry, I'll go to the bathroom.

Okay, I forgive you. The Domeco Ryan's press conference. Yeah, I found the... It was Greg Olson talking about going for it immediately. And then J.J. Watt responded. Analytically, it is correct. The counterpoint would be the human element of a team's mindset being down one scorn set of two. There is an unquantifiable...

quantifiable aspect to the belief and confidence knowing you're down only one score yep by the way did you notice that he called his play calling aggressive I guess the Hail Mary would be the aggressive part of that I guess

and how he described his last couple minutes of offense in the first time aggressive see this is we're just dealing with somebody he was it's not going to change this tiger ain't changing his stripes like it is what it is he didn't

even answer the question. Like he's like, yeah, we signed up with this. Yeah, we wanted points or you didn't kick the ball. You didn't want points if you didn't kick the ball. Yeah. The question should have been framed. Why did you decide not to kick a field goal? Yeah, and look, we don't, we're not here to do, let's crush media members because

we're not there, so that's not fair for us to do that. Yeah, I mean, I frame questions incorrectly all the time. Yeah, we do, we do a daily 10 to 2%. screw him up we're guilty i mean trust us but point being is that i know what the intended purpose was sometimes you you just need to be a little more direct but unfortunately sometimes being direct gets the rolling of the eyes and scurriliness and i know better than you are and i'm better than you so you have to massage it because you want to be respectful to the position and who's up and you have a relationship to maintain generally yes generally unless he's dismissive of you and

then you can just go right at them. All right, so real quick, we had you at the game, had a good time. Yes. Anybody get arrested? Anybody yelling? I mean, I had a lot of Aggie friends that were at the game, so I knew they were going to, you know. There was, after the game, there was like a, there was a Longhorn douche who went up to well, they were in coveralls.

I mean, these Aggies were asking for it. He, like, put his fist up for a fist bump to the Aggies, and then they did it, too, and then he pulled it away at the last second. I was like, oh, that was a douche match. Oh. But other than that, I mean, yeah, I didn't see any contentiousness. I didn't see any scuffles or anything like that. Everybody was, that was honestly the most people.

It wasn't the loudest environment I'd been in. I think the Bama game in 22 was louder, but it was close. And then the, but the amount of people who stayed for the school song, Eyes of Texas, like I said this last week, winter lose, you stayed at the eyes of Texas. That's what you're supposed to do when you're Longhorn. Right. I mean, the stadium was full of people. It was so awesome, man.

and we were all so happy. It was great. It was a nice win. Now, where did you tailgate now? Did you tellgate with a group of people that you mean? It was not. It was people I didn't. It was people I didn't know.

They have cash tailgates and we just found one that was cheap. Okay. They have them like up to $100. Like there was one that was $100. I'm like, get out of here, dude. Can you, is it like one of the situations that if you're paying $100 and he said, can I see the menu first? You can ask them what they have.

Yeah, you ask them what they have. Yeah, you talk to them. It's basically like you're going to a restaurant these days. I mean, everybody, Everybody's got tap to pay or Zell or whatever, and you just, you can, some of them are private and some of them aren't. So, okay, did you park at the stadium or did you Uber in? Uber did in.

And how was that? It was fine. Parking at the stadium is a mess. It's, it's, yeah, every stadium is something. Tell me, tell me a major college venue of, say, I don't know, 60,000 or more seats that is a complete CF when you try to park? Yeah, normally like the stadium, I think, is it a, on 23rd or something like that.

Basically five, six blocks away is where all the tailgating is. And you can park down there for like 25 bucks or so. Thank you. Okay. So let me just say this. And look, there is a long gap between the series. Because look, A&M and Texas, what I do, excuse me, what all I do respect the hell out of Oklahoma, Texas is I love state-by-state battles.

Okay, that never gets tiresome. Number two, they do it at the Cotton Bowl, where it's literally a 50-50. And there's no threat of either one of these two teams saying, let's put the game in our home venue. There's something special about the State Fair of Texas and OU and Texas. You cannot possibly argue that. But it feels like to me, and again, I've lived in my, I mean, I'm not a Longhorn or an Aggie,

but I've lived in Texas for 80% of my life. So I have witnessed a lot of these things on television. And I've been to a couple of myself over the years. it's it divides families ross it um it creates uneasiness with your neighbors it um create there's more joke telling there's more insults about enrollment there's more insults about the you know the the the texas bay in their goofy outfits and the in the core hey that fringe is nice i understand it's hokey i'm just telling you as someone that doesn't have a dog in the fight no no no no no I mean hey have I not bragged about how

great Texas was I mean I don't don't make me cut the tape you literally said I'm an Aggie earlier this show because I paid for me to be an Aggie okay don't say I don't have a dog in the fight when you said I am my son but I mean you said I'm an Aggie you can't say I don't have a dog in the fight I'm an Aggie because of my I'm an Aggie because they chose me you know I mean, the school chose my son. So it's just to me, I love family feuds, I love

uncomfortableness, and I never feel when I'm sitting around OU and Texas fans, it ever gets nearly as uncomfortable as it does when you're talking about when A&M plays Texas. I love Civil Wars. Just because the fans fight more doesn't mean it's a bigger rivalry. Like, it's

I don't know, I do believe. I think all of it comes into, it's a one big formula that says, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma fans fight more, but that doesn't mean that that's a bigger rivalry. Again, I can't speak to that because I'm not, but Bedlam, people are wigging out because Bedlam's not being played anymore. It's a good rivalry game.

Don't get me wrong. I mean, yeah, Texas and Texas A&M are rivals. Just to me, since I've been, I mean, started on campus and been around and been a Longhorn fan, it's like, I don't know, 12 to 3 or something like that. And then they didn't play for how, many years, 10 plus years of that. So yes, it's a

big rivalry, yes, it's important, but as I said, if I was born a little earlier and the game was more back and forth, or A&M dominated in the early 80s, and it was a bigger deal then, sure, but of the generation I am, it's not the same. I'll give you an example. People are like Texas and Arkansas,

Texas and Arkansas, huge rivalry. Okay, yeah, maybe in 1970, but I wasn't around then, so I don't feel the big rivalry of Texas and Arkansas, even though it was a huge rivalry. It can change depending on the generation or times and the flow of the back and forth. I get it. I get it.

More on this, and we've got to get to Lane Kiffen coming back here. We've not even really got into that yet. We'll do that next with the news at noon, 1230 to tell the truth. Ross, what is today's edition, and believe or not, at 150? I don't know. And one more quick thing. Having been to the OU Texas game five times, and now I've been to two A&M games at home at DKR,

it's not even close. Environment at OU is way better. It's way cooler. It's way more fun. It's unique. It's special. The games generally year to year are bigger. It's OU Texas.

Sorry. Well, again, I wasn't looking to convince you. I'm just telling you I love the battles that are drawn within family members. Yeah, it's more families divided, of course. Yeah. Now, granted, again, in fairness, and I know we're super late, I've never been to OU, Texas. And my guess is if I ever sat at the 50-yard line right next to an OU person and right next to a Texas person, I would probably lean more your direction.

But for me, I just, to me, I love in-fight. Like, I love the Egg Bowl, and I don't have a dog in a 5-between Ole Miss and Mississippi State. I just do. We'll talk about Ole Miss coming back, 1147 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here at 1052, Mountain Time, 1152 back home. I'm here in Salt Lake City. We had some great interaction from you folks earlier if you would like to be a part of the program. Let me give you the phone numbers, and really a couple ways to reach us.

713-212-5790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to reach out to us through Twitter and get us engaged us that way, it's at SportsMT and at SportsRV. Lane Kippen's a great football coach. I would have said that even a month ago. He wins. He's had a lot of turbulent times.

To an extent. But I think he's good. I think he's a really good football coach. Is he the best out there? Is he the number one free agent? Yeah, but do I think it's maybe way more options than there would be great coaches? Whatever. Good football coach.

Took Ole Miss, won games. He's won just about everywhere. Again, early years as a coach, not so much. Later years, none better. Didn't win with the Raiders. No, and went to Tennessee in one year and left, which was, you know, went to Alabama, resurrected his career as an offensive coordinator under Nick Saban. But he was the top of the pie chart, a list of people to go after when it came to free agency.

Yes, he was. Florida was in the mix and all that kind of thing. No question in my mind, is he a bad human being at its core? He's just not a good person, but that's not a requirement of being a football coach. It's just not. But isn't that what wore people on Brian Kelly? This is what's what's kind of funny to me. It's this major coup to Land Lane Kiffin.

