A

Foreign. Welcome in everyone to the Longhorn Republic, your source for Texas Longhorn news, sports and opinions with a bit of snark built in. We are members of the Dave Campbell's Texas Football Podcast Network and the College Football Huddle and you can find more about both those great organizations in our social media bios. If you like what we do, please leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcast and Spotify helps get the show out there. Share this on any podcast platform. We love to have you as part of our little community. Connect with us on social media at Longhorn Pod, on Twitter and Blue Sky, Facebook and Instagram the Longhorn Republic. Or shoot us an email Longhorner public quad@gmail.com. my name is Gerald Goodrich. Every host this week like I am every week and I'm joined by the Monster Energy, Kyle Carpenter. Presented by Kyle Carpenter. Kyle Carpenter how are you Gerald?

B

I'm good. I am not monster caffeinated up. I usually save those for when I'm on the road or when I'm, when I'm really needing it. You know, knock on on all kinds of wood. Kids are sleeping through the night. I'm doing okay. I am, I am decently rested and so no monster in me. But I will take, you know, the equivalent of like a thousand bucks a year or whatever the Big 12 is getting paid to to be sponsored. Monster. Absolutely. You could be a sponsor of this podcast.

A

We didn't make fun of this enough the last time. $1.25 million per school for the sponsorship, which is not enough to buy a quarterback with a gambling problem. That's not another conversation for another day. So quick programming update. We mentioned last week we're having some sched issues with our Ole Miss cohort and frankly, we are still building some relationships with our SEC co podcast communities. And so we have got some scheduling stuff worked out, but we are not going to have a team preview this week. We're going to do two of our positional previews this week and then we'll have two team previews next week. I just did an arm motion for myself and Kyle because nobody's actually watching this. It's a visual medium. But we'll have out we'll have two team previews this week. So we're having Kyle, what I have dubbed Infrastructure week. So today we're going to talk about the offensive line, one of my two favorite position groups. Then on Thursday we're going to talk about my other favorite position group, the defensive line. It's in the trenches. It's Infrastructure. It's the boring stuff that nobody ever really loves talking about, but it makes the difference of a successful football team.

B

Kyle Gerald, you are a tremendous producer as well as host of this podcast, but this is where a objective producer would be great because they could just edit before you said Infrastructure Week with some kind of loud drum intro to let people know Infrastructure Week. This is, this is the big one, folks. This is where football is one loss. We're talking trench warfare, much like I will in my Godzilla Tron a bit when I talk about, well, that's just a little tease. I'll leave it there. But we're talking trenches. This is, this is where for all the flash and the fast guys and the guys can throw the ball far. If you don't have these two parts of the game, and we've seen this with Texas football teams in the past, far too often on offense and defense, you don't win, you don't win football in, in 2026 without these. So this is a big week. I like that it actually works out nicely. I like that we're doing infrastructure. We. Infrastructure. Infrastructure week.

A

Yeah. So we'll talk about the offensive line today. I will talk about the defensive line on Thursday. I've also got down the 40 and bang the drum to close things out for the day. Kyle we talked a lot about the offensive line last year. The Texas offensive line under Steve Sarkeesian and Kyle Flood have had some really high points and had some really low points. And I will go ahead and say that 2/3 of the season last year were some low points of the Texas offensive line under Steve Sarkeesian and and Kyle Flood. Texas played five different combinations of offensive linemen last year due to injury, but also due to not knowing who their best five or seven guys were. The only player to not miss a game due to injury or be rotated out of the lineup was Trevor Goosby, who also is now one of the most highly compensated players on the team because a a cornerstone left tackle is hard to come by, chose to come back to Texas this year. The only other player they got close with, D.J. campbell, who was 1213 last year, Vandy after getting injured against Mississippi State. But the final combination that Texas landed on to end the season for the last five weeks, Trevor Goosby, Cole Hudson, Connor Robertson, DJ Campbell and then Brandon Baker at right tackle. And we saw that combination not just kind of find success and kind of gel, but we also saw the second level impacts of that because Arch Manning started to have his best weeks. Shockingly enough, where the last five weeks of the season, last five games of the season where Texas seemingly landed on its best offensive line combination. So that, to me, sparks a little bit of a huh, Maybe that could be a big reason this season. And that's why I think Texas went out and spent some money in the portal. So the 2026 group looks to be going from left to right. Goosby coming back. Lawrence Seymour, the transfer from Western Kentucky, but bounced around a bit prior to that. Connor Robertson back the last member of the 2022 recruiting class. Brandon Baker shifting from tackle back inside to guard where he played some last year and actually made himself a little bit money there. And a Melvin Ciani, one of the top transfers in the Portal from Wake Forest. So we've talked a lot about Texas really going all in with the running backs, going all in with the wide receivers and Cam Coleman, but none of that matters if they also don't push all the chips in the center by getting Lawrence Seymour and Melvin Ciani out of the portal. Two of the top 10 offensive linemen of this cycle. So it feels like this group, they, they knew what they had on campus and needed to bolster the group with those two guys.

