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The Pass Rush with Stevie Lee: The Emotions from the Texas Hill Country floods & Texas Longhorn football preseason countdown

Shawn Clynch, Mike Murphy, Michael Hardge, & Maurice Harris Season 1 Episode 470

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Stevie Lee and  Shawn Clynch reflect on the devastating floods in central Texas, emphasizing the need for community support and recovery efforts while discussing Texas football and upcoming changes in college athletics. 

• Over 129 confirmed deaths and 170 people still missing across central Texas from recent flooding
• Organizations like HEB leading emergency response efforts, outperforming federal agencies
• Athletes including Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes donating to help pay for victims' funerals
• Texas football recruiting update, including commitment from Dia Bell who chose football over basketball
• Discussion of the stacked quarterback room at Texas and how NIL is changing recruiting strategies
• Texas State's move to join the restructured Pac-12 conference in 2026
• Murray's Tavern on Austin's east side recommended as a great spot to escape the summer heat

We want to extend our deepest condolences to all those affected by the floods and encourage everyone to contribute to recovery efforts however they can. Together, we will rebuild and emerge stronger as a community.


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Speaker 1:

The Hi, I'm Stevie Lee, former defensive tackle for the University of Texas.

Speaker 2:

And I'm Clyde Hargrove.

Speaker 1:

I'm a roofer. I also saw action in 52 games and I fixed a lot of roofs. I also won a Rose Bowl and never lost to A&M, and I fixed a lot of roofs, right.

Speaker 2:

Stevie, oh right, right, I'm sorry I zoned out a little bit. So are you going to say the thing about Hargrove roofing?

Speaker 4:

Hargrove roofing. You know who's on your roof. Is this even going to work as a commercial? Is this even going to work as a commercial?

Speaker 5:

But there's fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, of all those Texas angels dancing in the sky.

Speaker 2:

Let me tell you this is not about politics. One thing about a Texan we're going to pick up and we're going to help our neighbors. We don't give a damn who they voted for in this time of need you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4:

I'm going to get my heart out there to Texas. Y'all are going to be all right, Just keep going. Hope y'all get all the help y'all need and everything we don't need. No time, no politics, no shit like that. Just get your help. Get what you need, man help me with the need man.

Speaker 5:

You know this thing will be alright, stevie, I know we're sports-centric and I know my previous episode on let's Talk About it a week ago was about this. I was just appalled, sickened, pissed off at so many people politicizing this and making it a race issue to finger-pointing and all that it could, because I think everyone, including myself and you we texted each other, talked it hurts, and people just enjoying a holiday weekend and you see this, we're still trying to find people. In fact, over 170 victims, people have yet to be found, 170 individuals we don't know if they're alive across central texas, but we do know 129 deaths. I mean, this is something that's unfathomable, but I, right now, as we try to help gain closure for all these families and try to lift those up, as well as all the great stories that were told by the media of heroes and all the volunteers as well, yeah, I think you're right, Nick.

Speaker 1:

This is time to reflect on recovery and rebuilding and things like that, and I don't want to talk about what and why and how it happened. What we do know, what we know the facts to be, is something happened and a community needs bigger community to get back together Right, so let's focus on that part. Community needs bigger community to get back together right, so let's focus on that part. There actually do need to be some accountability somewhere, because there are some young kids that lost their lives due to whatever it may be, and those parents want closure and answers. So I would love for them to have their answers and things that they need to be answered, questions that they have that needs to be answered from them. But right now, right now, in the next few months, it's recovery and rebuilding, and so it's a tough, tough situation situation, but let's come together and figure this thing out together, um, and rebuild, yeah yeah, well, I'm sean clinch.

Speaker 5:

That is stevie lee. We uh are co host together on, uh, the past rush with stevie lee, uh, all part of stories inside the man cape. Just a small graphic here. I think there's so many heroes, the first responders. There are so many people who have just stepped up from volunteers to people who may not have the financial resources, have found a way I've seen it firsthand found a way to contribute because of this right here, loving, caring Texans, loving Texans from left to right. Heb no doubt, man, heb is a much better organization than FEMA. They can run the state, they can run the country as far as emergency management. And in the middle, a lot of green bows, including my neighborhood, to honor those young ladies and counselors and anyone associated with Mystic who lost their lives in the volatile but beautiful Guadalupe River, which all of us have spent time on. I grew up on that river, north of the Canyon Lake area, to south in the New Braunfels and Green.

