Stories Inside the Man Cave
Stories Inside the Man Cave
Fran Harris Returns: The Final Four and Undefeated Glory
Fran Harris, a member of the undefeated 1986 Texas Women's Basketball championship team, shares her perspective on the Longhorns' return to the Final Four for the first time since 2003.
• Harris draws parallels between Vic Schaefer's current squad and her legendary Texas team
• Texas defense smothered TCU in the Elite Eight, holding them to just 29% shooting from the field
• Kyla Oldacre's coast-to-coast and-one play highlighted the athleticism and versatility of today's post players
• Harris believes Texas has "all the pieces" to win the championship despite facing South Carolina for the fourth time this season
• Insights into what it takes to maintain an undefeated season and handle championship pressure
• Updates on Harris's efforts to bring a WNBA expansion team to Austin
• Harris shares her family's basketball tradition that builds clutch free-throw shooting under pressure
Show your support for Texas Women's Basketball as they take on South Carolina in the Final Four this Friday in Tampa.
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How about that, stevie Lee? It's hard to believe, because the UT women's basketball program is one of the significant pieces of women's college basketball in the foundation. First trip to the Final four since 2003. We'll probably say that a few more times. But real quick, your thoughts from that last night getting over the elite eight hump and getting back to women's college basketball promised land it was a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 3:I? Um, I told you a minute ago that I was supposed to pick up my wife from the airport, but I needed to finish that game. Man, it was so fun to watch, man.
Speaker 2:And you know what. You can't underestimate TCU. I thought amazing, best season ever. They had 30-plus wins and Texas defense smothered them. There's a lot to celebrate and we've got a college basketball legend in my eyes and she is a legend and a legend and she does a lot of things well. On another level, you talk about history. The guest we have was a part of the best team in UT women's basketball history. I am Sean Clinch. That is Stevie Lee. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, all those social media platforms, and Steve, we're going to do things a little different and you know, I think it's time that we get this thing rolling. What do you think?
Speaker 3:Let's do it, let's roll.
Speaker 2:Let's ride. I know I'm not their world, but they are my world. I'm just proud of this group man that today that is Texas. Fight right there. That's what we're all about. I'm not their world, but they are my world. I'm just proud of this group man that today that is Texas. Fight right there. That's what we're all about. Texas fight. Vic Schaefer the ideal fit for this job. He gets it and he's a Texan. And you don't see it, but I see our guest. She's doing this and she's getting fired up. Man, real quick. Your thoughts on vic emotional and he really meant that those girls are his world you can tell he meant he mentioned it, but you know, not just this game.
Speaker 3:He's emotional throughout the whole season and he really loves his kids, his girls, uh, over there and they and they play their heart out for him.
Speaker 2:They do. Before we roll on and bring out the VIP of this episode, I want you to see Stevie acting and giving a shout out to our people, hargrove Roof.
Speaker 3:Hi, I'm Stevie Lee, former defensive tackle for the University of Texas, and I'm Clyde Hargrove. I'm a roofer. I also saw action in 52 games and I fixed a lot of roofs, also won a Rose Bowl and never lost to A&M and I fixed a lot of roofs. Right, stevie? Oh, right, right, I'm sorry I zoned out a little bit.
Speaker 4:So are you gonna say the thing about Hargrove Roofing, Hargrove Roofing?
Speaker 3:know who's on your roof? Is this even?
Speaker 4:gonna work as a commercial.
Speaker 2:Great job, great job on the acting, but uh, I've got somebody here that I think has equal, maybe better, talent in front of the camera. You ready, I'm sure let's go? Look there she is. You recognize her, yet you should. This is the Fran Harris. Hey, sam, I want to throw out a stat for you, stevie, and for all of you guys watching and listening. Part of the only national championship team at Texas that went correct me, if I'm wrong, 34 and 0 and right, that is, that is correct. And you went undefeated at South Oak Cliff in Dallas, the Dallas area and state champion 40 and 0, I think.