Correct. And the top candidate, which Brian Kelly was, and concerned about it being a good person, which happened with Brian Kelly. Yep. I, there's just no guarantee of anything. There is not. I could see this falling flat on everyone's face,

especially like there's a small part of me that wants it to because I just think it says hilarious if this is this LSU by the way by the way Gordy owes me

an apology I told you that LSU had nothing to do but pay the contract out and LSU admitted it over the weekend like we got to pay him out I mean Brian Kelly

has to be paid out and you owe some you sign a deal you pay it and you also apology for your to tell the truth takes you said the LSU wasn't landing a power four coach

and then you said that Kiffin was staying at Ole No, I wanted him to stay at Ole Miss. Last Monday, I said if LSU offers him, he's got to take the job. Now, I was wrong about the top Power 4 selection. I'll give you that. I was wrong. Where did the Tulane coach go?

Florida? Florida. Yeah, okay. I can't keep trying to. They're not thrilled about that. Tulane's pissed off. They keep losing. I mean, look, we have these schools.

There's 15 or 20 of them that remain relevant year after year after year that become stopping ground. Stepping stones. Stepping stones. Olmiss. Love Field would like to be the greatest airport in the world.

Still a place you change point and to go somewhere else. It gets a job done. Yeah, it's got a good, good football. Point being is this. You good football coach. I think he's a lousy human being. I don't care where he coach.

If you said, Ole Miss, he's a lousy human being. But doesn't matter. Lazy human beings, when you have a portal and you have cash, And you have, you know, good staff. You're going to win games. The opportunity to win there is much bigger, better, better than at Ole Miss. It just is.

It just is. I'm sorry that guy who was all that podcaster who was all upset and calling Lane Kiff and a hoe. Can't turn him into a housewife. Apparently, they kissed and made up. Did they really still? I thought they still got beef. Last I saw it was they'd kissed, not necessarily made up, I thought he confronted him and stuff.

Oh, he did confront him, but they spoke since then. Okay, well. He didn't, by way, he didn't call him a hoe. He just used the analogy. In the analogy, Lane was the hoe, though. That's true. He didn't say, Lane, you're a hoe, but he said you can't turn a hoe to a housewife. And in that analogy, Lane is the hoe.

So it's like, eh. I would try to feel like I got called a hoe, too. Okay. So Lane walks over to the kid. He's a kid with a Southern. The deep, deep accent. Hey, we're all doing Oxford Podcast now. And why is the Foghorn-Leyhorn doing the Ole Miss Athletic Scott?

Now I say Lane is a hoe. So the kid blanks himself, literally, doesn't respond. Lane should have stayed there and said something, and waited for him to the kid to respond. Yeah. That was a, I'm going to go in with my five security people, tell this kid to come into my locker room and call me a hoe and see what happens. And then he turns around and heads his locker room.

room. If you're going to have beef with somebody in public like that, let it finish it out. Let's see how that would have turned out. The kid could have said, well, I didn't mean that. Or, yeah, you're a whole biotch. Or, you know, nothing, nothing happened. He said what he said, he turned around and left. Yeah. It was not fun. I wanted to see this really come to a climax. You wanted to see him throw hands? Sure, why not? But I don't want to hear a word about how LSU can't afford anything. I don't want to hear about the state of Louisiana not being able to or dentist or education or roads.

The schools are dilapidated. Or anything. I don't want to hear a word about it. Gordy. Let's get those literacy rates up. Come on now. Yeah. I don't, seriously.

You are paying out. Not the Texas is much better. Okay. You are paying out $53 million and you're going to give him. By the way, did you see the deal? No, I didn't. million guaranteed there ain't no buyout there ain't no reduction there i mean they he getting the whole damn thing is olayne kiffin this is insane but the number one thing i got to get to

we got a minute for the news no lane you don't get to coach your team that is hysterical that you think you could go stay with a team that is a direct rival of yours i could somewhat rossy see if he was going to say i don't know washington or hell I don't know Minnesota but Ohio State Ohio State you're in the You're in the furtile recruiting world

known as the SEC Get you asked at Baton Rouge We're going to play without you And you don't get to have the fun Sorry That them's the brakes It's crazy What a world we're living in

But And by the way This whole talk of trying to punish Ole Miss in the playoff seating Because of Kiffing leaving Why are you screwing the kids like that? That's ridiculous. Yeah, I wouldn't either, but I get why people are saying that, especially.

Now, it's different when Florida State was missing their quarterback, but they were undefeated and left out of a playoff. Yeah, I'm sorry. I get the argument, but I don't put any water onto it. Is Marty Smith still at Ole Miss's campus, by the way? The poor guy who's been there for like 48 straight hours, hadn't slept. Who's that? Martin, the SEC guy that talks on ESPN has got the real thick accent.

Marty Smith, he was there on-site reporter the whole time. Oh, really? Go look at, go, go put Marty Smith. No. Go put Marty Smith in your tweets. You'll see it. It's very funny. Maybe it was a day you were gone.

He was on this show, I believe. Okay. Was that a Gordy get? I mean, that's got to be one of his besties, right? Might have been a Dan Matthews, I don't know. All right. Let's get to the news at noon. Plus, don't need nothing but a good time.

from the Houston sports teams 12 noon sports talk 790 say good night to this one signature call I'm Craig way and then you got Robert Ford who says good morning good afternoon and good night yes I don't make any sort of time reference you later like sleep well hmm maybe you should you know what I can I go to can I do a good night Irene tonight, maybe with the rockets? He hits them with the melatonin night night. Ooh, Lordy. We're just workshopping. We're just brainstorming.

It's a live radio show. We're on two hours and seven minutes. I don't think we've embarrassed ourselves yet. Well, not too bad. We'll see. Jonathan said he's going to slap that AMOU argument up on social media. So we'll see how that goes for me. Oh, my God. I've got to. I've got to you. All right. So Jonathan. and you don't have a dog, I'm going to get some hate.

Oh, well, okay, not being biased because I was recruited for OU, but I'm with Ross on this. I think the Red River is just, you can't, there's no other rivalry. I feel like in the Southern Hemisphere, other than, I guess, what. Northern Hemisphere. I'm talking about for the United States. Southern United States, okay. Yeah, like, I guess you would say Alabama and Arburn, but other than that, I mean,

what other rivalry would say? Ohio State, Michigan, people call the best rivalries. That's in the North Southern. Ohio State. Michigan is the best, is the best college football rivalry, period. Right, I would agree. I would agree. Yeah. Oh, you Texas? I mean,

again, a question is, do you go civil war, meaning in-state, or do you go neighboring states? Again, I don't know if the geography makes that big of a difference to it. What's also two more accomplished programs? I mean, oh, here it come, here it come. Get it, Ron.

I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. These facts are hurting your feelings. Not my feeling. I don't care. Not you, you know what I'm saying? Oh. I mean, it is what it is. The program has not won a conference championship since 1998. Hoof.

They have not been to an SEC championship game ever. So if Texas says that Oklahoma is their big rival, everybody has to have a rival. Now, granted, I don't have a rival, so maybe I can't. I would say the biggest program without a big rival would be LSU. Without a true, I mean, Alabama, kind of, but they have Auburn. A&M, kind of, but A&M in Texas? I mean, who's LSU's number? That would be a question for Chris Gordy?

They kind of don't have a true geographic. They play for that, oh, come on now. They play for that boot trophy with Arkansas, but it's like, I don't, they kind of have like three half rivals or four. I don't even know how many. No. Two lane? I mean,

No. But nobody denies there a great program with a great history. I mean. By the way, the second season of, Lane Kiffin in LSU. Not his first season, which will be coming up. His second season will open up in Houston, Texas against our beloved Houston Cougars.

The Longhorns play at LSU next year in Tiger Stadium. Ooh, you got to be there for that one. I start saving now. Let me tell you. Go to our bosses right now. Nah! Say you'll give up all your bonuses. Tickets for Texas

LSU. They would say yes, I would say no. Let's get quickly to the news at noon, 10 minutes past 12 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. What's going on the world of sportsy, Ross? Well, Matt, it was a busy sports weekend, of course, we talked about the Longhorns knocking off the Texas A&M Aggies and ruining their undefeated season, but they're still going to the playoffs, so they got the consolation prize there. Longhorns looks like they're not going to the playoffs after nothing broke their way on Saturday. Also, of course, though, how about your Houston Texans with their first? fourth straight victory on the road against the Indianapolis cults, the division leaders.