Speaker 5:

We grew up on that river and Comanow and all those other ones, the Frio Llano rivers. And then on the right, an example of individuals who have the fame and fortune or whatnot, whatever you want to call them, individuals like us who just have a big heart. I mean, look at this Jalen Hurts, former OU, former Alabama and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback. Look what he did. He's donating to help pay for funerals. What a beautiful act of humanity. And Pat Mahomes has done the same, and all the professional organizations in the state of Texas have really come forward, and universities and organizations. Stevie, there are so many organizations just in the Austin Texas area alone who have contributed in some form or fashion that I was not aware of in restaurants. But to your point, we're only a week out after this, but it seems like a month.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

I've volunteered a little bit, but they organized efforts that I wanted to be a part of. I wanted to help the folks of Sandy Creek. I just got mixed communication. I'm not going to reveal the groups I was supposed to be with for that area until we actually work together. It has nothing to do with the groups, it was just a mismanagement of communication.

Speaker 5:

Beginning with the Travis County officials, stevie, I will tell you that I think Travis County dropped the ball locally for those folks in Sandy Creek and then, to your point, for the folks in Kerr County. It's plain and simple, one resolution there Flood warning systems have to be in place, flood prone area and our prayers and thoughts and thoughts and I know it's well said so many times, but we cannot give enough praise and positivity to each of these families, even the ones who are still with us. The trauma that these people went through to survive and shout out to people like you, stevie, with big hearts, and your family is shout out to all the Austin, texas and the great state of Texas and folks from Mexico, louisiana, all over the country who have come here to our neck of the woods Flash Flood Alley Hill Country to help fellow our Texans. It's beautiful, stevie.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, it really is and shout out to the Hargrove family. They have been very their communication on this and supporting Texas as well. Right, yes, I've seen it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, absolutely, man Shout out to the Hargrove family, for sure.

Speaker 5:

And God. If you need a roof during this, this time frame, you know who to go to right yeah absolutely hard, grow roofing.

Speaker 5:

Well, you, you do. And I will say um again. We're going to be talking about this for a long time. Everybody who's watching, but we deeply feel badly. We feel like what can we do? What can we do to help? Because I am looking for other opportunities to help clean and help recover, search whatnot. It's out there. It's really. It's just a unique experience. I did it for Hurricane Harvey in Rockport Wimberley. I've got a very small taste of this and it's just different for this event. God, my heart hurts.

Speaker 5:

And the devastation is is this. I can't begin to explain it, stevie, but thanks for people like you and thanks for the youth I know some of you the viewers, listeners have got who have been volunteering and it's a beautiful thing to see, stevie. Let's lift some people up, because that's what we do best. Episode 470, man we're going to be talking about a lot and mainly feel-good stuff. You ready, I'm ready.

Speaker 6:

Let's ride baby.

Speaker 3:

Why did you decide to go football? Maybe not basketball or another sport? Yeah, you know, um, growing up it was always basketball. I wanted to go play basketball. I do like that's what I was set on. Um, you know, as, like time went on, kobe kind of came around and he couldn't really get in gyms anymore and I started like shifting my focus to football really and, um, and I kind of figured out like I could use that as my own like navigating tool to like kind of create my own name and my own kind of legacy and not kind of be in his shadow in a sense, because you know, like you said, he played in the NBA for a really long time. So I kind of felt like it was a great opportunity for me and I really loved it. So COVID year is kind of when I made the choice that I was going to pick football kind of over basketball.

Speaker 5:

How about that D'Abel? He's been committed for a while now. Raj Abel, his dad, who had a long NBA career. So hearing from him, obviously a very intelligent young man I'm not saying that because he chose Texas, but very's a very intelligent human being your thoughts on him navigating himself and, like you know what I probably have a future in whatever sport, but hearing him giving his story and maybe some other things you may have learned about him. What's your thoughts on Dia Bell?

Speaker 1:

Well, dia, the cool thing about it, if you're a quarterback in high school, you want to go to the best coach that's going to develop you. He made a really good, sound decision. You know we got a big quarterback room right now. But you know, if he's confident in himself, confident in taking a year to learn and taking a year and maybe take another year to hopefully take another year to work into a rotation and then take the rings the next year after that, it'll be good for him. Man, I like that. We have a choice of quarterbacks that Sark can develop and figure out which one is the best for our program. So I'm happy for the kid Great choice because it's Texas. But it's him choosing, having a choice of doing basketball or football and him choosing football and then choosing the best program or, for him, the best program that can put him in the right position to be even more successful.

Speaker 5:

That's well stated. You know, the Texas quarterback room is it wasn't long ago that the quarterback room was not as stacked not even close. I mean, I do think the rebuilding process of the quarterback room dates back to Shane Boucher and then Sam Ellinger, but right now, heading into this season, Arch Manning, Trey Owens, very talented Matthew Caldwell. The portal got transferred from Troy in Alabama, KJ Lacey Jr, much heralded high school Q Troy in Alabama. Kj Lacey Jr, Munch Herald at High School QB from Alabama and then a preferred walk-on in Luke Dunham.