Speaker 5:Also correct.
Speaker 3:Wow, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:It's Fred Harris. She's talented, she's riding her business acumen through the roof and I joke, but I'm serious. She hasn't aged since 1986, when they won that national championship.
Speaker 5:I did leave the Jerry curl. I did leave the Jerry curl. You did Other than that. The youthfulness is still there. Yes, leave the Jerry curl. I did leave the Jerry curl. You did Other than that. The youthfulness is still there. Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 2:Hey, before we talk ball and the excitement and the beauty that is March Madness, especially when you're the last four standing. I got to show you something. Fran Harris Caption this pic. What's going on here?
Speaker 5:that's fran harris, by the way. Well, all I can say is she didn't block it. It looks like she blocked it, but she didn't block it. Let's keep it a buck. She did not block that shot. That was a money shot right there. That's what we're going to call it money shot, money.
Speaker 3:That's good stuff, man. That's nice and great form. Right there too, did you pop the wrist? You popped the wrist right I did have to have to.
Speaker 2:Man, that was back when NCAA tournament games were always at the Irwin Center, including the regional Sweet 16, elite Eight. Yeah, but, fran, this is special to you and all. Is it okay to still say Lady Longhorns, can I still say that?
Speaker 5:When you say, lady Longhorns, I know you were back there. I know you from back in the day.
Speaker 2:I love it it's excellent.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you have to be supporting our team right up until the mid-90s, if you say, lady Longhorn. So it's all good.
Speaker 2:Stevie, don't you agree? I mean, stevie, you've seen the video clips. I grew up with it. I grew up with full Irwin Center crowds in the month of March, and I'm going to go ahead and say it and shout out to Karen Ashton. She helped build this and then Vic took over, but it's starting to get the feel of when you guys in the early to mid 80s. Is that accurate or do you think maybe another step?
Speaker 5:That's a great depiction of what's happening now. I mean literally. Folks need to really take a look at what Vic Schaefer has done in five years. I mean it was a COVID year, his first year, and they almost got to the Elite Eight or they got to the. I mean it was ridiculous With the team that he inherited some of his players mostly not, but what he's been able to do in five years is very reminiscent of my time at Texas, where we lost only nine games in my four seasons at UT and, of course, lost only lost no games in my senior year. So what Vic has done is the stuff of legends, no question about it.
Speaker 3:That's awesome. A legend would know another legend, so I wanted to ask you a question, friend. Like this is when I was in high school, I was a part of a undefeated team. All through high school I did. I went 60 and 0, but when you go, when you have those type of dynasties, there's always a team that is not supposed to beat you but got really, really close. Who was that for you guys?
Speaker 5:Well, there's always the West Texas folks, the folks out West with the Texas Tech. You know those folks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the guns down.
Speaker 5:Like they always. They were so ready, they were so hyped. It was always a sellout when we played there at Lubbock and so if anybody was going to get close it was them. And then for a couple of seasons it was like Arkansas. So I'm sure you saw some of the same things during your time at Texas. They never got close, they never got a cigar, they never got any of that. But that was the team. I was like when, when I graduate, it's going to be Texas tech who beats us first, because we hadn't lost. We lost to no Southwest conference opponents for Southwest conference game. So we would always take these wagers of who's it going to be when we lose, because teams are going to get better. Who is it going to be? And we always thought it would be Texas Tech, and it was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, at Texas, you know we're bred to hate A&M and OU. But for me, for me, for me personally, it's Texas Tech. Oh, I can't stand them.
Speaker 2:Marsha Sharp. Great job, she built it. She did a great job in Lubbock. The one piece the reason why I said that wow, I had a flashback to 84, 85, 86 was a play like this. You know this happened last night against TCU. Now keep in mind Texas defense suffocating. I think TCU shot 29% from the field last night and that's a good TCU team. But when you see not only hustle plays like this, this is not a position that normally makes plays like this.