They toppled them with a 20 to 16 victory, despite miscues with penalties and a lack of aggressiveness from their head coach. They were still able to get the victory 20 to 16, and they've won four straight, five of the last six. By the way, I'll have a Texan take as part of Tell the Truth coming up at the bottom of the hour. Just a little heads up on that. You might be pleased, or you might not be. You never know. You got to figure out which one I'm telling the truth. By the way, I'll have three lies and one truth today.

Three lies and one truth. Okay. Sounds good. Elsewhere in the news, dude, Matthew, you're in a beautiful Salt Lake City. Meeting up with your old folks. You guys having a couple of near beers, everything all right over there in Salt Lake City? I am going to sit in my room until tip time. It snowed yesterday.

It was cold. Yucky today. It's beautiful. but it's cold. Why don't you get a nice little stroll in the snow? It's all melted by now. Oh. Why don't you get a stroll in the snow melt?

129 to 101, the Houston Rockets over the Utah Jazz 13 and 4. You know, every pregame show, I lay out the records for the team, and it just feels so good to say, and I'm doing it tonight, to say 13 and your 13 and 4 Houston Rockets, it feels great. But then the Oklahoma City Thunder are 20, and the Lakers are 15 and 4 Let me tell you this

I am going to tell you that as great as what you just said and it's completely accurate I look at the Oklahoma City Thunder's record and I just cry 12 in a row They have one loss Ross One stinking loss

Their all-time point to Referell 12.9 is being surpassed right now It's 15.5 by two and a half points they're insane and is Jalen Williams does he finally come back I don't even pay attention to them

I don't care all those SGA just goes to the free to all line 15 back well not at least I mean Hardinstein's hurt there is a positive Jaylon Williams has only played two games for them and they're 20 and 1 so they're 18

and 1 without them 2 and 0 with them Damn it. It's not good. Everybody, everybody listens to the sign of my voice. Say a small prayer for miss free throws, officiating that goes against Oklahoma City, and I don't know, a one-for-seventeen day from Chet Holgren.

Well, they're going to need that for four out of game, four games out of seven if they play in the playoffs. Okay, save those prayers for like late May. All right. I'll see what I can do, Matthew. And then elsewhere, the, I would say, biggest national sports news would be Lane Kiffin, becoming the head coach at LSU. After leaving Ole Miss, an SEC power, a guaranteed playoff team, he says, thanks, but no thanks.

He is going to coach the Louisiana State University Tagas. I can't believe our LSU, like Eddie Martini, our boss is not running in the studio and talk to you by why we're going wall-to-wall, Lane Kiffin coverage. I thought we would have got the day off. Oh, wow. How is the sales pit today? Is it busy? Yes. Actually, yeah.

A lot of people make the calls. That's nice. Working leads. Looking good. If you'd like to be a sponsor on the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Rates are very friendly. You could have the two of us speak on behalf of your company. Extremely friendly.

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and be a part of it. The Noon 3. The Noon 3212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9. We have to tell the truth coming up at the bottom of the hour. Okay, so Booger McFarland, and, you know, I spent a lot of time watching football this weekend, as most of us diggers.

We're just kind of chillaxon, and Kirk Herbst are just selling it like a mother. You need to let Lane coach for old business. He deserves his opportunity. I was like, are you kidding me? And then come to find out all these Brock. guessing people of the same agent, like Jimmy sexted. I would like, tell us a conflict of interest.

Yes. I didn't know that. Meanwhile, you have ESP, you have ESPN, then you say, no, we would never tell our people what to say and not to say. Meanwhile, ESPN about five years ago got rid of their ombudsman because the embudsman was getting crushed because there was a conflict of interest in everything they did. So I just thought it was very funny that you had a lot of these broadcast people that were

telling the whole world how Lane Kiffin should have a chance to coach in these games were also the same client as Jimmy Sexton, who's the most powerful college agent working today and also a fairly successful broadcast agent too. So I just thought it was very funny that there was such a great defense for guys like Lane Kiffin when they were represented by the same person.

Yeah, I didn't know that, and I didn't hear everybody stumping for him to coach the team. Like, that's crazy. You left. You got a new job. Go to your new job. Go to your new job. And like I said, maybe there's, There's a few exceptions.

Like the Tulane coach is going to coach the team before he's going to Florida. So he, but Lane doesn't, but the other people don't have the baggage that Lane's got. Lane's got the baggage. Lane does this. Yes. Help me out, Ross, because you know I'm not Mr. Analogy. He's had ugly exits everywhere. He's always looking for a hotter girl.

Oh, and it was ugly breakups. He's always looking. It's literally a trail of tears. Yeah. And he's like, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've had a chance to think about this year. What a load of crock of crap that is. The guy is always, as soon as he lands somewhere, he's looking for the next job right away.

You don't mean to tell me if Caleb D'Bore, I mean, there is a few people that think he might leave Alabama for Penn State. I don't think it should have to. What? He should do that. But if Caleb Dabour gets sideways in Alabama, what, I don't care his name is, DeBore, just call him, we'll call him C. DeBore. if he leaves you don't think he wants that job if that would be pretty funny

for the LSU head coach to leave for the Alabama job it's happened once you did Nick Saban he went to the dolphins in between but you know what I'm saying I mean yeah yeah he's no if there's anybody that's going to leave a job

put this way if you are a betting man which i am which you are if i gave you the over under on eight years for a lane for lane at lSU under under the over under

he has a seven year contract for twelve million dollars a year fully guaranteed 84 milly coming his way does he finish out that contract I would The smart money would be on the under

And that's pretty basic And that's not even trying to say Ellis That's like all these coaches I mean Brian Kelly won 10 games 10 games nine games And then he was 5 and 3 And got fired at LSU Like who's leaving

Is Freeman ever going to leave Notre Dame I would say probably yes Okay Um Give me somebody else That's been around for a while That's not leaving Do you think Lincoln Riley's long for U.S.C.?

Kirby Smart is a made man right now. Yeah, that's one. That's true. I don't think, you don't think, I don't know if Dabble's going to finish at Clemson. I don't think so. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm with you. I'm agreeing with you. I don't know either.

And I'm not talking about guys that, like, for instance, I think Willie Francis, his last job's at Houston. I'm just using an example, but I'm talking about guys that have been there for a while that plan on staying there for even, like a Nick Saban, a long-tenured guy at Alabama. That's my point. Steve Spurrier for the long time at Florida before he left. I'm just talking about not guys that have just gotten jobs. I'm saying that is Lane Kiffin is the last head he puts on at LSU cap? Probably, probably not.

The odds say no. That's just, that's every coach. You know, is it because he's just, is he looking for the next dollar? Is he looking for the next challenge? Does he get bored easily? I don't know. I was quite delighting in these, there was

the Tex-Ags message board post being post about Fire Elko. The dude's 11 and 1. And by the way, I put it, textaggs.com, Tex-Ags TV, whatever the hell that is. Sometimes there are things you shouldn't do,

Tex-Ags TV, and I'm sure you're a very reputable, nice group of people that take care of your audience with all the text's information you want. They were doing the predictions of the game. If you work for Tex-Ags TV, or you're a guest on Tex-Ags TV, who are you picking between A&M and Texas? I mean, don't even do the segment.

Because you look like a jackass. If you're all four of the dudes picked A&M, duh. They were favored in the game. But imagine being the guy at Tex-Ags TV on the set going, you know, at the other day, I really think Texas with a home field is going to win the football game. You'd be a run out of there in two seconds. It's like, you know, look, I don't think Mark Vanderbair in Texans games says, man, Texans playing the Colts.

I think Giants will have a big game. I think Colts win this one, 2117. Get ready for my call next. That's how it goes. Yeah, that's how their bread is buttered. That's fine. They're on a Homer network. But don't even do it.

Don't even do it. They're very successful over everything. I think they're very successful, but all four of them are like, aren't they owned by the school now? 3419 and then I got this one I mean it was like you're breaking down something we all knew you were going to say to win with it's a state-owned media yeah

Texas animal is number one we will defeat the evil longhorns Aggies number one Cottage station number one Brian number one Austin Yeah I don't hate him I mean that's I'm sure all the

the orange bloods and all that We're probably all picking Texas Oh you know we had to go find that Does Orange Bloods have a TV channel? I don't know. That'd be hysterical. Let's get, who's that? Chip Brown.

Chip, what do you got in the game? I like Aggies by 11. And Chip might do that. He does some trolling every now and then. Craig way on the show. Craig, who do you got in this game? Well, I think we're going to have a difficult time. I think Archer's going to throw two picks.