Speaker 5:

So, you've got a stacked room and Arch Manning, as so many people continue to talk about, all I can say is, if you can get these gentlemen to stay, two years to wait their turn, there is that, but it's hard these days to do that. Years to wait their turn? There is that, but it's hard these days to do that, there's no doubt. What is it what you would tell a guy, if other than what sark and and aj mill we? What do you tell these kids why you should stay and wait that long with the way things are now?

Speaker 1:

I don't know, man, it's hard. So you know there's only one QB1 at the University of Texas and when you're competing you're going to compete and compete, compete. Try to get that QB1 spot and maybe QB2. Permission to speak freely If you're not QB one or two, then you've got some really good tutelage under SART's program. Go and make some money at another school and transfer. Am I allowed to say that? Yes, who's involved? Am I allowed to say that? Yes, who's involved? Yeah, so some of these kids' plan, I think, is their plan is to, yeah, try to make QB one, qb two.

Speaker 1:

But if it doesn't work out for you, some of these schools are going to drop a bag in your lap just to come in and be on their team, a bag in your lap just to come and be on their team, and so some of these kids may be looking at the long term, long run. I mean, there's no reason that we need six quarterbacks in the quarterback room at the University of Texas. High-level quarterbacks too, yeah, high-level quarterbacks, I agree. So there's some deeper thinking there. To all, right, I'm going to be here. What's the best coach in the country to learn under as a QB? Because everyone that has eyes understand that we went to the college football playoffs last year with a okay quarterback, twice. He was elite, sean, he was good. He ran the playbook like he was supposed to run the playbook, but if you needed to make a play off of his arm or legs or anything like that, it wasn't going to happen.

Speaker 5:

He wasn't a dead duck or a sitting duck, I'm not saying that.

Speaker 1:

I'm not saying that we made a okay quarterback look great. It's the system. It's the system. If you feel like you're a good quarterback, you need a good system to be in. Our quarterback last two years was a good system to be in. Right, our quarterback last year, last two years, was a good quarterback and a great system. I mean, I'm not saying anything off the wall y'all. Come on, he never finished a whole season. He was always injured. Right, the three years that he played he never finished an entire season. These are facts. When we look at the draft, he was the last QB taken. Look at the QBs that were taken before him. People put their research into this. He did great things for the University of Texas. We went to two semifinals back-to-back years under this kid Great. Thank you so much for running the system.

Speaker 5:

His name is Quinn Ewers. You're like Tom Herman with the kicker's name.

Speaker 1:

I was just trying to get people to understand that they know who they're talking about. Right, right, right, you know. So, yes, that's his name, but you know he's a great kid, great guy.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely.

Speaker 1:

Handled the system very, very well, but he is a system quarterback. Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 5:

And you know what. It's your opinion too, and there's nothing wrong with that. Own it.

Speaker 1:

I don't care what anybody says Hell.

Speaker 5:

most people will agree with you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. And so these kids coming out of high school transferring in it was like yours did all of that under Sark's system. They see it, sark got something going on over there, yep. And then if you look at Sark's record, he's doing very well with running backs and receivers I'm sorry and QBs. He does very well in his track record with running backs and QBs.

Speaker 5:

Well, before we continue this conversation, be sure to follow us on social media. All of our platforms. They're all listed right there.

Speaker 1:

And don't send me no hate mail.

Speaker 5:

Don't send no hate mail. Stevie's changing his number on the do not call list immediately and you can subscribe to our YouTube page. You can comment there as well and you subscribe to it for free. That's the beauty of it, hey. So to continue this, as Texas is building its class of 2026, we're in the month of July they can sign in December, obviously the first signing period. The thing is right now you really can't judge a class in its entirety, as it really will be when it comes together. But so far, after the recruiting classes, texas has enjoyed the last few years. They've all been top five, definitely the top ten. They got a recent recruit from number 14 ranked prospect in the country, a cornerback defensive back from North Carolina, samari Matthews. It's a big addition. Texas DBU and LSU will argue with Texas over that, but I would be remiss not to point out the recruiting that kids who had decided to commit elsewhere, and this happens every year. But it just seems where we are right now to me. I'm smart enough to know there will be some big additions to this class, either by portal transfers or portal transfers or other high school kids. Now, keep in mind the portal cuts down on the number of high school kids that Now, keep in mind, the portal cuts down on the number of high school kids that programs like Texas will sign. But these are the big names that Texas has right now. As we all know, when the wind changes direction, kids will decommit, commit elsewhere. But right now these are big names that Texas is not getting. As of right now, these will not be Longhorns as of today.