Speaker 1:Detail it's got to be good. Look at Oldacre, uh-oh, stepping into the passing lane Going to take it the distance. And one for Kyla, oldacre Ho ho, ho, crazy, Absolutely crazy.
Speaker 5:Listen, I was sitting on my sofa watching the game and so I saw the deflection and I was, so I was ready to say, hey, good, good defense Kyla. So I was like, good defense Kyla. And I was like, oh my God, she's actually taking it all the way, she's actually going to dribble the basketball the full length. So I stood up go, kyla, go, go, go, go, go, go. Oh man, that was the play of the game that was literally should be clipped to teach post players. This is how you dribble get them on your hip when you get ready to shoot, you put a little protection right there so they get the foul. You get the end one. It was perfection, it was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3:That was fun. That was fun to watch man. I was jumping up and down. I was in the house by myself screaming Whoa, that was nice.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it was really cool and you've got to have the context, because when I played it's not like that now. You didn't want your post players dribbling. The post player got the ball and a point guard was over there hey, give me that ball. But today they have the skills. So it's all of that that flavors that moment. You know a player who doesn't smile a lot on the court you know she's always serious. A player who's a post player dribbling the full court, taking it down, getting an A and one. That was absolutely bananas.
Speaker 2:Bananas court taking it down, getting an A in one. That was absolutely bananas Insane. They've got all the pieces, All the pieces that not only you make the final four, but they have a legitimate chance here. South Carolina. These are the matchups. In Tampa, Everybody knows about UConn, but South Carolina, they have three of these rings to their resume already, and when you think about these two, Fran, this is going to be the fourth meeting this season, correct?
Speaker 5:Yeah, it is. I'm so sick of seeing South Carolina, literally not only because they're so good, just because I want a different challenge. It's a different kind of challenge. You have to play them a fourth time for all the you know all the marbles, so it kind of makes sense. They've been one of our nemesis this season. You know we didn't lose very many games and that we lost them, and they're the best team in the land and you kind of want to go out on top. So even though we're playing them in the semifinals, it does kind of solidify our supremacy, if you will in the SEC if we get to dethrone our co-champion, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then, stevie, when you see this, I mean UConn, I do think Geno has one of his traditional teams back. He's got the program back to where it was forever. It's shocking to me, but UCLA is very talented. This is their first Final Four appearance. Stevie, what are you looking at as what Fran has kind of educated us on about all this, this field, right here?
Speaker 3:real quick. Well, I want my beloved Longhorns to go in and kick some Gamecock butts, but UConn looked really good man across the board, they look really good. So going into the championship game, it's going to be hard, it's going to be tough. I mean, it's going to be tough to play Don Staley again, but I feel confident that we got this right. But going up against UConn, that's going to be the big, big test as well. So I'm looking forward to. Next, is it next weekend, is it?
Speaker 5:It starts.
Speaker 3:I leave Thursday, you go to the camp. That's right this weekend.
Speaker 2:So I'm you can't keep up with Fran's itinerary. It's all over I this weekend, so I'm going to keep up with friends itinerary.
Speaker 3:It's, it's and it's going to be fun to watch man. So, just as a longhorn, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy it, Cause this, this is a rare air that we're in. We're the top four teams in the country.
Speaker 5:Yeah, listen, I booked my travel to Tampa at the beginning of the fourth quarter. That's how confident I was of us. Literally I booked my third quarter ended, had that little break. I got on Southwest I was like we going, we going, we going to Tampa. Did y'all see the end of the game? Did y'all see me I'm being cocky, booking a flight? And then we go up like 15 points and then they come back to within four Within four.
Speaker 5:I'm looking for the refund button on Southwest. I'm like, hold up, hold up. Y'all hold up, hold up, wait a minute. I accidentally pressed that pay button get my seven hundred dollars back and like literally it was, it was. I was like I don't believe this is happening, so it's delicate right and you played a championship. Like you know, getting to the finish line of a championship is delicate. It may look like we were dominant, but it's delicate and you can screw something up any second now and really mess up that opportunity.