I got the Aggies by a field goal. Yeah, I picked the Longhorns. Yeah, she did. And that was right. No, granted, I picked the Cougars who went all 12 games. Yeah, come on now. I was right nine times. Wrong three.

I don't predict the rockets to go 82 and O. You could. I did have him going 78 and 4, but that meant that happened now. You can be right more than you'd be wrong. That's true. All right. To Tell the Truth is up next. Marty and Stephen, do not go anywhere.

We'll get to you guys as well. To Tell the Truth, coming up in mere moments, 1230 here on Sports Talk 7. But the good night, night, you're telling the truth. I never know why you don't know how to tell the truth. You don't know how to tell the truth. Yeah. But the great thing is, ladies and gentlemen, I do know how to tell the truth. But in these sports takes, three of them, Jonathan, and Ross, are lies.

one is the truth which one of these four am i telling the truth ross how many that means that are the truth what i'm about to tell you how many one of the four one how many lies jonathan threys okay i was looking at a running through this just to make sure this time here we go number one switching it up every week i know number one if the Texans beat the Chiefs on Sunday night I'm changing my take you can get ready for a Texans

postseason yet again I can already get ready I think you have to beat the Chiefs in order to make the postseason it doesn't mean it's a guarantee but I think with the way things are moving along It's a must-win game. No, I'm not saying, no, I'm saying, if they do it, I'm changing my mind.

The Texans are going to the postseason. The Cardinals and Raiders right after that. But then you have the Chargers and the Colts pulls out the year. Dub and dub. My take again is, if the Texans beat the Chiefs, I'm changing my mind. Number two, at the end of the day, LSU is going to regret poaching Lane Kiffin away from Oleness.

Okay. Number three, it was announced today, as a matter of fact, boys, that Dick Vital and Charles Barkley are going to team up on a first four tournament game for TNT. They will work together for a game on ESPN in the regular season. This is going to be fantastic, much-watching. television. Two of the most dynamic personalities in

basketball history on microphone together for a game. It's going to be must watch television. Forgetting about who they're playing, it's going to add entertainment value that we've missed in these games. So good news that Vital and Barclay are working together

on a tournament game for TNT and a regular season game for ESPN. It's been a long time coming Vital and Barclay together on a broadcast. And number four, if there was ever going to be a college football commissioner to regulate coaching changes, portal, NIL, the man I would choose to run this college football commission to be the commissioner of, Nick Saban. Which one of the four am I telling the truth? Three lines in the mix. Number one, if the Texans beat the Chiefs, they're going to the playoffs. Number two, at the end of the day, LSU is going to regret poaching Lane Kiffin.

Number three, it is so cool that Dick Vital and Charles Barker are going to work together on a TNT and ESPN broadcast of college basketball. It'll add some personality of those games. And number four, if there was ever to be a college football commissioner, I would choose Nick Seidman to be my first commissioner. Which one of those four am I telling the truth? Here's some bad takes. I don't know how to suss out which one you actually believe. No, I already know my answer. Oh, you do.

Three is easy to dismiss. Well, that's easy to dismiss. I mean, think you'd be terrible. But I know deep down Matt still has hope in the Chiefs. And if the Texans show that they can beat him, he will actually think the Texans are worth something. So I'm going with one. Can you repeat number one?

You're guaranteeing they're in the playoffs? No, how are you phrasing this? I'm changing my mind that the Texans, they will have shown enough to me that, you know what? They're going to make the playoffs. And Nick Saban's too old to be a commissioner. He's almost 75 years old. I mean, I would agree if I didn't see that. Now, remember, if he's a commissioner, he's a figure head.

He's going to have a ministry. He's going to have lieutenants. But he's been working for so long. I'm with you. I'll go with one. One is the one kind of screamed out to me when he said it because, I mean, that's, how can you say they're not going to make the play out? But see, it's Texan's hater, Matt.

That's what you got to realize. And it's chief's lover. I don't hate to take it. I'm a Texan's realist. Matt is a chief's hater and a Texan lover. You're right. So it's kind of hard to feel what he truly believes in his heart. But I'm with you.

One is the one that kind of jumped out to me. I could see him believing number two. Yeah. But he was the one saying that Lane Kiffin should go or he's going to go. You know, he said he was going to stay. Well, then he said he was going to stay. wanted him to stay. He didn't stay, though. Right. I said I wanted to stay. He didn't

stay. Well, you said he was going to on one of these, believe it or not. Last Monday, I said if LSU offers the money that was out there being to report, he needed to take the job. I'm just talking about it was to tell the truth when it was first getting floated out. I'll go with one as well. Dick Vital is way past his prime. Poor guy. Charles Barclay couldn't name five college

basketball players. I'm sure it'll be a spectacle. And I love Charles Barkley. He's one of the greatest person. But Dick Vital, I mean, God love him, but he is just, he's now replaced Lee Corso as we've got to retire him pretty quick. I have no interest in watching Dick Vitale and Charles Bark can talk about teams. They have no idea what the hell they're talking about. That was an easy one.

Guys, Nick Saban, if he was 51 years old, would love the NIL. He would love the transfer portal. He would love to be able to leave in the middle of a season. He's old. So the only reason why he's not inmonishing all this is because he's not actively involved in it. He would not do anything to stop what is going on in football today. He'd be a lousy commissioner. No chance, no way.

What I want, Nick Sevin being a college commissioner to firmly regulate how things are going in college athletics. So that was an easy one. then it comes down to me being the Texans realist not a Texans hater not a Texans lover but a Texans realist that's why I am who I am is because I'm a realist I give it to you reels as the kids would say boys and I'm giving it to you reels

if the Texans beat the Chiefs they're going to the playoffs that's what I believe gentlemen you both do congratulations finally batting 200 um here's the reason we'll say it because not only do you knock the chiefs further down the order guys, but you're going to have a tiebreaker,

you're going to have another AFC conference win. All the tiebreakers are going to help the Texas move up. So that's the reason why I think winning this game, because again, you do have, as Ross you said, you do have the Cardinals, you do have the Raiders who have long melded in. It won't nearly as put as much pressure on the last two. There will be some pressure on it for sure. and, by the way, that week 18 game with the Colts may mean a lot more

because now the Colts have fallen off. I think you run three, you get three more that puts them at 10 wins, and I told you this a long time ago, I think if the Texans got the 10 wins, they're going to the playoffs, and with a win over Kansas City, that's going to be a very crucial tiebreaker. Texans beat the Chiefs this Sunday. They're going to the postseason. LSU's not going to regret Lane Kiffin.

You can't court him like you've been courting them all this and regret the decision. He's going to win football games. But Rossi, you and I talked about earlier. He's going to leave you, too, just like he left everywhere else. He's gone. So just be ready, Baton Rouge. He leaving you. I mean, Brian Kelly was a major coup.

He was a multiple-time AP coach of the year. And I thought it was going to be a great hire for LSU. I thought it was a huge win getting, I mean, Notre Dame is college football royalty. It is. And he was gone in four years. it's just the nature of the beast Scott ease up on the self-righteousness ragging on Kiffin for leaving LSU

Scott you're not listening to the show bro I don't blame him for leaving LSU for leaving Ole Miss I blame him for trying to do what is it to make the cake bake the cake and eat it too you can't do that that's what I'm arguing about he's playing victim

like yeah apparently he didn't even live with his dog juice. Who? His dog juice that he used for PR, he'll leaving the dog in Oxford. Yes. He's a bad

person. What a douchebag. You know what you're a doucheo? You heard a douchebag. Here, I just re-tweeted it. Yeah. So, Scott, my great listener who sends me emails all the time, I'm not ragging and I'm leaving going to LSU. I tell him, take the deal. Take it. But don't think you can go coach O'Miss. You don't

get that right. You don't get both. And if this dog, if this dog tweet is real that you just retweeted, hmm, that's not nice. Not nice at all. All right, to the phones we go next. Our time is 1245. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Hey, did you have a party? Did you have family over at Thanksgiving? Did you, you're, ice maker go down? Yeah, I heard about it. Well, that's why you got to call Uptown Appliances repair. Did your refrigerator not keep the leftovers cold like you wanted them to? Did you have an issue with keeping the jello mold? Moldy. We got some folks to get two on the phones. And let's start with Marty and Katie at 1251 on the

Matt Thomas show with Ross. Marty, thank you for holding. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, man. Let me tell you something. It's a sad day in Bayou Nation. I don't know what makes folks believe that Lane Kippen is going to be going to come in and turn around the program. Hey, they won seven games, limping, you know, Lane is not going to make a difference. And let me tell you something. I give Lane, too.