B

Gerald, you are a scholar of most, if not all tomes, including the the biblical one. There's, there's a verse where Abraham beget Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob. And it goes on like that for a bit. You learn some lineage, family tree.com or whatever in Matthew. But there's, there's the begat, begat. And you can kind of look at Texas's success in the second half of the season. You, you hinted at it there with, with a solidified best five on the offensive line, begat better Arch Manning passing, which actually begat Mosley, emerging as our best wide receiver. And so like we're bringing all those best parts of last year at the end of the season to the forefront this year. And you hope there's not things that have to trickle down to make the Texas play their best football, especially because the schedule is brutal and it starts off, you know, tough with Ohio State in Week two. So you hope they figure it out pretty quickly. There's some addition by subtraction. Simply like I hate to say that about guys who put on the burnt orange, but I don't know in my like, the offensive line isn't the, it wasn't the worst offensive line I've ever seen. It was certainly one of the worst Texas offensive lines I've seen, especially in that middle point. Real doldrums of the season and I don't know that I've truly seen a position as inferior to it. The parts that immediately surrounded it then the Texas left tackle like solution like it reminded me a little bit of George R.R. martin who just can't finish the books because he get what is it the Westerosi knot or whatever. He's tied himself so tight. Just there is no solution. And that's how it felt last year watching Texas football. They. They ultimately found something like you said getting. Getting both effectively centers on their depth chart on there and getting one of them in in left guard. But they went out and they. They though Connor Schroe and his kind of inability to move his feet is gone and and Nick Brooks made his way out and some players who you know either had a lot of potential or just needed to move on like they cleared out and they came and filled it in with two players specifically who I think have a ton of potential, have a ton of experience, have an instant upgrade from where we were right. I think we bringing in Larry S.E. seymour or Lawrence Seymour as it were from most of the schools in the greater United States I believe Miami, Akron, Western Kentucky. Finally Mama called. He's coming home to Texas, the Big four. When you go that order I don't understand it but I love it was one of the top interior offensive line and overall offensive line. The portal. He was such an interesting one because he's coming back for a sixth year. We're this was before the five and five signed him late. Didn't know if he's going to get his waiver. After the portal window closed there was lingering questions. Big day when we got him approved because remember he was the second team all American by at least one publication last year. Right. He.

A

Yeah he's.

B

Reports have said that he's come in looking lean and small and I don't know if you know the the bulk up will happen a bit more and once he gets pads on what he'll look like. It's interesting. Like this is a. A line that has a lot of speed ability ability to move. They don't have a lot of just road grading bulk. And so I kind of thought Seymour might bring a bit of that. But yeah, reports have been he's a little bit lean so I'm curious to see what he looks like. I think it's a foregone conclusion that, you know the the player out of Western Kentucky is going to start for us. If not it's because, you know Sakowski Sikorski from Oregon State, who himself was a starter for the second half of that season. 64344 Big fella who will probably be in the center rotation as well because he's inserted himself. But I think likely it will start with a Goosebie, Seymour, Robertson, Baker, Siani and so Siani, what's that name? Well, if you haven't paid attention,

A

we

B

talked about the Portal and all the hype and money in fact that Cam Coleman gets. I said a few times in a few different ways, I think Rasheem Biles and Melvin Siani probably were the steals of the Portal. For Texas, it might be the two most important Portal players who ultimately set the floor ceiling. Final destination of where this Texas team goes. One on the offensive side and one on the defense.