Speaker 2:It's beautiful Two wins from a natty, as Texas is aiming to get that second one. If you were not aware, Fran Harris is also. She has spearheaded this group to bring the WNBA as an expansion franchise to Austin. Where do we stand with that process right now?
Speaker 5:We are still in the hunt to bring a team to Austin. The latest round of evaluations and applications we did not get the 16th franchise. That honor went to Cleveland. The 16th franchise, that honor went to Cleveland. And so we've been told that there may be additional teams named in the next couple of years. Cleveland will start playing in 2028. And then we've also heard that the next few franchises will go to NBA owners for the next few rounds and that we're playing double Dutch. They'll let us know when we can get in. And so you know we we I like to tell people like we have, our money is extra long, so we've got the finances to do this. We our ownership has previously owned an NBA team. You've got Kevin Durant, who's a part of our ownership group, me, who have WNBA experience. So I feel like we're the strongest independent in the hunt, and now it's just a matter of giving us the opportunity to show them what Austin can do. But we're still on the list and we're still very engaged with the WNBA.
Speaker 2:That's exciting, stevie. You and I have talked a lot about this time last year. That's exciting, stevie you and I have talked a lot about this time last year the Caitlin Clark effect, not only with Iowa and women's NCAA tournament or college basketball period, but what she did for the WNBA and I think it opened some doors for marketing to do things a little different, because the game is exciting and it's easily marketable. It's a great brand right now. It always has been. Fyi. Fran played for the OG Houston Comets which won like 17 straight.
Speaker 5:Legend grows, the lore grows. I love it. Seven championships, yeah, first four championships. Houston won. I played on the first team.
Speaker 2:You know, man cave, lady cave. We don't discriminate. We love all genders, but is there a? Man cave story. That maybe is just as amusing now as it was when it happened.
Speaker 5:In any facet of your multiple careers, Interestingly enough, the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the little promo was a tradition in my family. So I come from a basketball family. My older brothers played. They were great players. I come from a basketball family. My older brothers played. They were great players. If my my my middle brother could have stayed in class and stayed in school, he literally would have been in the NBA. He is one of the best basketball players I've ever seen in my life. He was that good.
Speaker 5:But what we have is a tradition in my family is when we go work out with each other, we play one on one. So I'm the only girl in my family who played, so I'm playing against guys all the time. So my younger brother he's like 10 years younger than I am when he was little he would come to visit me in Austin and then we would go to Gregory and play and so we would be playing. You know I'd beat him, he'd beat me, and then I go. You know, just because you got to the, to the, you know the five points or whatever, you still got to finish that, the free throw line. This was our way of creating pressure and tension, discomfort, so you can play through that stuff. So I mean, if he beat me, the older he got, he bigger guy, start beating me. I'm like, but you know, you got to make those free throws right so he would get to the free throw line and inevitably miss a free throw. He got to go back to five points so we would play these games and they would get so mad. He did the same thing with his children.
Speaker 5:So recently I was playing with one of his sons and so he was being like auntie, I got you in this and he made his that's game. I said you got to go to that free throw line. So it's like that. It's like that for our entire. We pass that down. This is how you become a great shooter. This is how you perform under pressure. I don't care what you did during regulation. If you cannot hit pressure free throws, you cannot beat me. So that's a big. That's a big. All the kids in my family y'all know she started the two free throws after we beat her right Because she didn't want to beat us. She created this rule. I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to help you get better in life by performing under pressure. So that's one of my favorite man Cave stories.
Speaker 3:That's awesome. Perform under pressure and at the end of the game you're tired, so you got to control your heart rate and control your breathing. And actually it's not just a shot at the free throw line, it's a breathe and make that shot at the free throw line. That is so smart, that's awesome, and breathing's everything. The Houston family should thank y'all for that, for sure.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's, it. Thanks, guys, Fran.
Speaker 2:Harris, we owe you lunch for because I remember I specifically said 10 to 15 minutes. We're five minutes over for your segment, but it was well worth it, so we owe you lunch.