You're saying that he's a good call. I give him two years in LSU before they boot him on out before he starts sucking up all the cross, they're eating all the alligator. They're not going to tolerate it, buddy. They're not going to tolerate it. Two years, I don't like one. Nobody likes Lane Kippen, okay? Nobody likes him, buddy. He's not a very likable guy.

No, he's a hateable person. He's a hateable person. But guess what? You don't have to worry about that when you got 18-year-olds are ready to hand him $600,000 to play football. They'll love him eventually. And here's the other thing. He was the best guy out there.

He was the number one go-to guy. And if you're LSU, you want the number one guy. You have an attractive job. It's a great recruiting base. Apparently, you got more money than God there. It's the job. He was the number one selection, period. Oh, man, I'm just telling you.

It's a bad idea, but it's a bad idea. LSU will rule the day that they hire them. It's all I'm going to tell you, baby. That's all I'm going to tell you. All right. Thank you for the phone call, Marty. Good stuff. Well, they're not, by the way, you can't get rid of them in two years.

Ross, I don't know where they're getting this money to begin with. I don't particularly care. But if you're doing this in two years, I would think you'd have to have basically a state audit of the money in that state. I mean, because there's something crazy going on. Everyone empty out there, water cans full of pennies across the state. Who is LSU's big money? I mean, who are these people?

I don't know. Robes Show, Tibido, dapper Doe. I mean. Tip of those fan boats kicking in big, maybe. is it is it raising is it raising rains is that what it is that why the next the next tender basket's going to cost me $19 is that why that so expensive I'm not going to get those mid tenders anyways oh good tenders come on now don't hate on a mid the toast is good the fries are good I even eat the sauce the sauce is good the slaw's not good the toast is good the fries are fine

but it's without that sauce it's nothing the sauce is very good Okay. I got a hot take for you. Without the sauce, the Waterburger tenders are better. What's up? Whoa. Come at you. Holl at you boy.

What's up? Oh, come on LSU. Let's go, Cajun Nation. Get on him. Get him right now. Let's go. No wonder our sales folks are not in the office today because 90% of got LSU ties. They're having a celebration.

Must be it. I'm trying to look for Ole Miss's great wins here this year. Georgia State Go ahead Kentucky Big Arkansas Oh

Tulane LSU Home for LSU How many The loss Did LSU did LSU It ended with

Washington State Lost to Georgia Okay One at Oklahoma That's a good one I guess Home for California The Citadel

Florida and Mississippi State At Mississippi State Oh my gosh said that that's a mid-record that's a mid-season all right so let me ask you this then if if i'm saying it doesn't necessarily mean it's gospel but who's the high who's the hottest coaching commodity this this year it was lane kiffin he was lane yeah one james franklin although he got a job already that's true people in florida people are wigging out of florida's new hire

They're working out at Satterfield who was at Memphis is now running Arkansas and there are kids outside of the stadium in Arkansas trying to have live podcasts of how this was a horrible decision by Arkansas. I mean, people are grumpy about their coaching hires. Yeah, it's just... Go ahead. We're just a finicky bunch.

Well, so, Wow, Wild West. Everybody wants... I mean, there's only a handful of coaches who are truly year-to-year difference makers and everybody else is scrambling to try to find their one and then firing him within two, three years and paying big payouts and millions of dollars and just keep on churning the coaching carousel.

Like if we were doing Clemson Sports Reader the day, are we still Team Dabo? Probably not. Is he still not hitting the portal and not building good classes? I mean, he's going down on his morals, and that's fine, but Clemson's not even, where is Clemson?

What was Clemson's record this year? He can be out of there. They beat South Carolina over the weekend, so good for them. South Carolina sucks, right? Yeah. Let's see. Seven and five, Clemson Tigers. Oh, they won their last four.

So they're going to a bowl. Well, one of those is over Furman. Maybe they'll play Texas in the bowl game. You know or no. Yeah. Texas is not going to playoff. I don't watch Texas, Clemson. Just sad.

Let's go to Archmanning's ready. Angelous. Arch is back. Hi, Stephen. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call today. Hope you're doing well after the holiday. My, I just, you know, it's not a game that's, you know, fresh on everybody's mind,

but because it happened to damn near a week ago. But I kind of wanted to talk about that Golden State Warriors game and the performance that Reed Shepard had. My, obviously, it was just one game and, you know, he, uh, um, played incredible, but my hot take at the turkey table after that game was that I think Rees Shepard's got to be the primary point guard on this team.

I think when Amman does it, it kind of hurts his game, and we're kind of seeing it because this field goal percentage is like at an all-time low. And I just like the way that Reed kind of spreads the court, because

you know, what I'm seeing is that you know, when And when Amen brings the ball up, you've got basically four guys in the box immediately because they know he's not going to shoot. You know, and when he does, he's bricking it. You know, with Reed, you know, they have to respect his shot. And, I mean, to me, he's the much better ball handler. He's the best ball handler on the theme.

You know, I mean, he's not going to get 25 shots a game like he did in Golden State with Kevin Durant on the court. But, I mean, going forward, I think he's better poised to be the primary. point guard for the Rockets. What do you guys think? Well, I'm going to look up your numbers here on his field goal percentage because entering today, a man Thompson shooting 47% from the floor. A rookie year, he shot 54%, 56%, so it's about a 10% drop.

Now, granted, there's a way smaller sample size on the side. The three-point shot has not been an asset to him at all. It never really was, but it's really not very good this year at where is he coming in at three point percentage let's take a look at 22% ooh Lord I don't know

he's such a fantastic athlete that I want him involved in the game whether it's more at the dunker spot maybe it's more with the ball not in his hand I get it but you do need you know the question is going to be if you put reading the starting lineup are you

do you want to give Aaron Holiday 20 minutes off the bench as a backup point or do you want to space them out like they used to do with Chris Paul and James Hardin where you pull one of the guys early and let the other guy handle the ball handling the responsibilities? These are things that's still to be worked out. I don't think a man's

having a bad season. He's been slumping a little bit and the percentages down and obviously the three-point shots not falling for him. I think he's in a good job on all circumstances. Fred Van Vleet was just he leaded his position. Fred Van Blyte didn't turn the ball over. Fred Van Bamblyte carried a lot of the heavy load drum on the basketball and now

you're kind of having to do it by committee right now. Yeah, I mean, that totally makes, you know, a lot of sense. I think what I find the most attractive when a read is the primary point card is that he can shoot it from any spot on the court. You know, he doesn't need to be, you know, he's not getting all his shots on the baseline, you know, from like kickouts or anything like that. He's, like, actually able to create his shot, which, you know, a man can do it. I'm not saying he's a bad player at all. he's great he's their most dynamic player you know but as like the primary point guard position i think i think reed is better suited um for what this team has around them but i get the um

the counter argument that maybe you want those minutes coming off the bench as opposed to starting where he's not going to get a lot of shots so appreciate the dialogue guys i'll talk to you uh later he started their last three games i mean he's been earning more time yeah i just my point is that you're just asking a man to do more ball handling than they ever did in the previous two years of his NBA career. So there's going to be a little bit of a change to his game. Yeah, and Amin's a better playmaker than Reed right now.

And again, a man's going to crash the boards harder. He's going to draw more contact. But they both have positive attributes. I mean, again, I ain't complain about either one at this point. I'm very pleased with him. I don't think it's one gets better if one plays more or

men's game changes dramatically different of Reed's running things. I mean, I mostly just listen to the game, but didn't Reed start yesterday with the regular starting lineup. So, I mean, yeah, yeah, he's been okay. So, yeah, he's playing more. We're 15 games into the season. It's, and Reed's been playing better, and he's been getting more minutes, and now he's started their last three games. Yeah. And, you know, again, it does, it does weaken your bench a little bit in terms of, you know, wing players, but, you know, if Aaron and Holliday wants to come through and give you 10. points off the bench and give you some good minutes of point guard again we're sitting here I don't know dissecting a basketball team it's 13 and 4 and bludgeoning people

yeah they're doing quite well and their one loss was the tough one against I mean over the slat not one loss but over their last nine is that Nuggets game that one hurt Denver, San Antonio Oklahoma City and Detroit and

That's it. Four teams are going to all win 50 games this year. They're going to dog in a group there. You know what I mean? The West is so murderous. This is so good. Don't know what I'm talking about it.

I don't want to talk about it. I want to talk about a rocket's annihilation of the Utah Jazz tonight. Okay. By the way, if you got in on the win total, the wind total when Fred Van Bleet got hurt, dropped in the high 40s for some people.