Speaker 5:

Jamarian Carlton, a defensive or edge rusher, whatever you want to call him. Linebacker. Braden Rouse, the offensive lineman tackle. Felix Ojo, who decided to go to Texas Tech because they dropped a bag. It was Texas and Ohio State and all of a sudden, texas Tech comes in. Hey, shout out to Tech and their NIL, including their revenue sharing, which everyone's going to have a salary cap now, as of July 2nd. And then the linebacker, xavier Griffin, and two UT legacies Caden Finley, one of Jermichael Finley's sons, great kid, great talent, going to Notre Dame. And then Jalen Lott His daddy was a great Longhorn, he's going elsewhere. Stevie, we talked about this before this episode and we've talked about it, not part of other podcasts, just on the phone. You don't seem too concerned about this. I think there's a little bit of concern.

Speaker 1:

Nope, not at all. Okay, Not at all. Sark has been on the record in talking about if you're going to come to the University of Texas for the money, then this is not the place for you. Did you hear him say that?

Speaker 5:

Oh, he's been very transparent and upfront and direct about that for a while.

Speaker 1:

So he's putting his money where his mouth is. These kids, like the kid that's going up to Texas Tech. He clearly made that decision because of the money. Clearly, if you're coming coming to the university of texas, you're coming to a program with, with tradition, a winning tradition, um and and um legacy. Right there you'll see a bunch of big dudes around Austin. They play football at the University of Texas.

Speaker 5:

There's some small former Longhorns. There's a couple of small guys kickers.

Speaker 1:

Defensive backs, yeah, but on average those guys are big too, though, but it's. It's not coming to the University of Texas just to get a bag man. He made that clear. Some of these kids are just taking the money over the actual school, and that's okay. Now notice that Sark said kids coming out of high school. If you're coming here for the bag, you're coming for the wrong reason. Now go make your money or go do your thing somewhere else. Yes, we're still watching, because this transfer portal is huge.

Speaker 5:

Yes, it is.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so you can go somewhere in a year or two and say you're doing very, very well, put your name in the transfer portal. Then I think the University of Texas will start looking like, okay, we want this guy out of the portal. How much can we give them? You know, I think Sark is going to recruit and he may be a little bit ahead of his time. He's going to put more focus in recruiting out of the portal than he is out of high school.

Speaker 5:

Well, I don't have a problem with that. The Texas High School Coaches Association doesn't like that. It is what it is though it is what it is.

Speaker 1:

People understand it now because it's where we are now you can go get kids out of high school that's unproven in the college level, or you can go get kids that are proving themselves, that entered the portal, and you can get them into your program True. All of it's a gamble, either way it is a gamble, but I think it's a pretty forward-thinking type gamble.

Speaker 5:

Well, you have to. It's another form. It is basically the. It's a high school amateur. That level of college football is no longer amateur, it's developmental and it's a form of income. Yeah, can be that and you'll agree with me on this. I think it's also what is the college experience supposed to be for? Education and find yourself, find your niche and learn how to create opportunities. This is for all college kids, but college athletes now you learn how to create opportunities, revenue streams, income, because most of them are not going to play the NFL, correct, so they're creating their brand. If you handle it right, you play at a place like Texas. You should be set as I mean. There's a chance you can get that degree and you're coming out of there making 80 grand minimum.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Somehow, some way.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

So preseason conference media days have already started. Stevie Big 12 was last week and Arizona State who was picked to finish, I think last year, something like that.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Who picked to win it all this year and Texas fans know all about Arizona State. That's followed by Kansas State and Texas Tech, and Baylor tied for third Again.

Speaker 1:

Where's Colorado in there?

Speaker 5:

Colorado, where are they at? Let me scroll down in my little notes here. They got TCU at seven. Kansas will be unveiling, I think, their new football stadium. I think this year I'm wrong BYU and Colorado. Nine and ten, ooh, ooh, and then dead last Arizona.

Speaker 1:

That's a little low for BYU man. Those corn-fed boys up there can play some football actually.

Speaker 5:

Those Mormons have been proven to play football and they do well in their NIL. But maybe this revenue sure is going to change a lot of things. Yeah. It's going to change a lot of things Again. Preseason polls I hate them all. Yeah. In my 16 years in which I had a ballot to vote in the media side, I turned it in three times Because I just hate preseason polls. Yeah, because rarely do they ever are accurate, and it's just my opinion. Yeah.

Speaker 5:

And my opinion, yeah, and my opinion only matters on things like this, yeah. And even then, it doesn't matter to maybe 1% of the people. Yeah, so SEC media days is this week, big 12 media days last week and SEC media days in Atlanta. Is there anything that excites you about this, or maybe what you're hoping to see or hear?