Speaker 5:Appreciate that.
Speaker 2:Appreciate you guys Tune in.
Speaker 5:Friday.
Speaker 2:Let's go Tune in Friday. Let's go Tune in Friday. Final four coverage Fran Harris it is ideal. Whenever Texas is going back to Final Fours as they used to, it's a beautiful thing and you've got to have Fran's perspective. It's a gift and shout-out to all of that. The private Facebook group, all the former Texas women's basketball stars of the past Andrea Lloyd, fran Harris there's a lot of them, and I know this is a tribute to all of you as well. Fran, much love, we'll see you soon. Appreciate everything that you not only do for the game, but everything.
Speaker 5:Great Praise the Lord and hook them, as Vic Schaefer would say.
Speaker 2:It's Vic Schaefer's sister. Thanks, guys. So Fran broke it down the whole Final Four, the Texas team. She gives you a perspective that all fans can relate what you and I are seeing but at the same time, what did you gain out of that? Because, man, she is a wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 3:No, it was really cool to hear from her just talking about Texas basketball. It was, you know it's not old school basketball, but you know, back in the day, the way they approached the game, approaching the season. I mean nobody was going to beat them. They had that mindset that no one was going to beat them. And then she flexed a little bit Never lost a game in the Southwest Conference. That's a flex. That's a flex. I love that.
Speaker 2:So we switch gears to the men's basketball Final Four. Look at this All number one seeds. It's only the second time that's happened since the field expanded to 64 teams. What do you?
Speaker 4:think.
Speaker 2:I mean everybody's saying, well, college basketball's dead now because there's not the parodies done, there's no mid-majors that made it. You know what? It just so happened to be that these are the four best teams in the country.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, yeah yeah. I don't think college basketball is dead at all. I am happy because my pick, my overall pick, is still in Auburn. No U of H, oh, the Cougs Calvin.
Speaker 2:Sands, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Well, here we go.
Speaker 2:Oh, the Cougs, Kelvin Sands yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Here we go. So you know, john Fidler was our leader Saturday or Sunday, but that has changed. But this is going to go down to Monday for sure, and we appreciate everybody. So you've got two I think two members from the SEC out of 14. That's not a bad deal. That's 50% of the final four, cause you're going to knock each other off in certain rounds. And you've got Duke. This may be one of the better Duke teams. That's going to be an interesting matchup against Houston athleticism, but when you look at the bracket challenge, I really don't have a chance, stevie. When Texas Tech got beat, you don't Done.
Speaker 2:Done.
Speaker 3:Sorry about that man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man. So CBSSportscom, you go to Stories Inside the man Cave Podcast Bracket Challenge and check out our standings 44 entries. I'm in the second tier in the standings. Means absolutely nothing. If you don't win it, who's going to remember who finishes second or 29th?
Speaker 3:Wait. So how many entries? I think 44. Golly, I'm 33rd.
Speaker 2:You're doing great. You're not far behind me, but I did figure you'd reach to win it all, man. Well, that'll boost you. If they win, that'll boost you up in the top 15 to 20 probably yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah that's the only team that I have in the Final Four. My other Final Four is Jack and then Tennessee losing.
Speaker 2:they were my national champion.
Speaker 3:Tennessee was your nationals. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, let's take a quick break and when we come back on the other side other side we're going to talk about the intense new Texas men's basketball coach and Stevie's going to give us an unofficial Texas spring football report. It's special. Stick around, see you on the other side.
Speaker 4:Here at Hard Grow Roofing we try to think outside the box, to kind of get the creative juices flowing. So I brought in my friend Stevie Lee, former defensive tackle for the Texas Longhorns. He's going to help the team strategize, really motivate them, light a fire.
Speaker 3:This guy's going to block down. This guy's going to block down. You put your butt into the guard and that way my Mike Linebacker gets free to do what.
Speaker 4:Not only are they going to learn a thing or two, but they're going to also leave with a great attitude and a bunch of smiles on their faces.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry. What does this have to do with roofing exactly?