I don't know if you jumped in on that, Rossi, Maybe that was a very good pickup if you did. I did not, because we cannot legally gamble here in Texas. That's why I said, well, you can't. I can't do it any of the 50 states. That's fine. All right. 102.

Let's get the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross started next. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. There is it to coach. They owe him 43 Millie. Kentucky Fire. is Mark Stoops. They owe him $37 million. Yeah.

What? Okay, come on. Kentucky, come on. Here's the thing. They owe him $37 million. They had to give it to him within 60 days. Okay, so let's pretend we're in a world where you get fired from your job. You get the contract paid out, Rossi, and you've got 60 days to cut a guy a check for $37 million.

We're in the wrong business. We are the wrong business. Goodness gracious. What is the... I understand getting upset at, like, LSU and... Come on, Kentucky. Let's see. How bad was this season? Oh. Oh, five and seven?

That's fine. It could have been six and six if you'd have been beat in Texas. They should have. That's another counter argument, by the way. everybody's like not everybody but a lot of Longhorn's fans they won three games okay you should have lost against

probably well Kentucky whatever it was close to should have lost and you should have lost to Mississippi State it is what it is it is what it is I got Longhorn fans DMing me all this

Coach Sark says we're not going to play big games anymore okay take your ball and go home go and cry you don't want to do you want to play the big games that's fine it's a bunch of whiner a bunch of all you know

college fans, every college fan base, a bunch of winers. Do you respond to those DMs like you'd respond to the other DMs you told me about? Yeah, I've responded to everybody who read. That's why my DMs are open at Sports RVs so I can talk to fans and interact with people and stuff like that. Mine are open too.

So if you want to, if you ever need to send me a DM, you can do that. At SportsM. By the way, shout out to Twitter. They are getting rid of these dormant slash spam accounts. so we're getting a truer sense of how many people really follow people. Uh-oh. What?

Nothing. I think I'm about to get lectured. By whom? Look, oh, well, you'll see when he just put on hold. It's time for a old lecture. Are you getting a lecture? No, no. Not you.

All right, ten minutes. Oh, here we go. You know what we got to do it I had a great time at the game Hook of Horns Did you see Longhorn Scott at the game? I don't think so Was he at the game?

I think so That's what So nasty that right TX Hobo Girl was asking Apparently my pictures are near here So I don't know where he was All right it says Ross

Awful comment about UT Let's go I rarely ever say this In the history of this radio show But Longhorn Scott Take as much time as you need I mean, it's like, I don't understand how this happens because Ross seems like, you know, a great guy. But, God, dude, your takes on Texas are always just terrible.

Like, the idea, like, just now, I mean, I haven't even been listening very long. For starters, the game of, well, they should have lost of it. Hold on. They did not lose to Kentucky. They did not lose to Mississippi State. If you want to go there, A&M should have lost to South Carolina. A&M should have lost to Arkansas. They didn't.

They beat them. Were they close? Yeah. A&M barely beat South Carolina. It's part of their 11-1 record. No one's saying that about them. Look, the idea, but here's the bottom line. You know, I'm not a big fan of this idea of like, well, well, then we just won't schedule big games.

I mean, like, I got no problem with the idea of saying, no, no, we're going to stick to it, and we're going to keep playing these big games. Okay, that's fine. However, I also have no problem whatsoever with a school saying, hey, look, The reward is less than the risk. At the end of the day, you get punished. There's more to lose if you lose that game than there is to win if you win it. So if a win is a win, then go schedule a team wherein your chances are much higher of getting the win.

That way, you get the win, and then you have fewer Ls. And so thus you wind up in the playoff. I mean, it's really basic stuff. They're doing this in a way that is – the whole sport. is about, it's been spiraling with NIL and automatic transit. But like, Ross, I mean, you claim to be a Longhorn.

Okay, hold on. I'm putting you on hold for one second, Longhorn, Scott. We were talking about, I wasn't, first of all, I wasn't making an overall point, like, hey, the Longhorn's resume is weak because they almost lost to Mississippi State. I'm talking about when we're getting into the details of the resume and where it is, when there are

people who are being homers who are saying, yeah, but look at this and look at this and look at this. It's like, But it's not like the Texas is some unstoppable force. And they have this diamond resume, Teflon resume, to where you can't poke holes into it. That's what I was saying that as a counter argument too. So I was not specifically pointing up and saying,

oh, you know what, Texas didn't have a really good season because they almost lost the Mississippi State. I'm saying if you want to be on the other side to where people are acting like this resume with the top 10 wins, it's not that great of a resume. It really isn't because they did lose the three games. They lost to a 4-8 Florida team.

They could have very well lost to Kentucky or Mississippi State. So to say that they are undeniably one of the best teams in college football, and there's no doubt about it that they should be in, I'm disagreeing with that. That's what I'm saying. I guess my thought would be this. If you get truly analytical about it, I mean, I'm not going to lose any sleep. I mean, we beat Arkansas OU and, of course, little brother again.

Like, follow me. Like, if we wind up as a 10-and-3 team, and that's one of our bad years, you know, I've seen much worse. But I would say this, if you're truly going to be thoughtful, which they allege to be thoughtful, and you start to look at the numbers, and you start to go, no, like, there is a legitimate, strong argument for a 9-and-3 Texas, to get in over several of the 10-and-2 teams. I'm not going to lose any sleepover, and I'm not going to die on the hill. But at the end of the day, within the context of people who are saying that UT is a lock cinch, that's because in part of the wins.

I mean, you go on the road, you win games, and either you want them or you lose them. And they won most of them. And three against the top 10, only one other team ever. Not just recently ever in regular season has done that. It was LSU among what was one of the greatest teams ever, allegedly, when they were good. But if that was so easy to do, then why don't people do it more often? It's not irrelevant. Anyway, come on, Ross.

Do better, bro. How come? Yeah, do better, bro. They're one of the 12 best teams in the country. If we're boiling it down to that, are the Longhorns one of the best 12 teams in the country? Should they be in, yes. Are there holes in the resume? Yes.

So, I mean, I don't think we're as split a far. as Longhorn Scott is thinking. And as I said, I was just pulling that up as a side point as a counter argument to people who act like Texas has this not perfect resume, but no doubt about it should be in resume. That's just not the case. No, and I don't, and clearly, the college football committee said as much.

I mean, you guys took the pretty far drop. It's going to, and you said, you got no favors from anybody over the weekend, too. No favors from anybody. And it is, it is a fact. In my mind, if they were 10 and 2 with a victory over whoever, Rice, instead of a loss to Ohio State, they would be in. But I still want them to play the big games. Big games are fun. They matter. And especially for season ticket holders, you get these big name teams coming in.

Next year, the home schedule for the Longhorns outside of the Ohio State game is not good. It matter. It should matter for the prestige. It should matter for daring to be great. It should matter for your season ticket holders to play these big games. If I'm Texas, I schedule Yukon and Wake Forest. Let's go. But that's weak. That's just weak.

You're supposed to, no. I don't know. But I want to be in the playoff. And if I got the rule, look, Indiana. I mean, Indiana said, we're not scheduled anybody. Are you kidding me? We got Big Ten schedule. In 2023, Texas would not have made the playoff if they did not go on the road and beat Alabama.

They wouldn't have made it. So it did matter. You know what, you're absolutely right, but in more times and not, I mean, are we going to, we're going to look back at this. Well, Longhorn fans 10 years from now go, well, if we didn't schedule, not scheduled Ohio State, we'd have been in it. You know that's going to happen. Beat Florida. Beed Florida. I got a crazy idea. Beat Ohio State. Are they? I got another crazy idea. Beat Georgia.

Oh, ho. Ho! Ho! Win the games. Win the games. No one are Longhorn fans hate you. All right. One 16. It is the match. Because I'm reasonable. Longhorn Scott is a massive homer. And that's fine. That's been his shtick for a decade plus on these airwaves. And he's always going to see something with orange tint and glasses. I, while I am a homer, I can also be reasonable and I can see the other sides of things.

And so if that makes me a bad fan or whatever, that's fine. But as I said, I'm on group text with other people. We're talking about this. And everybody's on the same page with me that, hey, it's not some great travesty if they don't get in. But they are one of the 12 best teams in football. They are. They should be in by that measure. Yep, but there are two

automatics that will kick you up, probably. All right, one team, let's get to a short time out here. 713-212-5-7-90. Lane Kiffin, believe it or not, today, sports RV? Got to be, right? Sure. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Congratulations to Connor Wigna, the Big 12 offensive player of the week.