Speaker 1:

I like to hear the kids talk Right Media day. So I want to see Manning actually have some conversations with some media people. You know he's kind of hitting here in Austin. He's not in front of the TV a lot or in front of a camera, but he has to be for SEC Media Day. So I'm looking forward to hearing what he has to say and I always get a feel of the mentality of the team, who they choose to go to Media Day, and I always get a feel of the mentality of the team, who they choose to go to media day right. So I want to hear the defense or whoever they choose for defensive player to go up there and talk. That mentality of that defensive player kind of tells me how the whole defense is going to work out this year. That's true. Yeah, that's true. That's what I'm looking forward to.

Speaker 5:

I always enjoyed media days because all those years covering Big 12, I always had a list of five, six stories that are nothing about wins and losses, nothing about oh, I've got 25 players coming back who started, we've got 18 returning starters here. I didn't care about any of that. Nobody at home any of that. Yeah, nobody at home cares about that. I always did stuff like man. Cliff Kingsbury was the best dress, so was Pat Mahomes and Bill Snyder's guys. They borderline wore a three-piece suit Everyone's wearing, like UT and OU boys are wearing a nice knit shirt and slacks. And then, one year before they moved to Frisco for it man, the Mary Kay Cosmetic Girls had their big convention on the floor below Big 12 Media Day. So I did a story on the Mary Kay Cosmetic Ladies and Big 12 football and how that emerged. That's funny.

Speaker 5:

It's freaking hilarious. And then Bob Stoops' wife Carol. She elevated Mary Kay. She even got a pink Cadillac.

Speaker 3:

There you go and.

Speaker 5:

Bob Stoops talked about the only thing we had to pay for our registration tag and license. That's it. I wish.

Speaker 5:

I could have seen Bob Stoops driving that pink Caddy. Yeah so what came out of Big 12 media days. Mike Gundy admitted I don't know if the term hard-headed is right, but this January it was his first class in which they shelled out some money. Stevie, I've been waiting. I can't wait for you to hear this soundbite from Gundy and he threw himself under the table under the bus. He's blaming himself because, you know, osu took a major step back this past season.

Speaker 6:

So, the truth be known, this portal class from January is the first class that we ever bought. We had not bought portal goods. Wow, that hurt us. Yeah, hurt us the last year or so from a depth standpoint. And that was nobody's fault, that's not the administration's fault, not the donors'. That was really kind of my fault, because what I had done was taken money that had been raised through donations and spread it amongst the troops.

Speaker 5:

The troops, meaning his current roster. What's your thoughts on him now, how he's kind of changed his tune about this whole NIL, because I think that not embracing it, and if T-Boom Pickens was still alive, can you imagine how much more money would be funneled in? Or what's your opinion on him?

Speaker 1:

now that whole roster would have been different if T-Booms Pickens was still around.

Speaker 5:

Do you think this is him being genuine? Hey, I have to. Or is it pressure from others? Oh, it's 100% pressure, 100% pressure.

Speaker 1:

He had to say that. He had to say that. But also it is on him for not pushing to get players like everyone else was getting players, I mean. And it's a good thing that he was paying his current roster with the money that came in. That's fine. But you got to innovate or die. You know, uh and um and grow. So he saw the writing on the wall. He, he tried it one way and they did not do well, so he has to try out a different hold up with them yeah, exactly so it really he

Speaker 1:

really did. He has to make a change and I know it came down from the top. It's all cute saying that it's no one else's fault and things like that, but we know it was his fault. Mike has always had a bad taste in my mouth just because the way he moved around he was all gung-ho about not paying players. Well, these kids are doing a lot for you and you get paid, so why can't they? Anyway, I'm glad that he's coming around to it. Best of luck to him. But that ship may have already sailed. It's going to take a couple of years to get this back on track.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, it's going to be hard to be overnight success. Even the Big 12 is still a tough league. No question Real quick. The name, image and likeness big time in EA. Sports. Look at his avatar that they made for him.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, that for sure says I have a full head of hair. That's not.

Speaker 3:

Who is that?

Speaker 6:

And they got me all like muscled up. I'm not that muscled up.

Speaker 3:

You got the golden studies.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, that's awesome. Like a pro, wait for my high school buddies to do that. Yeah, that's awesome. Wait for my high school buddies to come back. They'll be lighting me up.

Speaker 1:

That did not look like him at all.

Speaker 5:

It looked like he had been up on a bender with cocaine for about a week and just threw on a pole. Not that I know what that's like, I'm just saying. I have no idea, I just I heard stories.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, I heard how you're from. Oklahoma. No shoot, I'm from here, bro, I know you are, but you spent some time up there, oh.