Speaker 1:Get out Right now.
Speaker 4:I said get out For me. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1:It's just having fun making our employees have a great time. Hargrove Roofing. Know who's on your rim? They're running in to fuck you up. They're running in to fuck you up and guess what? They fucked you up. All you gotta do is somebody fucking turn and fucking run up. You understand? You can't watch. Look, it's one-on-one drive. It's Vegas closeout, Vegas closeout. You can't foul Three points to him.
Speaker 2:I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go I have all five years of eligibility. I can be his 12th man and you only play five. I don't even have to be in the rotation. I will run through a wall for that man.
Speaker 3:Sean, you said you got all five years.
Speaker 2:Never exhausted him. No one recruited me, nobody wanted me for anything.
Speaker 3:That's funny, hey man. Hey, I do too In basketball. I got all my years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do it and what's NCAA going to do about it? Nothing, nothing. Sean Miller great impression Even at the press conference. Did you get to see a little bit of his introductory press conference?
Speaker 3:A little bit. No, not really, but a little bit.
Speaker 2:He's keeping Chris Ogden as the GM a former. Longhorn, who was the GM for Rodney Terry. What's your now when you see that and you knew about Sean Miller before I mean 422 career wins already and he looks like Steve Sarkeesian's doppelganger, or they could be related. But the little you did see of the introductory press conference FYI, introductory press conferences for every coach, they all sound the same to me. But what's your opinion right now of him being the guy?
Speaker 3:I'm pretty excited, knowing what he did at Arizona, knowing what he did at Xavier, and to come here fired up like that and with the resources that we have and keeping Chris on as the GM, because Chris has come up through the ranks as a player, as a coach and now GM. He gets it Assistant coach and now GM. He knows the landscape of Texas football, texas donors, texas recruiting and all that stuff. So we always need even in football we need a tie to Texas when we bring in a new coaching staff. Right and keeping Chris on for that is awesome. But the upside for us right now is just through the roof. With the legacy that we have at the University of Texas, with the money that we have at the University of Texas and the new facilities and all that stuff, we can bring in some special players and do some special things.
Speaker 2:And obviously in a conference which is highly regarded for, as we mentioned, 14 NCAA tournament teams, two in the final four. I thought it was very classy. Rodney Terry is still tweeting out and celebrating the Texas women's basketball. Just a class act.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's always going to be a part of the family, man he is. He was a part of the family when he was an assistant coach a long time ago and then came back with Coach Beard and then obviously became the head coach. He's always going to be a part of the family.
Speaker 2:It is, it is, it is All right. Spring football has started for Texas. Ryan Wingo out, the receiver supposed to be elevated to the what number one receiver, and he has proved himself. Stevie Lee was out there and tell me a little bit about what you saw. Don't be afraid, Don't hold anything back, there's no police.
Speaker 3:No, I really enjoyed watching Manning throw the ball. He looked so poised back there and you know what. Also, I, you know, think people some things that people don't see is Sarkis, and he still coached him hard, very hard, you know, even though you know he was doing a lot of things right. If he made a mistake, sark was right in his ass.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, the receivers they look pretty good. They were practicing a lot of the passes out of the backfield which I like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the swing out pass. I was just practicing that. That's probably something they do all the time, but you know, putting that into the playbook and Coach was really coaching on how to throw that ball and lead the receiver or the running back to go catch it, and as he catches it, his momentum is going forward Speed, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:The other thing I saw was the young D-line. Them boys look big, big and I'm a big guy myself when I'm looking up at these guys and they're just wide and strong. They look strong man. So I think that we got another class of D-linemen that are coming up that are going to be pretty special. You may not know their names right now, there may not be household Texas names right now, but they will be because they are special. They are special. It's hard to find kids that big that can move Offensive line. They look good. And warm-ups I was like you know, you know how you just go through the motions of warm-ups. They were actually getting at it at warm-ups.