Cougar is getting win number nine against the Baylor Bears. That is your update on the Cougars, presented to you by the joint chiropractor, the official chiropractor of the Houston Cougars. Cougars will not know who they're going to be playing in a bowl game because that won't be announced until one week from today. Actually, probably a lot of that come out on Sunday after the championship games. As far as what we're hearing, I mean, A&M's going to have a home game.

I mean, I know that A&M's pissed they lost and they're, you know, the little brothers thing. But that's going to be fun to have a game at Calfield. I mean, that's why I think, Rossi, if I could reinvent this college football wheel, to have the first two rounds at a home stadium, I just think it makes such a difference, but that's never going to happen. In fact, I think we may even see a trend warming. We may even lose those first round games to neutral sites because the money is going to be too good. Big money sponsors.

It's all about the money, money, money. That's why there's 12 teams in the playoffs. That's why they're probably going to fight for 16 now. So if we get to 16, are we going to finally end this? Are we going to have a serious argument about 17 and 18 not getting in? Yep, absolutely. I guess you're right. I was hoping that maybe 16 would be the definitive spot.

Yeah, I mean, nobody's got a super crazy argument. I mean, outside of 12, like I said, you can poke holes in Texas's resume, which is all I was saying. So you get all our panties in a bunch. Don't go to Honefans.net. Oh, here we go. You know what? I get crucified on every website these days, and that's fine, because I'm just speaking my mind. That means you got something to say.

Jesus. Let's see. Right now, 16 would be, well, they're 10 and 2. Virginia probably thinks they have an argument, I guess. BYU would definitely, I'm here in Salt Lake, and people here are like, we've got to get BYU and, like, bra, you only hear getting in is you beat Texas Tech.

You beat Texas Tech Saturday. You're going to the game. You're going to be in the tournament. And then they would both be in. That would be really bad for fringe teams. which would kick out a team but you didn't then have two big 12 teams in. Hmm.

Look, I don't have a fight in this Notre Dame world of ours, but Notre Dame just gets to play their schedule and doesn't have to worry about a conference slate. I mean, yeah, but they schedule fairly tough in theory. I mean... Well, they have to play at least four ACCs. I get that, but they kind of choose who their ACCs are.

They don't get them handed to them. I don't think. Yeah, is that true? I don't know how that works. Yeah. Yeah, they're two toughest games. They lost. Yeah.

Who's their best win? I mean, USC? USC's top 20. Yeah. I mean, and there should be a tough schedule. Miami and A&M, they lost, too. Arkansas, Purdue, USC. Maybe not.

No, this, you know what, this schedule sucks. I'll shut up. They always play Navy. They always play USC. Although the USC Notre Dame series, I think, has been, needs to be scheduled, I think. In the future? Yeah.

I mean, USC's 17th. This is the beauty of college football is you can poke hole. Unless you're undefeated and won every game by 21, you can poke the hole in anybody's resume, just about. By the way, what a... Like Georgia lost to Bama, almost lost to terrible Tennessee, almost lost of Florida, who's bad. Like, you can poke a hole in just about everything.

Almost did this. Had to go to overtime with this. Georgia Tech, yeah. Yeah. How about a non-sec, how about originally a sexy hire that turned out to be just so mid-hire as Lincoln Riley at USC.

He's getting paid too. Pay a lot of money. And they've got money too. I mean, man, they do. Yeah, whatever happened. This is funny to me. Everybody's the hot name until they're not. I think the storyline of college athletics,

at least for this year, for me has been the amount of coaches have been fired and the amount of money being paid out. Franklin Kelly Um Norvel No I mean

Who is it Florida Oh Napier The other guy Billy Napier I mean we're seeing crazy amounts of money being paid out

It's almost like sign the deal And then mail in your career Because look at your frank I mean, not the James Franklin. Jimbo. Look at James Franklin. I mean, he wouldn't got a new job. I get that.

But he was going to get a lot of money for leaving Penn State for not finishing the job. But now he's got a pretty good chunk of change to go to Virginia Tech. I mean, not a bad. Generally, these guys who rise to the top are, like, they're workaholics. They are. You've got to be a workaholic to rise to the level of a top tier college coach. Yeah, that's true. That's right.

Let's go to a quick timeout. KJ and Brian will get to both you coming back in a minute. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. All right, let's get right back at. A lot of folks want to say hello. Let's talk first to KJ on 790 at 133. Hi, KJ. Hey, what's that, brother, from another, man?

A long time, this is again, bad at the show. I'm going to start out with a two-part question, and I've got to state this to me. Real quick. but my two-part question is first part is do you guys have a timetable that's when Teng Dale is expected back part one and part two

is when St. Dale is healthy? That's why receiver room it's already looking pretty good right now and it's going to look even better when he's available. So who do you think once Tengel is healthy and on the field I love the way Xavier Hutchinson has stepped up this year.

I'm not really impressive what we've gotten out of Christian Kirk, but other than him, the other guys are looking real good. So I'm imagining that somebody's going on the outside looking in. I remember when I came out of high school and Kim Helton came and recruited people football. I'm pretty sure you remember about Kim, don't you, Matt? Of course.

He had an all about him. There was a genuineness about him when I talked about me playing I didn't stay at U of H but it wasn't because of him as a present and the pressure that he gave me if I were coming out of high school

right now there was nothing that would want to have a leg kid sitting on my parents' house I remember in the documentary about the 5-5 with Chris Weber said that he came into an arena and saw everybody wearing

number four Michigan vacuum on Jersey but he only had $10 and three ramen noodles to his name. This is why I'm a fan of the NIL. The NCAA opposite NIL came to play with the whole 18 and 19-year-old kids accountable or something they weren't holding grown men accountable for.

This land-tipper situation is despicable. He is ridiculous, and this is all the more reason why I think we're that much closer to not just regulating NIL, but also regulating the ins and out of what coaches care that kids do when they sign. and quote, unquote, a contract. Because Lane Kiffin has given a black eye, not just to coaches in yellow,

but the NCAA and their own post a lack of when it comes to regulating these standards they hold these coaches to that they weren't prior to NIL holding these kids to. I don't want to hear what you guys got to say, man. As usual, let it show. Thank you, KJ. To answer your first point really quickly,

Tankdale, I don't think would be, I mean, I can tell you fact, we'll be playing this season. He'll have a chance to obviously come back and play next season. Christian Kirk would be the odd man out. Rossi, look, I love me some Tankdale, go coogs, but man, two injuries, two straight seasons, season plus ending injury. I don't see him being a long-term NFL player. I just think the body just isn't big enough to go. And I know they've been freakish injuries, but injuries are still injuries.

Yeah, I'm not keeping my hopes up. I don't know when he's supposed to be back, especially, I mean, just so much of his game was predicated on his quickness and speed, obviously not size and strength. And by the way, to the second point, real quick, and Ross, you agree to disagree. There'll be no regulation of college athletics. Nobody wants to step in that. Nobody wants that responsibility because the thought of what Alabama and Michigan and Penn State, state and Florida want are nothing close to what Boise State, UNLV,

and if that matter, BYU and Houston want. Not going to happen. We're never going to get one. No chance. That's fair to say. Unless, it literally would have to be turned to professional sports. I don't know if and when that'll ever happen.

That's what it has been. Because they keep losing all these, they keep losing all these court cases because they have basically been running like a professional outfit for decades. Just give me a W2, let's go. I mean, you're representing our school, and that's cool and everything, but you're not going to class, and you're running up going to be at three different schools

by the time you graduate, or if you even bother graduating. It's a minor league, and I've given up on the genuine, I mean, there's Saturday pageantry, but that's as far as it goes. Monday through Friday and Sunday, we talk about everything else. Saturday, it's about the games. Yeah, I don't care. I didn't care about N. I don't care about N.

I'm tailgating and screaming my lungs out. at the games. It's still a good time. It was a good time. Yeah. Saturday is the day we reroute the games. Everything else, we just bemoan the industry. Scott's with us at 138. Hi, Scott. What's going on, guys?