A

Yeah, and you know, there you mentioned a couple of guys that could be in the rotation and really a good offensive line unit is, you know, being able to play five with two in reserve or three in reserve. So, you know, whoever in, you know, Ciani and, and Seymour didn't come here to ride pine. Right. That's not what they came to Texas to do. So I would be shocked if they're not in this starting lineup. But I think the, the, the curiosity. You mentioned this. I Texas wants to run the ball more, but I don't think Seymour or Cianni, I would not consider them plus run blockers. I'd consider them better pass blockers than they are. And I think that's going to be something that we have to calibrate because of all of the things that the critic of DJ Campbell last year and I had quite a bit because I had really high hopes for him. The thing he was good at seemingly was the run blocking. He had that mean streak. He had that like put somebody's backside in the dirt and, and get him down and create some space. So I'm curious to see that like there was, you know, pro football focus is what it is. It's. It's got its uses. But just from like a, I needed some sort of statistical. Like Cianni had a 20 point difference between his run blocking grade and his pass block grade. He was in the 80s as a pass. Blocker. He was at the 60s as a run blocker. Didn't give up a single sack last year as a pass blocker which is incredible.

B

Right.

A

Even the ACC is kind of down. But like what you're going to. A blind squirrel catches a nut every now and again. Right. And so that's like Ciani didn't give up a single sack. But again, you know Wake Forest had some trouble running the ball and Tianni, you know, had some struggles in that moment. So again, you can't like hang your hat on pro football focus numbers because there's a lot that goes into it. But ultimately, like, I think that's the question I have. It's like Sark talks about wanting to run the ball and they invested heavily in Relique Brown and Hollywood Smothers and so do they. Will they have the ability to do that? What is Sark going to be able to do now? You've got guys who maybe are a little lighter on their feet and can move their feet a little better because that's, that's really what Kyle Flood likes to do. The pin and poles and a lot of movement along the offensive line. I'm, I'm not going to be sad that I'm not going to have to watch, you know, Connor Stroh's feet and paint cans trying to pull around the edge. Like, I'm not, I'm not gonna be sad to watch these guys moving in molasses trying to pull. So if, if either these, you know, because, you know, Seymour came in, I think a little lighter than he came, then he left Western Kentucky. I think Siani has kind of reshaped his body a little bit. So I'm curious to see what that looks like because there's a lot of movement that Sark and Kyle Flood expect from this group when they're, when they're creating their run block schemes.

B

And I think movement, honestly, like, is the key to this line. Like, as you think about why Baker moved to guard, it's, he's projects there at the NFL. First of all, he can be a hybrid in the NFL. Sure. And can be a hybrid in the future for Texas at tackle. But I think his best money making position is at guard because of his physical trait. He's, he's incredibly athletic and I think, you know, if he's being coached up and he's able to put it all together, that helps a lot there. If Seymour's coming in and moving and kind of leaned out and moving the way that we think he is. Both of our tackles are really, really, really good at moving. Goosby, probably the best tackle in the country at getting out in space and, and his agility at that position. So there's, there's really a lot of guys who can move on this offensive line. You don't have, like I talked about, just true big body road graders get in there, drive from the middle and push people around and that might be the area of concern. Like, I think that is rightfully one to question. But I think one thing with Siani, like he's not the finished product. Right. He was a red shirt sophomore. We know that there's more meat on the bone. He's getting his best coach he's ever had with, with Kyle Flood, his development here, his best strength and conditioning program. Like that's going to be good. He had a running back who went in the sixth round last year, Damon Claiborne. I believe he runs like a 4, 3 7. So he's blocked specifically for the type of running backs the Texas just went out and got in the portal. I think that's probably not a coincidence. Like lightning speed, guys. The Demon Deacons were sixth in the ACC in rushing. They were bottom six in passing. They weren't a particularly good passing team. Even though you had Siani being a good pass blocker, the rest of the line really wasn't great. So their running game had to work when they weren't just throwing the ball all over. And it's, it wasn't tremendous. But if you look down at the stats, I actually dug in a bit and, and you looked at what Claiborne did, his rushes, it was almost 2 yards, I believe 2 yards more per carry when he ran to the left side. Remember, Siani was a left tackle for, for. Because he was our best player. He's gonna move the right tackle for us. But to the left side. Almost 2 yards of carry more when he ran outside of the guard to the left side versus that to the right. So again, it could just be a bad right tackle. But I think what you're seeing, and it was 7, 7.3 yards per carry came when he ran behind Siani. So I think there's something there. Even though he wasn't a dedicated run blocker, that wasn't what got him the money that it did. And the portal got him the, the, the, the ranking and all of that and got Texas eyes on him. But I wonder if there is a lot of upside there and it's the reason that they felt they could pass on Jordan Seaton and get Siani, save millions of dollars and spend that elsewhere in the roster and get a really good player who could come back another year as he, this will be his junior season and be an anchor for this team next year like that. There is a, there's a pretty alluring piece to what the ceiling could look like there with him. So I, I'm a little bit more bullish than you on his run blocking, but I think he brings really elite pass blocking. You will go in instantly with the best pair of tackles in the sec. Pass blocking wise. And really, when we think about this team and the way it's set up, the running backs might be the skill set that the top two have to optimize. The fact that this is a line that has athleticism but not pure power on the inside. So you may see some outside zone and some breaks that way and you may see some two yard runs where you get a little frustrated because we didn't, you know, push nose tackles around. Baker didn't pick it up in week two and three. But I like what we have here. I think the depth so much better, the overall talent so much better. Like everything is an upgrade. We, we said this has to be upgraded. They spent like it had to be. They went out and they did the thing like, just remember, you know, they can play. The Colemans are starting to get a little buzz. The young guys, the twins, that they could, you know, Devin could play it at guard and, and Jordan could. Could play at tackle. Possibly Chapman can play inside or, or maybe even outside Kojo as a guy who can play both. They have more depth, turn team by the end of the year. Maybe I don't want to see him in the beginning of the year, but a really high, highly rated recruit maybe gives you depth later in the year. They have a lot more depth that it feels like they can rely on this year than last year. Last year, as soon as one thing broke, they had no answers. It took them weeks and weeks and weeks to just string together a floor. They never had a floor. They just kept dropping and dropping.