Speaker 3:The other thing I had at practice was the class of 27 was invited out. There were some really cool, really good recruits and their families out there I got to meet. I think I told you all the story of Ethan Booby. Feaster was born in Shreveport, louisiana, the next door neighbors of my parents, and when I, his mom and dad was out there and dad was out there and he was out there, but his mom and dad was out there and they came up to me we took a picture together and they said you know, your mom rushed me to the hospital to have Ethan Boobie Boobie's just reclassified as a 27 recruit.
Speaker 3:Now he's really 26, class of 26, but he reclassified to class of 27. And yeah, I said yeah, my mom told me that story and I told him I mean, he comes here to Texas and I'll take care of him too. So I'm trying to recruit the kid to come down here to Texas. He has a lot of offers right now. So I had a chance to talk to him, talk to his dad dad, I actually talk to his dad all the time over text, so hopefully one day we can get him on the podcast for sure that's a good story too but it'll be a fun, good fun story to tell.
Speaker 3:They're a good family. Ethan is only 15 years old and he's on a college campus, ready to get get going like it's the number one recruit at number one uh receiver in the in the uh state. So, um, he has a tremendous upside to him. He's tall, he's gonna get a little thicker. He get over here at the university of texas. Tory beckham will put some weight on him, the right kind of weight on him. So it's just fun to watch the youth come up and I think we're going to be good for a long time, especially with the recruits we have coming in. One of my teammates, his stepson, is an offensive line recruit. He was at Lago Vista and just transferred over to Westlake. They just moved over to Westlake. Matt Trissel Trissel, yeah, triskel's son. I'm blanking on his name right now, the kid, but anyway he's a big offensive lineman that's going to do very, very well. Hopefully he got an offer from. He's a class of 27. He got an offer from Texas Tech, but I'm hoping that the University of Texas will offer him and he just go ahead and sign a dotted line.
Speaker 3:It was fun on Saturday going out there. I took my daughter with me and a lot of old players was out there, so we kind of hung out and kind of shot it around a little bit. It just feels like home when you go back. It's fun. They make you feel at home. It just feels like home when you go back. It's fun, they make you feel at home. My daughter. I walk in with my daughter. She's like you're going to check in. I was like I own this place. Why do I need to check in?
Speaker 2:They need to check with me. See Arch Manning, he checks with me first.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're walking on my field.
Speaker 2:You know? No, stevie, I was going to ask you real quick. You know. I know the general fan hey, every fan should be excited about what they want to be excited about, but we didn't give Quinn Ewers his roses. However, this is the new era, manning era. Tell people what it's like without. I know you don't exaggerate, steve. He's very positive but he's also very real, so don't get it twisted. I know it was practice and I'm not trying to say anything negative at all against Quinn. I think what Quinn brought this program was phenomenal. How is it different out there with Arch? What's the energy like? What's different? What's the vibe?
Speaker 3:That's a good question. I think, damn it, man, why would you do me like this when the receivers? I don't know, man, this is just me and this is just what I felt. It's your opinion. It might be a little biased because of my previous critique of Quinn, but when they were running deep routes, when Quinn was there, they never finished their routes on the deep ball or deep routes because they knew that he wasn't going to throw them a deep ball. What I felt was Manning was looking deep first and then checking down. He wants the deep ball bad and he can throw it and it's beautiful. You know what I mean. So for me, when Quinn was out there, he was looking at the 5, 10, maybe 15-yard passes. That's what he was mainly looking for. When I saw Arch drop back, his eyes was down down the field, 20 yards or more, and then if that's not there, then he's coming down. You know what I'm saying. It was outward down for Manning, but for Quinn it was in out. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I get it. You get what I'm saying, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that was the energy for me, because I hit it and the ball was pretty, it was sailing in the air and it would drop right into the bread basket. So the kid got an arm and he has the arm the right way. Anybody can get it out there, but not everyone has the snap of the ball to make it go up and straight down, you know. So that was good, that was a fun part of it, see that's what we were looking for Stevie delivering the goal today.