Speaker 5:

I spent a lot of time up there, six years to be exact.

Speaker 6:

Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 5:

All right, stevie, quick thoughts. We thought it, it happened. Texas State's going to the new Pac-12 founding. Well, they're OGs, obviously. Washington State, oregon State and you've got Boise State in it and Colorado State. Texas State's leaving the big sunbelt in 2026. They got the deal done. They're going to pay the exit fee. Quickly. Your thoughts on this? It's not the same, but how do you think? I mean it feels like they're going to a similar league, but there will be more revenue. I believe a lot more. It's a question. It's just college football. Now you don't have USC, ucla, you don't have Washington, you don't have Oregon, you don't have Arizona Arizona State. Have Oregon, you don't have Arizona Arizona State. But is there enough cachet in that league? Not only that, we'll keep them together as a power five and what do you think? How this benefits Texas State?

Speaker 1:

It benefits Texas State. You get some West Coast eyes when you go out there to play and when those West Coast teams come in to play here in Texas, I think Texas State is winning more than the Pac-12 in this deal. They'll get a lot more revenue. But I think you know when I was in school, texas State or Southwest Texas State back then was just a little school down in. San.

Speaker 5:

Marcos.

Speaker 1:

The growth has been phenomenal of that university and program. So this is a big step for them in the Pac-12. Now, man and us old heads that remember the Pac-12, you know it, kind of have that little nostalgia with it that Texas State is going to the Pac-12. It is not the same Pac-12 that we remember of yesteryear, but it's still the Pac-12. So I think it's a good thing for Texas State and getting West Coast kids to try to commit to Texas State. You get just more eyes from the West Coast.

Speaker 5:

That's fair. We're going to talk about all that. It's going to be a part of our big show Year two of it Kicking things off, Our special live at Steve and I. We found a date. I believe that's a Thursday right August 14th.

Speaker 5:

I've already talked to the Boulevard Bar and Grill August 14th. We haven't figured out if we're going to do it at 7 or 7.30, probably 7 because we went a little long last year. It's going to be 90 minutes is our target. It's going to be college high school pro special guests and special recorded interviews. It was fun, man, and I remember we got Coach Looper right after practice at the University of Missouri was in and speaking of Texas State. We're going to have some presents from them, but it's going to be. It's either going to be in person recorded and Stevie and I will be interviewing people and having fun and get our take because this college football landscape keeps changing and that is fun, and we'll have specials at Boulevard. I mean your take on going back to the Bully this year for this.

Speaker 1:

It's going to be fun, man. Last year was a lot of fun. We actually had some other guys there and pulled them in for interviews, so that was fun last year. I like going on location, man. I can get some food, a couple drinks and we can jump online together.

Speaker 5:

That's right, and I'm going to try to talk to the bully. Maybe they'll offer some hydrating specials. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Well, just to get you guys, because the bully is one of those old school Austin originals off of Far West Boulevard, be sure to like, follow each of our social media and we'll have all the details for that. You can see Stevie and I and some former Longhorns and some former people that you'll recognize. Let's all make it a party. Have some fun. Y'all can rag on us while we're trying to conduct business on camera. Have some fun with it.

Speaker 5:

Hey, this is becoming a trend, stevie, high school seniors foregoing their senior year. You know, quinn Ewers did it, jaden Blue did it. And now I mean this doesn't surprise me as I'm trying to pull in a graphic for you and hold on, this is so new. Okay, here we go. No new, okay, here we go. This is why is it not working? Here we go. All right, three, two and one.

Speaker 5:

This is by no means criticism, but our guy, michael Adams, who runs the Austin Sports Journal, submitted this article Dripping Springs outside hitter Crystal Wilburn. You know, dripping Springs is a state power in high school volleyball. They're really good at almost everything they do in dripping it's something in the water and they're just as competitive as Westlake Lake, travis and those good, all those programs across state. But their volleyball program is phenomenal. She's foregoing her senior year in high school to enroll at SMU. You have volleyball girls. I know what the benefit is from an athletic point of view, but do you see this continuing to grow, this trend, or is it just a hit or miss? It just depends on the situation with the athlete.

Speaker 1:

It depends on the situation. I think, when you actually want to break down your earning potential, you have another year of earning or you can start early on your earning year. So, now that college players can get paid and they're getting revenue sharing, am I going to play in high school for free? Or or do, and if I have the grades that I can go on and get paid to play? You know, the whole adage is you stay in school so you can get a good job, right, right. Well, now I can get a good job while I'm in school.