A

Yeah. And don't hear me saying that I don't think the run blocking is going to be good. I was like, if there's a question about this unit, it's going to be that. And I think we could again be. Texas spent a lot on those running backs. I really do want to see it. And you know, I think Texas is finally in a position, I say finally backed in a position where if there is an injury, they can replace one with one. That was a big problem I think that Texas had over the last couple of years is that somebody would get hurt. And then you had to kind of play a shell game on the offensive line where I think they can probably, you know, if somebody goes down, they could slot Sikorski in or they could slot Chapman in rather than having to say, okay, now Baker, you're going to slide out to tackle. We're going to slide in a guard. Right. You're replacing two with one. Yeah, one with two at that point. So that. So things get really weird when you do that. So I think that's going to be great. So, you know, the offensive line is going to have a lot to say about the success of Texas. Again, the skill positions don't really, I don't say don't matter, but you know, there's an old meme that I've seen around NFL draft time when folks are debating on drafting quarterbacks versus drafting linemen and it's a good quarterback behind a bad offensive line, he's getting sacked. And a bad quarterback behind a good offensive line and he's throwing the ball. And that's I think going to be the difference. Like Arch looked like a bad quarterback behind a poorly constructed offensive line and he looked like a really good quarterback behind a good offensive line. I think that to me is the nuts and bolts of what Texas is going to be in 2026.

B

And we talked about it in our quarterback preview. Right. I actually think Arch benefited from the, the hazing he had last year, what he had to do. I mean people watching tape routinely weren't watching Arch, but ended up watching Arch have to evade so constantly. Like he basically did that Madden drill where they're just shooting comets at you and you have to duck. Like he, he never was able to set his feet in a clean pocket for any length of time. You saw that uncomfortableness for the first year full time starter in the beginning. Like I said, multiple things begat others. Towards the end of the year, Wyatt actually worked. But, but it is consistency at the offensive line. If they've raised the ceiling, which we know they obviously have with the talent pool and they've raised the floor with removing just the absolute question mark at left guard, bringing, you know, a player like Siani in with his experience, bringing in Seymour with all of his experience, just adding that in bringing back Robertson. I don't think Cole Hudson, who's suing the NCAA necessarily figures into this. Could be wrong. Let's, let's revisit this in a couple months. But, but just the experience that, that they have. You know, Goosby could have been a good pick this year. He's going to, barring catastrophe, be a really, really well paid, well compensated, likely first round, maybe first offensive lineman level. If he has the year, we think he could have. Like they brought back the players that, I mean they have three of five starters, although one will be in a different position coming back from A bad unit and you've got the center where you want experience, which is good. You got the left tackle, which is the most important position. And then he brought an experienced, really good left tackle, moving him to right tackle. I feel pretty good that they can make the guard play, work around that spine. But you know, we've said that before and seen it not happen. So do they have a good enough unit to get to the playoffs this year? Absolutely. Do they have a good enough unit to win the national championship? That's what we'll be seeing. So when we talk about deficiencies or where, you know, points of concern, that's kind of the calculus that we're talking about. Like this raised that floor with the great passing options that Arch has to throw to, with the much improved, much, much most improved room on the team. Much, much improved running back room. Like the offensive floor has been raised. That is established, it's been done. Now we see where that ceiling is and, and you know, is this a national championship contending offensive line? That's, that's the stakes in the level that we're talking and, and that's the expectation for Sark and that's what he's created and that's what he wants. And so now this group and Kyle flood his coaching and have to go out and prove it.