So I almost feel embarrassed at this point. A couple weeks ago, I called in pretty ridiculously emotional about the Landkiffin situation. I don't know if y'all remember, but I'm an Ole Miss fan. I was sleep deprived that morning when I called in. He had me so stressed out

I woke up that morning like 3 o'clock, just, you know, way overreacting to the whole situation. I remember hanging up the phone like, God, I would kind of act like a child on live radio. So that wasn't my favorite moment that I did. But I can speak as an Ole Miss fan now that this is, it is somewhat of a relief. I mean, yeah, we wanted him to stay for a while, but we kind of accepted the fact that he was leaving about a week, week and a half ago. I mean, really, if you look back on it, as soon as he didn't sign the contract, mentioned what my Kurt Signetti did and all that stuff in the middle of the season, it was pretty obvious what he wanted to do. It's easy for me to say this now. I know I don't get much credibility

for saying this now, but he's a bad guy. He is narcissistic. He's very enjoyable to listen to do a press conference. He's obviously a good coach. He's a good recruiter. But even if you, he really is not for me. I can't do it anymore. But for y'all, he's worth a follow on Instagram. I mean, He is one of the biggest narcissists you could ever lay your hands on. And I'm sure it's not just him that's narcissistic in the head coaching world in college football. But what I will say is he's the only one out of the major schools that didn't sign an extension in state. If you look at Cignetti, like I mentioned, the Missouri coach, Dan Langing wasn't going anywhere. He has always been in it for how it's a reflection on himself.

And he thinks LSU is a great brand. And I'm sure a lot of LSU friends, what I've told them, it may not be this year, it may not be next year, and there may be some success before this happens, but one day you are going to hate him just as much as I hate him. And I can promise you that will happen. The other thing I wanted to say really quick, totally unrelated, but I wanted to cash this in before maybe the chiefs towards the Texans. at some point I'd given a gut feeling before the season that this Texans defense may be would be the best unit in the history of the franchise and I think that's pretty clear in a way becoming the case at this point that they're the best overall side of the ball for any year we've ever had so I wanted to cash that one in but I'm going to talk to you

guys thank you very much Scott and we feel your pain no I mean I can't please tell me LSU fan and where is Gordy by the way is he even around yes he is around. What do you need? He's not brack. I mean, we don't have time to get him in here, but I mean, he ain't coming around. He knows what he's hired, right? He can't be that blind, right? Oh, no.

You've hired a snake. You know that. Now, he'll win you football games. Good for you. But do you hire a snake? Oh, God. I want to go back and look to some old, locked on SEC shows and see how your take was on old Lane Kevin about, say, six months ago. What, what if, Matt, if ESPN called tomorrow and said, we want to hire you as a play-by-play guy,

we, you could go and we would understand. It's a better job. Yeah, I'm okay. Yeah, I'm not, again, I'm not begrudging the job, but just know what you're hiring. That's all I'm saying. So why is he a stake? Because he left for a better job? No, because he was trying to, he was trying to be politically correct and trying to weasel his

way to keep in the Ole Miss situation. And he wanted to finish his season with his players. It's crazy. no you don't get to do that you don't get to finish your season that's not crazy that's well that's on you take the loss shut out of the foot they will not win a championship because they fired their guy or got rid of him no that's not true they weren't guaranteed to win a championship they weren't even a favor to win the championship even if he was there oh so you're saying but he'll have a better chance at lSU i agree that's why he left yeah yeah but he's just

a douche he's a good football coach i don't mean because you come on you know what a douche is you got one in the room with you there right now i mean come on. Jonathan? Wow. I'm just rude. I want you to say

with a straight face, I think Lane Kiffin's a good stand-up guy. Say it right now on the radio. I think he's a hell of a football coach. He's going to win a lot of games.

I didn't ask you to say that. Because I agree with you on that. I want you to repeat. Lane Kiffin looks like a stand-up, good guy. Can't wait for him to come to the Baton Rouge community and be a huge part of our success

for the long, long-term. 10-15 years. No, he'll be here four or five, and we'll see if he went to championship. By the way, Alabama, go ask anybody around there. They thought Sabin was a total ass clam. Like, nobody liked dealing with him, but he won. All right. I don't know what I'm doing on a flight home tonight.

I'm going to look up some old locked on SEC and see what we can find me some gourdisms. If Willie Fritz is a nice guy, and if he wins at the highest level, that's great. But if Willie Fritz was a jerk and one at a high level, you know how many people would care? I wouldn't care. Take you with H to a playoffs. If he does that, I don't care of all these people. You need to listen to the show at 10 to 2. We said jerks win.

I'd rather ever jerked on a nice guy. I'd rather ever jerk to win and a nice guy who loses. I'm right there with you on that. But, I mean, if people want to call in and say that they don't think he's a good guy, then that shouldn't be. I don't think it's debatable. But good guys don't have to be good guys when you're good football coaches. They can be two separate things.

Thankfully, U of Hs and has both. Thanks, Gordy. We'll see you. We are out of time. We've got to play, believe it or not, next. So all of you that are on hold, that includes Scott. Brian's a regular to us. Scott's called on occasion.

I know James won't talk to U.H. football. Y. football. Y'all call in tomorrow because we want to hang out. Ross wants to hang out with you for four hours tomorrow. So bother him for a few days. Chris Gordy will be hanging out with me. We'll be breaking down how great of a guy Lane Kiffin is. Oh, God.

I may have, oh. Let me tell you. You must listen tomorrow and 10 to 2. It's going to be amazing. We're going to talk about how the two best college football coaches are Steve Sarkisian and Lane Kiffin. Whatever where do you want to put up? That's top two, baby. It's going to be like a college love fest on the show tomorrow.

Probably not. All right. Believe it or not, Lane Kiffin is a good dude. Believe it. Depends on if you're calling from the 504. You have a different opinion if you're sitting at the Oxford airport right now. Those poor Oxford people booing him and Charlie Weiss Jr. was on the plane, too. Boo! Get out of here!

They were dropping F-bombs on them. Think about us. We were polite when Tom Herman loved us. They're still bitter. Talk about stepping stone program. We got nine wins, baby. We got nine big, big wins. You better thank you, Jacks.

Steppenstone. Big 12 next year championship game. Yeah. Does it win against SFA count? Oh my God. Hey, they're in the playoffs. FCS.

Come on. FCS. How? What do you? What do you? Your tallest players, 5-8. What do you call me? How?

And they're in the playoff and you're not. Oh. Oh, wait a minute. Now wait a minute. Hey, get them. Get them. Seriously. Love this.

We don't have a, we don't, Playoffs a little different than yours. Yours is like, help me out analogy. Help me out, Ross. We've got five seconds here. Give an analogy. Oh, you know what? What's a division two, basically?

You know what? You're the number one team one in his girl tournament. Oof. Was that six? Six seven. 146. Ross, tell the folks about synergenics. 151, Sports Talk, 7-90.

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Lane Kiffin played college football at Fresno State as a backup quarterback. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. That's an easy Wikipedia check on that one. Andy on 790. ready to play believe it or not yes sir lane kiffin graduated from fresno state with a degree in leisure services management believe it or not believe it of course what is that like a travel agent statement number two for

the win in 14 seasons as a head coach lane kiffin has never won a conference championship believe it or not not that that's not That is right. He's won CUSA twice. Congratulations. Huge skins on the wall. Who were those, who was he coaching? Florida Atlantic. Florida Atlantic? Okay. Okay, okay. Thank you for that, Jonathan.

Jerry on 790. Jerry, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? All of it, bud. Lane Kiffin's 88 wins in Ole Miss are the second most in school history behind only David Cuth. Believe it or not. Believe it No, he's only got 74 wins Duh, third time, all time And he's ahead of a cutcliff

A cutcliff Stephen on 7, he ready to play Believe it or not Believe it Lane Kiffin was part of the Oakland Raiders Brass that pushed for the drafting of Jamarcus Russell Which contributed to his early firing

Believe it or not Not That is right, he won a no part of Jamarcus Russell Statement number two for the win USC athletic director Pat Hayden fired Lane Kiffin in a small room at the terminal at LAX

and then left Kiffin off the team bus believe it or not uh not no that is a believe it people think he was fired on the tarmac he actually was fired as Ross said in a small office let's go to

Hey Seuss on 790 Hey Susse has a bag on by the way oh really do you get charged service fees I don't know he didn't have his bags Hey, Sus, on 790, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? The whole thing. Lane Kiffin's brother, Chris, is a defensive coach,

and was the linebacker's coach for the Texans in 2023. Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it. How do you not have the coaching staff memorized from previous years? Gary on 790, Gary, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Lane Kiffin has been sober from alcohol since 2000.

believe it or not believe it that's right congratulations all right it's four hours of lane kiff and lovin with chris gordon as he'll hang out with ross for a while i look forward to talk guys on wednesday rockets basketball tonight against utah we'll have it for you beginning at seven with a tip at eight up next it's clinton it's wexler it's the team on sports talk 790