Speaker 1:

And so she's saying am I going to play here for free or am I going to go on to college and get some revenue? And I don't necessarily love this, but because there's also something to be said to finish out your senior year in high school Right, you know, but I finished out half of my senior year. You know I enrolled in college in January, so Am I? What am I doing? What, what, what. What is the ultimate goal here? What, what, what is the ultimate goal here? And I think that she felt that her ultimate goal was to um, maximize my earning potential and and if I could do it, just do it. And she did. So I don't fault her because you know father time is always undefeated right, oh, always. And so if you're gonna add a whole nother year to your earnings potential, then you have to go and do that.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I agree with you, man, it's a business decision. All right, Stevie, real quick, before we go to break, and segment two is very short. Today you have a quick man cave story from the Stevie Lee. It could be from your days playing at Texas, Evangel and Shreveport, or something family, something maybe you experienced. That will just as comical now as it was when it happened.

Speaker 1:

I remember one thing that I remember back in college. Man, we lost a game on the road somewhere and I can't remember where it was, but it was a tough, hard-fought game and we were coming back and we just didn't get it done. We get into the locker room and Coach Brown saw the stain on our faces and said guys, we didn't lose that game, we just ran out of time. I love the way you fought, we just ran out of time. Well, me and my other teammates looked around like what? And we said and then our eyes, as we looked into each other's eyes, was like what is he talking about?

Speaker 1:

Man, we just lost that damn game. We didn't run out of time. We went on the field knowing how much time was going to be on the clock. We didn't run out of time, we just lost that game. Man, I don't know what happened, you know. So sometimes coaching speak can help you and get you up and things like that. But that coach speak, right there was. We ran out of time. I was like hell, no, we just lost the game coach.

Speaker 5:

Oh my God, yeah, that's tough. Yeah but it was hilarious because we all talked about it.

Speaker 1:

We still talk about that today. Ran out of time. No coach, we lost that game. Oh brother.

Speaker 5:

We're going to run out of time if we don't go to break. You know what I mean Because, fyi, stevie and I try to target these at about 45 minutes. One day we're going to master it to where it's 30 when we don't have guests. But our goal, our heart out, is if we're approaching an hour, we got to get out because we're boring you. We don't want to lose you as a viewer. We'll see on the other side, after we hear from hargrove and stevie's role in acting, and there may be a bald-headed short fella in there too. We'll see another spot here at hargrove roofing.

Speaker 2:

Uh, 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 1:

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 2:

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? Get out Right now. I said get out.

Speaker 2:

For me, that's what it's all about. It's just having fun making our employees have a great time. Hargrove Roofing Know who's on your roof.

Speaker 6:

Got bird shit on my head. Come on y'all.

Speaker 1:

You got to do better Come clean me up, man I need to fade. Come on, man, why I got bird shit on my head, man, come on'all we got to do better. Come clean me up, man I need to fade. Come on, man, why I got bird shit on my head, man Come on man, we got to do better than that. Come on, it's UT baby.

Speaker 5:

So, man, that thing had months and months of some grackle bird shit compiling on his dome. Hey, that's Vince being Vince.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, man, we need to put a tent over it or something. Man, get somebody out there to hold an umbrella over his head.

Speaker 5:

We need some dish soap, get a bottle of Dawn, get some hot little brush and get some hot water. Let's clean that freaking bird feces off of vince's head man yeah, no question all right, stevie lee. This is uh always beneficial to me. Everyone watching, listening. Is there an atx pro tip that you would recommend to find American man Cave viewers, listeners, to visit, sample, dine or experience?

Speaker 1:

Yes, good, I've been doing a lot of business in East Austin so I'm there a lot during the day and I have been frequenting Murray's Tavern on the east side. I have not been, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5:

I have not been yet.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, murray's Tavern on the east side. Good food and in the summertime. You know, old Austin was known for its cold, dark bars. In the summertime You're out in the heat all day, a lot of workers that's doing manual labor outside. They will go and find a cold, dark bar to drink the day away, drink the work day away. Murray's Tavern has that feel to me, man. It's a cold, dark bar, slash restaurant. They have a really good prime rib Steak frits on their menu. They have a nice roast beef sandwich on their menu. It's a good little spot, man. No windows that you can see in or out, but it's literally like a cold, dark bar. Tv's everywhere that you can watch. It's really cool, I like that bar. Tv's everywhere that you can watch and it's really cool, I like that spot. So you know, get out there, check out Murray's Tavern. Hopefully they see this and come up with a few of my meals.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, at least you're not giving me a cocktail. I'll tag them if you give me a cocktail.

Speaker 1:

Exactly, and they have cocktails there. Cocktails there. It's just a cool little spot in East Austin to drink or have an early dinner or late lunch right at the end of your workday and head home, especially if there's some sports on TV. It's a cool little spot.