A

Yeah, they've got to prove it and they've got to prove it quickly. Ohio State Week 2. Not as many first round names as they the defense had a year ago, but still it's Ohio State. They're going to have dudes. So we'll be back on Thursday to talk about the flip side of the ball, the defensive line and what Texas brings to the table there and under a new defensive scheme with Will Muschamp. But that brings us to the part of the show where we whip around the rest of campus and we down the 40 and we'll start on the diamond, the ladies diamond. Ladies sports heavy down the 40 today, starting with softball's Patty Ruth Taylor being named the National Fast Pitch Coaches association assistant coach of the year. Well earned by her that she had three players earn all ACC honors as the pitching coach. On top of Tegan Kavan becoming the only player in college women's College World Series history to earn multiple Women's College World Series most outstanding player after doing it in back to back years.

B

Yeah, I saw they were actually honored at the Astros game this week. It was pretty exciting to see the trophy make its way to Houston and be on display so that the, the Astros players could have some inspiration to strive for. Been a few years since they've brought a trophy home. But yeah, I mean remember this team was good all over but they were especially great in the pitching staff that Patty Ruth Taylor had her hands directly on. The pitching staff had the second lowest ERA in conference, second most K's, 414 strikeouts on the year. That's a, that's a nice number. Obviously a lot of that begins and ends with Tegan, but I mean you saw what the pitching staff did. The depth that they had, the ability to get the best out of Lali Gutierrez, the best out of multiple pitchers. I think really great job when that that team as they go for a three peat. The arms will be a huge part of that and they brought in additional ones but will be a huge part of them going for the vaunted three in a row.

A

Can they hit the three peat canteen. Kavan set an unbreakable record on her third consecutive mlp. Women's soft college football is still very much a pitchers game. There's a lot of home runs hit, but it's still very much a pitchers game. Keeping it in women's athletics. Official. Official. Now that the year is over, Texas women athletics earned the Capital One cup yet again. The nation's top women's athletic program. Fourth time in the last five years that they've earned the honor.

B

Yeah, I mean the, the common refrain from, from haters, from those in Norman, those in Colitization, and weirdly those in Lubbock obviously is that Texas is a swimming and diving school because there's a lot of those trophies in the case. I get that. Like I'm going to help you and I know you're listening to this. I know Aggies, Red Raiders, Sooner Spaylor Bears, TCU Horn Frogs, etc. I know you're all listening to this. If you want to correctly jibe Texas, you say Texas is a women's sports school. And that's true. It is. They're really, really good men's sports school. But they're the by far best women's sports school in the country. And I think that's awesome.

A

Yeah, I mean it's quite, you know, Stanford is routinely the, the competition for their beat them by nine points. Thanks for getting that dub at the end of the year, ladies for that one big win for them. And again, Texas continues to set the standard for women's athletics and the men's teams are not far behind. A better result from football and I think we probably would have gotten a little bit more Shine there. I'm curious to see how the track and field squads will factor into that in the coming years. But that brings us to the part of the show where we honor one of the best traditions in all of college athletics, Big Bertha. And we bang the drum brought to you by Joe Ruiz. So, Kyle, what are you begging the drum on this week?