Speaker 2:The nuggets, yeah hey, tiktok in the man cave. We all see some really bizarre but humorous stuff, but I don't understand this. Let's take pure lemon juice shots, which lemon juice is very good for you, but you tell me, is this overreaction? Just for the talk? That's a bit much.
Speaker 3:Actually, it's not. I'm the same way when it comes to tart something, man, although I do like it. Yeah, yeah, I'm the same way with something tart like that man.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious. Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah, lemon juice good, I do a little lemon juice shot every other morning. Really Lemon juice, and sometimes some cayenne pepper in it. Okay, then you flush your colon out.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, maybe I should try it.
Speaker 1:Hey, man, tell me something good.
Speaker 2:Stevie Mother Scratchin' Lee man. This is such a beautiful time of year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is Tell me something good, my brother. Well, something good, man. We had Fran on the show today. Listen, the girls are in the final four, the ladies are in the final four. That's fun. When she said that she went and bought her ticket and I was like it's $700. I think I can swing that. I got that in savings.
Speaker 3:Maybe I should go to Tampa. I want to go to Tampa to check out the girls play, man, and actually see the city. And we are off this weekend for volleyball, so I might talk to my wife about that, but it'll be fun to watch these girls play this weekend. That's something good is to go. If you can't go out there, watch them on TV and support your lady horns, man, because these girls have worked hard, vic has worked hard and these girls are playing their heart out for Vic right now, man. So shout out to the Texas women's basketball team. They are really holding it down for the university right now. So that's something good. Go and hang out, and either, you know, watch it at home or go and hang out and watch it somewhere One of these bars down here in Austin.
Speaker 2:And there are all women's sports bars now that are now in Austin.
Speaker 3:I heard about that. Yeah, I heard about that place.
Speaker 2:It'd be great to visit one of those and support local.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Two part for me, man, for us OGs here in Austin, I'm telling you that they built this women's basketball program up to where it feels like it did when Fran played. That sensation growing up here was God. Those girls were dominant, they were ballers now. And second part, man had.
Speaker 2:I had two cats in my life and they were from when I was married. We got them in oklahoma city when they were two and three months old. They're 15. They're living their best life on my balcony. Every now and then, just a sensory overload. Well, I think the boy, vincent royal, is his name, as you can understand what the namesake is, but I think he jumped off the balcony last night and I'm on, I'm looking for him. It's breaking my heart, it's killing me. But I want to tell you something good. The outpouring of support and suggestions to try to because animals have their instincts are crazy. Thank you, guys, and let's hope we can bring Vincent Royal home, because that's my little bud. Yeah, that's a funny, rough, thick little burrito with four legs, but it's really great, man, when you see the support You're asking for all these different platforms. Try to find your pet.
Speaker 2:Because, I'm going to tell you something, man, you lose a pet like that. I've never had it happen before. It feels awful.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's something good. Thank you to everyone out there and for Stevie Lee man can't ask for a better friend, a better podcast co-host. And to Stevie Lee's beautiful family you're the only male in that house other than, I think, your dog yeah To your hometown, shreveport, louisiana, and to my college alma mater town, nacogdoches, texas, and my beautiful hometown, the ATX, austin, texas, and to everybody in the Lone Star State, midwest, the great left coast, right coast and the Gulf of Mexico area.
Speaker 3:We're going to get in trouble for saying that.
Speaker 2:That's right. Everybody, every coast. Thank you for watching, thank you for listening, thank you for sharing. Tell your mama, tell your friends about stories inside the man Cave podcast and the series the Past for Us with Stevie Lee. Much love to Fran Harris for imparting some wisdom and some humor on us, and to the OG man Cave boys, that being Harbaugh, harge, big Mike and the Coach Moe. What do we tell them, stevie Lee?
Speaker 4:We out. You see the drip. Yeah, I'm fitted up, I'm in my car in the Giddy Up.
Speaker 3:I said get out.