Speaker 5:

Eastside's always got a good vibe. I'll add to this it's been around a long time or a while If you're speaking of dark, cold places, if you're going south on Burnett Road and you know how it ends at 45th Street, burnett Road does right. Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Keep going straight. It turns into Medical Parkway. Go about a half a mile. On your right there's a place called the Drop House D-R-A-U-G-H-T. All these Beers on tap. It's very dark. It smells like a Fraternity house in college, but it's from all the beer. Yeah, and they have beer from around the world.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Then they have a little area in the parking lot where they fenced off Drought House and that's where you and I need to meet, or I'll meet you at Murray's Hell. I'll Uber TikTok in the man cave. But this is a good example of a young girl. Check out her camera presence and I think correct me if I'm wrong this girl's crushing a 3-6 Mafia song on a mic at a Tex-Mex place. This girl deserves a standing ovation. I wish I had her karaoke skills, because this girl may have a recording contract on the horizon. That's good.

Speaker 1:

Dude, I love her. Yes, Was that the verse that she was singing? I think her name is Gangsta Boo. That always did songs with 3-6 Mafia.

Speaker 5:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

I think that's her name, but that was good. That was good. She's being raised right. Yes, she's cultured right. Yes, she's cultured, she's being raised right.

Speaker 5:

You see her mannerisms. It's not forced, it's natural. She was there like she just came out of Sunday school and picked up the mic.

Speaker 1:

Yep absolutely.

Speaker 3:

Hey, ben, tell me something good.

Speaker 5:

Well, that wasn't good. I cut off Stevie. I apologize for that.

Speaker 5:

Brother, it's been hard. It's just for people who so we have a good viewership in Louisiana, oklahoma, arkansas and, for some strange reason but we love you for it in New Mexico and it looks like in the Kansas City area those of you all, you can judge us by the video you see in the media. But this for us in Austin, this hurts. I mean all of Texas is hurt. This whole week has been a blur Loss of many lives, man, and so we figure out a way. Texas, somebody from Canada told me earlier this week. He says no, I think all Americans help each other, but Texans take it a different level, where Texans are a different race, like it's very proud. Can you tell me something? Good, my brother? But also, being from Louisiana, is there any truth to that statement? You think?

Speaker 1:

Yes, there is some truth to that. Texans are very, very proud of their state. I'm now a Texan. I'm an honorary.

Speaker 5:

Texan, you've been here a long time.

Speaker 1:

Long time. I've been here longer than I was in Louisiana. So Texans are very, very proud of the state. We take care of each other. Neighborly yes, a lot of times not. What you know is who you know in Texas, and we are resilient. We've stood up in the face of tragedy and we've come out on the other side better. So that's my something. Good too, man, texans are going to come together. We're going to stop all this bickering and fighting and come together and make things right. Yes, evaluate what went wrong and try to fix that, but together we're going to rise Together.

Speaker 5:

I love that I think there's going to be some demands of the state-led government from the federal side. You got to do something about this because I think what's going to be good to your point is some really great things are going to occur from flood warning systems and in the end people won't say you know, this was political.

Speaker 5:

No this is a uniting in in. You know this was political. No, this is uniting in a form of all that bickering from two different political parties, the unification. In some ways, I just wish I could hug every neck of all the surviving family members and all the survivors and tell you this is what being from Texas is about. We're gonna love on you and we're gonna be here. And I know it's easy for me to say that because I have not had the experiences yet on the cleanup of this event as I have for, like Wimberley and Hurricane Harvey. I've only been to a couple of the sites and volunteering wasn't fully organized, so I had to go to plan B.

Speaker 5:

but that's going to change, and that's another thing. Man, If I get something organized soon, I'll put something up on our on our social media to try to get some volunteers. I love to have 11 other people join me.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Just for us four to six hour project and they're going to need it in all these places for the next few months. Hey, much love to you, much love to Stevie and his family and everybody who follows stories inside the man Cave, and to the Hargrove family and the great city of Shreveport, louisiana, and is up there in the northwest corner of the boot state, the sportsman paradise, and to the lovely family of the Stevie Lee and to the city where my college alma mater is home, nacogdoches, texas, and to my beautiful hometown, austin, texas, and to everybody across the great state of Texas and this great country, america, to all of you and to all of you, thank you for following and listening. Reach out to us. If you have any ideas, something you'd love for us to cover or give you a shout-out, let us know. And for the OG man Cave Boys, that being Harbaugh Harts, big Mike and the Coach Mo, what do we tell them? Stevie Lee, we out.

Speaker 3:

You see the jumpy.

Speaker 6:

I'm fitted up, I'm in my car in a.

Speaker 1:

Gideon I said get out music, music, music.