B

Gerald, it's the, it's that official time on the calendar where if you love sports like you and I and many of our listeners do, it's a little bit tough. Like it, the World cup has been a nice little surprise. It's, it's been taken the the country and honestly the world by storm. And it ended with Spain winning the World Cup. Sorry if that's a spoiler alert for you a few days later. But with Spain winning the World cup and the World cup sadly ending, that papered over a little bit of where we're at on the calendar. We basically have some mid major golf and regular season baseball. Not the two most exciting things on the calendar until, I don't know, I guess the Premier League kicks off. If that's your jam, like it is mine in late August. I believe some somewhere around there, like we have a really slow time, you know, you're just not gonna come home and, and have the, the sporting calendar that we've had in, in weeks or months past where you can turn it on and just be enthralled. What does that mean for those of you listening to this? Yes, it's sad. I like you feel the hangover. I don't know, like the Europeans crying when they got home because they didn't have America anymore. They didn't have Texas Roadhouse, they didn't have ranch. They didn't have all the luxuries that we have with garage, refrigerator and air conditioning and all the amenities we take for granted here. The malaise of reality sets in for all of us. And so what can you do? Well, you can go read Gerald on Bernards Nation. You can listen to this podcast if you've missed one. Go back eight years and listen to what we're talking about. Coldtext exposed us. This is your time. Go deep dive and look for Gerald and I's most zany takes and throw it back in our face. We'd love that. Or at least go listen to all the position previews that have already happened. Listen to the ones that are coming. We will try to hold you over by generating content during this time. We understand it's tough for you, it's tough for us. But also Spend time with your families. That's a good time to do it. Because the Texas High School Football Coaches association effectively kicks off, we move from off season to preseason. We're early preseason now. Texas camp will start in two weeks. We are close. We are hype videos coming from athletic departments. Season in just a few short weeks. We're 40 days away from college football. So it seems like a long time. It seems like the desert we are wandering. But it will come faster than you realize. And so take advantage of this next month to listen to every single episode we've made. It's probably, I don't know, Gerald, the official count, we'll just say get 600 of them. You don't have to go any further than that.

A

Download as many as you want. We got a backlog. I mean, thanks to SB Nation firing us, we got to keep all of our backlog and our name, which was great. But I'm making the drum this week on some of the dumbest stuff coming out of talking season. I'm just gonna go and say it. So SEC media days are currently happening and the amidst all of the contention around the Save College Sports act and the SEC and Big Ten not really being all about it, the continued conversation around the SEC breaking away from the NCAA is continuing to happen. And now there are reports that it is a serious possibility for the SEC to break away from the ncaa. And I want to just take into account for a moment how dumb I think that would be from a overall athletic standpoint. From a football standpoint, I think it makes sense. The NCAA has not awarded a champion in a quarter century. They just haven't done it. And that's okay, right? Like, they, they outsourced it to the BCS and now it's in the cfp. So, like, that's all well and good, but the SEC leaving the. The NCAA for football reasons. Where. Where are the, the non football sports gonna go? What are they gonna do? How are they like, what is that level of. What is that competition? What is that infrastructure going to be like? I mean, you've got teams competing on the national level in literally every sport. We just talked about Texas winning a softball national championship. The SEC had a lot to say about both the men and the women's college basketball championships. Oklahoma unfortunately won the men series. Right. In literally every sport, the SEC is atop the game. And so I really think that, like, the NCAA is not going. I would be shocked if the NCAA continues to let you compete in those non football events. You say, hey, I'm going To take the thing that makes us all money, makes us the most money away from you. But I still want to have all of my air quotes, non revenue or Olympic sports compete there. That is. I put this in a chat. That's like telling your wife, hey, I still want to be married, but 95% of my paycheck is going to go to the intern that just started at work. Right? That's what that is in essence. Like, it's silly, it's dumb, it's cutting off your nose despite your face. And honestly, I think it's probably the SEC just trying to have a bargaining chip. But you know what the SEC really needs to win a national JVA chip at football sometime in the next, I don't know, five years or so for it to actually matter. Because the Big Ten seems to be running the show and the Big Ten is not talking about secede meeting as it stands right now.

B

In the words of SEC analyst Kelly Clarkson, I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change, and break away. Yeah, it's, it's, it's very interesting. It's, it's bluster and bravado and I get it. We live in an age where that is expected. Like, you gotta, you gotta bluff, you gotta, you gotta bluster. That. That's what gets you to the top these days. So I get why Kirby. I get why Senki. I get why others are. Are saying it. The product is strong, but like, come on, let's. Yeah, realistically, I. More of a chance Kelly Clarkson lines up at slot for Texas than. I don't want to say that, but maybe. Maybe we'll see. I don't, I don't see it happening, Joe.

A

I don't think so either. I don't think it's gonna happen, but maybe it will. Whatever. But that's all we've got for you today, Kyle. Where can the good folks find you on the Internet?

B

Well, you can follow me on Twitter Blue Skylark. You can also follow the Texas Pregamer at Texas Podcast Free Gamer.

A

Follow me in both those spots at G.H. goodrich for the show on both those at Longhorn Pod, Facebook and Instagram. The Longhorn Republic. Shoot us an email Longhorn Republic pod@gmail.com. we'll be back on Thursday with the second half of infrastructure week talking about the defensive line. And then next week we'll be back on schedule with not one, but two school previews. Thank you so much for tuning in. And until Thursday, hook them.

B

Hook them. Win games. It.